#shut up saint

[onyxember]

I’ve just found a podcast called Beef and Dairy Network and I’ve just heard;

“Has a cow ever been to space?”

Cue image of Martin Blackwood desperately contacting Manuela Dominguez to GET A COW TO SPACE.

#shut up saint #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #manuela dominguez #tma #tma shitposting #this podcast is hilarious #if I suggested this to my dairy farmer uncle how long until he figured out it was fake? #IM SO TEMPTED

[melted-wax-wings]

damn i really have an anime genre and it's just found family spy / assassin shit

#spy x family #buddy daddies #shut up saint

[crucifiedfaerie]

as a feminist i would let him ultraviolence me

#adam is so lana del rey vinyl #saint shut up #adam driver #ultraviolence

[raapija]

My favourite moment in the whole history of F1 is Guanyu finding Lance alone, sitting with him and then the rest of the grid slowly gathering around to have some fun banter together. All around little Lance Stroll. He's always so alone but right here, in this moment, he had everyone there with him. 😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️

#AAAHHH #I will never shut up about this #lance stroll #f1 #formula 1 #zhou guanyu #you are a saint ❤️

[cer-rata]

An incomplete but very angry diatribe about the missed potential of the Star Sapphires

So back in the day Geoff Johns and co decided to open up the Green Lantern mythos and add some more flavor and expand the concept of sci-fi tech powered by elemental emotion to more than just willpower. Which yes, is not an emotion, we ignore it and move on.

Anyway we got some really cool stuff! A rage tyrant fueled by experiencing incredible injustice on a personal and cosmic scale, whose vendetta twisted him into something terrible. An avatar of greed who was never allowed to have anything, not freedom, not family, not safety, who takes and takes and takes to fill a void that can never be satisfied. A priest who lost everything but presses on through his unshakable hope that the future can and will be better. It's a lot of fun stuff!

So in this great creative re-imagining, they had to do something clever and fun with the idea of an all female corps powered by love right? They took the opportunity to move past the purely romantic, sexual idea of love and the obsessed femme fatale archetype, because they had the chance to really explore different types of affection now that there were a bunch of different avatars with different stories to pull from right?

Right?

Nope! The only Sapphires we ever learn about are heartbroken over a cursed romance like Carol, grieving a dead fiance like Miri Riam, forcibly mind controlled to be one like Fatality, or just Miss Bloss who...kind of said she wanted to join up? No clue what her deal is, as far as I'm aware that's never really explained. And then we just never learn about anyone else, and still haven't. The hell is "The Lost Sapphire"? No idea, we'll likely never know.

It's frustrating because not only is this a glaring example of the depth of plotlines offered to women in comics compared to their male counterparts, but also a wild lack of imagination. Love is one of the most complicated emotions we experience. Fear, anger, hope, all pretty easy to quickly define. Love is multifaceted, cultural, incredibly contextual and a factor in so many different kinds of relationship. Just thinking logically it should be much easier to flesh out the motivations of a group pulling from such a nuanced source of power, versus something as clear-cut as rage. But no, the red lanterns got so many varied reasons for their rage, the male ones especially: Bleez being the woman was of course given the SA narrative, which I don't think is inappropriate on its own, that's an incredibly valid reason to be angry, but as the ONLY truly prominent female Red Lantern it's like...c'mon guys. But still, at least she and Atrocitus had different reasons for becoming what they are, and that variation was played for plot and drama.

But there's not a single Star Sapphire that personally champions something other than romantic love. And before you shoot me, it is explicitly mentioned that they DO protect other forms of love, so there's no reason for them to all be sexy and obsessed with kissing people. There are no Sapphires that are driven by:

The love of their children and families, even in a tragic sense, like Atrocitus and Saint Walker and Larfleez are...

Their love of their people, or their culture. It would have been interesting if Fatality was inducted BECAUSE of her pain at losing her world, but no, they just...replaced her anger with lovey vibes and called it a day.

Their love for nature. Not everyone is social, but social love isn't the only way to strongly experience the emotion.

Their love for themselves. Where is the fun narcissistic ass who loves their own self image to the point of getting powers? It would have been a fun twist and a cool way to get another villainous Sapphire if you wanted to.

Their platonic love of ANYTHING really. Are ace/aro people just...not capable of love then? It doesn't mean anything to be willing to drive cross country to help a friend move just because they needed it and you care? No? You need to be fucking for it to count?

It's like...fascinating if you really think about it. In this vast fantasy universe full of alien races with wildly different perceptions and life cycles, and where the other corps have plenty of non-human, truly alien looking members, that the women's only love corps is full of only hot hot scantily clad baddies. Most love that people experience in their lives isn't even romantic! You will have far more experiences with friends and family members and even loving strangers than you will have with romantic partners.

Like the reason is clearly sexism, duh, but we know sexism is bad, that's obvious, what I really want to make clear is how much this blatant, unexplored sexism just completely desecrated the potential of the worldbuilding here.

