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[Shadow holds Rosie, standing at the door. Amy rubs her upper arms while looking everywhere but Shadow's eyes. Shadow's not doing much better.] Amy: (´｡•ᵕ•｡`) Thanks again for dinner. Shadow: Of course. Amy: Heh. You didn't have to. You know that. Shadow: I wouldn't have done this if I didn't want to. Amy: I- yeah... I know. [Amy bites her lip.] Amy: Hey uh... we could do this more often if you wanted. Shadow: Do what? Amy: Just- do dinner, here, o-or your place, or anywhere. I'm not picky. [Silence. Shadow hides their shaking hands by readjusting their grip on Rosie.] Shadow: If you would like to. Amy: I would like to. Shadow: Alright. Amy: Okay. Shadow: Good. Amy: Yeah. Shadow: I- I leave you to the rest of your evening then. [Amy nods, lips pursed as they stare at the carpet.] Amy: Text me when you get home? Shadow: (¯.¯٥)? Amy: I know you Chaos Control. I still want to make sure you got there safe. Shadow:... Alright. Amy: Okay. [Silence again. Shadow takes a step back from the doorway and into the hall.] Shadow: Goodnight, Amy. [Before she can reply, Shadow is gone with a flash. Amy shuts the door and stands there for a moment. Then, there is a bing. Amy pulls her phone out and smiles. All too soon, however, the joy slips off her face. She turns away from the door, letting her back fall against it as she slides down to sit on the floor. Her head falls into her hands.] Amy: ... Oh no.

[staranon95]

great news for skating aus

[osc-piastri81]

we‘ve done it, we survived the 2023 season

[ladylha]

[squritlesquad]

so how do we feel that oasis is back gang

[cometblaster2070]

*cracks spine* okay, let’s go, i’ve put this off for about a year now, and im really sorry, and im not going to put it off any longer.

(please forgive me @feline17ff)

this is the first post in this weird series; please dont mind me, i am a nuisance.

Destiny 2.0

we have previously discussed a few characters and the tragedies that befall them because of their story, but due to the nature of this fucked up franchise; we’re going to be talking about a few others.

Cedar Wood is someone who is not real. You might think she is. She’s just like a person isn’t she? She thinks, she feels, she loves just like someone who is real

but she isn’t

she’s just a puppet, right?

someone who is cursed to tell the truth. who cannot do anything but. who is sometimes forced to tell the truth against her will simply for some cruel person’s amusement. someone who is sometimes kept at a distance by her friends because they are afraid of telling her secrets that may be accidently divulged later.

Cedar Wood is real. she is no less a person than anyone else is. and while she may not always be able to express what she is able to say, she paints her emotions away; trying to explain what words cannot.

Cedar Wood is eager to follow her father’s destiny because she wishes, she hopes to be free of her curse and someday become a real girl.

there is something so inexplicably sad about wanting to feel real so badly.

hunter huntsman. despite his name (which is horrific, but i digress), there is nothing of a hunter in this boy.

he’s a vegetarian. he’s someone who sabotages the traps his father sets out for the animals. he’s on the cheer squad. he’s sweet and kind and sincere and he loves ashlynn ella with all of his heart.

hunter’s ‘destiny’ destiny isnt too big of a deal for him. he’s a part of two stories and honestly, i think he’s pretty happy in both of them; after all, he’s no villain. in snow white’s tale, he refuses to kill her, and warns her of the queen’s ill intentions, while in red riding hood, he’s the hero who saves the day.

but the thing is, there is something hunter’s destiny does not entail

or rather, someone: ashlynn ella.

as destiny dictates, someone like hunter, a simple commoner; cannot be with someone like ashlynn, a princess, a royal, someone with a big role to play.

why does it matter? why can’t they just be happy? why does hunter have to be molded into what they think will fit best for his story? why cant he just be with the girl he loves?

why are they so cruel to a child?

