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Foster Moreau

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Saints' Foster Moreau reflects on his late drop: 'It's a tough situation to find oneself in.'

“Saints’ Foster Moreau Reflects on His Late Drop in Heartfelt Post-Game Interview” In a recent post-game interview, Saints’ tight end Foster Moreau revealed his emotions and thoughts after a crucial late drop in a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Moreau’s candid reflections on the high-pressure situation he faced, shedding light on the human side of professional athletes. Foster Moreau’s…

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First, there was practice, a skirmish, and then a charity game.

He watched his teammates’ bodies and wondered how much each of them could take before they would break. His eyes lingered on a few knowing that some of them were already past that point years ago now.

“You’re doing it again.” Jean said, he lacked Kevin’s tolerance for Neil’s bullshit. This, of course, included his not at discreet staring and what Jean had derisively called ‘Running Exy Diagnostics’. “Are my stats dropping Capitane?” He said the title derisively, as always.

“Yes.” Neil returned, utterly blunt. In the silence that followed it was easy for Neil to hear someone drop the soap with a curse in the shower room next door.

Jean looked angry enough to start using Neil's past Aliases.

“Your knee hasn’t healed up yet. You should sit out the next game.” Neil continued as if not talking about a death sentence.

“I can play, the doctor said so, the coach said so.” Jean hissed through clenched teeth as he shifted his weight to his injured leg as if to make a point.

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Jack-in-the-Box

Episode Recap #69: Jack-in-the-Box Original Airdate: May 5, 1990

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Wayne Best as Brock Garrett Marsha Moreau as Megan Garrett Lori Hallier as Helen Garrett A.C. Peterson as Mike Riley (as Alan C. Peterson) Bonnie Beck as Sandra Baker Jill Hennessy as Lifeguard / Leah Earl Pastko as Merv Ron Byrd as Rick

Written by Dennis Foon Directed by David Winning

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Open on an indoor pool and adult men horsing around. The young lifeguard tries to get them to behave. One man, who has been drinking, yanks her into the water. She gets out and as she storms off she sarcastically thanks the nearby janitor for his help.

The boss lifeguard, Brock, is on the phone with his wife, Helen. Seems it is their daughter Megan's birthday and they have a surprise planned. The young lifeguard comes in and tells him about the men in the pool and he goes to deal with them. The drunk men continue to act up, but he is persistent and tells them to leave and not return.

At home, Megan is sad cause she thinks her parents have forgotten her birthday. She leaves to meet her dad at the pool.

The men are waiting outside the pool building and see the young lifeguard leave, and head back in to get even with Brock. The janitor is also there, but no one sees him. The man hit Brock with a pipe and knock him into the pool. The janitor says he's going to call the cops and the men knock him out and scatter. Megan arrives and sees the lead drunk dude, they make eye contact before he takes off. Megan looks for her father, finds the janitor coming to and then screams at the sight of her father floating in the water, dead.

Cut to credits.

Micki is looking through a photo album at a photo of Brock, Helen and Megan. Jack offers condolences, seems Brock was a good friend of hers. Johnny asks about Brock's family, and Micki says they are inconsolable. Johnny offers to speak with Megan, since he has experience with parental loss.

Helen is sad and sits in the dark. Megan asks to go to the pool, but her mom doesn't think it is a good idea. They hug. She tells Megan she hasn't opened her gift, but the girl isn't in the mood. She goes into the living room, which is still decorated for her surprise party. She somberly sits, then opens the card on the gift, from her dad. She decides to open it and finds an antique wind-up Jack-in-the-box. She turns the handle and the music starts, playing an instrumental version of "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor". Megan tells her daddy she misses him.

Later, Helen laughs as she reminisces with Micki about Brock. She gets emotional and Micki says she'll get through this for Megan. Johnny goes to find Megan and hears the music. She hides the toy. Johnny offers condolences and tells her about his dad being killed, too. Megan wants the men who did it to die, but Johnny says that won't change anything.

At night, Megan tries to wake her mom, but the woman has been drinking and is out cold. Megan gets dressed and leaves, taking her bike and the jack-in-the-box to her father's office at the pool. She puts one of Brock's coats on. Going to the pool, she looks into the water, then runs into the janitor, who is startled by her. She scoffs at him and says he would just hide anyway. He says he didn't see who killed her dad, she realizes he is drunk and blames him for her dad's death, knocking is bottle into the pool. As he tries to retrieve it, Megan turns the handle on the toy while continuing to blame him. Suddenly, hands of water reach out of the pool and pull the man in, drowning him. After he dies, a ghostly image of Brock appears above the water. Megan is shocked, and so is Brock, who sees the janitor and asks what happened.

In the morning, Megan goes home and wakes her mother to tell her what happened, but Helen thinks she was dreaming. Megan is adamant though.

Micki is still mourning, as Johnny and Jack talk about trying to figure out what happened to Brock.

Megan rides her bike on the street and runs into the creep she saw at the pool, coming out of a bar with a woman, who calls him Mike. Megan recognizes him, but they drive off.

