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lake-cosay · 11 months

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potentially hot take but jesse's favorite musical would be hadestown, hands down

#am i projecting? partly yes #BUT it's also just right up his alley #he was def a mythology kid #and hadestown is about LoveTM #he'd make lake watch a bootleg with him and lake would cry bc it hits home #tbf i could also see him liking some more obscure musicals that i prob don't know about #i think he'd know the obscure musicals better than the more popular ones tbh #he's just Like That #jesse cosay #infinity train #ghost.text

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moonslust · 2 years

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Plus I've tried following that "kids are not stupid" advice but they don't. know. shit. but then how do I teach them things without every minute of the day becoming a life lesson and them categorizing me as the most boring cousin? Running into a wall is what it is, running into a wall.

#I cant let this go #i mean i can but also i cant #this kid y'all he was too disrespectful but the worst part is that he behaved like that only WITH ME #he was sooo polite to people in shops and bars but he saw me as someone his age KID IM 60 DON'T PUT YOUR FOOT ON MINE TO MAKE ME FALL #I wanted to run away so bad #he hadn't even known me for that long #he wrote on MY BOOK and STAINED the walls with his dirty shoes AND even drew two insignificant lines on the table like what the fuck's that #and don't get me started on turning on and off the lights as a game...I am POOR I can't have you ruining my ikea light bulb #and this is probably normal to some of you who know kids but...well this is NEW to me and I hated EVERY second of it #I cant let it go yeah #I just- how disrespectful can a kid be in someone else's house?? would you leave footprints on walls??? idk maybe I was too educated😠😠#oh my gooooood #worst part was the homophobia showing every time he saw a rainbow flag...but his sister told him off for that oof I was nOT ready for #that debate #worst part again is that he def doesn't even have a 'REASON' to hate on the community but cause everyone around him does he does it too #you know what I mean? people believing god did not want this bla bla well that's a...reason...but this kid omg he don't even KNOW god I bet #bad bad baaaad education #only good side is that he loooves greek mythology (ahem gay) and knows a lot for being 12 I envy him that but ONLY that #he either will become a professor or a gangster no in between #good luck #everytime I say good luck I think of that comment liam wrote on a 'fake' fan's insta #'best of look with that attitude'#wait does that sentence make sense?#cause I had seen a comment saying 'why does he write luck in his accent?💀' and I was like HOLD UP and then lost it #does he say look or luck? anyway funny as hell #goodnight everyone #if anyone read this far I love you are we are almost married

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taitavva · 5 months

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yaldabaoth couldn't help but make his whole team overpowered huh ... how are the phantom thieves supposed to survive ?? "oh noo akechi ur so hot haha .. please don't kill me" brilliant strategy pego (entire ask under cut)

[ACTUALLY UR PUTFITS WERE SO ON POINT. I HAVE 2 OUTFIT IDEAS 4 HIFUMI & SHIHO (MINUS MASKS) & 1 mask idea for yuuki but idk what else. i was thinking for the leaders it would def be chaotic but goro has most metaverse experience so hes the leader. ken kinda acts like mona in giving useful tips abt personas etc and hifumi takes on the role of makoto where she gives out different strategies (her, ken, & goro debate over these tips & strategies but usually end up doing them anyway). I have an urge to show u these outfits omg. i can ramble abt these outfits & their personas for forever .. i chose jormungandr for yuuki, skadi for shiho hela for hifumi, and persephone for eiko. ik its not very in the literacy scene for them to all have deities as personas but... goro breaks it with loki anyway, so ..

