#intriguing indeed...

[dreamsealed]

This is E.rwin to me

[jochiemgrace]

Look at this. Look at this slutty little eyebrow on this slutty little elf 🥵 looking Lavellan up and down like that. Dread Wolf take me.

[gingermintpepper]

Why did Apollo favor the trojans in the Illiad?

So, dear Anon, I've been thinking about how to answer this question since I got it a couple days ago and I think I kind of want to make something clear before I get into it.

The Iliad by itself as a poem only covers some of the events that occur in the final year of a long protracted conflict that had been brewing for at least two decades and was an active war for ten. Within the space of the Iliad itself, the motivations and affairs of the major players are often referenced but there are many, many parts of the story that are not there because they belong to a different story cycle that has been since lost or was never recorded with words. In the space of the Iliad Apollo's motivations are questioned a lot - his pride is questioned by Poseidon who thinks Apollo should be just as angry at the Trojans as he considering Apollo was treated equally as poorly by Laomedon while they worked together. His honour is questioned by Hera who chastises him for taking the Trojans' side when he'd proclaimed that Achilles would live a long life and prosper at Thetis and Peleus' wedding. His own sister calls him a coward for refusing to fight when Zeus gives permission for the gods to go wild on the battlefield. For all that there's this image of Apollo in the Iliad as some staunch and unwavering protector of the Trojans, believe it or not, I largely think of Apollo as neutral in the war.

Which, I suppose, comes back to the question - why did Apollo favour the Trojans? The truthful answer is that I don't know. The Iliad and all its connected stories isn't something I've done enough research on to have an answer or a reference to an answer off the top of my head. The reasoning I'm aware of is that Apollo was a Patron God of Troy and really a god doesn't need any reason besides that to protect his people but it's not like Apollo abandoned the Greeks either. Calchas is the biggest example of that I can point to - descended directly from a priest of Apollo and one who attributed his mantic power to the god, Calchas was pivotal in ensuring the Greeks even got to Troy in the first place.

From a personal perspective however, I think Apollo was more dedicated to the house of Priam than he was the city of Troy itself. Apollo's affection for that house and all its members ran deep - from his admiration of Hecuba and Hector to his love and attempted courtship of Cassandra to his blessings given to Helenus, Deiphobos, Cassandra, Troilus and even his partnership with Paris - Apollo loved the house of Priam. When you think about the times Apollo lashes out against the Greeks, it's generally because they've done some nonsense to earn his ire. The plague was caused by Agamemnon disrespecting his priest, his aid in the slaughter of Patroclus was because he didn't respect him, his minor grudge against Diomedes too was because he tried to test Apollo's mettle and well, the less said about Achilles the better. Apart from his obvious favouring of Hector in the skirmishes, Apollo doesn't really oppose the Greeks. He has a ton of reasons to by the time the Iliad rolls around, including avenging the death of two of his sons, but he remains mostly satisfied with conducting his father's business and overseeing the war from a somewhat professional perspective. To me, it's always been less about Apollo caring about the fate of Troy as a city itself and more about him just really wanting to protect the people in the city that he's come to love and respect.

Of course, I encourage you to take my words with a big tablespoon of salt - like I said, I don't really know enough about the facts in particular to give a solid, confident answer but I can give you my interpretation of it. Maybe consult someone like @littlesparklight for a more comprehensive and grounded response 🤔

[extraterrestrial-artist]

had no drawing ideas so i decided to recreate two random dreams i recall having a month or so ago

first one was me chatting with my friends and everything was normal except my hair was just inexplicably fully grey. It wasn't even a case of me waking up with grey hair it was implied ive always had grey hair in the dream.

second one was arguably the best dream i've had this year... Solid Snake himself started a discord voice call with me and streamed himself playing MGS2. he was really good at it while also being very talkative and showing me random tricks or something like that

[annabelle--cane]

"I have written a complex character with messy human flaws" so close bestie but what you have actually written is a domestic abuse scenario where that character shouts and breaks things and threatens another character who doesn't fight back while narratively treating both parties like they're equally at fault. and theoretically that could be interesting if you knew that's what you were writing, but you, uh. don't appear to.

[misha-v]

stupid pissman

[overly-verbose]

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if i wrote an SI-Yuuji fic inspired by your SIkuna stuff, could I tag you in it/mention your fic in the 'inspired by' tab?

I'd be honoured!! :DDDDD

Meaning; yes, of course you could haha :DDD

And that certainly sounds intriguing!! :DDDD

I can only imagine the sheer Shenanigans that'd make overall, and, depending on whether SI!Yuji decides to eat the Finger/s (if there would even be a choice though),

the sheer Magnitude of Shenanigans especially pertaining to, I'm guessing, Canon Sukuna having to deal with a SI!Yuji is just- 😂😂😂

👍👍👍

[courtofcrescent]

Hi! Very intriguing idea! Will there be polys? If yes, triads, V, or both?

