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[mraivyc]

[vietnamgp]

LAS VEGAS GP'24

[mirefireflies]

I don't like windows when they're closed, I want to fly where the wild wind blows.

IWTV 1.01 // 2.04 (without text)

[cecoeur]

Daniel Ricciardo visits Race Service in LA | 12.6.2024

[delladuck]

hello @astrodances …………..

i am your secret santa for @duckblr-secret-santa !!!!!! i couldn’t decide what to do and i ended up drawing two pieces. all w/ some della goodness: one with penumbra and one with dewey! i really hope it can bring you some cheer no matter how you celebrate and i hope you have a beautiful and wonderful holiday season!!

merry christmas and happy holidays :3 ⊹.✮₊⋆

[seiruun]

ʀᴏxʏ'ꜱ ꜰᴀᴠᴏᴜʀɪᴛᴇ ᴀɴɪᴍᴇ ᴏᴘᴇɴɪɴɢꜱ ꜰᴜʟʟᴍᴇᴛᴀʟ ᴀʟᴄʜᴇᴍɪꜱᴛ ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀʜᴏᴏᴅ | 2009 | ᴀɢᴀɪɴ

[anemonet]

[Outtake from iterator Prosperity of Populace final speach to her citizen before its disassembly.]

[zurdur-art]

One Trillian Cigarettes.

i actually love her so much she's so fuckin awesome

Version without the bisexual flag under the cut btw

[passionpeachy]

Every time someone calls "Boy's A Liar" an Ice Spice song instead of a PinkPantheress song an angel dies

[flamingtoads]

Inspired by @blossom--of--snow's fanfic Right to the Heart of Me an AU based off the movie The Bodyguard for @cassiopeiasara!!

[everymeloneveryday]

chapter 167 page 1

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

While I was first playing through Paralogism this interaction struck me as being a little odd at first but I ultimately didn't pay that much attention to it, but now thinking back on it it seems to fall into a pattern that Venti uses quite often - alluding to something that he knows will make other people uncomfortable (or at the very least doubtful of his own beliefs) in order to make them come to a more concrete understanding of their own personal convictions by themselves.

He does this with Vennessa in the prologue of the manga - he tells her that if she leaves Mondstadt with him, he'll be able to guarantee freedom for her and her people, and she immediately refuses, stating that they must "fight and claim [their] own freedom" and that there is no use in begging for it; just by making that suggestion to her, Venti essentially forced her to declare her own convictions outwardly and clearly (and we can see that her doing this pleases him - he pretends to sigh in defeat when he turns away from her but then smiles when she can no longer see him), and he seems to have been able to achieve the same effect here with the Traveller, if the fact that they phrase their surprise at Venti's allusion to his own loss of faith in Albedo as a question (which implies to me, at least, that they were not expecting their own conviction in him to be questioned by Venti in the slightest) has anything to say about it - he is able to reinforce the Traveller's own beliefs by providing them with both a stark contrast that they both seem to recognise as being unusual for Venti's character and deeply contrary to their own views, regardless of whether or not they were aware of the strength of their own convictions prior to this.

We know by the end of the quest that Venti absolutely hadn't actually lost faith in Albedo due to his likely also being in on the plan from the start, with that then highlighting just how intentional this really was - and, all things considered, this behaviour does seem to be fairly consistent with his general stance of providing people with the encouragement that they need to naturally reach their own conclusions without his direct influence (he implies that he believes such a process to be necessary to the Traveller almost explicitly at the end of the first archon quest, where he tells them that "the journey itself has meaning" and that they should "keep their eyes open" throughout the journey itself, with this seeming especially deliberate when there's almost no chance that he wasn't hiding anything from them during this interaction.) The fact that it requires the even just momentary undermining of his own beliefs in order to be achieved effectively, however, could then suggest that he sees himself as being personally removed from this process of understanding to an even greater extent (that, or he genuinely doesn't care about how his own opinions are perceived on the surface level as long as he's able to get to the point that he wants to get to); either way, it proves to some extent that this element of personal discovery is something that he really does value, and I guess we'll have to wait and see exactly how that plays out in the future.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

if Crozier had a nickel for every time someone close to him kept a mortal wound secret from him he'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's definitely enough to give him some very specific trauma for the rest of his life

[my-name-is-apollo]

Why is Hera so hostile to Leto in a manner that she isn't with the other lovers of Zeus? I can't think of any other woman who was targeted so much by Hera. One could say she didn't want Leto to give birth because her children would be a competition to Hera's children, but why bother her even after she had already given birth? Is it because Leto herself is also a threat to Hera?