explainations:: hela & jormungandr are 2/6 of loki's kids in norse mythology, aiding him in the ragnarok/end of the world, and hela is sentenced down to the underworld to be the goddess of that realm since she was born half alive half dead, and she's sentenced to it by odin (basically. kinda the zeus of norse mythology, like the "king" of all of them) because she's the daughter of loki & all this other stuff .. chose her for hifumi because hifumi's mom basically forces her to be a shoji star after hifumi's dad and yeah. jormungandr i chose because hes kinda just a sleepy little guy: in norse mythology he's known as "the World Serpent" and he wraps around the entire ocean with his tail in his mouth kind of in a constant sleep until the ragnarok (all of loki's kids --aside from 2, one being dead & the other being a gift to odin-- including loki himself, are kinda trapped somewhere before the ragnarok happens) and he's not talked about a lot but he aids in so much and he's important (like how yuuki is kind of ignored by the pts, the dialogue options being horrid, despite him aiding in them. also yuuki is the bm's navi in the au & he runs a "revenge site" like how Strega/takaya sakaki, jin shirato, & chidori yoshino do in p3-- strega also does death calling cards , mainly shown in the novels which is p cool.. first ppl to use mental shutdowns despite not beinf called that then either. i love strega sorry. they all agreed to it because shiho wanted to deal with more people like kamoshida, goro wanted to deal with more people like shido, hifumi wanted to deal w more people like her mom, etc).. i chose persephone for eiko because in greek mythology, persephone is (most commonly accepted form of the myth) kidnapped by hades and forced into marriage with him by eating a pomegranate out of the underworld .. point blank, persephone reminds me of eiko being trapped and persephone's shown to overcome it , ( honestly eventually making the underworld & hades her Bitch. she kills the goddess/nymph of mints and creates the mint plant because she got too handsy with hades).. also hifumi and eiko are a little gay for eachother so why not have their personas be, too? anyway. SHIHO!! i chose skadi for her because skadi , in norse mythology , is both jotunn (giant) and a god like how loki is, but she's an accepted form of it because she was given over to the gods as a peace treaty, and thats pretty important to norse mythology i'd say (like how rooftop scene is important to kamoshida arc), and skadi claws up the aesir (council of gods) thru both her marriage (ann? ann. hehe.) and her own sheer will (shiho's recovery and goro's ..... questionable aid.) and skadi just fits. the goddess of mountains and winter? sign me the FUCK UP.

Anyway . this was long I apologise]

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quitealotofsodapop · 6 months

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Some Tang-y asks;

Both asks referencing; this previous about Tang realising his buddies are the Monkey King and the Six Eared Macaque + he's the godfather to their upcoming baby.

Tang is freaking tf out after the shock/fainting wears off. His academic career has revolved around the Journey to the West and connected mythology. Even as a lowly libarian who does mythology talks on the side, even he recognises that this is historical Iridium. He has *The People Who Were There* in his apartment (eating his chips)!!

Afterwards he has a moment of; "Oh gods, I've pretty much adopted the Monkey King." since he's been helping the monkeys learn how to read/write in modern chinese and generally giving Wukong life advice in the manner of a father-figure (all mid-twenty years of him).

And although he def shares all his secret wuxia and isekai fantasies with Macaque (fantasy nerd to theatre nerd communication); he certainly didn't expect to end up like This.

Tang knows he at least has a genetic link to the historical Tang dynasty - something he isn't really proud of since he's been kicked out by his parents. But with all the Monkey King stuff starting to pile up, he wonders...

Then he gets kidnapped by a firey toddler calling him "The Tang Monk", and is told to help out in a super specific ritual that requires the skill of an enlightened sage. Tang faints in the backseat of Red Son's mini-car when the penny drops. His frantic call to Pigsy straight afterwards is a babbling info-dump that sounds more like a cicada screaming.

Bonus ask!: Did Wukong *know* that Pigsy and Tang were reincarnations of his friends?

Sort of.

You see, after the Harbringer accidentally got sealed in Macaque (and the shadow monkey was still passed out); Wukong asked Guanyin to help him seek guidance from his old master - since he isn't exactly able to contact the Pure Lands himself. Guanyin tries calling up the Golden Cicada and... she appears to a confused, bleary-eyed Tang in the noodle shop at like 11pm. Even the bodhisattva is confused. Tang Sanzang/Tripitaka was supposed to be the last Golden Cicada incarnation. Tf is he hanging out on earth for?

Guanyin mentions this fact to SWK, and Wukong has a heart-stopping second of "Oh sweet buddha, Master is alive!!", before the goddess confirms otherwise. Wukong is super-confused, and a little disappointed, but really wants to seek out this new version of the GC even if for his own comfort. He's given a vague direction of where his master's soul is now residing, and the bodhisattva doesn't discourage him from following it. Wukong does hide his main reason for hiding in the city when Mac wakes up.

Eventually as the duo are ducking the sight of curious local demons/human (the meteorite and battle on the mountain def drew attention), Mac and Wukong bump into a strangely famililar face...

You see, after Tang literally glimpsed at the Goddess of Mercy, he became super-awake and rambled to Pigsy about his vision. Pigsy, despite being dismissive of most magic talk, thought that his suspicions of the meteor shower being a "sign" could be correct. The two went downstairs to eat/talk about what Tang's vision of Guanyin could mean.

