#powers instead?

[bayetea]

where do people get the idea that the narrative demonizes marie for practicing voodoo...... that is not what happened in son of neptune at all. the story has absolutely nothing to say about voodoo - disappointingly so. louisiana voodoo (a diasporic variant of haitian vodou, which is a distinction that those of vodou faith usually care to make) is an actual religion and with its own practices and belief system. voodoo is exoticised and sensationalized and demonized because it is poorly understood - and the natural consequence of being poorly understood is always fearmongering and hatred, hence why black women have been historically targeted with harassment and violence for even being suspected of performing voodoo. ye olde witch hunts but make it racialized

but marie's relationship to voodoo is not framed by the narrative as a positive or negative aspect of her character. it's the people in hazel and marie's community that ostracized and demonized them. marie was already touting herself as a voodoo queen and selling gris-gris charms, and while she told hazel that it was all bogus, marie privately understood that there was magic in the world. the community turned on her once marie started selling hazel's gems and the gems ruined their lives - which is to say, her voodoo practice was at least tolerated by the community until it negativity impacted them (and they didn't know that the negative impact was completely unrelated to marie's voodoo practice). marie had a presumably fair reputation before that and it was ruined because she "asked for too much" and caused hazel's gem curse

she is also unambiguously inspired by marie laveau, who was an actual louisiana voodoo practitioner from the 1800s. it's not subtle. louisiana voodoo queens were a real thing back then and they still are today!

[ceaselessbasher]

I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.

[civetcider]

ME AS A BUG, she/her

[adam-scott]

Dichen Lachman and Britt Lower photographed by Ben Stiller on set of Severance S02E07 'Chikhai Bardo'

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[funkyboxofinterests]

Sometimes Raph misses being small

[sheikfangirl]

Food is Link's love language ❤️🥹

Cheers!

[savanir]

A fight between Danny and Skulker within the ghost zone carried them to a section that Danny wasn't familiar with. It was near a floating island that was overgrown much like Skulker's that the two of them suddenly got ambushed by a third party.

The new ghost seemed more interested in fighting Skulker than Danny, and he didn't hesitate at all to pull out a green glowing serated knife and a matching gun. Their snarling and growling was like nothing Danny had heard before and the insults were also a lot more vicious than what Danny ever heard from Skulker.

It was clear to Danny that these two hated each other.

"Whatever!" Skulker twists mid aerial dodge into Danny's direction, "This isn't over whelp, I'll have your pelt next time!" Skulker shouts before promptly flying off.

The new ghost then approaches Danny, all the while sneering at Skulker's retreating form. Talking with the new guy is... uncomfortable, Danny has to carefully navigate the conversation because it seems like the slightest thing sets him off, aka the guy's masked eyes start glowing brighter and get this smokey effect, and the belt of bullet shells he's wearing over his shoulder catches fire.

But Danny learns that the ghost goes by Ravager and that he's the son of the greatest mercenary there is, was, will be (according to him of course).

Danny also learns that Ravager finds his close combat skills to be atrocious and offensive to look at, "your hand to hand is shit. No wonder you're dead," and the next thing he knows he gets dragged towards the floating chunk of land for an impromptu cqc lesson.

Ravager shows him various fighting skills at a cleared stretch of land nearby a half demolished building that looks like it might have been a T shaped tower at one point.

In fact the whole island has the look of a post apocalyptic city, overgrown ruins of buildings everywhere.

When Danny asks, Ravager tells him it suits him just fine like this and with a name like his Danny is inclined to believe him.

Ravager is disappointed that Danny is a hero and some parts of his personality remind him of his younger brother who he rather not think about at all, other parts of Danny remind him of Robin, who he really doesn't want to think about at all.

In the end though, curiosity gets the better of him and he asks Danny if he can take a look around, see if he can find a guy named Deathstroke (very reassuring name) and report back what he's doing nowadays.

Ravager is not happy with what Danny finds out for him.

"So there was this girl and she apparently also goes by Ravager so to be honest, I'm a little confused now"

"He Fucking replaced me!!?!" flames burst out around Ravager as he shoults.

Danny tries to placate, "... okay now, maybe it's more a passing on the torch kinda thing, keeping your memory alive or something?"

"Where is that portal you've talked about, I'm gonna fucking kill him," Yeah this guy is not listening.

"Now that seems like a rash and poorly thought out thing to do, maybe instead-"

But Ravager is done listening and instead he just yoinks Danny with him in his hunt for vengeance.

Meanwhile on the other side Rose is telling Dick and Jason about a spooky white haired meta kid that popped out of nowhere, asked her if she knew where Deathstroke is at and when she attacked him he deflected all her moves as if he'd done it a thousand times before.

[kinky-cas]

wholeheartedly believe that the first time dean drops the L word on cas, he’s scared and desperate and angry, and as he’s yelling at/pleading with cas (same thing to dean), “you’re the love of my life” just slips out. and dean doesn’t even think about it, because it’s just an obviously true fact to him.

meanwhile cas is totally blindsided making dial up noises and having his entire understanding of the world rewritten in an instant

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

just a normal guy surrounded by residents with evil in their hearts

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[third-doctor]

I am forever salty that we didn't get better team-ups between Rose "what are your pronouns and would you like to join my union" Tyler and Sarah Jane "have you heard of women's lib" Smith.

[suntails]

let me out

[egophiliac]

i love your riddle design so much, he's so pointy and british. so gracious. do you think he would enjoy a brazilian goiabada

thank you! ❤️🖤❤️ it's just. important to me on a level I can't explain that Riddle have an extremely pointy nose that he can stick into everyone else's business.

also goiabada is sweet and fruity and red, I think he would like it very much indeed!

not me stealth-editing because I forgot his antenna whoops

[gyrovagi]

have you ever felt the warmth of a god's happiness?

[eggsploded]

heiress eternal