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chucktaylorupset · 3 months

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haha annual touden sibling fight to decide who got to name the dogs. do you ever think about what a colossal failure of parenting it is to sit back and let your children duke it out when you have the power to implement the obvious solution of having them alternate turns.

"laios named more of the dogs" of course he did. pov youre falin and you want something and it doesnt matter because your brother who is three years older than you is holding you down. he is three years older and he's bigger, and he always will be

like i dont at all think that laios like, physically hurt his sister in these fights or that either sibling remember these as traumatic but like i do think this had to teach falin that her desires didnt matter because when she was small she had something she wanted and it wasnt fair that she never got it and nobody fucking cared

and laios didnt care cause he was a fucking child and, while a caring person, not naturally empathetic. he wanted to name the dog! Its not either of the siblings fault that their dad, like with the mythical significance of the dog names, just did shit and never fucking explained any of it to them

anyway i think if the touden siblings fought again falin would 100% kick laios ass. girl is slanging a lamp post like it has the weight of a pool noodle, and more importantly, both she and laios think laios is going to win so while he's doing older sibling bullshit like making sure he doesnt hurt her, she is haymakering him at a 100% strength and whatever happen happens she can piece together his jaw and heal it after the fact

#Dungeon meshi #Laios touden #falin touden #Touden siblings #my post #Srsly how can you love a myth enough to name a dog but not want to tell it to your children #I think 1. Laios dad might have seen his children purely as for fulfilling a social role (village chief)#Without ever thinking of them as. Yknow. People #2. Also could 100% be meant to be read as autistic and his silence and awkwardness and rampant love of dogs #(1/yr?!? thats a lot)#Your dad is just like you and he still didnt raise you horror

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hogoflight · 8 months

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Maybe Apollo still keeps his journals from when he initially started discovering medicine and (depending on the way you look at it) they are either very worrying or the FUNNIEST thing ever.

#1:

Oh boy Artemis and I are gonna try out this technique I saw in the future where you cut a body and take out all the bad stuff then sew it back up and then they’re good as new!

#2:

WARNING: THE GOO NEEDS TO STAY IN

(don’t worry they gave them anaesthetic beforehand and they’re completely fine afterwards they fix them up and now they have special rapid healing powers and also their own lil religion thing going on!)

#Apollo #artemis #medicine #gore #That’d be so funny / terrifying if that was how Apollo met one of his exes #can you IMAGINE #Apollo recounting this to Asclepius n he’s like: 🙂… 😱#ALTERNATIVELY Asclepius reads his dad’s old medical books for his own research and encounters this . He labels them “MEDICAL MALPRACTICE”#And replaces Apollo’s name with “MR MALPRACTICE >:((((“#(Referencing this reminding me of a myth of him getting upset in the myth where Asclepius’s priests/doctors removed a tapeworm from a woman #by cutting her head off but Then went “oh no. Oh no. How do we put this back on and Asclepius got SO MAD)#fav

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dramatic-dolphin · 17 days

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genuinely hate modern "greek myth retellings" and stuff about greek mythology by people who are not greek 👍 not to go all "cultural appropriation" on this, it's obviously possible and allowed to write about greek myths if you're not greek, but i still think we should collectively stop until everyone understands that this is the cultural heritage of a people that Still Exist (!!!) and you can't just divorce them from the historical and cultural context that gave birth to them. like they are not just ideas formed from nothing. there's cultural context.

#also oh god don't get me started on the detestable americanness of percy jackson 😭#like i read the first few books and they were good #but i could never rly get into it maybe because i wasn't the target audience (12y/o american boys)#but the greek gods are not part of a nebulous “western civilization” the center of which shifts with time #they are GREEK. it's in the name.#and they were greek before greece could have been called a civilization.#sorry i just haaaate the way greek myths are treated omg