Ironically, it's Pigsy who catches the monkeys walking down the street. He'd gone out to grab something from the convenience store and saw the two young, kinda skinny-looking, monkey demons arguing and trying to dodge the rain. The ginger-haired of the two shielding the darker-furred one with an old cape.

Pigsy has a moment of "No. No no no no. Good samaritan sh*t only gets you hurt." before he recognises something off about the two "kids" words. And with Tang's talk about having a vision of the Goddess of Mercy...

"Mihou": "This is all your fault!" "Wu": "How is it all my fault?!" "Mihou": "You put this... this thing in me! Now we've got no money, our magic isn't working, we can't go home, and we don't even have shelter for the night! I'm so..." *crying* "I have no idea what to do Wu..." "Wu", holding the other's face: "Hey, hey, it's ok Mihou. We'll figure this out." *presses foreheads together* "I won't let anything happen to you or the ki... guess it's too early at the moment. Egg, I guess?" *goofy, hopeful smile* "Mihou", sniffling: "You're so dumb."

They hear a cough beside them and turn. Wukong looks at the face illuminated by the neon of the storefront like its wearing a halo. It can't be!

Pigsy, holding grocery bags: "Hey... you kids sound like you're in a tough spot right now. If you need a roof over your head 'til the rain eases off, my restaurant is around the corner. Door's opened either way."

Wukong happily jumps at the offer, seeing the familiar glow of his pilgrim brother's soul resting warmly in the cook's body. Macaque is super sus of the situation; he kinda recognises the face infront of him but he just knows it isn't Zhu Bajie. The tired, sincere look on the demon's face is far too unalike the greedy gluttonous fool he'd seen getting his King into so much trouble. Just for now will he trust only his instincts - which at the moment wish for him to get dry.

Wukong sees it as a sign from the Buddha. Clearly someone is looking out for them. Even if this isn't Zhu Bajie, and the man inside the noodle shop isn't his master, then something in the Pure Lands or Diyu has shifted to allow them to reunite in this life - just in time for the King's heir responsibility to be brought into the world.

And then Pigsy ruffles his hair? Calls him "kid"? And then Tang is helping him with his writing? And telling him all the stories he's heard a million times in a way thats never boring?

Wukong feels queasy in a good way. He doesn't know how to describe it. He cries when he sees the silly mock shop logo he drew pinned to the corkboard by the kitchen - pinned amongst the pig-chef's most prized moments in his cooking journey. He doesn't know why he's crying but it feels like something he's been left out of for so long... thats the moment he decides that Pigsy and Tang (+Sandy) would be the godparents of the Egg. He just knows they'd all be great parents cus they already are.

#the monkey king and the infant #the monkey king and the infant au #asks #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk aus #lmk tang #lmk pigsy #freenoodles being parents #shadowpeach being parents #shadowpeach #lmk shadowpeach au #sun wukong #liu er mihou #six eared macaque #lmk au tmkati story events

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percabeth4life · 6 months

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Do you know if the whole “Gods can’t interfere in their kids’ lives because of the Ancient Laws” thing is based on mythology, or if that’s something Rick just made up?

It's not an Ancient Laws thing, it's "the Gods cannot defy fate" thing, which does exist in mythology. The Gods can interact with their kids, they can even offer help and advice and often did in some manner. But there's also a time in the Iliad-

Iliad. 16.433-8, tr. R. Lattimore Ah me, that it is destined that the dearest of men, Sarpedon, must go down under the hands of Menoitios’ son Patroklos. The heart in my breast is balanced between two ways as I ponder, whether I should snatch him out of the sorrowful battle and set him down still alive in the rich country of Lykia, or beat him under at the hands of the son of Menoitios.

She spoke, nor did the father of gods and men disobey her; yet he wept tears of blood that fell to the ground, for the sake of his beloved son, whom now Patroklos was presently to kill, by generous Troy and far from the land of his fathers.

So basically, the Gods can't interfere. Zeus wants to interfere, he wants to save his kid. But he can't, and he does mourn it. Zeus has a duty as king of the Gods, he of all the Gods cannot defy Fate. But equally so none of the Gods can, though at times they may try.

So he didn't necessarily make it up, but his way of handling it is def made up.

