#how fucking good she looks

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

[philocalistwrites]

I CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE THIS OMG

#hannah waddingham #rebecca welton #holy fucking shit #oh my god #i will explode #shes a fucking god #how #i am literally screaming #im in awe #THE FUCKING DRESS #THE HAIR #EVERYTHING #SHE LOOKS SO GOOD #HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE #im losing my mind #women #ted lasso #im obsessed #step on me pls #golden globes

[catrasfreckles]

*wakes up*

I wonder how Pyrrha feels about her dead lover's dead daughter having the same name as her dead best friend

*goes back to sleep*

#i need Pyrrha to tenderly cradle Gideon in her arms like a wittle baby. #the locked tomb #pyrrha dve #gideon nav #tlt #kiriona gaia #pyrrha rly is just haunted by all the people shes loved. everywhere she looks theres another reminder #but i think she could give gideon a lot of perspective re: cavaliers #in ntn right before cam and pal do the thing and she talks about how lyctorhood is not love. good shit #anyway. my point is i love pyrrha and she should scoop up gideon like a little bug. and give her a blanket and some hot cocoa maybe. #and also that its kinda fucked up to be in your dead best friends body forever and be reminded of him constantly #grief never ends

[dadrielle]

I can't stop thinking about just how emblematic everything in those conversations of Ashton being "a child" are of how, even at her most beaten down, triggered and traumatized, Laudna is not and will not be what Delilah wants her to be.

For Delilah, "they're still a child" is dismissive, a bit derisive, but doesn't even merit being truly hateful. She doesn't find Ashton worth the attention Laudna is giving them, not when there are such more interesting, important things to pull the attention of an adult. Children are only important when they are useful. She will indulge Laudna on the subject, because Laudna is useful, is her vehicle for action in the world, but she only cares about it in the context of getting Laudna to do what she wants. Calling someone a child is calling them unimportant. (Laudna is a child to her)

But for Laudna, who loves children and who understands intimately what it's like to have the helplessness of child, to be trapped under the authority of someone who will never treat you as a full person, even when they are being ostensibly kind, to be so confused and lost and powerless...a child deserves attention more than anyone else. Of course children lash out. Being a child IS in many ways quite awful because the world is so big around you and you don't know yet how to react to any of it, how to soothe yourself - and if you aren't given the attention, you never learn how. Ashton never learned how. Her instincts - instincts trained into her by manipulation and abuse from inside and the world around her - may say kill him, but she fights them the whole way because her heart is stronger and her heart says that the angriest, most volatile child needs care as much as any other. More, even.

Laudna hears Delilah call Ashton a child and agrees on the word, but they have diametrically opposed understandings of what that means, and diametrically opposed instincts on how to treat a child. Laudna doesn't want to hurt anyone, especially children. She loves children. She loves so much and so selflessly. And Delilah is so very very good at manipulating her but she has tried for 30 years to change the bedrock of Laudna's psyche, the truer thing that drives her beyond the base animal instincts of survival, and it hasn't worked.

#critical role spoilers #critical role #cr meta #laudna #delilah briarwood #g o d I love her so much #she is so GOOD #and like I was so very worried for her at the break but #I keep forgetting and underestimating her #her strength may not look the same as other peoples' #it may be hidden under her traumatized confusion and twitchy fear but #it is there #she is so very strong #her victories aren't huge and showy but they don't need to be #can't be maybe in a war of attrition inside her own head #but after 30 years she is STILL THERE. STILL HERSELF. STILL KIND. #FUCK #I gotta go lie down on the floor about it #no wonder Imogen loves her so much honestly #she knows how hard it is to keep yourself good and kind in the face of a constant onslaught #I know its jokes but like. yeah. she would be a saint to Imogen. #st laudna real not clickbait

[feymaid]

Gnome tav playthrough going very well

#I luv when she looks up at all her giant companions like how could u ever be mad at her she’s just a baby #her name is diatrix she’s a deep gnome with whimigoth weird girl vibes #but a good girl!! a perfectly nice girl!! #only a little fucked up #diatrix #astarion #deep gnome #bg3 tav #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #my art #my oc

