#anyways i love helen

[ghostlysodo]

i love helen purely for the fact i don’t have to pay attention to anatomy

#guys it’s like a massive fear #thank pinterest for that fear :| #anyways i love helen #helen the distortion #helen richardson #tma #the magnus archives #tma helen #i wanted her to give as much sleazy cars salesman as possible #fanart

[elialys]

"I told you draft two was..." "That was all you...all you..."

THE NEWSREADER | 1.03 | Helen x Dale

#Anna Torv #Sam Reid #Helen Norville #Dale Jennings #The Newsreader #Helen x Dale #helendale #they are so adorable i can't handle my feels #'were they even intimate?' #I DONT KNOW KAREN WHAT DO YOU THINK #this show is always terrible to color but this scene was the worst one by far #those insides scenes are impossible to brighten properly #especially with the crappy quality #anyway i tried 😭 #i am deep into the helendale brainrot and i love that moment between them 😭 #gifs* #1.03 The White Marquis Matinee Jacket

[drbtinglecannon]

Ok I'm gonna be honest I saw some mild spoilers about Glass Onion, specifically including that Benoit was gay, and I thought that was just a fandom well understood "should've been this way" kinda thing

But no

He really is gay. And in a relationship with a char played by Hugh Grant. Living together in the cutest fanciest little apartment.

It makes so much sense. I still didn't see it coming that it would ever be explicitly shown. These movies are so good, I'll happily watch them forever.

#glass onion #knives out #glass onion spoilers #benoit blanc #detective benoit blanc #i def thought it was gonna be a ''roommates'' scenario but no he was visibly uninterested & unhappy w birdies advances #his outfits. his demeanor. i almost cant believe they made it canon & that theyre middle aged happy gays in london & that his #partner makes baked goods & his one scene is opening the door to helen & being in an apron covered in flour. i love them #anyway just watched glass onion &. fuck. fuck it was so good fuck. i spent the first 20 min like ''ok i dont dislike it but it doesnt #captivate me like knives out did. THEN THE TWIST W HELEN? FUCK IT WAS SO GOOD. FUCK #when we first saw knives out we watched it twice in a row. guess what im gonna rewatch rn after finishing glass onion? #tc posts

[rebornrosess]

“Please, trust me. It’s all in plain sight.”

Parallels between Glass Onion (2022) & Henri Matisse’s Icarus (1946)

#something something cassandra flew too close to the sun #but helen is avenging her and finishing the job #anyways not to brag but i noticed this on first viewing and was wondering if anyone else did too? #ily rian johnson and ur easter eggs!! #also i love how benoit and helen are matching with their ascots #hashtag solidarity #anyways i taught myself how to make gifs in photoshop for this #and my laptop sounds like a plane about to take off #benoit blanc #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #knives out #cassandra brand #helen brand #netflix #my gifset

[magpod-confessions]

while i agree that there are some sexist assholes in this fandom, sometimes people call someone sexist just for preferring a male character over a female character, or for disliking a female character.

not everything is about misogyny, sometimes you just don't vibe with a character. it's okay to dislike a character, as long as you don't specifically hate them because of their gender.

(and before you say it, my favorite characters in tma are gertrude and daisy. but there are also characters i dislike, and some of them happen to be female)

.

#agreed mostly #like i think its important to find the reasons why someone dislikes a character bc sometimes its for the exact same reason they like #a male character. which bothers me #but yea mostly agreed #anyways my top 5 favs are jon georgie daisy melanie and helen #love them so so so much #i care them #idk to me in tma the girls are just more interesting ngl #magpod #tma #the magnus archives #sexism #magpod confession

[fiendishartist2]

height chart/character sheet for all of the main tma cast feat. my headcanons (and misconceptions about canon desc. O_O) of them

and an extra georgie <3

#if you havent seen my melanie post i was for some reason convinced that melanie was a canonical black woman #and that she was described as a ''shorter black woman with short curly hair'' which is smth that never happened lol #so thats the misconception that influenced melanie's design #but also i like how her being a black woman adds to her whole character of ''someone passed over and dismissed and met with hostility- #-before she can even show others what kind of person she is'' #anyways heights bc thats why i made this: #daisy and tim: around 5'8 #jon and melanie: around 5'1 #martin: around 6' #basira and georgie: around 5'11 #martin: 6' #sasha and elias: around 6'5 #im not v good with heights bc i myself and very small.... but i tried to make it make sense #i love georgie she is literally everything to me <3 #everyone else is in everyday attire and georgies just chilling in her pyjamas. im in love with her #i wanted to put gertrude and helen on here too but i didnt have time :( #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #timothy stoker #sasha james #elias bouchard #melanie king #basira hussain #daisy tonner #🤢 sorry i dont like her #georgie barker #my art

