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nicercymybeloved · 3 months

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Very attached to the idea that if Percy had been a woman she would have been named Ariadne. Like, I know that Persephone is a popular fanon name for female Percy because it's a nice way to keep her nickname. I've also seen Andromeda used by some because she lives a long life with Perseus in the myths. But Sally would have at least considered it right? Because Ariadne's a popular female figure in mythology, linked to both Theseus and Dionysus, two other famous figures in mythology. She was a clever mortal princess who was dealt a bad hand because her father's arrogance allowed him to think that he could get away with defying a god, just like how Poseidon's arrogance allowed him to think that he could get away with breaking the pact he made with Zeus and Hades. And in the end, Ariadne survived both her family's legacy and Theseus's abandonment, becoming Dionysus's immortal wife in both the PJO universe and in many retellings of the myth of the Minotaur and Theseus in real life. Ariadne got to live out her happy ending just like how Perseus did in mythology, which is the main reason why Sally even gave Percy the name Perseus to begin with. Am I delusional to think that Sally would have given a female Percy the name Ariadne? Who the fuck knows. But I'm so attached to the idea that it literally just supersedes any other name I could have come up with

#if i am just let me believe. i'm just very attached to the idea of little 12 year old ariadne “ari” jackson meeting mr. d and being like #'wow. this is the husband of the woman i'm named after. why couldn't the gods at least let me think he was attractive'#'because dear god the way he's presenting himself is such a let down. ariadne girl i am questioning your taste'#oh my god percy would so drag this man and mentally just question everything when he finally brings homegirl up in titan's curse #also this may or may not be related to the lesbian nicercy canon divergent fic i'm constantly just writing in my mind #already re-imagined their interactions at percy's birthday so many times and god its so romantic in my head #pjo #female percy jackson #percy jackson #lesbian nicercy canon divergent au #yuri's ideas

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vnesslie · 25 days

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virsancte · 1 month

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good days aren't easy to come by

#simblr #ts4 legacy #valentine gen 4 #fun fact for context on why i care so much abt him finally choosing to play the piano on his own #but it's gonna get Long so strap in #basically. the guitar he used to have had been with him since he was like...... my god. probably about 15 #he bought it at a yard sale for pennies from an older woman #it belonged to her late son originally and it wasn't even . supposed to be a part of the sale in the first place. she just took a liking to #devin and figured that really it's better in the hands of someone who would use it than for it to collect dust in her garage forever #and he couldn't really practice at home. his parents... are not exactly the kindest people you've ever seen #he was too afraid of them destroying or throwing it away so he'd sneak off to god knows where and learn how to play it from old #youtube videos on his busted up phone #it quickly became Everything to him. his most prized possession. and it wasn't a shitty guitar either. the son was a professional musician #that's how ellie and devin met in the first place. he was playing at the market she used to sneak out to in the evenings to #and she instantly knew . this boy is going places and really they might as well go together #enough backstory of the backstory. long story short: he was struggling to make rent eventually and was out of vinyls to pawn off #so he had no choice left. it was either that or he'd get kicked out along with his sister. who was still struggling a lot w/ addiction #so he sold it. and it broke him. he's literally just not been the same since losing it #his sister stole him a guitar from a music shop she'd go to sometimes but it just wasn't the same and he had not played an instrument since #until now anyway #still not a guitar. but maybe someday #or he can find his old one and buy it again.........#lmfao if you made it here congrats. you win nothing bc im broke but i do respect you

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apotelesmaa · 4 months

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I do think that for better or for worse every relationship in media has been held up to the gold standard that is chelldos in my head. Portal series really just hit it out of the park with that one. Glados being so incredibly devoted and obsessive towards chell in her own toxic way that she does not want other test subjects that would make her job easier (like the co-op robots) she wants the one that challenges her and bested her. It’s hatred. it’s love. She continually tries to banter with and insult a woman who literally will not respond to her. She tries to kill chell several times. The first selfless act glados ever does is let chell leave. To the tune of a choir singing. She pulls chell back in from space and waits for her to wake up. And she gives chell the companion cube back. A piece of aperture yes but also a piece of her heart. They make me so insane. Incredibly accurate to the lesbian experience.

