#rita best

[k-igarro]

a política e a poesia é demais para um só homem

[gingermintpepper]

So, now that Blood of Zeus has also been given its chance to tell the Demeter/Persephone story (and also, similarly, fundamentally misunderstood the themes of the Hymn to Demeter) can we finally, finally talk about Mother Love?

Because I can scream until I'm blue in the face about how modern, popular interpretations of the myth have become so focused on being 'empowering' to women by fixating on giving power to Persephone in her marriage with Hades and, in turn, disparaging Demeter, another woman, - the mother who grieves her lost daughter - that they've some how spun all the way around and gotten back to being misogynistic and reductive, but I feel like talking nebulously about the fact that it's Demeter and Persephone's story and not Hades and Persephone's story never gets the point across hard enough. So:

Anyone who was upset about Demeter's demonisation in Blood of Zeus S2? Read Mother Love. Anyone who is ever upset that retellings of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter constantly demonise, belittle, accuse and insult Demeter and her grief while making excuses to redeem and forgive her daughter's captor? Read Mother Love. Anyone who likes Hades and Persephone as a romantic tale but yearn for complexity outside of arbitrary romantic antagonists impeding the happiness of the couple? Read Mother Love!! Everyone who has even a passing interest in this tale whether it is for the romance, the mother-daughter connections, the themes of grief and loss and eventual comfort and compromise, the wrath of the mother transgressed, the justice that is served due to a mother's insistence in an unjust society, READ MOTHER LOVE!!!

Because it pains me that such a perfect retelling of Demeter and Persephone's story exists, that it focuses on the mother-daughter relationship by comparing it with the poet's own relationship with her mother and it is nearly obscure in the greek mythology community.

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

[ineveryspaceandtime]

[link to interview]

[punkrock-bottom]

They can never make me hate you …

[blogofsara]

Grace and Martine BFFs

In my Criminal Case AU, Grace returns to Grimsborough and becomes Martine's assistant 🥼. Trust me, these two women would be friends and nothing will change my mind 😎.

[meganechan05]

"I must maintain Absolute Neutrality. It's tough, but I must endure it alone" -Rita Kaniska (KingOhger. Episode 10)

...I dare you to say that again now, Impartial Marshal.

[weirdosyringe]

my super good contribution to last nights whiteboard

[specialvalentinesunit]

[morninkim]

rita sketchin so i can feel like i made something today and also they are so pretty who let them do that

[izzythehutt]

JKR should write the Marauders prequel in the style of a salacious long-form gossipy article about Hogwarts class of 1978 penned by Rita Skeeter (like the Secret Oral History of Bennington College Esquire piece that stirred so much shit years ago since it revealed everyone from The Secret History were just straight up real people and Donna Tartt tried to get a cease and desist going to hide the fact.)

That way nothing established would be definitive and if people hate it they can claim Rita is just exaggerating shit—not that she actually would have to because the inter-personal drama in that social group was all canon. It's the exact kind of thing she would write a book about and people in that universe would buy, and it's hilarious to imagine Harry getting extremely pissed at vulgar speculation that his mother might've been sleeping with his godfather and/or his high school chemistry teacher, because you know Rita would imply both.

[yueasuka]

Ah yes. I love male that wear formal looks informal but still looks formal.

[raindrop-plop]

aaaaaa not happy with it but im tired of redrawing them so here

[harukakitous]

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger | #15 

Your words have pierced my heart. However... there is no need for worry!

[merlinandarthuryup]

Rita papa louie

I l-l-l-l-ll-looovvveeeeeeee rita papa louie shes so awesome, always makes my day when she walks into the wingeria

[notreyev]

the aurinko crime family docuseries (kinda like wwdits & the office)

buddy: hit my childr— hit my family? i would never even consider it.

juno & nureyev: [distant yet obnoxious kissing]

vespa: [from a distance]: MAYBE YOU SHOULD START TO. [in direction of juno & nureyev] GET A FUCKING ROOM!!!

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juno: what’s that supposed to mean? we’re not that loud. sure, the big guy can hear us sometimes, and sometimes we’ve got to apologize in the morning—but i dont think jet minds too much.

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jet: i do.

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juno: i mean, look at him. just- just pan the camera-

[camera pans to the kitchen, where nureyev is failing to clean his glasses]

juno: could you keep your hands off that? i couldn’t. i don’t. i’ve got noo shame. [sizing up nureyev] hey baby

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rita: well, ya see—i love mistah steel, and i love that he loves mistah ransom, and it’s real sweet and all. sometimes their kissy noises are louder than the kissy noises on my streams, and that! is rreally impressive! so, like, it’s not a huge problem, and i mean as long as they’re happy and all i don’t mind! [evidently strained]

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vespa: [shouting at juno and nureyev, back facing the camera] WOULD YOU TWO PLEASE. KEEP YOUR GODDAMN CANOODLING. IN A PRIVATE. SPACE.

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vespa: i’m gonna throw those fucking pathetic dipshits out of the airlock before my brain starts rotting at a fatal pace again.