#anon asks #life answers #rr crit #hellenic chat

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journalsouppe · 6 months

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Mwah Mwah Mwah I love you the Adventure of Link <3 You're a tough game but you don't deserve all the hate you get. OUGH yall i love this game so much the soundtrack slaps incredibly hard

Genuinely one of my favorite Zelda games esp in terms of lore and musici, if I grew up in the 80s and played this this game would've been my special interest for sure

The stickers are from the ALTTP sticker pack by Comstock Cafe and I just took the stickers that were the most generic to use for this game and the original Legend of Zelda ^_^;

Writing typed below!

Rating: 8.0 Played: Sp 2023 Port: NES Switch Special Edition (YES I PLAYED THE EASY VERSION I WAS TRYING TO BEAT THIS BEFORE TOTK)

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Initial thoughts: reminds me of the claymation mythology movies (aka Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans)

This reminds me a lot of Joust

little link statue <3

this feels nothing like a zelda game

(in reference to above comment) the mechanics are a little off putting but this is actually a very zelda game, it takes getting used to but i'm enjoying it

I'm actually really obsessed with the zelda II lore and story, love the magic system

omg the iron knuckle

interesting bosses! it would be fun to see them return

damn gooma was so hard

wolfheads can burn in hell

I like how much the future zelda games are insp by this game!!!

how would you ever know how to find new kasuto without a guide T^T

FUCK WIZZROBES

-> they were't too bad in this game bc you can actually block them (I hate top down wizzrobes and hate a visceral reaction lol)

i absolutely love that you can turn into a fairy, this should've been a reused mechanic

"this is the first game where Link shape shifts as well as the first game where the process is voluntary and beneficial" oh my god T^T

I love how Barba/Volvagian returned in Ocarina!!!! LOVE!!

I FORGOT THE CROSS

It's funny how Link can't swim in these games so he walks on water instead

items collected are used in the overworld

I love this game a lot actually

the mega demon looking bubble?? T-T

the regional differences are really interesting

the design of the thunderbird is crazy cool

love the shadow link fight also insane you don't get to heal and replenish magic

zelda and link having 2 different styles is so funny, link looks so goofy

This game had a massive difficulty spike compared to the original The Legend of Zelda game. However, I loved this game so much and you can see how much influence games like OOT and TWW took from it. The music is incredible and iconic, I love the enemy designs and their grittiness, and I love how despite never playing this game before, I had a lot of nostalgia for it bc I played Joust as a kid. This was a great sequel for its time and continued the story well -- Link has gotten 2/3 of the triforce pieces and rescued zelda and defeated Ganon in the first game. Now he has to complete multiple trials in order to get the triforce of courage and save zelda from the past. The end fight being a 2 boss rush AND the true boss being the shadow of youself -- AKA the hardest boss in the series if you don't cheese the battle, it's great what an incredible idea. And OOT used it again with another incredible idea -- reflection, conquer yourself. Are you a true hero if you can't even outmatch, out wit, out last your own self, your own shadow? UGH as a huge OOT fan I just loved this game and seeing all the influence it had. I'd def play it again in the future.

#mwah mwah mwah mwa mwahmwah #love you so muchhhhhh TAOL #journalsouppe #bullet journal #journal #legend of zelda #tloz #loz #the legend of zelda #zelda journal #taol #the adventure of link #zelda 2 #zelda ii

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joyboyish · 5 months

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ykw strawhats monster high au bc im whimsical except i couldnt find many creatures that matched them so a lot of them are demi gods

luffy - son of meri - this one is kind of obvious, luffys brazilian and meri is considered the sun god to the bororò people, an indigenous ethnicity in brazil. nika is based on a lot of different cultures. the one piece wiki has some guesses in its trivia section as to what inspired nika u should def check it out,

zoro - son of enma - another obvious one since one of his swords is named enma.. enma is the king of buddhist hell.. idk if its true but ive seen a few people associate enma with the moon so theres some more sun/moon symbolism for you

nami - the daughter of apsaras - according to the wiki "apsaras or apsara is a member of a class of celestial beings in Hindu and Buddhist culture. They are originally a type of female spirit of the clouds and waters, who later plays the role of a 'nymph' or 'fairy'." and that just feels very nami

usopp - son of the tikoloshe - the tikoloshe are mischievous water spirits in south african mythology, if you cant tell im trying to have the characters of color be the kids of myths from their own culture and usopp is just a mischievous little lad

chopper - son of airmids - the celtic goddess of healing herbs!

robin - daughter of saraswati - the indian goddess of knowledge, she also has six arms and since robin can grow those it made sense to me

franky - son of hephaestus - the greek god of black smithing and craftsmanship, just made sense to me

brook - son of ihy - the egyptian god of music!

jinbe - son of the varuna - the indian god of the water, he is the lord of justice and truth, and the way jinbe vouches for fishman everywhere reminded me of that so

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birb-tangleblog · 11 months

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12. What have you named Hector's

animals in your mind?

