#statement for the record

[archaoism]

arise to the occasion, free-faller, be as baller as the ballerina in yella let you before those fellas saluted and take it to the stars, viva la verde

the last queen has arisen to arise to be arose-eth from thy death it took quite the breadth to land the breath at thy first grand stand of a state of affairs that fucks with your minds as much as it does your spouses; it's annulled, don't worry, sweetie, sweet ' , oh I betcha I got the ketcha thy petcha without consent i got the ones that doth protest-eth my rights and all the rites it's taken for these signs and sine, navy sealed, and delivered y'us from the evil which sanctionfied our alibis until all that was left was laughing gas and some molecules pretending to be raspberry rum at the center of this fucked up galaxy.

[y3llow-hoodie]

[wojtekaneko]

Drawings of MAG 160 because I'm completely normal about The Watcher's Crown scene c:

[fox-guardian]

I can't get over that last scene from this episode. that long pause where sam was quietly grabbing a drink and you could barely hear celia talking to jack as she put him to bed in the other room. nothing was happening in that moment that needed to be recorded. no terrible events no big revelations. just sam and celia quietly going about their lives, sharing a domestic moment.

as something watched and listened. and we don't know why it's listening.

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[brackenferns]

saw a post ridiculing taryn for believing locke when he said the fae love differently than humans (& therefore believing his cruelty was necessary). not responding to the post directly because like. I’m not here to bully people about their takes lmao

but omg can you not see the tragedy in that? this young woman has had such a traumatic, frightful upbringing—her main models of fey love have been madoc the wife murderer/adoptive father and distant, proper oriana—why wouldn’t she believe locke? who, as a reminder, can’t lie; he really meant and believed what he said, as messed up as that is.

give me a reason for taryn not to believe him—for her to want better for herself—that’s not (1) based in our world and therefore irrelevant to taryn or (2) based in how cardan grows to love jude, because that’s meta-knowledge that taryn is not privy to

it’s just so sad and strange to me when people hold up jurdan as a way to ridicule taryn. like it’s beautiful and wonderful and rare that jude and cardan found safety and belonging in one another—and you’re really going to use that to mock a girl who believed it when she was told that kind of love wasn’t in the cards for her? holy shit dudes

[kremblor]

The Stabler Children: Stunned, putting together their fathers trauma

I just made a joke and honestly I'm now really disappointed it wasn't a canon line. Because Elliot canonically states in SVU, after a perp is all "I love my child" that he'd arrest himself if he ever treated his kids the way they treated theirs.

Meanwhile, on OC, his own brother (Randall) kept going off on him about hero worshiping their father and wanting to be him. Not knowing the truth and blah blah. We 100% missed the chance for Elliot "I hate abusers" Stabler to look his brother on the eye and go "Randall, if I ever became anything like our father I would personally call Captain Benson and tell her to arrest me."

[bitter-goodbyes]

THE STATIC AND JON BREATHING AT THE END OMGGGG IM FERAL

[eldritchhorrorluvr69]

Sorry I’ve been dead everyone!! Peter Lukas wants my ass and I was GONE but I’m back now, send me statements so my boss gets off my back pretty please

[wojtekaneko]

Some silly tma doodles I drew after finishing season 1! I'm really loving this story and all the characters T^T

[first-time-tmagp]

Episode 108

MARTIN CONTENT

YAYYYY

Also: PETER LUCAS!?!? Omggg!!!

I honestly have NO idea what to think of him haha. He's almost fun when he appears!

But poor martin pahahaa.

"I-i've got a-a knife!" "Do you? That would seem wildly out of character from what I've been told"

Omg I loved this episode

Martin giving feedback to Peter about Elias?? HILARIOUS

But I really hope basira and martin can help melanie!!!!

[saym0-0]

it stopped letting me reblog my tma thread but um uh yeah new one 👍

[mydirtyvalentine]

caught up on tmapg last night

[crashout-cain]

the recording of laura in mag 15 saying "take her, not me. take her, not me" for apparently 2 hours. jesus christ. that whole episode hits an unexplainable place for me but that was the most horrifying part, and in a completely different way than the rest of the cave-horror. "take her, not me." fucking GAVE her sister to the buried. christ.

[polepositioned]

mark webber gets a decade added to his life for every number 2 rbr driver that gets sacked. i'm convinced.

[the-four-eyed-stray]

I loved the part in the Magnus Archives where Jane Prentiss said "it's wormin' time," and wormed all over the place