#depending on the source

[starryrock]

Me when the character is someone who’s been repeatedly failed by their father:

[kaurwreck]

I hate how fandom does flower symbolism; there are very few, if any, universal flower meanings, and flower symbolism is nonsense unless rooted in specificity.

[g00seg1raffe]

I feel like it's not addressed enough that Obi-Wan was so not ready for Anakin at the end of TPM. He wasn't quite ready to be a Knight, let alone take a Padawan, let alone Anakin.

Like, imagine you're 25 years old, already dealing with plenty of issues from your shitshow of a teen-to-young-adult experience when your Master - your father, your friend, your teacher, your guardian of 12 years, who you didn't always have the best relationship with but goddamn it you tried so hard and overcame so much to get to where you are - is literally murdered in front of you by a fucking demon, the ancient bogeymen of all your childhood stories who are suddenly very real and killing the people you love. Everyone looks at you now with so much awe and fear because, in a haze of grief and panic, you managed to become the first to kill a demon in a millennium - which is somehow that's enough of a qualification to immediately graduate your apprenticeship with full honours even though you never actually got the chance to finish it. Five minutes of pure terror turned your life upside down, and now you have to shoulder the burdens of a knighthood that you know you're not ready for, and find some way to live with the crushing expectations that come with your newfound, accidental and very unwanted semi-legendary status. And, if that wasn't enough already, within 24 hours of all this going down, you're also legally responsibly for raising a hyperactive 9 year old ex-slave Child of Prophesy with crippling CPTSD and more power than god. You somehow, somehow have to raise this boy to be both a good Knight - which you haven't had a chance to figure out how to be yourself yet - and a functional person - which was never and easy thing for you to be but is getting harder by the day. You desperately want to do right by your new Padawan and honour your Master's dying wish but you're not ready for any of this, you didn't ask for it, and you're trying so hard to not repeat Qui-Gon's mistakes whilst also being painfully aware that you can never live up to what he could have been. Then there's homework and missions and nightmares and you worry that Anakin isn't making friends and you haven't slept more than 3 hours a night in weeks and the President of the Galaxy is pressuring you for some Private Alone Time with your child -

How the fuck is anyone supposed to handle that?

[corsairspade]

every time i interact with the silmarillion i get weirdly excited about the fact that the authorial intent is that it's a translation of historical accounts. it's a tertiary source! none of it is first hand. it makes it so much more interesting. was the legendarium a mannish tradition? what parts of these were written by pengolodh? by rumil? what loremaster has recorded this? would there be bias in the accounting? can i trust what i'm reading, from this viewpoint, this many years after it would have been written?

what has been mythologised, what has been sanitised, what is third-hand written on rumour? it's such an interesting thing to consider.

[why-bless-your-heart]

"And are these fanfics better than published novels in the room with us right now?"

[greenteabelle]

idk how to explain this but there's so much potential in bob being a 阴湿男

like this is a man who's literally consumed by an emptiness in his mind because he doesn't see any possibility of life getting better. to the point where he signs up for a medical study that screams "SHADY SHIT" from a thousand kilometres away, maybe just the tiniest bit hopeful, but mostly accepting that he would die then and there. because he couldn't find any reason to save himself.

then yelena comes along.

when they first met, bob was an amnesiac who had no experience in fighting and no powers (at the time), yet yelena took one look at him and said, "yeah, we're going to figure out a way to escape. together."

when he first confesses about his pain, yelena listens and understands. she even shows him why she does, albeit completely unintentional on her part. she's someone who feels the exact same emptiness, the exact same void, yet she's still dragging him around corners and bullets, determined to stay alive. together.

when he meets her as sentry, egotistic, arrogant, and actually quite okay with beating them up, yelena pulls her punches at every turn. she tries to stop the others from fighting, from hurting him. somehow, he feels himself hesitate with her.

lastly, the void. yelena belova literally pulls him away from being consumed by his darkness. SHE LITERALLY IS THE LIGHT TO HIS DARKNESS.

so you're telling me that everyone's somehow thinking that bob is the golden retriever to yelena's black cat???