The bearcats' names are "Good Quirin" and "Good Adira". The rhino is Edmund Jr. 😌

For real tho, this is so embarrassing- b/c for as much as I've brainrotted about Hector, I don't really have concrete headcanon names for them?? Whenever I'm chatting with friends, they're always just 'the bearcats' or 'the girls'.

That said, I tend to think Hector wouldn't actually be the most creative or poetic when it comes to naming his animals? I think he would name them more simply, almost like a kid names a pet, based on their qualities and wanting something that sounds warrior-like. I kind of like Shade for the bearcat with a slightly darker pelt, and Fang for the one with a snaggletooth? Alternatively, Talon, Dagger, Spear, Shadow, Smoke, Ash, Thorn, Briar- that kind of vibe.

I could def see names from mythology or astronomy paired with the HC that Adira, Edmund, or Quirin (anyone well-read) helped name them! Or maybe foodie names if he asked Adira for ideas? She dubs the rhino 'Cupcake' or 'Bonbon' to annoy him and it sticks- imagining one of the Corona chars asking his (the rhino's) name and Hector just groans lmao

#this ask made me mentally commit to 'fang' and 'shade' a bit more #and now I'm kind of attached to the rhino having a cutesy name LMAO #Hector #bearcats #text post #my post #ask #ask meme #headcanons #ty for the ask!!

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angelsdean · 1 year

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home always feels like an episode they should have waited a season or two to do to me, when the mythology and characters were a little more lived it. I don't know if this makes sense, but i think in any other season, or even this season in the backhalf, this set up would have lent itself to a classic Dean Studies episode, and it feels weird that once we're actually in the house, we're actually seeing Mary, we totally pull back on Dean. Honestly, outside of the phone call to John, he's very sidelined despite this being an easy set up to explore backstory for him as the only character there who has a memory of the fire. And even Sam as the POV character falls flat not because there isn't interesting tension there, it could have worked! but because it's so heavy unfolding the psychic plot point and it's clear that that's more important to the episode than the family mythology. It just feels like you could take the bones of the episode, drop into season 3, and get something that looks completely different. (You said this much more eloquently re: the narrative, but I'm on s2 of my own rewatch and i keep thinking about this, haha).

hii sorry i didn't answer this sooner, but yea that's def how i felt rewatching it like, it just feels like it comes too soon for it to really *do* anything. we haven't yet really felt the haunting absence of mary. their main plot focuses rn are 1.) finding john (and in conjunction w/ that, finding and killing azazel) and 2.) literally just starting in this ep, sam's psychic visions. the whole concept of going back home and being confronted w/ their mother's literal ghost who recognizes and can talk to them is a HUGE thing that deserved to be the main focus, not a footnote in an ep trying to introduce a major plot element, sam's visions.

literally like you said, there's IS tension from sam's POV but they just don't go anywhere with it, since the focus is more on his psychic visions. like the scene w/ sam and mary could've been so much more. and if this came later in the season, or even a few seasons later, mary's "i'm sorry" to sam would've held more weight and packed a punch bc she feels responsible for what's happened to sam !!! for the deal w/ azazel and causing sam to be infected w/ demon blood. but sitting in the 9th episode of s1 where we still barely know anything it just falls flat and feels like she's just apologizing for what? dying? of course we have the gift of knowing everything to come later, but i'm trying to put myself in the shoes of the 2005 audience. what would they have thought she was apologizing for? like up until s4 that audience doesn't even know about mary being a hunter or her deal. so like, for those early years, it would just seem like she was apologizing for i guess not getting to sam fast enough to stop azazel and for dying ??

but yea anyways i feel like dean should've been the central character for an episode like this and we already know mary's death was traumatic for him. he tells lucas in 1x03 how he stopped talking after mary died. he tells lucas he's scared all the time but tries his best to be brave bc he thinks it's what his mom would've wanted. mary is such a central figure in dean's life and memories and is thee anchor to the myth of the "perfect family" that never was that dean is constantly yearning for and why family is so important to him. also comments like dean saying he always wanted to be a firefighter when he was a kid reveal a lot abt how much the fire affected him and fueled his desire to save people. and then in 1x09 Home itself, we see dean go in to save the blonde mom while he tells sam to save the kids which is interesting bc in 1x03 dean immediately goes for the kid and lets sam save the mom. so, it feels like subconsciously there's something there with dean and his desire to save mary. and this would've been a great episode to explore that trauma and guilt he has for not being able to save her (and god it's so irrational and he must know it, he was literally 4 yrs old what could he have done !!!) but still.

anyways this is getting long but yea i think at the very least, home should've come later in the season and not have to share the plot w/ introducing sam's psychic powers. there's just SO much they could've done with the whole concept of going back home and seeing mary's ghost. i wanted them to feel haunted !!!! haunted by home and the myth of mary !!!!!

