#merit-list

[bietrofastimoff23]

"Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

Larys does what no one has done for Aegon: he's teaching him. he tells him the harsh truth, which hurts. Otto and Alicent did it too. but the difference is that Larys also demonstrates to Aegon that he is not alone in his path and he will have his support, he is here to help, not harm. He doesn't look at him as useless, even when he's lying in bed unable to move. he sees potential in Aegon - a combination of the ability to listen and the desire to return what is due - which is why he gives him a weapon "your mind is all that remains to you", rather than a finished result.

Larys can manipulate, using his own experience and genuine pain, and sympathize with Aegon's situation at the same time, these are not mutually exclusive things, especially when Aegon showed him his respect by giving him a position on the council ("i should be glad of your talents") and when their fruitful cooperation will bring victory to both of them. Aegon will become Larys' greatest creation if Larys continues to teach him inner restraint and cunning.

[yeagersss]

I think my biggest pet peeve in fanfiction will always be using canonically intellectual characters for the "dumb jock" trope.

Or just making them academically struggle in general.

[angelonhelios]

Do you have any characters you feel aren't talked about enough? Either narratively or irl, for me Felicity will always be "that one character with the most interesting influence on the story that just gets sidelined in favor of other things"

oh there are plenty!! felicity is a really good example, though it think it is partially by design that she is wiped so cleanly from the games memory. she only ever really existed to a handful of people, her narrative purpose is a warning sign that goes ignored. (wilhelm, claptrap, gladstone, all people who were involved in her death eventually becoming just as expendable to jack and hyperion.) however i DO think that her death would have stuck with aurelia specifically and if the writers had any care for her character it would have changed how she acted in BL3. and from a fandom sense absolutely yes she needs more attention. i need to draw her myself one of these days. and i feel pretty much every BL1 character would be very popular if introduced today, or if they had lived past the first game. outside of that, helena pierce, steele, and baron flynt had potential to be very important to the surviving cast and its not really seen through. uhmm who else. the fact that wilhelm isnt more popular is a little bizarre to me seeing as how he’s so heavily attached to hyperion. i think he was underutilized by the games as well, sacrificing him for the plot in a lackluster way and not really giving him anything to stand out against the other VHs in TPS. he is VERY interesting to me though, and had the potential to be very threatening. sir hammerlock is unironically one of the best characters in the series and he has such a lasting presence between BL2 and 3 and there has been almost complete radio silence on the fandom's end. he is very unique to me! and very charming, and i wish that was felt more by the rest of the fandom at large. he was the perfect introduction to BL2. story wise i think he sits very comfortably, and as far as borderlands characters go, he gets more attention than most. but i am starving for more fan content. i think im cheating a little bit by putting angel on this list but i genuinely do think she should have been mourned properly by the characters (and by the game, from a meta standpoint). shes popular enough as it is within the fandom, but i dont really feel her impact as much as i would like within the games themselves. her being mentioned in BL3 and FFS dont really count to me, mainly because they seem more like misery baiting than properly addressing and mourning her circumstances. she just gets flattened down to this sad, dead little girl. and she was more than that! i guess my biggest issue is that its hard to make narrative connections. borderlands has kind of an object permanence issue with its characters when theyre not on screen.

[lovevalley45]

i was lookin at charley and wally n i was like. charley cant actually be that short he’s just standing next to 6’3” milo manhiem all the time

then i googled it n no he is in fact that short

[gingermintpepper]

hi, i haven't read the iliad and the odyssey but want to - do u have a specific translation you recommend? the emily wilson one has been going around bc, y'know, first female translator of the iliad and odyssey into english, but i was wondering on if you had Thoughts

Hi anon! Sorry for the somewhat late response and I'm glad you trust me with recommendations! Full, disclosure, I am somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to translations of the source text of the Iliad + Odyssey combo wombo, which means I tend to prefer closeness in literal verbiage over interpretation of the poetic form of these epics - for that reason, my personal preferred versions of the Odyssey and Iliad both are Robert Fitzgerald's. Because both of these translations (and his Aeneid!) were done some 50+ years ago (63 for his original Odyssey tl, 50 flat for his Iliad and 40 for his Aeneid) the English itself can be a bit difficult to read and the syntax can get confusing in a lot of places, so despite my personal preferences, I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is looking to experience the Iliad + Odyssey for the very first time.

