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We don’t talk about the guitar solo at the end of Brave New World enough
#I realized this last night while blasting AOTPA#and doing a lil 🍃#Jake put EVERYTHING INTO IT#and the tones on the guitar??#mmm good shit#gvf#greta van fleet#jake kiszka#aotpa#anthem of the peaceful army#brave new world
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as ever my favourite thing is when everyone is acutely aware that remus has a big old fat crush on tonks and they egg him on
#and then remus explodes and tells them to stop being stupid#|| 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖞 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖞 𝖑𝖚𝖕𝖎𝖓 : ooc#mmm good shit
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saw you.
#pokemon#swsh#rival hop#professor hop#october piece. it's the october piece#the triple feature will happen soon! I'm thinking abt what snack to make for that.#since the senpai's currently in digestive agony. I'd like to figure something out for it#in another news as well. the game's about to ship! and I'll get my copy soon. hopefully. I'm very anxious about postal stuff here#I have. very bad luck with international mails#when it arrives I'll take photos#mmm. I never really thought of pieces I did with this design to be sequential. but they kind of are?#at least it's become that way now. so next installment next year it seems#wait did I ever post the design sketch for this one lmao... I know I posted the one for the 'modern' variant#but I dont think the sketch for this one specifically ever got posted#well. if I cant find it then I'll post it. otherwise I'll be rebloggin some stuff on the day#have a good night lads. hey if you still have a deviantart account you should delete that shit
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hi, i haven't read the iliad and the odyssey but want to - do u have a specific translation you recommend? the emily wilson one has been going around bc, y'know, first female translator of the iliad and odyssey into english, but i was wondering on if you had Thoughts
Hi anon! Sorry for the somewhat late response and I'm glad you trust me with recommendations! Full, disclosure, I am somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to translations of the source text of the Iliad + Odyssey combo wombo, which means I tend to prefer closeness in literal verbiage over interpretation of the poetic form of these epics - for that reason, my personal preferred versions of the Odyssey and Iliad both are Robert Fitzgerald's. Because both of these translations (and his Aeneid!) were done some 50+ years ago (63 for his original Odyssey tl, 50 flat for his Iliad and 40 for his Aeneid) the English itself can be a bit difficult to read and the syntax can get confusing in a lot of places, so despite my personal preferences, I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is looking to experience the Iliad + Odyssey for the very first time.
For an absolute beginner, someone who has tried to read one or both of these epics but couldn't get into it or someone who has a lot of difficulty with concentrating on poetry or long, winding bits of prose, I fully and wholeheartedly recommend Wilson's translation! See, the genius of Emily Wilson's Iliad + Odyssey isn't that she's a woman who's translated these classics, it's that she's a poet who's adapted the greek traditional poetic form of dactylic hexameter into the english traditional poetic form of iambic pentameter. That alone goes a very very long way to making these poems feel more digestible and approachable - iambic pentameter is simply extremely comfortable and natural for native english speakers' brains and the general briskness of her verbiage helps a lot in getting through a lot of the problem books that people usually drop the Iliad or Odyssey in like Book 2 of the Iliad or Book 4 of the Odyssey. I think it's a wonderful starting point that allows people to familiarise themselves with the source text before deciding if they want to dig deeper - personally, researching Wilson's translation choices alone is a massive rabbit hole that is worth getting into LOL.
The happy medium between Fitzgerald's somewhat archaic but precise syntax and Wilson's comfortable meter but occasionally less detailled account is Robert Fagles' Iliad + Odyssey. Now, full disclosure, I detest how Fagles handles epithets in both of his versions, I think they're far too subtle which is something he himself has talked at length about in his translation notes, but for everything else - I'd consider his translations the most well rounded of english adaptations of this text in recent memory. They're accurate but written in plain English, they're descriptive and detailled without sacrificing a comfortable meter and, perhaps most importantly, they're very accessible for native english speaking audiences to approach and interact with. I've annotated my Fagles' volumes of these books to heaven and back because I'm deeply interested in a lot of the translation decisions made, but I also have to specifically compliment his ability to capture nuance in the characters' of these poems in a way I don't often see. He managed to adapt the ambivalence of ancient greek morality in a way I scarcely see and that probably has a hand in why I keep coming back to his translations.
