#book livers

[eloquenthubak1982]

Old book dark academia

[ratatatastic]

pretty boy spotted in dania beach alert pretty boy spotted in dania beach alert!

6.29.24 (x)

[colorfulplasma]

i would've pushed him at the playground ngl

[justsimpleaestetic]

Me: *finds a new book on a site*

Wow what a great purchase it would be

My bank account: DON’T YOU DARE

[gingermintpepper]

I was reading the Orphic Argonautica last night and the author has mentioned the various methods of divination Apollo knows and guess what? One of them is prophesying by studying the entrails of organisms. As soon as I read that I was reminded of your headcanon of Apollo being into hepatoscopy for divination and I giggled.

Awww 😳😳It's so nice of you to think of me!

Hehe, so fun fact, the overall practice of divination by studying the entrails of animals (including blood, lungs, intestines and so forth) is extispicy while hepatoscopy is specifically using the liver in prophecy and divination readings.

If, like magic in old text exactly like the sort Medea is described as using, the types of divination spoken about in the texts are reflections of the popular divination cultures of the time, I much rather prefer ascribing those to Apollo than I do some vague, somewhat mysterious power which he uses to see the will of the fates, especially since it's mentioned a few times that he'll teach his sons the language of the birds and how to read their signs and so on and so forth.

In short: HEPATOSCOPY APOLLO IS COOL!! HE'S SO NEAT!! Apollo at the altar who predicts the coming droughts and famines from the entrails of his flock!! It's just such a neat little image (to me)!

Also the Orphic Argonautica bangs, genuinely I hope you enjoy it! Orpheus is an insane man and I do not think him along with the collective subspecies of mythical man known as 'sons of Apollo' get enough credit for how truly unhinged they are at any given point in time.

[hauntingofthelamb]

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

As much as I love the rgb siblings I really really want Lloyd to also interact and have meaningful bond with the other three and his Uncle! They're his brothers too! We see so little of Lloyd with those three!

YES GOD HARD AGREE I PROMISE THE OTHER THREE WILL GET THEIR TIME AND ESPECIALLY SOME WITH WU

(In fact Jay, Zane, and Cole get to be the first to have real one-on-one time with Lloyd's training and I am reallyyyyyyyy looking forward to those scenes *gnaws table*)

And ofc anyone that knows me knows that I adore (the potential) of Wu and Lloyd's relationship to the moon and back!

[tearsasflirting]

Bath Episode— Ladies!

[virtuouslibertines69]

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn Art by Roberto Ferri

[vitamin-zeeth]

Just finished reading the button house archives I don't think I'm ever gonna be the same

[swaggypsyduck]

five comfort characters, five tags

tagged by @rafasbiscuits thank u love

oh man y'all r gonna think i'm mentally ill (as per usual) but at least it's consistent uk? anyways this was very difficult to do so in no particular order:

1. Sakata Gintoki

smthn about grown men who went through unspeakable trauma that didn't sign up to be dads but end up adopting kids that bring me so much comfort...

2. Kougami Shinya

his obsessive drive for revenge leading to untold amounts of mental illness drew me to him...

3. Lin Beifong

she's just like me fr (i will not elaborate iykyk)

4. Nico Robin

i already loved her before her backstory and then her backstory punted me into the ground. all she wanted to do was read 😭😭

5. Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

u might say "but swaggy, what about the people he murdered?" and to that i say "what murda?!"

tagging: @karotland @mountinez @cryingforcrocodiles @seedlessmuffins @roobylavender

[wingsofhcpe]

THEY PUT A FEATHER ON HIS HAT THERE'S NO WAY THIS WASN'T A FUCKIN EASTER EGG IM SCREAMING

[scrawnytreedemon]

Writing for this ZelZant fic I've been working on-and-off since mid-June. God these two are so fun to bounce off each other-- Not even romantically at this point, just gritting pleasantries through their teeth while simultaneously having moments of curiosity.

[I'm gonna continue rambling under the cut in case this gets very long, lol <3]

To grab some stuff directly from Discord chats:

It's just. They're so soooo. Twilight Princess' whole baseline is power, who gets it, what they do with it, and what that entails, and I find these two in particular to be especially fun in this regard, since they're both trying to project an aura of legitimacy moreso than the other main characters(Link is an Ordon goatherd who has to take up power but is not to use it beyond this liberatory purpose, Midna hides her true nature as Twilight Princess and doubts herself even as her status is crucial, Ganondorf wants to throw everything out because he recognises the whole institution as corrupt even as this version of him gestures to divine mandate as proof of his own competency, ect.).

Zelda is the would-be monarch of Hyrule, a bloody institution that, even if not responsible for the banishment of the Twili themselves, are heavily implied to have enacted genocide on the Gerudo, whom I consider Zant(and Midna!) diaspora of. At the same time, Zant himself is undeniably a cruel, oppressive figure not only robbing Zelda of her birthright, but all of Hyrule of its freedoms. He's a strongman dictator, hyped up on religious fervour and tight-lipped egomania.

This is by no means a super deep or particularly "great" exploration of the topic, but for me, in this little context, this weird topsy-turvy dynamic is fascinating. Historically, Zelda's ancestors were the ones doing the oppressing, but in the here and now Zant is trying to enact it upon her, while also leveraging this paternalistic, politely-misogynistic affect. It's everything he should, in theory, stand-against, but Zant for all his talk is nothing but an opportunist.

(He has no morals, he has no values-- He really is a Tory! My god 😭)

But like, despite all that, I do think the ways in which they are similar lend themselves to a degree of chemistry nevertheless. I think even without the backdrop of war and conquest, it'd remain stilted, and they'd still have issues with each other... But, oh!

They're fascinating. They remind me of those late-19th century early-20th not-quite-aristocratic couples forreal. Fucked up. Love that for them <3

[puzzled-pegasus]

What if Joaquín saw Manolo burst out of the ground and grab Maria and kiss her and looked at them all sad bc he wanted a kiss from manolo too ☹

[felidaereverse]

i got up the energy to clean my room today and YEP having a nice living space is basically magic. for improving your mood. getting this image tattooed on my retinas so that i never have a messy room ever again