#this is only tangentially

[specialagentartemis]

Did Penelope talk to Odysseus about it? When Odysseus was told that Helen had been abducted by a Trojan prince and all the kings of Greece were being summoned to go to war against Troy and bring her back, Odysseus didn’t think that was any of his concern and didn’t want to go, but what did Penelope think? Helen is her cousin. Penelope was raised alongside her like a sister. Did Penelope think of her beloved cousin kidnapped and taken to foreign lands? Was she afraid for her? Did she encourage her husband to go, to give the war his all, to rescue Helen and bring her home, because Helen is her family? Not for Menelaus’s sake, or even for Helen’s, but for hers. For Penelope. For Odysseus’s love for her, for him to go and join the rescue attempt for her cousin.

#Depends of if Penelope thinks Helen was kidnapped or if Helen was unhappy with Menelaus and ran off with a hot younger man #But. I think if Penelope approached Odysseus like this. He might be a little more willing to go to war #What DID Penelope think about this. Sending her husband off to war. But in service of rescuing her kidnapped cousin #The torn feelings. The anguish in each direction #The hope that it would be over soon and they both would be back soon #tagamemnon #Greek mythology #this is only tangentially #The Iliad #Will real classics fans get mad at me tagging it that #perpetual perpetual ladies night

[egophiliac]

Tl;Dr - I stopped playing the game but I like the characters and I wanna draw them but idk if the wiki I use is up to date for cards

Do u know any wikis that have up to date cards for all the twst characters-

Asking specifically bc of Malleus cause I can't tell anymore if he has any more new cards bc HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A 100 DISNEY ANIVERSARY CARD IN THE WIKI I USE 😭

Like compared to everyone else in Disanomia, he has 12 cards (in the wiki I use) and then Lilia has 17 cards 💀

Cause I think Malleus has a Bean's Day card as well, but that could just be a fanmade one, I don't have JP twst nor ENG twst anymore so I can't confirm it myself urhghrhevw 🫠

Malleus doesn't have a Beans Day card, so that would've been fanmade! and the 100 anniversary cards are actually the new round of birthday cards, so most of the characters don't have 'em yet -- Malleus should be getting his in a couple of days, when his birthday event starts! oh god my keeeeeys

I think the wiki.gg stays pretty up to date? it looks to me like they have everything that's currently up through JP, at least. :O I did go through and do a quick count just because I couldn't believe Malleus only had 12 cards, but. he really does have the least...defeated only by Silver with 13...astonishing. we need his gargoyle club wear immediately.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #...maybe? tenuously? i have no idea #i think lilia and floyd are tied for the most at 18 each #twst loves the chaotic gremlins #granted card quantity is separate from card rarity/significance/whatever #i remember all of us losing our minds when vargas camp 2 came out and trey FINALLY got an event ssr after a million years #anyway i am looking forward to the upcoming magift cards and all don't get me wrong #but i am VERY VERY excited to see what the gargoyle club wear looks like #i NEED to 1) know what malleus thinks gargoyle fashion is and 2) see him in it #jade is also in a weird club by himself but at least that. y'know. has a gear theme and everything. #tangentially i do sometimes think about the fact that malleus and jade are both in single-member clubs #despite how in...i think lilia's robes story the music club was in danger of disbanding because they only had three members #although i do genuinely believe that crowley is too scared of both jade and malleus to tell them they can't have their clubs #so y'know. it tracks.

[hoofpeet]

Re: archeops imitating voices: what if it learned to say cute things like “hello”, “wanna treat?” And “I love you”

Ough.. I feel like having a large & dumb bird be able to talk could backfire in some ways

#hoof draws #mailbox #on the topic of archeops being able to imitate noises like a parrot #<--tangentially . this makes me think of one of those scenarios where #it's been a few years and emmet makes friends with someone like e|esa/eve|ynn after ingo's disappearance #but doesn't tell them he has/used to have a twin . so they only start to figure things out once they come over a few times #and realize someone else used to live in the apartment #like. evelyn comes over and gets left alone with archie while emmet makes dinner or smthn #and archie starts dropping voicelines that are very clearly from someone else wishing emmet a good day at work #. archie enabled environmental storytelling

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: We should find Richas and make him fix it! Right? You see what I mean?

