#WISDOM TAKES TIME

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I want more female characters who are just so bad at comforting others. Not for lack of trying or caring, they just get so so awkward when someone's upset, and they try to repeat things they've heard even if it doesn't necessarily apply to the situation, or they accidentally say the wrong thing and make it worse. If someone cries they panic and throw every single comfort technique down at once and it only helps because it's such bizarre behaviour

This post is for all women including trans women and op loves trans women. Terfs kill yourselves

[taichi-x-koushiro]

@taikouvember

Prompt: HOPE; What is your favourite aspect about their relationship/dynamic with Takeru?

{Though Taichi isn't in this specific imagery; The events concern Taichi throughout Kokuhaku, and have relevancy to how Koushiro is "responding" to Taichi later on!}

"...Let's GO." = Koushiro, Later, to Taichi

{Unsaid but Implied: "...To the DIGITAL WORLD."}

Digimon Adventure tri.: Kokuhaku [“Confession”] (Movie #3) Featuring Character{s}: {+Tri} Koushiro[u] Izumi (& Takeru Takaishi; & Meiko Mochizuki) ~ Important Quotes

“It’s not about {‘just’} what you ‘COULDN’T’ DO.”

“It’s about WHAT YOU WILL DO.”

“It’s about WHAT WE DO NOW!”

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[noblebluebird]

Legend is still hanging in there!

Since this post has been one of my most popular art pieces, I decided it would be fun to redraw it digitally.

I was going to wait until the original post received 200 notes to show it, as a kind of milestone celebration, but I liked it too much to keep it to myself. I am an impatient person.

So here you are! Hope you like it!

[tinyetoile]

I drew this for a timeline thing for my original zelda story but TBH that's coming along pretty slowly and this is funny enough to post on its own.

[the-storyteller78]

“He is very small…”

[zakoodle]

blaze

[saixria]

Athena with her broken arm tries to use her deduction skills to deduce how Artemis broke her own arm in an L shaped cast but Artemis just says she had a “Deer in the headlights,” moment and fell down a hill XD

I’m so sorry anon NDJSKKS I keep procrastinating on my requests ANYWAY HERE IT IS imagine their casts are signed I was lazy

[eezdalf]

Individual houses were typically in use for between fifty and 100 years, after which they were carefully dismantled and filled in to make foundations for superseding houses. Clay wall went up on clay wall, in the same location, for century after century, over periods reaching up to a full millennium. Still more astounding, smaller features such as mud-built hearths, ovens, storage bins and platforms often follow the same repetitive patterns of construction, over similarly long periods. Even particular images and ritual installations come back, again and again, in different renderings but the same locations, often widely separated in time.... as individual houses built up histories, they also appear to have acquired a degree of cumulative prestige. This is reflected in a certain density of hunting trophies, burial platforms and obsidian - a dark volcanic glass, obtained from sources in the highlands of Cappadocia, some 125 miles north. The authority of long-lived houses seems consistent with the idea that elders, and perhaps elder women in particular, held positions of influence. But the more prestigious households are distributed among the less, and do not appear to coalesce into elite neighborhoods.

a description of Çatalhöyük, a neolithic city from 7,400 bc. from the dawn of everything, by davids: graeber and wengrow.

this city remained settled for 1,500 years - "roughly the same period of time that separates us from amalafrida, queen of the vandals in .. ad 523"

[justafewberries]

Any thoughts about haymitch's first time as a mentor? (

Many and none of them happy :’) 

Normally I like to answer these with analysis, but since you asked for my thoughts, I'll be more personal.

By the time we leave him in SOTR, Haymitch is already deep into drinking. Over time, someone who consumes alcohol at that level will build a tolerance, but because he is relatively new to drinking, all things considered, he likely spends the first games completely plastered. He probably doesn’t know his limit. If he does, he’s only 17 by the time of his first mentorship. Sure, he has been through unspeakable horrors, but the bottom of the bottle brings him peace, so he probably drinks himself nearly to death a few times, especially being back in the Capitol.

That’s not to say he doesn’t try to help the kids. He probably even knows them, or knows of them. He seems to know quite a few people in town, and in a (long buried) post about my sotr predictions, I mentioned it’s highly likely most people know each other in d12 anyways, as there’s only 8,000 people by the time we meet Katniss. To some sources, that classifies it as a small town. Personally, I don’t like the idea he has to mentor a friend of his. If anything, it’s probably just a pair of kids he knew vaguely, like how Sejanus knew Marcus because they were in the same class together, but they weren’t necessarily friends. 

We know Haymitch is a protector of the young. He comforts his brother by telling him he’s the man of the house now. He assures Wellie she can win, despite knowing she can’t do it without him. He looks out for Lou Lou, Louella, and Ampert. I'm assuming based on his behavior he’s not completely jaded by the time he reaches his first reaping. I think he honestly wants to try to help them, but he realizes he doesn’t have the tools.

He didn’t play his own games. I mean, yes, he literally played the games, but he didn’t play them like how they were “supposed” to go (if you can even say that, but stick with me here). I love it narratively speaking, and it's not a criticism of him, but it doesn’t give him an advantage with mentoring.

His games were largely focused on the rebellion up until the point of the tank. His goal became to outsmart the Gamemakers. He literally calls the tank explosion blowing up the brain, but the body (the arena) is still alive. So, he probably doesn’t have any solid, real, technical game advice to give the kids that would help, unless they, too, are a piece on the rebellion's chess board. 

