#I am sorry i don't make the rules

[knownoshamc]

iwtv & incorrect quotes

[mealfreak]

old stuff i cleaned up only a little

[official-english-major]

Are there any adaptations of the odyssey where Polyphemus is actually a child and Odysseus and his men don't realize???

Poseidon: You stabbed my boy's eye out!

Odysseus: Oh shoot, that was your son? My bad. To be fair, he did kill six of my men.

Poseidon: You scared him! He was already having a rough week at school, and you guys breaking into his room like that set him off.

Odysseus: Are you trying to tell me that guy is a... kid?! He's like 20 feet tall!

Poseidon: Yeah, and his mom is 50 feet, so...

Odysseus: HE HAS A FULL BEARD.

Poseidon: HE HAS A GLAND DISORDER. Why do you think he was having a hard time at school?!?!

[ballpitwitch]

Keanu Reeves performing at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach, CA - August 10, 2023

[daniel-bruehl]

#they did not have to include that shot aND YET

Simon 'Ghost' Riley('s waist) in CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II

[licorishh]

i love og soap too much. my stomach hurts. i don't feel good.

[thegraininessofitall]

“What about Tolya? Aren't you worried about how he'll find us now?” “Unless he starts reciting epic poetry to Zoya, he'll be fine.”

Lewis Tan as Tolya Yul-Bataar & Sujaya Dasgupta as Zoya Nazyalensky

Shadow and Bone season 2 (2023 ) | E05

[desired-misery]

BOW!Leon WIP | Part 2

[warning for references to animal abuse in the past]

Concern starts to brew that afternoon when 537 repeats the same behavior; staying completely inside the crate again even after shedding the sedation— which they can track with confidence now that the biometric reader is reporting on heart and breathing rate. There is an initial spike in both that correlates to 537’s twitching and its eyes opening, but that flattens out and remains stable. 537’s eyes open, it flicks its ears towards the sound of the air conditioning kicking on, it moves a little in its sleep, but it does not leave the cramped crate. Not for water, not for food. It still does not move when all the lights are turned off for the night. The recording proves that it has remained in the same position when they all come back for the fourth day.

“BOWs can starve to death, right?” Luis asks no one in particular. It is a stupid question because obviously anything with a metabolism needs energy, but it is weird that it isn’t eating. The rotting pig carcass is foul— if they weren’t already wearing hazmats with appropriate filters, the smell would have been miserable.

The day’s objectives switch from general study to tracking back through files. It is how they get their first glimpse of the real situation, the horrible, vile behavior shown to 537 prior— Luis shouldn’t be surprised; humanity has always been the worst species; they are the ones to create BOWs, time and time again to tear each other apart—

But watching a video in which 537 is inside an open cage, hunched over itself like an abused cat, watching from the person inside its enclosure in the old facility even though there is nothing protecting the man from an attack, they realize that there is something far more sinister going on than just strange BOW behavior. In the video, 537 shoves itself further into the corner, head pressed flat against the ground, ears plastered to its head, the spines along its back raised but its tail is tucked like a terrified dog, its eyes are huge— its body language is projecting immense levels of fear, which does not make sense until they find more. . .. ... .. .

They are all horrified. 537 truly believes that staying inside the crate is its only option, conditioned to remain there through torture— because that is what it is, they’d call it torture if it was any other creature, even a BOW can be abused— they just watched it happen, recorded as if it was something to be proud of, to celebrate—

537 needs to be counter-conditioned as quickly as possible because it might very well be starving to death. The safest, most efficient option is going to be terrifying to 537, but no one has any better ideas: take the crate away, force 537 to learn that the floor isn’t electrocuted, it isn’t going to be punished for existing in its own enclosure. To do this, 537 is sedated again. Instead of taking 537 out of the room within the crate, 537 is pulled out of the crate as soon as its vitals reflect the full dose taking effect. The crate is dragged away, leaving 537 alone to wake up.

Luis is not the only person to stay to watch, but he is the most outwardly emotional about it at the start. Things get way worse for 537 when it starts to come to. The spike to its heart rate is normal, but then when it blinks and looks around, it takes less than three seconds before it starts screaming—

Someone mutes the microphones so the speakers aren’t filled with 537’s fear, but the enclosure is not meant to be soundproof. The screaming is quieter, but not silent. 537 staggers to its feet, still screaming like they are treating it the same way— its heart rate triples. It does not need to be a recognizable animal to understand that this BOW is experiencing indescribable terror. Its head swings around for its escape, all of its eyes huge, black with dilated pupils. It is clumsy as it scrambles for the back wall—

It throws itself at the bars, crashing into it with enough force to make Luis flinch and worry for its health. It slams itself into the bars again, again. Luis has the awful realization that 537 might not be trying to escape; it might be targeting the bars because it is visually the most similar to its crate. 