#chell is harder to say anything abt by virtue of being a silent protagonist #but I would like to say: she didn’t need to take glados with her through the old aperture area #& also did not need to put her back in charge. she could have just done a portal 1 move and killed wheatley and left no one in charge.#kinda. glados did need to fix everything. but. u know.#glados… woman liker. i know what u are. Caroline as well but we’re not ready for that conversation.

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stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage · 5 months

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This week on "CJ needs to gush about DAO": Morrigan's dark ritual.

I adore Origins because depending on how serious you take roleplay, every decision you make is a thread that leads back to your origin, and in this case of the ritual, who you choose to romance can have a major impact on how you handle this choice.

For context, my canon run is with a female Tabris who romances Alistair and keeps him as a Grey Warden, and is close friends with Morrigan. It's more in character for my Tabris to reject Morrigan's ritual and not even bring it up to Alistair, which would result in her leaving him behind while she makes the ultimate sacrifice in killing the archdemon... however, agreeing to convince Alistair to do the ritual with Morrigan is the only choice in the entire game where I break roleplay because I'm selfish and weak and I want Tabris to live.

I have a lot of strong feelings about the ritual, like it hurts me. It makes me want to chew on furniture. I can talk about it until I can talk no more. I so badly want to be strong enough to remain in character and reject the ritual.

Let me explain: Tabris survives an origin that deals with sexual assault. She gets kidnapped on her wedding day, she watches the other kidnapped women and her husband get murdered, and then is too late to save Shianni from being assaulted... and Tabris carries that trauma with her throughout the entire game.

If the way to save her life is to ask the two most important people she cares about; one being her lover and the other being her best friend; who she knows hate each other, to have dubiously consensual sex in order to make a baby to absorb the old god soul... she's saying no. The last thing Tabris would ever do is put someone into a sexual situation where consent is at all dubious after what she saw happen to Shianni and nearly happened to herself. She'd rather die than force that upon Alistair and Morrigan.

That's what I mean when I say origin affects everything; I know some will side eye that with "Really? Your warden would rather die than let Alistair sleep with another woman? It's one time, and Alistair agrees to it, so no one needs to die?"

Let me be clear in saying this isn't a "Morrigan slept with my man" issue. Sure, that part's awkward and it sucks, but that's not even breaking water tension, let alone diving into the deep waters to the core of the issue.

For my Tabris, this is about betrayal, consent, and accepting fate.

The person offering Tabris this deal is someone she thought of as a trusted friend who has actually been lying to her the entire time. It doesn't matter what Morrigan's intentions are now or if she genuinely wants to save the wardens. She knew from the beginning why Flemeth sent her with them, she admits as much. She knew a warden would need to make the ultimate sacrifice and then leveraged that to get what she wants. Morrigan waited until the night before, when Alistair and the warden learn one of them has to die to defeat the archdemon, and took advantage of the high running emotions and possibly the fear of dying to make the warden agree to her ritual.

At least, that's how my Tabris interprets this confrontation. She feels betrayed by someone she came to love like a sister and went out of her way to help Morrigan with her mother upon learning what's in Flemeth's grimoire. And then that someone tells her no one needs to die, she just needs to convince Alistair to sleep with her... which is a huge fucking problem.

The Alistair and Tabris romance is slow; it took a long time for either of them to be comfortable with being emotionally vulnerable and trusting each other with basic intimacy, let alone sex. Tabris is mortified at the idea of putting Alistair in this situation. Not only would it feel like a betrayal on her part to ask that of him, but she knows the last thing Alistair ever wants to do is father a bastard who then goes on to grow up without him. How could she possibly ask him to do that?

Then you consider that ritual or no, there isn't a guarantee that they'll survive anyway. Say they do the ritual and Tabris dies anyway; she made Alistair sleep with Morrigan in order to save her and then she died anyway. Or if Alistair dies then Tabris gets to live with the fact that the last person Alistair was with was a woman he hates because she asked that of him… and either way, Morrigan gets to walk away with what she wanted.