#replies #vics spn rewatch #spn 1x09

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netherworldpost · 1 year

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I know this could get complicated based on industry/product/etc. but do you have any overarching advice on starting a business from ground zero with very few assets or money in general and no real following yet? I've read some of your business advice posts and like the idea of creating things at a reasonable price - both so people can buy them for a reasonable price and also to keep starting costs low - but I know a lot of people launch a business when they already have a following. How do you start when you're starting fresh/starting over from scratch?

You start within yourself and building within yourself the foundation of being strong, and flexible, as hell.

It is a wonderful, romantic idea of "I have this vision of x-y-z company and I'll see that through the end." There are a lot of fuzzy-to-factual-history biopics about people who do this.

You build a strength in yourself to keep going when everything is failing for years.

You retain notes, you resist the urge to say "this didn't work, I shall delete everything to date," you keep old mood boards and supplier contacts. I repeat: for years.

Your work is a high-yield savings account, the success compounds slowly over time. You are trading scarcity of money for abundance of time.

You learn to experiment A LOT. Not with money (per your note, there isn't money to experiment with) but with subjects.

Evil Supply Co. had monsters (typically Halloween), ghosts (mythology + Halloween + history), witches (Halloween + magic + mythology + history), and mermaids (mythology + monster lore). It dabbled in science fiction/outer space, it dabbled in 80s/90s/retro enjoyment of aesthetics. I found overlaps, I BUILT overlaps, in subject-matter.

Now is a good time to mention that Evil Supply Co. was, like, my tenth business idea.

So Netherworld Post is 10-B?

Before that I was working in web design + graphic design and experimented with furniture and about a dozen software ideas and I've produced plays and dabbled in day trading on the stock market and ten billion other things.

Musical instrument making, web hosting, stock photography, character design... etc.

The connecting device between these two tenets is the ability and willingness to pivot -- here again a learned, practiced, strengthened skill.

"I want to do ABC."

Okay I don't have the resources for ABC and/or the tech for ABC isn't cheap enough/available enough. I'll learn to do DEF.

Okay the tech isn't ready for DEF, but BCD is, so I can tinker with that for six months -- it's not the entire vision I started with, or wound up on, but I can handle some of the middle.

Okay, that's.... not working yet, but EF is, so I'll work on that for six months. Then AB. Oh, now ADEF is ready? Cool, I'll work on that.

Don't compete with your friends with bad will in your heart. Don't be friends with people who compete with you with bad will in theirs.

For many years, one of my best friends and partner-in-shenanigans and I would have semi-daily meetings at a bar down the street from an office space we shared. At least 5 times a day one of us would pop into the other's office and say "I have this idea--"

We were, on paper, competitors. If you were looking for graphic design services, there was as solid a chance you would bump into either of us.

(His business pivoted and now he is several hundred miles away focusing on family and his kid and I wish him the absolute best, there is no other shoe to drop in this story. And -- that's kinda the point entirely -- he was Weird Business Art Guy, now he is a dad doing a 9-5 in a small town, to all accounts very happy)

Do not try to force a community to build up if you don't have that kind of support system in your life right now -- at the moment, none of my friends are in business shenanigans -- either.

It's part of being flexible.

At some point, I'll again run into one or several weirdos making weird things and we'll say "let's chat about making weird things a lot" and we will.

Right now I am thoroughly enjoying quiet "this is me time" and doing whatever the hell I want with extremely limited plans with other people. Instead of bouncing ideas off of people and shaping them that way, I'm layering them slowly as I ramble through long strings of days mostly spent alone.

I'm flexible to the current time + I keep going.

I remember when I had my design firm, it was hugely en vogue to be a power romantic + business couple and run a two-person design + illustration studio. Maybe it still is, I don't know, I've been out of design gossip for ages.

