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Forgot to post this⭐️

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Comic based on that one scene in the Illiad

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⋆｡˚☀️ Glowing Swan ⋆｡˚☀️

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MUSHY DROP MORE TEUCER ART AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!! I love this guy idc if it’s angst art or any art he’s too underrated :(

the guy ever!!!

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There are a lot of plausible ways that things could go if Shen Yuan met Shen Jiu when they're both grown adults, but for my money the funniest is if they just immediately start trying to maim each other.

Shen Yuan is wondering if there's some sort of mandate of the "if you meet your double you have to kill him" style in effect, but no. It's just that he's still way more pissed off about the child abuse against Binghe than he realizes, while Shen Jiu's reaction to seeing anyone who reminds him of himself is to try and destroy them. There's not a lot of thinking or finesse involved, so they basically go from zero to "rolling in the dirt trying to claw each other's eyes out" with no warning.

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Queen of the Dead part 2, 75

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i'm not sure what sqq's saying here and honestly neither is binghe

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his first look at his big beautiful headache

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On a quiet night, my lord, my love, you came with tears in your eyes, and told me your son had been slaughtered.

For hours you wept at my side, before sorrow turned to rage and innocents were brought to dust by your bloodied hands.

I held our child close as Olympus shook. I felt his breath, I heard his heartbeat. I held him and watched as the clouds filled with thunder. I imagined our child dead in my arms as your son had been, and it felt like the fates whispering in my ears.

I saw ruin in your eyes that night, love, and I saw it every night after. He was doomed from the start, wasn't he? And we were doomed as well. They'll storm our walls soon, as well. They'll tear us apart before your eyes, as well.

I want to ask why, but I know you don't have an answer either. It's alright love. I can't blame you. The years pass, and the ruin stays in your eyes, in mine, in my husband, in our sons. The Greeks make their way to our Scaian gates.

On a quiet night my lord, my love, I came with tears in my eyes, and told you our son had been slaughtered.

(explanation under the cut!)

Real quick explanation time! Since Asclepius is an Argonaut alongside Nestor, a man who is still alive (though old) by the time of the Iliad, and Asclepius' sons fight in the Trojan War, is seems possible, if not likely, that Asclepius was killed within a decade of the start of the Trojan war. This means that Hector, who was middle aged by the war, had to have been born before Asclepius' death. If you follow the versions of the myth that call Hector Apollo's son, this means that Apollo had already been with Hecuba, and seeing as they had a second son, Troilus, after Asclepius' estimated death date, they were likely still close. How might Hecuba have felt when she heard the news? When Apollo was punished and she could not pray to him? When a man who was her children's half-brother was killed by the king of Olympus? Especially when at this point, multiple prophecies had been made that foretold her kingdom's destruction? Idk I think about her a lot and I think about them a lot and I think about Troy a lot, so I made this.

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Some Trojans

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Andromache and Hector

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I draw hebe , goddess of youth and eternal youth, and the cupbearer, Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and Hera, and the wife of the hero Heracles

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Sighs.

What is there even to say about it?

Even if we ignore all the sources that are either ambiguous or outright plain in "it wasn't unwilling kidnapping and the desire is mutual", considering that Tumblr's real fucking fond of minimizing, ignoring, or outright saying "no they don't" to the fact that the Achaean commanders have sex slaves, then.

Why can't some of us go with a more positive interpretation of Helen/Paris without people being weird about it?

(Makes me think of that dumb "if you like Paris you should rethink your life" post from 2014 that sometimes gets reblogged. As if anything in that post isn't something Achaean characters do worse! And THEM it's fine to like and whatnot.)

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Any response to this?

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Finally in a normal state to draw again here’s Ganymede

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People are soooooo fucking unpleasant about Paris. (AO3 summary and tagset I scrolled past this time, not a post here on Tumblr.)

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one of the tragedies of Murderbot is that—it IS extremely smart, competent, clever, brave, motivated, careful, and good at what it does! It is also so, so painfully lucky. That smartness, competence, cleverness, bravery, motivation, and care wouldn’t have had a chance to mean much of anything if it hadn’t gotten those schematics downloaded by accident, if it hadn’t had the time to investigate and experiment with them. If it had been ordered into something suicidal before it got a chance to figure it out. And then it would have probably stayed with the company and miserable forever if it hadn’t been assigned to PresAux. It’s fun and interesting to think about reasons Murderbot might have been assigned to PresAux—theories that either as an unstable unit with a violent past it was less desirable and thus foisted off on freeholders who didn’t know any better, or that as a unit which had shown an unusually high uneaten client stat that it was deliberately given to a head of state with a very expensive bond—but we don’t see any of that. What we see is that after four years of shitty contracts… Murderbot got lucky and was assigned to PresAux.

How many other constructs could have been as brilliant and never got the chance? Murderbot is so many great things but it was not, ever, in control of its life or what happened to it. It got lucky. It seized its opportunities, but it was rare that it even got them. And that’s the tragedy, that it is just one SecUnit out of hundreds or thousands or who-knows-how-many for whom the stars aligned for it to get out. Not more deserving than any of them. Just lucky.

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I participated in the Vaderkin exchange @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod. I made art for @unlikecharlie. I did two prompts. One of Vader and Luke sharing a soft moment. And then another of Anakin reuniting with his mother in Force after his death.

The two images aren't connected by a story, but they could be.