[princess-moira]

#THANKS I HATE IT #its just...the no style clashes so hard with the rest of the game #i miss the stylization #plus there's no brightness slider for eye color anymore!! now i look like a blue eyed dog!!! #(i swear if its because of the new contact lenses they're gonna introduce....) #also they retextuered all the default hairs EXCEPT the natural hair. of course 🙄 #listen. i don't want to rag on this i know game development is very hard #but ive been playing since helen of sparta i am very fond of the old style and i loved how my character look #im allowed to complain if the new features don't let me replicate her well #but anyway #dutp #dress up time princess #time princess #time princess dreamtopia

[widowkills]

Helen & Dale | The Newsreader (0:25) colouring by trashymxrphy

I knew the end was getting closer, I thought we would grow old, yeah; but you… will always have my heart, it's nothing new.

— ​elijah​ woods, “fingers crossed”

#the newsreader #helen x dale #dale x helen #helen norville #dale jennings #anna torv #sam reid #helendale #thenewsreaderedit #my edits #* #*vidlets #*the newsreader #another quick cut! #uh relatively quick anyway #i need to post this so i'll stop tinkering with it #these are all songs i really love for them but don’t see myself ever making a full vid out of #...helps when my playlist for them is the longest i've ever had for a ship lol

[helennorvilles]

it's interesting looking back on dale's apartment (cozy and warm and filled with SO much personality) and then knowing that when they move in together, you don't see much of a change to helen's house. you don't really see any dale in there.

#i'd be interested to see how he fully decks out his new house in season 3 (if we get to see it......) #but anyway my instinct right now is that much like they are professionally #dale just.... defers to helen #of course i love the dom helen sub dale jokes as much as the next gal #and i don't think it's necessarily purposeful from helen #and im sure dale isn't really..... fighting back for lack of a better term to have things be different #it is just..... so rare that we see dale Actually go against helen. we get a little bit in season 2 ofc #i want to see more. they need to be more comfortable doing that complete opposite with each other. #but still..... so much to consider here really #i do want to study helen's home in season 2 for the specific changes though. this is just a general observation still. #my post tag #nia watches the newsreader #the newsreader spoilers #the newsreader

[creatinghelen]

#helen's life rn :( #hj #tbh it probably is useful and any qualification is good to have but like #:(((( #also fun fact making memes is one of my hobbies #much less now than I used to but sometimes my brain is just like: that's a good meme #and then I make it #anyway love you #<3

[looks-at-you]

sigh I love the distortion

#SOMEONE PROMPT ME TO RAMBLE ABOUT THEM PLEASE I BEG OF YOU- #OUGH THEY MAKE ME SO FUCKING INSANE #I mean technically that's the point of the distortion and the spiral and- #Hmm idk maybe I'm just destined to be an avatar of the spiral #Hmm does the distortion itself have avatars and patrons?? #If not I volunteer to be the first 👉👈 #Anyway uh tags #the cy rambles #the distortion #tma distortion #the spiral #ramblings from the void #the magnus archives #BTW this is both about #helen distortion #And #michael distortion #I love them both #<3333333 #They could claw me to pieces and I'd thank them

[nysus-temple]

[Helen/Paris] and [Odysseus/Calypso(and/or)Circe] similarities

I shouldn't have actually written this down? Probably. Am I still gonna do it anyways? Yeah. 8 years in the Trojan Cycle thingy and people are still discussing the interactions between this characters, damn, I thought it was clear enough.

Anyways. Onto the similarities and why I keep thinking until this day that both Helen and Odysseus were held captives. It's a short essay, since i'm just dumping my thoughts and other people's thoughts after seeing the ammount of bullshit that goes around here.

Were you kidnapped or seduced?

Agh, jeez.

So can we, you know, start from the part that it's Aphrodite the one who does literally everything? DO NOT demonize Aphrodite, this IS NOT what i'm telling you to do.

She had to do her part of the deal, that's why she gave Helen to Paris as a prize for choosing her. She's a goddess, we know how this works.

The thing is... Okay, Aphrodite forced everything since she promised it to Paris, but was Helen okay with this?

*checks notes* so Gorgias, a sophist philosopher (oh that explains why people never talk about him) said "but if Helen was raped by violence and illegally assaulted and unjustly insulted, it is clear that the raper, as the insulter, did the wronging, and the raped, as the insulted, did the suffering." ... Well, that's interesting.