there’s a story we’ve all heard before. 

a story about a brother and a sister who were left in the woods by their father after there was nothing more for them to eat at home. how they found a house made of candy and were lured and trapped by the cannibal witch to whom it belonged. and how they finally bested her and escaped to warn the world of her evil.

what an utterly absurd lie created by two horrible children.

and yes, while the candy witch herself rather enjoys the controversy caused by her horrific tale, there is someone who does not.

ginger breadhouse. such a kind young girl, whose only desire is to bake and make people happy.

yet ginger is feared and rebuffed time and time again for what people assume her to be: a cannibal. a vicious, cruel monster who represents the worst in all of us. someone who uses her gifts simply to exploit others.

ginger cooks and bakes because she simply wants to; it is her passion. she just wants to share her treats with others and to just let them be happy. she doesn’t want to be the cannibal witch. she doesnt want to poison people. she just wants to be a pastry chef.  

it just isnt fair.

duchess swan is a royal through and through, and if anyone has a problem with that, then they could go fuck themselves.

it is no secret that duchess doesnt get a ‘happily ever after’ like most princesses, and yes, if you tend to remind her of that, you may get kicked in some very sensitive places by ballet shoes.

but duchess swan does not see herself as a coward. yes, she may be bitter about her story. yes, she may be envious of others such as the ever so perfect apple white, or ashlynn fucking ella.

yes, she may desperately want out of this fate. yes, she may be terrified knowing that what happened to her mother will happen to her. yes, she may try to swap stories with other princesses just to get a happier ending and to make sure that her story ends without her true love inadvertently betraying her.

but duchess is not a coward. and by whatever god there is in their fucked up world, duchess swan refuses to act like those ‘rebels’ and go against her destiny.

even though she might die. even though she’ll be stuck a swan forever. even though she might be the villain of her story.

duchess is a child who has been fed this horrific future from birth.

and apple white. god. what is there to say about apple white?

the perfect heir to the throne of ever after high? the girl who has it all? the one who is so effortlessly perfect? who has people fawning over her every move? who is the prettiest, smartest, and most popular girl in school? the girl with the ‘best’ story? the girl who is going to end up with everything, just like destiny intended for her?

her perfect happily ever after.

except, that isnt true, is it?

apple is not perfect. her hair is blonde instead of ‘as black as coal’. she hides the fact that she wears glasses and is nearly blind without them, because that is an ‘imperfection’. she is supposed to be the most popular, but is instead beaten by a rebel like raven queen. 

her prince isnt even a prince, for crying out loud. the ever so perfect daring charming is not her prince, rather, his sister, darling charming, the white knight, is apple’s true love.

all her life, the expectations set upon apple white have suffocated her and distorted her vision of what life she has and wants. she has been fed lies after lies about what she has to be, and what her ‘perfect’ future has to be like.

she is afraid of messing up. she is afraid of not being perfect. she is afraid from straying from the comfortable bubble of her destiny. she is afraid of deviating from her ‘happily ever after’ because she is literally terrified that she will die.

apple white, for all her bravado, is simply a scared child who doesnt know what to do.

and the truth is, the rest of them are like that as well.

they’re just kids.

and they’re afraid of what’s going to happen to them in the future.

[hayakawashousewife]

WE HAVE THE TOP POST IN THE AKI TAG TONIGHT WOOOO

[dogtreatsmart]

DogNews@DogTreatSmart

#DogNews: French bulldog named Winston wins best in show at the National Dog Show.

[hellspawnmotel]

girls day out

[bubba-luz]

[appaeve]

that’s a wrap!

[beybuniki]

happy yaoi friday to 19yo bakugo for having his sexuality crisis & to deku for helping out

might add some more thoughts tmrw but this was fun i think young adult bakugo would have some things to sort out help

[treibholz-des-universums]

strawhat crew (+ace [and mihawk i guess]) as tweets part 16

more incorrect one piece

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet