#(no one asked and i still provided)

[wizerdbattle]

Silverborn was huge for people who are weird about familial and familial-adjacent relationships. Morrigan and Jupiter, for one. Morrigan and Jack. Morrigan and Ezra. Morrigan and the Darlings. Morrigan and Meredith. Meredith and Margot. Jack and Jupiter. Noelle and Gigi. Bertram and Morrigan. Bertram and Ornella. Bertram and Corvus. Bertram and Jupiter. Jupiter and Rosamund. Rinaldo and Vesta. Okay I'll be honest I forget the others but there's SO many crammed into the one book, I'm so happy about it :)

[cartoonguy08]

I like your interpretations of Scout's family (even though it is tragic.) Neither of Scout's parents really like him. (?)...that would kinda explain his "look at me!!" attitude. Feeling unwanted as a child messes people up big time.. He just wants to be liked. :o(

It messed him up real bad and I need people to talk about it please. He ain’t cocky just to be cocky fellas, he wants attention, and also to be liked with how much he really tries to impress others—like woman or the other mercs.

Scout’s family—his brothers and his Ma—either bullied relentlessly or neglected him. He knows his father abandoned him, and he holds a grudge against the man who made his Ma upset, and always comparing him to that man. But I think it hurts less when he never even met the guy as a kid. Didn’t get a chance to see why he left. Don’t get me wrong it probably still bugs him of course, but what can you do? He wasn’t even born yet, and all he knew were his brothers and mom at the time. It hurt more to him knowing that his Ma found him a nuisance more than anything, he loves her, adores her, but he knows it takes a lot for her to notice him or be proud of him if she’s being generous. He needs to earn her affection. Cuz otherwise she just genuinely doesn’t like him.

However, I would like to think Spy cares for scout. He doesn’t hate him. He finds him annoying, sure, sometimes he doesn’t like him—but it’s not to the point of where scout’s mother genuinely doesn’t like having him around her 24/7–Spy only doesn’t like him when Scout’s being an ass, or annoying.

And as much as spy tries not to show it much you can clearly tell he at least gives a shit for scout’s well being. Obviously when scout was dying spy wanted scout’s death to be happy. To make scout happy before he died so he wouldn’t die scared or confused or angry. He wanted to make it pleasant for him. It was the last thing he could do.

It’s also the little things I like, I’m talking little little things.

Spy carrying Scout when Spy himself is wounded in the leg. Someone pointed out that when the mercs are leaving after Administrator’s death, spy only leaves when Scout leaves, he’s there for scout and when scout’s ready to go, spy follows.

I could also mention the one where Scout broke his arms and was desperate for a ride to get his savings, and spy drove him. But technically it was likely cuz scout mentioned his mother being disappointed, which is why he helped. Still, I think that’s an honorable mention. (And also shows spy loves scout’s Ma, which I think we already know)

Not to mention Expiration date where spy spent that last of his three days helping scout get a date with miss Pauling when he was most likely just planning to stay inside his smoking room. And once again I cannot find the post that said this but there was this one where it pointed out spy’s expression to scout standing up for himself and saying “I’ll put this date on myself!”

How the post said that people thought spy was mocking him here with that smirk. But it could also be spy being secretly proud that scout was standing his ground. Somewhat earning the smirk spy gave him. Also also when scout was hosting the date with Miss Pauling, by himself, spy was still watching through the cameras to see if things were going okay. AND near the end spy encouraged scout to go talk with Miss Pauling when fighting the bread monster, focus on her and let the rest deal with it.

I’m just rambling with points on how spy cares for him, canonically. But I mean it. In short I think scout had a crappy childhood cuz his Ma wasn’t much of a good mother in terms of emotional parenting. She provided for him sure, but she never showed him emotional love that scout clearly needed and craved for. His brothers—although not much info is said about them—clearly fought a lot. Family fights were most likely often in the household—and although I believe scout is one to egg on fights since it’s hilarious to him, it would get so bad that scout would rather keep to himself and hope that the physical fights would end. It’s why I figure scout isn’t the biggest fan of the mercs yelling at one another (a hc) and gets uncomfortable, same goes for genuinely bad physical fights.

Spy abandoned him—which is the worst thing you can do, making your future child think you didn’t want them like that—and scout’s Ma before scout was even born I assume, didn’t raise him at all or meet him, just sorta ran for the hills.

But as much as I think about that I also think, personally, spy gave more to scout emotionally than his own mother did. He was actually proud of him. And that’s all scout really wanted.

All that aside, scout broke that cycle. He cares for his little scoutlings in comic 7 which makes me happy <:) good on ya Scout, we’re so proud of you.

[ssiggss]

Hey so I dont really do this, like ever, but I was made aware of this user on here, @/th3sh4rk, who is stealing and reposting art without credit. [Using tone tags here for those who need them and also for Marcus hymself, as it was stated he needs them.]

He's stealing art from users on tumblr, and off pinterest [or so he's claimed]

No, unless it's explicitly stated by the artist that it's free to use, it's not free to use /srs

No, you can't assume art you get off of PINTEREST is free to use, because that site is NOTORIOUS for art theft- unless you're going and doing extensive research to find the original artists, you are also stealing art. /srs

And I need to make this point because I've had my art/works stolen many times over my years as an artist, this sentence boils my blood: "Credit to the artists!"

This does nothing for the artists. It's useless and lazy, and it's NOT actual credit, IT DOES NOT COUNT AS CREDIT.

All that does is block the artists from deserved recognition and anyone who wants to see more of their artwork from finding them. /srs /beyond irritated

I'll move on to the artists Marcus stole from- and I cannot understand why he didn't just credit the artists bc if he knew you could find the artists on this platform, that sounds like he got the art directly from the source. Which just implies to me that Marcus didn't ask, because if he did, he would've credited the artists.

Johnny Splash - credit to @springroll-draws

Daemon - credit to @blognam333z

Luke Nukem - credit to @owenwilsonkisser

Amir - credit to @/kissthem-forme {I did find this user in the comments of this post, they didn't seem upset, so notifying them isn't necessary I think}

Jean Loo - credit to @raemilomin

Skips - credit to @atzxpz

xxXShadowLord420Xxx - credit to @jessieshark42

Mateo - credit to @0owitheredquinceyo0

Mac - credit to @citrus-c0la

Bodhi - credit to @yugen001

I couldnt find the artist for Parker, it may have been deleted.

Hector - credit to @vistorn

Freddy - credit to @spykarp

Phoenicia - credit to @hrrria

Scandalabra - credit to @s1lly-gh02tz

Maggie - credit to @namneeo [didnt even bother with any mention of credit, just straight up stole it and said nothing.]

It took me max 30 minutes to search and find these artists AND credit them. I don't care about any 'reason' you have to not credit, it's wrong and every artist deserves credit for their work, and "they can all be found here on tumblr" is just a spit in the face. /srs

[housecow]

i’m so happy y’all like my writing ngl 🥺 for a long, long time i wanted to be an author and part of what made me okay w gaining this weight was knowing that even if i get too fat for many things. i won’t be too fat to write :3

but fr i wanted to write a horror/fantasy novel. paleontology and body horror. i still dream of this but im BUSY and writing is hard when u have to write academically constantly

[sage-nebula]

There's a Pokémon Presents on July 22nd . . .

Maybe they'll tell us what happened to Friede then.

[gardensnakie]

important bullshittery here

I HAVE ZERO IDEAS FOR YOUR EXTRA ISAT GORE FIC. what do you want to see in it.

also do you want to join and make isat an eviler place with me

I'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT and... perhaps... I need more information about the evil rps

[ghxst-bird]

He once made the mistake of joking about taking a dive into a lake because he’d been craving fish, saying he’d give anything for one right then.

Sukuna didn’t even pause before jumping right in. And only then did Yuji find out that the boy didn’t even know how to swim.