Micki visits Helen again, who offers her a drink. Megan runs in to tell her mother about seeing the man from the pool. Helen freaks when she realizes what part of town she was in and tells her not to leave the house again. Micki tries to learn what Megan knows, and she tells her the man's name is Mike. Micki asks more, but Megan can't recall the license plate or anything and rushes off, mad at herself.

Johnny has learned the janitor is believed to have drown when he fell in the pool drunk. Jack is checking the manifest and finds a listing for a Drowning Sailor's Jack-in-the-Box. When Johnny asks what it is, Jack says he is clueless, but it was bought by the Sailor's Museum. Micki comes in to tell them what Megan saw, and that Helen is not doing well and drinking a lot. Micki herself is tired.

Helen asks Megan to stop playing the jack-in-the-box at the table, and gives the girl a frozen dinner. She herself drinks more. Megan mentions what happened at the pool again, but Helen is frustrated and reminds her that was a dream. Megan wonders if all who are responsible die, would God give her father back to her? Helen says he is gone and Megan needs to accept it. But the girl gets angry, grabs the jack-in-the-box and takes off.

Micki has a restless sleep. Suddenly, Brock appears in his ghostly form, telling Micki that Megan needs her help. When she gets up, he's gone. Jack hears her and comes in. Micki tells him what she saw and he comforts her.

Megan is on the street, at the same bar. She finds the woman with a different man. She asks where Mike is, but the woman tells her off, gives the man her address, and drives away. Megan rides her bike to the address the woman mentioned. In her apartment, the woman is preparing to take a bath for two, awaiting the man. Megan goes to a window and spies on her, then turns the handle on the antique toy. When the jack-in-the-box pops up, water hands pop up from the sink and kill the woman. Megan leaves to go see her father.

At the pool, Megan sits with the apparition of her father. She's happy, but he wants her to stop using the toy, that it is wrong, even though they both want to see each other. Megan says its not fair. He tells her to make the most of her time with her mother. He reminds her people are hurt each time he is made to appear. Megan says they don't matter. He tries to remind her that her mother needs her, and fades away. Megan is sad and confused.

Johnny reads an article about the stripper drowning in her bathroom sink. Micki wonders if the woman was the one Megan saw on the street. Jack asks her to talk to Megan more, he is going to talk to the curator of the now-closed Sailor's Museum.

Helen is boxing up Brock's clothes, which Micki offers to bring to the homeless shelter. Helen, still drinking, makes a comment about how well Micki knew Brock. When Micki mentions her drinking, Helen is offended and tells Micki to leave.

Outside, Micki sees Megan, who says she doesn't like being home much anymore with her mom drinking. Micki asks if the man she say had a toy box, but Megan says no and goes inside. She finds her mom drinking, says her father wouldn't be drinking and associates drinking with all responsible for Brock's death. Helen says it has been hard for her, but Megan points out it has been hard for her, too, and she doesn't drink.

At Curious Goods, the group is trying to figure out what the person using the jack-in-the-box is getting from killing people via drowning. Jack asks them to check the bars and strip clubs, and is worried about Megan. Micki remembers Brock's warning to help his daughter. The curator calls and tells Jack that Brock is the one who purchased the item from the closed museum. They are all shocked and leave.

Megan rides her bike downtown in hopes of spotting the man, Mike. She stops and waits in a doorway.

Micki runs out of Helen's house, telling Jack and Johnny that the woman hasn't seen her daughter in hours, but the jack-in-the-box was Brock's gift for Megan. Jack realizes Megan is searching for Mike, and they head to 7th Avenue to find her.

Eventually, Mike does exit the club and Megan accuses him of killing her father, saying she saw him at the pool. He threatens her and heads off.

Megan follows him to the car wash he works at. As Mike drives a car in to wash, Megan turns the crank on the toy. The car is slowly filled with water and Mike is trapped, drowning inside. As Megan leaves, the woman who owns the car spots Mike dead inside and screams.

Megan is back at the pool looking for her father, who eventually appears. He is upset she used the box and killed again. He tells her she needs to concentrate on being there for her mother and cannot use the box again. He fades away.

At the car wash, Jack and crew are informed of yet another weird drowning. Johnny wonders if it was Megan, and they speculate the girl is the one using the cursed item to spend time with her father. They rush to go back to see if Helen would know where Megan would be.

Helen is home, drinking in the dark, when Megan comes in. Helen asks where she's been, but Megan thinks her mother doesn't care and begins turning the music box crank. Helen is confused, but then Brock's voice calls out to Megan and his apparition comes down the stairs, shocking his wife. Brock tries to get through to Megan to stop hurting people. Megan wants to be with him, but he says to love her mother like she loves him. Helen calls to Brock as he fades away. Megan says she is going to be with him again and runs out.

Micki and the guys pull up out front, and Helen is outside, asking if they saw Megan rush by. Helen tells them about Brock, and that she thinks Megan is going to the pool to join Brock.