Anyway. The "big thing" was to have one person be an illustrator, the other a graphic designer, and via work and a picture perfect marriage, you were getting constant awards and clients etc.

Beautiful idea, drove me wild for years with envy, never manifested for me personally, every time I recognized I desired it greatly + it wasn't going to happen for me, I moved on with my life and goals and interests and business.

Pivot.

Learn. To. Pivot.

When things go wrong, when things go right in an unexpected way, when you realize "I am lusting for X and it won't happen," when you realize "I am ignoring Y opportunity because of ego, because of ignorance, because it is objectively great but isn't what I thought I wanted, because it is objectively great but I am a snob in this area, etc."

I really, really, really wanted to be a fancy New York art director in advertising at {very specific, very short list of agencies} when I was starting out.

I wanted big awards, I wanted to climb the ranks, become a global creative director of {short list of above} being published in {list of design news sites and gossip rags} etc.

Prior to that, I wanted to be an animator. I was lining up an internship at Disney! Then they shut down the studio I was applying at (laugh). Prior to that I was going to be a psychologist! I repeat, above, I've started a billion things!

I did not expect to be a private academic in monsters and myths (re-)building a stationery start up and yet here I am.

Maybe this will last 50 years and maybe it'll last a week.

All business is secondary to the quality of life I lead. I would as strong as possible recommend this for you as well.

Maybe you have Genius Art Idea that is intensely cool and wonderful making Affordable Art Thing and in six months to six years you start pulling it together and you're like "this is great this is fantastic this is wonderful" --

-- and just before you make it big you find a job in accounting that is surprisingly enjoyable and/or is surprisingly tolerable but the paycheck allows you to say "rather than focus all my time and effort into making widgets, I can do it as a hobby, or not do it, and do ten million other things--"

Great! Pivot to that!

I think I got off track.

I want to circle back into "business and work isn't everything, it's not even the most important thing -- a good life is the important thing."

I want to circle back into "you see someone doing something and think 'I want to do that,'" which is great, go for trying, but don't worry if it doesn't work out to plan, or even if the plans themselves fade away into a different reality all together.

Learn things, plan things, keep going when the learning is boring and the plans fall apart, change what you want to learn and what you're planning and what you're building when something else comes along, keep notes of it all handy.

If you are by nature an organized person, keep notes organized.

If you are not, keep them in a shoe box or digital folder to rummage through later.

#small buisness

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creabirds · 5 months

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recently i really fell into percy jackson hole again and started thinking about max and charles in it. imo max is def ares' kid and charles is aphrodite's one, and like the amount of parallels with their godly parents? insane. i once read a piarles fic where charles is aphrodite himself and at this point, honestly, he can be aphrodite and max can be ares as well (dirtytalk after finding out about each other's another demigod child would go crazy tho)

@grubbyraccoonhands this u?

i must admit i have only read the first book of the series and watched the movies……. however i am a greek mythology nerd (og) and i must agree with this analysis

#asks

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3gremlins · 5 months

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obviously it's early yet and there have only been 2 episodes but so far i am underwhelmed by the percy jackson tv show. thoughts behind cut (i guess very mild spoilers but nothing big)

mostly b/c every time it uses cgi fx the lighting gets DULL AF and terrible and i am begging disney etc to just pay for lighting people and practical effects/mixture of cgi and practical so it can be lit properly and not rely on making everything dark to hide shitty looking composition with weird flattening color grading (the actual models don't look that bad, they're just badly composited. like let a dramatic rim light enter your life, fam, i am begging you).

The props also look a little cheap? Esp in the capture the flag war scene, they all look/sound like plastic with little to make it seem like they're not (also the fit on the helmets was kinda meh, but i realize this is nitpicky).

it just added to making the show look cheap in a way it def shouldn't be b/c the mouse has so much freaking money. idk, it feels like they got a meager budget for a thing that deserves a GoT or at least a Mandalorian/SW budget tbh (orrrrrr i wish they'd just done a cool animated show in the style of the opening/closing credits but obviously that would be more expensive and the house of mouse are cowards T.T)

also the writing has been a lot of "tell instead of show" exposition so far which makes for not so great tv (it would have been much cooler to see the luke/thalia/anabeth bg stuff as a flashback instead of just having luke explain it on screen- stuff like that. Which is probably a budget/direction issue and less of a writing issue tbf). More characterization in general- like it just feels a little rushed like they were trying to hit major plot points faster (esp with the inter god house relations).

