#I just shrug and let it be what it is

[rockysledding]

I’m starting to realize that my thoughts about my gender is a bit like my thoughts about my hair: For the most part I don’t know what the hell is going on so I just let it be what it is

[k3n999]

*scratches head* uh yeah this. I drew it last week. Why? Just because. Didn't plan to post it but oh well.

(SO I have this Office AU in mind and I thought it’d be better if I just drew them together before I go insane--)

[mintraindrop]

and can we please talk about this because what is this? why are they like this? and can we please get more about them like this?

[hijinxinprogress]

Does the JL know that YJ has just casually been beefing with darkseid??

imagine there’s a all hands on deck battle against darkseid and everyone is there but darkseid points out the nearest yj member (it’s probably Bart) like ‘you!!! You managed to escape with your lives last time but this meeting will be our last’ and for a split second Clark’s so fucking confused bc we haven’t fought in years wtf are you talking about then he hears ‘oh shit, look it’s Doug’ and everyone turns to see Bart nudging Kon going ‘he’s talking to you…damn he must still be mad about the coal’ and kons shoving him back bc ‘you were the one fucking around with his coal, you fucking walnut’ while Cassie’s being scruffed by wonder woman bc they’re trying to avoid being around when the jl finds out and tims having a very intense silent conversation lecture about why tf there’s at least half a dozen yj mission reports that mention an assailant named ‘Doug’ 

then Constantine shows up with Greta and everyone (including darkseid) starts yelling and if you don’t know her Greta seems like the one with the ownership of the braincell in yj (she is not but I guess she looks like it from a distance if you squint) which goes one of two ways:

retired-civilian!greta is giggling and waving excitedly to each member of yj along with hal before she practically tackles each of them in a tight hug while the titans, jl, & jl: dark lose their collective shit bc Constantine brought a tiny civilian dressed in pastel floral prints from head to toe into an active battle with fucking darkseid, a civilian who doesn’t register as a threat in any capacity until she makes eye contact with darkseid and gives him the most disgusted look imaginable “Doug… you look…well.” and then like three jl members have to stop her from leaping at darkseid while Hal’s like ‘no! No no, bad Greta! We don’t fight supervillains with…what is that?? I really fucking hope that’s not a gun…Is-is that fucking silly string?! Greta no we don’t silly string supervillains! We’ve talked about this!’

or

never-retired!/recently-out-of-retirement!greta who does the same thing but when she notices darkseid she rocks his shit in eight seconds flat and starts muttering about ‘that fucking Doug, always ruining my goddamn day’ and Hal is the first one to recover from the shock/confusion but only to tell Greta she’s grounded which gets another irritated ‘fucking doug!’ while Wally and Barry are losing it at Mach 6 while Bart tries to explain himself also at Mach 6, Cassie manages to catch Wally’s exasperated ‘where the fuck did you get Doug from?!’ And responds with ‘Apokolips’ in a tone that means they’re questioning his intelligence which leads to more screaming bc ‘so you knew who he was?? Why didn’t you come to us??’ and they all back up Kon when he claims they told Lex bc that means they have at least 3 hours of freedom while Lex is getting yelled at by the jl (and honestly every cape over 24)

[crowliphale]

Ages........... (all are headcanons except Kremy, Gricko & Lily)

[lyculuscaelus]

So lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts asking people to stop trying to make Odysseus look nice in their works cuz he’s a “messed-up person in the mythology”. Your opinion is valid however I have but one thing to point out:

You want to know who started all this? Who started to “make Odysseus look nice” in the first place?

