Project: Save Humanity

or something like that

It's no surprise that the Ancients get bored. They are immortal and have all the time in the world to complain about it, sadly Danny joined them after he was crowned.

Their monthly meetings are divided into three topics: Taunting the Observants (Clockwork's favorite topic after they were demoted to helpers, assistants, and other menial jobs), talking about the safety of the Realms (quite peaceful if just as chaotic), and argue.

They- really had nothing to do, and their hobbies eventually bored them. So Danny had a brilliant idea (read: he saw it on a TV show) and decided that they should all become mentors and save one of the dimensions.

Clockwork was about to say that was not a good idea, since it was the same as throwing giants into a world of ants but he needed some fun so he kept quiet. He showed them the dimension of DC and how it was continually being destroyed, the King told them to start their project in that place and select someone.

Clockwork selected Flash because he felt vengeful, Nocturne selected Tim Drake for the same reason, and so they went; each one of the Ancients selecting a "champion" they were going to teach. Although their selection reasons were quite absurd (being that they were selecting their opposite poles or just someone interesting).

Danny being a spirit of protection, selected Jason Todd and secretly Billy Batson, because he was the king and could break the rules (Clockwork rolled his eyes at the comment). The question now was, how did they appear to them and avoid the world's myriad routes of destruction?

Well at least they weren't bored anymore

'remember when red guy used to be normal' since when was harry 'escapes the house and realizes the outside world is boring so he, unprompted, decides to bring CREATIVITY into the real world despite the fact that his time in the house was hell' spaghetti the normal one

save a little puff for mr man

- jacob

Orphic hero this, corruption arc that.

You know what would be funny? If Childe lives through it all but is none the wiser after the experience.

Still that weird dude who just wants to fight things.

Got bored, ended up in Rome: the Colosseum

Feb. 15, 2024

Me only coming out of my cave every Wednesday to post about the Pjo series: Sup :)

Oh, these new dragon designs absolutely FUCK

hello, here for your opinion on odysseus! have you read madeline miller’s “circe”? if so, what did you think of odysseus?

Ooooohhhhhhhh you're nudging at a pandoras box asking me my opinions of Madeline Miller 🙃

To answer while holding the full ranting instinct back on a leash (partially bc I legit don't have much time for much typing rn AND I know lots of people like MM and idk I generally don't enjoy making people feel like they shouldn't like a thing, but I also love being salty and this is my constant internal struggle):

With a lot of her characterizations I feel like M.M. either goes too hard making them sympathetic (Circe and Patrocles being the top contenders who come to mind) or she swings too hard the other way. Odysseus is like....fine? He's not outright terrible? But he does fall into her "they are either sympathetic (cougboringcough) beauties with maayybe a couple Tragic Flaws (that are barely flaws, goD why couldn't she just let Circe have full agency and purposely curse Scylla why can't maybe Penelope be as much of a scheming suspicious fucker as her husband GOD these "feminist retelling" authors are too cowardly to touch Medea-nonono the rant is leashed I'm staying on target!) or they are horrible awful people." But she's made so many comments that make me baffled about her academic background in classics (why would you say all the gods are sociopaths Madeline??? that is an actual ancient cultures religion you're trashing??? do you not get how gods are used narratively in stories is not the same as they're worshipped esp in a religion without strict canon??? You know how we all understand that Paradise Lost isnt Christian canon what the F-Not ranting not ranting I'm good!!) lmao. She seems to fall into the common take I see where modern Anglo morality is projected on the characters divorced of the time/culture/narrative they are set in, and then go "omg how did people think this was a hero?"

Anyway I just don't see how people can look at Odysseus being a scheming ratfuck compulsive liar (who is also a great warrior in violent times bc it...was a warrior society who told his story) and go "um he's terrible why would anyone like him as he is originally????" while MCU Loki was so popular they kept bringing him back from the dead to continue being A Scheming Little Bastard.

(EDIT: uh tldr is I read Circe. The entire experience was me going "oooo it's about to get good" and then realizing that Circe is just boring the whole time. Came out the other end with more feelings about how M.M. writes women than Odysseus, but her Odysseus is part of a trend of doing a lot of black and white morality shenanigans)

I should start learning a language, that would give me something to do

IF YOU COULD be at any airport in the world rn which one

the bangkok one i wanna go home but also to look at this cool statue :)

I got rien by etat libre d'orange and it smells like a damn church but if it isnt smoky and reeks of death so im calling it an ais scent now

Edit: nahh this is kuras's clinic with ais in it rather than ais himself

Tho i wonder if the seaspring could smell like a church bc of all the smokiness

Is it an option to go to college/uni just to study multiple foreign languages? Like not necessarily for translation, but to study a multitude of languages?

Yes! There are multiple degrees called something like "Language Studies" or "Modern Languages" or "(area/family of language) Studies" that allow you to learn one or multiple languages.

Most degrees I know of focus on 1-3 languages and you should already have a pretty good base in one of those but some universities allow you to take "wild modules" ie classes outside your programme and those may be additional language classes.

Choices of languages are usually limited to "popular" languages to learn but this really strongly varies from uni to uni. My current uni offers Irish, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. But I have also seen other universities that have more diverse offers, especially the SOAS in London and University of Hamburg both specialise in Asian and African languages.

Some universities also offer additional evening courses in different languages. Some of them are free, like the short Welsh course I took, and some cost money.

If you plan it right you could probably learn half a dozen languages at university on different levels.

ever feel so unfunny :/

Got bored, somehow ended up in Italy: Explorations of the Palatine Hill, Rome.

Feb 15, 2024

googles "will i be arrested if i play the exact same bg3 character for the third time in under 2 months"

sometimes I think people forget original content exists on this site. And like, i don't usually get fussed about it, i don't mind people tagging my art/stories/OC shit posts i intentionally leave vague so that other people's blorbos could fit them easier/ etc with their blorbos, og or otherwise, but there's something kinda like, vibe bad about seeing someone tag something you wrote about your original characters as "I don't know where this is from and I never want to know"