Now, I know this wasn't much of a direct recommendation but as I do not know you personally, dear anon, I can't much make a direct recommendation to a version that would best appeal to your style of reading. Ideally, I'd recommend that you read and enjoy all three! But, presuming that you are a normal person, I suggest picking which one is most applicable for you. I hope this helps! 🥰
#ginger answers asks#greek mythology#the iliad#the odyssey#okay so now that I'm not recommending stuff I also highly highly HIGHLY suggest Stephen Mitchell's#Fuck accuracy and nuance and all that shit if you just want a good read without care for the academic side of things#Stephen Mitchell's Iliad and Odyssey kick SO much fucking ass#I prefer Fitzgerald's for the busywork of cross-checking and cross-referencing and so it's the version I get the most use out of#But Mitchell's Iliad specifically is vivid and gorgeous in a way I cannot really explain#It's not grounded in poetic or translationary preferences either - I'm just in love with the way he describes specifically the gods#and their work#Most translations and indeed most off-prose adaptations are extremely concerned with the human players of these epics#And so are a bit more ambivalent with the gods - but Mitchell really goes the extra mile to bring them to life#Ugh I would be lying if I said Mitchell's Apollo doesn't live rent free in my mind mmm#Other translations I really like are Stanley Lombardo's (1997) Thomas Clark's (1855) and Smith and Miller (1944)#Really fun ones that are slightly insane in a more modern context (but that I also love) are Pope's (1715) and Richard Whitaker (2012)#Whitaker's especially is remarkable because it's a South African-english translation#Again I can't really talk about this stuff because the ask was specifically for recommendations#But there are SO many translations and adaptations of these two epics and while yes I have also contributed to the problem by recommending#three very popular versions - they are alas incredibly popular for a reason#Maybe sometime I'll do a listing of my favourite Iliad/Odyssey tls that have nothing to do with academic merit and instead are rated#entirely on how much I enjoy reading them as books/stories LMAO
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“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”
on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam
#(it’s too late guys i’ve already added it to a couple playlists. i can’t help it)#redacted audio#redacted asmr#redacted sam#redacted darlin#rp audio stuff#Seven’s Blorbo Songs#music stuff#i fell down a rabbit hole of music videos on YT last night and decided to give this song a chance based on the title obviously#skipped through all the exposition just to quickly find out if i liked the song or not#and as soon as the first line came in i went head-in-hands at my desk bc i just Knew it was over for me#i hate that i like it#it’s very repetitive and giving strong Modern/Mainstream Pop-Rap-Country vibes#but i’m not too proud to admit that i eat that shit up on occasion#‘You’ve been beatin’ ‘round the bush so much you’re knockin’ off the leaves.’ goes kinda hard tho i’m ngl#‘ole boy in a Ridgeline and i drive a Chevy’ would Sam be a truck elitist? hmm#i doubt it. i see him as too practical-minded to care about brand names and shit like that#like irl i think it’s very silly. and perhaps a little questionable to hate on a ‘foreign’ vehicle. but i don’t even like trucks at all so#insecure country boys and their obsession with big trucks are ruining the road for us regular people that just want a normal ass car#but i’ll stop before i go off on a rant about america’s transportation problems#anyways. i can separate reality from fiction and i love the image of Sam in a beat up beloved old truck. cliché as it may be#getting back on track. my POINT was that the song doesn’t even necessarily fit Sam’s vibes i just. can’t undo the association#been trying to think of a way for it to fit him but that would require Darlin’ to be cheating on him and i don’t like that thought#like i love some types of angst but cheating isn’t one of them#i could view it through the context of being directed at Alexis bc i already hate her lmao but once again it doesn’t fit in canon#and i don’t know how i feel about the thought that he used to call her Darlin’ too. though it’s very possible. mmm angst#not that it has to fit with canon for me to attach a song to a character. certainly not! but i need to make it work in my mind Somehow#and i can’t even come up with a good HC to make this fit. the idea of Jealous!Sam is fun in theory but idk if i’d like it practice anyways#tldr: does this really fit canon Sam? meh. Is it forever tied to him in my mind anyways due to the use of the petname Darlin’? absolutely.#anywho. one of these days i’ll open this app to do something other than vent post or yap abt rp audio blorbos. but that day is not today!
