#THE AUDACITY OF THIS GUY.

[thousand-feuilles]

fouche: ok guys erm. i know you're here to arrest me, but i have some trifling... matters to sort out. i'd highly appreciate it if you guys wait for me to sort these out, and then you can take me :)

the police: errr ok!

fouche: sweet. please, make yourself at home here in the meantime.

* two hours later *

the police: ...guys. isn't he taking too long? like, a little bit too long? to sort out whatever matters he has?

[overheard-at-camp-half-blood]

“They changed the narrative from the books to make Athena bad.”

Athena was horrible in the books too, it was just glossed over by everyone. 💀

[opera-ghost]

it's immensely funny to me how andrew lloyd webber read this passage from the book and was like yeah the journey down to the phantom's lair is this really breathtaking magical gondola ride where christine is just captivated by the strange and fantastical beauty of it all (see below)

when in the novel they're both like in a rowboat in the dark with christine scared out of her mind and confused as hell while erik is paddling like he's out for an extreme day of fishing and just staring christine down for the entire duration of the journey without blinking once . like mind you his eyes quite literally GLOW in the DARK and he's just fucking staring into her soul and silently rowing and probably not even breathing like

[corysius]

KISSING DURING COMBAT ‼️❓️

hate gay people they make me sick (my absolute favorites) anyway I wasn't personally fond of the inside illustration for this scene in book 3 so out of desperation I redrew it

I support chang gengs need for at least ONE kiss before imminent doom, tyvm

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[attyrocious]

pre-timeskip polkadot shirt rb if u agree

i kno canon says he plays drums but in my mind he’s lowballing and can play anything. 100% the talent behind their “band”. kid thinks hes the coolest

[hyakunana]

"Were you even listening? How many reports, Ikora? How many times did I tell you what I saw?"

[paytenphobic]

some mfs are so damn insufferable when they comment on kunizai or sigzai edits “errr i don’t ship this but it’s cute” “nooo it’s soukoku” die die DIE god FORBID someone ship dazai with someone other than chuuya (especially when kunizai is arguably healthier than soukoku but whatever)

[until-another-one-comes]

The scene where Amstrong held up Oliver while he was wailing and looking down at Debbie with her snapped wrist and all the while screaming about how he's not the villain was single handedly one of the most chilling scenes in the show so far.

[achyutapriya]

If you call yourself a Krishna Bhakt but at the same time disrespect the Mahishis (Queens) of Dwarka (this includes questioning the authenticity of their love for him and his love for them in return, comparing their love, putting them down, making abhorrent claims about how their love was not completely pure, claiming how they were jealous of each other and the gopis, making passive aggressive comments against them to even liking and sharing content which promote these kinds of beliefs) in the name of glorifying Kanha's leelas in Braj then it's beyond time for you to touch some grass, read actual scriptures and question your entire existence. *GLORIFICATION CAN BE DONE WITHOUT SHOWING DISRESPECT TO EITHER OF THE TWO GROUPS*

[cozylittleartblog]

For the second fucking time this year I'm finding someone who has stolen my art from deviantart, edited out my watermark (likely with AI), and stolen it for sale. They uploaded it to Redbubble, where I literally have the art uploaded myself.

TheMemePlug is the thief, Galaxxi is me.

I only noticed it because the stolen art was featured in a youtuber's video, I didn't even notice the weird discoloration (on the right, over the arm and wing) where my watermark is on deviantart.

Dude this is pissing me off like you wouldn't believe

[emrys-merlin]

Aang being called racist because he doesn't like sea prunes and dead animals skins is the funniest thing I've ever read here like i'm dying

[magicaldreamfox1]

kinnporsche the series as faceless gifsets: ep 12 / 14

“I was just following my papa’s order.”

[capitalisticveins]

I like to pretend that Angel is Angel’s actual name bc it’s realistic, and I also believe in the “Guy and Angel are siblings” theory, meaning that according to my hcs their parents just named one kid “Angel” and the other “Guy” like😭

[front-facing-pokemon]