He can still feel the sharp, visceral terror of seeing those flailing limbs going under without a sound, the stream of bubbles rising to the surface as he’d stared, dumbfounded, before realizing that Sukuna wasn’t coming back up.

Yuji cried so hard after fishing the boy out of the water that Sukuna awkwardly started patting his head in consolation.

— sneak peek of “Fragilely, Gradually”, pt ii of the Ouroboros verse ✨

[queen-scribbles]

Gotta love that I specifically put "donate unused medical supplies [my state]" in the search bar and the third result down is somewhere halfway across the country. xD

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[asgardian--angels]

things I wish I could relive for the first time again:

that magical window where you finish a new piece of media, having watched/read it all by yourself with no fandom contact whatsoever, and you are just so happy about it, and full of interesting theories and takeaways, and just in love with it as a gorgeous piece of art.

because I swear to god as soon as you join the fandom for anything, you're bombarded with how you're supposed to view characters and their arcs, how you're supposed to morally and ethically judge the plot and the ways it apparently failed to present the right message, and if you don't you'll either be shunned for not sharing the popular headcanons or you'll be harassed for not criticizing the source material enough.

like how is it that the fans of a piece of media are also the ones being the most negative about it? If I like a show or a movie or a book, well, I liked it. That's kind of the point. I'm actually not here to tear it apart and talk about how it didn't live up to standards other people had! I enjoyed it for what it was, and forcing myself to find negative things to say about it doesn't actually bring me more enjoyment of it or reap any benefit to me. Fandom's a double-edged sword; you want to join a community to share your love for a piece of art, and the price you pay for a modicum of joy is a mountain of negativity. that's one main reason that I never engage with fandom until I'm completely done with a show, because if I was plugged into all of that commentary and discourse during the process, I'd be completely colored by how I'm expected to interpret everything this piece of art is presenting to me without being able to even form my own opinions.

[hollowsart]

No one: Ghostie!! What does your Spamtons think of Tenna!!

Absolutely no one: What's your Spamtons thoughts about Tenna?? What's their deal??

Not a dang soul: Are they divorced--

Me: Well, you see--

Spam & Eldritch: TH E [[Crimnal scum]] FEEL 44 MY [[Pipis]] &ND T0OK MY [[occupatonal hazzrd]] SO I STOL L HIS [[$49.99 Wallet]]!!! SUCK [[My]] YOU LOUSY [[Bo0b Tube]] !!

Me: No. :>

bonus content:

I think if Tenna encountered my Spamton (Baits), it would play out similarly as that in-game moment. No real changes.

if it was my Eldritch Spamton then uhhh..

He'd be HORRIFIED and DISGUSTED and instead just swipe the egg and run away in fear at the mangled mockery of an addison puppet freak he saw.

Eldritch Spam just staring blankly into nothing: ……never doing that again.

before he promptly returns back to the "inventory". I'm sorry, buddy, I still love and appreciate you.

[chewyhanniebug]

it's probably a good thing a lot of people wouldn't know that at least half of the photos rae has been using have come from me. i'm trying to keep my silly little guy image

[allalrightagain]

We should have left Pennsylvania behind in the 18th century, actually

[blaithnne]

If I may, how do you typically approach choosing colors in your art? It always has just a lovely feel to it, so I was a bit curious; don't feel pressured to answer ofc :]

I’ve been using a lot of gradient maps lately, they work by switching the greys in your piece with a corresponding colour according to its value. Basically, I colour in black and white, grab a gradient map, and then I adjust the colours by hand until I’m happy with it. This isn’t the only kind of colouring I do, but it works great if you’re in a rush or you’re struggling to find a good starting point for your colours. I’ve been operating under a time crunch for these Sketchbook Week drawings and the Plenism promo stuff I made, so for all except one I used gradient maps. I’m actually in a bit of a funk with my colours right now soooo I’ll come back and do a proper colouring tutorial for my style once I’m happier with how my non gradient mapped colours are looking !