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briviting · 2 years

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antwerp real

#looney tunes #marvin the martian #art attag #you know sometimes I wonder like #if people who follow this blog but not my main blog have any idea what to expect here anymore #anyway I loveee little titbits and trivia about long-running characters and how they developed over the years #especially when there are noticeable differences between early instalments and their later more well-known versions #e.g. m.oominmamma didn't get her apron until the newspaper comics!#so learning that marvin's original internal name was antwerp is cool!!#which is such a fun name in itself!! bc not only is that said to derive from the myth of roman solider #it can also be read as a portmanteau of ant and twerp! marvin's cute for the alliteration and satisfying similarity to martian #but man that's a good bunch of wordplay #I also love consuming any sort of supplementary/promotional/concept material of things and finding out mel blanc once recorded a song #called ''antwerp is my name'' for like a stage show or something which is Likely lost media by now is #Such a shame #bc that was probably the only time it was officially used outside of chuck jones' personal notes before his current name was chosen #lost media my beloathed :(#not searching for it that's fascinating but just that it like. occurs at all #anyway hi I didn't post any art for over month thank you for reading my infodumping here #oh & also I know he's been shown without the helmet & he really is just a little bowling ball. but I want to believe

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pelideswhore · 1 year

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Odysseus: This is such a bad idea.

Diomedes: Then why are you coming along?

Odysseus: One of us needs to be able to talk the cops out of arresting us when this inevitably goes wrong.

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veloursdor · 4 months

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kiss prompt! "shut up" (affectionately) 🧡

i reblogged it for you, but thank you for sending me a kiss prompt. after ten days of not writing a word, this helped out a lot 🤍

set in padakin days, i don't think i made it as 'affectionately' as the prompt asked for, but i still hope you like it!

(850 words)

“Anakin, shut up,” Obi-Wan said for what felt like the thousandth time, his headache becoming more aggravating as Anakin continued to pout and frown in the corner of their room.

“But, Master…” Anakin said before a glare from Obi-Wan silenced him completely. Anakin crossed his arms above his chest as he slumped into his seat and Obi-Wan fought back the urge to pinch the bridge of his nose in exasperation.

Negotiations weren’t happening as smoothly as he had hoped, because the longer he tried to charm and convince the Queen of Acteon to join the Republic once and for all, the longer her Majesty ignored him instead, choosing rather shallowly to preoccupy her time and attention with batting her eyelashes at his very young Padawan instead.

Obi-Wan had had a headache for days, which had nothing to do with Anakin being perceived as beautiful and everything to do with the Queen being focused on everything but the meetings they had to get her to listen. He was growing tired of being away from the Temple for so long, missing the tranquillity of the Room of a Thousand Fountains and the peace it brought to his soul whenever he meditated alongside Anakin, everyone else far away from their reach.

“But, Master, I know how we can…”

“What part of ‘shut up’ is the one you don’t understand?” Obi-Wan asked, exasperated, Anakin’s callous attitude regarding Obi-Wan’s authority grating on his nerves. He knew Anakin was more powerful than him in the Force, something that kept him up at night in his moments of most doubt, but he was still the Master and Anakin was still the young Padawan who needed a Master to guide him.

And both Qui-Gon, and possibly the Force itself, had chosen Obi-Wan to be the guiding hand of Anakin Skywalker.

“Master, but I know…”

“I require at least five minutes of your silence, Padawan, something I’m sure you can give me,” Obi-Wan said in a fake saccharine tone, swallowing the desire to turn his voice mocking as he spoke to Anakin. “Or are you so, so desperate to speak and be heard that you care nothing for the headache I have?”

“I’m sorry, Master,” Anakin said, his cheeks covered by a red blush that blended with his golden skin, “I’ll keep quiet.”

But Anakin Skywalker knew nothing of patience or quietness, and Obi-Wan knew that better than most, for as soon as Anakin uttered those words, their bond began flooding with scattered thoughts of Anakin’s anger towards him.

“I know better… He never listens… I know what the Queen… if only she could… I bet I could get her to...”

Images of Anakin flirting back, albeit abysmally and with no finesse, flooded his mind, with the Queen blushing prettily as she twirled a curl of her hair in her index finger while one of her delicate hands placed itself atop of Anakin’s arms. Obi-Wan’s insides burned with a feeling he wasn’t willing to look closely, and before he knew it he had crossed the room in three strides and pushed his Padawan against the wall.

The Padawan braid hung loosely and fell onto Anakin’s shoulders, and while every other time he looked at Anakin his attention inevitably fell to it, at the present time, with Anakin pressed against the wall and his red lips trapped between his teeth, Obi-Wan tugged at the Padawan braid with force, closing the distance between them before capturing Anakin’s lips in a searing kiss.

