#when my hyperfixations collide

[nohogeorge]

ROBINS FAVOURITE BEATLE IS CANONICALLY PAUL

[lanadel-heyyy]

JHutch Characters and their F1 Drivers

Peeta Mellark and Oscar Piastri

— peeta is one hundred percent rooting for the guy with the last name PASTRY

— mclaren orange is the sunset orange peeta loves

— why is their hair like that? are we supposed to be blonde? why does it sit that way on their head?

— yearn game recognizes yearn game (katniss/the podium)

— master chefs, peeta would probably be annoyed with “fussy eaters” too

— adds duckies to his ice bath

— seems sweet but WILL run you off the track

— (it’s the same picture)

[lilyevansirl]

First Aaron Taylor-Johnson, then Timothée Chalamet, and then Sophie Thatcher?? Brittany broski is collecting marauders fancasts like horcruxes

[mangotelevision]

season 2 cat duo

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Another AU has plagued my mind

[foreststarflaime]

Ok so I was translating the Iliad for fun last night as one does and oh my god it’s them?? Genesis Rhapsodos is a homeric hero in this essay I will

“Sing to me, goddess, of the accursed wrath of Achilles son of Peleus, who caused countless pains for the Acheans, and sent forth many stout souls of heroes to Hades, and made them spoils to dogs and to every bird of prey, and the will of Zeus was accomplished, from when first the son of Atreus ruler of men and divine Achilles stood apart in strife.”

-Homer, Iliad, I.1-7 (translation is my own)

But like the more I think about it, the more it just…fits him perfectly? Strap in boys this turned into a long one, I’m putting my ‘useless’ degree to good use

So a huge drive for Homeric heroes is pursuit of kleos (κλέος, meaning glory), it’s what their societal values are built off of, and it’s what Genesis builds his life off of too. It’s why he can’t let himself coexist peacefully with Sephiroth—for Genesis’ glory to spread, it can’t be eclipsed by Sephiroth’s. Kleos is earned primarily through being remembered in song, and you don’t see Shinra making any propaganda with Genesis in it (at least disproportionately not as much as Sephiroth).

And that’s another thing—Genesis’ desperate will to live. A big part of the appeal of kleos is that it grants you a sort of immortality, to live forever in the minds of humanity as long as the songs about you persist. There is a way to earn kleos without being the best hero around, and it’s to be killed by the best hero around—in passages where heroes go on killing rampages, there’s little catalogues of everyone they kill, like little graveyards of poetry that let them live on after death. It’s not a dishonor to them, rather the opposite since they died bravely fighting someone they just couldn’t beat.

This isn’t the way Genesis wants to earn his kleos, though, and he’s desperately afraid of it. We see in his reaction to degredation that he will do anything to avoid his own death, lashing out against everyone in pain and fear. He wants more than anything not to die, but he doesn’t want to end up a footnote in the rampage of someone greater. He wants Achilles’ fame, but fails to see that this fame was conditional upon his death. The most famous part of Achilles’ story that survived, after all, was his heel.

And then there’s how his friends fit into the story. As you can see in the quote from earlier, Sephiroth fits well as the Agamemnon to Genesis’ Achilles. Agamemnon leads the assembled Greek forces because he has the most men, the most fame, but Achilles (putting aside the matter of whether he is or not) doesn’t want to be seen as inferior to him, and is infuriated when Agamemnon does something he sees as a slight against his kleos. From Genesis’ perspective, this fits Sephiroth exactly. From Sephiroth’s perspective, naturally this is not the case, but therein lies the problem—he’s in a different genre from Genesis, one that becomes incompatible when put in the context it’s in, and this dooms them to tragedy.

It’s a similar problem with Angeal. Honor and glory are similar enough to be the best of companions, but they are not the same thing, and it’s something that is easy to forget. The difference is most clear, again, in the context they’re in. Genesis is so busy chasing immortality in kleos that he forgets that honor is not immortality, and Angeal’s will to live fails when his honor does, and he loses him.