[automatonknight]

id: a digital drawing of miss pauling from team fortress two. it shows her from about the hips up. she's posed with her hands apart, raised at shoulder-level. between them, there are a bunch of colorful dice and simple figurines floating in an arc. miss pauling is looking off to the right with a smile. she's wearing a tophat with a busted top, there's an eye visible inside it, the hat also has a ghost ornament attached to it, a purple suit and a white shirt with a black tie. the background is black with purple silhouettes of ghosts and strands of smoke. end id

#i loveee her dungeon master outfit she looks SO handsome :3 #aaand i love the comic too. the fucking brain pumpkin...... #the background kinda sucks but um. well i don't know how to fix it so who careeees. blaaah #i'm proud of everything else though i think it looks really good 👍 #art #fanart #tf2 #team fortress 2 #miss pauling #miss pauling tf2

[faggyangel]

thinking about crowley and "my lover's got humor, she's the giggle at a funeral" and "knows everybody's disapproval, i should have worshipped her sooner" and "if the heavens ever did speak then she's the last true mouth piece" and "the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you" and "my lover's the sunlight" and "i was born sick but i love it" and "there is no sweeter innocence then our gentle sin"

#he was born sick #shoveling dirt into my mouth are you kidding #holy fucking shit crowley looking at aziraphale and thinking if the heaven's ever did speak then she's the last true mouth piece #hozier said this song is about “reclaiming your humanity through the act of love” he literally said “it's essentially about sex” and how th #church teaches people to feel shame about sex and love #jesus fucking christ crowley finds absolution through his love and desire for aziraphale not through god or heaven but through this sin #i will not survive i am weak i am mmmmmmm #good omens #aziracrow #inneffable husbands are being inneffable again #crowley tag

[weaverofink]

an eye for an eye.....

#arrowette #cissie king jones #young justice #young justice 1998 #yj98 #dc #dc comics #dc fanart #young just us #arrowfam #POV u fucked up and cissie's got an arrow with ur name on it #rereading yj and reminding myself of how much i love cissie king jones #shes such an interesting character #i love her revenge arc and all of the consequences that come of it #its just so GOOD #but also. i do wish we could have seen a bit more of dark arrowette she looked so so cool #i absolutely love doing big blocky shadows like this it turns out #art #my art #weaverofink

[ewwww-what]

Hey girl, what the fuck is your problem?

#do you think that Adaine and Fig ever use Kristen as a night light when they want snacks at night? #considering that she glows and all #through the massive scarred over empty space in her chest #check out the fy faebees doodle here too because that’s a thing I think about #fig looks so fucking goofy in the last one #whatever she’s having a good time #ignore tenderness by Julia Jacklin has been eating me alive forever since the beginning of time #blood cw #cw blood #cw violence #I don’t know how to tag being impaled?? I’m sorry if someone knows what to do for that let me know #fantasy high #d20 #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #d20 fanart #fh #fantasy high fanart #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fhsy spoilers #kristen applebees #kristen chilis applebees #cassandra fantasy high #fig faeth #undescribed #my art

[outer-edges]

#i was fucking around with different ways of making gifs if you can't tell #that's why all of these look slightly different #also testing lighting shit #because punisher has no lights #anyways #karen page how i love you #karen page kinnies rise up #yall ever want a good cry go to thetaserpentis13 on tiktok she makes THE karen page edits #i think thats what im gonna do with my night #just watch karen page and kastle edits and sob in my own loneliness #ideal relationship is whatever the fuck kastle had going on #mattie edits #kastle #the punisher gifs

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

How I've seen most people write Rangi coming out to her mom:

Rangi: Mom, I have something to tell you.

Hei-Ran: Go on.

Rangi: Kyoshi and I.....are.....together.

Hei-Ran: Oh I'm so happy for you.

*they hug it out, much wholesome*

How I think the coming out scene went:

Rangi: Mother. I need to tell you something, Kyoshi and I are together.

