#HIVE MENTIONED?!

[radio-crow]

Thought I'd make a Skullgirls monster AU with the lab 8 trio for funsies

Peacock is basically an Eldritch hybrid

Hive is a moth girl

And Leduc is a vampire cuz yes

[stiltonbasket]

If you're still taking asks for the QHT!SY-verse, I'm curious about how being married might have changed Shen Qingqiu's relationships with his martial siblings.

Largely for the worse, across the board. No one thought much of Shen Jiu visiting brothels while he was single; but now that he has a wife who followed him to Cang Qiong and supported him during the early years of his discipleship, Shen Jiu's reputation is sinking further by the day. X_X

[gingermintpepper]

Okay, let's finally talk about EPIC's Apollo

I feel very compelled to say, first of all, that I do not dislike Epic. In fact, I am very fond of Epic and have been following its production and status very eagerly! I attend all the launch streams, I watch all of Herrans' update videos; I am, at the end of the day, a fan and I want it to be known that my words are spoken out of love and passion as much as they are spoken from a place of critique.

So really, what my problem with Epic's Apollo?

In the briefest possible terms; the choice to have Apollo be defined by his musical aspect in God Games is thematically strange. And not in the 'oh well in the Odyssey, Apollo was important to Odysseus and his family so it's weird that that wasn't kept in Epic' strange, strange in the sense that Odysseus' character arc since My Goodbye has been getting more and more obviously Apollonian and so it is positively bizarre that when we get to meet Apollo, the god seems entirely disinterested in him and his affairs. So much so that he is not even defined by any station that would indicate that he has been watching over and protecting Odysseus and his family.

What do I mean by 'Odysseus has been following an Apollonian arc'? I'm so glad you asked!

Remember Them is the last song in which Odysseus explicitly uses his sword until Mutiny where he must use it to defend himself against Eurylochus' blade. He uses it to help enact the plan to conquer Polyphemus and, due to Polites dying in that battle, Polites who wished for Odysseus to put the blade down entirely and embrace a post-war life, Odysseus also retires his sword. This is an action that symbolically separates him from Athena - and the image of Odysseus as a traditional warrior set for him in Horse and Infant - as much as My Goodbye physically separates him from the goddess and her war-ways - from this point onwards, Odysseus will no longer be leaning on Athena's wisdom or methods to solve his problems. Likewise, he will no longer be able to rely on her protection.

Odysseus thusly solves most of his upcoming problems through diplomacy and avoidance. He approaches Aeolus - a strange and ambiguous god (both in gender and in motivation) and appeals to them for help. Circe too, he approaches not with wishes to conquer or for revenge, but for the safe returning of his men and an alternate way forward. In all of these scenarios, there is some Apollonian element which is subtly interweaved alongside the influence of other gods; it is with a bow and arrows that Polyphemus' sheep is slain (and thus it is this Apollonian element which is at the root of Odysseus' spat with Poseidon), it is a vision of Penelope that warns Odysseus that his men are about to open Aeolus' wind-bag, Circe's peace offering to Odysseus is to refer him to a prophet of Apollo who has since died.

In this way, Apollo is walking alongside Odysseus for all of his journey after Athena departs - even in the Underworld, he is guiding him. It is Tiresias' proclamation that is the last straw for Odysseus, it is by the power of a mouthpiece of Apollo that Odysseus decides to embrace his ruthlessness. It is with the bow and arrow that Odysseus subdues the siren who sought to trick him, likewise, Odysseus does not attempt to undermine or escape the fate of paying Scylla's passage price - he knows of the doom about to befall the six men and quite unlike the rest of the journey until this point, he does not fight against it. This all comes to a head on Thrinacia where it is a blade which sacrifices the sun god's cow and brings destruction upon the crew once more.

