#nonsense statements

[kannagen]

Kamala is Brat!!!! Stay mad!!! But your music exists in the context!!!!!

💀 this is the only ask i have like ever received on this blog y’all are so weird

maybe re-examine your life and what brought you to sending asks to random nobodies to defend a politician’s bratness. thoughts and prayers

[oh-snapperss]

make sure to delete your nanowrimo accounts

(context: nanowrimo's statement on use of ai and calling the argument against ai "classist and ableist")

(additional context: nanowrimo is being sponsored by a ai company this year)

EDIT: someone in the comments has told me that apparently nano does not have you enter actual words-- regardless deleting is still the best course of action!

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[once-and-future-loser]

Every time I see a new recent picture of Colin Morgan the more I am in awe of his casting in Merlin back in the day.

That man looks more and more like my mental image of "Merlin" as he gets older.

He WAS young Merlin.

[mewguca]

I don't feel very well

I feel upset and confused and disappointed

and kind of scared for the future... I don't like when people suffer. i dont want more suffering to happen in this community

I'm still going to try to finish my batch of emote redraws, I think... I only have one more to get done.

I'm trying to distract myself, but it's difficult... I feel like I finally stopped thinking about it entirely the other day and now I can't stop thinking about it again

Please don't harass others, for any reason. it never helps anybody. (i don't think yelling at people on anon is going to do any good either; it's not particularly productive. you should think very carefully about what you say to people and what good you believe it will accomplish.)

and please all be more critical of information you come across in the future... it can help avoid this sort of thing repeating

[nightowlfury]

Bison + Babe EP 5 ➺ bison scanning babe for injuries

[legobiwan]

What is your absolute favorite gravity falls fic ? The one that completely ate away at your brain and wouldn't leave your head for days? It can be shipp-y or gen, both is fine! I'm just completely on the edge of falling headfirst into a Gravity Falls hyperfixation and I need just one good fic to tip me over the edge & you have excellent taste!

Oh boi, I think it really depends on what you are looking for! I personally really enjoy fics that don't shy away from our characters' less desirable traits, and one of the things I adore about Gravity Falls is how deep and complicated the adult characters are. Ford can be an egomaniacal asshole who will trade the world to satisfy his insecurities; Stan can absolutely be a slimy conman with Saul Goodman-levels of morals; Bill is an outright abuser, despite his total infatuation with Ford; and Fiddleford essentially leaves his wife and child for another man he can never have in the 80s, which adds archeological layers to his terrible decisions. Considering this is technically a Disney, Y7 children's show, it's pretty damn wild how complex and mature these situations are once you spend more than three seconds thinking about them.

But you asked me for my single, favorite Gravity Falls fic.

As someone who really appreciates the Hannibal levels of fuckery that is the Ford and Bill relationship, I have to say Statement Abnegation is in my top 5, probably top 3. My backup Billford (gen, but still dark) rec would be Bait & Switch, which is unfinished at the moment, but updates at pretty quick intervals. (As an aside, I should mention I only rec triangle!Bill fics, as I really am not a fan of human!Bill unless he's possessing someone for a defined purpose).

Because I can never give a single, concise answer to anything in my life (hellooo, commitment issues hahahaha) I'll also throw in my favorite sibling-fic recs. First would be By Any Other Name, which is mostly a character study of Stan, but features a lot of Ford and the extended Pines clan, as well, and doesn't shy away from the fact that both Ford and Stan are very flawed people with a metric ton of issues. Backup sibling fic is a new one I just discovered, also complete, titled Under the Ice, which explores the idea that perhaps some events are fixed points in the universe and can never be avoided. Again, it's another fic that doesn't avoid the elder Pines twins and their multitude of less-than-savory character traits, which is something I really value in Gravity Falls writing, given the ever-present threat of blorbofication, no matter the fandom.

Anyway! Long answer to a short question, I hope you enjoy at least one of these!

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[artemispanthar]

Saw a political ad where the guy's slogan was like "no politics!" and it's like, buddy, you're campaigning for the politics job at the politics factory, like, what are you even talking about

[shakingparadigm]

Regarding ROUND 7, do you guys think there will actually be a proper one? There will be a song, of course, there always is, but will there be a winner? I mean, if a winner is decided in the next episode, that's a large part of the story over. According to Q and V, ALNST has only just reached the halfway point with ROUND 6. Plus, Hyuna and Mizi are now inside the stadium grounds. There has to be an interference in one way or another, right?

[dilutedh2so4]

Remind me to never go onto the mythology side of tiktok

[zephyrartz-owo]

Working on City Rising's timeline has made me realize how the timeline presented in the actual show is utter nonsense, and I love it for that. Countdown to Catastrophe and almost the entirety of season 2 taking place between Halloween and Christmas of the same year? What the hell, sure.

[yuttikkele]

you don’t understand, luka COULD fix chloe through the full power of spouting nonsense I’m telling you

[unicronnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom]

( HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT MORTAL HUMANS NAME THEIR CHILDREN THESE DAYS )

( HOW IS UNICRON SUPPOSED TO STEAL THEIR NAMES IF THE PRONUNCIATION DOESN'T MATCH THE SPELLING )

[thedeafprophet]

look when i say mask of the rose is somehow the most christanity centric game out of all the sunless series, i mean it ajdkkfgkgkhkj

[incomingalbatross]

The Voyage Never Ends

(I've been thinking about One Piece post-canon and this happened.)

Zoro is napping when Luffy finds him, spread out in the middle of the partying crowd. He doesn't need to be on guard, when almost nobody here could hurt him.

After a minute of being watched, Zoro cracks his good eye open. "What's up?"

Luffy crouches down beside him.

"You did a good job," he says. "You became the World's Strongest Swordsman just when I became King of the Pirates."

Zoro gives him a wolfish grin. "That's what you said you'd need, right?"

"Yeah." Luffy is silent for a moment, watching him. "Now that I'm king and you're the strongest, do you wanna stay by my side?"

"Huh?"

"You've gotten your dream," Luffy elaborates. "That means now you choose what to do with it. Does the World's Strongest Swordsman want to stay in the crew of the King of the Pirates?"

Zoro thinks for a second. He hadn't thought about what to do with his title once he had it, except to keep it, and keep growing stronger. He needed his name to sound through this world and the next, after all... but he figures being the World's Greatest Swordsman had put him on the path to that.

But what does he want? He thinks of sunny days on deck, fierce battles with his crew around him, of noisy evenings partying and starlit nights around campfires. That's an easy question.

He meets Luffy's eyes, remembering burning sun in a Marine courtyard and a vow made with no clue where it would lead him. "That's the only place I want to be, stupid Captain."

Luffy beams.