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Melinoë... 💓💛❤️💞🧡🩵🩷❤️‍🔥🩷🩷💖🩷🩷❤️‍🔥

SHE LOOKS SO GOOD IN THIS BANNER AAAAAAAA

Plus looking at these two again bc she's so cutes...hoarding pics of her in my wallet fr

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Female Rage in Paintings

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio | Jael and Sisera by Alessandro Turchi | Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Louis Finson | Jael slays Sisera by Ottavio Vannini | Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Orazio Gentileschi | La Douce Résistance by Michel Garnier | Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great by Elisabetti Sirani | Untitled by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal | Salome Bearing the Head of Saint John the Baptist by an unknown copyist after c. 1631, originated from Guido Reni

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i hate to plug my stuff again but i really need the money, so please feel free to check out my ko-fi where i have plenty of free content and also sell psd's, texture packs, and other editing resources.

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Speaking of, I shall mobile bound bc I'm going across the pond 🇺🇲 for an aunts wedding! But hopefully I shall not be too tired and write regardless

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NEW GAME UPDATE?!?!?!

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I FINALLY BEAT THE FUCKER RAAHHHHHHHH

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𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐! 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 .

❝   i’ve made my peace ,  i hold no grudge .   ❞ ❝  make it fast !   ❞ ❝  commence your grovelling .   ❞ ❝  i’ll keep those vultures guessing .   ❞ ❝  my legacy is too great to throw away on ingrates .   ❞ ❝  i guess i’ll take it to my death !   ❞ ❝  you never should have left me .  i would’ve given you the world .   ❞ ❝  you cannot be reckless !   ❞ ❝  no ,  i don’t think that i can be fixed .   ❞ ❝  i want to go outside .   ❞ ❝  my burdens ,  i can’t erase .   ❞ ❝  i’m the monster .  i’m the villain !   ❞ ❝  industrialization has crippled the globe .   ❞ ❝  for every market ,  a submarket grows .   ❞ ❝  it’s quick !  it’s clean !  it’s pure ,  it could change your life - rest assured .   ❞ ❝  it’s the twenty - first century cure .   ❞ ❝  what if you could have genetic perfection ?   ❞ ❝  would you change who you are ,  if you could ?   ❞ ❝  where the fuck is [ name ] ?   ❞ ❝  you ain’t got the guts !   ❞ ❝  all bark ,  but no lungs !   ❞ ❝  i can’t feel nothing at all .   ❞ ❝  sometimes ,  i wonder why they need me at all .   ❞ ❝  sometimes ,  i wonder why i even bother .   ❞ ❝  so you think you’ve got heart ?   ❞ ❝  so you think you’ve got balls ?   ❞ ❝  it’s a thankless job ,  but somebody’s got to do it .   ❞ ❝  no one ever thanks me when i’m done .   ❞ ❝  how self - absorbed people can be !   ❞ ❝  with a slice !  or a snip !  eenie - meenie - miney - mo !   ❞ ❝  can i talk to you ?  can you come down please ,  so we can speak ?   ❞ ❝  i thought i’d seen a ghost - your resemblance is striking .   ❞ ❝  state your business .   ❞ ❝  you can learn from all my failures .   ❞ ❝  i’m not supposed to talk to strangers .   ❞ ❝  don’t forget a sheltered rose needs a little room to bloom outside her bedroom .   ❞ ❝  don’t look back ‘til you’re free to chase the morning .   ❞ ❝  [ name ] ,  you’re hurting me !   ❞ ❝  can you forgive me for this ?   ❞ ❝  here’s my prognosis :  will they live ?  doubtful .   ❞ ❝  remember what you did to [ name ] .   ❞ ❝  hope you have my money .   ❞ ❝  i remember every dying whisper ,  every desperate murmur .    ❞ ❝  i’ve always longed for true affection ,  but you compare me to a corpse !   ❞ ❝  you cannot control me ,  [ name ] .   ❞ ❝  you know you want it .   ❞ ❝  didn’t i say the world was cruel ,  didn’t i ?   ❞ ❝  tell me how this happened ,  what i did wrong ?   ❞ ❝  why can’t we just go home  &  forget this dreadful night ?   ❞ ❝  didn’t you say that you were different ,  didn’t you ?   ❞ ❝  say you’re not that person ,  say it .   ❞ ❝  didn’t you say that you’d protect me ,  didn’t you ?   ❞ ❝  someone has replaced you .   ❞ ❝  sometimes i wanted to cry .   ❞ ❝  i didn’t know i love you so much .   ❞ ❝  sometimes i’d stay up all night wishing to god i was the one who died .   ❞ ❝  [ name ] ,  i will not leave you here - you will live .   ❞ ❝  we’ll always have each other in our time of need .   ❞ ❝  you’re the world to me .   ❞