He held Anakin’s chin between his thumb and index fingers as his tongue mapped the inside of Anakin’s mouth, licking at his teeth and tongue and swallowing the prettiest moan his Padawan let out. Obi-Wan pressed himself hard against Anakin, and continued kissing him with everything he had.

He separated himself from Anakin when he felt his Padawan clawing at his robes, asking through their bond for oxygen in his lungs. Obi-Wan pressed his forehead against Anakin’s, their breaths mixing together.

As they regained their breathes, Obi-Wan was surprised to notice that, for the first time since they had become Master and Padawan, Anakin’s mind was peaceful, devoid of any thought, and while Obi-Wan adored Anakin and his brightful mind, he couldn’t help but appreciate how the quietness helped ease his pounding headache. But when his Padawan began making needy little noises, asking Obi-Wan for more kisses, he knew that he wasn’t strong enough to stop himself from pressing a small kiss to the corner of Anakin’s lips.

“I guess if you won’t shut up by yourself, I’ll have to find other ways to keep you quiet when I’m trying to think, my young Padawan.”

“Yes, Master,” Anakin said, looking down at the ground, his cheeks red with embarrassment, as if he truly was an obedient Padawan that listened and respected his Master.

“Oh, Anakin, what am I going to do with you?” he murmured before once again pressing a kiss to Anakin’s lips, an innocent little thing that became more passionate as all thoughts of Queens and treaty negotiations flew out of his mind.

He continued the kiss with the sole goal to quiet Anakin’s mind until his brain no longer had any more thoughts besides Obi-Wan’s name.

#obikin #obikin prompt #kiss prompt #obi-wan kenobi x anakin skywalker #also i chose a random planet name yes #but i researched the name #and i thought it fitting after reading the myth

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avelera · 11 months

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As the weird mythology-obsessed kid growing up, I have countless times been disappointed by how little most people know about mythology, even in spaces where I thought people SHOULD know a bit more than the basics. (Namely, college level writing classes. Not just the students, but the teachers. At a top 20 liberal arts college. Literally just. Actual literature professors of mine not knowing relatively known stories like that Aphrodite cheated on Hephaestus with Ares. Reader, I was gobsmacked.)

The fact is, at least in the US, your average person on the street, NOT ON TUMBLR, but I mean like actually outside this bubble, doesn’t know much mythology. They might know Zeus, or Hercules, or “Mighty Aphrodite” based on recent TV shows or the Disney movies or the aforementioned song.

I’m reminded of this XKCD comic which really nails it:

This also applies to mythology. More people than you, the reader of this, probably don’t know who Orpheus and Eurydice are than you might think. Hadestown returned those names to the sort of mainstream and even THAT niche of musical theater is still, well, pretty damn niche.

Thor 3 has Zeus in it, and Hercules, and obviously Thor. But the Thor franchise is wildly inaccurate to actual Norse mythology is probably the biggest influx of mainstream knowledge of mythology where you MIGHT be able to talk to the average person about who, say, Loki is. But it’s doubtful they’d know a single historically accurate myth, unless MAYBE they’d also played God of War. But again, these are still very nerdy niches within the general mainstream culture.

I dunno. Maybe there’s no point to this. Just that sometimes I see people on here, especially in the Sandman fandom, kind of surprised by mythological knowledge not being more widespread. But in my personal experience, even in very nerdy circles, it very often really, REALLY isn’t.

#Maggie rambles #idk sometimes people expect to know who Calliope is just from hearing her name but like #calliope is just a name? even mythology buffs can’t necessarily name all the muses #lots of people in Greece still have mythologically informed names #Orpheus and Eurydice is actually a pretty niche myth if you’re not like an opera fan which is also not super common these days #just most people aren’t into these generally pretty old niche knowledge spaces #even people who are VERY EDUCATED don’t necessarily know their mythology #I was English major and there were people who needed a primer before we read Paradise Lost because they didn’t know the references #these were ENGLISH MAJORS #idk I’ve grown very bitter about this over the years lol and it makes me sigh when mythology buffs are somehow surprised by this

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applecherry108 · 2 years

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LOOK AT HER! I’M OBSESSED!! 😍

#god help me if you give me a girl character with a pink and white motif I will immediately love her #her name is Lita and she’s an albino human mutated into an albino turtle #and she TIME TRAVELS AND HAS CALLED LEO DAD ASGFMTGEFWNJSGHS #SHES!! SO!! CUTE!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭💘💗💖#apple talks #tmnt lita #ngl this alone is going to get me to read the idw comics omggggg #and reading her turtlepedia page has warmed me up to jennika too #who I guess is like. in charge of mutant orphans?? she seems like a much bigger part of the myths than I thought she was #catch me making a rise ver of Lita so Casey jr can have a sister 🥺🥺

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grumpy-nyks · 1 year

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The Fernweh Saga by @lacunafiction - Davor edition

I-I think Ms. Verner doesn't like him...😳

Davor "Dove" Kovač 🐝 RO: Becca Warrick

Personality: cautious // aloof // pessimistic // flirtatious (only towards Becca ...and Reese??) Traits: head // independent // resistance // believer Past affinity: math Primary ability: extrasensory awareness Past susceptibility: forward. 'it’s better to push forward. don’t look back on the past when you have new places to be and things to achieve.' <<< his motto

🕊️ Fernweh: Davor lived a happy life there and didn't think about leaving in the future. Maybe for some trips, but he knew it would always be his place, his safe place... 'It was a mistake to come back here.' - that was his first thought when he tried to fall asleep on the first night in Fernweh. The nightmares came back as he thought they would. He wants to leave as soon as possible because he feels that it is not safe for Becca to be here.

🕊️ Gramps Dan: That was his gramps who taught Davor how to play the guitar. As a young child, Davor always admired him and believed he was the most intelligent person in the world. After the death of his parents and how his grandfather treated him, he was devastated and angry. He wanted answers soo badly but didn't get any. He lived loathing his grandfather ever since. The news of his passing stirred up a lot of negative emotions that Davor had previously managed to suppress. At the beginning of the story he couldn't care less about his grandfather, but because of his journal he started to believe him. Things that his granfather lived through made Davor even more angry at this messy town …but he's willing to forgive his gramps…

🐝 Becca Warrick: It was a ...funny story that brought both of them together and they look after each other ever since. He considers Becca as his precious (not in a negative-possessive way) treasure, he literally can't let anything bad happen to her. That was also she who came up with the nickname 'Dove'... (and she's literally the only person who calls him that, others wouldn't dare...). He had feelings for her for quite some time but didn't act on it... until now. Although he didn't express it, he felt very nervous about Becca being in the town where he grew up. He was curious (but also scared) about what she could think of this town. He felt like he was revealing more of himself to her…. and he forgot about any worries pretty fast, because the town started being weird as fu--.

🕊️ Reese Verner: Back then Davor was quite cheerful and enjoyed competing with Reese regularly. They teased each other a lot. Davor always thought that Reese had a crush on him, was it true tho? donut know, but he certainly had. ...why does he appear in his nightmares? Maybe the crush stage never disappeared...? Seeing him again was a nice experience, sure... but ignoring the circumstances, he is still unsure if it was worth it and is struggling with his thoughts… Would it be worth it to return to Fernweh just to see him... again? welp, good thing he doesn't have to think about it much, am I right?

🕊️ Sofia Dorran: The two of them maybe did not have a strong relationship, but he knew Sofia is the ideal person for engaging in intelligent conversations. He enjoyed spending time with her, solving the puzzles that gramps created for them both. Davor wasn't a fan of fantasy books, but she managed to change his mind about them. Davor knows that Sofia did take good care of his grandfather, but he still doesn't quite know if he's grateful for that or wished she spent her time more... valuably... He was tempted to ask Sofia to borrow that book she found in his grandfather's bedroom, but he thought better of it. It's better to leave Fernweh… Even so, his curiosity wasn't properly fed.

🕊️ James Corvin: Maybe not brothers by blood, but definitely brothers by choice. Davor treated him as if he was the brother he always wanted to have. Back then Davor always placed a high value on his family… until now. At the time, Davor tended to be more impulsive and James was usually the one who kept him from getting into trouble (which often involved Reese). It was really hard, for both of them, to see each other after so long. Their first interaction was pretty awkward... I would even say that most of their interactions were . James noticed how Davor changed the question is: for the better or worse? I don't even know. Everyone can sense, that things around them are different now, and they aren't as close as before. Will it change?

