#something silly this way passes

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this may be the worst thing i've ever made. this should give you a general vibe of the story.

Percy and Annabeth here were drawn by burdge- i don't know who orion was drawn by, nor Adam, which is why this post is unrebloggable.

this isn't the final cover (final cover won't have fanart) and it might not even be the final title, but-

Here's the Macbeth Murder Squad from @tigersycamore6210 and i's in progress Macbeth fic- you may have heard of it from the post going around asking for characters who could kill macbeth.

FOLLOW THE PROGRESS OF THE STORY AT @macbethmurdersquad !

[macbethmurdersquad]

No one believes Orion when he says he has a secret birthmark. But he does! He swears he does! It's got a dagger, and a crown, and laurels, and it has to mean something! But no one listens, and no one will even look.

The thing is, Artemis doesn’t have the birthmark. It only appears when Orion is fronting! It has to be destiny, some kind of sign, a sign that he should break out of the mental hospital in haven and fulfill his destiny as-

Well, something. He’s not quite sure yet.

But what he is sure of is that every night, Artemis grows more and more paranoid- more and more eager to get out of the hospital, too, and willing to go wherever Orion wants, as long as it’s not home.

One night, when Butler is elsewhere, Artemis and Orion together decide to stage a daring escape! After stealing a shuttle and crash-landing a ways away from the airport, Orion buys a ticket under a fake name and goes where the burning fire in his soul is telling him to- one Mount Dunsinane, in the United States.

Orion, with Artemis in tow within, arrives at the mountain just in time to see it light up with a symbol- the very same symbol as his secret birthmark! Vindication!

And better yet, a quest! When they arrive at the top of the mountain, Orion sees a group of the most wonderful people and the most fearsome beasts- all sharing his birthmark, and all there for the same reason- to take down Emperor Macbeth!

It’s up to Orion, a teeny-tiny fairy, a living car, some enchanted cowboy doll, a puppet given life, TWO different kinds of cookie creature, a bipedal hedgehog, a gentle beast of reanimated flesh, a mad scientist, a demon slayer, a flying monkey, and a very beautiful divine lady with her handsome swordsman in tow.

But Orion’s certain- HE will be the one to take down the Evil Tyrant King! That is, if he can prevent Artemis and his growing paranoia from betraying his newfound friends. And if he can manage to avoid the interspecies manhunt he and Artemis caused by eloping from the hospital and committing grand theft shuttle. 

Not to mention Butler’s looking for them, too.

[uncanny-tranny]

The thing that gets me about history and humanity is that you never know what is immortalized, and the things that will be immortalized are things you would never think.

I saw a person sharing a new tattoo, and it was one of Onfim's drawings. A boy who lived so long ago he is barely a blip now, but his drawings meant so much to people that somebody is now permanently marked in their skin with one of those drawings. Do you ever look at the things you make and just sit there and wonder if this is the thing that future people look at? Do you ever look at your art, your writing, your schoolwork, or anything that is yours and just wonder who will find it, who will fall in love with a piece of your humanity and become overwhelmed with emotion over? It's not unlikely. It's not totally unlikely that somebody will find a piece of you in the distant future and devoid of any other context of who you were will still love you because you were here. You were here, and you are still here, even hundreds or thousands of years later. Treat yourself with the same love that so many have for dear Onfim.

[insteading]

As someone who’s done bereavement care for almost 20 years, I’ve observed again and again and again that it is not staying with grief that cuts us off from other people, it’s suffocating grief and suppressing grief. It’s impossible to repress grief without also repressing all sorts of other things like joy and memory. Actually, expressing grief naturally connects us empathetically to other people. It is not an accident that right now when there is such a profound suppression of global grief, we’re also finding ourselves in a moment of such isolation.

Rabbi Elliot Kukla, in them magazine

I sought out this piece because Rabbi Kukla was quoted in today's sermon in reference to the ongoing genocide in Gaza ("It is lifesaving to mourn our humanity in inhumane times").

But this paragraph about grief hit me so hard I wanted to single it out to share. It is relevant to corporate grief of the sort we might experience when a state is doing harm in our name (police brutality, displacement, execution). It is also relevant to individual griefs.

In the bereavement calls I do for hospice, I have noticed, this is precisely what gets people stuck in grief: the feeling that there is no safe space and time to express grief. Companies tend to give very little accommodation for bereavement, if they give any at all. Culturally we're expected to get over losses in a matter of days. But grief rewires us, and some losses-- particularly losses like war, displacement, and police brutality where a state or institution does the same kind of harm repeatedly-- are complex and ongoing.

Grief impacts sleeping, eating, executive function. (I don't ask people in bereavement calls, "How are you doing?" I ask, "How are you sleeping?" "How's your appetite?" Maybe "Are there moments from your caregiving, or from your [loved one's] dying, that keep coming up for you?" Because of course you're not fine! You just lost someone essential to you. What I want to know is, is your body getting a chance to repair itself as your mind and heart process what you've experienced?)