It stands on its hind legs (if Luis wasn’t horrified, he might be more impressed to see that 537 is able to go bipedal like a bear), tail lifted to not touch the floor, hoping from leg to leg because it believes it is about to get shocked any second… or perhaps it actually feels like it is, so terrified that it is incapable of realizing that nothing is hurting it right now, it is only experiencing phantom pain from memory—

Luis wishes he could explain that it is okay, they aren’t going to treat it like that— it should have never been taught that— but what can you do with a panicking BOW but watch it through the one-way glass, silent with sickening disgust and soul-cutting empathy as it tries to climb the bars to keep itself off of the floor. It slips and touches the floor again over a dozen times, but no matter how many times it touches the floor, 537 does not seem to understand that this floor is safe.

[weneedatdcharacterwho]

character who really hates vegetarians but noone else in the cast is vegetarian so they resort to complaining about old contestants

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[cherrymoonvol6]

i find it so endearing that hunter is desperate for camila's approval in such a different way that he's desperate for luz's approval... he wants luz to think he's cool and edgy and a respectable figure and then he tries so hard to come off as well-mannered and thoughtful and smart in front of camila. and he doesn't even care about making that good of an impression for anybody else. he immediately sees luz and goes "she HAS to believe that i'm Cool" and then he sees her mum and goes "she HAS to believe that i'm a Good Boy"........

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[wutheringmights]

I am about 40% of the way through "The Count of Monte Cristo" (so over 500 pages in) and while there are plenty of areas where I think Dumas could have trimmed back, I have to admit that I have never once been bored with this book so far-- and that's one hell of a feat

[oldestenemy]

the babygirlification of duncan grimwater

[just-slightly-chayotic]

After the latest sexuality crisis caused by Jeff Satur, proposing a new queer identity: jeffsexuality.

[divorcedfiddleford]

i already know what the story behind the picture is but please explain it anyway we need to educate the masses

oh my god thank you for enabling me ive been thinking about this all day. regarding this post i made yesterday and this classic image (which i actually just found out was posted seven years ago today!)

basically as can be read in the post at BigFest in 2016 somebody had what i believe was a fan-made prop based on the laptop from season 2 of gravity falls. alex hirsch attended this convention and decided to type in the password to the laptop. we never learned the password in the show so lots of people were excited to find out!

a HUGE thing to note here is that journal 3 was still months away from releasing and in fact while a couple pages had been released as promotional material it was still being worked on until, like... gosh i wanna say may is when they finally started printing it? don't quote me on that though my point is that this was all taking place pre-journal 3 and, therefore, many fans were still operating under the (sensible) impression that the laptop which

had been designed by fiddleford

had been built by fiddleford

had fiddleford's name on it

said "PROPERTY OF F" on it (at this point it had been established through promo images that "F" referred to fiddleford)

was assumed to be fiddleford's by, like, four different main characters

was given to and used by fiddleford following s2e7

fiddleford presumably knew the password to

would also belong to fiddleford. right? i mean logically. logically, guys.

so when alex hirsch revealed that the password had been "STANFORD" all along, people thought that was a little bit... well

of course, a couple months later journal 3 would be published and it would say that the laptop had actually been STANFORD'S, not fiddleford's, and that he had made the password his own name. so technically i lied in my earlier post, there IS a heterosexual explanation for this, but imo it's still bullshit. like sorry i don't believe for a fucking second that stanford "i need to encode all of my messages in multiple ciphers and write in invisible ink" pines would ever make a password as simple as his own name. he wouldve picked like something with six different layers of alternate meanings and also put it through atbash at the VERY least. also as i listed above there is a LOT of evidence which would support the laptop belonging to fiddleford, as opposed to ford, which has this random retcon (and like... some of the computer keys are different colors? i guess?? idk that bit was stupid) as its only supporting evidence.

my theory is that, while writing the show, alex and the other writers had intended for the laptop to belong to fiddleford, but for whatever reason, when they were writing the book, they decided to make it ford's instead. i want to make clear that i DON'T think this swap was motivated by homophobia, or as a reaction to seeing people interpret the password in a gay way. by the time that this photo was taken several promotional journal pages had been released, so it's safe to say that even if they were still adding the finishing touches to the book, it was pretty much in its final stage and in fact might have already started printing (i think the first photos we see of the book itself were posted like a week or two after bigfest). so to assume that there's a correlation there is both unfounded and extremely unlikely.

now, the stargazing scene reprint, on the other hand

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

"The Dumb Song" by AJR is Adam's theme