#in the general scheme of things

[sforzesco]

crassus and quintus arrius

[unicornoftheday]

I really don't get big companies making limited editions. Just make more?

[taraxippos]

Would kill to read animal POV fiction that has the animal POV’s interaction with humans be like, semi realistic to the level of caution most predators take with large prey and/or competitors (including humans).

Like instead of the usual - “the human is such a weak, pathetic creature... so slow, no claws, blunt teeth… completely helpless without its 'Fire Sticks'. how is it the master of the earth?” type crap it’s like, the bear protagonist or whatever approaches some dude who spreads their arms and yells and the bear is like “FUUUUUUUUCK THAT THING JUST GOT HUGE. IT'S LARGE AND MAKING NOISES. HOLY FUCK.”

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[gingermintpepper]

Since you feel so strongly about Apollo in adaptations, you probably hate Lore Olympus' version 🤣

(or "Asspollo" like I call him, to distinguish the LO! Version from the actual deity)

Rightfully so btw, because he's a terrible character both morally, as a version of Apollo and even as a villain, his writing sucks.

Oh god; Lore Olympus.

Okay so full disclosure, I never finished LO because I do actually love myself and suffering through shitty greek myth adaptations is only fun for me if I can tell that the author has a point they're trying (and failing) to bring across. Lore Olympus was already failing on so many levels that by the time the Apollo assaulting Persephone thing came up and I realised it was going to be a recurring thing, I was so mentally checked out that I couldn't even be scandalised LOL

Nothing about him even remotely resembles the figure Smythe claimed him to be an interpretation of which honestly is a shame considering that I absolutely adore a villainous Apollo and he makes for an utterly terrifying antagonist when done correctly.

Like, in a vacuum, I don't even mind an 'Apollo who wishes to usurp Zeus as king' story! There's a legitimate case to be made for Apollo being born before Ares and therefore being Zeus' firstborn son. There is a legitimate conflict to be dug into about Zeus' two most favoured counsels being children from relationships outside of the one with his wife. And Apollo was honestly a massive asshole when he was a young god! He was rash and impulsive, he ran about treating the world like it already belonged to him and didn't particularly care about the people he displaced or inconvenienced in his rush to establish himself. He was insulting his fellow gods, had a ton of pride and was enough of a terror that I genuinely think the islands and coves had the right idea refusing Leto sanctuary because they were afraid Apollo would trash the place the moment he was born LMAO

If Lore Olympus meant to channel this rowdy Apollo into their mess of a character, then they also did a terrible job of that because, vitally, LO's Apollo isn't intimidating. He's written to be pathetic, self agrandising, cowardly and foolish - the kind of person that's meant to look bad in order for the protagonists to look good. Apollo as a villain should be so destructive so as to inspire fear - the kind of ruthless, focused destroyer that makes you remember that he's named not for light but for the very destruction that he's now bringing.

So like, yeah, I don't like LO! Apollo 😂 Frankly, I think of him more as like someone's pet who was named after the god rather than something that's meant to actually share any qualities with him. The actual worst thing about that little freak is that it introduced a ton of people to the concept of Apollo and now there's people who cannot divorce the image of Apollo from a vile, pathetic, idiotic rapist who cannot even gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss his way into a decent succession plot.

Also he's not pretty, not handsome, and has short hair. Waste of my damn time is what he is 🤨

[simcardiac-arrested]

never volunteer for anything university related man. also go listen to this

[front-facing-pokemon]

[franollie]

i do sometimes wonder how the gang's chemistry and dynamics would shift if they actually did have to co-parent a baby because realistically none of them should have children. ever. but the idea of dropping a baby in the hands of five incredibly unqualified alcoholics is oh so very amusing to me

[asherenjoysbeingtransparent]

BONUS DAY EIGHT: “Free day or a character that reminds you of yourself”

“I Nandesu” (One scene) — Ena Shinonome

( @sekaitransparents )

[brainworms-all-night-long]

I actually teared up when thinking abt the horshoe crab once, like fym this organism has been existing since the Ordovician which was around 450mil years ago, they managed to survive the most decimating extinctions that man knows off, ice ages and tropical climates, Apex predators that come and gone, their lineage has been alive for so long they completed a full rotation around the Milky way Galaxy TWICE, and if you have the means you could GO and SEE IT and HOLD IT TODAY because it is still scuttling about the shores of our planet as it did for time so long it is near incomprehensible.