At the pool, Megan is in her swimsuit with the music box. Brock asks what she is doing and tries to get through to her, but she walks through him and sits on the side of the pool, beginning to turn the handle. Brock continues to try and get his daughter to listen to reason, to remember her mother. Megan is confused, thinking her mother's drinking means she doesn't love her. Brock begs her to stop turning the handle. Helen and the others arrive but are unable to get into the pool area. Megan keeps turning the handle. Johnny breaks the glass and the group rush in, Helen grabbing Megan and Micki grabbing the box. Mother and daughter hug as Brock waves goodbye and fades away.

Jack and Johnny put the music box into the vault. Micki says Helen and Megan are getting away to the country for a bit. Jack says how difficult grief can be. Johnny says mother and daughter will see how important they are for each other. As they head upstairs, we see the inside of the vault, the various stored items, and hear Megan and Brock's voices as we end on the now locked up jack-in-the-box.

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My thoughts:

A great episode, lots of emotion, even though Micki has never mentioned these nearby friends before. Helen alludes to Brock having been special to Micki at some point in the past.

The cursed item is cool but an odd pairing with the sailor/water curse. Are jack-in-the-boxes a known sailor item? I hadn't heard of that connection before. Maybe we have to go with the item tying itself to Brock's death by drowning? Although it is already playing a sailor's song and was bought from the Sailor's Museum. So, yeah - weird.

Liked seeing both Marsha Moreau and Lori Hallier. Moreau was good in The Playhouse and is good here. And Hallier was from the wonderful My Bloody Valentine!

Also, liked how Brock wasn't changed after his death, still was looking out for his daughter's well being above all else, including revenge.

Was this the first time some one was actively trying to commit suicide with the cursed item? I know the guy with the cameo a few episodes back killed himself, but he didn't use the item to do it. But Megan's plan at the end was to use it on herself. Dark.

And that last use was quite prolonged! I know it was for dramatic effect but boy did she turn that crank awhile. You'd think them item would would have gone off quick knowing the others were close to stopping it.

Liked the quick trip through the vault, seeing what was stored there so far, including Vida the doll! Wonder if they are all still safely locked away in 2023?

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saw a hc about jean moreau being hyper sexual especially post-ravens. thoughts? feelings?

thoughts AND feelings! Oh the joy of being given a chance for a hot second to discuss this. You came to the right place my love. ❤️

Trigger and age warning : rape, sex connected trauma, dissociation, psychological abuse, controlling relationships, discussion of sexual acts.

Okay so, being hyper sexual. You know who does that in the books? Andrew actually. I know some might look at me weirdly rn like, 'what the hell are you talking about, he doesn't let anyone touch him'. Yeah, that's true! But that doesnt take away from the knee jerk reaction. (I'm sorry I know this isn't exactly what you asked but I need to discuss andrew first, and that has a lot to do with jean, bear with me).

Andrew finds a partner that he can to some limit trust (leverage, deals, careful observation, "training" them to behave how he tells them) to follow his instructions, which gives him a sense of control. They can fuck, but it's him who's doing it. It's him who's touching, kissing ect. The other person, of course if they consent, get to partake but not create the experience. It's one of the very, very valid scenarios of hyper sexuality as a responce to rape. He is rewriting every poisoned nerve ending in his body. He doesn't actually get off from the sex. For his own release he needs privacy, as shown in the books. Andrew's problem can be, that due to his truly inhumane trauma he can fall into the mindset of defining his sense of self through sex. It's an action and he's a tool in this scenario. Then again, We circle back to control, which is also a key feature of his decisions and protectiveness. Taking total control of the situation which used to be utterly outside of it, with no way out of it. Rewriting it, giving the traumatic experience a positive ending, hell an ending - when, and as suddenly as he might want it to end, is the motivator here. I think what he finds satisfying in terms of sex, not control, is giving sexual consent to his partners and, which he finds just as important, them giving it to him. Because it wasn't given to him. It's a way of building trust.

The motivations sound pretty nice, even if heartbreaking, don't they? Seem uplifting? The problem is, even if in good faith, this process can be very harmful, trauma surviviors mention that (at least ones I discussed it with personally) it feels good, but in the long run it does what this type of coping mechanism always does to your brain (similiar reactions can be seen for different traumas), which is hurt it. It's a form of desensitisation that limits your brain's ability to percieve the situation. It's hard to rewrite and leads to hot and cold kind of reactions, so yeah, having a relationship with a capital R is, difficult. That's what I always understood as Nora saying they are never actually okay (andrew and neil). Or at least partly understood it as.

Okay, so this cleared a couple things up. Now JEAN. Jean and Andrew share some factors of their trauma. While not treated as such, Jean was technically fostered by the Moriyamas, and well, Andrew's experiences with being fostered are faaaaar from what it's supposed to be as well. The difference is in Andrew's situation everyone tried to pretend the horror is not happening, there must have been a lot of manipulation and coercion and just plain fucking gaslighting in these houses. Its hard to talk about but I can imagine some of these monsters wanted him to act like he is enjoying it, and thats just out if the emotional range of dealing with for anyone. Jean knew he's in a trap from day one. Moreover, when it comes to the rape's he was victim of it was ordered by Riko to be done by others. That's a different level of fucked up. What's even more important as distinction here is he stopped, when Jean stopped reacting and fighting it. Because what Riko wanted wasn't violation, that was the tool. He wanted to psychologically break him. When the fish stops flailing on the cat stops pushing it around.

And Riko was constant, his modus operandi was regular, and the psychological torture was the motivator behind most of his "conditioning" of Jean. This is a situation where the abuse has a cause for the victim. It sounds sick and I don't agree with it, but it's a game in their mind. In the books we can see that he learned how to limit the amount of attention Riko gave him and as we know he is not confrontational like Andrew with his problems. And yeah I don't mention Neil as confrontational here bcs he has conditioned himself to run from everything and say he's fine to everything so..., sometimes it erupts frk mit but that's not exactly the same, its a last resort.

Circling back, I think Jean is more likely to be sex repulsed. For him sex, which was a form of punishment, is a cause of anxiety. Sexual tension is easy to mix up with nervous tension because of a feeling of losing control of the situation. That's why if we do get romance in the new book, I am putting my money on it being very messy from his pov. The magical thing about trauma responces though, is that they're not black and white, and someone who is sex repulsed might also seek an ending to their anxieties through it. Yet, it's ts a bit of an opposite motivation to the one Andrew has. When Andrew thinks of himself as a tool, Jean is more likely to think of himself as an object. There's a difference. While Andrew wants to take control, Jean is more likely to use it as either a way to retraumatise himself - so his version of hypersexuality would include less control and more roughness and violence, actually trying to rile the partner up. It might stemm for him from low self worth or be a way of letting out his angers and frustrations. It's not that he is used to being hurt, it's that he doesn't expect anything different. I also think he is more likely to have problems with opening up in therapy. Where Andrew is active Jean is passive, and the opposite. The upside is he might actually be more likely to communicate emotionally than through rules and laws, it will take longer, but be a smoother transition, because more people understand it than Andrew's way of building relationships.

Hope this anwser satisfies you, I'm sorry if I got a bit carried away. 😅

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I'm so happy you liked the resident evil 8 Au! I totally agree that Miranda's new favorite is Mirabel (mostly because she has no obvious mutation and also partially because she's one of the few lords that isn't completely sterile I'm pretty sure most of them are Mirabel doesn't care but Miranda thinks it means she was a more perfect almost vessel and she is a physical embodiment of how far she's come) and I was thinking the same thing about her ability around moths and butterflies I was also thinking that she would be able to make her own silk kinda like a moth/butterfly and she can use the strands to cut like knives or simply make clothes depending on what she wants to do with it. I think the idea of the wings being dragonfly wings is amazing! I am imagining her true mutated form is very insectoid-like and she tries to keep it hidden from her family as much as possible. I agree that Miranda sprung it on her with her family showing up at random but I was thinking instead of Mirabel being the one to infect them it was Miranda or Miranda told her to do it because I feel like Mirabel thinks that she's cursed and is a monster for being what she is. I think their gifts go wonky like sometimes they work sometimes they don't think because it's protecting them from mutating. I think the relationship with Donna is spot on I don't think Monroe would try to manipulate Mirabel I feel like karl would do that a little more. I think also that Alcina at one point was fostering Mirabel when she was younger (only while her house was being built) so she saw her as another daughter until Miranda took her away which makes me think that she would be a little jealous of Julieta/entire family. 100% agree that in her mind her little portion of the village was like a miniature encanto and she treated it as such making hers the most prosperous and the most healthy area I imagine that she has a orphanage kind of near her house that she runs and keeps employed and stocked on things I imagined to try and keep loneliness at bay before her family showed up that she had maids she obviously has no extreme punishments for simple mistakes and allows them to frequently visit home and see their families and actually pays them well she of course is also forced to do experiments somewhere in the house like the other Lords and I think she has a basement specifically meant for that and she blocks the rest of her family from going to it. Speaking of the encanto I imagine that Miranda actually did a mass kidnapping to try and bolster the numbers in the village and to try and clean up a little bit of the bloodlines in the village. With the Ethan situation I think she would obviously try and petition for him to go to her house in the beginning but Miranda obviously does not allow it and she tries to help him as much as she can from the shadows until he gets to her house from there it went exactly how you put it.

OF COURSEEE I FREAKIN LOVE RESIDENT EVIL. I literally beat 5 and 6 with my friend, have watched a ton of play throughs, and am currently playing 2 and 3 (remake). You could say I like it a lil <333

ANYWAY I'M GLAD YOU AGREE❗❗ I mean she's always associated with butterflies, so why not associate her with bugs in general? At least in this au. I chose moths and butterflies as the main, but really it's a multitude of them. Also making her own silk, very cool 🤭🤭 you think when she'd make clothes and they'd just straight up be like armor because it's strong 😭😭 I mean it's strong enough to slive through things.

Karl probs would manipulate her, but she's just not with trying to take her down, even though he's constantly plotting against Miranda. I only say Moreau is manipulative because he tried to make Ethan feel bad for him and then tried to kill home boy (fun fact, that ENTIRE fight couldn't been avoiding if Ethan just took the flask from the window and dipped. What aas he lingering for anyway 😭😭)

Miranda forcing or honestly infecting the family herself would make sense. I imagine she tried to use the Madrigals as experiments, especially Antonio. And I wouldn't be surprised that of the villagers taken, Miranda just took a bunch of villagers to experiment on. Any that miraculously survived probably got dumped back into Mirabel's village. Which I'm glad you agree she thinks of as a Little Encanto <333 Mirabel HATES doing experiments, and especially after Julieta comes, does her best to heal the survivors and send them on their way. She doesn't like it, and outs it off as often as she can 🌚

Her final form being insect like is so cool 👁👁 I can't draw monster to save my life, but I can attempt ❗❗ again, just a mixture of a multitude of bugs. No eyeballs. Idk what it is with Resident Evil and eyeballs, they freak me out EVERYTIME without fail. I think she rarely uses it; it's a lot small than the others forms, but still pretty decently sized. She definitely hides that side from her family, heck she probably hides it from herself 🥸

Also silly idea. Miranda did probably make Casita just. Collapse, I mean it's a house and it's MIRANDA. I imagine all of the Madrigals have some kind of injury from the event, and if they did, they tried to argue with Mother Miranda (despite Mirabel's protests) and learned the hard way that she doesn't tolerate stuff like that and "punushes" them. She doesn't kill them, because she know that would break little Mirabel's heart, so she keeps them alive, but essentially silwnces the Madrigals.

Lady D being jealous is so real 😭 yeah, she's got her own daughters, but there's something different about Mirabel. Maybe it's because she so small and cute, maybe ut's vecayse she got to actually play some role in actually raising her, I mean her three daughters were technically adults, and Mirabel was only a kid. I think the Dimitrescu sisters and Mirabel do get along to some degree, considering they're both somewhat bug related. But only so close 😀

Mirabel genuinely trying to care for her part of the village is sweet <33 she really does try and give these people the lives she knows they'll never truly have. She visits the orphanage several times a week. And despite how gloomy and decrepit the village it, Mirabel's just a little bit brighter. And Mirabel DEFINITELY tried to take Ethan. But Karl just had a bit more sway than her, and Miranda knows of Mirabel's habits of "letting people go". Mirabel knew better than to argue, so after she was reprimanded by Miranda, she piped down. Lady D hated Karl a little but more after that. Imagine how surprised Ethan is when he gets to her part of the village, and she just so easily gicws up the heart flask of Rose 😭 and Mirabel HELPS HIM. He trusts her more than the Duke probably 🗿 Maybe when Mirabel can't directly help him, she sends out her family members to deliver "packages" (typically it's just something to help heal or some spare ammo she had swiped from Karl).

I LOVE THIS AU SO MUCH OMG IT'S GONNA STAY ON MIND 🤧🤧🤧

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The myth of Dionysos (2)

If you haven't checked the first post, this is a vague translation of an article originally written in French by Alain Moreau for the Dictionary of Literary Myths. Its subject is the identity and depiction of Dionysos/Dionysus in Antiquity.

III) The shapeshifting god

A god with such elusive origins, and such an ability to easily cross the limit between life and death, will of course be difficult to depict visually. Ancient sculptors had selected three main appearances for Dionysos: as a child, held within the arms of Hermes or of a satyr ; as a large, imposing bearded man (this was his usual depiction during the Archaic era), or as an effeminate teenager with shoulder-length curly hair and graceful, sensual gestures (this appearance became the dominant one from the 4th century onward). When it comes to prayers and hymns to Dionysos, he receives many names: Bakchos, Bakcheus, Iakchos, Sabazios, Bromios, Zagreus… G. Wentzel collected more than a hundred and thirty name variants for the god.

But how can one describe a god who spends his days transformed or under a disguise? Before the giant Rhetos, he is a lion (Horace, Odes, II, 19) ; when he flees from Typhon he is a male goat (Antoninus Liberalius, Metamorphoses, 28 ; Ovid, Metamorphoses, V) ; at Nysa he is a baby goat (Apollodorus, III) ; before the terrified Tyrrhenian pirates of the Homeric hymn he becomes a lion and a bear ; for Pentheus he was a bull and a ghost ; for the Minyades he was a bull, a panther and a lion (Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 10). Dionysos keeps shapeshifting, becoming a ghost, becoming a reflection or creating doubles of himself – and in this sense, the mirror that the Titans offered to the child they were about to kill becomes a very important symbol. In the “Bacchants”, the audience slowly sees Pentheus transformed into a tragic double of Dionysos: both are young, beardless and with beautiful blond hair. However in the beginning of the play, those similarities only highlight the differences. Dionysos is effeminate and his long curls flow over his shoulders, while Pentheus’ hair is braided and wrapped around his head – as Jeanne Roux notes, it was the typical hairdo of aristocrats that regularly practiced sports and wrestling. The virile king of Thebes disdains the foreigner because he has perfume in his hair, Aphrodite’s charm in his eyes, and something feminine in his appearance. But to better destroy Pentheus, Dionysos will turn him into a copy of himself. To spy on the Bacchants, Pentheus will put on a woman’s dress, unbraid his hair, cover himself with a fawn’s skin and hold a thyrsus. (Here the author notes that the translator of the Belles Lettres edition of the play made a mistake by writing that Pentheus put on a “wig” as part of his disguise – no, he actually simply unbraids his hair). With this new appearance, and soon succumbing to the delirium, Pentheus imagines himself cradled within the arms of his mother, just like young Dionysos disguised as a girl was cradled by his foster mother Ino. But by identifying with the god, Pentheus marks his own destruction: the “agreus” of the verse 1192 reminds us of “Zagreus”. Pentheus will live the fate of Dionysos-Zagreus: killed and dismembered, but without the resurrection. Supreme though futile identification: Agave holding the head of her son believes she is brandishing the corpse of a lion… the lion being one of Dionysos’ favorite transformations. When playing double, Dionysos always win.

