#I actually really like hera

[orbitsab]

fuck you hera!

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[tinybro]

jasico server was chatting about the cupid scene and jason getting nico's memories blasted straight into his brain and how jason being shot with one of cupid's arrows while with nico and this was just never brought up in canon again and now i'm thinking like...what if that's just how cupid's arrows work? not by magically manifesting love for someone out of nothing, but by giving someone the perspective that'd make them fall in love naturally? jason gets a front row seat to nico's memories and instantly understands him intimately and can trust him completely without any doubt or suspicion

so what if jason, after slowly realizing he's totally in love with nico, just thought back to the arrow incident and it made him second-guess everything? because maybe he's only feeling this way because cupid hit him with an arrow with only nico was around and it's no different than any other god messing with his love life

[hephaestuscrew]

I've been thinking again about Minkowski and Hera during the time when Eiffel was stranded on Lovelace's shuttle - about how Hera had gotten so used to monitoring Eiffel's wellbeing, and how Minkowski felt responsible for his safety, and how neither of them cope well with not knowing things they feel they ought to.

Perhaps one day Hera notices Minkowski reading the nutrition information on the back of the ration packs (the same kind as the ones that were on that shuttle). And Hera knows what Minkowski's doing, because she's been running the same calculations herself. Calories in one ration pack multiplied by number of ration packs on the shuttle, divide that by minimum calories required per day, add something on for the number of days survivable with no food at all...

Hera's got access to plenty of information about what the human body can survive, but there's too many variables here. How damaged is the shuttle? What's the temperature like? What's Eiffel's body weight? And there's too many horrible questions that Hera and Minkowski don't want to think about, and are unable to stop thinking about. How much will to live does Eiffel have? How long can a person hold onto hope in a situation like that?

Perhaps they each separately decide on an answer to their calculations, if only so they can pretend they know that he's currently still alive. But their mental countdowns tick down. And so maybe there comes a day when Hera glitches much more than usual. And maybe not long afterwards there comes a day when Minkowski can't seem to focus on anything at all. And maybe they talk about it, or maybe they don't. But either way, they both know that the other is thinking over the same question. And they are both hoping - more than anything - that the answer they've arrived at is incorrect. They are both hoping for an answer that seems impossible.

[bikananjarrus]

out of the actors for the rebels characters tho, eman is shining the most i think. like he feels like a live action ezra

[mcsiggy]

are all gods into some polyamorous/open relationship stuff or are some of them off limits for us mere mortals?

[kindlythevoid]

As promised. Memes:

And as promised, ranting:

Okay, so, real talk, I did not actually like everything in this book, but I still fucked with it SO HARD. Like, honestly, I picked up what this was putting down (a little heavy-handedly, but done so well imho???) and the WAY IT WAS WRITTEN????

Like, I did a course on the Aeneid. And obviously it was a Roman mythos, not Greek, but DAMN, CLAIRE NORTH. I could see my translations!!! Written in the vernacular of english!!! RiGHT THERE IN THE TEXXT!!!! I GOT SO FREAKING EXCITED!!! It's just, such little things. The phrasing of a certain line. The odd usage of certain similes or metaphors that go off about people or places. The strange diversions to explain events or people right in the middle of the text before jumping straight back into the story. IT WAS SO VERGIL GUYS I SWEAR.

(i haven't had to translate the greek myths sorry guys and I read the odyssey so many years ago in english many apologies am working off what I got)

And, like, as I said, it was very heavy-handed as it backhanded the greek poets for ignoring the women but, like, she was right??? It was insane guys. It was absolutely insane. And everyone was so nuanced and had personalities and hopes and dreams and backstories and at points I was worried she was going to sacrifice the guys to further the women??? Which, like, I understand the irony, and obv couldn't super fault her for it, but she ended up balancing everyone out so well??? Like the guys were in the background instead but they were still all unique and had different priorities and shit.

Just, this whole book was such a breath of fresh air. Damn.

[ciderjacks]

me watching the newest MQ episode: wow this is so good, really reminds me of why I love this show so much! And I love how the characters were written and developed here, it felt like whoever was writing and directing this ep really understands these characters and how to write them we—

*directed by Danny Pudi*

me: ohhhhhhh of course

[z-eusie]

naturally, it is bg3 time

hera and hades, a ranger and rogue

poseidon the barbarian and demeter the druid ofc

hestia a lil wizard and zeus my beloved paladin <33

bonus zeus bc he's just. so pretty

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

My parents and I watched the season 3 finale of Star Wars: Rebels tonight and I can't believe my mom was the one who was like "WHY ARE THEY* ALL DYING?!" and I was the one being all, "don't worry I'm sure it will be fine." this is the most role reversal we have ever done.

(*to clarify I mean the rebels in general, the main cast was fine)

[sadiecoocoo]

Yknow, im realizing that I’ve forgotten a lot of the clones’ names… YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

[commsroom]

the fact that we only really experience hera in one place at a time - even and especially from her own perspective / in her own memories! - despite the literal fact she's in many places at once, is, i think, a very purposeful choice that says a lot about what she values, how she perceives herself, and how we should perceive and understand her. with that said, she is always in many places at once, and there is some lost comedy potential in, like. she can't talk over herself. if hera was in the middle of a conversation with minkowski and eiffel, in the same room, wanted to tell her something and kept trying to interject, she could just have that conversation with him in the next room over, or the hallway, or literally anywhere else on the station that isn't the room she's already having a conversation in. and he would never think of that or remember it's possible.