Tabris led the group, and she's accepted that if Riordan dies [which he does] then she'll be the one to make the sacrifice, even if it means breaking both hers and Alistair's heart.... except she doesn't because I'm a coward who doesn't want to lose her because my worldstate isn't good without her in it but I also refuse to lose Alistair so I just pretend it plays out differently in my head it's fine-

But... that's how I play Tabris and view the situation. My friend @pi-creates and I have discussed the dark ritual at length. While I play a Tabris who romances Alistair, Pi plays a Mahariel who romances Morrigan, so we have vastly different interpretations of the ritual itself and Morrigan's intentions.

Which yeah, it makes total sense that someone who romanced Morrigan with a different origin, and has the option to do the ritual with her rather than asking someone else to do it, wouldn't see this the way I do.

To quote Pi: "Playing as a male warden in the Morrigan romance makes the whole situation feel different, and maybe it’s because she’s presenting it differently due to the emotional connection, but it feels more like she’s opening up about her initial instructions (that she had been given by Flemeth) and offering a solution to avoid the possibility of death. And for my Mahariel, the constant threat of sudden death has haunted him from the start – he caught the blight and was ripped away from his clan (something he did not want to do in the slightest), got forced into a Grey Warden ritual that could kill him, was forced into a battle that could kill him, going on this whole quest that he never wanted but has now become responsible for regardless of his thoughts on the matter… the dark ritual may be one of the few moments where he is presented with an option to decide if he wants to walk into certain death, or take actions of his own volition to stop it.

"The idea of the ritual still feels like a dodgy thing to do since the ultimate outcome is unknown at that point, he’s taking Morrigan at her word that it will save the warden and that this child would be unharmed, just with an old god soul that she isn’t exactly clear on why she wants that and is determined to runaway immediately after the battle to secure it properly. It could be interpreted that it’s purely a preservation thing, but I’m biased to wanting Morrigan's intentions to not be power based.

"But also, taking part in the ritual isn’t as outlandish for my warden since he and Morrigan have already been involved in an intimate relationship. It’s the future of the ritual that is scarier – the idea of this old-god baby, and the idea of Morrigan insisting that she’s leaving afterwards when Mahariel and her have a loving relationship. He’s hurting, but he doesn’t want to die, he doesn’t want Alistair to die, he doesn’t want Morrigan to leave, he definitely doesn’t want pregnant Morrigan to leave on her own… it’s complicated, but for completely different reasons."

And I find that fascinating. I want to know how other players approach this part of DAO, what origins they play, and who they romanced. Seriously, this is an invitation to anyone reading to share their thoughts.

What about a warden who doesn't even have Alistair in their party because they made Loghain a warden? Is there anyone out there who has Loghain do the ritual with Morrigan and why? What about male wardens who don't romance her? Do you choose to do it with her anyway, or do you ask Alistair or Loghain to do it? Do you tell Morrigan to fuck off with the ritual? Why? Who makes the ultimate sacrifice in that case? And what about Morrigan herself? How do you interpret her intentions/motivations? I want to know.

I'm telling you, this is a discussion that gets me excited, as most discussions about DAO do.

#dao #dragon age origins #alistair theirin #dao alistair #dao morrigan #da morrigan #tw: sa mention #long post #i love origins so much #every time i replay i end up on discord having this discussion with pi because it makes me *emotional*#and yes this is why i was looking up alistair's dialogue about a dead warden before #also want to clear up that while i am harsh on morrigan based on how my tabris feels i don't hate her or anything i love her #morrigan's one of my favorite characters and that's why the whole thing hurts like... tabris was happy for her to come along with them #since she still didn't know alistair well and felt more comfortable with another woman around even though she never felt threatened by him #and for them both to be her closest companions like.... it's a lot to take in #and its not like tabris is totally in the right here- she doesn't tell alistair it's an option when it could be argued that she should've #but like i said i've never actually turned down the ritual because i love my warden too much... i just close my eyes #and pretend there's an alternate solution where Alistair and Tabris do the ritual and they have the old god baby instead sksksks #that way no one has to sleep with someone they hate and alistair gets to be there to raise his child. it's fine everything's fine sksksk #i don't care if it doesn't work that way okay it's the only way this works out better for everyone... except maybe morrigan but still