IV) A complex personality

In his childhood, Dionysos is presented as a frail and defenseless being. He flees in terror the hatred of Hera and Lycurgus ; he naively falls into the trap of the Titans. However, once he is an adult, it is him who entraps those that refuse to recognize his divine power, and he takes his revenge with an horrifying cruelty. The Minyades are plunged into a sacred madness and rip to pieces Hippasos, one of their sons, while believing him to be a young fawn. Pentheus falls from the top of a pine-tree and is ripped apart by the Bacchantes, among which are his aunts, and his own mother Agave. As for Lycurgus, poets and mythologists are constant rivals in the game of who will describe the most atrocious torment. In Eschilus’ Lycurgy, Dionysos turns him mad and he kills his son Dryas with an axe, believing him to be a vine. According to Hyginus, Lycurgus also kills his wife and tries to rape his mother, before Dionysos abandons him at the top of a mountain where he is mauled by panthers. According to Homer, Zeus makes the king blind, while in Apollodorus’ tale he is tied up to the mount Pangaion and devoured by horses. And for Diodorus of Sicily, he had his eyes pierced by Dionysos, before a long series of tortures culminating with a crucifixion.

However this bloodthirsty god of tragedies can easily become a god of comical fables, or of fairytales. It is Dionysos that brought back Hephaistos to Olympus so he could deliver Hera from the magical throne he had trapped her in – to do so, Dionysos made the smith-god drunk, placed him on the back of a donkey and dragged him in such a parade to the realm of the gods (this was a frequent motif of Ancient Greek art). The donkey is strongly associated with the parades of Dionysos: either it is the ride of the god himself, either it is the ride of big-bellied Silenus, so heavy the beast clearly has troubles carrying him. The donkey is an ithyphallic animal: sometimes, baskets are depicted hanging from his phallus, or Silenus is depicted trying to rape it. This is all within the context of grotesque pranks and caricatural jokes – a carnival. This carnival-nature of Dionysos explains why he appears, with frequent mentions of his donkeys, within Aristophanes’ comedy “The Frogs”, where he is depicted as a farting and cowardly buffoon.

But the jester can become a lover. Dionysos is the lover of Ariadne. According to the most ancient versions, they were united by a “hieros gamos”, a sacred wedding – Ariadne being an ancient goddess of vegetation. In more recent tales, the hero Theseus becomes the third part of a love triangle – and Dionysos either recomforts Ariadne at Naxos after she was abandoned by Theseus (Catullus wrote a beautiful poem on this subject), either is neglected by Ariadne and out of jealousy uses the arrows of Artemis to kill his unfaithful companion (Odyssey, XI).

But even in his loves, Dionysos stays elusive. A curious tale, most developed by Clement of Alexandria in his Protrepticus (II), transforms the heterosexual lover of Ariadne into the homosexual lover of Prosumnos. And this is the result of a bargain: if Prosumnos gives Dionysos the means to go into the Underworld, the young god promises to become his “eromenos” (teenage lover) – but when Dionysos comes back from the Hades, Prosumnos is dead. So, going to his grave, he cuts a fig-tree branch, sculpts it in the shape of a phallus, and uses it to “fulfill his promise to the dead”. And according to Clement of Alexandria, it is in honor of this legendary episode that in some cities there are parades of phalluses organized in honor of Dionysos.

Naïve child and manipulative adult, a god as cruel as buffoonish, heterosexual and homosexual, Dionysos’ personality is just as multi-faceted and impossible to simplify as his physical appearance.

[innytoes]

Leverage + JATP crossover AU?? Like. Imagine Eliot and Sophie specifically having to deal with Caleb Covington

-I am so tickled by this idea. Like, they didn't even die, they're still alive. Like, you know that if ghosts were real, at least Sophie and Eliot would know. Parker too, but she's just like: um what's the big deal? They're just people who died. They're still awkward to talk to. (She is pissed about the whole, they can walk through walls and don't set off alarms thing, but then she realises they can't actually steal stuff so it's fine.)

-Parker has 100% heard someone skateboarding through an empty museum while she was stealing a painting, and just been like: that's none of my business.