Angeal and Sephiroth are both their own genres, causing misunderstanding and ensuring the tragedy that occurs, but they fit in just enough with the context of Homeric heroes to not let Genesis see his mistake.

Important for him also is the definition of monster to a Greek—two different creatures mashed together in a way nature isn’t supposed to go. That’s it. And by that definition, he is a monster, though we’d still call him human by our definition. And that’s just…ouch. In the fundamental rules of his world, he is inarguably a monster.

But the tragedy of that is that he’s just so painfully human, as are all Homeric heroes—so horribly, humanly flawed in such a loud way that the world cannot ignore it, and is pulled down with him.

Okayy wrapping it up with a few fun facts because this is turning into the essay I didn’t mean it to be, his last name Rhapsodos (Ῥαψῳδός) is a Greek word that translates roughly to bard, and specifically to a bard that recites epic poetry. Like the Iliad. It’s so unbelievably perfect for him, good job square enix! And the fact that this quote from the Iliad has goddess instead of Muse like the Odyssey, it was fated! Also, not that noun genders really mean anything, but the Greek noun genesis (γένεσις) is actually feminine, so win for genderqueer Genesis propaganda

Anyway where did my afternoon suddenly go, this was supposed to be a short fun thing, I should really be working on my thesis (which coincidentally was inspired by him, I’m in too deep send help) if you read all this I love you forever lol bye

[mistermothball]

is this anything

[gale-gaze]

Shadowheart - Royalgirl Kyrii

Astarion - Royalboy Acara

Lae'zel - Mutant Skeith

Gale - Grey Yurble

Karlach - Plushie Scorchio

Wyll - Usukiboy Usul

Minthara - Darigan Aisha

Halsin - Faerie Xweetok

Jaheira - Woodland Wocky

Minsc - Tyrannian Meerca

[suns-blood]

OH MY FUCKING GOD REMINGTON LEITH OF PALAYE ROYALE SAID THAT TYLER FUCKING JOSEPH IS ONE OF HIS INSPIRATIONS FOR THEIR LYRICS I AM DECEASED

[redneckkangaroo]

Ok last adam post (lying) he smokes and is a fucking freak because he lived in New Jersey in 2004. What I'm saying is he definitely heard about american rock band My Chemical Romance and probably listened to their second studio album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge feat. your favorite tracks like Helena, I'm Not Okay, and Thanks for the Venom. If you read between the lines this means he listened to Guys like us in Prison and that song is about gay sex.

I just need to know if 9/11 happend in the saw universe.

Edit: yeah if Saw 1 didnt happen on September 10th, 2001 this would have been a great fucking post (thank you @dollcandyblog)

[lanadel-heyyy]

JHutch characters and their F1 Drivers

Derek Danforth and Lance Stroll

— are actually friends irl

— NEPO BABY STRONG 💪

— thinks he has lewis hamilton’s fashion sense/style but really doesn’t

— derek and lance both give “should be on gossip girl” energy

— would also break his wrists doing something reckless immediately before the season starts

— four consecutive DNF’s is very on brand for derek

— derek just wants lance to introduce him to max verstappen (he’s not going to)

[jaime-has-shifted]

Yeah shifting for an s/o is cool and all but I’m literally going to be at the gig were the lostwave song ‘under the stars’ or ‘dreams 4ever’ was recorded and thats like so exciting

[alsfunkyalbum]

Turtles

[freetobecelestial]

happy three years since the angel came out and went to superhell to those who celebrate i made an unhinged friendship bracelet for the occasion

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

Godddddd it’s such a pain to be hyperfixating on your own ocs. It’s a fucking nightmare. I just want these guys to do their thing and tell people their stories but nOOooOoOooo I have to write it first! But that’s not the medium I want to tell it through so I have to learn how to make comics! Or animate! Liek anfucking idirot

[chris-theodorakis]

THEY EXPLICITLY REFERENCED SPG IN THE TCID LIVE MOVIE WHAT THE FUCK WGATTTTTTTT OH MY GODDDDDDD