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I lied about being on here more often. I made a new account. It’s called the companion moth (no spaces). I already followed all my mutuals on there! I’m going to post more art and discuss my writing in a fresh, less cringe way. I hope you like it!

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I'm blogging from a brand new laptop. I love my mommy; I wasn’t expecting such a graduation gift. 

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I am going to be more active on Tumblr and I have also entered a new fandom

collection of tiny shadows

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on being the daughter of the family

if my body could speak, blythe baird // i put the coffin out to sea, lisa marie basile // @/belovedbi // ? // been a son, nirvana // elektra, sophokles; translated by anne carson // ? // churching, kristin chang

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(Spoilers) Sorry but I have to talk about the Vulture's sequence and character design since no one else seems to be. This version of Adrian Toomes (rather, Adriano Tumino) comes from a Renaissance-stylized universe and is specifically based on Leonardo Da Vinci's art. He's animated in a stylized way that looks like old parchment, both his wings and weapons resemble contraptions Da Vinci would have designed, and when he fires off attacks scribbles similar to Da Vinci's appear on screen! It's just so wonderfully fitting for a character like Vulture

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It's so hard to draw you guys

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you will never walk alone, you can always reach me.

teepublic + inprnt

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the most important step in the hero’s journey is the gay sex

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Oh my god happy birthday babygirl.. she's 16 I'm buying her a car <33

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To all my fellow Victor Vale fanartists, a proposal:

Semi-permanent ink stains all over Victor’s fingers.

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i made a uquiz to find out what kind of gf you are

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Iliad Analysis Post Update

Alright, lads and laddies, I’m in government class right now and I just posted the long-awaited Book Nineteen analysis. I mentioned in the post that I haven’t done them in a while because of senior thesis. This is true.

School started back in August. I didn’t finish the Iliad by the start of school, and had to get through books nineteen-twenty-four in one night. My copy of the Iliad for this read-through has tear stains throughout book twenty-two. If you know you know.

That was emotionally devastating. However, as I’m two and a half-ish months into school, I have written an outline and have the first four pages on my thesis done. My thesis statement is as follows:

Homer’s Iliad is proof of the necessity of a good family, and how an absence of that anchor runs the risk of becoming lost amongst independent decisions, as best displayed in the juxtaposition of the mythological heroes, Achilles and Hector. 

A real zinger, if I do say so myself. I’m quite proud with the work that I’ve put in and the direction of the paper.

Thank you to everyone who has liked, reblogged, commented, etc. on my Iliad posts. This is something very important to me and I’m glad I can make others happy with my words on this topic. 

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The Iliad: Book Nineteen

I know it’s been a hot minute since I made one of these posts. I’ll explain what all went on in detail in another post. In short, though, it’s: senior thesis. It started. But onto the analysis.

In this post I will be discussing: Achilles and Thetis’ relationship, Agamemnon being a dipshit, and Achilles and Patroclus’ companionship.

The book starts out with Achilles weeping about Patroclus’ death. Thetis is there to comfort her son. She instructs him to leave Patroclus’ body alone, to not be so concerned with it. Achilles responds with a description of how his corpse will be over taken by flies, eaten by dogs, and decompose. Thetis, who cherishes her son instilled nectar and ambrosia in the corpse to reduce the rate of decay. 

This interaction has a lot of things packed into it. One is about Thetis’ actions as a mother. Achilles is a grown adult. He is in an immensely emotional state and has lost sight of reality upon Patroclus’ death. He wants to keep the body of his deceased friend. Rather than be truthful with Achilles, she moves according to his fragility. Her treatment of Achilles is not that of an adult, but spoiling a small child. This instance in Book Nineteen is not the first depiction of this, Thetis did the same thing when she pled to Zeus and when she cashed in a favor from Hephaestus to make Achilles new armor. 

A way to further how spoiled Achilles behaves, we have the feud between him and Agamemnon. Now, I may or may not have mentioned this before (or I did and my opinion has changed, I don’t remember), but Achilles was rightly justified in Book One regarding proper compensating for his begrudging participation in the war. He had some sympathy and loyalty to the Greeks as shown in that same book, and lost that gradually and partially due to Agamemnon’s behavior. 

In Book Nineteen, Agamemnon attempts to right that wrong, and apologize to get Achilles to fight once more. They way he does that, though, is silly. He tells Achilles that, 

“I am not to blame! Zeus and Fate and the Fury stalking through the night, they are the ones who drove that savage madness into my heart, that day in assembly when I seized Achilles’ prize–––on my own authority, true, but what could I do?” (19. 100-104).

What a lad. Achilles did not like this bullshit excuse, but he said he would accept the apology. At this point, Achilles did not care about compensation or war prizes. Patroclus is dead and he wanted to avenge him. 

If Book One is Achilles generally, Book Nine is Achilles showing his selfishness and rationale, then Book Nineteen is the breaking point where he loses the majority of his humanity. He vows to not eat, nor drink, until Hector is dead. 

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I just figured it was because his sword looks like a scythe with a blade on either end/chains. Grimm reapers in certain depictions have scythes. Kronos, the god eater, has a sickle. I do like the notion that Hisagi doesn’t like the “natural killer” implication. Especially because of how he behaved in that one filler episode with Rangiku. Hisagi might have a darker image, but he’s a softy.

Shuhei, I love you, but you’re talking about your sword. If it wasn’t shaped like that it wouldn’t be very good at its job!

(I do get what he’s trying to say here though, there’s no classical beauty to Kazeshini like there is to Sode no Shirayuki or Senbon Zakura, no artistic design like Ashizogi Jizo or Tobiume, no specific purpose-function like Wabisuke or Suzumebachi. Kazeshini is just some sharp pieces of metal and a chain, and that’s more brutal-looking than a katana, even though a katana would probably be more effective at actually killing somebody).

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as a persian girl i really wish that everyone informs themselves about the protests in Iran !!! people have no internet access, are being killed and beaten to death on the streets. the whole political system is a joke and a threat to human rights for all people in that country. it is my duty to use my voice for these people who aren't able to do so and i hope you do the same!!!

this is a women's rights issue and a human rights issue.

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I swear if my sociology professor teases me for my jrock and visual kei music choices again this week, I will profusely start blaring Dir en Grey and I will not have any remorse regarding it. It will be a sociological adventure ya know. A new college experience for the Mississippians