#i found it persuasive

[thelibraryiscool]

What is the name of the Greek veiling book you read?

It's called Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece! I'm not a hellenist so you can take my assessment with a grain of salt, but I really enjoyed it - the methodological grounding is compelling and there's some really lovely close readings of the art and texts.

[a2zillustration]

The most persuasive wizard you've ever met

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[mysunfreckle]

Something something Jane Austen letting sweet tempered, yielding women resist the persuasion of people they greatly esteem when it concerns their sense of right and wrong, something something parallels:

The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would not be safe for her—that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was firm where she felt herself to be right.

~ Pride and Prejudice

But Isabella became only more and more urgent, calling on her in the most affectionate manner, addressing her by the most endearing names. (…) But all in vain; Catherine felt herself to be in the right, and though pained by such tender, such flattering supplication, could not allow it to influence her.

~ Northanger Abbey

“You should have distinguished,” replied Anne. “You should not have suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty, but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated.”

~ Persuasion

“If it were possible for me to do otherwise” said [Fanny], with another strong effort; “but I am so perfectly convinced that I could never make him happy, and that I should be miserable myself.”

~ Mansfield Park

[hauntingsofhouses]

guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.

[trebuchet151]

Art dump part ?: more dnd

This guy was in two campaigns back to back, Lancer and Hyperlanes. He was human in the first one and an astral elf in the second, only the elf version got a portrait oops. His name is Ravi, and his story arc is best summarized as mechanic falls in love and tries to run away with a sentient AI. Romantic tragedy ensues. His callsign was Orpheus for a reason.

Art from early 2023

[jigsaw-yer]

This is how this scene went, right?

[padfootastic]

in a turn of events that doesn’t surprise anyone im sure, @impishtubist has caused yet another scene to be stuck in my head until i wrote it down. so, have some sexy, greying sirius; a deeply thirsty, appreciative james who won’t let him dye it; and a very-fed-up-of-his-parents-antics harry for prongsfoot wednesday!

x

Harry entered the house with ‘I’m home!’ on his lips that died an instant death as soon as he registered what he was seeing.

“Er,” he hesitated. Does he really want to—? One more look at the scene in front of him and he decided to bite the bullet. Better to clear the air now than keep stewing on it later.

“Um. Is this a—kink? A fetish? Should I leave and never come back?”

In any other scenario, the way both his parents froze and looked at him with wide eyes would’ve been comical.

If only Dad wasn’t straddling his Papa on the ground, one of his hands holding both of Papa’s above him with disturbing ease.

“Er—“

“It’s not what it looks like, Haz!” Dad yelped, cutting across Papa who’s face and neck were turning a steady pink. “I swear.”

“Then why are you still—like that?” Harry asked, deciding to play it safe and look at the boring grey couch in the living room instead. Nothing scandalous going on there.

He could hear the scrambling of feet, a few thumps, and a mini-yelp, absently wondering about the amount of noise the simple act of getting up could produce.

“Right.” Dad cleared his throat. “So, Harry, would you please tell your Papa that he is, under no circumstances, allowed to dye his hair?”

Harry blinks, turning to his other, exasperated, father in silent question.

“Harry, will you please tell your Dad that this is my hair and I can do with it as I please?”

“Not when you promised yourself to me!” Dad yelps and Harry is hit with an intense wave of regret at instigating this.

“Promised—?”

“Yes! Our wedding, you said, and I quote, ‘I give myself to you, James Potter, mind, body and soul’, don’t tell me you forgot.”

“Of course I didn’t forget,” Papa throws his hands up in the air. “But c’mon James—this is not what I meant when I said body!”

“What, you think I only wanted you for that ars—“

“Dad!” Harry, yelps, mortified. He can feel his cheeks heating in a violent blush. He can feel a similar flush creeping up Papa’s neck. Sadly, his words don’t have the deterring effect he’d intended.

“I mean, it is spectacular, don’t get me wrong, but you’re more than just a beautiful body, Si!”

“James, please, have some mercy for our child, if not me,” Papa says. Thankfully, this seems to register as Dad’s eye widened, part horror and part apology. Harry waves it away tiredly; though he’s no less embarrassed every time it happens, growing up in the Potter household with two extremely affectionate parents has exposed him to much worse. He’s accepted it as his lot in life.