in my eyes, bob would kill someone without a single blink if it meant that yelena would be by his side. sure, he would hesitate if it came to the rest of the thunderbolts* like that's my found family right there! but if it came to them versus yelena, yeah he would think for a moment then annihilate them with a snap.

in my eyes, bob would stay up at night, completely disregarding his need to sleep in favour of watching the way yelena breathes when she's asleep, the way she shifts under the covers, the way she unconsciously holds his hand because it's warm. he would memorise everything about her, even the number of eyelashes she has.

in my eyes, bob would shut down completely when she's not around, because he knows that she could leave if she wanted to. she could do better, find someone stronger, more stable, more normal (at least that's what the void whispers when the night is quiet) and he can't stand it. and the thing is, even if, or maybe when, yelena eventually leaves, he can't blame her.

he'll just make sure to be right behind her.

[thhouseofblack]

Ancestories of the Greek Heroes of the Iliad

Tracing the royal bloodlines of the characters of the iliad because i have an obsession with family trees:

Odysseus: 24% Immortal & 75.8125% Mortal

12.5% Olympian (through Hermes, his Maternal Great-Grandfather)

6.25% Others Gods of the Pantheon (through Hesperos, his Maternal 3x Great-Grandfather)

5.22% Titan/Nymph (through his Paternal 2x Great-Grandmother and Paternal 4x Great-Grandmother - the same person)

31.25% Other mortal lines (not specified/no data)

25% Ithacan (likely through his Paternal Grandmother)

11.75% Athenian (through his Paternal Great-Grandmother and Paternal 3x Great-Grandmother - who happened to be sisters)

6.25% Phocis (through his Paternal Grandfather)

1.5625% Phthian (through his Paternal 3x Great-Grandfather)

Diomedes: 14.55% Immortal & 85.1875% Mortal

10.25% Olympian (of Ares and Poseidon to be exact)

4.3% Titan/Nymph (through his Paternal 3x Great-Grandfather)

49.25% Argive (through both his Maternal and Paternal ancestry)

12.5% Olenian (through his Paternal Grandmother)

9.375% Thessalian (through his Paternal 3x Great-Grandmother)

9.375% Pylos (through his Paternal 2x Great-Grandmother)

4.6875% Aetolian (through his Father)

Achilles: 87.5% Immortal & 12.5% Mortal

71.875% Titan/Nymph (through his Mother Nereid Thetis and Paternal Great-Grandmother Naiad Aegina)

15.625% Olympian (through Zeus - his Paternal Great-Grandfather)

12.5% Athenian (through his Paternal Grandmother)

Patroclus: 87.5% Immortal & 12.5% Mortal (this depends on who you take as his mother but if you take it as Peleus' Aunt Damocrateia then)

56.25% Titan/Nymph (through his Paternal Grandmother Naiad Aegina)

31.25% Olympian (through Zeus - his Maternal Grandfather)

6.25% Arcadian (through his Paternal Great-Grandmother)

6.25% Phthian (through his Paternal Grandfather)

Agamemnon & Menelaus: 68.75% Immortal & 31.25% Mortal

50% Titan/Nymph (through Atlas - their Paternal 2x Great-Grandfather twiceover and Paternal 3x Great-Grandfather & through Pasiphae - their Maternal Great-Grandmother)

18.75% Olympian (through Zeus - their Paternal and Maternal 2x Great-Grandfather)

31.25% Cretan (through their Mother)

Ajax the Greater: 62.5% Immortal & 37.5% Mortal

34.375% Titan/Nymph (through his Maternal Great Grandmother)

28.125% Olympian (through Zeus- his Paternal Great-Grandfather, and Poseidon - his Maternal Great-Grandfather)

25% Salamis Island (through his Mother)

12.5% Athenian (through his Paternal Grandmother)

Teucer: 63.875% Immortal & 27% Mortal

57.875% Titan/Nymph (through the many Naiad daughters of River Gods - Maternal Grandmother, Maternal 2x Great-Grandmother, Maternal 3x Great-Grandmother)

16% Olympian (through Zeus - his Paternal Great-Grandfather)

12.5% Percote (likely through his Maternal Great-Grandmother)