[clonerightsagenda]

cuntboy-official

bad kepler takes? im listening

Love that you knew exactly who I was talking about.

Because I am stuck waiting for the dishwasher to finish I will post my Complaint untagged but I want people to know this was solicited. I'm not trying to provoke people with different interpretations.

Basically to each their own, and I know my read of the character trends toward the unsympathetic, but I am bewildered by assertions I see regularly that Kepler was broken up over or even fazed by Maxwell dying. When Jacobi gives his heartfelt eulogy, Kepler is making snide comments about only attending the funeral for the food. He complains about his hand ("Big deal. I just lost command of this station. I just lost a hand.") but noticeably does not complain about losing an entire human being. In Dirty Work once he realizes Jacobi is pissed about Maxwell's death, his response is incredulous: "After everything you've seen, you're still not over -." The idea that someone might still be grieving about their friend and teammate being shot in the head is so wild to him that he is blindsided by it.

And it's important that this is the case, because that's why Jacobi turns on him. If Kepler had shown any kind of remorse or sympathy, I honestly don't think Jacobi would've defected. Even at the very end, after Kepler has let him get puppeted around for two weeks and is allegedly cool with wiping out and replacing the human race, Jacobi is still willing to let him come crawling back if he would just say sorry. Belonging to a group and being part of something is important to Jacobi, and Kepler not turning a hair over Maxwell dying indicates that they were never valued as much as he thought they were. ("You treated me like one of them".)

I do think Kepler gives an atrophied fuck about what happens to Jacobi, albeit not enough that it does either of them any good in the end. But I do not think he gave much of a damn about Maxwell beyond her value as an asset, and tbh I suspect the feeling was mutual. Jacobi was there because he values group membership and validation. Maxwell valued the resources Goddard could provide; she didn't need pats on the head.

[hephaestuscrew]

In the Wolf 359 liveshow, Minkowski slips up when talking to Cutter by saying, "Sir, whatever unorthodoxy you may have been observing in our logs, rest assured that it is based on my commitment to getting Eiffel and Hera back home in one piece", which gives away that Hera is back online. Part of the reason Minkowski makes this mistake is because she gets defensive under Cutter's questioning about the mission and her personal feelings, but I love that another part of the reason is that she automatically includes Hera as one of the people she's trying to keep safe. [cont. below the cut]

The thing is, that line would have been a slip up even if the crew hadn't been trying to hide from Cutter that Hera was back online. Because getting the AI "back home in one piece" isn't meant to be an objective of a Goddard Futuristics deep space mission. From Goddard's perspective, an AI's wellbeing is only of concern in relation to how well they can do their job. Hera says in Do No Harm that the crew "were always going to" leave her up there on the Hephaestus. And in Am I Alone Now she talks about how one day the crew will have "all gone away".

Of course, it becomes fully clear later that getting the Communications Officer home in one piece wasn't on Goddard's actual agenda either. But even in the official version of Command's plan for the Hephaestus, which Minkowski would have been presented with at the beginning of the mission, it seems that getting Hera back to Earth safely wasn't seen as a desired outcome. And yet, by the time of the liveshow, getting Hera back to Earth safely is such a key part of Minkowski's motivation that she declares it automatically, without thinking, to Mr Cutter himself.

Minkowski says the line above in response to Cutter implying that she might have lost sight of what's important. At the mention of what's important, she talks about her commitment to protecting her people, even though she knows that that isn't what's important to Goddard. In a moment of stress, she reveals what truly drives her, which isn't an objective from Command at all.

This moment reminds me a bit of how in The Devil's Plaything, Eiffel gives away that he's no longer under Pryce's mind control by calling Hera by her name instead of Unit 214. In both cases, the part of the lie that the characters can't maintain is pretending that they don't care about Hera. In both cases, they don't even notice their mistake until it is pointed out to them, because what they said - calling Hera by her name, or expressing the importance of keeping her safe and getting her back to Earth - just came naturally to them without question.

[faithfulcat111]

ST Epic Cycle AU feat. Buckingham as Menelaus and Helen

Quotes are from The Illiad, The Orestia, The Odyssey, and Helen

[eso-studies]

I am literally? so tired? of hearing various different places in SouthEast Europe, SouthWest Asia & North Africa be called "tHe BiRtHplAcE oF cIviLiSaTIoN" [the birthplace of civilisation].

firstly, no one ever wants to define what the fuck they mean by civilisation (it's usually urbanisation and monumental architecture, which ties into my second point)

secondly, no one ever wants to talk about the racist & colonial ideologies that built the idea that civilisation can be tangibly defined as appearing at one particular point in history and then being passed from culture to culture until it reached it's fucking 'epitome' in 'the modern West' (I think I've developed a Pavlovian response to the word "civilisation")

thirdly, most of these areas were in interaction with each other from very early on – like a couple thousand years BCE early on – and if they had such massive cultural and religious and mythological influences on each other they probably had pretty fucking massive influences on one another's social organisation as well.

so even if you can define civilisation without being a racist prick, you then have to acknowledge that fundamentally it is a structure emerging out of the interactions of multicultural social and societal frameworks