🕊️ Alek Corvin: …To say that Alek wasn't a fan of Davor would be an understatement. Was it because James spent most of his time focusing only on Davor trying to get him out of trouble? Did Alek observe any possessiveness from Davor towards James? Or maybe simply because of the bond between those two, which was truly something that others would envy and desire? Davor never considered it, especially when he left Fernweh permanently. :)) As you can imagine, Alek doesn't seem very happy about Davor's return… But he took an interest in his new friend, Becca, which did not go unnoticed by Davor and he isn't really happy about it.

🕊️ The Waitress: Oh boy, it seems that Davor has taken up a new hobby, which is glaring harshly at the waitress. He finds her mistrustful and he smells trouble. Had they met when he was younger, there may have been a slim chance of them getting along.

🕊️ Waffles!: So um… Davor has a little issue with dogs and because of that his relationship with Waffles isn't as wonderful as I wish it would be... However, I believe that with time and help from Becca, they will eventually become friends.

#actually about his scar i have this whole headcanon... featuring some...umm.. doggos and Becca... 👀 especially how they met #(Davor was always team cats but after that incident even more xD)#also ouch that naming scene it hurt me so much! but i get it ;; aaaa! Davor why are you being so problematic Waffles is wonderful!!!#it was really interesting for me to messing with Davor in nightmares and showing him Reese!! the feelings the emotions aaaa #also yeeaah Davor thought several times if it would be a good idea to come back to Re-- *cough* Fernweh... and then Becca happened...#generally speaking Davor has a keen interest in Slavic mythologies and culture particularly those from western and southern regions of-#-Europe. I imagine that his father has roots in these regions and he took great pride in his heritage. Often taking about it to Davor #...and since Sofia's a smart girl she lent Davor a fantasy book written by Slavic author who took a great inspiration from Slavic myths👼😊#yes it was enough to change Davor's mind about fantasy books XD he never really read one before he just assumed it's BORING!#and now I'm sure he will throw questions at Sofia about this book she found even more since he's staying at Fernweh... I can imagine how-#-they both are staying up late studying it and comparing their notes... it would remind Davor about the time they were kids-#-it seems that his Gramps gave them both the last puzzle to solve... will they succeed?#and ooohh that will be a hard time for James and Davor... that rejection at the end of book one wont help them im sure XD #about Davor's 'possesivenes' over James... Davor was needy that's true but he would never think about 'stealing' James from Alek or-#-'claiming' James belongs to him. I hope im not crossing a line here but in my headcanon Alek was TOTALLY jealous over their friendship #and Alek THOUGHT that Davor was receiving more attention from James 👀#//which obv isn't true because James would never allow it. Alek is always a number one in James' heart//#in mine too I love A!!!! 💖 they're a BABY #but i must say that Davor didn't really think about Alek's feelings back then. he wasn't aware how Alek could feel- that's not an excuse #super curious about book two and how his relationships with every single one of them will develop!!!#fernweh saga #oc: davor kovac #no i totally did NOT change his surname..

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encrucijada · 6 months

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hello white woman writer. i would like you to write a medusa retelling that does not include 1) her getting assaulted by poseidon, 2) athena cursing her for getting assaulted, 3) perseus as the villain. you may not use ovid's metamorphoses as a source. good luck

#sorry i just looked at a review of stone blind by natalie haynes and are we seriously disrespecting perseus like that #he was a child sent on a quest to keep his mum from being married to an abusive man #literally keep his name out of your mouth #did we seriously need Another myth where a woman get assaulted by a god??#PLEASE READ THE THEOGONY. AHE SLEEPS WILLINGLY WITH POSEIDON #pia.txt

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welcometogrouchland · 8 months

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Remember when people would make gifsets and analysis posts and stuff about the meanings behind characters names, and find a interpretation that- regardless of whether or not it was intentional- added like another layer to the characters story??? That shit was amazing I miss it

#ramblings of a lunatic #ppl probably still do it in all fairness but I've only seen it in cases where the name is very relevant/the significance is clear #i got caught up thinking about how damian wayne's name (when u use his moms name as his surname) means ''tamer of demons''#and how that ties into his arc and i. aughj. kills #but i also have been thinking about Dick and Steph (i was reading batgirl 2009) and i realized their names have similar meanings?#like richard means strong in rule or something to that effect #obviously has to do with the english king richard and this connection is referenced in Nightwing 2016 issues 16-20 #but STEPHANIE comes from the greek stephanos which apparently means ''crown''#and then you draw the elaborate web of connections between Steph and Dick's characters and all their similarities and differences #and i become evil <3 #i also have Feelings and Thoughts about a possible intention behind cass' name. visa vie the Cassandra of greek myth #but consider: it is very late and i should sleep #anyway shoutout to toh also the name game on that show was EXCELLENT almost every name had significance to it #but not so much it became distracting y'know? good concept good execution we love to see it!

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meirimerens · 8 months

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you know i must have been bone-tired when this part of the herb brides lore didn't come to my mind when i discussed how the Kin fundamentally differs from the cultures it is inspired by um There Is The Human Sacrifice part. like it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you are doing human, or anthropomorphic (if you want to see the Herb Brides as closer to spirits, which comes with its own set of problematics regarding how to approach their oppression) sacrifice. it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you kill a woman, as part of the journey and in direct resonance with you ritualistically killing cattle earlier, and she offers herself to you with cultural and religious significance.

human sacrifices have been done across the globe for millennia, but i cannot, for the life of me, find any source at all that mentions the Buryats (since that was the discussion point) partaking in human sacrifices by the turn of the 19th-early 20th century (or even anything past the 16th). every single source mentioning offerings and sacrifices i've read mentions animals, things such as milk and vodka, and often both at once. would love to read anything about these rituals if papers exist, but i'm personally drawing a blank.

the Kin has Obvious and very Visible influences but it also differs from specific (in this discussion's case, the Buryats) or wider (here, turkic/mongolic as a whole) cultures from the area by so many pieces, big and small, that i wouldn't have enough appendages on my whole body to count them all. and sister. i have plenty of appendages.

#i AM reading a paper that mentions the human sacrifices at Mongol burials where people (typically servants or family) would be sacrificed #to accompany the dead; as well as the Shor practice of sacrificing women/girls (replaced apparently quickly by sacrificing ducks)#but those seem pretty old [the Mongol part mentions the 13th century] & like. nothing about the buryats in that time period #i'm like 85% sure i saw in the beginning of being into patho someone saying how equating the Kin; who practice human sacrifices [& others]#to correlate/be meant to represent Real Life ethnicities is insulting because They Don't Do That.#and like. everythingggg that touches upon representation/appreciation/appropriation/theft is subjective and #informed my how much leeway you're willing to give the creators so that's like #bro i'm just reading PDFs #also just found out the discussion of ''The Kin Is Obviously Inspired But Not Meant To Represent [x]'' is over 2yrs old. we're still at it.#as anon said. ''unless you're tolkien; coming up with a whole fictional language is hard''.#anyways appendage time. stuff that differs just out of the top of my head:#everything relating to the religion which is almost a complete inverse of buryat tengrist/shamanic faith + don't get me started on buddhism #the clothes. the homes. the creation myths; beyond the apparition of Clay; which is present in so many cultures on earth #no swan ancestor. no lake worship. no sky/heavens. no tens of named hierarchical deities. NO BURBOT! no hats. no hats (burts into tears)#NO HORSES? ON THE EURASIAN STEPPE?#the belief that earth mustn't be cut is so buryat. i'm sure i've read it. no idea if it is also in other mongolic peoples but buryat it is.#also a bull-ancestor/bull totem. that exists in buryat tribes; but they also have a bunchhhhh of other sacred animals (including. swans.#also horses. there's this [charm?] made out of horse hair there is)#neigh (blabbers)#i'm realizin how crazy i sound repeating shit that has been said 2yrs ago but like someone already mentioned the human sacrifice.#someone already mentioned the clothes. someone already mentioned the yurts/gers. someone already mentioned the religion #like i'm just. repeating stuff. and yet. give it up for year 2

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darcyolsson · 8 months

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reading cohf finally and why am i only now getting the significance of mark being called mark antony 😭😭😭😭 can someone who is smarter and better at history than me explain the significance of all the other names too. thanks

