#this is based on a real old text post i can't find (of course)

[imsodishy]

Steve with the tibetan mastiff he got as a puppy when someone told him it was a full grown shih tzu, and Billy with the chihuahua someone told him was a pit-bull puppy.

They got to talking at the dog park because Bruce was *bullying Archie (*Bruce is obsessed with Archie, and Archie's a big baby)

[mask131]

I saw your Greek Mythology masterpost, and wanted to hear your thoughts on an idea that's been swimming around in my head for awhile.

I've been inspired by Rick Riordan, because of course I have, and I like the idea of gods in the modern world.

The modern ideas of the gods are very different from the ancient interpretations, but that's kinda by design, no? Gods are fluid concepts that adapt with the culture that worships them, and our culture is very different from Ancient Greece.

I want to see the gods in a story where they're forced to basically "adapt or die." They need to adapt to the modern world or lose their importance.

Since it's low hanging fruit, I'll use Zeus as an example of what I mean. He's both the god of justice and very rapey, which contradict by our modern standards. In my concept, he either needs to adapt (stop being so rapey) or die (lose one of his most important deific domains).

This would reconcile the dissonance between the "original" gods and our modern interpretations, since that's basically the point of the story.

Also, to add more pressure on the gods, there's probably a younger generation of gods that could replace them if they fail to adapt. I struggle to believe that the gods stopped banging each other and having kids just because their worship fell out of fashion. There's definitely some newer gods running around. This could even connect to the myth/prophecy of Athena's younger brother.

So, this is basically the basic of my take on the Greek gods in the modern world. Thoughts?

Ps. Congrats on being my first ask ever

:3 Being someone's first ask is always such a cute honor. :3 You can't see it, but I'm blushing

Don't worry about someone accusing you of copying Rick Riordan by "placing gods in the modern world". Rick Riodan is just the last author in a long line. Neil Gaiman did it before with Sandman and American Gods. The Wonder Woman comics did it. Pratchett did it in Discworld ; Douglas Adam did it in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul... And there's works about this idea dating back to the early 20th century.

However that being said, reading your outline strongly brings to mind American Gods by Neil Gaiman which is precisely about this - a generational conflict between older, traditional gods that are about to die from lack of worship, and a newer, younger generation of deities based on modern concepts (television, internet, cars, stock market...). So probably go check this novel to find more inspiration or see what was already done so that you can use the things that were not done.

For example I adore your idea that "The gods didn't stop banging" - having the ancient Greek gods give birth to new gods more adapted to the world or part of modernity is an absolutely cool idea that to my knowledge has never been done before (as outside of demigods and heroes, most works about Greek mythology in modern days just have the god stop having children with each other for some reason...)

Plus this is literaly what Greek mythology was about, generational conflict. It is filled with this. The Titans overthrew the primordial order of Ouranos. The Olympians destroyed the rule of the Titans. Zeus had to constantly fight not to get overthrown by his children. And even among mankind it is a constant struggle of younger ones overthrowing the old. I think you have something going on with this idea of a younger generation of gods. Why doesn't the Greek mythology simply continues in the modern world? A lot of potential here.

After that, when it comes to your example of Zeus and his "rapist" persona, I strongly suggest you go take a look at all the scholarly analysis and expert texts about Zeus to find the delightful implications of each of the gods traits. (And this is true for all the other gods). I made a post about Zeus and his immense lust and why it is not like people thought and why the Greek Zeus wasn't as much of a rapist as people painted him out to be (the real serial rapist was the Roman Jupiter, the Greek Zeus was much safer, though still a man-whore and a constant cheater). It is my "Why does Zeus has such a messy love life?" post, with a first part here and a second one here. (But maybe you saw them before since they were in my old masterpost)

And in them I reminded people of something that all analysis books and advanced manuals about Greek mythology explained (at least in France - I definitively need to translate on this website some excerpt from French texts about Greek mythology) - why is Zeus such a lustful guy who can't keep his d*ck in his pants? And it isn't just because he is lustful by nature - there is a deep religious reason behind this (just like behind all of the gods' characterization). Zeus title is "Father of Gods", "Father of Men", "Father of the World". Zeus isn't just a king - he is the archetypal father, the universal father. And this isn't just a fanciful title, it is one of his fundamental aspects, meaning it is in his nature to constantly "give birth" and find companions to spawn gods and men. The same way Ouranos gave birth to three different species in one go ; the same way Kronos had many children and couldn't stop having them despite the prophecy - in Greek mythology there is this topic that the king needs to procreate, as the ruler of the universe is also the fundamental procreation power that keeps giving birth to the other deities that will shape the universe ; and to the heroes that will save and civilize said universe. Zeus' role as a cosmic, endless father can even be pointed out in how he is one of the rare (if not the only) male god in Greek mythology that has the power to LITERALY give birth to children - to Athena through his head, to Dionysos through his thight, pointing out that his role and function WILL make him give birth to children even if women aren't around to do the job.

