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partlysmith · 6 months
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"pokemon are kinda weird when you think about it"
"digimon lines are pure chaos and make no sense"
monster rancher: "here's a normal ass ape wearing sunglasses that can only be obtained from a specific Billy Joel CD"
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boxingcleverrr · 3 months
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Popular Hades & Persephone "retellings" are, rightly, getting dunked on all over the socials right now and, as a Pagan who has an altar to the Queen, I could not be happier. But also, I feel like a lot of people miss WHY they're bad - aside from just plain bad writing and lazy tropes. Which are, yeah, also REALLY bad.
Pretty much all retellings try to wave away, or excuse, or twist the whole kidnapping bit. And I actually do have sympathy and understanding for why, when speaking from a modern perspective.
But honestly...you gotta get over it. There are other stories to play fix-it with, not this one.
The Abduction is The Thing.
Were I a little more sober I could bring up chapter and verse of the Hymn to Demeter but frankly, if you know even the middle school mythology curriculum version of the story, you SHOULD know the themes. The story of Persephone was one mothers and daughters in the ancient world held dear, because it was a reality: you will, one day, be swept away from your home to go cleave to a man you most likely know nothing about. You will miss your mother, but chances are very good that he will be a good husband, once you get to know him, certainly better than Zeus or Ares, and he will make you a queen of his home.
Leaving home to marry was often scary, and violent (look up the history of the tradition of Bridesmaids, if you don't already know it - they were originally decoys on the marriage road). Centuries later we'd have tales like Beauty & The Beast serving the same function: comfort, hope, you are leaving your safe loving home to figure life out with a (often older, powerful) stranger. Your trauma over this sudden ending of your childhood made manifest in a Beast, or a God of The Underworld.
It's wonderful that we don't NEED stories like this anymore to comfort us (here, at least, in this culture). But if you try to force them into modern vernacular it just will not work, not really, because you're gutting out the whole point just to have a more tidy romantic male hero.
I have read MANY very good ...novelizations? fanfic(? however you would frame them, but they're certainly not "retellings"), etc. that simply take advantage of the blank spaces in the myth, and there are many!
It's not explicit that sexual assault happens - "The Rape of Persephone" as a title was coined in much earlier eras, when the word was just as often used to simply refer to abduction.
"She was starving!" the gods didn't need to eat. So it's easy to read her eating the Pom seeds as a deliberate choice on her part. Like, shit, people, scholars have written whole papers on the symbolism of this moment, between marriage rites and even yeah, Seph choosing both worlds with her husband's knowing consent.
And that, I think, is the real heart of the thing. People want an utterly mundane, spelled-out story here, as opposed to what it really is, has always been, just like any other myth or religious parable: IT'S A METAPHOOOOOOR.
They don't need to be destined, or meet at a goddamned BALL and then CONSPIRE to fake her kidnapping, or shit, I once saw one where Hades got MIND CONTROLLED by Zeus?! Jesus.
Persephone was yoinked into the Underworld against her will.
That's how it went.
I don't mean this in a "stay out of my belief system!" way, shit I'm a white American chick with delusions of witchery. I mean this in a "stop stressing yourself out trying to make things palatable" way:
This is a very real, very precious myth to many people, BECAUSE for at least that one event, Persephone had no autonomy, BECAUSE for thousands of years most women had no autonomy. Erasing that, sanitizing the fact that a girl is ripped out of the spring, from her mother's arms, is erasing the thing that gave comfort to women for centuries. And people can and should still find power and healing in it now!
Fill in the blanks the story leaves in whatever manner seems fit to you, there's plenty of room, but. Come the fuck on.
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swampgallows · 18 days
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i know it was bad before covid too but people seem more adamant than ever about denying that they're sick or need to go to the doctor. people chest coughing for over a month and go "it's just a cold, im just about over it actually". colds last like 3-4 days, a week at most. also never understood why people say "just" the flu, it's like saying "just" bronchitis or some shit. legit i think ive only had the flu maybe once in my life as a child, who are these people that think getting sick 5-6 times a year is normal.
yes i know american healthcare system whatever i also i know people have become delusional and amnesiac about what typical health looks like. "just my allergies acting up" "some kind of weird summer flu" "oh its just this mysterious thing going around" all of your immune systems are in the gutter. if you've had covid more than twice you are functionally immunocompromised. i would say well over half the US is in this boat yet they all are more willing to believe there's some "new" thing popping up getting them sick instead of the one giant global pandemic infecting them multiple times and has now made them susceptible to the everyday things their immune system could normally fight off. if you're more fatigued than usual, your memory is shot, randomly feel out of breath or have your heart racing, or find yourself struggling with tasks that used to be simple, you may even have long covid. as others have said were now four years out from the start of covid and are in the finding out stage of fucking around, and i fear the next 5 years are only gonna get worse as unmitigated spread and repeat infections continue
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venus-dreadstar · 3 months
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overloading a robot girl's sensors with pleasure
turning her dials up to the max
until her system can't take it
until her capacitors explode
spewing white smoke
and leaking hot electrolyte solution all through her circuits
then carefully removing her panels
and replacing all her faulty components
cleaning her up to be ready to go again
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bl4th3rs · 2 days
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Pastel food stimboard!