Fit: Well, I don't think Richarlyson's woken up yet today, so... we might be out of luck on that one.

Tubbo: That's fine, we can wait! Where's his bed?

Fit: ...I don't know where his bed is. Why would you need to know where his bed is?

Tubbo: So we can wait for him.

Fit: You just going to stare at him when he's sleeping?

Tubbo: Yep!

Fit: Isn't that strange?

Tubbo: I don't care!

Fit: Alright, what's gotten into you, Tubbo?

-

Tubbo: Nothing! I just- I feel like this is very unjust. I feel like there's nothing wrong with, you know, correcting injustice.

Fit: I mean, it's- it's a bunch of kids fooling around, do you really want to like... stand in front of an Egg as it sleeps and just...?

Tubbo: Kids have to learn at some point!

Fit: You do- I don't know how Richarlyson's parents would feel about that, Tubbo.

Tubbo: I think they'll be fine.

Fit: No, I don't think you understand, I—

#FitMC #Tubbo #QSMP #Fit #February 22 2024 #Richarlyson #tangentially #The only reason Fit didn't keep going is because Ramon placed a sign and he stopped to read it #but DAMNNNN #the way he said ''why do you need to know where his bed is?'' was so good. #Fit's voice is so good

[mylittleredgirl]

i realized this definition is missing from my mental glossary, and instead of just asking what it means, i'm making a poll!

none of this has to be an x-reader situation if you engage with your favorite characters in a different way! if you know what it means but don't have one of your own you can still answer with your definition, but i also included an i don't know option at the bottom.

if you have more than one & it's different for different characters i'd love to hear about it and get more confused!!

#polls #there's a strong representation of 'people who call julian bashir their comfort character' on my dash and i don't know if it's like #he's a good doctor and i want a good doctor to take care of me or that people relate to his struggles and want to comfort him... #this is only tangentially about my new obsession with margaret mash (i think) #but i did notice that the two fics i've written so far were about her receiving small moments of comfort in a Harsh World #and when i was young and in a Harsh World i used to imagine characters taking care of me or write self-inserts for that #but now if i had to write myself into a fic as an overpowered oc i would want my powers to let me take care of everyone else

[yokowan]

dogy

#tethys posting #touhou oc #touhou #<- only tangentially #shikigami posting #my art

[dwarven-beard-spores]

everyone can have their own headcanons that are fun to them etc. etc. and the gomens tv show characters are not the same as their book counterparts, and it is entirely reasonable to extrapolate from the canon given in the show etc. etc.

HOWEVER, since gos2 did NOT in fact give crowley a snack, I do feel the need to tap the sign:

TAP TAP

BOOK!SNAKE THINKS EATING A HEAVY MEAL AND HAVING A NAP ABOUT IT IS ONE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD

If this must be reconciled with him eating nothing in the tv show, might I suggest snakeish preference of large and infrequent meals and little to nothing in between, or any other interpretation of your choosing

I just think this is important to keep in mind, thank you for your time

#gos2 #good omens season 2 spoilers #ish #listen I haven't the stamina to get involved beyond my tiny little corner of extensive headcanons and a very exclusive collection of people #I am only tangentially in the fandom rn anyway #but this is the one hill I will perish on

[super-paper]

(original post/link)

#my hero academia #shigaraki tomura #shimura tenko #togata mirio #mirio going from ''cheery bravado!'' to ''*DEEPLY CONCERNED*'' after like 3 minutes of only tangentially interacting w tomura #he just like me fr..... #dank mha meems

[theoutcastrogue]

[From a 2014 article by John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats. He's talking about how a random spam email ended up inspiring a part of his book Wolf in White Van. Later, in 2020, the album Getting Into Knives came out, and I think it inspired its artwork too.]