12.5% Athenian (through his Paternal Grandmother)

Nestor: 31.25% Immortal & 68.75% Mortal

31.25% Olympian (through Poseidon - his Paternal Grandfather and Maternal 2x Great-Grandfather)

37.5% Arcadian (through his Paternal Great Grandmother and Maternal Grandfather)

12.5% Aeolian (through his Paternal Great Grandfather)

12.5% Other mortal lines (not specified/no data)

6.25% Orchmenian/Minyan (through his Mother)

[rosewoodrambler]

MILLIE BRADY AS ÆTHELFLÆD, LADY OF THE MERCIANS

"[...] Women, become harden'd by necessity, [and] are often more robust than Men. […] Woman may be enured to all the hardships of a campaign, and to meet all the terrors of it."

[bizzxis]

Something I think Mhin really needs to hear.

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

Rhea: Can Daemon and I have some privacy, please?

Laenor: Ha, they're going to do it!

Rhaenyra: Totally.

Laena: Yep.

Rhea: No, we're going to fight.

Rhea: And then maybe afterwards we'll do it.

[robbyykeene]

I actually really like robby and tory together even though I initially thought I wouldn’t, but their relationship is pretty unhealthy. the reason robby is so unbalanced without tory is because she is maybe the only person in his life who truly loves him and believes in him. so when he loses that, it only highlights the absence of it in the rest of his life and unravels every other aspect of his life and the relationships within it. and i just know that we are likely going to be forced to watch miguel and johnny give him “tough love” when he inevitably underperforms in the tournament—and im sure it will work—but it will also be unsatisfying as a viewer because robby doesn’t need tough love, he just needs actual love. he needs to be prioritized by the adults around him and supported unconditionally, even when he fails.

[kurtsworm96]

do you ever think about how fucked up it is that Amanda was at oldest 21 and youngest 18 when she was at homeward bound clinic. and she was being paraded around by Jill in the early stages of her recovery when she was "good" but when she got difficult she was declared a "lost cause" and wasnt given the support she needed from a literal support centre for drug addicts. and that she was dating a man who was at LEAST 10 years older than her and also a drug addict. Like no one is ever acting in her best interest I'm going to start maiming

[vaguely-concerned]

bunter keeping peter from being swallowed up by an evil bog with the kind of hysterical strength otherwise only known by mothers deadlifting cars to save their tender babes is something that can actually be so personal

[essektheylyss]

me: if I run a zine it's gonna be as low effort as possible

also me, an hour later: what if I 3d printed a mini printing press for this purpose

[sammys-magical-au]

Fives: well I don’t really have a problem with Sibling. They read us stories. That’s one nice thing about them.

Fives: if they have to leave the 501st, we’ll never know what happens to the tooka doll who wants to become a real tooka! None of us can read!

Rex: I think the General reads.

Rex: *looks at Anakin as he squints at a datapad screen* maybe…

Fives: but can he do the voices? Sibling does the voices.

Echo: he’s got us there.

[fbfh]

Imagine topping Leo in a chair?

LITERALLY love you for this. riding Leo in a chair is in like your top 5 favorite ways to ride Leo. your faces are so close together and he can feel every intimate rockwing bouncing squeeze of your tight juicy little hole gripping his throbbing cock like a vise. his eyes are so wide and his grip on your soft hips is nearly enough to leave pretty little fingertip bruises polkadotting your thighs (which he's obsessed with) and your hips (which he's also obsessed with) and your ass (are you sensing a pattern here????) and god everything you do drives him crazy but CHRIST the way you hold his face so sweetly in your pretty hands, so innocent and tender while simultaneously milking his cock for all he's got. and he'll give it to you. Leo will let you ride him in that chair that he can't look at after that without going half mast. he'll let you ride him until he's shooting blanks, until both of your cum drips on the floor, mixing in messy creamy beautiful puddles. Leo will throw his head back in pleasure, panting, chest heaving and giving you the best view of his perfect neck that's just begging to be covered in hickeys and bites. Leo will let you ride him in a chair until he passes out. can't walk. pounding down gatorade and liquid iv to try and rehydrate. and he'll thank you for it.