Hei-Ran: Oh thank the spirits. It finally happened.

Rangi: ???? You knew????

Hei-Ran: Sweetie, everyone in the mansion-no, all of Yokoya knew about it! Well except for Kyoshi.

Rangi: ????!! WHAT?!

Hei-Ran: I'm pretty sure Jianzhu thought you were dating, that's probably why he kidnapped you, you know?

Rangi: WH-HOW?!

Hei-Ran: Oh please, we saw your gay little ass running all over the damn mansion just to be near Kyoshi and to impress her. We were mute, not blind and deaf!

Rangi, having a crisis: I-wha-but-

Hei-Ran: Well, you aren't very good at hiding your emotions sweetie.

Rangi, flipping a nearby table: The fuck you mean I'm not?????!

Hei-Ran: Oh curses, go get Atuat, I owe her $5.

Rangi: YOU BETTED ON THIS????? WITH YOUR DOCTOR?????

Hei-Ran: Well Kelsang is dead, so I had to keep our bet alive somehow.

Rangi: I-*inhales* YOu know what? Doesn't matter! Do you accept Kyoshi or not?

Hei-Ran: Anybody who gives my girl that much cardio is 100% welcome into our family. In fact, I already added her to our family registry 2 years ago. As far as the Fire Nation is concerned, you two have been married for a while.

#rangi #hei-ran #rangi sei'naka #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #rangi seinaka #hei-ran sei'naka #hei-ran seinaka #rangshi #rangi thought she was good at hiding stuff but it turns out that kyoshi is just THAT DENSE #everyone wants a sweet moment #i want rangi's blood pressure to rise #rangi didn't talk to her mom for 3 days after that because of the all the emotions she was feeling #i'm right this is 100% in character #(tbf I think most of the stuff i've seen was pre shadow of Kyoshi which misses out on Rangi's unhinged-ness u_u) #i'm sorry I just....need a kyoshi prequel where there's a running gag of Rangi just showing up TT0TT #kyoshi: oh she's so punctual and cool I wonder how she does it? #us: *trying not to lose it bc we know rangi is BUSTING HER ASS to look that way* #rangi the loser: *trying so fucking hard not to wheeze keel over and die in front of kyoshi* #rangi is somehow both girlboss and girlfail it's great the duality #rangi: i'm doing so well #narrator: she in fact was not doing well at all

[rexscanonwife]

More official/proper ref of my Metalocalypse s/i 💖🫶💖🫶💖 I needed another milf for the books, I'm obsessed with it guys!

Like I said before she's the manager for @hotrodharts and @1980ssunflower and does a kickass job of it! She's meant to be something of a parallel to Charles whom she has THICK sexual tension with and possibly a mysterious past history with? :0 oooooo~ either way she's very fond of the boys, especially Toki, and in my dreams they see the both of them as parental figures 😊

EDIT: original meme by @tarraerae on Twitter 🫶

Flat colors!

Taglist ♡: @crushes-georg @changeling-selfship @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @squips-ship @cherry-bomb-ships

#artfarts #self insert #self ship #self insert x canon #oc x canon #metalocalypse #charles offdensen #🍞 my bread and butter 🍞 #SO JUST FINISHED SEASON 3 TODAY TOO 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖 #GODDD IT WAS SO GOOD #the songs were all great and so were the character focused episodes!! #AND UGH THE FINALE THEY REALLY DO LOOK AT CHARLES LIKE A MOM #the way they were wanting to hang out with him 🥺 and the applogy AND THE TOKI HUG!!!! #FUCK #HOW DID IT GET THIS BAD THIS FAST THREE DAYS!!! ITS BEEN THREE DAYS!! #i dont think ive ever f/od a character FASTER #i guess we'll see where it goes in the end but godd #hes my fucking WIFE 🥺🥺 #and ssshh ignore the fact that shes sitting on nothing #we aint gotta talk about it

[icontradictmyself]

Melanie Lynskey for the New York Times, March 15, 2023.