"It took years for me to be able to just reflexively delete spam, or filter it so that I never see it at all. I blame the spammers for this; the quality of their work took a sharp nosedive at some point. But during whatever period of the internet’s growth you’d call the early 2000s, it seemed like you’d still get some winners: things that had been typed up by a person, sent out to a bunch of email addresses they’d bought or rented for 5 or 10 bucks from the only guy who was ever going to make any money in this particular exchange. Most of them went directly, if manually, into the trash; but once in a while, there’d be one that seemed to earn, at the very least, the minute it’d take me to read it.

The one I’m remembering here was subject-lined SUPPLY OF KNIVES. [...] The subject line opened on an all-caps email that boasted, in ornate, antiquated English appealing to the reader’s more refined sensibilities, about the high quality of the knives on offer at an external website. You shouldn’t click on links in spam email. I live my life on the razor’s edge! I clicked the link.

I want to tell you about these knives: They were beautiful. They were weird. They had elaborate designs in the handles, moons or stars of wolf heads, and special grips, and a variety of points. They were made from metals whose pedigrees were described lovingly, and had been struck — smithed? wrought? — via processes I knew absolutely nothing about, but that sounded fantastic, difficult, arcane. It’s the joy of specialized language: When you’re an outsider to it, it can’t help but sound cool.

Of course this is the whole idea of any operation like this. SUPPLY OF KNIVES could well have been, and probably was, a company in Ohio who’d stumbled across an old warehouse full of knives, and knew enough about sales to describe these things in the most exotic terms they could find. I’m pretty immune to pitches: Who likes to feel like he’s being pitched? But somebody involved with SUPPLY OF KNIVES had had just enough authorial flair — that, or true faith — to caption each knife’s mysterious, blurry accompanying JPEG with a description whose constant recourse to specialized vocabularies seemed to say, “You’re not even reading this unless you already know about this sort of thing. Let us therefore speak like the fellow travelers we are.”

It was like a trade catalog for roadside bandits in need of knives.

I can’t speak for everybody, but I know that when I was a child the life of the roadside bandit seemed like a pretty romantic way to go. I looked at all these knives and read the descriptions and was just generally delighted about the whole thing, so I saved the email in a “memorable spam” folder I used to keep that had maybe two other emails in it. A few years later, Apple came out with this robotic-arm-screen iMac you never see any more, and we were long overdue for a new computer so we got that; and then, after a while, I got myself a laptop, because I was traveling all the time, and eventually both the old iMacs ended up in the basement, and they were both asleep but alive until fairly recently, as far as I knew.

But when I went to check for the email, it was gone. The old blue iMac is dead, bricked, lifeless. Searches on the term “supply of knives” on this laptop and on good old robot-arm-screen find nothing. The backup CD for the blue iMac drive is probably in a drawer around here somewhere, but that’s like saying, “The coin I had in my swim trunks’ pocket is probably somewhere in the ocean.” There is no SUPPLY OF KNIVES. There’s only the memory."

[source]

And this is the wonderful cover art of Getting Into Knives. Back cover and promo material below. Note that "Knives International" and "Knives Wordwide" are not real companies, they appear to be a callback to that elusive spam email.

#not that I'm particularly into TMG #but it's interesting #trs #The Mountain Goats #John Darnielle #Getting Into Knives #Wolf in White Van #only knives left #tools of the trade #bandit #prison ballads #tangentially

[uncanny-tranny]

I think I'm less of a "gender isn't real" type of person anymore. I've now adopted the idea of "gender is what you make of it". I think it's more accurate to not impose the idea that gender isn't real, because it is. As a social construct, it is as real as any other social construct. However, it exists in different degrees, because gender isn't static for everybody.