For an absolute beginner, someone who has tried to read one or both of these epics but couldn't get into it or someone who has a lot of difficulty with concentrating on poetry or long, winding bits of prose, I fully and wholeheartedly recommend Wilson's translation! See, the genius of Emily Wilson's Iliad + Odyssey isn't that she's a woman who's translated these classics, it's that she's a poet who's adapted the greek traditional poetic form of dactylic hexameter into the english traditional poetic form of iambic pentameter. That alone goes a very very long way to making these poems feel more digestible and approachable - iambic pentameter is simply extremely comfortable and natural for native english speakers' brains and the general briskness of her verbiage helps a lot in getting through a lot of the problem books that people usually drop the Iliad or Odyssey in like Book 2 of the Iliad or Book 4 of the Odyssey. I think it's a wonderful starting point that allows people to familiarise themselves with the source text before deciding if they want to dig deeper - personally, researching Wilson's translation choices alone is a massive rabbit hole that is worth getting into LOL.

The happy medium between Fitzgerald's somewhat archaic but precise syntax and Wilson's comfortable meter but occasionally less detailled account is Robert Fagles' Iliad + Odyssey. Now, full disclosure, I detest how Fagles handles epithets in both of his versions, I think they're far too subtle which is something he himself has talked at length about in his translation notes, but for everything else - I'd consider his translations the most well rounded of english adaptations of this text in recent memory. They're accurate but written in plain English, they're descriptive and detailled without sacrificing a comfortable meter and, perhaps most importantly, they're very accessible for native english speaking audiences to approach and interact with. I've annotated my Fagles' volumes of these books to heaven and back because I'm deeply interested in a lot of the translation decisions made, but I also have to specifically compliment his ability to capture nuance in the characters' of these poems in a way I don't often see. He managed to adapt the ambivalence of ancient greek morality in a way I scarcely see and that probably has a hand in why I keep coming back to his translations.

Now, I know this wasn't much of a direct recommendation but as I do not know you personally, dear anon, I can't much make a direct recommendation to a version that would best appeal to your style of reading. Ideally, I'd recommend that you read and enjoy all three! But, presuming that you are a normal person, I suggest picking which one is most applicable for you. I hope this helps! 🥰

[al-mayriti]

going back to my roots (i got selected for oposiciones in la mancha)

[prettyiwa]

Top five favorite characters!

Cruel. I'm going all time, across mediums.

Kassandra of Troy

Tohru Honda

Arthur fucking Morgan

Louise Banks (Arrival, 2016)

Peter Parker (specifically 616)

[townofcadence]

🌸 the blog/s that most inspires me

@historically-accurate // RP Community Asks 🌸 the blog/s that most inspires me

I have been hemming and hawwing how to answer this, because so many blogs have inspired me-- I adore all the characters and writers I follow, and I absolutely love reading what crosses my dash and scrolling through all the shenanigans from everyone. I feel inspired seeing all the amazing writers on my dash! But I will give a shout-out to the blogs that have regularly talked to me and showed interest in what I create to a point it had me itching to create more, and honestly are a huge part of the reason I still write on Tumblr. Especially when i started having some heavy self-doubts.

@/forestofforever, @/ssnowbunnii, @/bishopinblue, @/gunslinginnhogtyin, @/chibitantei, @/cursedfortune, @/foxedthecards, @/electricea

Thank you guys for reaching out and making me feel special and that the things I created were liked, and thank you for being my friends and writing with me! Words can't describe how grateful I am for the support and kindness and chance to develop my ideas or get to gush about them and feel listened to. I don't know what I would've done without you guys, and I'm eager to be here and keep writing with you all, as long as you'll have me!

[accursedthing]

Movie Tag Game

Rules: Without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favorite films, then tag ten people to do the same!

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Tagging: @protoparadoxical @surreal-kill @ghostpile @titmousehouse @coralhawks @yagami-tacoyuki @astr0nomically @alphiebetsoup @sea-slug-wizard @irlpretear or whoever wants to do it idgaf

[go-rocksquadsfan]

"On the trail we blaze" but it's young Artemis and Apollo going on their own to Olympus for the first time

[geddy-leesbian]

im making my own prompt list get ready,,

[rohirric-hunter]

You can proselytize all you want about the economics behind kill shelters, won't ever change the fact that once someone brought a kitten someone had put in a bag in a storm drain to my parents' house because he knew we had cats, but we couldn't keep him because we were already over the legal limit for number of cats in the house, and the cat had a gimpy leg so we were trying to get hold of a shelter who could do something about that and not one, not two, but seven separate shelters told us that if we weren't planning on keeping the kitten they were just gonna kill it. Talk all you want about unadoptable animals but you first gotta understand that seven separate shelters decided the fate of this kitten before they even saw him and at the eighth he didn't even make it onto the adoption floor because the first vet tech to interact with him adopted him herself. There wasn't an unadoptable bone in that cat's body. Sweetest feline ever to exist. And seven shelters weren't even gonna give him a chance because of statistics and economics. That's evil is the word for that.

[krshush]

I've finished filling out five variants of Delta's OC template sheets. Problem: now I want to fill out a sixth for symmetry once posted, but. Who. whomst.

(<- is ignoring it's 11pm already and they work tomorrow)