#Melanie Lynskey #New York Times #Yellowjackets #melanie lynskey is a fucking dream #how does she look so good in EVERY FUCKING COLOUR?

[tending-the-hearth]

Belle wearing glasses is actually something that is so important to me

#hi how are you I’m crying over this <3 #AUSTRALIA BATB PRODUCTION YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS #LOOK AT HER #SHE’S SO CUTE WHAT THE FUCK #GIVE BELLE READING GLASSES IN EVERY BATB PRODUCTION PLEASE AND THANK YOU #the costumes are also just so good!!!! #this is something so silly to get so happy and emotional over #but like #it’s my favorite princess and she’s wearing glasses like me and they serve an actual purpose for her!!!!!!!! it’s not just something silly #to be used as a transformation tool #AND IT MAKES SENSE THAT SHE’D NEED READING GLASSES #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast Australia

[amazinlei]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP OVER THEM!!!

#I HAVE BEEN WANTING AN OFFICIAL CAPCOM AMATERASU PLUSH FOR DECADES!!! #AND SHE'S PERFECT #SO CUTE #SO SHAPED #ammy even has her bestie issun!!! ;o; #so in a sense issun a rare merch appearance!!!! good for him #the fact that he's just a green ball attached to the plush of ammy is so fucking funny ahdjfdskdlvc #I have been wanting the one laying down amaterasu plush but its so rare and expensive on ebay if you can find it #hell even a lot of the okamiden merch hasn't seen the light of day since release #and I actually had a chibi plush but god the quality on him was so ass #the crimson markings were pretty much just airbrushed on #it made me sad bc its like he's literally loosing his true form... #I'm also aware of the first 4 figures but also I am not rich enough to afford an 800 dollar amaterasu bust that I know my cat would break #WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I WANT THEM...... #also looking at the rest of shop and find it funny and sad that rao got an enamel pin over waka #Lei stop being silly #Okami #okami amaterasu #issun okami

[densewentz]

hear me out, post-divorce girl!Dad Crowley

im not even kidding you guys, the best thing for Crowley after all this is just for him to be a girl Dad. Go find himself the weirdest most unhinged least likely up for adoption daughter to dump all his love onto. One who thinks snakes are awesome and who screeches happily when Crowley drives too fast and who thinks her Dad's the absolute coolest person on or off earth. She'll constantly be stealing his sunglasses or demanding her own pair so they match. No doubt she's obsessed with fungus and she probably draws the most fucked up stuff that Crowley then hangs around the flat, and she'll yell at the plants too with her hands on her hips. On nights after goofy dinners, Crowley will hoist her up on his shoulders and help her accurately place the glow-in-the-dark stars on her ceiling and softly answer every question she ever has. And it won't even phase her when sometimes her Dad is her Mom or her Parent for a while or vice versa. And she'll be ready to full on throw hands with anyone who gives her Dad sad-face. She probably ends up biting Aziraphale when he eventually staggers back into the picture, and the Angel will have to contend with the fury of a real hellion for a while before she trusts him enough to let him anywhere near Crowley. Also i think her name should be Hanna.

#good omens #good omens spoilers #anthony j crowley #he would just be the BEST unhinged single parent okay #with several full lifetimes of love to give if someone would just TAKE it #i mean look how he looks at job's weird little girl that was a show stealer #hanna would ask him if she could be a snake too for an afternoon and it would make his chest ache but he'd do it bc hes mr. Acts of Service #and then he and his unhinged kid could go terrorize their rude neighbors or something. a little serpentine family bonding #crowley has to leave hanna with muriel and its not hanna he's worried about its what trouble hanna will get MURIEL into #i think crowley's rules about cussing are its 100% fine so long as the context is REALLY funny #so while metatron or shax or god or whoever the big bad of s3 is is giving their big villain monologue #a tiny sweet little voice yells “hey” and after everyone goes quiet and turns to look at her a secondary “shut the fuck up! 😀” #dense's ramblings #sorry im going to be feral about this for a while #might do some art #hanna crowley