And once you consider this fact, the consequences and possibilities you brought forward become very deep, very fascinating and a true gold mine. In the post Me-too world, Zeus (Zeus/Jupiter if you decide to take the Greek and Roman deities as one, though myself I like to keep them separate) literaly is perceived and seen as the symbol of all those powerful tyrannical men of patriarchy who keep enforcing their lust onto women. Which is already a remnant of an ancient mindset from long-gone society (again in Greece women had no rights and no freedom) - but if Zeus needs to stop sleeping around... This actually doesn't just bother him because he is sex-driven. It will bother him or cause problems because his title is the one of the father, and he is a procreation/creation force. A sterile father is a useless father - like the Fisher King of the Arthurian legend. What does it mean? Does it mean he will have to find other ways to create gods and heroes? Does it mean he will need to retire? Does it mean his entire personality and attributes will change? Does it mean another "Father" will arise? Does it mean the male-led world of the Greek pantheon will be reversed as a cosmic "Mother" take the first role?

Of course it is for you to find out - but what I am trying to say here is that when exploring such an idea as yours, you have a full and open world of endless possibilities. If you ever feel restricted and limited don't be - because gods aren't just characters. They are poetic concepts, political implications, religious metaphors, sacred entities, with each of their attribute, each of their personality trait, each of their relationship being deeply symbolic of something. Do the gods in modern day adapt to the modern society and cultures? Do they still maintain their old views and symbols from Ancient Greece into the modern world? It is for the creator to decide - but if you need inspiration or to help build anything else, just consider how changing a god or goddess attribute actually touches them deeply into their very function and essence, and how it is all tied to a question of culture and religion. I think you'll find all character and plot development coming naturally to you in such a way.

Maybe it wasn't the answer you were expecting sorry about that X) But I am definitively looking forward for more of your project in the future, and if you want to chat more about this don't hesitate - I am always encouraging people to spin more and more stories about Greek mythology!

[prehistoric-duo]

HELLO ROTOMBLR!!

It's your favorite MewTube Paleontologist Power-Couple, finally making an account on a social media site that isn't MewTube!

This is Taire- if you couldn't tell by my charming energetics (AKA Arnie didn't feel like making our introduction post lol).

I figure some of you don't really know who we are, if you don't find this blog from our description links, so why not talk about it real quick?

As I've said before, I'm Taire! I use he/him pronouns, and I'm 27 years old. Which, in my opinion, is actually not that old because I've worked with rocks older than uh. literally humanity? I have three Pokemon-

Rafflesia the Venusaur (She/her)

Geode the Sandslash (They/them)

Onoi the Omastar (They/them)

Here's my trainer card:

Arnie uses they/he pronouns, and is 26! He is like. My favorite person in the whole wide world and I love him so so so much and YES me gushing about him is a regular occurrence irl and in private. They also have three Pokemon-

Pablo the Torterra (They/them)

Grey the Aggron (They/Them)

Shelley the Carracosta (She/her)

Here's their trainer card:

We've been doing MewTube for about 3 years now, and married for 5! We work for an organization called The New Epoch Foundation as, you guessed it, paleontologists! The goal of the organization is to help further scientific research and runs mostly on donations! I might also end up as their head of social media because of the stuff we do on MewTube, we'll just have to see!

Of course, we can't forget about Baby Helix, we had them about a year ago and we love them so so much. We don't really post pictures of them, but maybe in the future? We aren't like. A family vlogging channel anyways (chills). We'll both sign off our posts!

Feel free to send us asks and pelipper mail! I'm hoping to be able to interact with the fans more this way :)

Hi! Mod here, just call me Vessel! ooc text from me will be red

My other blog is @canesvenatici-ribbons! But this blog is going to be more plot-based than slice of life ;)

A couple of ground rules:

1- I operate on DND and Improv rules: "yes and" and be respectful to other players.

That doesn't mean NO anon hate or whatever, it just means that if someone is playing a character in a way that makes me uncomfortable, I'm probably not going to interact with you. If the anon hate is egregious I'm going to stop responding to it, etc.

Typically I try to just go "yes and" to stuff, it's more fun to me that way and adds a layer of unpredictability to my stories- BUT- please DM me if you want to do BIG plot stuff (I don't bite!)

But if something makes me uncomfortable I won't do it, feel free to ask prior though if you want confirmation! If it's like. An overly dark subject matter I probably won't do it though.

2- No Magic anons or anon hate related to their identities please!

This is my one hard-stop! everything else like sentient pokemon, pelipper mail, regular anons, anon hate, is all fine right now!

3- Feel free to remind me to respond to a post or ask if I haven't gotten to it in about two days! I'm a college student and I'm really busy. I do this mostly for fun but I do really appreciate reminders. adhd brain

4- I want to confirm this rq cause I know people will ask about it- Helix is their biological child, one of them is trans but no actual like. Pregnancy is gonna be shown or mentioned on this blog because they think it's funny to keep it up in the air on who had Helix or if Helix is adopted. Trans families (no matter what kind) and seahorse dads are just. Very important to me as I am a trans guy/trans masc who wants kids myself one day. I expect you all to be respectful and mature about this. People who make M///pr///eg jokes and/or comments will be blocked and deleted.

Literally it's only funny with people I'm close with so if I don't know you, don't do that. This is my one other hard stop

Asks about who had Helix though- and speculation on if Helix is adopted, is encouraged and very funny!