People have talked to me after a loss about feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by daily life. It's not unlike recovering from a major injury and having a sizable portion of your bandwidth given over at all times to the tasks of bone, muscle, and nerve repair that are not under your conscious control. When tasks you're used to thinking of as having one part suddenly make it clear how complex they are? Cooking a meal takes more out of you. Doing a load of laundry takes more out of you. If you're already an introvert, the cost of social engagement goes up, at a time when social engagement might actually be very helpful.

Doing some of our grief work with other trusted people shares the load. It recovers some bandwidth. But many folks learn early in the grieving process that they have fewer trusted people than they thought. Or that it feels like the wrong time to deepen an acquaintanceship they'd hoped might become a friendship. Or that they aren't as comfortable asking loved ones for help as they thought they would be.

And the bereavement model I'm trained in assumes that a grieving person has experienced one recent loss. We know that a recent loss might poke us in the tender spots left by earlier losses. But that's still different from the experience of a tragedy that affects a whole community at once (as in an entire region's population losing multiple loved ones in a very short time and being forced to flee).

I don't really have a conclusion here, but I'm finding the activism that feels most healing and hope-filled to me has lament built into it: a chance to name the people who've died in our county's jail, while advocating for better communication with families of people inside. A chance to call out the names of people lost to covid while advocating for policies that will mitigate risk to vulnerable people.

Maybe it takes days to name all the people impacted by ongoing genocides in Congo, Palestine, Yemen, while urging our government to end its role in those genocides. Maybe our systems and structures, which aren't even good at honoring our grief for members of the nuclear family we're taught is our primary world, are disinclined to give us that time. Maybe we ought to take it anyway.

[they-call-me-haiku]

sam's attitude about filling up the paperwork was ominous as fuck, this man is way too enthusiastic about this. i'm afraid for him.

[lunarharp]

wanted to adapt the google search results a gay woman got in a japanese drama "tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna" which is good btw.

[watatsumiis]

Have yall ever heard about that study a while back where some folks studying butterfly migration habits couldn't figure out why the butterflies would take such a large detour, then after some research they found out there was a mountain there millennia ago and detouring around it was just something that got hardwired into their brains?

I imagine things like that are actually semi-common in places like Liyue and Mondstadt, where the land has undergone so many physical changes over the years (whether that be due to giant pillars of stone being tossed about haphazardly, or a god deciding they're sick of a certain set of mountaintops and yeeting them into the ocean like frisbees). I think that, once discovered, these strangely adjusted little animals would probably be celebrated in vastly different ways by the neighbouring nations.

A kaleidoscope of butterflies is celebrated twice a year as it passes through two small villages on different sides of the border - the Liyuens see it as a reminder to not get their heads stuck in the past, because it can make the future all the more inconvenient (like taking a long, winding path when there is a straightforward one readily available). The Mondstadters, however, see it as a symbol of their own freedom to be as rigid as they please, if the desire so strikes them - to stick with old, futzy traditions and do things in their own way.

It's a very localized celebration, not often talked about due to the size of the villages. It's passed down purely by word of mouth to the children of the villages, so the irony of the situation is, through pure happenstance, simply never noticed.

But, it goes to show, no matter how different each nation and its people are, they are all humans at heart, and are wowed by the same feats of nature.

Please don't repost, steal, copy or otherwise plagiarise my writing! I do not consent for my works to be translated and posted elsewhere, or copy - pasted into bot or AI technology.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

[v-anrouge]

fox boy rook who immediately has a big smile and wags his tail rapidly when he sees you in the same room as him, fox boy rook who is constantly laughing loudly around you, who is clingy and super affectionate, who constantly shows up to your door after hunting because his tail will be a mess and he loves when you brush it for him, who loves when you come through his hair or pat his ears, who literally can't shut up about you and how much he loves you, who is way too warm to cuddle in the summer but..please cuddle him

[ebbpettier]

i think part of my reasoning is that "does simon snow get his magic back" doesn't immediately register in my brain as "simon snow's power is restored to him and he can cast spells again like any other magician" in my brain, he still has magic. magic is everywhere. he just can't use magic on a personal level. and as a guy surrounded by videos without closed captions at work i jus

[sea-buns]

the things my mind will do to NOT have to face the consequences of a traumatic story arc

"oh so and so died last week? and the new episode is tonight? hmm sounds like it'll be a good one...

.....y'know i've really been meaning to get into [absolute rabbit hole of a fandom]"

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*i know shadow isn't human sized but like. He's bigger than Tinkerbell by a lot.