From another angle even: Let's say this this WAS the sex and romance all the time corps. Let's say that you wanted to keep it all women. I hate the idea that women are capable of love in a way that men aren't, that's such a bad take and just regressive and unhelpful, but let's just play ball for a moment. They're not even hot? Their designs are such ridiculously narrow versions of feminine attractiveness that they're not even successful at really being mass appeal sexy. I haven't even reached the point of complaining about the fatphobia and criminal lack of different body types yet, I'm still just saying that from the standpoint of fantasy sexy it's not even good at being stereotypical offensive fantasy sexy. It's just boring! They're all so visually boring! You can be scantily clad and still have an interesting and coherent character design! But that is not what they gave these women! They actually redesigned the classic Star Sapphire costume and made it MORE sexist and boring:

Yeah it was cheesy but it was also cute and fun? The design is playful classic sci-fi girl and this is when she was still a dangerous unhinged villain. Its fun to look at and feels tonally coherent next to Green Lantern.

And then they just...

No actually, I will not explain this one, you have eyes.

And yeah they fixed her costume finally,

But! She's still stuck as Hal Jordan's romantic punching bag, and has not gotten to have any new adventures on her own.

So.

What I'm saying is it's a flop all around. 2/10, and only because despite everything Fatality STILL managed to serve. I actually think that all of the corps have been poorly used since blackest night, even the greens actually, but they never even gave the Sapphires a chance. They last showed up in...a WW annual I think? During the whole dark gods event, they needed Diana to help them fight the evil god of love, and there was a guy in the corp finally, and they talked about sisterhood and then we haven't heard a peep from them since. I think Carol might be due to get her ring back in the GL ongoing but she's not really been treated well so far, so I'm not hopeful for anything fresh and well reasoned.

So my lovely ladies (and that one unnamed guy), until they let you get it together it may be time to

#dc comics #comics meta #hal jordan #green lantern #star sapphire #carol ferris #fatality #atrocitus #larfleeze #saint walker #sexism #shut up cerata #dc editorial answer for your crimes

[posich]

i hate saint denis.

#JUST LEAVE ME ALONE #saint denis i hate you #just leave my arthur alone shut the hell up plz #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #rdr #red dead #red dead redemption two

[twocakesinacup]

Scary movies!

#rain world #rainworld #rain world art #og art #rw enot #rw shipping #rw saint #rw godmode #rw shipruary #WE ARENT A DAY LATE SHUT UP ;~;

[alicent-archive]

the. saint. imagery. im. going. feral.

#no I will not shut the fuck up about her #they gave us Saint Alicent #the eyes the crown the flames the jewels the embroidery the face card #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #team green #team alicent #dowager queen alicent #olivia cooke #my own

[arrowheadedbitch]

Greek👏mythology 👏is👏not👏christianity👏

Hades is not satan

Zeus is not God

Heracles is not Jesus

Stop it.

#any story you see where hades is the definitive bad guy and zeus is the saint is TAINTED by tge CHRISTIANS and an UNFAIR representation of #what greek mythology should be like! #hades isn't evil just because he rules the underworld #and zeus isn't not a dick just because he rules olympus #don't let other religions effect how you see this one! #propaganda! propaganda i say! #also elysium isn't on olympus so shut up #like it's not like heaven in the clouds #it is in the underworld too and HADES RUNS IT #so leave him alone

[qui-rault]

I'm not joking when I say that I think about this letter Couthon sent to Saint-Just at least once a week. 'Embrace Herault' indeed.

#i just!!!!! #so much tragedy in this entire thing #the tragedy on a national level but the personal tragedy #on an individual level too #also couthon asking sj to embrace herault will never not be funny to me #the question is did sj actually go through with it 🤔 #anyway #revolution eats its own etc etc #hate that #frev #herault de sechelles #saint-just #couthon #qui posts #TELL ME THAT YOU STILL EXIST #i will neVER shut up about this

[onyxember]

My brain is on TMA shit posting but picture it: Sicily 1922

Tim Stoker, TikTok fan, obsessed with Kyle Gordon aka DJ Crazy Times, dressing up as him for Halloween complete with a can of red hair spray from Claire’s all over his hair, blasting Planet of the Base for the entire day.

#the magnus archives #tma podcast #tim stoker #tma tim stoker #shut up saint

[evilkaeya]

It icks me so bad when people complain about other people's writing/drawing style like damn bitch make it yourself then

#there's a thick line between constructive criticism and fucking complaining and shit talking #laughing abt ooc characterization is one thing. I do that too I'm no saint. #but going for the writing style/specific words they use is just... stfu #you cant use this word you can't use that word you can't refer to the character using their hair color their age their job seriously SHUT UP #I'm sorry I'm vv annoyed rn #nothing happened to me personally btw I just saw a post

[crucifiedfaerie]

like anything for you babe

#saint shut up #why did i make this LMAO #kylo ren #kylo ren x reader #kylo ren fanfic #starwars fanfic