I do plan on having actual references for the family done up at some point, I just haven't had the time or resources for it quite yet. But for now, here are their picrews + short add on descriptions! (Minus Baby Helix)

Taire:

Blue, Feathery hair, Oddly sharp teeth

Red, scaley patches of skin has grown in the three years of making videos- they started out small and almost unnoticeable and now it's beginning to take up their face.

Arnie:

DO NOT let this picrew fool you. Arnie is a large fat man. They also have a full beard that is not pictured.

Hair has turned white in the past few years. Blue Patch of skin over eye and looks strangely smooth, has only appeared since last year

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 35: Doom Boycotts the Space Olympics Season 1, Episode 36: Lotor's Clone

Episode 35 Doom Boycotts the Space Olympics I realized the text was hard to read in the long post so here's some color so you can tell which episode is being watched

wild that whoever made the choices for the space Olympics really thought hard and said "yes we're absolutely having it on Arus, where it's currently at war and has a weekly occurrence of giant fucked up robots fighting each other"

Is soccer actually an Olympic sport or is the world cup the biggest even for them?

Oh so doom IS actively boycotting the space olympics, I know It's for evil reasons but i have to agree just based on the fact THAT ITS ON A PLANET IN ACTIVE WAR AND ROUTINELY HAS GIANT MECHA FIGHTS

why are the boys in an army barrack 😭 the castle is right there is it not

Allura this is why you KNOCK walking in on the team showering in only towels is your fault entirely LMAO the boys are ragging on nanny for trying to make it their fault svsiodv woman just sit down and leave the food at this point

"I'm sorry I meant to surprise you!" "You did!" Keith that was adorable omg, I know you guys can't hear it, but his tone was the cutest

I love this show because in every other one it's hunk looking after Pidge, but originally it was Lance instead T-T He's currently very concerned about Pidge eating two kabobs at once, at least he isn't talking with food in his mouth

I'm sorry when did haggar get blueprints to voltrons wiring??

are they about to make a decepticon out of the beefed up bulldozer the team has outside to build the stadium?? Oh my god they are

man the only reason the team finds out about lotors plan is because one of the kids that was tagging along with hunk this entire time needed to take a leak outside 💀

haggar described her weird virus for that bulldozer as like a chip,,, it is not a chip it's a tiny robeast that takes over the entire machine just by standing onto the hardware i know they were making it easier to understand for kids but c'mon that had to be confusing for them, kids are real smart anyway

The boys: kid you were dreaming, nothing attached itself to the bulldozer (bulldozer proceeds to turn on and wreck their barrack) the boys: O-O guys please listen to the children, they're so upfront with everything they see its wild

PIDGE WHY ARE YOU JUMPING STRAIGHT ONTO THE BULLDOZER well at least he found out nobody was driving it UNTIL IT THREW HIM OFF, he's a gymnast (ninja) though so of course he lands on his feet anyway like a goddamn CAT

why do they always make hunk grunt like that? wild somehow they figured out it was lotor, i mean i feel like itd be obvious once they knew nobody was in it but still

OH SO PIDGE DOES ACTUALLY REFER TO HIMSELF AS A GYMNAST, THATS ACTUALLY SUPER COOL still doesnt make it any less insane that pidge LEPT ONTO THE ROOF OF THE BULLDOZER

WHY IS HE SO LONG IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, IT LOOKS LIKE THE PASTED HIS HEAD OVER LANCES BODY he didnt even stop the thing i think lotor just told it to stop to lull them into a false sense of security

that same kid was yelling about not being listened and immediately punched the control panel with started up the bulldozer again 💀 I think you're old enough to know how to regulate your emotions my dude oh also he and two others are trapped inside now, dire stakes indeed

hunk and pidge got thrown off the bulldozer, how high up were they?? ft older brother lance again because he was making sure pidge was okay in the background

at last a lion comes out to actually do something NOT BEFORE THE BOY GOT BURIED ALIVE THOUGH WHAT THE FUCK THEY SHOULD BE DEAD

I don't think this is the first time lotor has told allura his plans for her, but it's good that he actually tells her so she doesn't get a worse idea

the team is free after allura creates a goddamn tsunami in the stadium ft MORE OLDER BROTHER LANCE BECAUSE HES HOLDING PIDGE NEXT TO HIM IN THE WATER

immediately after being freed the kids just sit there and do nothing UNTIL THEY GET TRAPPED IN IT AGAIN god this show makes so many characters stupid

all-scan?? Are you telling me you fuckers could've done that before, and you just haven't?? I'm gonna say you just recently learned it for my own mental health

the kids are out after Hunk bashed his way inside without a lion i love seeing scenes like these because the pilots are actually skilled outside of being inside the lions!

Ooh so I was right, it was a mini robeast who could interact with machines, and then it just combines with it to make it an actual robeast well they could've just said that earlier >:/

voltron is formed and definitely is spewing propaganda for the olympics but at least hes able to damage the robeast LMAO

holy shit easiest fight ever, they barely even did anything to the guy before pulling out blazing sword and skewering it

time to rebuild the stadium and gym using the lions my question is why they only gave one of those beefed up bulldozers to the team

/episode end

Episode 36 Lotor's Clone

Episode opens with Zarkon yelling at Lotor, this oughta be good lol

"quit sending robots to arus and destroy voltron yourself!" my guy how the FUCK is one dude gonna do that, you kind of need another big guy to help weaken him first

"you mean really lead? Like from up front?" "Where else you idiot!" LMAOO

I know they make the doomites robots so the show can skirt past ratings but do not give robots that much sentience and still say they're not people these fuckers were talking about defecting and living on Arus!

oh so this episode's robeast is just another lotor because he doesn't actually want to do the work HAHAHA

"but beware, whatever you know he will know" foreshadowing?

onto planet arus, the team is doing some lion training

Pidge: it feels like my head is on backwards! Keith: I always knew that! THE KID JUST FELL OUT OF THE SKY KEITH BE NICE LMAO

Pidge: did you know your nose wiggles when you're upset Keith: my fist wiggles too! KEITH PLEASE-

mystery power surge huh, at least we can tell that the castle actually has employees since they're running around trying to fix stuff

oh never mind the drules have an actual robeast that's fucking with the castle, the lotor clone is just so lotor doesn't have to do any of the work expected of him LOL

Keith has a plan but i can't remember the sleds/boats he mentions having used before with the team maybe they're just making it up to show that the pilots actually hang out on their off time fnvsdoi

"some of these parts are older than nanny!" GET HER ASS LANCE

it's good to know that the pilots are all slightly mechanically inclined, definitely a skill they gotta have to actually stay alive on Arus

Not lotor complaining that his clone isn't working hard enough for his hero image 💀 no wonder this man always gets his ass kicked

secrets out, keiths been fighting the clone this whole time and because of lotor having a telepathic argument with it, he knows it's not the real him anymore

Damn he was so offended by the clone calling him Lotor used the robeast to blow his ass up 😭 Keith's right, this was his only chance at winning

did they just fix up that sled thing to not actually use it?? What a waste of time oh never mind lance is using it while the others use the lions

"if you're gonna lie around the beach all day I'll come back later" i don't think any other show can replicate the absolute sass dotu lance brings

I like that hunk is the defacto leader when its him pidge and allura, I know allura has no experience so she wouldn't be but i wouldn't be surprised if they tried to pull something like this with pidge lol

voltron is formed, haven't seen lion head attack in a while so it's nice to see it back man that robeast just stoof there and took the beating, are they just giving up at this point soidns

ooh scene reuse, this is definitely from the bridge episode that i cant remember the name of, everyone is joking about how another clone of them would be good for the universe lol

/episode end

[voicefromthecorner]

i followed you bc of your twewy lb but outside of that, do you use this account to liveblog other games as you play them?

No actually, and that's something I figured I'd address at some point, which might as well be now.

This is going to be an essay on the highs and lows of liveblogging from my experience with the TWEWY games here, so get ready for a long dissection (TL;DR, I hadn't done liveblogs prior to TWEWY but I'm open to doing more in the future but I'd prefer to keep them more smaller scale and less reactive if I did):

If you look at the start of my OG TWEWY liveblog, where this all began, you'll notice I didn't really kick this thing off with "welcome to my big liveblog" or anything like that. I just started posting out of the blue about stuff that I thought was funny or neat to comment on. Post frequency was far less and I didn't analyse nearly as much as I more regularly do now.

But people got really into it and, frankly, I got really into it, so it became a much much bigger and broader thing in scope and scale than where it started. So before long, I was writing essays about my favourite parts of the story and my favourite stages of the character development, as well as still cracking some short one-off jokes or just taking a moment to step back and let some great game moments speak for themselves (which tended to be the posts that got the most attention, which I think is really cool).

This was because I was just playing the Final Remix version for the first time and I noticed that I had the power to take screencaps, which I could then post here if I fancied. I love this game, I was on an excited roll at experiencing the Switch version for the first time and I didn't really have any real life peeps I could share that excitement with, so I figured I'd do that from time to time to add some fun to my playthrough and get to share my thoughts somewhere with some people who might enjoy it. It was just something I figured would be occasional one-off stuff.

So yeah, basically this all kinda blew up from me looking to talk about one of my favourite games ever which effectively created these two concurrent liveblogs. The process has noticably slowed the pace that I go through them, of course, though part of that is my own procrastination or real life busyness, but I don't regret doing it and a big part of the reason I've kept doing it is that I can't shut up about how much I love these games.

I will say, from running a liveblog on these two games as my first experience of it, I think I do prefer the first one as a liveblog. The version of the game was new but I had played the story through before so I knew what I was getting into ahead of time, which meant I had less questions and more answers or at least thoughts to give.

Reacting to a game for the first time in this format is fun, don't get me wrong, but the experience is always getting delayed in certain forms and maybe it's self-talk but I'm often feeling like I'm burning posts on being clueless or being excited at every new thing I see. I'm not ashamed of that, but I can understand if it's not the experience people are looking for, at least as much as a reaction or commentary on the game's bigger moments. Like I said, I keep doing this because I want to ramble and rant about absolutely everything like a madman but it's definitely going to lead to content that is first and foremost only slowing down my playthrough.

And that's the one thing that's a big downside. Again, no regrets - the experience is fantastic and I'm delighted that I get to share it with people who are enjoying it, but it's definitely easier to liveblog a game I've played before because there's no loss in my delayed ability to spend time on it. I know what's coming, therefore I know better how to post about it and I'm not adjusting the pace of a new experience to accommodate it.

In other words, I find this text-based liveblog format is best suited for returning to something old rather than discovering something new. It can definitely work well for both when people are more economic with their posts, but I like to overdo things. Reactive playthroughs are better served by more live formats, like video recordings or livestreams. I did try a couple of YouTube playthroughs in the past (one that I'd played before, one that I hadn't) but neither worked out too well because I don't have the patience for editing.

As far as the TWEWY liveblogs go, if you're enjoying my NEO playthrough, don't be concerned! I'm going to have a lot more freedom as of roughly next week so hopefully I should have more time to power through it and I'm definitely going to! We're in the endgame, so close to the final showdown and I'm determined to see this through to the end! We've come this far together and we will finish it together. And afterwards, expect me to still post about either game when the whim calls for it.

But I think while I'm open to doing liveblogs in the future, I'll likely save it for specific things that I'm already familiar with. I don't think I'll do something on this scale again (with possible exception to a TWEWY 3 if it ever gets made (keep the faith!)) unless I developed a more efficient system for running it.

And to anyone reading this who's encouraged me and/or still encourages me over the months so much on this wild ride that started out as one of those little 4-year-old caterpillar roller coasters that steadily evolved into a 100ft tall dragon that's determined to break the sonic barrier, thank you so much for the support! It's really special to have a little corner of the internet that's enjoying spending time on your antics.

[androgynepositivity]

Rejoice! Salvation Is Free, Just Accept Jesus Into Your Life Today!

Wow, hello!

I'm going to make an example of you since you've so kindly wandered into my asks. I'm 99% sure that this is either a bot or some sort of copy/paste, but heck, you've given me a unique opportunity.

I've wanted to talk about my experiences with faith and religion (separate things) for a while now, but haven't really been able to think of a reason to bring it up. Of course I don't NEED a reason, but it's just one of those things that's not very fun to just drop on people unannounced. So, without further ado, please make sure you read this post slowly and carefully, as I don't intend to repeat myself.

I am an ex-xtian who has good faith in xtians regardless of my trauma. (xtian = abbreviation of christian)

This is to say, I myself do not have any good faith left untoward xtianity as a whole. I believe that the organized religion in itself is corrupt from the core, and has effectively lost sight of what truths it actually has within itself in favor of worldly pursuits and powers. What I have good faith in, however, is xtian people who actually practice what their holy texts preach. There are xtian people who do this, and as a former xtian, I know exactly what I'm looking for when it comes to this assessment.

So, if there are any xtians among my tumblr followers here, (especially queer ones), I'd like to kindly request your attention, because I am hoping that you will find this post refreshing in terms of non-xtians having reviews/critiques of the behavior of xtian things, as opposed to yet another queer post about how religious trauma has made them a hater of xtians and xtianity (which most of the time, if I may be frank, are valid).

If you are to follow the teachings of Yeshua of Nazareth, the "Christ", the "Messiah", you are to fully disregard the teachings of the old testament as little more than old lessons; perhaps looking to them as guides, but no more as religious law. As he has said, the old is done away with. "I am the new word/law." depending upon your translation of the verse, at least.

This is to say... there are many xtians that seem to ignore this in favor of using ancient text to support their shitty world views. As a person who has read the bible cover to cover twice, -and took notes-, I can tell you for certain that there are just... SO many verses I am tired of hearing upon the lips of bigoted xtians who want to use their religious practice as a sheepskin to cover their hateful ways in some sort of 'valid' excuse. But we've all dealt with that at one time or another as queer people.

No, the folks that are fine in my book are the ones that read the damn book for themselves, or absorb the information in some way that is not some prewritten adventure guide (bible study). This isn't to say that xtians who haven't or can't read the bible in its entirety aren't "real" xtians or something, but I mean to say that if you ever get the chance to, you really should, because it'll really help you fully understand what the faith aught to be about and what you, as a xitian, aught to focus on as a xtian. Not to mention... Lutherans literally fought for your right to be able to READ the damn thing, since catholics were absolutely fine with the arrangement of hoarding the knowledge to themselves so they could take advantage of the message and use that power to manipulate the masses, so fucking read it? (Lutherans of course are not based or perfect in any way, Martin Luther himself was hellishly racist and had all kinds of problematic takes, but you know what I mean).

So, little bot or random copy/paster, this is me telling you outright that no, I will not be accepting any saviors into my heart, yada yada. I had at one time done that whole song and dance, and I paid my nickle to the cause. I've read the book twice, I've studied, I know what I'm doing in terms of saying, "No, I don't believe this to be the one and only truth in the world." and so I am an ex-xtian, and will happily remain so.

And I had momentarily considered making this response into some sort of short, throw-away dunk on xtians with a meme or something, but I decided instead to make a long-form statement so I hopefully don't have to do it ever again. And if any of you have read this far down, thanks, first of all! I know this is a long one.

I have not yet read the book, but if there are any xtians among my followers, I want to recommend the book "Christians Against Christianity" by Obery M. Hendricks Jr. as a little side-study you can conduct. I think you'll find it refreshing to see that people within your own faith are just as disenfranchised with it as you may be at times, but that there is of course, hope. "Hope," I say, for xtians who actually practice the faith instead of using it as a thinly veiled excuse to be bigoted fuckwads to others.

So, finally, this is my overall message I wish to convey:

I am not xtian, and will never again be xtian. If I identify as anything, I am an omnist (not omnitheist, it's different); I believe that there are truths and wisdoms that can be found among all faiths, and so I aim to instead study all faiths as a way to better understand my fellow humans, humanity, and my own understanding of the world as a whole. I wish good fate upon anyone who practices something in its entirety, but I also deeply encourage others to study other faiths if ever you find yourself not understanding something. Ask questions. Look deeper. For example, there are just so many people who have thoughts and opinions on Judaism and Islam without having even once looked into what these faiths are about at their cores, so... you know, go and read about them? Learn? Be a good neighbor, damn you.

If folks have more specific questions they want to ask me, feel free! But I will not be making any more posts in regards to folks trying to evangelize me via motherfucking tumblr anon. Lmfao

-Admin (Cake/Arthur)

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Vesuvius: Historical Tidbits!

So I just posted Vesuvius, my Italian Renaissance Anderperry oneshot, over on the AO3 - read it here, especially if you haven't read it before seeing this post. It was never meant to be anything more than the vaguest of historical fictions, and is exactly zero percent accurate, but a couple of the places/terms I used had some fun facts behind them, so what I couldn't or didn't want to fit into footnotes goes here!

WARNING: PRETTY MAJOR SPOILERS HERE! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED, GO READ THE FIC FIRST!

First; names were gotten mainly from the Peiraeus Public Library, the Academy of Saint Gabriel, and a Reddit thread that I can't actually find now.

Also - never actually mentioned in the fic, but Neil's first name is Niccolò! It seemed fitting for his name to be lost to history; it's tragic because the whole thing is a tragedy and ends with the demise of the House of Pisani; it's logical because I can't imagine that Andrea would want his old best friend/erstwhile rival's name to remembered, especially in connection to Todd's death; it's happy because the best thing I could do for Neil was to let him fade quietly out of history and never have to deal with anything like that again for the rest of his life. But I couldn't resist giving him a name that means "people's victor" lol. Dramatic irony ftw

Sidenote: I only chose Tommaso because it sounds like Todd and I was trying to stick pretty close to their canon names, but it does mean "twin", so... whoops! Uh oh! What a thing to name the guy who spends most of his childhood and early adulthood alone and searching for a family! Sorry man!

"Il triumvirato" - probably very obvious, but Italian for "triumvirate".

Speaking of the painting - did you catch the broken cup corresponding to the cup on the de' Rossi coat of arms? Looks like someone's been hungry for power for a couple of years, Andrea! (In my mind he has the portrait commissioned at the height of the "golden years", when he's drunk on power and Todd and Neil have not yet abandoned his cause.)

Last note on the paintings is on the clothing; the cloak is a mantello, the undershirt a camicia, the doublet a farsetto and the tabard a giornea, and the hose calze. I didn't do much (any) research on the colours/materials, so that will likely be anachronistic. Andrea's outfit looks a little like this:

Neil's like this (on the right):

And Todd is in cardinal's robes! More on that in one or two bullet points.

I only mention One Thousand and One Nights in the footnotes but actually all of the stories our narrator mentions are anachronistic - Maestro Lattantio and Costatino Fortunato (an early version of Puss in Boots!) were both first published in The Facetious Nights of Straparola by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, circa. 1550-1553

Actually, quick note to confirm the dates; Todd first becomes a cardinal in 1479, and the conversation witnessed by our narrator happens around 1484.

Todd IS quite young to become a cardinal (think mid to late-20s), but that makes more sense in the full AU ;)

As said in the footnotes, the Palazzo is based on the Palazzo Reale/del Broletto Vecchio. Check it out!

(Yeah, narrator, go ahead. Try hiding in THIS one.)

Cardinals have red robes! And of course once I realised this the blood comparisons were endless and overwhelming. Like, come on:

WHAT a red. Thank you, Jeremy Irons in The Borgias.

And this is a galero, the red hat of the cardinals:

Wide brim for obscuring the face while telling secrets.

The Pazzis briefly alluded to are the Pazzis of the Pazzi conspiracy, which has been taking up just absolute miles of my brain space since I started reading about it. Like holy shit. What was going on there

Cardinals are valuable to have at the time; mostly covered in the text, but they're ways to have your family's fingers in all the political pies. (Popes are of course better, but cardinals more attainable.) But then again, now your son owes his first alliance to Rome. Uh oh!

The Castel Sant'Angelo is this huge imposing museum in Rome that has been by turns a fortress, mausoleum, and a prison:

The Bible verse is from Luke 2:9 - the birth of Jesus. Fun fact; the image of Todd as a soft-spoken, mild young cardinal, believed to be harmless and gentle by everyone around him, absolutely glowing with a kind of divine rage was the thing that first kickstarted this oneshot!

The Duomo di Milano:

Hell of a place to die in the arms of your lover (+ in front of the man who's always loved you, but loved power more). (Sidenote: in the full AU (which lives only in my mind) I have SO MANY SO MANY thoughts about Andrea/Todd/Neil as a triumvirate and SO MANY SO MANY thoughts about how they interact and what turns all of their stories into tragedies. So if anybody wants to ask me about them.........)

Feast day of St. Matthias: May 14th. St. Matthias replaced Judas as the twelfth apostle (there's a certain betrayal echoed here between the triumvirate that makes me go crazyinsane) and is the patron saint of carpenters, tailors, smallpox sufferers, and in prayers for perseverance and hope.

The crypt of the Duomo di Milano, where Todd is buried:

And... that's it! I think! Thanks for reading!

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Edit 25/10/23 - just a minor thing that doesn't really impact the fic at all, but I do think that Todd's death also plays a part in the complete destroyal of the de' Rossis - not because of Andrea's wrath but because of the Pope's. Like, he's not an important cardinal or even a very well-respected one, but he is still a prince of the Church! And killing him would definitely provoke some papal blowback. Just been reading about the Cardial di San Giorgio after the Pazzis, and the Pope sending messengers to get him, and when that was denied essentially declaring war on Lorenzo de' Medici (although of course that wasn't all on the Cardinal's account). Like you know. Family is family. (He was TWENTY-SEVEN when it all went down, what the fuck!)

[vulturevanity]

Ello-ello!

Got me an owl house question, yes I do! An’ it’s a Lilith question too! Yer favorite character!

Based on de season two trailer we saw an’ other information available at de moment, what do yer think de relationship was like between Lilith an’ her mother?

Do yer think Eda was de favored child while poor-ee-lad Lilith was de scapegoat? There is de one clip of a young Eda cowerin’ behind a door while a shadow or her mom seems to be shouting’ at someone.

Do yer think de mom was shouting at Lilith? What do yer think the Clawthorne’s family life was like?

Yer may be wonderin’ why I wrote all of this in a sort of accent. Well, it’s to keep things a bit more interestin’, eh.

oh hell yeah I missed writing walls of text about The Owl House

I know you asked for one of my Lilith Rambles, but this went off-course real fast so have a loose Clawthorne family analysis instead. I hope it's coherent at least

To be honest, that fourth of a second is a bit too short for me to infer anything from it, mostly because it's completely devoid of any context; we don't even know who mama Clawthorne is yelling at, and I can't in good faith jump to the conclusion that it's Lilith. (@sepublic, in one of their analysis posts, throws in the possibility of the target of such ire being the girls' other parent. I can see that.)

What little I can extrapolate from the trailer -- putting together all the other snippets we see of mama Clawthorne (Gwendolyn, as her VA revealed a while ago) and her fledglings, is that they seem to have a very... complicated relationship.

As I recall mentioning before a while ago, That little conversation at the end of Covention is really interesting. Eda calls her parents "a mystery", and King emphasizes how much Luz doesn't want to know about them; that alone paints a not very flattering picture of them. Combine that with what we see in the trailer, and it really seems like Lilith got the short end of the stick in the family.

The choice of giving Gwen what looks like* an eagle palisman -- which competes with owls and preys on corvids! -- is... concerning. If I were to take that at face value, I'd say Eda and her mom used to butt heads a lot, while Lilith (whom I have said time and again is a notorious coward) was probably too intimidated to be upfront about any shenanigans.

But that alone doesn't mean there was a hierarchy in the house, or that Lilith a scapegoat/victim of abuse. It may just be ye olde case of a toxic household. Shitty parents are shitty. If you want textbook Golden Child/Scapegoat abuse, look no further than the Blight family. As far as I can tell, the Clawthornes are far less deliberate than that.

* - Post-analysis speculation, aka basically a crack-theory:

Now I say "looks like a bald eagle", because as much as the anatomy of the palisman resembles a typical bald eagle, one tiny detail caught my attention during my second watch:

Bald eagles don't have crests. I have searched around a lot and couldn't find a species of eagle that looks just like a bald eagle but has a crest, or black feathers in their heads (if there are eagles like that then I guess this whole segue is rendered moot, but pointless speculation is what I live for so bear with me). Do you know what looks like a bird of prey and has a black feathered crest?

This dumbass.

This bird is a Caracara. It's endemic to where I live -- in fact, a family of them lives right by our cottage. They are, for the most part, completely harmless. They're opportunistic scavengers, only ever known to hunt as a last resort, and only hunting very small animals. We have a chicken coop, and the most they ever caught from it was a couple of eggs once.

So yeah. It's still a 99.9% chance that Big Bird is a bald eagle with a cool design choice, but the first thought I had when I saw that dark spot on its head was "Oh? Caracara?" which, on the 0.1% chance that it turns out to be true, would completely upend our first impressions of the Clawthorne family dynamic.

Food for thought.

[pictures-from-the-universe]

That's some old family photos. I am still not knowing what sort this blog will get, but I think it's some of these diary blogs.

Like: Omg guys and gentlemen you wouldn't believe what happened today at the supermarket!!

And then I tell you a story about the universe...

But also I like the Idea that I can write all my thoughts, especially the autism ones, down and get my head free, what is very relaxing and after i wrote them down, I let them fly away in the deepsea of electromagnetic waves, like a letter in a bottle throwed in the deepsea of mostly Water, which means a sea like the pacific, who is also full of waves and I'm pretty sure that there are not only water based waves, but also electromagnetic waves, what's like two apples from different sorts. They are different sorts of waves, in this universe, you have to know! Like electromagnetic and mechanical waves. So all of them periodical distributions, ,,periodisch wiederkehrende Störungen/Signale" in german. But don't nail me on this, it's just a memory of a old physic book, I read time ago. So jeah... Give me a minute to think about what I am want to write down, bevor I want to write about waves.

So this blog is like a bootle in ocean and if you find them feel free to enjoy and share it but when not, then this text isn't useful for you, because you can't read the informations in it... That's a smart sentence, I know, but you have to know that I'm smart too and I'm not even arrogant, since I am perfect.😋

Okey a short story to the photos on the top. In one of them you see my mother, but surprise... She smiles. It's literally the only photo or moment i can remember, that she smiles. Not this short laughs or the ,,you just don't know what I know-smile" and Chantal knows exactly what I mean, but just smiling in the moment and that are the best smiles in the universe, because they happen in real-time, what means they are honest and magical. I know I describe many things whit magical, but this don't mean that I think they are magic, but they feel like magic and if you don't what magic feels like, you have a sad sad life. And even that you know what magic is? Physic is magic ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ jeah emojis!! Emojies are cool too, just like physic.

So, you kow what are the fundamental forces in this universe? I mean sorry, yes of course you know it because they are just four. And some other phyisc things are important too and all in one you get magic. Things working together, without a logical reason to exist. Universe i know... Just a big space for 🚀🌌 or a magical ✨ mysterious thought of yourself 💜??

This and maybe other themes or nothing of them, you can read in my next posts.

So jeah, bottle in a ocean... This hit exactly when the bottle have a abo button 🔘 so you can find her again in the universe. Even of that fell free to use this posts for you self. I often see parts in the personality of other people that I like a lot and then i just put them in my own personae. A activity that many autistic people do, I learn from a other post of another person in the universe. Does nobody care that we are in a universe? I mean I know that people care about them and honestly I have to say that this was an rhetorical question and I'm feel sorry for telling it. I know that they are the worst questions of all, because now you think about it and try to collect informations out of you brain 🧠 to answer it and then you getting angry about that I don't want a answere, because I already have one. I know really disrespectful behavior but what should I say, I also make some fails, that can hurt other peoples. When this were not my own personal blog, then first i wouldn't write this post and second when I would, I would say something like ,,I try not to tell rhetorical questions anymore" but it is my own blog, so if you don't can handle these questions then I feel sorry and I understand you, but I write what I want to write, what is the most important rule of this blog, but i really understand you if you say that these questions can hurt. I mean why are people asking something like that. When you want to tell me something and don't know how to start a conversation then just tell me what you want to tell me and then i can answer (or not because it's my decision and only because you want to talk to me, doesn't means I want talk to you) but don't confuse me with a completely nonsense questions, look strange to me because I take you as serious person and want to show that I respect and like you enough to think about the question in you head and try to help you with an answer and after this don't get annoyed, because of that I answered your, it was you question and you are the one who make the decision, to convert electric and chemical signals into waves who waves through the universe and get converted back to signals from another things that are made of materia who is made out of energy who is another word for speed and that are only exist because they spin faster than lightspeed and don't let the time catch them, because time can only travel with the speed of light and when you are faster than this you can exist but you have to be faster in both directions and heres where the anti particles came in, who are just the same particles, running back in time, but in his own word he runs forward in time of course. So time and room doesn't touch each other really, they existing next to each other because they are and jeah here you need to see how time shows out (at least in my brain 🧠) to understand where I want to go with you but it's a long and comlex thought and it's not even finish and in some of his parts are paradoxical and other doesn't make sense at all or they are just to ,,early-thougth-magical" , what means that they are just a few times, waves (periodical informations), or what ever you count the age of you thoughts (I take both of them, waves for the more intensive ,,core thoughts" -how i call them-, and the other for the more electron like thoughts who are more outside and better for the use of connections with other thoughts -in this case though means people _ I have to rename them into thoughts that the theory is working, hope this doesn't confuse you❤️_ - ), old and you can not see them at all and have to wait until they are older and you can understand them better.

I like tumblr ways more than instagram because here I have the feeling that the text don't get discriminated and the pictures are free to show her own scale and don't have to be square. I think I delete instagram because its very racist to the pictures and don't say there is no way to be a racist to a picture, that only shows that you don't see pictures like I. But on the other hand its a cool way to store some of my good pictures and jeah I think I take it as an folder for pictures but sorry instagram I'm with tumblr now and you know what?!! He kisses ways better than you!!!😂🌌

Just a short autism joke.

You know why I like the word ,,autism" so much? I mean the german ,, Autismus" sound s beautiful at own but in english you get this ,,sm" at the end and speak the ,,au" more like ,,ou" and this is definitely one of the best word-waves who exist, at least at my opinion, feel free to think different, I mean we are not on squarestagram...

So I write a lot today and of course I can write the whole day but my fingers hurt and I'm getting hungry 🥺 so i say goodbye and Auf Wiedersehen.

Bye 👋😎