I mean sure, we can EVEN still think that somehow she was seduced or whatever, but then in the Iliad, when Aphrodite tells her to go and comfort Paris, she refuses and fights with her. Helen literally fought with a goddess, explaining that she did not want to go with Paris.

But Aphrodite is a goddess, you cannot question the will of the gods, they're GODS for a reason. So she goes in the end, with fear.

(We even have... Whatever the hell Euripides' tragedies where. Since according to him, Helen was never in Troy, instead it was an ilussion made by Aphrodite, the real Helen was in Egypt. psjdksjfkd what. I kind of like it tbh, it's fun. But since Helen says in the Iliad that she's been 20 years in Troy already, that version just doesn't feel right. ANYWAYS-)

... Wait, 20 years? Why does that sound familiar? Ah, right, the other member of this essay. Odysseus.

Helen was kept against her will in Troy for 20 years, just like Odysseus was away from Ithaka for 20 years. Dude !!

I'll go with Calypso first since people defend her less than Circe (kind of) SO, you know the deal with translators acting as anything except translations? I believe that might have been the problem, at least in English, I don't recall an Spanish translation saying that he stayed with her for 7 years because he wanted too, lmao.

I myself haven't reach that far in my degree to translate the Odyssey nor the Iliad, but I still have copies of them in the original Greek. So you see, there's some small things that I have enough level to understand and translate by myself and realize how blind we all are.

Did he want to?

You know the whole deal with people not giving words from other languages the proper definition? In this passage of the Odyssey, the word used when saying that Odysseus "slept" with Calypso was anágke (ἀνάγκῃ). Which means, HEAR ME OUT, force, it means FORCE. And this next thing is more me being risky because as I said, I'm not that far in terms of translation levels, but in the text, it's in dative, the dative is used, in a simple definition, for denote the person or object affected.

He stayed with Calypso BY FORCE !! Shock. Wow. And I mean, he literally cries everyday because his only way to cope with the fact that he's trapped is by thinking about Penelope and Ithaka while crying looking at the sea. How can you see him staying willingly being like that? And the "he just left because he got tired of her" ... So you're saying that (trying to have the most mysognistic way of thinking ever) he got tired of an inmortal gorgeous nymph who would not age? You're telling me he preferred to leave, even if it was risky, than staying in an island that was considered a paradise? Yeah, no, sorry, not buying it. HIS ASS DID NOT WANT TO BE THERE, just like how Helen did not want to be in Troy. Move on. And now and quickly because the more I talk about this topic the more tired I grow out of Circe...

Odysseus just... Never says that he wants to? That he's fine with it? He literally just saw a sorceress trap his men and planning on killing them, so what was he gonna do against that? Hermes to the rescue... More or less ! He pretty much just told him to obey what he was told to, and that if he wanted to save his men from Circe, he had to do what she asked him too, after making her swear she wasn't gonna hurt them. So what gives, you're told BY THE GODS that you have to stay there for a little while if you want to keep your men safe and convince Circe of showing you your way out of the island.

Remember? Helen did what Aphrodite told her to because you can't question the will of the gods, same goes with Odysseus and Hermes. You do what they tell you to do because they're gods... And, I mean, Circe is Helios' daughter. Do you really think you could hurt the daughter of the Sun and move away with it? No. Just look at what happened with the cows !

And now, a nice similarity to end this.

In the Odyssey, it is clearly stated that Menelaus and Helen are FINE. They still love and care for eachother, they're still husband and wife. If you truly believe Menelaus didn't believe Helen... Then read the Odyssey?

20 years appart they were, following what Helen said in the Iliad, just how Penelope and Odysseus were 20 years appart and they still loved eachother and recognized their tricks despite the time.

Both Helen and Odysseus were trapped by people who had power over them, they couldn't do anything to be freed from them unless the will of the gods stated otherwise.

So, if after this you keep believing that Helen didn't love Menelaus anymore and that she's the culprit of the Trojan War; and that Odysseus didn't care for Penelope at all and he stayed with Circe and Calypso because he wanted too... Maybe you should start wearing glasses, since apparently you can't read well?

#sigh. whatever #if you want to keep believing that they did not care for their partners then... you do you #but not only they loved them dearly. they're also victims of kidnapping or SA #so. yeah. perhaps you should work better your reading comprehension #i literally understood this better as a 12 year old than many people with their DAMN adult asses nowadays #anyways. tagging time #essay #helen #odysseus #paris #circe #calypso #similarities #the odyssey #the iliad #the trojan war

[mzannthropy]

Recently I made a post saying that The Blue Castle book is a proof that you can have a heroine choosing her own path and still have her love interest come to her rescue when it's needed.

