#Spring the Contestant

[incorrect-finding-frankie]

The actual sona doesn’t even have a clue about anything. Spring just sees a box of cereal and the only thought is “bunny” before buying it just because.

Chooses to go through with the game show, but even before anything horrible happens, just regrets the decision, and wants to go home.

Doesn’t have much knowledge about the deal in general, but sees Real Frankie and just immediately likes him.

Just likes all of the bunnies. Actively running from Monster Frankie, and one of the thoughts—mixed in with the fright—is just “Wow, bnnuy :)”

[crippled-peeper]

Me when I make my whole personality being a wheelchair user (I'm a white guy without hobbies)

this person thinks that all wheelchair users are shallow and that their entire personalities are their wheelchairs, is screaming “FAKE!!!!” at the most common forms of ableism against us, is screaming n crying about being “misgendered” while on anon, and also helpfully pointing out I’m white (it’s in the first line of the bio they didn’t scroll past)

Hmmm… I think you are just a bigot who hates wheelchair users. Just a hunch

[gingermintpepper]

I spent something like six and a half hours in the hospital today so day 6 of my challenge is being further postponed but, in the lieu of not doing any drawing, I did end up rereading Ovid's Metamorphoses in between waiting and I just wanted to offer some of my favourite underrated bits.

Cadmus and Harmonia's twin transformations into snakes is so gentle? Cadmus goes first, transformed mid plea for his wife to caress him one last time before his face is completely covered in scales, then he rests gently between her boobs and wraps around her neck and shoulders like a big snake gorget. Harmonia follows him shortly and the two snakes intertwine with each other before gently slithering off into the bushes and I love that actually mwah mwah mwah (I also appreciate the sweet irony of Cadmus who slew a snake for his glory becoming a snake, toothless and gentle in the last of his days)

Everything about Perseus was hilarious. Like, I'm sorry - I've never done a lot of reading into Perseus but I did always remember the banquet massacre and the Andromeda rescuing and like, bro I know it's not meant to be funny but Perseus is funny. I think it's his politeness honestly? He goes up to Atlas and is like "hello kind sir, may I please stay a night in your lands? I've travelled an awful long way and I am weary and hungry. If you only accept noble guests, rest assured, I am of noblest birth and have completed the noblest of deeds. 🥺" and Atlas takes one look at him, has a That's So Raven vision about the one time Themis gave him a prophecy about a son of Jove stealing his apples and then told Perseus to kick rocks. So Perseus, like the well adjusted and noble individual that he is, turns Atlas into a mountain with Medusa's head. This is how a great many of Perseus' stories unfold. It is actually hysterical.

I am going to give a special shoutout to Athis and Lycabas who were two young lovers in attendance at Perseus and Andromeda's blood wedding. Athis died first - a skilled archer who never got to shoot and was burnt and bludgeoned across the face with a wedding brazier. When Lycabas saw that his dear friend's beauty was ruined, he picked up the fight against Perseus himself in Athis' name and was slashed to strips by Perseus' sword. Lycabas managed to drag himself over to Athis in his last moments and died beside him, so I thought that was a particularly touching bit of beauty in the otherwise extremely tragic blood wedding.

No one can ever make me feel bad for Niobe. In a lot of the Greek accounts I've read and heard, because they tend to be much shorter or references in a wider narrative, it's hard to really grasp how insanely disrespectful she was to Leto (not that her boasting she should be the goddess of motherhood to the actual goddess of motherhood isn't worthy of death and destruction enough) but Ovid really did go the extra mile to dig it home how far down her throat this lady put her foot because even at her sons' seven way funeral she did not stop boasting about how she was still glorious. I did find it interesting that the seemingly innocuous detail of Apollo killing off the boys first and then Artemis killing the girls was kept cross-culturally, I assume it's because boys were more auspicious than girls in both cultures.

The detail of Athena bonking Arachne constantly with a wooden box and her being transformed into a spider because she begged to not be bonked to death. Also very interestingly, in Ovid's account, it's not a clear victory for Athena against Arachne - she gets flustered at the depictions of her relatives' affairs and rips the tapestry up - the judges didn't actually get a chance to opine. This is in contrast to the contest the Muses sang about where their representative Calliope unilaterally won against the daughters of Pierus.

The account of Apollo and Marsyas was much shorter than I remember it being. I recall it being touted as one of the more vicious and visceral tales in Metamorphoses' collection but it included neither the details of Marsyas' contest against Apollo, nor Apollo's feelings (or even any dialogue from him!) throughout his peeling of Marsyas' skin. Instead it is wholly focused on Marsyas - on describing the physical gore of his exposed veins and contracting muscles and the grief of the rustic crowd as they mourned his loss - which is curious indeed since the entire theme of the poems of Book 6 is divine punishment and it is otherwise filled with rather full accounts of these contests and insults.

Byblis and Caunus made me want to reread Euripedes' Hippolytus for the twelve thousandth time. Caunus made the right call of course but I also very much hoped he would have a huge big speech about incest being bad instead of just smacking the messenger.

