I've sort of said this before but how the Light treats blessings is just. So fucken funny.

Tirion gets excommunicated but still gets the divine interventions in his favor every other weekend. Even when he's dead he's still getting blessed. Why? Who fucken knows.

Whitemane gets manually rezzed by the Light every time she dies as its favorite war criminal until she's stabbed with holy weapons and then the Light wants nothing to do with her and lets her be raised as a DK.

Darion received a holy vision from the Light to go see Tirion so he could impart the wisdom of "kill yourself" on behalf of the Light.

The Light refused to help Alexandros, its strongest paladin in the Third War, until Darion killed himself for some reason.

The Light turns Calia undead for.... ????? I read Before the Storm through at least six times and I don't remember if they ever gave a reason.

The Light just LET a dreadlord lead a holy order without striking it down. Do you know how many people died because of that choice?

Anduin survived the bell incident thanks to the Light but now it zaps him every time he has a negative thought.

The Light does not even bother annihilating Arthas when he's fighting Uther despite the fact that Uther is literally the Lightbringer and it would've been so fucken easy to do so. It just lets Uther lose. The Lightbringer. The first paladin.

Just in case you forgot the Light saved Tirion from drowning in fel so he could just die slowly later for no reason.

Turalyon lives in a paradox where his wife is an evil heretic to the Light and wants her dead but if she was dead Turalyon would've been killed ages ago because the Light does not bother to actually save him from shit. But also Turalyon can't die of old age because the Light won't let him.

The Light works in mysterious ways I guess.

✨Why Paris is such an Utter Plonker✨

(2014: https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/why-paris-is-such-an-utter-plonker/)

This little ranty Paris infographic is also a two-section video over on my YouTube channel: an explanation of the comic and then a detailed literary rant, with evidence, expanding on all these points. An essay, if you will, on Paris’ Plonkerness.

Enjoy!

youtu.be/1pJ-BOwkHaE

Something I think a lot of us forget when studying the Trojan War is Helen being a Spartan woman who is explicitly said to have been wrestling with other Spartans when she was taken by Theseus.

NOW IMAGINE: Trojan War AU where Paris tries to kidnap Helen but instead gets folded like a waffle by the young Spartan.

"And this found favor with all other gods, but not with Hera, nor with Poseidon, nor with the gleaming-eyed maiden Athena, for their hatred persisted, as at the start, for sacred Ilion, and the people of Priam, because of the folly of Alexandros who insulted the goddesses, when they came to his shepherd’s steading, and gave the nod to her, the goddess whose gift to him was ruinous lust." (Iliad Book XXIV)

This is widely believed to be a reference to the Judgement of Paris, so does it suggest that Poseidon was, for some reason, also offended that Alexandros chose Aphrodite instead of Hera or Athena? On whose behalf is he angry?

As resident Kimura Takuya infector poster, I’m obligated to share:

Takuya’s gameplay of the first JE has been uploaded to YouTube 🥳

It’s really cute; also please watch to see Takuya’s trademark competitive nature kick in and demolish Alexandros’ ass at Puyo Puyo 😇

As I was walking up the stair,

I met a man, who wasn't there.

OC Inspo

Guidelines: share something that acts as inspiration for your OC(s)! It could be anything; a moodboard, a collection of pictures, a playlist, a movie, etc. Explaining why you like it as inspiration is optional. Tagged by -> @gothimp !!

i thought i would do some mood boards for my tavs. i also just really like doing color palettes for my characters-- so i included those too!!!!

ophielora of the first circle 🌿☀️🐺

half-elf druid of the land and cleric of mielikki. hero of baldur's gate and general sunshine child.

wren 🧚‍♀️🌩️✨

tiefling warlock of the summer court and stormblood sorcerer. unsung hero of baldur's gate and wife to professor gale dekarios.

alexandros ravensbane🩸⚔️🐦‍⬛

human paladin of conquest / oathbreaker. THE DARK URGE. conqueror of baldur's gate and consort to minthara baenre, the lady of house baenre.

closed starter - alex & natalie ( @forevernataliedawson )

"Okay, I think this might be a problem," he said, crossing his arms and tilting his head curiously. "How exactly did this happen? Because it doesn't seem like it's even possible."