My point with all of this is that when I heard the teasers for God Games years ago, it made perfect sense to me that Apollo would be Round One - he is not Odysseus' adversary and has no reason to oppose Athena's wish to free him. From other teasers about what will happen in the climax of Epic, Apollo will still be walking alongside Odysseus - it is Apollo's bow that Penelope will give the suitors to string. Likewise, it is Apollo's bow that will prove Odysseus' legitimacy and identity. That bow will be the power by which Odysseus hunts his adversaries and cleans out his palace - it is Apollo who is the avatar of Odysseus' ruthlessness, not Athena.

So tell me, truly, what was the point of having Apollo raise a non-argument in God Games? Why have him appear unconcerned, aloof and slightly oblivious? Why have him appear in his capacity as the Lord of Music at all?? And if the intention was never to make Apollo an active player in Odysseus' life like he was in the Odyssey, why keep Odysseus as a primary archer?

The answer of course is that Apollo is inextricable from the fabric of the Odyssey - his influence and favour exudes from Odysseus just as much as Athena's. In Athena's ten year sulk, it would have been Apollo who kept Telemachus and Penelope safe. It would have been Apollo protecting Odysseus from Poseidon's gaze as he travelled the seas (according to the Odyssey anyway)

Forgive me for not being excited about something that I thought was being purposefully set up. I was extremely ecstatic about all of the little Apollonian details that litter the sagas because I know where this story ends up (loosely) but all God Games did was reveal that maybe those Apollonian details were not intentional at all, but merely the ghost of the Apollo who persistently haunts those he favours, even if he cannot explicitly come to their aide in an adaptation.

[macdenlover]

had a moment of objective consciousness about sunny for the first time in a while like a puppy opening its eyes to see the mess of the dog bowl its been chowing through before plunging its face back in. and like. jesus christ there’s seventeen seasons worth of canon. there’s decades worth of pre-canon lore. these characters have been rooted in each others lives for so unfathomably long. they bought paddy’s before i was born and i’m old enough for my joints to crack when i get out of bed in the morning. they’re pushing 50 and the show is still going. and somehow it’s still good and the people making it still love each other and they’re still passionate about it.

[thebibliosphere]

My mast cells survived a tetanus shot, dental surgery and a boatload of stress this week but it was a liiittle too much candied lemon peel on my slice of cake that got me 😭

I guess citrus is still off the table.

[whatiswhump]

Test subject gets injected with something new everyday.

It hurts each time, it hurts A LOT actually, but they’ve realized they can take the momentary pain. They get held down, they jerk involuntarily, hopefully they don’t scream and it’s over in seconds.

… the problem is what comes afterward…

Each vial of anguish has its own set of side effects that the scientists catalogue to the minutest detail.

The burning hives breaking out, their throat closing without warning, red and dark marks icily tracing their veins, world shifting vertigo, amnesia, temporary paralyzation.. each day is a surprise and Whumpee still doesn’t know what these tests are meant to achieve.

All they know is when the side effects come, and they always do, the pens scratch into notepads and their begging behind the glass does nothing to alleviate the horror.

[yayasvalveplay]

Oppy breeding anon back for some more Hive Queen Optimus.

You know how ants basically have anti-body saliva they lick onto eggs and themselves to keep them clean? Insecticons have that and they adore grooming their queen to keep him clean. They give extra focus to his belly too, cuz they can sense the tiny lil hive members forming in those eggs. They also clean the already laid eggs of course, and they probably do the ant thing where they sort the eggs by age/development.

Some Insecticons also just like to lay next to their sleeping queen and purr, which causes Optimus’s engines to also purr from the encouragement which makes all the eggs very happy that mama is happy. There’s even some movement from the baby growing in Oppy’s forge when they purr like that, so they must like it too!

Oh yea, the Insecticons make sure the other members of the Autobot team get proper rest and Energon, even if some of them have to be inside the base to make sure they’re doing so.

Yes. The queen is already doing too much. Let them help by keeping you clean. Especially in the lower areas.

They would sort their eggs by gender and how long they've been out for.

And the purring. They love to purr currled around there queen. They love hearing him purr back, especially when he sleeping because it means they are doing a good job keeping Optimus happy.