[letters-to-rosie]

okay,,,,, hypothetically,,,,,, if one wanted to get into black power lit where would recommend they start 👀

the way I screamed lmao

first off, I wanna give a disclaimer: I am not the most well-read person in the world on Black Power. I read this sort of stuff as a hobby, and it's not the subject of my own academic work, even though I do write about race a LOT. I just like Black Power lol.

with that said, let's go through some hits!

Huey P. Newton

Newton, along with Bobby Seale, was co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. he was murdered in 1989 and has a bit of a contentious legacy. however, while I recognize that many of Newton's personal issues got in the way of him being the most effective leader he could be, that shouldn't stop us from reading him! we never require perfection of, say, Lenin to consider him important, lol

Newton's Revolutionary Suicide is a powerful but very difficult book. I actually have yet to finish it because of the way he describes his time in solitary confinement. the conditions are literally sickening. but I want to get back to it someday. I also know there's a relatively recent reader on him that might be helpful, but I have yet to find a pdf copy of it :(

Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael

now for one of Newton's archnemeses! lol. Ture was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which hosted other famous figures such as John Lewis. he worked closely with MLK during the Civil Rights movement and was on the ground in many very difficult struggles. he would later become affiliated with the Black Panthers while Newton was in jail, and one of his most famous speeches is from the Free Huey movement. but they wound up not liking each other, mostly because Ture was firmer about not allying with other progressive movements. this caused tension with other Panthers such as Newton and Fred Hampton, who felt like allying themselves with international and local organizations was important, even if those orgs included non-black people. Ture eventually fled the US and lived most of the rest of his life in Guinea. I have a copy of a book of his speeches in the collection and highly recommend it. even when I disagree with Ture, I find him so engaging. he always makes me think. AND! if you're up for it, I'd recommend checking out some of his speeches. he was a very compelling speaker, and a bunch of his talks are uploaded on the youtube channel AfroMarxist

Angela Davis

Davis is perhaps one of the most recognizable names out of the Black Power era, probably because she's still alive, lol. Davis grew up in Alabama, and her church was famously bombed by white supremacists in 1963, killing 4 young girls. Davis would become famous a decade later when she represented herself at trial when accused of having weapons others used to kill cops. her imprisonment sparked an international movement. later on, she'd go on to become a professor, and she's still active as a public intellectual today. of her work, I've read part of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, but I also have Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? for your perusal! Davis is a leading figure in prison abolition thought, which is very very cool

Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur is known for many things, including: being the first woman on the FBI's most wanted list; being Tupac's godmother; and, most famously, being put in prison after a string of crimes she maybe did but maybe not, being freed by comrades, fleeing to Cuba, and hanging out there until the present (Newton also fled to Cuba at one point; that was a time). her autobiography is really great, though she doesn't tell you how she got out of prison. the writing is really engaging, and I think she does a great job of showing just how fucked up the surveillance of these groups was. she left the Panthers to join the Black Liberation Army, which was a very loose collective of smaller groups, but I'll let her tell the story lol

George Jackson

Jackson is the author of my current read, Blood in My Eye. he was also a member of the Panthers (there's a theme here), but he started his own group, the Black Guerilla Family, while in prison. one of the members ironically killed Newton! what a story lol. but Jackson spent the last years of his life in prison. he maintained a very militant outlook with clear principles. I really like the way he writes and his analysis, even though I'm slowly working my way through the book. he also has a famous collection of letters, Soledad Brother, which I hope to get into someday

Frantz Fanon

Fanon isn't part of the Black Power movement proper, but his writing is so influential to it it doesn't make much sense not to mention him. his main two works are Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth (which is in the collection). Fanon was from Martinique, moved to France, and eventually became part of the Algerian anti-colonial struggle against France. he died in his 30s!!! (Jackson died at 29, and Newton in his 40s; there's a theme here). but anyway, Fanon's brief life has powerful resonances to this day. in Wretched of the Earth he uses his background as a psychiatrist to give a really interesting analysis of the effects of violence on the colonized. Paulo Freire's famous Pedagogy of the Oppressed was actually written in response. and so were a lot of other things lol