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Sheryl Lee | Twin Peaks

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            there’s an ache inside my chest             that tells me i can’t rest

                                                  until i bring you down with me─!!

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i feel like its a little hard to miss because game!mel is so courteous and rather friendly towards the npcs who are all mostly gods, but it's so interesting how despite not growing up around other god's, she has the exact same aloofness, and even coldness that olympians have towards mortals.

it's definitely a combination of her being so focused on her Main Task that she doesn't have the time or desire to think about 'lesser' beings, and the fact that all the mortals she does know are shades, already dead and in this suspended state of afterlife. She's not completely unaffected by them, as she clearly adores Odysseus, Icarus, and Arachne, but she doesn't understand or empathize, or sympathize with mortal problems or feelings.

Something that made me pause when I encountered this in the game is this conversation between Mel and Odysseus in the taverna; he expresses that he misses his days of being alive and with his crew, and Mel responds with, "But many of your crew are with you here now...how can you miss them if they are still around?" Of course, to an immortal being, a whole lived mortal life is just a blip. Not to mention that once someone becomes a shade, their senses dull and they become more an essence for lack of a better, term, no longer a full person. The afterlife cannot be compared at all to being alive, but Mel somewhat misguidedly thinks that should be just as good if not better for the shades. And then again, when Odysseus says he misses his wife and child and would want to go and find them, Mel is almost horrified at the idea: "you can't leave now, we need you here." Part of this is because Mel herself would be deeply saddened if he left. That "we need you here" is definitely more of an "I need you here." But also it's clear that Mel gets genuinely shaken up by the thought that she, or the gods as a whole, are doing anything wrong, even if she at times digs her heels in and insists on her righteousness. Just the idea that Odysseus might be unhappy in his afterlife upsets her, and she's quick to demand that he tells her what to do to make it 'right', but Mel can't understand these mortal feelings of regret and nostalgia, and moreso she struggles to reconcile with the reality that godly influence and interference in mortal lives is not always a positive thing.

That struggle is even more evident with her relationship with Arachne. Mel loves Arachne and admires her work, but its so obvious and impossible to ignore how lonely and miserable Arachne is. Arachne throws herself into her weaving and still enjoys her creative passion, but she wants back the life that was stolen from her, and she can never get that back and Mel is powerless in that regard. It's interesting, because Mel doesn't care much at all for the lives of mortals or their wellbeing, but when she listens to Arachne and is forced to acknowledge just how petty, coercive and frankly, cruel, the gods are, she gets deeply uncomfortable. The gods are always friendly to her, or at the very lest helpful, but Arachne's words, "they'll tolerate you just as long as they think you're inferior to them", clearly disrupt Mel's somewhat rigid way of looking at the world and the hierarchies in them.

I'll definitely talk about this more in depth because there's just so much to discuss, but overall, I'm so fascinated and delighted in how different Mel is from Zagreus as a protagonist. I've seen lots of complaints about her character (tho granted some of these are from even early on in development so i assume she's been changing with the game), but I love that Mel is not as nice as Zag is for, like of a better word. Whereas Zag is very warm and fiercely kind, intentionally so in a smothering, abusive household he's desperately escaping, Mel is still in this abusive and complicated family system, and perpetuates and parrots it sometimes without realising, and i think thats just fascinating.

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mel-core smiles

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brand spanking new doc to check out ;)

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Melinoë in Zagreus' drip 🌙

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i'll be here later pookies

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I will have that Titan's head.

Guys PRAY that i beat chronos in the game this time I swear to goddd

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The opposite of a haunting is something very lonely, Katie Maria

(by @heavensghost)

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Kai Cheng Thom, from "to a lost sister", Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls