#this color palette nearly killed me tho

[leulahart]

the mountain's daughter

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

Do you have any alternate dresses that samtory should have worn to prom?

I think it would've been really cool for Sam to wear something reminiscent of her father's prom outfit; the baby blue and the ruffles would've been a fun callback. I'm not the first person to say that, and I won't be the last. I think if she was going to stick with a pink dress tho, she should've worn something that fit her general color palette more. her dress was hot pink and made of some plastic adjacent material, when she's been decked out in soft pastel pinks and sweaters the entire rest of the series. granted, that might've been the point, to veer slightly off from her normal look, but also I hate it! I also think it would've been cool if she wore a more red toned pink, because it would've been a cool representation of Tory taking over her mind.

Tory should've worn literally anything else! it was horrendous! it was also unlike literally anything she's ever worn. which, once again, might've been the point, but also it was ugly and I refuse to accept symbolism if it looks like what she wore. I also don't have that amount of faith in the costuming department, sorry to them. I think it would've been cool had she worn something red, just because I shamefully actually like the super on the nose color palettes for these two, or something green. Queen Cobra and all that garbage. also, I would've killed to see her in something that wasn't nearly as sexualized? like, they gave this sixteen year old a forty year old mob wife's cheetah print v-neck dress to wear to her senior prom. forgive me for not buying that. I also would've liked to have seen her in a suit, but that's more of a selfish thing than anything.

[shoyoist]

Rekha, rekHA REKHA PLEASE THIS HAS TO STOP, THIS INDECISIVENESS ON HOW YOU WANT YOUR BLOG'S AESTHETIC TO BE NEEDS TO END, EVERT 3 DAYS I COME BACK AND YOUR BLOG IS A DIFFERENT COLOR, STOP THIS MADNESS I BEG (this is a joke, i love all your blog color palette choices)

Also, i can relate to the post about your brother's terrible driving 😭 my boyfriend is a ABOMINABLE driver and has nearly crushed my car and killed us both from how fucking WIDEE his turns are, and then he gets DISTRACTED by shit like a quarter falling on the floor and he'll be like "i'll get it for you, babe :D" AND REACHES FOR IT WHILE THE CAR SI DRIVING, JFCC MY LIFE HAS FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES TWICE CAUSE OF HIM.

So now, I'm his OFFICIAL OFFICIAL taxi driver because i love him so much but your not touching my shit anymore, your gonna get everybody killed and if we survive then I'm NOT GONNA HAVE CAR ANYMORE.

Idcc if your waking up at 3 am in the morning to go and buy a cheesestick, motherfucker I'm COMING WITH YOU. Cause I'll be damned if i send my bf to go and get a reese from the store and he doesn't return NO ❌❌❌

But anyways, how r u?? ❤❤

pleasee every time i get some xyho + xyho-bf lore it's a fucking roller coaster ride 😭😭 godd i get you tho and it's all the worse because my brother takes me around on his motorcycle so i am able to catch every near death experience within an inch of my face in full colour and motion 💀

i grab his shoulder or smth and he's like "lmao you don't need to hold me like that" BITCH WE'RE GOING AT 65MPH WDYMM i'm like watching the meter go higher and higher like 💀💀 STOPP

hehe other than the six times i almost died today, i'm good <3 met my friends and discussed our post grad plans,, i always feel the calmest when i'm making plans and mapping out the future. had a good time and got free drinks too!! wbu wbu? <3

[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

1. love how the gods in LO and their environments are all the same, blindingly bright neon colors where hardly anything is decipherable   (zeus in the all purple room and hades basically just being a neon blue head in an nearly all black underworld spring to mind here) while the mortals are all the same muddly brown with muddy brown environments. i understand its to save time, but it just looks ugly and rushed over a unique palette.

2. uh ... does Rachel know dionysus was the way he was wasnt bc his mom was a "unhinged bitch" but rather the fact thats just how he was (is this being anti=partying? didnt LO literally start with a party?) as well as a dash of childhood trauma via HERA killing him as a baby? this isnt just a terribly misogynistic reading on semele, its also an offensively arrogant reading on dionysus. even the stereotypical depictions  via PJO or Disney show more respect than whatever Rachel thinks this is.