Paris: It's easy to be mean about Paris. 'Ohh, he started the Trojan War,' 'ohh he should have known kidnapping Helen was a bad idea' 'what a fucking idiot' but do you know him? Do you know what was happening? Imagine you're a random farmer, best known for making cows fight each other and giving Ares a prize for beating your cows despite him arguably cheating. Three goddesses come up to you and offer great prizes -- prowess in battle, dominion over Europe and Asia, the most beautiful woman in the world -- if you pick them as the fairest of them all. Do you think it would have gone any better if he'd picked Athena or Hera? What do you want from this poor candy-ass of a man?

Sinope: Reviews are mixed on this girl. She was either the mother of Syrus by Apollo, or she tricked Zeus into letting her be a virgin forever. It's difficult to find information or images for her, so instead enjoy this scenic landscape of the settlement that bears her name. Ace icon, would rather be left alone -- she tricked Halys and Apollo the same way.

god, there's just something about the way that the iliad opens with brilliant achilles' wrath, and ends with horse-breaker hektor's funeral, but in many ways the story is about helen. helen, who only shows up a meager six times in all of the iliad, and four of those scenes are in the third book, in what is almost one long extended scene.

the iliad is about war, and the consequences of it, and the tragedy of it, and the men that fight in it, but the iliad is centered around helen. christopher marlowe called her 'the face that launched a thousand ships' and i suppose he was right, in a way. helen was who they blamed the war on. and while you can argue whether or not helen went with paris willingly (it will probably not surprise you to know i believe she didn't, not really, but thats a different argument) what i get most angry about is how helen is portrayed.

yes, she's gorgeous. indisputable. aphrodite promised alexandros the most beautiful woman in the world, and that's helen. and it isn't as if the iliad doesn't drive that point home! the old men muttering on the gates with priam and helen say outright that helen is so beautiful, so like a terrible goddess, that neither the trojans nor the greeks can be blamed for the sheer amount of death they've caused. (putting, then, of course, the blame on helen.)

but the old men also say that it would be best if helen went back on the ships, that she's caused too much grief to stay.

because that's the crux of it, isn't it? that helen is miserable, and so is everyone around her. every scene she's in, helen is either being manipulated/influenced by a goddess (aphrodite forcing helen, iris straight up using divine power to make helen feel things), mourning the fact that she's married to the shitstain that is paris, wishing she'd died as a baby, or all three. she's lonely, she's suicidal, and she's shunned by the trojan women (in all by the very last scene, where the trojan women join her in mourning, which is especially upsetting because we know afterwards just after helen has finally been counted among them after twenty years, they're immediately separated as the trojan women are sold as slaves and helen is taken back with menelaos to be 'possessed').

but helen is also angry. she's furious. comments about helen's beauty are passing and brief. but every scene helen is in, she burns with spiteful rage and justified heartbreak. she tells paris she wished he'd died in battle. she tells her brother hektor, in front of paris, that she wishes she could have married someone as brave and noble as hektor, instead of the pompous shameless paris, and wishes that hektor could rest instead of suffering the burden of paris' actions. she stands up to aphrodite.

of all the scenes in the iliad, that one is my favorite. beyond the comedy of helen immediately spotting how weirdly alluring this old woman is and seeing through aphrodite's disguise, helen is incandescent for just a brief tirade. she asks whether aphrodite has found a new pretty boytoy to whisk helen away to, to make aphrodite happy, or if maybe it's back to be possessed by menelaos? helen calls aphrodite treacherous, and refuses her command. helen demands that instead, aphrodite suffer as helen suffers. demands that if aphrodite wants someone to fuck paris so bad, aphrodite can do it herself, can step down forever as a goddess and become paris' wife and slave instead of helen. i will not serve his bed.