Gender is what you make of it. You're the one who determines not only what it means to you, but how you relate with it.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #tangentially related with the last post i made but i didn't want to make this a reblog #to some people their gender is not only real but important. to others it isn't

[lazycranberrydoodles]

kinktober day 7: swapping clothes

yippee yay xie lian in red! follow 4 more hua cheng bait 🚩

#so. can you tell i didnt want to pose anything today #anyway. here i imagine him helping w chengzhu’s duties and dressing the part for fun #think about the psychic damage itd do to hua cheng to see him entirely in his color #okay it is a truth universally acknowledged that xie lian is very easily flustered when it comes to energy exchange #but consider that when he started scrap picking he was very self conscious #and his face got thicker over the years. he is eventually gonna be as nonplussed about his marriage as he is about scrap-godness #the fics that take place years or hundreds of years into their marriage where is a lot more self assured i love you mwah #this is only tangentially related to the drawing but i want to share my headcanons #my art #art #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hualian #xie lian #hob #heaven official’s blessing #kinktober2023

[junowasmad1]

When you present as theatrical on the outside but you’re quite a little sad clown inside ⁉️🌟

(Tsukasa in Furina’s outfit…yeah that’s about it )

#juno’s art #not esports #tsukasa tenma #prsk fa #wonderlands x showtime #furina #this is only tangentially related to genshin impact #project sekai

[agent-8449]

CEPHALOPHORE

As the cycle takes my head! {A vitriolic work of art} (This decapitated apathy!) {God made me this way in a morbid exchange Of theatrics and heavenly fate} I'm just not the way that they want me.

#negatives au #cjverse chatroom #chonny jash #cccc #my art #A cephalophore is a saint depicted holding their own severed head. Their own.... curious. #This is only tangentially symbolic btw #Nemesis really did decapitate a man/a version of his Whole #While Phobos and Deimos watched. #spiritual sucessor to my IMMANENTIZATION piece!

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

In other news, I finally found a nice nerdy motif that includes eyes to paint on my mask. I wanted a simple, reasonably beginner-friendly design that would read well on the mesh and that'd be easy to fix when it inevitably gets too badly scratched up by, you know, being repeatedly hit with a steel sword. (And in the meantime it's gonna get cool appropriately silvery details as the paint gets scraped off.)

Progress pics under the cut for those interested.

First, redrawing the symbol from a very low-res old rulebook scan, printing it out, and cutting out a stencil. There is a very nice high-res transparent png of this holy symbol available in the BG3 game files, but sadly it's a very detailed, fancy, redesigned version with way too many complicated thin lines to work for this.

The first step is just black and white primer, airbrushed on, kinda messy and blurry, as expected.

Then, freehanding in both black and white to sharpen it up and bring out all the details. Moonmaiden, guide my hand! etc etc etc.

And there you have it.

#obvs the mesh is actually really far from my face so the eyes only align... sometimes #but in general i'm really pleased with the effect and how it all came out #had to go back and look up what my tags even were jeez #swash #hema #fencing mask customisation #forgotten realms #selune #dnd #c'est moi #and very tangentially #baldur's gate 3 #prayer circle for regular oath posting #let's goooo

[nightmargin]

emotional support pillow boyfriend

#castle of nations #endzone #climber #clarice #law of talos #(only tangentially) #sketchblog

[dimsilver]

btw re: the homeschooling debate and related things - this site has been absolutely wonderful for getting to appreciate people who aren’t automatically My Sort of Person. it’s actually opened my eyes to look for and enjoy all sorts of things about in-person people that I don’t automatically connect with. I’m not even sure how to express this but basically this site of such a good outlet for people’s inner selves that I am constantly confronted with the richness and complexity and honesty and quality and beauty of people who aren’t super similar to me and I think that’s awesome.

#really this is only tangentially related to the homeschooling thing #but you get what I mean?? it’s so easy to judge people by how similar our backgrounds and tastes are #(whether about schooling or not) #or just to only want to deepen my relationships with people who are like me #and I am very similar to some of y’all #but not others #and I appreciate and enjoy you all!!