-Nate never knew about the ghosts because everyone who did agreed it would send him off the deep end trying to get his son back.

-Somehow, Sophie got into the club (as a guest while grifting) and somehow managed to avoid the whole 'Caleb steals your soul' thing and he's still mad about it.

-You know she 100% enjoyed the show, though. She was sad she had to slip out to finish her whole grift before midnight.

-Eliot knows about Area 51/52, he knows about the Ghosts, okay. Moreau 100% had dealings with Caleb. Eliot totally had a stare off with Caleb's Chair Twink. No he will not have anything to drink, he's bodyguarding and also his Granny taught him better than to accept food or drink from what may or may not be one of the Fair Folk.

-Hardison is NOT OKAY when he learns about the ghosts. He is even less okay when he realises the others all KNEW.

-Breanna is just super stoked that the Phantoms in Julie and the Phantoms are real ghosts.

-Things hit the fan when they realise Caleb Covington owns the soul of Willie. Either Sophie or Eliot recognises him in an old photo album Nana was showing the team (much to Hardison's embarrassment because she was showing them his old tween pictures).

-Because Willie was one of Nana's foster kids. He was only with her for a few months before he got hit by that car, but he was One of Theirs and the fact that his soul is trapped is Not Okay.

-Let's go steal back a Willie.

[traumatizedpomelo]

parallels in the teams

In reality, there are only three, because, well. Kevin Day went from number two in black to number two in orange.

1 - oh, the captains. Captain Wilds and Captain Moriyama.

Dan takes control of the team with hard-earned authority and the pragmatism of someone who went through the real world the hard way, someone who used to dance for a living. She didn't care for her aunt, so she made a family from her stage sisters and then the two other girls on the Foxes. She loses semifinals, and then claims her captainship from the coach of a broken team full of broken people.

Riko was given everything since birth: power, playthings, a captaincy - everything but the attention from his father he so desperately craved. Even his brother would have done, but Riko is the second son, and so he only meets Ichirou when he's caused too much trouble for the main branch to ignore. One last victory for the King. He leaves the meeting in a bodybag, a single bullet through his skull.

To both of them, exy matters more than nearly anything else in the world - for Dan, almost more than a bigger life. For Riko, almost more than being acknowledged by his family. But see - Dan knows where to stop. Riko's entire life, he's been unlimited in his freedom, whereas Dan's life can be defined as a series of limitations.

And then Riko dies, because of his lack of restraint. And Dan - Hennessy - one of the only female captains in NCAA exy - wins.

3 - the defenders of their castles. Knights, in their own right. I'm speaking, of course, of Jean Moreau and Andrew Minyard.

Andrew was, since birth, an unwanted child. His own mother left him to rot in the foster system while she took Aaron back - perhaps his was the first birth certificate in the drawer, perhaps something in her knew Andrew would be unmanageable. (The thing is, we don't know if he would have been unmanageable. The abuse and the pills and everything else killed him, you see). So when he's given a family, he latches onto it with a burning ferocity and drags them along with him. Everyone assumes they have to bully him into things, but the heartbreaking fact is - they don't. Neil knows this firsthand. But ask him anything nicely, and he will almost always say yes if it's not inconvenient. Such a sad habit of a man who always begged no growing up.

We know next to nothing about Jean. We know he is French, we know he grew up in Marseilles. We know he had a family, once, and he was heartbroken and furious when they sold him to the Moriyamas. When he comes out of the darkness, so many years later, he is almost unrecognizable. A broken spirit, a broken man. But he is still Jean Moreau. He is still the boy who taught Kevin French against Riko's wishes, he is still the boy who called Renee and asked for her help. But those years in the Nest also changed him, perhaps irreversibly. And he is too cowed to say no, ever, so he always says yes. Until Renee rescues him from Castle Evermore and takes him to the Trojans. Then he fights with a ferocity, something ingrained in him. And once again, he is promptly ignored.

Say yes, say yes, and usually they do. Both men unable to stop something, a trap set up by men more powerful than them. Drake. Riko. Proust. Every monster under Andrew's bed and Raven outside Jean's room - shadows that they could never quite shake. But then they're free. And neither of them knows quite what to do at first. So Jean self-destructs. But Andrew is determined to take everyone else out with him. They both end up living with boys who won't let them.

Jean and Andrew both make it out. And this is important.

4 - the backliners. Matt Boyd, and, however sickeningly, Nathaniel Wesninski.

Matt has tried so hard his entire life. He cares so much about everything, getting into drugs and drinking for his father, getting better for his mother. He cares enough to let Andrew dose him with speedball and "purge" him the way he did to Aaron. He fights for his teammates, for his captain, for the skittish new striker who's rooming with him. He defends his team - that's who he is. He is a protector, and he takes his role seriously. Remember when he offered to help Neil if Kevin became a problem?