Through all that, they barely changed, their fossils look like they're imprints from yesterday, there's a trace fossil of a poor crab suffocating in an anoxic lagoon that is around 150mil years old and there's a full HD colored video from 2022 of a horshoe crab helping another flip from it's back for absolutely no reward or personal benefit other than helping a fellow out

[torchickentacos]

at the point in my life where my stance towards birthdays is just 'look, I'm really busy this month, can we reschedule this and all of the emotional baggage attached with it as well for a couple months down the line please'

[thievesandtraitors]

There are few things I think about all the time, and one of them is the cold open rant Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) went on about America not being the greatest country in the world in The Newsroom; particularly his hilarious point of “if liberals are so fucking smart how come they lose so goddamn always?” Aaron Sorkin really did something with that statement because yeah, we’ve got a history of fucking losing

[sonknuxadow]

not enough people talking about elise mentioned in shadow generations. and how it was confirmed that her and big have canonically met offscreen . am i the only one who cares about that

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I could use some advice, because when I developed asthma my family pretty much got rid of all our cleaning products besides like dish soap and clorox wipes for asthma trigger reasons, just using soap and water and elbow grease to clean things, but to be honest I just don't have that much elbow grease available. The fatigue is real lol That said, I am looking for your cleaning product recommendations (for cleaning anything! absolutely anything, just tell me what it's for please) in two categories: 1. What works best, regardless of asthma side effects or whether or not I personally can use it* 2. What you think will work for me, if you have any asthma-friendly cleaning product suggestions *I am not the only person in my household so if the cleaning product works really well but I can't be around it we can make it work

[bzuvv]

i think its some of damiens responsiblity to think what kinda relationship he cultivaded with his fans. and why is centering his need for explaning, defending and further protecting his self/image is his knee jerk reaction. unless you do those things a social media break is just another way of image management. plus it wont feel better when you come back and you are still centering your image which causes you too act defensive/childish. you cant support things thru acts of fear and nervousness and not expact them to crumble! i know people joked abour his virtue signalling in the past, and they are jokes, but its a curious thing people notice that around him enough to point that out. i hope he can actually look into that part of himself with a more honest critical lense.also these twitch stream where he wants this magicaly ''positive'' enviroment where people can ''escape'' is just unrealistic at best. this is a livestream where people rush on each other to talk to you. its by nature feeding into these things im afraidi positivity is not the warm blanket you think it is, its more of a trap lol

[fruitsofhell]

Something super valuable about studying history, especially back into ancient times is having an appreciation for how enduring humanity is. Like yeah yeah in the cosmic or geologic or evolutionary schemes we're insignificant, but we have also been through a lot, of our own making and of nature just throwing shit at us. When you think of history as extending back to before modern conceptions of a state or people or culture, and extend your definition of society to more than what resembles nation-states and continental empires, you realize we have been everywhere for very long time, and its hard to really imagine an earth without us.

Even if everything gets fucked to shit by late-stage capitalism or like some random disaster people will live on. Maybe not in super-consumerist mega societies, but there will still be idiots gathering around a fire somewhere to laugh at each others jokes, someone playing with their pet. People will still want to sing and make images on the wall and imagine things. People have lived under wraps of lovingly made cloths in deserts, peoples have lived proudly on horseback on rolling steps, people have found peace and community living in flooding rainforests, people have just been making it even in what may seem to be extreme conditions. So many cultures tell of surviving a world-ending flood, so many cultures declared themself the endstate of history only to become chapters in our textbooks - we fucking endure!

And realizing that even these extremes of societal and ecological collapse have been endured, I can be kinda chill about the fact that nothing will ever be over so we should never actually stop trying to hold together. Holding together doesn't have to mean keeping up an incredibly wasteful and/or inefficient society, it just means doing our best to survive and help those around us. This is not to dismiss the massive amounts of human suffering that come with societal upheaval, but as I am trying to say, focus on helping your neighbor instead of woeing over that which was always destined to fall beginning to fall.

People are more valuable than concepts. Be kind to yourself and others. And uh. If America or something collapses press F to pay respects and think about the cool mythology we'll get to invent about it.