He can hit them with the advice of run away from the bloodbath, find water, and the rest of the steps in Wiress’s song, but he likely wouldn’t have much real, genuine advice that comes with the experience of trying to win. Mags and Wiress both mention how they have grown as mentors when the say they learned, through years of tributes, that everyone has a want other than just surviving. Maysilee wanted to die with her head up. Mags wanted to protect her district partner. Haymitch has a lot to learn as a mentor, and that wisdom comes with experience he doesn’t yet have.

His games didn’t bring him experience of trying to win, either. He spent most of his time trying to figure out what sword he could jump in front of to defend someone else. After he blew up the tank, he gave up on himself. So trying to help two kids win is even more foreign to him than any other victor (granted some victors may have had similar experiences as Haymitch, but I’m speaking in generalities here). 

He's probably decent enough at figuring out a pitch for the interviews. He saw the appeal in Maysilee's conduct, and he mentions how he noticed they were reduced to forgettable interviews in the reel. He likely knows what would help them stand out, but still, that's largely at the mercy of the film makers at the end, anyways.

My point is, it all boils down to the fact that Haymitch doesn’t have the experience to be a good mentor in his first year, even if he wants to be. Couple it with the bottle and the fact district 12 kids tend to be malnourished, it’s exactly what it ends up being- 23 years of riding home on an empty train. 

But this begs the question of why did he continue to show up? Yeah, he’s got Lenore Dove’s promise to keep, but beyond her promise, there has to be something more that keeps him from complete nihilism. I covered that part in my one shot One Must Imagine Haymitch Happy, where I explore absurdism in life as a mentor. I think Haymitch lends himself really well to absurdism, which is the idea that the universe is indifferent to us, and choosing to live is rebellion in its own parameters. 

I’m definitely rambling now, but I see a lot of absurdist themes in the realm of mentoring. Thanks for your ask! sorry it's so depressing.

[corrupted-knowledge]

i made this blog just to post this

shadow milk cookie x fount of knowledge 😍

I LOVE SELFCEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luckyshinyhunter]

👑🎭Love how the "Average Joe" character end up becoming a fan favorite in most media!👑🎭

[lurkinginnernarrator]

the best type of characters are the ones who always keep a knife in their boot.

[studdedleatherandchantillylace]

Yous guys think Del Toro's Frankenstein will contain as much use of the word "bosom" as the book or nah?

[lunasilvis]

I oscillate between wholesome bb girl and wise enlightened warrior-descended woman on a daily. Call that flow 🤙

[aaasdgnklm]

tw for *described* blood and gore, stabbing, drowning (mentioned)

spoiler alert for epic : the musical the vengence sags

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OH MY GOD

THE VENGENCE SAGA

holy SHIT guys its WILD

ok ok so not sorry for loving you was oretty much what I was expecting calypos va is amazing and the song is so pretty and I almost feel bad enough for her to like her

dangerous was a BANGER I didnt know about the more calm bits at the beginning and end and the pause when the crew usually replied in the 600 lives bit fucking HURT but then hermes shows up and its like WOOOOO PARTYY FUCKIINGGG TIMMEEE AM I DIONYSUS OR WHAT CAUSE WE ARE HAVING A RIDEEEEEE!! the anamatic with ody fighting all these monsters and hermes busting it down was HILARIOUS I love him SO MUCH troy eats every time and its amazing

charybdis was EVEN BETTER THAN I EXPECTED tbh ik a lot of people were really excited for get in the water and dont get me wrong I was too! but I was REALLY excited for charybis and it met my expectations perfectly the vocals and how just fucking DONE ody sounds is PERFECT I love it

get in the water. holy SHIT get into the water. it was what we knew was coming UNTIL IT WASNT AND THEN IT HURT THE BIT WITH HIS DEAD CREW/FRIENDS/MOM WAS OUCH and a fucking jetpack I CANNOT take that seriously bcuz omg thats so funny that he used a JETPACK to fight posideon AND IT WORKED

six hundred strike ima be honest didnt love the 3d render thing it wasnt for me but the water physics were sick but the MUSIC IS AWSOME I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY EEEEEE

first off the crews voices coming back to accompany odysseus as he avenges each of them is GREAT but then

then

the end

HOLY SHIT THE END I

I dont even KNOW what to say because OH MY GOD

posideon basically saying yeah whatever you win but ur fucked you dumbass and ody replying with youre calling that storm off. and posideon going or what bitch

and then the danger motif starts

AND THEN ODYS FUCKING RAMPAGE

STABBING HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITH HIS OWN TRIDENT

THE PRONGS TEARING THROUGH HIS LUNGS FILLING THEM WITH BLOOD INSTEAD OF WATER HOOKING BEHIND HIS RIBS AS HIS OWN TRIDENT SINKS INTO HIS IMMORTA BODY OVER AND OVER HURTING MORE THAN ANY MORTAL WEAPON COULD

and the things odysseus is saying? holy fuck theyre almost more painful then the trident because DAMN

you can hear all the rage, the misery, the grief, every single goddamn thing odysseus has been through every person hes lost every person hes fail every. single. emotion. odysseus has felt is so raw and painful and THERE and its awful and amazing and its perfect for that moment

and th animation for that portion is amazing too. the glowing stripes on posideons sides and the flashes of lightning and the blood on the trident and the way posideons body lurches as odysseus stabs him AH and ofc that final line. THAT LINE HOLY SHIT

“with everything youve done… how will you sleep at night?”

“next to my wife.”

so good. im in love.

[juspeczyk]

in a very weird place emotionally today and feeling like if i was 17 maybe this all would have fixed me or at least i would have made some craaaaaaaaazy art about it. but now i have like a job and a gender and my own shit to take care of. so like how do i handle it...