3. semele was literally a devoted but horny priestess in mythology??? are we sure rachel actually knows what she's talking about because itd be weird to claim to be a staunch feminist focusing on being against purity culture and wanting to promote female agency and being proud in their sexuality only to then frame an actually sexually liberated woman making her own choices especially in deeply regressive times as bad and evil because she just happens to like zeus and isn't hera 🤔

4. Out of curiosity how old do you think some of the mortals that the gods interact with are? Like how old is Semele supposed to be? She looks like a teenager (to me anyway).

And if thats the case, then Zeus is having an illicit affair with a teenage girl and so is Hades (the only difference is Kore has Goddess status to "make up for" the age gap).

Either way its still creepy. As far as we know the only somewhat decent brother of the triarchy is Poseidon (maybe its because hes more of a background character but he seems much more chill than Zeus + Hades).

I have a feeling if RS brought Poseidon in to the forefront more that she might ruin whatever small amount of characterization he has.

Also I'm fairly certain the brothers share 1 braincell and Poseidon has it 95% of the time. "Having an emotional affair can be just as damaging as a physical one".

Zeus definitely doesnt have it - he barely knows what's going on in Olympus and had no knowledge of Persephones crimes until someone else told him + then went into a temper tantrum to assert his dominance because he feels like no one takes him seriously (he's right, they don't. Not even Hera).

Hades has the braincell very rarely, but as soon as Persephone steps into the room it gets thrown out a window and he turns into a horndog. Also he reacts with temper tantrums as well - e.g: pulling a kids eye out for taking a photo of Persephone (granted paparazzi do kinda suck but still, Hades KNOWS hes the god of the underworld and is bound to attract attention + gossip and yet did nothing when Kore was made to feel uncomfortable and then in private ripped a kids eyeball out and Hecate helped to blind him - real good leadership there Hades, no winder the underworld denizens dont like you).

Honestly and we're supposed to be rooting for the gods? Or at least HxP?

I feel like it might be better if the narrative actually acknowledged that what the gods did was f*cked up and had lasting consequences, since RS wants them to be more "human" anyway.

Like Hades ripped a kids eye out and who gets 'punished' for it? Persephone. It damages her reputation at school and yeah she calls him out on it (saying that he did it more out of pride for himself than for her) but later its immediately forgotten as soon as she makes him fix the kid's eye.

(Not to mention that putting Hades in the room of the kid is gonna cause the kid more trauma. Was there no other healing option? Actually since when does Hades have healing powers? We've only ever see him kill plants to flirt with Persephone. And I think he should fix it, but I also doubt Persephone was thinking of the kids wellbeing in that moment - more of just fixing her reputation. Which again, does not endear the audience to her as a dread queen, if she can't make logical decisions that are going to impact the citizens shes destined to rule over). 

5. maybe the reason rachel made semele so unlikeable is because she knows itll be hard to excuse hera's action when she literally murders a pregnant woman and her baby so thats all she can manage to justify it, tho its also lowkey deranged to say someone and their baby deserves to die because hera has that easily bruised of an ego over a man, who in LO at least, she doesnt even love?? like hera would just look insane at that point, you cant "girl power" your way out of baby murder.

[rangerofpelor]

1, 11, 20, 33, 53 for three of your pick!!

goin’ with my two main dnd ocs and also antigone because i’m camp nano-ing and ironing out her story this month

1. Age, Birthday, Star Sign

VALKO. he’s 27 years old, born on the 23rd of the month of Rebirth (May), which makes him a gemini

BRYNJA. she’s 63, born sometime during Summertide (July), which makes her a cancer.

ANTIGONE. she’s 17, born sometime in the middle of her world’s version of august, so she’d be a leo

11. Do they have any notable features, like horns, tails, or so on?

VALKO. the scars slashing across the right side of his face are probably the most distinct features of his. but there’s also the symbol of pelor that was branded on his hand after he was chosen as his champion. that symbol has usually been covered up either by a glove or some sort of wrapping tho. it wasn’t something he advertised for a number of reasons and most recently, it’s been covered up because nerull did something and put some old-ass magic on it and the gang needs to head back to the temple of pelor and figure out what’s going on with that

BRYNJA. none that she puts on display regularly. she’s got her lightning scars in the shape of yggdrasil on her torso, but that’s usually covered up by her clothing and armor.  

