#it's so interesting

[mulderscully]

I prayed you would come. And you did.

[my-name-is-apollo]

One of the best parts of rereading the Homeric hymn to Apollo is that I get to read these moments again:

"But Leto alone stays by the side of Zeus who delights in thunder...and the Father gives him nectar in a golden cup welcoming his dear son, while the other gods make him sit down there, and queenly Leto rejoices because she bare a mighty son and an archer."

– Homeric hymn to Delian Apollo (trans. Evelyn-White)

"And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great hearts as they watch their dear son playing among the undying gods."

– Homeric hymn to Pythian Apollo (trans. Evelyn-White)

It seems so domestic and mundane. Zeus has plenty of moments where he dotes on his children, but it's really rare to see him do that alongside his lover. He is relishing these moments with Leto, who stands beside him. This is more of a family moment than just a father - son moment.

[edible-emerald]

The new spoke video makes a lot more sense if you view it as him dissociating the entire time

[c-tepx]

i love how these scenes mirror each other

[rochenn]

Fascinated by the very peripheral role of nukes and nuclear energy in SW. Like you know it exists, it does in Legends and is alluded to in canon, but it is so artfully ignored? Makes me wanna write a fic where a radioactive threat of some sort is involved

[butch-pilot]

feral hound (mech pilot) who growls and snaps at anyone who isn't their handler and is always so disobedient that they need constant correction, but that's the only way they receive affection from their handler so it forms a constant cycle

[pangaeaseas]

sirius believing in bcj's innocence is really really compelling to me (and also imo evidence BCJ...probably didn't know regulus since Sirius knew regulus was a death eater and might want to make assumptions his friends also were but that's a different point) bc Sirius is pretty perceptive and so it's always interesting when he comes to the wrong conclusion and in this case? I think he saw something true in BCJ as abused by his father and then projected his own problems onto him. like the way he thinks about bcj is like...he's just like meeee! except without independent agency. and that lack of agency is where Sirius goes wrong and takes BCJ at his word instead of considering that an abused child might go looking for an alternate parental figure in Voldemort....

[willowser]

not that i like seeing shouto getting whooped but. there just is something about dabi coming at him in full force, with a ferocity he's kept at bay for so long. like he truly is soooooo unbelievably powerful, it's mind-blowing to me every time.

[lucky-clover-gazette]

hey. why are these genuinely good. why are these verses from pokemon game beautiful.

[elvhendis]

Can't stop thinking about the fact that Astarion has a mirror next to him in camp at all times. Why is it there? Is it so he can cruelly remind himself every day of what he is? Or is it there to show that he's perhaps hopeful? The tadpole got rid of his other vampire banes after all, maybe he's hoping that one day he'll wake up and see his face again?

[thefriendoforatioisdead]

The idea that Tiwa is Ran's ex makes total sense because this woman clearly has a thing for rebels who are ready to defy anyone to bring truth/justice and put their own career at risk in the process

[donkeys-waffles]

(This is so long, but it almost wraps up my thoughts on the most recent chapter. You've been warned. This is also in no way trying to justify AFO's current actions, I'm just over-analyzing the demon baby's childhood and how that turned into the adult demon we see today :>)

Something else I found interesting about the leaks. Baby AFO is killing people, I'm assuming for reasons of survival, either from those people being threats or they have something he needs.

But something that's really been on my mind lately is a child's perspective on death.

Children learn to love and fear different concepts by parental figures in their life, or adults in general really. It's like a pack complex, they see others react a certain way to their environment and learn how to react as a result. Children really learn how to human from other adults, which deeply shapes their view of themselves and the world around them.

But another concept that is taught to children is the concept of death... Children learn that mortality exists, and that it is something to be afraid of... By adults...

But two orphans that raised themselves in an apocalyptical society, from what we can tell from birth, they didn't have adults around to teach them anything, let alone that people do die and that it's a bad thing. At least they didn't have that during some of their most pivotal developmental years.

We see AFO as a monster, a child born evil, but for 1. We see this from a what could be considered the most unreliable narrator. 2. We don't see how he started killing, what made him start? The scenes we've seen thus far could be the first murders, but do we have evidence that it really was.

Baby Afo is so young at this point that his idea of death is a very limited one. Normally, we really start to process death and what it truly means at around 10, maybe. But he's very young here. It's possible he was attacked and so he attacked until the threat stopped moving. He was so young he may not have ever truly understood the gravity of what he had done until he grew older and was desensitized to it. Or maybe he was a hungry child with his feeble brother, who didn't know how to get any food. He wasn't given any help from the adults, possibly even paralleling Tenko. But he saw adults attacking other adults and getting food as a result. So, he followed their lead, like a child would mimic a parent, and he got a reward for him and his brother, food. Children have a large pleasure/pain complex, if their needs aren't met, they are often impatient until they receive what they want or need and can't emotionally regulate like adults can (another thing taught to them by adults). He doesn't understand that he is killing these people, he just knows he needs to stop them as a threat (either to protect him and his brother or feed him and his brother,) make sure they stop moving so they can't hurt him. It's also possible he wants to steal their quirks, something flashy, another part of the reward complex in his brain and his barely contained kleptomania.) And mind you, much of this is talking about normal human children... Not children with meta-abilities which are looking more like parasitic diseases with each new update. (Diseases that control the host and deeply influences their actions, mannerisms, and behavior. Also, something I will probably go on another rant about, let's be honest.)