[autistic-katara]

“you did the mature thing, you did the mature thing, you did the mature thing,” i repeat to myself after blocking someone to quell the urges to unblock and yell at them for being a fucking idiot

#it was another god damn b*lly stan- #babes i am well aware the other characters aren’t fucking saints who’ve never hurt a fly #doesn’t change the fact that b*lly is still a fucking violent racist and abuser #who very much never learned from his actions and changed things #like he tried to kill a 13yo black boy for daring to hang out with his sister #the sister who’s skateboard he broke for daring to hang out with a black boy #like what in the hell are these people on #like sorry for not liking a character who’s like objectively a shitty person #didn’t know he had daddy issues #anti billy hargrove #anti billy stans #stranger things #ryan shut the fuck up #honest to god tho i am 2 seconds away from fist fighting every b*lly stan i see they are fucking insufferable

[twocakesinacup]

The Beginning and The End

I post a lot of Saint and Enot/ Godmode and I wanted to elaborate on my headcanon for the two.

Saint is the karma manifestation of karma ten. He represents a breaking of the cycles, a freedom from the world, a sleep without waking. He's cold, gruff, and grumpy, but marches forward tirelessly to clean up the remaining lingering entities still around at the end of the greater cycle and prepare it for a new world. Saint tends to be more reserved and stoic, though he does enjoy dark jokes and dry humor. His usual world is cold and dying, the swan song of a fading universe.

Enot is the karma manifestation of karma two, and not in the way you're thinking. She represents life, energy, and spirit. She's full of gumption, always optimistic despite everything, and loves to make stupid jokes that drive everyone else in the room crazy. She goes around actually creating things, as she represents the new cycle coming to fruition. Her world is unformed and wild, but bursting with new life.

They come together because they're basically the only two intelligent entities around when the greater cycles renew, aside from the occasional iterator. Saint, for all his stiff and lonesome nature, does actually appreciate the company even if he never says it. Enot just loves to bother him, even as a complete airhead with a poor sense of humor. They might be at complete odds with one another, but they've come to enjoy each other's quirks over the countless cycles they've worked together.

Two lonesome spirits finding love at the end of the world.

#rain world #rainworld #rain world art #og art #rw shipping #rw saint #rw enot #rw godmode #rw inv #anyway ill shut up and post more funny

[cadmusfly]

so for the RP blog shenanigans I was looking up a guy who @josefavomjaaga told me actually used to be Ney's ADC before tranferring to Soult's team, who has a really long name but let's call him Bory de Saint-Vincent because that's his last name

and this dude is fuckin wild, look at this description of him

Bory de Saint-Vincent's almost too colorful life story has sometimes overshadowed his reputation as one of the most thoughtful and productive naturalists of the early nineteenth century. A free spending extrovert who also dabbled in literary ventures, his career was complicated by involvement in a near-mutiny at sea, various political intrigues, and financial debts to the extent that he spent years at a time avoiding the authorities, or actually being incarcerated. Throughout it all, however, he managed to keep up a career as a natural history collector.

he's more known for being a naturalist than a military guy, but he's also just straight up nuts

even just looking at his wikipedia page

I dunno about you, but I feel like "precocious naturalist" should mean "discovered twenty new kinds of plants as a kid", not helping save a guy from prison (I initially read it as jailbreaking but it could have been more legal, not sure, but also apparently the ship the entomologist was meant to be on also sank so lil kid Bory saved this guy's life technically???)

Dude hopped on a expedition to Australia, got sick of the captain and decided to just go at it alone for a few years in the middle of the ocean

now my crack theory is that ney got sick of hearing about plants all the time and shoved him towards soult

and he had so many scientist friends, when he was exiled after waterloo, he was invited to stay in prussia by the king thanks to a scientist friend, got kicked out after 18 months, "offered a commission as General in Bolívar's new Republic of Colombia" by another scientist friend, declined that, and escaped to holland to meet the Sieyes guy who kinda was supposed to be a consul alongside this other dude called Bonaparte many years ago

dude got placed in debtor's prison for too many debts and these two fuckin notes attached to that

His scientist friends tried to cheer him up by parading a giraffe next to the debtor's prison so that he can climb onto the rooftop to look at it with a telescope

but he didnt want to leave prison because he could have his friends visit and had good food and good sleep, but his son in law against his wishes paid his debts so that he could actually go to the damn wedding

dude did have some weird racist ideas about human ethnicity but he was also anti-slavery and denounced the heritage peerage system while in a political position and ended up getting kicked out because of that so that's cool

this guy is like a french Stephen Maturin sort of, except he's real

and he is also contributing to the fact that none of soult's ADCs are normal people

i wish i'd learned about him earlier so i could submit him to the napoleonic sexyman tournament

#napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #jean-baptiste bory de saint-vincent #napoleon's marshals' adcs #napoleon's marshals #sort of #im characterising him as an exuberant outgoing extrovert who fucking loves plants and will not shut up about plants