The insecticins will stalk everyone spring them into refuling and and resting when nessesary. They even do it to the kids. Bringing them into the nest are to sleepby Ops sides.

Jack: but I need to do homework.

Insecficon: your human homework can wait. You are tired. And tired sparklings require a lot of rest. So sleep little one. Let the hive take care of you."

I can see them sleeping near Ops helm, maybe one(miko) curled near his neck.

[glitter-stained]

Green Lanterns fuck me up so bad because all those characters seem so incredibly compelling and I want to read their stories but the lore oh my god

[jaw-bones]

🍂🪻🍂 — ft. soma

( — patreon's august supporters can get this as a postcard print they can hold in their real life hands!! 🧡 )

[cyrsed]

sometime between dead space (2023) and dead space 2, isaac recounts a dream where the line between the ishimura and isaac is blurred. was there ever a line to begin with?

the comic is up on itchio for free in PDF form + includes a bunch of in progress pics and extras (putting a few below the cut here :B). also my other dead space comic is up on itch as well!

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question, do you have any advice for finding a good primary care doctor who will actually try to figure out what's going on instead of saying "Huh. That shouldn't be happening, it's weird. Oh well". Like, is there a specific sub-type of doctor, like internist or family medicine or something, that you've had good luck with? This question brought to you by coming off the long term steroids causing me heart issues, like I told the doctor it would because coming off of steroids (even short term ones) always does for me, and the doc who prescribed them saying "coming off of steroids shouldn't do that" Like, no, really??? Of course it shouldn't! That's why every doc I've ever seen besides endocrinologists thinks I have Addison's! It shouldn't cause that but it does. Also I give up on allergists. Like. It would be nice to have one to help me figure out my allergies, but the local ones I've been to don't believe I have allergies and I won't come off my allergy meds for two weeks to prove I do, so they are unhelpful

[emeraldmew]

The Living Hive! I forgot it was psychic!

I imagine Arbron sounds a little manic right about now. Like that one Jane Prentiss statement from The Magnus Archives.

Ooh boy... Arbron's not any less suicidal now than he was two chapters ago when he tried to get Elfangor to kill him, even with his talk of any life being better than none and finding a purpose serving the Hive.

But he's also right that even these Very Hungry Murderpillers have the right to defend against the Yeerk invasion of their homeworld. As always with Animorphs, no species is a monolith. Just as many Taxxons joined the Yeerks for the promise of even more meats, there are also Taxxons resisting the Empire to control their own planet.

Elfangor doesn't have to see them as nuanced creatures to understand that much. Even if he never outgrows thinking Taxxons are evil, full stop, he can understand that they can also want to resist the invasion of their home.

Apparently there was a Taxxon Chronicles planned at some point that never happened. I would have loved to see it. More nuance for the horrible cannibal worms!

[zaziecurie]

Me watching most of a "full film" of the French version of FFXVI (which, by the way, is based on the Japanese version): Huh, lots of differences here and there.

Scene where Ultima is defeated and is absorbed by Clive (roughly translated): "Poor fools. Even if we're gone, as long as this world exists, the supreme reason will remain. You shall painfully writhe in a coffin, slowly sinking in the darkness."

Me:

[donnakori]

Top 10 albums game! in no particular order

Mitski - Puberty 2Lana - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Radiohead - In Rainbows MCR - The Black Parade MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Gorillaz - demon days Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Tyler, the creator - IgorFrank Ocean - BlondeBad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

tagged by @verucabat and @delphissoracle in top 10 albums, thanks my loves! this was so hard actually, and exposes how boring i am .-. tagging: @strawbearri-frog, @dustorange, @kyleraiyner, @jjohnnyutah and whoever wants 2<3

[clownakai]

Got a brainworm and wrote a Yukiko/Shuuichi(/Yusaku) drabble. I wish I could set things on fire with my mind

[henrysglock]

IF any of this is true? guy (<- me!) who’s been speculating about the lab kids being human-creature hybrids for…over a year now, actually.