And lastly, for now, Jove's speech as Hercules lay burning atop his death pyre where he addresses the host of his gods and goes "Man, wasn't Hercules a great guy? Look, there goes all his mortal attributes burning away in the fire, now he is all my son and surely we are all in agreement that any divine son of mine deserves a place on Olympus :)" was very endearing. I always feel quite bad for Deianira because she truly didn't mean any harm by her gift and I've always wished for an account of Heracles/Hercules' death from her perspective. There could scarcely be a thing more awful, especially given how long and drawn out and incredibly painful Hercules' death was.

Lowkey, I want to take a day and compare Ovid and Euripedes' Medeas. They're both very different women and they both handle their situations very differently. Partially for my own vindication - I adore Medea and Jason equally and since popular fiction cannot speak about Medea without flattening her or making Jason completely monstrous, this is just one of those things I'll have to do myself sometime.

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Dancing Paws, Betty #146 (2005).

[neviagreatestart2003]

What a Beautiful Gardens View (Contest Entry by @daniartist19)

(1 of 3 Spring Best Buddies Contest)

[heartofbalemoon]

the backlogs are backlogging [wips so far of mualani/adeola bc my braincells are exploding /pos] 🦭❤️🦁

[astronomical-light]

Callum Turner and Matilda De Angelis - Divine (2020)

[incorrect-finding-frankie]

Sona/self insert thoughts again... if Spring were to actually do anything within the gameshow? It’d definitely be a bit of a trickster, I’d think.

Looks enough like a regular contestant... and like, at times, you can’t quite be sure if he’s a robot or not. So, what happens when other contestant’s are around?

Spring just tries to trick any real contestant’s into thinking that he’s one of them, etc. And then the contestant just gets betrayed.

[cassius-is-confined]

This was my entry to the Lotus’ Spring Basket Blitz Contest, I main Nezha so I figured a basket based on him would be fitting. Theres a lot of elements from his leverian. I was lucky enough to win 8th place! DE is very kind <3

[jorvik-fashion]

🌱Spring Outfit Contest🌱

Only one entry this time so no poll.

Winner is 🥇@hauntedbyespeon🥇!

Thanks to everyone for participating and showing support to this contest!

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #673:

Keira Lundström, Third place runner up for the Finnish national final for Eurovision, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, in 2023 is the singer for the theme song of the Night Springs DLC to the 2023 horror game Alan Wake II.

[Sources]

All about the UMK23 event, yle.fi.

"UMK23-finalistit on julkaistu – heistä yksi edustaa Suomea Euroviisuissa," yle.fi.

Night Springs, YouTube.com.

"Alan Wake II - Soundtrack out now..." @/keira.liv on Instagram.com.

"UMK-finaali..." @/Keira.liv on Instagram.com.

[akiirart]

you'll never guess what i can do now

[m3b-art]

Spring Lanscape

EN : I would appreciate the votes 😅. ES: Apreciaría mucho los votos 😅. #pixilart #pixyls #contest #spring #springart #springlandscape #landscapepainting #pixelartist #pixelartwork #originalart #myart #myartwork #artist #artista #artistoninsta #artistonig #artistontwitter #landscapedesign

[neviagreatestart2003]

Spring Tea Party ft. Blossom (Contest Entry by @daniartist19

(2 of 3) Spring Best Buddies Contest

[cut-the-camera]

Requests!

Hi!! I’ve just started getting back into writing again and I would love to take your requests!

The fandoms/ people I write for currently include:

HEARTSTOPPER

CHARLIE SPRING

NICK NELSON

IMOGEN HEANEY

TORI SPRING

DARCY OLSON (PLATONIC)

TARA JONES (PLATONIC)

JOE LOCKE

KIT CONNOR

RHEA NORWOOD

JOKER OUT/EUROVISION (Bit of a random one I know but I'm a huge fan so)

BOJAN CVJETICANIN

KRIS GUSTIN

NACE JORDAN

JURE MACEK

JAN PETEH

KÄÄRIJÄ

JANN

MISS PEREGRINES HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

Enoch O’Connor

Jacob Portman

Horace Somnusson

FORMULA ONE

MAX VERSTAPPEN

LIAM LAWSON

HIS DARK MATERIALS

LEE SCORESBY

LYRA SILVERTONGUE

MARISSA COULTER

YOUTUBERS

WILLNE

JAMES MARRIOT

DAN HOWELL

VEGARD SAETERHAUG (FORMERLY WISE HUFFLEPUFF)

SEAMUS GORMAN

(This list will be added to eventually)

I only write for Male or Gender Neutral readers! (unless I see an idea I really like that fits any other category)

I’m okay with writing angst/trauma or smut (just be warned it might not be very good lol) though I will turn down specific requests if they make me feel uncomfortable to write and I would prefer to only write smut about fictional characters rather than real people.

With all that being said, I’d love to take your requests!! ❤️

[miryofshampoo]

🎀❄️

we could leave the christmas lights up 'til january..

@bunchofroses07