“Er—yeah, anyway,” he coughs, ruffling his hair, “Bottom line—Sirius isn’t allowed to dye his hair.”

“I literally never agreed to that.”

“Too bad because you will,” Dad says, slowly moving towards Papa with a look on his face that Harry is loath to describe as predatory. If only it wasn’t so true.

“Oh?” Papa’s left eyebrow rises extraordinarily high, as it tends to do quite often. He crosses his arms over his chest in challenge. The motion makes his Dad smile.

“Mhm.” The two of them are chest-to-chest by this point, staring into each other’s eyes. Harry could probably conduct a whole rave party right here, right then, and they wouldn’t even notice. That is when he decides it’s high time he should step in—not literally, Merlin, no—before they end up doing something that makes him try to run away (again).

“So I was right—it is a kink,” Harry says dryly, once again regretting starting this entire conversation in the first place. He should’ve just turned back around and gone to the Weasleys instead.

“Harry, no—“

x

Three years later, Harry—who’s almost blissfully forgotten about the entire incident—walks into his parents’ house to an almost identical scene, just with his Papa on top this time. This time, he makes the sensible choice he still regrets not making all those years ago, and walks right back out the door.

Let those two sort it out on their own. Merlin knows his intervention hadn’t helped a bit the last time around.

[wellthebardsdead]

Y’all when I say things went south when I joined @pearsaregrossfightme in playing baldurs gate together. I mean I got the first nat 1 right out of the pod and it quite literally blew up in my face.

I had- SO MANY BAD ROLLS!

We tpk’d once and nearly died SEVERAL TIMES!

Yes we’re still playing together again 😂

[invece-sto-sdraiato]

I need to specify, whatever is being said below is NOT my opinion, it's my brother's. He doesn't have tumblr so he wanted to make a post on here. I'm just typing this and giving the phone to him so here you go (I will react to this in the tags after I read)

Hi this is her brother. I wasn't soo excited for the album as much as her; to tell the truth I didn't care at all. I know it may be insulting for you hardcore JO fans but hear me out. I am a joker out fan (obviously) but my sister doesn't actually know till what extent. Because I LOVE THEM SO MUCH but i can NEVER tell how I really feel for unknown reasons. First of all, I didn't listen to all of them but plastika is my most favourite 😍. I listened to demoni too (I don't want to sound as if I'm musically brilliant but I act like I am) I think bojan sounds a bit tired but the music is too good to be put in text and the crowd....... Listening to plastika didn't make me cry but it made me feel something, I lost all the feeling behind my eyes, I was awaken. I never told her about this or any of my true feelings about JO because I really don't know whyy! That's all I have to say. All the other feelings can't be put into words please don't think I'm overacting or exaggerating. Please don't be offended abt what I said about demoni. Don't get me wrong I LOVE DEMONI to high and above. I like Jan. Actually I think I like Jure more. I can't choose.

[orcelito]

Actually we r at 6 months now without any major deaths in my life, which is great! That's the longest I've gone without any major deaths since last May! The second longest was 4 months between July and November last year. Wow !

[bardic-inspo]

Baldur’s Gate III is a good game I stg

[armoricaroyalty]

This man does not have curtains in his apartment but he has a 1,400 dollar knife that is only for cutting fish.

[dontwanderoff]

literally such a ridiculous amount of exhaustion and stress in my body rn like this is a jokeeeee

[lunarrolls]

it’s almost been a full day since the last episode and i still feel like i’ve been kicked down a cliff. where do we even go from here. help

[kissmefriendly]

Talking about historical fiction with my grandma, trying unsubtley to get her to read the Aubrey Maturin books with me, she looks it up, finds this instead

and has informed me she will start reading the first book immediately and sends me a photo of her desktop screen so I can read it along with her - biggest Uno Reverse ever pulled on me, touché gran

[weirdwoodeyes]

i don’t think it’s a reactionary position to feel frustrated that some students, usually in us history classes, seem only be there to put together a bulleted list of antiracist talking points