#like i knew they were all named after greek/roman myths and people but apart from helen and julian #i never realised that the names were genuinely like. significant. even though this is tsc and names are literally Everything #personal #vic reads tmi #tsc

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whumpacabra · 4 months

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Sometimes I post something to my main that gets popular and someone in the notes is like ‘woah do you have a writeblr or any other writing you can share with us? :0’ and I just have to look over at the hundreds of thousands of words about torturing my blorbos and say ‘no sorry haha :]’ <- lying

#not whump #beans speaks #personal #sorry wow these tags got long it’s late and I took my meds late and the brain is going brrrrr as you can imagine.#*pours my heart and soul into tens of thousands of words carefully curated over months* 9 notes #*writes a 500 word half baked short story thats glorified Greek myth fanfic* 15k notes #I don’t care about the disparity I just think it’s funny. yeah I can write successful short form fiction.#but my real passion lies with brutalizing blorbo from my brain for an audience of me two internet randos and my stuffed isopod plushy #and I’m actually quite content with that reach. any more and I’d have to worry about pissing on the poor. <- reading comp webbed site #also my short fiction is not my best work on a technical level. I’ve had a few short stories go semi viral and it’s ALWAYS #bc a big name blog like gallus or seanan mg reblogged it. just goes to show how important reblogs are for sharing work.

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barbiegirldream · 4 months

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watching grown adults be like i'm not sure i am enjoying this tv show about twelve year olds made for twelve year olds that i read about when i was twelve is really good. you're twenty if you don't like it get off disney plus !

#like oh they didn't one for one copy each and every individual scene that sets up a scene in a sequel series #that's so terrible for you sorry i guess #but tbf i read through the last olympian at ten and then read someone named eva and was taken out of greek myth for awhile

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corvidlvr51 · 4 months

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please share your wisdom of the pandora hearts title meaning!!

First, thank you for the ask! I'm not very good at articulating my thoughts on this sort of stuff so sorry if it I sound incoherent. Also my take isn't anything new, it's been said before and it's fairly obvious in hind sight tbh (at least to me). I had just dismissed the title early on and hadn't noticed the connections while reading the manga for the first time lol.

I don't think the title is meant to represent a specific aspect of the manga, but rather thread together the main motifs of hope, despair, light & darkness, people's hearts and of course, love. I don't have any exact references on hand, but you can open almost any volume and find a panel with one of these themes pretty easily. What/who exactly is "pandora" or "pandora's box" doesn't really matter as it can apply to any of the characters or even the abyss itself, and hell even life in general.

It's like the main quote of the series, "Someone said that this place is engulfed in darkness. But, that doesn't mean there was never any light there". While it's very obviously about the Abyss, it can also be applied to the series as whole or individual characters. Oz even compares light and hope in one scene.

Jack talks about how Lacie brought him hope, but it was because of that hope he was engulfed in the shadows of despair and lost himself in them. Oz, on the other hand, starts the series an abused child who's lost his will to truly live, but he is able to find hope and love and ends the series happy and fulfilled. The manga is filled with awful and dark moments/events, but it's ultimately a story of hope & love & connection.

I'm going to stop myself there, so hopefully you get the point. There's a lot of ways to apply the title Pandora Hearts to the manga, as it's kinda just an encapsulation of the themes of the whole thing.

#pandora hearts #pandora hearts spoilers #Basically people's hearts are pandora boxes :)#ranlog #I didn't bring up the actual Pandora organization cause I'm not confident about how it slots into everything #my theories are either:#A: Mochijun just wanted to put the name Pandora into the manga somehow and choose to give it to the organization #B: it's an extension of Jack's actions with him as “pandora” and the Abyss as “pandora's box” if that makes any sense #C: a more cynical take on the myth with the organization “pandora” opening the Abyss as “pandora's box” and -#messing with what they shouldn't have/opening what they shouldn't thus releasing despair aka the chains and stuff #Sheryl outright says that humans shouldnt mess with things beyond their comprehension at the end of manga #although typing it out point C could also be extension of Jack's actions/character arc #but idk something just about it just doesn't feel right #like I'm missing the piece that makes it all fit together #if it even fits in the first place #or maybe the wrongness is just entirely in my head idk #uh anyways if you reading this anon sorry I took a while to answer I didn't even see I'd gotten an ask until today

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