[macbethmurdersquad]

This “Journey to the West” has taken A LOT longer than expected. After fighting through demon after demon, crossing mountains, braving a very, very, very large lake, Monkey, Tripitaka, Pigsy, Sandy, and the Horse are starting to get anxious. Shouldn’t they be there by now? That lake was pretty big…

It’s only after realizing they no longer recognize the language written and spoken that they realize with horror- that wasn’t a lake, that was an ocean, and they went TOO FAR WEST.

The argument of what to do next, along with the finger pointing, breaks out at the base of Mount Dunsinane in *checks notes* Southern Colorado, wherever that is! But they don’t make much headway as to what to do, because Tripitaka gets kidnapped by a local god and taken to the peak, right as a bright symbol explodes into the sky above where he’s being hidden. A symbol exactly like the one that appeared in monkey’s fur a few mountains ago…

After giving (yes, giving! Apparently she didn’t really want him) Tripitaka back, the goddess explains the quest to Monkey and the others on the peak- some humans, a human(??), several living baked goods, a puppet, a toy, and a living machine- that they must Journey to the East and put an end to the reign of Macbeth, the tyrannical emperor of the world… apparently they’d been journeying so long someone had managed to take over the world…

Oh, and Sandy, Pigsy, and the Horse can’t come with. 

Despite Tripitaka’s protests that they’re going the WRONG WAY, the journey sets off. Hey, maybe this one won’t take as long

[todayisafridaynight]

Sorry about the late reply haha, but I'm absolutely thrilled to hear you enjoyed reading my last ask!

About RGGJo (I've been been calling him a variant of that for ages too, but if I ever slip up and call him Jou, it's out of habit; I like to differentiate them by RGGO and 7's different official romanizations lol), I'd actually say it's not at all hyperbolic to describe him as relaxed. If you ever have a moment, I think going through his voice lines is one of the best ways to get acquainted with his character in a short time! (Article might be a little rough, I basically speedran it all in a day just to show you lol; also a lot of them are uh........ let's say borderline flirtatious)

That said, it is much less apparent before the timeskip. To go on a bit (or a lot) of a tangent, I think that kind of relates to something I've noticed about their relationship with authority. Which is to say, it feels like they have a tendency to walk on eggshells with regard to authority figures. I think that might be the single most consistent thing between their characterizations.

You do see that directly with Arakawa, of course. It's something established really early on for both of them. You can tell right away from Jo's sheepish look when Arakawa walks in on the yubitsume fiasco or RGGJo freezing up when Arakawa walks in on the equivalent scene that he's someone they genuinely seek approval from as an authority figure. And, y'know, 7 has that micro-interaction with Arakawa only needing to put a hand on Jo's shoulder to stop him, whereas RGGO has Mitsu directly stating that the only person who's able to calm him down when he's on a rampage is Arakawa. Honorable mention to the substory where Ichi stops RGGJo from killing some guy by saying it'd put Arakawa in a bad mood.

But I think the clearest example sort-of-outside of Arakawa, one that's more insightful with regard to authority in general (since you could say of course he respects Arakawa specifically), is actually from Ryuji's RGGO story. There was a fair amount of confusion, right, because it's canon to the console timeline, but they hadn't implemented the Arakawa Family's 7 sprites, and they used the RGGO ones. So the funny thing is, I could tell right away that everyone was supposed to be their 7 selves based on characterization

I did take the time to look over all of RGGJo's voice lines from the link you provided oh my god you weren't kidding about making quick edits i checked the log date and you were making changes just a few hours ago, bless you and your work fr and yeah no, his voice lines definitely give off a different feel from Y7Jo (and definitely no joke about the more 'flirtatious' lines- evidently as someone who's mostly perceived Y7Jo it's jarring to say the least. Not that I'm complaining, it's incredibly interesting to see the difference)! It's almost funny to me how different their personalities seem, I wonder what made RGG decide to conceal his more 'playful' personality..

In regards to his relationship with authority- or I guess I want to talk more specifically about with Arakawa- the backstory each Jo has offers different avenues for explanation as to why he's so readily obedient.

I have to make a disclaimer right now and say I'm not totally caught up on Ichi's RGGO story (I stopped just after their fight on the rooftop), so maybe more background to Jo is given. Nevertheless, for RGGJo, his reasons for being obedient aren't exactly clear aside from respecting Arakawa's influence/power (as noted by his irezumi, I'm pretty sure). On that note though, I haven't seen the bit from Ryuji's story- something I'm definitely going to look into once I get some time this week (and it's neat that the Jo's are distinct enough from each other that you can discern which iteration it's supposed to be despite the sprite used: I'm excited to see that for myself!).

Inversely, the context that Arakawa has been taking care of Jo's son offers a more concrete form of an explanation as to why he's compliant. It's not bad to assume I think that Jo genuinely respects Arakawa's authority, but it's that added context that adds an extra layer to his behavior.

[bixiaoshi]

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[akelboye]

echoes inspired thang.... hmhmmm