ANTIGONE. she’s got albinism, so...her pale skin and white hair make her stand out in contrast to the suntanned skin and brown hair the rest of her family has. her mother told her that she was “born under a full moon” and that she was “kissed by moonlight”

20. Clothing/Aesthetic

VALKO. function over form clothing, usually in dark greens and grays to help him blend into his surroundings. studded leather armor, bows and arrows, dark shadows contrasted by beams of light, open wounds, scars, bruises, wolves, thieves tools, wheat fields

BRYNJA. viking. so very viking. stormy skies, high reaching mountain peaks, battlehammers, symbols of mjolnir, eagles wings. dresses in blues and greys with silver adornments, hair half pulled into braids and half loose and wild

ANTIGONE. her clothing is pretty simple and comfortable: a simple tunic, trousers, and comfortable leather boots. though if she had her way (and if she had the money for it) she would much rather wear the fancy dresses and high fashion of the Obsidian city. but in general, the red/white/black color palette is what she likes. 

33. How have they changed over time?

VALKO. god i could write ad nauseam about his character arc. but put simply: he went from sweet little farm boy, to an angry victim of poverty, to a cold-hearted criminal, to a self-loathing and suicidal vagrant, to a highly skilled adventurer with supportive friends and slowly learning self-worth and recovering from the abuse and trauma of his past. at the beginning of the campaign, his main goals were “don’t get caught” and “inflict as much self-harm as he can without outright killing himself”. now, at fucking level 18, his main goals are “be a better man that he used to be” and “stop running; take responsibility for what he’s done.” and it may not seem like a lot of growth but god it really really is. 

BRYNJA. she went from being angry and bitter about her father trying to push her into following a certain path. and then she actively rebelled against that by choosing to be a cleric of thor, which was such a liberating feeling and then she disowned him as her father. and then she calmed down a lot after that and after she started her training with grettir. so basically...angry teenager to a calmer young adult....tho the anger still lingers and it’s starting to come back considering there’s a god trying to push her and her party along a certain path which...she isn’t appreciating 

ANTIGONE. ah...i’m still working on this tbh. she starts off as a pretty normal girl stuck in the boonies with dreams of doing something more than just...farming and ugh...rearing children...then she loses everything and she’s hellbent on revenge. wrath is one of her bigger sins and she’s so ambitious but she has to learn how to reign in that anger and learn how to use her intelligence and charisma in order to survive in a highly politically driven place like the Obsidian Palace

53. Expectations vs Reality: what did you expect and what did you get with this character?

VALKO. i went in with the desire for a redemption arc and i’ve definitely gotten that (and an incredibly slow build one at that). that said as i worked on his backstory it just got darker and darker (which only made the redemption arc harder but that’s ok because both valko and i are masochists) so i guess i didn’t expect the amount of abuse and trauma valko suffered when i first went to make his character (obviously it was still there but just not...as much). also the whole champion of pelor thing. i did not expect that AT ALL let alone as early as that happened (like level 6/7). i had talked about maybe having valko take a few levels in cleric (as a cleric of pelor) at some point but i didn’t expect story to lend itself to it that soon. so yeah, valko as a champion and high status religious figure was definitely something i didn’t expect from this at all (tho i am very pleased about it)

BRYNJA. i mean my big thing with her is that i wanted a dnd character as different from valko as i could get (confident, emotionally open, not nearly as angsty) and that’s really what i got. she was designed to be as straightforward as possible and that’s what she is. i suppose if anything she’s more rebellious than i had anticipated. her backstory was written/finalized after we had been playing for a few months but as mentioned in the last question, there’s this theme of her not liking higher authority pressuring her into doing certain things

ANTIGONE. tbh she’s pretty much what i’ve expected so far. I haven’t properly written her yet, so i know she’s got plenty of surprises in store for me and i’m excited for them. I can’t wait to see what kind of monkey wrenches she (or any other characters) throw into things