Hi there, Dear Anon! Thank you! I'm glad you think so.

Well, my outline say yes. But, I don't know if I'll implement it in the final demo or not because... reasons (no, it's not because coding). I'm still unsure about it to this day, so I'm sorry I cannot give a definite answer regarding this matter 😅

If I decide to follow this particular branch in the outline, then there will be one V-poly. However, this relationship path is a tricky one, like really tricky. It's hard to get, and harder to maintain...

Once I've finalized my decision regarding this, I'll certainly make a proper post! Until then, I believe it's best to say that there is no poly path at the moment.

Thank you for the ask! 🩶

[fisheito]

yal'rlready comin for me about that next event preview and i'm like *prepares the salmon cannon, anew*

[gieguee]

Thought about things too hard and accidentally came up with a Mother 3 sequel. Lemme know if you want me to elaborate

this is for sure very interesting! we have not played mother 3 yet, but we will very soon. i really do love the design though, i'll make sure to come back to this once we finish the game.

[accordingtodumas]

Uuh if this pope is nice I'll just considerate him latino since he has peruvian citizenship because a yankee pope is too much to handle atm

[the-feathered-dragon-hoard]

That kind of reactions 🤣

The S-Classes that I raised — Chapter 5

[writereleaserepeat]

Just watched one of the whumpiest films of all time, 2099: The Soldier Protocol.

A parapalegic prisoner is entered (read: coerced) into an experimental program under dubious circumstances. He's experimented on (including mild lab whump) and tortured repeatedly to turn him into a ruthless living weapon. As he gets stronger and more lethal, one of the scientists overseeing the program (and directing his torture) starts to feel the more-than-dubious ethical issues getting under her skin.

Is it a good movie? I wouldn't say that. Is it a whumpy movie? Absolutely. There are enough whump tropes packed in that I would wonder if someone from the whump community wrote the script. It's low budget with some half-decent acting and LOTS and lots of whump (and overall tropes that this community enjoys).

[rosepetalgold]

Not to add angst to a delightfully fluffy little episode but I'm thinking about how the pairings in TSNAND illustrate the current (not good!) state of things in the mindscape and the rampant tension between all the sides. Because really, despite all the possible duos, I think the pairings we got were the only pairings that were feasible so that all six of them got to have an enjoyable day.

Janus and Remus are probably the easiest two to pair off because of the general animosity between them and the others—Virgil clearly doesn't get along with either of them, Roman might maybe tolerate Remus but probably wouldn't have a good time and would definitely rather dropkick Janus out of a window than try to spend a nice day with him, and Logan is presumably still upset at both Janus for yanking him out of POF and Remus for interfering with Thomas' schedule in WTIT. I could see Patton actually getting along mostly fine with Janus, but that would leave Remus without a buddy.

So Remus and Janus it is, which leaves us with the light sides.

And these four bring with them their own set of problems. Roman, for example, could be paired up with Patton, Logan, or Virgil and theoretically any of them should be fine because they're the light sides! They're famILY! They all (mostly) get along! But there's still major unresolved issues between him and Patton from the whole POF debacle, so that leaves Logan and Virgil as potential partners in crime for a fun day. He and Logan would likely have a nice time together considering there's not really any drama between the two at the moment, but that would result in Virgil and Patton being paired up with one another, and from the endcard of WTIT there also seems to be unresolved tension between those two, at least from Virgil's side.

Which just leaves Roman to be paired up with Virgil and Patton with Logan, which obviously is exactly how things worked out in TSNAND.

But my point is that there shouldn't have to be mental gymnastics to figure out how to pair everyone up so that they can all have a nice day; they don't all have to be best friends by any means, but ideally they should all at least get along well enough that randomly mixing and matching everyone would still result in each of them having a good time doing their little activities. That there seems to be One Way and One Way Only to currently pair them up without any major issues speaks volumes about the bigger problems lurking underneath the surface, the sheer amount of tension between all of them, and the untenable strain their relationships with each other are under.

[ayyponine]

i love posting little polls btw. love taking into consideration the council’s decision on the most trivial of matters. posted while enoying the tub of raspberry sorbet i got earlier B)

[estebunny]

What motivates you?

via JAAQ interview

"What motivates me every day to push, to wake up and go to work every single day and to be the best. I would say that's what motivates me. It's always been my dream to compete at the highest level, and now that I'm at the highest level, I want to be the best at it. And yeah, I'm a competitor as nature. I think my family have told me that pretty well, and in the family there is a bit of a sense of you need to do your best to win. Competition is priority. When I play table tennis or bowling with my dad, he's going to try everything to be winning and every single trick, every single time. And there is that very high intensity pressure that goes into it. And yeah, if you don't win, I don't know. I got this sense of shame inside me that I didn't manage to be the best and that has to be a priority thing for me. And yeah, I think this is what has led me to compete in Formula One."