Nathaniel Wesninski does not care. Now, underneath his skin is Neil Josten, starting striker, but he does not care about the Ravens. Quite the opposite. He fumbles shots on purpose, gets into fights with his teammates, mocks his captain. Anything to make the Ravens lose. He was put on the home half of court to protect Castle Evermore, but instead he lets in as many enemies as possible, even if they're only strikers on his team. He digs his heels in every step of the way, fighting Riko the entire time. "Make me," he says, and smiles when he knows Tetsuji will beat him. Just as long as he can make them lose.

Defenders, but only one does his job. Matt is all heart, standing up for everyone, even the so called Monsters. But Nathaniel - Nathaniel would verbally eviscerate Riko on TV. That is, if he could speak.

And then Nathaniel speaks. And he leaves the Nest. The same way Matt found it in himself to fight off speedball, the way he leaves the bathroom he'd been locked in. Once.

[irlrikomoriyama]

Wip game! [status:OPEN]

Sent name of the wip and get a snippet in exchange! [100 words minimum Can sent multiples! (i will be seriously grateful for it it will help me actually write stuff ) MASTERPOST 1. Roadkill canon divergence riko does not get shot/ canon typical TW's currently on hold i need to plan it out better 2. Ship of Theseus AU in which riko left the nest at age of 18 and regretted it ever since /topics of self harm suicide grooming / slow burn recovery , very miserable but hopeful 3. Andreil foster home for peculiar charity cases slow burn recovery 4. Badger in fox den in which neil regrets not shutting up 5. Tsundere Maid Jean Jean works at tsundere maid cafee to pay off debt 6. Sex is something other people have some posts for this one will have mature content filter on- sexual themes ! (check your content filter settings to not miss the posts) Will reblog with a snippet later after i get it looked over by a friend <3

[unloneliest]

talking about a role swap/somewhat darker au of original leverage with @asterlark & having an absolute ball in this bitch

parker (aka p@rk3r) as a hacker/architect of plans/manipulator of systems. in canon she's already a brilliant mathmatician, and the biggest change in this au is that rather than getting involved with getaway driving/car theft in upper elementary/middle school, she starts learning to code & hack. whether or not she continues her education past middle school, her learning is in her own hands & it's a choice she makes. she's still very isolated and singular, but somewhat less so than in canon—as a hacker, she's somewhat more able to find other people who are strange like her.

hardison as a grifter/fabricator/with some complimentary digital skills, though it's not what he specializes in. he goes by alec in this AU. much like this alternate parker, he just had slightly different formative experiences and landed on a different specialization—the people skills he mentioned learning going door to door with a foster family, his background in theater tech (is that canon?). creating a believable person out of nothing becomes the game for him, and a tool. he connects so well with others in canon, and that's the key unchanging piece here.

eliot as the thief. we see a bit of that with how he presents himself in the pilot as a retrieval specialist—but this eliot would have a big key difference from canon. he comes from a similar background of violence, but he got out before getting too involved with moreau. and that means he trusts his own judgement in a way he doesn't in canon. he trusts himself to discern others' trustworthiness and moral character. this is an eliot who can fight, but chooses not to—not just with guns. he looks, moves and behaves very differently in some ways, but is exactly the same in others. an equally high level of body control and awareness is required of both hitters and thieves, but with different ultimate goals/specifications—different form due to different function.

sophie is annie croy (of the beantown bailout job) in this au, and she's the hitter of the team. she's rougher around the edges, but equally as canny & insightful. she's very commanding; intimidating in the way the canon glimpse of annie croy is. she has canon hardison's grift difficulties as the team comes together—prone to overdoing it—in part because she knows she can just shoot her way out if things go sideways for her. she has none of eliot's qualms with killing, though.

in this AU, nate's not on the team. the treatment was approved for his son, but did not succeed, and he and maggie still divorce. in this AU there's no initiating event to drive nate's moral split from IYS, so there is no split, and one of the things he throws himself into in the aftermath is his work. but there's no one left he's close to who could keep him from crossing lines, the way we see him behave at his worst in canon. the nate of this AU is not a pleasant or good person.

in this AU, the team are somewhat less known to be lone wolves—they almost entirely work alone, but not entirely.

parker, alec and eliot get implicated, framed for the same job, when all of what they'd done was solo and none of them did the big crime that they're accused of. and it's a very out of control nate who's investigating the crime that occurred.

they team up in a just-this-once manner to escape the situation they're in, but when things get worse, they reach out to annie croy to join their crew. and the four of them click in a very unexpected way. they have fun together, and they kick ass. things come very down to the wire with nate, though they do succeed. there is no single mastermind, but the group works together in a much more equal way to plan, and it works.

tentatively, they make plans to work together again, & it settles into a more permanent group—one where they help people, much of the time, but sometimes they just do the ruining rich people's lives part without the "for the hyper specific benefit of individuals harmed by said rich people" part. nate is their biggest running villain.

sterling is the inside guy they have, when that's needed. he's the person nate's closest with at this point in time but nate is even acting in a way that's too much for sterling and it's enough to cause sterling to separate himself somewhat from IYS & occasionally work with the team. none of them still like him, but this time it's just because he's still an insufferable person even if they're in alignment.

ultimately, in this au, annie croy both kills nate & fucks maggie, and she's right for that. i support women's wrongs <3