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i love that specific brand of solangelo fics where nico goes missing for an extended period of time and turns up, injured, and just fucked right up. changed. like from first glance that is NOT the nico that will knew. but. But. even though time and experiences change a person. maybe that kid that will once knew is still in there, he’s just hidden under the weight of whatever happened since they last saw each other.
#i’ve read a couple#but if anyone has recs…..#i’ll eat that shit up#nico di angelo#solangelo#will solace#pjo#ADDING THE DYNAMIC THAT HE DISAPPEARED TO PROTECT WILL/HIS LOVED ONES????#mmm MMM good food
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Shout-out to artists who draw the clones with body hair.
I see clones drawn with any kind of body hair and I start barking like a damn dog.
#ESPECIALLY artists who draw Wrecker with body hair#you guys are SAINTS#uuaahhhh#i just see clone art with clones with chest hair and i'm like#“i need to bury my face in that”#mwah mwah#mmm it's kinda late and i'm having thoughts#i just#ughhh#so good#good shit#clones with body hair >>>>#tcw#tbb#clones#clone troopers#max-night posting
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Best part about soup is you dont need any recipe just throw some shit in there
Make a pot of broth and just start Adding Shit and 9/10 times itll taste amazing
#just make soup with corn peas potatoes scrambled eggs threw in some random spices and thought mmm to much liquid to solid ratio so i added#some brown rice and#MAN#dose this shit fuck 10/10#just make chicken broth and add whatever u got itll make a good soup i promise#goblin mode
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every day i wish the princesses had like any character at all and werent just there to be girlfriends
#they could be so COOL#THEYRE SO AWESOME IM LIKE IN LOVE WITH THEIR DESIGNS but theyre never once not just#generic wife characters.#i feel like the closest theyve gotten is in the comics they have like the TINIEST sliver of personality but even then its barely there#dunno if this is applicable to face the music i havent seen it in four years#but goddddd. let them have like any personality at all PLEASE#bechdel test who. whats that. gone. never existed#i mean its understandable its some movies and shit from 89/91 its not gonna be that good#i feel so awful like completely ignoring them for bill and ted but also theres like nothing there to do anything with.#theyre basically not there in the actual media anyways#forced to be a steryotypical fandom m/m shipper by the horrrible writing of the women#rip#either that or make them lesbians that always works. not with eachother cuz theyre sisters but just like in general. i feel like thatd help#slash half jay#jello shut up challenge#bill and ted#mmm late night inability to sleep fueled tag rambling my favorite pasttime#tehy are sisters right im not making that up. i dont think i am. anyways done talkign now
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their dinamic is messy but caring but idfa about you all at same time it makes me want to explode i want to see more of them siu pls
#myart#tower of god#kami no tou#karaka#wangnan#wangnan ja#fanart#illustration#artists on tumblr#wheres my dad he was supposed pick me up 40 minutes ago IM STARVING !!???#living in a big city is shit cos theres traffic jam wherever you go i hate cities#anyway i came up with an idea for a one shot i hope ill be able to put my ideas properly and not mess up things#but its not a complrx story so itll be fine#last night i was daydreaming with me explaining my first bug ass story it truly was my one piece not other story was that complex#my dad just called me he will pick me up in anpther 30-40 minutes HELP GOD NOOOOO im actually starvjng and uuum theres a cafeteria next to#me but that brand is expensive as fuck it is good but really expensive and aint way i will spend that much money#stay tuned if you want to know how my journey to feed myself ends like#i love talking as if it were actual people expecting what i gotta say no single mf is fan mine#i love wangnan so much i could kms#hello its me from the future. so i eat lne of the most silly but yummy food ever#bought the 1st vinland saga volume nad watched look back ALL IN THE SAME DAY how cool is that mmm??????? i love living (just for today)#i miss having a job because id have a weekly income and spend half of it but recover next week and yarayara I MISS HAVING INFINITE MONEY
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If you need me, I'll be pathetically rewatching some character edit
#I think I might perhaps possibly be simping 👀👀#I'm so sick of this song#But like#MMM#Good soup#Txt#Txt post#Random shit#Nevermore webtoon#Nevermore
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One of the most exhausting parts of the majority of the fandom reading MTMTE first is that they forget that it was written later and then retroactively read earlier stuff and go "Megatron is so OOC!"
