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welcome to the home of whatever the fuck i feel like. you may know me from such hits as "the piece of paper post" or "leaving a comment on your fic that made you jump because you thought it was the real GoodTimesWithScar". you may not know me from my heaventrio posting or my gay lawyers or from being the guy who wrote that 100k word spiderman tommyinnit fic trilogy but i did do those things as well. follow for more whatever the fuck i feel like 👍
do me a favor and reblog this and put in the tags what time it is for you and what you're currently doing/thinking about
you should smile more :-)
[completely misunderstood the story] I always interpreted it as a sort of found family narrative myself. Like the frog is the scorpion's baby and she loves him very much :)
What the fuck is vampire smp.
scientists have recently announced that exoplanet HR 3499a is no longer believed to be potentially capable of supporting life, after new spectroscopic readings indicated that it doesn't even have a dishwasher. "i mean, it doesn't even have a fucking dishwasher," said the lead researcher. "I guess you could live there, but, like, would you really want to?"
she goes to the o-zone when i layer
i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.
I’ve started playing Apollo Justice with my friend and have started drawing some of the jokes we made from it. Trucy’s bullet catching comment made up to believe she just started spitting out bullets in the middle of court to prove this then the other thing we were joking about was the Judge and Klavier all wanting Alita’s shoes so they are showing off their shoes in the other drawing.
real question i just had to answer for my top surgery screening
posting on tumblr is fun because my memory disorders will activate to make me forget what I posted right afterwards and I'll drown it in reblogs so it will never see the light of day again
- kris gets the chapter 5 egg
- FRIEND leaves behind bite mark on kris's hand after interacting with them
- pink's body gravely warns them that cats will relentlessly hunt down "proteins" (eggs)
- ralsei begins to explore their gender in chapter 5
FRIEND is going to fucking eat ralsei
Alright, it's my turn to get in on all this. Due to work restrictions, I have not been keeping up with PanSMP's announcement timeline, but with all the character designs on the table, I think it's time to put my two cents in.
"Res," I hear you ask, "what are your qualifications?" While my degrees are primarily in English language literature and linguistics, the same professor who made me spot-translate the Peterborough Chronicle was the one making me insane about Etruscan funerary cultures the year before. Also, I used to teach this to sixth graders. If two rooms full of eleven year olds could comprehend my god lectures, I'm sure MCYTblr can.
Not everyone in Ancient Greece could read so well. As such, the common people needed to be able to recognize their gods at a glance. Every god had around three symbols to represent them - if you saw a sword, a helmet, and a dog, you knew you were looking at Ares.
This is purely going to be a discussion of how accurate each player's design is to the iconography of the gods they are claiming to represent - in short, how well you can tell at a glance that they champion each god. Some discussion will be made about how accurate the clothes are to the Greek period, but only when relevant. Now, onto the ratings.
There are not many classical depictions of Morpheus, god of dreams, which puts us already at a disadvantage. In his single mention in Ovid's Metamorphoses, he does have wings, but we don't have much if any actual Classical art of the figure. Apo's design seems to draw heavily from this 1889 statue of Morpheus by Teofila Certowicz - the owl imagery and flowers are relatively similar. There isn't enough to go on, here, though the point gets across. C+, but could use more sources.
Nyx, goddess of night, is often depicted as a winged woman in dark colors and with star or moon motifs. Pearl checks all of these boxes to a degree. I will be so real, however: this looks like Ianite. B-.
All we have to indicate that Owen is a champion of Chronos, god of time, is the hourglass icon in the god announcement list. I will also admit that the red figure on the right is of Cronus, titan father of Zeus and god of harvest, who has a similar sounding name. I could not find a classical reference for Chronos, and all other depictions of Father Time had imagery that conflated the two. At least he's in a semi-accurate outfit. N/A.
If we're looking for imagery directly associated with Athena, goddess of strategy, Pyro's got it. His outfit does make me say "what the hell is that?" but he has the imagery. Helmet? Check. Spear? Check. Owl? Check. Aegis? Check. Yep. That's a champion of Athena, even if there's little evidence for a soft plume on actual battle helmets. A.
Unfortunately, Martyn immediately gets points off by virtue of not being an adolescent girl. Looking past that, however, he gets the motifs down. Artemis, as goddess of the hunt and, in the Roman period, the moon, is often depicted with bow and deer imagery. Martyn’s got those. Extra points for the scars on the chest looking like bear claws! Bears were a big part of the cult of Artemis and the rituals that brought girls from adolescence into adulthood. A-.
Not much to say with this one. Pan, god of nature, wilds, and rustic music, is depicted as a satyr and often seen carrying a pan flute. Cleo’s got all that. She's even got the Dionysian crown of ivy. No notes. A+.
There is nothing in this design that suggests Zeus. Zeus, king of the gods and god of thunder, is depicted most often with eagles and thunderbolts. The sun on Legundo’s shoulder suggests Apollo, but that’s about the only symbolic piece I can trace here. At least he has a beard. F.
Hermes, god of travel, trade, and tricksters, messenger of the gods, is often depicted wearing a winged helmet and shoes, and carrying a caduceus, a winged staff with two intertwining snakes. Sausage checks exactly one box on that list: vague wing imagery. D.
Scott’s design has been discoursed to death already, and baby, I’m here to beat a dead horse. Aeolus, keeper of the winds, is not depicted often in Classical art, but is mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey as the one responsible for the bag of wind that Odysseus is given. Scott’s design invokes more cloud than wind, leading me briefly to think he may have been a champion of Tempestas, but she’s Roman. C-.
Apollo is the god of music, poetry, healing, light, and prophecy, and is most often depicted with a bow and arrow, laurel wreath, or kithara. Absolutely nothing in Drift’s design suggests this, except for, if I’m being extremely generous, the vague laurel wreath in her hair. Everything about Drift’s design invokes Demeter, or, slightly more accurately, Ceres. This is not an Apolline design. F.
Tyche, goddess of fortune, is often depicted with a mural crown, acornucopia, a wheel of fortune, or the zodiac. This has none of that. This is Malenia, Blade of Miquella, from Elden Ring. F.
And, finally, we get to Abolish, champion of Hephaestus. As the god of artisans and blacksmiths, Hephaestus is often depicted with fire, a hammer, and an anvil or tongs. Abolish has, at most, the color scheme down. I don't trust that sword in combat. D+.
These designs, save for the few that got passing grades, barely do anything to actually depict their gods and goddesses in an iconographic, easy-to-parse way. Like. Man, c'mon. Anyway yeah that's what I got. Tumblr went down twice while I was writing this. Okay bye.
personally i have a goodreads account and i keep track in my paper journal. got curious about what other folks are doing <3
hey guys did we just watch ralsei directly alter the prophecy
Trying to do photocards again but ripping my hair
Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess
it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.
normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!
n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."
m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).
on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear
like so.
and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.
So I went to look up what key on a physical keyboard makes the em dash and it turns out there is no em-dash key on the vast majority of keyboards meaning that you're either inserting the memorized unicode, or have custom keybindings, or are copy pasting it every time, or typing everything out on a phone-
Look, maybe it's because I'm a monospace font pervert and thus all differences in character size are abomination before mine eyes, but this seems like such a fiddly, annoying amount of work to go through for a nearly invisible difference in length best measured in individual pixels
I salute your dedication to the em dash, you work hard for that thing, and do not deserve the AI accusations