It’s Homer. It’s nobody else but Homer himself.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would try to murder people out of his own interests. He’d murder Palamedes without remorse (and we’d be cheering over this but it’s a murder after all), he’d attempt to murder Diomedes just to get the Palladium himself, he’d volunteer to kill Astyanax…meanwhile you wouldn’t find any mention of either Palamedes or Nauplius in Homer’s poems, neither did he mention anything abt the Palladium heist (and Diomedes necessity did not happen until Conon’s version), the death of Astyanax, the distribution of war prizes, etc. And all the details in the Odyssey seemed to deny the existence of Nauplius’s vengeance at all, so Odysseus would not take any of the blame.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be depicted as “cruel, treacherous”, meanwhile in book 10 of the Iliad Odysseus was not mentioned to have killed anyone during the marauding, neither did he promise Dolan anything at all. The negative interpretations are denied by these details subtly put by Homer.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be widely known as a “coward” for only shooting arrows from afar. But Homer gave him a spear and had him absolutely slaying in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. That part of Ajax’s speech was invalid already.

Most importantly—a non-Homeric Odysseus would be having kids everywhere else, and the loyalty to his own wife as seen in the Odyssey is no where to be found. Meanwhile his lineage was a single-son line made by Zeus in the Odyssey, and his love for Penelope was one of his main drives, especially seen in book 5 of the Odyssey. He loved his family as a loving parent—something you don’t get to see in most of the non-Homeric writings—for most of the time they followed a different tradition indeed, in which Odysseus wasn’t half as nice as in the Odyssey.

TL;DR: in case you haven’t noticed, the characterization of the Homeric Odysseus was quite different from a non-Homeric version of Odysseus. It’s not that Homer didn’t know of the existence of other versions—he knew them too well, which is why in his version of the story, you don’t get to see any mention of them.

[chocokeyboard]

Looks around very scared. Some days old May sketch. Shes SO cutes... i love her...

[novelconcepts]

More Other Tai stuff cuz my brain won’t stop buzzing. I’m trying to figure out what has been Taissa and what has been Other Tai all season, and like. Some of it is very clear—the channeling the Wilderness after the partial remission, the ordering of a stupid amount of (meat-based) food, the moment where she falls back asleep after waking up so abruptly as “real Tai”. But some of it is just as clearly Taissa. The regret after the waiter death reveal, the panic about the no-eyed man in the commercial, calling Lottie, and even seeing Sammy all feels like Taissa. Frankly, most of her early interactions with Van also feel like Tai. So…I kind of get the sense that as long as Tai is happy or content, she’s herself. Or mostly herself. But the more stressed she gets? The Other is there to do the hard shit. To keep Tai from dealing with the worst of it. I get the feeling the worse things get, the tighter Other Tai holds on to that wheel. Stuffs Taissa down into the dark. “Shhh, shh, go to sleep. I’ll handle this.” And of course that would result in horror, because: duh. But also it’s gonna make it so much more obvious to Van. Because when Tai is happy, going on dates, having sex, being in love? That’s Tai. But when she’s doing insane shit, and ignoring their friend’s death, and trying to murder people for Van’s sake? Yeah, that’s hard to discount.

[ria-starstruck]

signalisheads. ninesolsheads. ive swapped your tragic doomed yuri. they're getting enrichment i swear

[aristoteliancomplacency]

I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?

Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…

The ‘tadpole’ painter:

Here’s another example:

This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.

They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.

Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.

[pine4pple-b0i]

i’ve played gotham knights several times, just cause i think its a silly goofy game and i like watching the batfam interact. one thing that’s always lowkey bugged me though is everyone’s reaction to the court/labyrinth.

immediately after, tim’s clearly having a hard time and basically says “yo what if we just kill these guys” and everyone (minus dick) gets on his case and gives him a hard time, telling him batman would never! except batman did.

in the court of owl comics batman finds out the talons pretty much CANT die and literally goes “alright cool, free range” and proceeds to mow a bunch of them down with the batmobile like they’re bowling pins and he’s the ball. and when alfred is like “?!” he just kinda shrugs it off like “you can’t kill what can’t die lol have at it.” so yes, batman would.

[moeblob]

If SDV won't let me give my husband a glow ring in game, I'll just do it in art instead !