Another interesting thing is this is from AFO's point of view. And all I've been seeing is that "AFO was born evil," or commenting on how horrifying AFO looked like as a child.

If this is how All for One sees himself... Well, that makes sense why he's such a damn bastard today. Not even as an infant did, he give himself the grace of looking like a normal child. We, the viewer is meant to see him as evil from birth, because that is how AFO sees himself. It's so interesting because one could even argue that AFO isn't happy, doesn't view himself as someone who has a heart or compassion. It's like because the villain in the comic book reminded him of himself, he's modeled himself to be like the villain, someone without care, someone who doesn't love. With Yoichi's death, we get a panel of the original shock, the remorse, and that progresses to the blank, empty, look in his eyes with tears falling down his face. He's always seen himself as the villain and refuses to recognize that he is indeed human. Which obviously from a DFO perspective makes sense in a truly heartbreaking way.

But I just can't get over how he views himself, it's creepy, unsettling, almost like he's afraid of himself. Like he views himself in the way his own victims view him. But someone who I always imagined views himself like a god, who's always in the right (he does believe he's always right,) I was expecting more emphasis on everything he did for his brother, the nicer clothes, he didn't look malnourished while AFO did, things like that. Or maybe a normal looking child (or hell even an unrealistically majestic child, or something.) the parts of himself that showed power, without the unexplained murder we got. I was expecting an attempt to prove how he was in the right, how he was trying to protect his brother. Emphasize the anger he still feels at losing him. But no, from what I can tell it's mainly the evil things he's done, with a small glimpse of them reading together. It lacks the depth, like he wants to appear flat instead of completely multidimensional. And honestly, that's IF he's being honest, which in and of itself is unlikely. But with how he's illustrated himself, you can look at it two ways, it's even more likely that he'd start a family, or it's less likely, because he was born evil and all he's cares about is possessing OFA/his bother. His backstory just gives me the vibe that he WANTS you to believe the second. Like he WANTS you to believe he's not human, and could never have a son, or at the least never care for any child he'd have.

He's trying too hard to prove how evil he is, how almost incapable of care or remorse he is. I'm skeptical.

But honestly, I think if this little story of his is true then... I think he should be locked in a museum. Looking at who he is, how he views himself and the world, illustrates the Dawn of Quirks in a way no Hero History book could. He was raised by a society that hated him for his quirk, honestly like most villains in BNHA.

[depressedraisin]

eric bogosian talking abt how daniel's experience with louis and armand in the 70s is sort of like a trauma to him which he consciously doesn't remember but it still affects every bit of how he acts and reacts towards those two like. welcome back jamie from amy herzog's 'the great god pan'

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

civilized snow kinda just ... sits there

it's kinda like if everything really did just get covered in a bunch of weighted blankets.

Cars get stuck in it if you don't shovel off your driveway, they pile it corners beside the playgrounds and parking lots where sometimes you'll see kids playing on them. It piles in your doorframes so every time you come inside a little falls in, and if you don't have a carport you better be ready to shovel snow off and around your car after every time it snows. It weighs down branches and plants and roofs making them slightly more prone to breaking yet its very pretty all the same, it gathers in huge clumps on the edge of things and when you hit it it gives into gravity and falls in these huge piles to the ground.

At night you can even sometimes see the light reflecting off the snow a little bit. During heavy snow storms you can even look out and see the light from the street lights illuminating the falling snow; like the weirdest and smallest meteor shower you've ever seen.

Sometimes it's thin enough that you can just walk in sneakers around but stuff on the grass can get insanely deep, there are places where you can sink up to mid shin. It also makes everything weirdly closed in, people park slightly more out on the road cause the snow is spilling out over the curb but it's so cold out you barely really feel that claustrophobia.

Winter's fun but also a little dangerous lol

Cars take forever to warm up, and often you have to park them in the garage at night or plug them into the house so they work in the morning. Windows constantly fog up, and so does your breath; it comes out in little white puffs. The cold air drags at your throat and you're constantly breathing through things; your shirt or hands, to try and draw in warm air. Snow gets tracked into the house so often you kind of wonder if where you put your shoes will ever go a week without getting wet again. Ice is everywhere. You slip just crossing the street and have to decide if you want to take calculated steps with everyone or if your just going to shuffle through the snow without lifting a foot because you fear slipping. We put special salt on our sidewalks and driveways to try and melt the ice which leaves behind these little stains of blue.

Driving is a hazard too because the road is often so slippery, sometime just turning a corner the car will start to spin a little wildly out of control and on highways we sometimes get black ice which is clear ice, very hard to see so ones risk of skidding is suddenly higher.

Everything is just cold. Your toes and noses and fingers freeze just from standing outside too long so people always layer up; two pairs of socks, shorts under pants, etc, but once your inside the layers start to thin up.

It's such a constant mix between storming and oddly peaceful.

and, there's my winter ramble lol. this was just going to be about snow but then it walked away from me

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Ohhhh you're amazing

This is a wonderful winter ramble and so so so helpful and honestly just really fun to read

Holds precious. Like snowy owl