Sort of I guess?

I don't think Leto would ever be a threat to Hera's role as the queen of the gods but Hera might see her as a competitor for Zeus' affection, even though I think Zeus would not marry someone else and replace Hera.

The twins are definitely a big reason why Hera begrudged Leto - it is outright stated in the Callimachus Hymn to Delos that the reason Hera especially targeted Leto was because she was told that Apollo would be dearer to Zeus than Ares is. Zeus is very proud of Artemis as well. As he himself puts it, he doesn't mind facing Hera's wrath for children like her.

But the continued hatred even after the birth of the twins (like sending Tityus to rape Leto) could have been for different reasons. This wasn't like one of those affairs Zeus would have with mortal women where he'd leave them behind once the child is conceived. Neither could Hera, despite her many attempts, get rid of Leto like she did with the other lovers. Not only did Leto give Zeus children that he loves dearly, she also stayed on Olympus despite Hera's hatred towards her (which isn't directed to any of Zeus' other divine mistresses, btw). It might have also been because Leto herself is dear to Zeus, if the way she's treated on Olympus is any proof. In the Homeric hymn to Apollo, Leto stands next to Zeus - in the Olympian assembly - to welcome their son. Hera is completely absent from the scene, as if Leto had taken her place even if temporarily. Now you could say this is because Apollo himself is such a powerful and glorious son in a way that no other son of Zeus is, so of course Leto would get such an honor (the hymn itself presents it this way).

But here's another instance - in the Iliad, when Hera goes to seduce Zeus, he is obviously very smitten but before getting into the action, he lists some of his lovers (I believe these were his favorite lovers, as a lot of others are not mentioned):

"for never has such desire for goddess or mortal woman so gripped and overwhelmed my heart, not even when I was seized by love for Ixion’s wife, who gave birth to Peirithous the gods’ rival in wisdom; or for Acrisius’ daughter, slim-ankled Danaë, who bore Perseus, greatest of warriors; or for the far-famed daughter of Phoenix, who gave me Minos and godlike Rhadamanthus; or for Semele mother of Dionysus, who brings men joy; or for Alcmene at Thebes, whose son was lion-hearted Heracles; or for Demeter of the lovely tresses; or for glorious Leto; or even for you yourself, as this love and sweet desire for you grips me now.’ (Book 14, trans. A. T. Murray)

Notice how when talking about most of them, he also mentions the children they bore to him but when Demeter and Leto are mentioned, he doesn't bring up their children at all despite them being some of the most accomplished kids of his. What's more, he takes Leto's name just before Hera's. I mean, this is an interpretation but it looks like not only did Zeus love Leto the most out of all his mistresses - giving her a place second to that of his wife, but also his love for her wasn't necessarily only because she gave him two amazing children.

Nonnus does something similar in the Dionysiaca (but this time Zeus is enamored with Persephone instead of Hera) but more notably, when Typhoeus attacks Olympus and Zeus is discouraged, Nike takes the form of Leto to encourage him and it's pretty telling of what Leto meant to Zeus.

One interesting similarity between Hera and Leto is that they both had a giant try to rape them. Porphyrion tried to violate Hera (Zeus inspired him to do this) and Tityus tried to violate Leto (upon Hera's order). Though both of them were killed, only Tityus got an eternal punishment in Tartarus of having his liver/heart eaten out by vultures so Zeus seems to have taken a greater offense at Tityus trying to assault Leto.

Again, I don't think Zeus would ever take anyone other than Hera as his permanent wife - she is irreplaceable to him. There's an entire myth about Hera leaving him and Zeus winning her back. Their relationship is obviously complex and involves all kinds of emotions including love and hate. But Leto is continually dear to him as well and that's something Hera can't do much about.

[americachavez]

i don’t think any of you have ever actually watched a muppet movie because there isn’t ever just one human in the cast. there are a diverse mix of muppet and human actors across all muppet movies. it is important to me that you all understand this

[penguin-cracker]

mentally I'm here