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This is my first stimboard that I designed lol, hope y’all like it! :3
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orchidsncrake · 1 month
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mmm i think we were robbed of joe hysterically crying in s4. it happened in 1 and 2 why couldnt we get it in 4 with his even sadder big brown eyes and curls. criminal
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feelmyroarrrr · 14 days
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Am I a smut idea peddler? Yes
Will i keep doing it? Yes
Will @impala-dreamer never run out of prompts because I keep sending her asks and ideas? Also yes
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altraviolet · 5 months
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random writing thoughts
Random writing thoughts, cut for length
ONE:
how many lovers has TEG SW had? (before the war/emotion suppressing protocols were implemented)
what'd'ya think? successful & popular athlete but incredibly weird & reclusive...
I ask because I don't know the answer yet :D but you'll find out the answer next chapter! in the saddest way possible
when I say 40% of this shit is yolo'd, I mean it. SW's love life has not been relevant to the story, so I haven't thought much about this yet. that's how I get away with not knowing smol details til I need to.
it's not super important next chapter - it's going to be a throwaway detail buried in a paragraph of description - it doesn't have to be there. but we need to start creeping into that sort of territory.
I think he's had at least a handful. but more than that? not sure. he's never loved anyone, but he has delighted in others ;D
actually I just thought about this a bit more. I figured he'd have his pick of partners, being famous and all. and he'd probably be fascinated/intrigued/attracted to at least a few people. so maybe a handful. but anyone in the audience watching what he does with his tentacles would be TERRIFIED to be alone with him. LOL. like, you see what he does with that primary tentacle. you wanna be fucking dead??? this is hilarious now. and also I still don't have an answer xD
TWO:
AO3 only counts finished fics towards your word count for the year, so unless I finish TEG this year and/or write something else, I'm going to have ZERO word count for 2023. Which sucks, cuz I've written tens of thousands of words for TEG this year. I wish AO3 could count actually uploaded words for the year.
so that, plus we are in Spooky Times, makes me wanna write a short horror story. I have a very basic idea, I have 2 characters in mind, but I can't figure out the plot. or the reason for The Horror Thing. trying to engage the World Building Brain Cells but they are quiet right now D: I'mma blame that on being sick.
anyway. trying not to be bummed about not writing much. MUST. WRITE. I've been too tired to even go grocery shopping. I'M SO TIRED being an adult is so tiring. taking Friday off tho, I hope I write then ;A;
THREE:
I'm listening to "Thousand Miles" by Tove Lo and it made me realize this is totally a TEG Mirage/Skywarp song! so for those folks who like making playlists, there's one for ya :)
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captain-crowfish · 3 days
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They say to never trust how you feel about your life after 9PM but it's always before 9PM somewhere. Anyway I think I might be a therian
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ladytabletop · 2 years
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thinking about doing a reread of some of the series I loved as a child. would anyone like...wanna do a book club or smth for that? I’m thinking Redwall, Artemis Fowl, maybe Pendragon or Animorphs or Discworld. Or like. Should I just do a series of reviews as I finish each book?
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billie-cardboard · 29 days
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Imagine a story that starts as a gothic horror in a haunted house, and the house itself is alive and magic and evil, but then halfway through it becomes a tragic romance as the house comes to terms with itself and falls for the new resident it once tormented who has done nothing but try to protect it from local exorcists and demon hunters, but the resident just doesn't see the house the same way
Also they're both ladies
I should probably get some sleep and stop watching old Treehouse of Horror eps
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partlysmith · 1 year
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Julius Caesar memes are fun and all, but make sure you don’t forget the true meaning of the holiday: Stabbing the fuck out of politicians for their flagrant, self-serving abuse of power.
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boxingcleverrr · 2 months
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Guys I need you to know that @katerspie was going through highschool-era storage today and FOUND A THICK-ASS FOLDER FULL OF *THE ENTIRE CASSANDRA CLA(I)RE DRAMA* neatly printed out for posterity.
Just 00s Livejournal things you never knew would become legend only accessible via waybackmachine.
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swampgallows · 2 years
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i have never been to a pride event like on purpose (ive been to 'a' gay bar and i think made my way through an event once or twice but never deliberately made plans to attend a pride event) but to me the no kink at pride thing reminds me of when i was like 14 and was like "raves wouldn't be illegal if there weren't drugs there! there shouldn't be drugs at raves!!!!" then for a project in 9th grade i researched and learned my history and did an entire project including speech about how drugs have an important cultural impact on the rave scene and are inextricably tied to it, they affected the fashion and music and nature of the events being what they are the same as anything like glowsticks or kandi, and in fact it violated human rights to not be able to congregate due to a feared presence of drugs. i ran over my time (as i still do today) but people were weirded out that i had political feelings about it even though i didn't do (and still haven't done) drugs. me not doing drugs is precisely why it's important that i stand for those who choose to, because they are inherent and necessary for the culture. if i were more involved in irl lgbtqia events and stuff i feel like my stance would be the same as that considering im asexual lmao. no i don't participate in kink, yes it is necessary to protect it
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venus-dreadstar · 3 months
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Just got done shoveling snow and I'm dripping in sweat
Who wants me?
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bl4th3rs · 2 days
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Green and pink lava lamp kidcore stimboard, please! :3 Thank you.
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You’re welcome!!!
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