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fromtheseventhhell · 8 months

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Ned having multiple angry outbursts throughout AGOT, even physically assaulting someone at one point, and still being viewed as the "calm and collected" counterpart to a "feral" Catelyn perfectly encapsulates this fandom's misogyny

#ned stark #catelyn stark #asoiaf #like literally what has Catelyn done to be called feral outside of being angry over the death and destruction of her family??#she's literally more cool-headed and diplomatic than Ned and HAS to be because she's a woman in a misogynistic society lol #men are allowed to behave and feel however they want and are still given nuance but a woman being angry is where people draw their lines #cause god forbid a woman have emotions that are anything but /soft/ 🙄#reminds me of people claiming that /I've never seen such anger in a girl/ about Arya is a warning sign when it's literally ye olde misogyny #watching people replicate the misogyny of a feudal society is crazy #/he is so quiet and calm and thinks everything through...a true diplomat uwu/ give me a break

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lobotomyladylives · 2 months

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my tracklist btw (: all are finished lyric wise I just need to write the actual music lol. I have the melodies in my head but not on paper.

#the psalms duo are like. part 1 part 2 of the same exact theme just past present & future. the first is 10:31 bc its my bday & ??? is #future focused #24 dnp is about a girl w/an ED who dies from taking that drug #independence day is about a woman whos friend is an abusive relationship & they kill him together #W.M.D. is about fame as a concept & how destructive the panopticon of publicity can be #angels interlude is just instrumental #i just saw a ufo is basically the song version of everything i see on my ufo forums + my experiences #scum is self explanatory #late bloomer is the only love song #the good old days is from the perspective of a housewife in the early 20th century talking to future generations of women who romanticize #the past. on a lighter note is just a convo that starts as small talk but keeps getting weird #last song of the kauai o o is the actual last song of that species calling for a mate that doesnt exist anymore except im responding #with instruments in the same tone as the return call . no lyrics #the genre of the album is all over the place. what is sonic cohesion.#LX3 op

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lightdancer1 · 6 months

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Also while I'm at it:

Can people please remember that Death is her own person and the only Endless to have two miniseries, a short film, and a manga? She is not simply a satellite whose every waking thought and word and deed is built on the needs of her little brother. She is perfectly capable of making decisions and interacting with him without it being a 'Dream of the Endless is Poochie' factor.

At most any motivation she had with Hob and Dream was maybe that Dream might find a friend, but given Dream is Dream she probably didn't have a lot of faith in that and nor should she. I tend to think that it was about Hob's attitude to life and that she did this for her own reasons and about Hob himself, Dream given the chance sto sink or swim on his own because she's his sister, not his mommy.

Their sibling relationship definitely has its toxic moments. He puts her on a pedestal her actions and her own POV show is unwarranted and never tries to look for or to connect to the actual person or to consider there is one, preferring a goddess on a narrow and tall pedestal to his actual sibling. She is much more feckless than he is about communication and their major interactions show it, which is a further proof that the pedestal is not the actual person because the person he believes Death to be could not repeatedly fail to connect to her sibling like that.

This is true regardless, but at the the end of the day, Death is not Dream's fairy godmother, she is a deeply flawed and complex character in her own right, and her biggest flaws and her worst failures aren't directly related to Dream at all. And yes, I'm going to go for the nuclear option, if they cast Death as the 'hot' 17 year old with the bone pale look, would people still try to make her a mother archetype like they did the 35 year old Black woman or would they just treat her as fetish fuel and none of the deeper problems or characterization matter?

#death of the endless #sandman meta #this actually gets extremely annoying after a while #dream of the endless #hob gadling #I still cannot decide if casting Death for the age Gaiman gives the comics character in appearance would have worked or not #looking at everything with Jenna Ortega's Wednesday does not indicate it would #but you'll be hard pressed to tell me there isn't some deep seated racism in treating a character played by a Black woman #as the servile motherly archetype of a character played by a white man #though I really don't think that 17 year old teenage!looking Death would fare that much better #more perving is not an improvement over more 'muh mom sibling who has no existence but to get Dream laid and to kiss his boo boos'

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