Audre Lorde

Lorde was a big figure in the Black Arts Movement, which is associated with Black Power. her writing, along with Davis's, brings much-needed feminist (and queer! both are lesbians) analysis to the table. I've included two of her books, a poetry collection, and a collection of essays and speeches. I loveeeeeee Audre Lorde, and I highly recommend her work

Amiri Baraka

Baraka was the person who coined the term "Black Arts Movement." he wrote on a number of black art forms, but I have only so far engaged with his poetry. I have a collection here I haven't finished (full transparency, haven't finished the Lorde collection either; I kinda like to just go in there and grab a poem or two from time to time) called Transbluency. I would say that compared to Lorde, Baraka's poetry shows signs of its age more. it can get slightly toxic lol. but I find a lot of that resonates with me in it, and Baraka was so prolific that you can see how he shifts over time. someday I will find a digital copy of Un Poco Low Coup, I swear!

also gotta read Elaine Brown, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton, but I have yet to. hopefully I have plenty of time to!

um okay this is a lot of reading!!! good luck!!! lemme know if you have questions!!

click here for pdf copies of most of the mentioned books!

[almostyours]

random question but for a group that is considered an angel group theres a lack of angel imagery in the graphics and blog and knowing you i am sure there’s a reason for that????? 🎤

LMAOOOOOO KNOWING ME?!  😭😭😭  ok.  but ur right.  i actually do have a reason but i’ve never said anything about it because that’s lore territory and i’ve always wanted to do something “fun” to talk about those silly theories.  but with the way i’m moving…  ok.  u didn’t ask for this but i will do a little lore dump on the reason why i don’t really include angel visuals to their content with a tldr because before i am an human i'm a yapper!

in their world,  the mobius,  there’s an otherworldly god i call "i"—  though sometimes i call them "mother" or "father" as well,  since,  really,  they’re only a concept.  and,  in a way,  "i" could even be u. 

“i” is beyond mortal understanding,  something like a biblically accurate angel that no one is worthy to look upon.  a literal god of whom no one shall make a carved image.  their vision when creating the mobius was to make a “perfect world,”  free of sin and disobedience,  where angels and disciples would serve them and their word alone.  to do this,  “i” created three angels from the heart of nature,  because whatever came from mother nature itself would surely obey them,  right?  but there was one rule in “i’s” book:  noooooooo one could ever resemble the likeness or idea of “i.”  because if their angels inspired the same awe or dread "i" provided,  how could they ever spread their message?

so,  these angels were made to radiate kindness,  each a vessel of their season,  born to share “i’s” teachings without stirring fear.  they’re almost like concepts themselves:  a glimpse of what they might be,  but always held back by “i’s” rules and doctrine.  basically,  they were created solely to serve.  (not trying to be funny here lmaoooooooooo).  in their gentle,  human-like forms,  the sillies are the perfect reflections of “i’s” ideals,  inspiring trust rather than dread to those they cross paths with.  

yet,  after the aengel of the season project,  they saw how “i” had limited them as angels,  as “humans,”  as individuals because they didn’t even have the right to think on their own without consequences.  they were even bothered by the fact that “i” didn’t fully respect mother nature by allowing their disciples to slowly destroy her.  this realization sparked anger toward their god,  their roles,  and even their own identities because who the fuck am i?  eventually,  they understood that they were as close to god as anything could be as they were created by "i" and their own creation,  so why serve when they are their own person slash actual angel?   🤭  now,  with “i’s” gift,  aka their serene,  human-like forms as they don’t portray themselves as the biblically angels they actually are,  they quietly but definitely defy “i’s” words by sharing their own doctrines of self-love,  self-expression,  and self-respect.  :)  

TLDR.  their human forms are simply “vessels” to gain people’s trust,  as they’re actually biblically accurate angels  :)  because how can they share their own doctrine and encourage mmmmmmm individuality?  uniqueness?  if everyone is screaming and kicking their feet while they’re going plsssssss do not be afraid  D:  their aura alone is angelic enough,  aka the main reason angel imagery isn’t present enough in the blog  :)