helen is furious, and it's only aphrodite's threat (don't make me hate you as i now terribly love you, lest i remind the greeks and trojans alike of their hate and trap you in it to kill you) of death that has helen going to paris. and even there, with aphrodite watching, helen tells paris she wishes he died and that her old husband can and still could kill him. and after that, paris declaims her rage makes her more desirable than ever, even more than when he first stole her.

helen spends a lot of time miserable. wishing she were dead. i think thats perfectly reasonable, spending twenty years in a city where the only two people who are ever kind to her are her father-in-law and brother-in-law. where countless men die just outside her walls and everyone blames her (and she blames herself, deeply). she misses her family, her home, her daughter. she calls herself a bitch, a slut, wishes the gods hadn't laid this on her but let her die at birth. of course she's suicidally depressed. of course she's angry.

but this view of helen as a petty, self-centered vain model is so infuriating because there's no evidence for it! even if you believe that she went with alexandros willingly, she still spends the entire iliad, the few scenes she is allowed, being vengeful, heartbroken, and utterly furious! it's demeaning and telling to reduce her to her beauty. even in six short scenes we get such a wonderful breadth of her character. respectful and awed to priam, admiring and loving to hektor. missing deeply her home and her kin. lonely, wishing for companionship from the women around her, missing the 'lovely young women her age' from home. absolutely, utterly disgusted by paris. heartbroken and pitying and remorseful of the men dying in the war. she speaks of how she cannot find her brothers on the battlefield (the brothers who saved her once from abduction, but not now, perhaps because of the shame of being associated with her?). the way she admires the greeks on the battlefield to priam. and her fear but also unrelenting fury towards aphrodite.

none of those are about, at least solely, her beauty! to helen herself as a character, beauty isn't who she is. she is angry, and hurt, and spiteful, and devastated, and i love her for it!!!!!!

I got him 💕 i adore him so much!! 🥰

お酒飲まない洋平さんが、ワイルドターキーのCMだなんて…！ あー、でもカッコいい…(2023/05/13 10:12)

10月末〜12月初めぐらいのお出かけ！

やっとフォルダを見返す時間ができたけど収拾がつかなくなっている🌀🌀iPhoneのフィルター可愛いし、整理がてらインスタとか始めようかな、、

展覧会や動物園に行ったり、大好きなクリームソーダ巡りをしたり、1年ぶりにドロスのライブに行ったり🏃🏻もちろんみわくんを連れて！

ガラス越しに動物を撮るの難しい！というか動物を撮るの難しい！振り回されるのがまた楽しいけど😂

気ままに出かけられるうちに行きたい場所、見たいものをゆっくり&たくさん巡りたい💭

会場に到着 一般抽選でチケットとったから可動式スタンド… 奥さんはステージ7列目という差… ・ #kei備忘録 #アレキサンドロス #alexandros #butwaitarena2022 #名古屋国際展示場 #ポートメッセなごや #ツアトラ (ポートメッセなごや) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjugX7hpWHk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Alright, now its time to laugh at the slightly-younger-in-this-video-but-still-old man playing JE with Alexandros:

I don’t think he’s terrible at video games tbh…this whole video is a bit of a mixed bag, though, so I’ll let ya’ll decide lol

…i am nowhere close to good enough at Japanese to attempt much translation other than token words lmao. But one of the funnier things I can hear for sure is in the darts portion of the video; when they’re making fun of Shomura Satoyasu and they keep calling him 下手 (Heta) , which is “unskilled” in this context. and スポーツ下手 (Supōtsu heta) which would be “bad/unskilled at sports”. If you listen close, one of the members of Alexandros actually calls Kimura 下手 when its his turn 😋.