No darling, pre-MTMTE Megatron is perfectly in-character, you just don't understand the concept of chronological order + haven't read anything besides MTMTE + take JRO's softened version of Megatron as who Megatron has always been + don't recognize the obvious bias JRO had toward making MTMTE Megatron more sympathetic + call yourself a villain stan but can't handle when your blorbo actually does villain shit that you can't twist around as being akshully justified.
Tbh that's more tragic for y'all than it is for me and like, I don't really care bc I can just not follow ppl who make that content, but it's really fucking annoying when ppl with no frame of reference for IDW1 shit on all the writers who came before as if JRO wasn't the one who disrupted typical canon takes and did something new (yes, for better and for worse). And also act as if Megatron being a villain was some conspiracy to villainize revolutionaries when in fact it's the revolutionary background that was established way after Megatron's character was already established to be an anti-organic evil conqueror all the way back in uhhhhhh........ G1?
So yeah no MTMTE Megatron isn't the only Megatron that exists and is actually imo a downgrade from his earlier appearances that fully embraced his villainy. You literally can't be coming in on one of the penultimate series of IDW1 and go "akshully all the other versions of Megatron are wrong and OOC and boring" when they literally came first and established the baseline MTMTE worked on like jsfnwkxjsjdkekv
#squiggposting#ppl be out there stanning villains and getting mad when they do evil shit#and like yeah m/tm/te is fantastic and all but Meg's writing in there is mmm.#it's good but JRO so so obviously twisted a lot of things around to make things easier for him#even down to literally contriving a whole other universe for M to save#which in the process completely destroyed the hard hitting moral dilemma JRO himself posed earlier in the series#where the TF cast got asked if their individual civilization being 'better' was worth so many others dying#god it makes me mad actually jsckwkcnakd#also bc it's kind of hard to find ppl like me who have a similar view and arent straight up antis#like. WTB ppl who recognize nuance#and know that MTM/TE is a fantastic series and M is a really interesting character#but also the writing was fumbled really badly in a lot of places and M is objectively whitewashed
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Over the Garden Wall-tober
Day 15: Sour
✦Lemon✦
Extra:
#I actually like sour candy#Like those haribo volcanoes#MMM that shit be good#also warheads#art#artists on tumblr#halloween#inktober#otgw#over the garden wall
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DA:V makes it absolutely clear the fuckin' VICE grip the Chantry has on Southern Thedas, and having seen the Grand Necropolis and met the Nevarrans we have, I gotta say, I completely understand why Cassandra Pentaghast wanted to get out of there.
#dragon age#dragon age spoilers#not that i don't love nevarra actually!!!#i'm just saying i totally get why cassandra is like. mmm no i'm good with all this skeleton shit just burn me up sister
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kakania if u don't become playable and end up getting a death flag stapled on you and becoming subjected to the game's npc gulliotine, i am rioting.
#reverse 1999#kakania#certified storm moments#at the same time. mmm the angst tho. specifically concerning isolde if kakania dies#i think girlie would fucking. go off the shits and go on a murder spree if anything ever happened to kakania#also marcus would not straight up have a good time. she already had someone die on her in vienna and to have the person [SPOILER] somewhat#died for and gave away their spot in the storm safehouse end up dying too? god she will go THROUGH it man.#if i accidentally manifest apollo's dodgeball here in the tags you have all my permission to actually kill me
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oh nooooo not me forgetting to not go on zelda youtube and being forced to reckon with the sheer magnitude of its fanbase's unchecked racism
#thoughts#zelda fandom critical#gerudos#the wildest thing is#I don't think they realize?????#I don't even think they realize#but WOW does this fandom have a fucking Problem with the gerudos#sometimes I go like#"mmm maybe I'm extrapolating a little surely it's not actually that ba--#*gets hit in the face by a dozen lazer beams*#pain is the best teacher#or something#(reminds me of the discourse surrounding batarians in mass effect)#(but even worse here because I Understand why people might not see what batarians are based on/so hateable I sort of get it)#(but like!! gerudos are meant to be partially sympathetic at least!!! and people are just Saying Shit on both ends of the spectrum)#(aka: uwu babies in need to be subbued for their own good AND they are barbarians that assault hylian men for fun)#(and it's like??? do you guys not hear your dumb selves oh my god)#(anywayyyy it's too early for this)
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