Now I see people on Twitter talking about the new upcoming live action Snow White and apparently Disney almost did away with the romance, the prince appears for a very short time only (I presume this is correct, idk anything about this). Fans are not happy and I get why. It's like you can either be an empowered woman or have a love story. Do they think empowered women can't have romance in their life?

The Blue Castle can be looked at as a Cinderella-type story, but there are other good examples in literature that feature a strong heroine and a guy who does a good deed for her. Take Anne of Green Gables. Gilbert gives up Avonlea school for Anne, so she can stay with Marilla, and he does this while they're not even on speaking terms. Mr Darcy sorts out the Lydia/Wickham mess without wanting Elizabeth to know about it, and this was after she rejected his proposal. Mr Thornton, of North and South, covers up for Margaret, saving her from a potential criminal charge--again, after she had rejected his proposal (someone on Goodreads called North and South "The Pride and Prejudice for Socialists").

It's not a crime for a dude to do something of service for you and neither is falling in love. I like that there are romance-less Disney films (Frozen obviously) but that doesn't mean we have to get rid of all romance! You know my favourite saying? Both is good.

#the blue castle #anne of green gables #l.m. montgomery #parallels #snow white #disney princesses #storytelling #both is good #jane austen #elizabeth gaskell #heck even agatha christie has heroines who go out to solve a crime and then get coshed on the head and are saved by their love interest #i wanted to include tenant of wildfell hall but i wasn't sure #gilbert markham assaults the dude he thinks is bad for helen #but turns out to be helen's brother #but he may have acted quite childishly about it idk i have to wait for the book club #anyway those are examples i could think of #female characters #mypost

[heleneplays]

hee hee cas/helene/gab doodle <3

#immortal desires may be discount twilight & heavily au bloodbound but i do so love my vampires <3 #anyways local new girl found gay & holding hands with 2 rival vamps #immortal desires #playchoices #choices #cas harlow #cassie harlow #gabe adalhard #gabriela adalhard #cas x helene x gabe #lee doodles #YES i will clean this up and do a full art but get back on that on 3 to 5 days bc i am v small and v busy :(

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Glass Onion really was just me yelling about how stupid Miles is the entire time and then feeling the satisfaction when the other characters realized it too

#I was on the miles hate train from the moment I saw him but also when he said the mona lisa’s smile appears and disappears I was so pissed #like yes the meaning of the mona lisa’s smile changes every time you look at it I can get behind that #but the smile itself does not disappear!!!!! the restoration of her smile was like a whole thing!!!! what the fuck are you talking about!!!’ #‘that is the Aegean sea’ one of my favorite lines ngl #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #technically I guess? #ok spoilers starting here #also I can’t have been the only one who realized that the handwriting on the envelope that said ‘love andi’ #was the same as the handwriting on the invitation that said ‘love miles’ #bro couldn’t even get original with that #love the fact that blanc didn’t even get the chance to solve the puzzles so he just trashed them to miles’ face just cause he could #an icon honestly #also I truly don’t think that’s how allergic reactions work like he would not have just died that quickly but I guess it must have been bad #also also for the record I called the allergic reaction thing from the second he dropped cause why else would they mention that #to be fair I fully thought that the fruit in his drink was a straight up pineapple so I am kinda dumb but it did remind me of the allergy so #helen brand you will always be famous #anyways i’ll shut up now #autism (mads) speaks

[itspileofgoodthings]

me like “men are so scared of ME” turns out I’m the one afraid of them.

#lol #I mean actually I’m not #but I am scared of being vulnerable with them #and that’s just the simple truth #I am not scared of THEM per se #as I keep joking (maybe inappropriately idk) I’m one convent visit away from never speaking to another one again #anyway I just have been realizing more and more that I love to hide behind the narrative that like. no one ever approaches me #and I’m the anti Helen of Troy #and there’s some truth to that! #most men aren’t going to like what they find (romantically speaking) in me and I know that before they speak to me #but I love to be like ‘when will someone straightforwardly express their interest in me. guess it will never be me boo-hoo’ #and it’s like. Maria. they have. not in droves! ain’t nobody shooting themselves in the street for me #to paraphrase my fair lady #but it’s happened!!! on more than one occasion!!! and looking back the signs are unmistakable #and my impenetrable wall of blindness has protected me from admitting that that has ever happened to me #anyway #lots of reflecting