#literal bane of my existence

[anthythesis]

hell hath no fury like a girl desperately trying to get the correct combination of spiritus, iota subscript, and tone for her ancient greek vocab out of her latin letter keyboard

[silkhorse]

MC for @devilscreekballad, Mrs./Mx. Purdy Lin. Info & stats under the cut C:

•Queer and genderfluid with a preference for masc/androgynous clothing

•Charlie's childhood friend & used to think his superstitiousness was all bullshit

•Views Charlie as an older brother/really looks up to him

•Is an asshole but isn't the type of person who is going to be running to save their own hide

•Loves horses, though mules especially

•Romaching O'Brian & Burke

Also, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy The Ballad of Devil's Creek. There is so much research put into the game down to even certain phrases and items—this and the language/atmosphere really make this game such a joy to play. I've been following the game's progress for around two years already, but even after rereading tBoDC several times, it has never gotten old<3

[suggesting-themes]

Everyone who pretends their dog is a service dog will not be seeing the light of heaven, I want you to know that.

[geek-jpeg]

Korvus 𓄀

[turtletoria]

i want to smash her with hammers

[sunflowergraves]

[muffinlance]

Isopuppy's got legs for DAYS

Just need to get the top carapace on and write up the tutorial, and y'all can make your own Good Dog.

My baby spent most of the morning crawl-chasing me around, desperately pointing at the pupper to be allowed a hug (which she was finally granted just before nap time when I got the back seam closed, and she hugged it So Hard, then gummed those antennae real good). Toddler is demanding he be allowed to sleep with it tonight. So isopups are VERY snugglable, is what I'm saying.

[stuckinapril]

A major annoying thing about being in a male dominated stem field (chemistry for me) is you basically work w guys 99% of the time & they ALL think you have a crush on them if you’re even fleetingly nice. And so far I’ve refused to water down my personality to compensate for it but it’s so annoying knowing I’m inadvertently feeding into someone’s unchecked ego

[ptieuca]

[cowboy-caboodles]

respectfully requesting some more wholesome Jack and Crutchie being idiot brothers content <3

RESPECTFULLY PROVIDING THE CONTENT BCS THEY MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME!!!! and i will be doodling the two of them being idiots together more!!

(i’m digging through my ask box over spring break i promise im gonna respond to them all 🙏🙏)

[thatonechocogirl]

sureee.

chat i almost deleted this comic entirely

but i just wanted to post it because i thought it was kinda cute

pretend there's a really nicely colored background tho ok

[chevaliermalfets]

[mylittleversaille]

Every day I see more and more pop myth takes that make me want to pull my eyelashes out. No, Ares was not a protector of women. No, Aphrodite was not a war goddess (and you know what, being the goddess of sex and lust and beaut is okay!). No, Hera is not an irredeemable villain. No, Zeus is not evil incarnate. No Achilles isn’t without fault or some ‘gay softboi’ icon (he’s literally presented in the Iliad as someone who is proud to a fault. You’re supposed to recognize that he’s selfish and arrogant). No, Demeter was not an overbearing mother nor was Hades some sort of misunderstood, brooding knight in shining armour. Medea is allowed to commit heinous crimes and still be a sympathetic character. Jason… deserves all the hate he gets, respectfully.

Off the top of my head, I think Helen is one of the few people who gets complex, interesting characterization in modern retellings and discourse, ironically enough. She’s allowed to be vain and aware of her own beauty while also often having a great deal of agency. At the same time, she is frequently depicted as both victim and as offender. She’s allowed to want to be in Troy, but also to miss her husband and daughter.

Some days I feel like I could write essays about pop mythology and the way people reduce mythological figures to one dimensional caricatures. And how these retellings are never as progressive as people think, fixing some issues but exacerbating others. I do think retellings end up being an excellent resource for identifying what social issues bother us and how we would like to address them.

For example, we see a lot of feminist retellings that want to show women as capable of the same things as men, and in so doing they reject or deride their own femininity. But a retelling that is ultimately saying that masculinity is more interesting or valuable than femininity isn’t a truly feminist retelling, but it does show us that our society struggles to find femininity compatible with strength or courage.

[circusofshrimps]

Today i offer you a knkdz redraw from the stageplay🫵tommorow? who knows …

[fairyhaos]

don't u just love it when the camera angle squishes joshua's face and he looks so cutie ittle baby

[constellation-skirmishes]

this is their dynamic right