#so she isn’t having fun

[starz-n-stuff]

Diving into the history side of tumblr tonight. I’m writing an essay on the battle of Culloden for my War and the World class and fucking hell I don’t know how people can do this kind of shit to other people.

Slight gore warning ahead

Post Battle of Culloden, the English soldiers went through and killed the wounded jacobites laying amidst the dead and then splashed each other with the blood for amusement.

How do you even do that to another person? I just— I’m kinda at a loss for words. Lost all faith in humanity in the span of two sentences yippee

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Cassidy knows how to “help” Michael Afton

[jonathanarcher]

Mulder and Scully would kill it in a santa clarita diet situation. Literally. Mulder would not hesitate to start killing people for food if Scully became a zombie.

[tinyhorror]

miku in hades style 🫶 (song)

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[fab-livious]

Broppy enchanted au, I have no idea if anyone has done this before but regardless I will make my own version

[naarlar]

Okie so hot take: I don’t think Melinoë is as good of a protagonist as Zagreus. And here’s why.

It all comes down to motivation. Why did Zag go through the events of Hades 1? Because he was living in an abusive and volatile household and had to find some way to make things better for not just himself but his house. Otherwise he surely would have lost his mind having to deal with the abuse he got (remember at the beginning of the game basically only Nyx and Achilles were helping him. Everyone else is either neutral towards him or outright hostile). He needed answers, he needed to find out who and what he was by trying to find Persephone. And in the end he succeeded and was able to create a better life for himself and his house. Hell, even his relationship with his dad improved.

Now let’s look at Mel (yes this criticism is only addressing Early Access Hades 2). Why is she going through the events of Hades 2? Because… she’s been groomed since basically birth to kill Chronos. She doesn’t really have any other motivation than because it is what is expected of her essentially. She even says during her confrontation with Chronos, AFTER HE THREATENS TO HURT HER FAMILY, what do I care I barely know them (yeah sure she could just be bluffing to Chronos but that is still a very chilling thing to say when supposedly all of this is to save them and it makes her reunion with Hades lowkey ring hollow or weak). In another scene she even says the same thing to Hecate and says Hecate is more her mother than anyone else. Heck even in the flashback scene with young Mel and Hecate (which was very cute I’ll admit) she says she would want her mother to come back so Hecate isn’t sad. This makes all her motivations to kill Chronos and save the Underworld seem very… disconnected from the main component of the game? Being saving the house of hades and her family??

Like it’s expected of her and she was raised at birth to basically be prepared for this but she doesn’t have any personal reasons for doing any of this than just not letting Hecate and the others in the Crossroads down. Hell when she comes back from killing Chronos for the first time it honestly feels like Hecate is more interested and invested in what happened than Mel herself.

It makes her a really weird protagonist especially when comparing to her brother and how effective he was as a protagonist. Think about it, with Zag we got really in depth and character revealing moments where as the player we understand why he is doing all of this and so it is easy to go along for the ride because we like Zag and want to help him. Mel says she cares a lot about what is going on and wants revenge, but it all feels surface level (and which is understandable she doesn’t know these people, all she can say is “the titan took my family” when let’s be real she sees the people in the crossroads as more of her family). It honestly just seems like because she is expected to kill Chronos since she could think, she feels she has to do all this. It feels weird how she is disconnected from the core point of the game being to save the house of hades when Zag was so integral to that same core point in the first game.

I dunno, just my thoughts, I’m curious to see what everyone else thinks.

Edit: just fyi cause I feel with the comments I’ve been getting from my posts, I like hades 2 I am excited especially for the official release. I recognize my criticism/analysis could be wrong or out of date since the game isn’t finished yet. These are just my initial thoughts.

[waterberry-strawmelon]

honestly I do kinda mourn the cool story beats we might’ve gotten if Riz and Kipperlilly had interacted more throughout this season, so I’m kinda hoping she comes back?

[sunshine-zenith]

Baby’s first dance

[bloodheartz]

Genuinely don’t know how people come out of the Soul Eater anime ending calling Maka’s punch a “friendship punch” when they literally talk about Madness vs Bravery throughout the show AND THEY LITERALLY SAY ITS BRAVERY IN THE SHOW !!!

[estravenlover]

HATER NATION!!! what’s the most annoying fan interpretation of aziraphale and crowley

[starz-n-stuff]

My soul is restless and I want to see the world that makes me feel so small

[ninemelodies]

and if i wrote about rose and her weird uncle (?) getting into shenanigans around town, what then?

[lovecoredeity]

fun scene idea that I’ll probably never get around to drawing: someone grabbing a wanted poster from a board or wall only to reveal a missing persons poster featuring the same person as on the wanted poster underneath it (also the reward for them as a wanted person is higher than the reward for returning them when they were missing)

[uni-vee]

“Mom, can we have Guiding Star?”

“We have Guiding Star at home”

Guiding Star at home:

[evansbby]

bro now it’s actually pizsing me off the hate this poor young woman is getting for playing Juliet in some random play in London like not even a Hollywood movie but a random play 😭😭

[itspileofgoodthings]

The past couple weeks it’s been really hitting me how much harder it’s been teaching Pride and Prejudice this year—which was so disappointing at first? Because works I’ve traditionally had a harder time with I’ve felt like i’ve broken new ground while teaching and am teaching the kids BETTER. So initially I was so frustrated that my historically easiest work to teach was feeling so difficult! But there’s been some good days that have let me see that part of what was happening was that I have simply never reached this number of kids with pride and prejudice before and so consequently I have never had so many kinds of reactions before! In the waking up from the sleep of simply never paying attention there IS going to be plenty of stupidity, contrariness, crankiness, and almost arguing? Like even with themsELVES. And that’s a good thing.