(Asmo puts it on Shane's middle finger cause he knows when he realizes the ring makes him glow he'll probably get flipped off so it's only fair! He makes sure to give it during daylight though)

[halfbaked00q]

OH YEAH. okay one thing I DO want to talk about from Skyfall. That I think we should be talking about more. is the "he went into the priest hole for TWO (2) DAYS" thing.

I had like. known that was A Thing, but ig didn't see or forgot what it looked like. but the first look at it I was like. whoa. this is.... how do I say. like there's something visceral and primal and primitive about it just being bare rock. and I made a comment about how insane that is, and esp seeing the mine/cave-like rock and the thought of TWO DAYS down there.. that it's sth "like returning to some sort of primordial earthly womb (tomb)"

but then later they showed that the priest hole is NOT just like a bolthole. but a whole-ass tunnel system!!! EXTRA wild! what was Bond doing down there? WHERE exactly was he in the priest hold then? Was he hunkered down in some corner? Was he wandering around the caves like some sort of primordial spectre.

also there's something interesting/cool about it being like. seemed like it was just going to be a bolthole, and then they revealed it was this whole-ass tunnel system. Skyfall has a lot of maze/hidden/hiding symbolism, and there's something interesting about there being this, like. hidden earthly labyrinth at the heart/hearth/underneath Skyfall.

also the idea of baby Bond wandering a stone labyrinth under the very bones of his ancestral home after the death of his parents... and the whole when he came out he wasn't a boy anymore or whatever it was exactly Kincade said.... hmmm......... Minotaur? Minotaur vibes perhaps? I think there is something here- I think there's something to be said about hidden monstrosity/adversity bringing out monstrosity in us, plus the whole nature/nurture question of like, Bond and HIS "nature," was he born brutal or was he made brutal

(by his career, by his forging as a 00 agent, by M's machinations-- speaking of machinations. but okay god the way she. Manages him... I DO think there's a lot of interesting parts throughout the movies but there was a particular moment in Skyfall when she was like. hunt them down. for Ronson. like ggngng that was like. the emotional equivalent of those loop/stick leashes they use to capture stray dogs.... lowering the loop around his neck and tightening... and then once it's tightened she can move him around cuz it's a stick and not just a rope leash, she can literally physically lead him...) (and also the nature/nurture question of Silva's rats thing)

[flionp]

bangs my head against the wall nicely and sweetly and violently

[irenespring]

Me: This fic needs plot.

My brain: Okay, I understand. The fic needs more wallowing.

Me: No. We need to cut back on the wallowing to get to the plot so this doesn't like three more weeks to write.

My brain. Got it, got it. The fic needs Wilson to have free time so he just walks around and contemplates. Nice long chunk of Wilson's depression and trauma.

Me: No. Not at all. It needs less time reflecting on the past.

My brain: Understood. I have the solution. The fic needs...flashbacks.

Me: Okay fuck it. Fine.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-3]

Consider: a continuation of Dragon Quest Builders 2 where after the borders are open and they can interact with the rest of the world, the scions of Erdrick become very concerned that Malroth is back.

Needless to say they arive on the isle of awakening without any heads up and now the residents are trying to convince them that Malroth isnt evil. (At least not anymore) So they're sticking around for a while to keep an eye on the situation, only for the builder to keep running off with him for adventures.

Also, it turns out that an island kingdom full of valuable natural resources is tempting for any would be conquerors. Who knew? Malroth is so happy to have new skulls to bash, and Captain Whitebones is happy to have new ships to steer (and a whole navy to command! If he had tear ducts, he'd be flooding the beach in joy!)

At some point the builders twin sails to the island. Yes, they have a twin. Everyone except Malroth is surprised because he's the only one the builder bothered to tell. Twin had stayed in Cantlin after the attack and had managed to get a lot of knowledge and recipes throughout the time the builder was away

As the outside world begins to interact with the isles, they begin to learn new things, like what money is and where babies come from and that politics are annoying in any circumstances.