It also feels like someone told Jason Mantzoukas to dial it back and so he feels weirdly restrained as mr.d (a very strange choice imho). Like you hire him to be loud and a little obnoxious and i'm not sure about this directing choice for this character (this is sort of minor but it contributed to the first 2 eps feeling overall kinda muted?)

Book 1 is the weakest book by far tho so probably season 1 will be the weakest since it's an adaptation of that but I thought maybe they'd be able to fix some of the issues since Riordan has more direct control over that with this adaptation. Like move some plot points around/character narratives to make it a little more dynamic and make us care about more of the main characters sooner.

it also feels like it's missing a little bit of that rick riordan is a huge classics/mythology nerd DEEP CUT references that are in the books (we got a little with that one kid talking about the goddess of failure but not really enough)

the casting is great tho and maybe it will get rolling as the season goes on, i will keep watching for sure. I'm just sad it wasn't better b/c now I'm not going to be able to convince my partner to read the books lol. He already read the Magnus Chase books which he liked, but he's afraid of the PJ books b/c the first few aren't as good/were written earlier

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson show #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson premier #percy jackson disney+#text post #i think this suffers from the trend in doing 8 to 10 eps of shows these days #i feel like 12 to 15 is the magic number for good storytelling balance without the story feeling crunched #more than that usually has too much filler #josh pointed out that 12 to 15 eps is a season of modern anime lol (look they usually do have good pacing)#i mean obvs there's lots of corporate greed trying to not pay people or run around labor unions at work here too i think #pretty sure if it's 8 eps they can call it something else and pay folks less/do less residuals kinda thing #but in an ideal world it'd be nice if good storytelling and paying people proper wages was prioritized instead #q

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judelijah · 5 months

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This is going to be a somewhat chaotic PJOseries review so bare with me

I might do edits to add some of my observations I missed so... Yeah. Prepare for that. And it will def be spoilery

Okay I just watched the first two episodes of @percyseries and this is actually a fresh take and a great adaptation that is of its own just like The Lightning Thief Musical. Most of the decisions of changes they made actually make sense for a show adaptation.

Anyway possible spoilers alert ahead so

Don't say I didn't warn you!

Ep 1 : I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

Off to a good start. I love how they opened this with flashbacks when Percy was young and how he's struggling with ADHD.

Anyway like I said first and foremost, this isn't really a word by word (word for word? grammatically correct me, anyone, if I were wrong) adaptation. So there will be conversations which I've memorized from the book that will completely get cut, but will be replaced by lines that do not really stray away that much from the essence of the scenes.

Walker embodies Percy Jackson if he were to be born a Gen Z ( well I always considered Percy as a Milennial reading the book as I grew up so ). Obviously, he's still got that charm from his previous movies he starred in. No wonder at all why Uncle Rick entrusted him this role.

Tbh, I only had an issue with Mrs. Dodd's facial appearance. It looked like the CGI on her was unfinished. But the way she strut towards Percy while transforming into a Fury is *chef's kiss*

Even if it's unintentional messaging, I love how it's viewed that these people are also just so unaware and inattentive with their surroundings. (yeah the Mist does all that, Yada Yada but it kinda gave a spotlight on the perspective of an ADHD how they can also be frustrated when people around them don't notice what they see)

And I definitely think that they need to bring back the actor who played Nancy and cast her as Rachel in Season 3. I mean, no one would even notice she's the same actor as Nancy only appeared a brief amount of time.

Sally telling Percy that he's a Half-Blood was so unexpected but it made sense during that scene. The poor kid is going through an existential crisis. She's gotta give her son a break.

Also, I kinda see how that is the very reason why the minotaur found them as soon as he can, if it's still canon in here that the more a demigod know about their connection to Greek mythological stuff, the more monsters they attract and can sense them, and will come for them!

I dunno if it's just me, but the scene when the Minotaur was supposed to be chasing them kinda didn't leave an impression on me that there is some sort of danger looming? I guess part of that is because Pasiphae's son looked too cute? But the scene when Percy went for a bullride is definitely one heck of a heroic moment!

Ep 2 : I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

Mr. D is... a troll. Lol. No. I mean, I def laughed when he played Percy like that. If Jason actually watched Stanley Tucci's take on this role in the Sea of Monsters movie, I think he's actually the continuation of that. It is nothing that I expected from Dionysus reading the book but I can love this take tho.

Chiron is too kind in here. I guess it's the actor's nature emanating in this role. I kinda expected him to be also somehow stern and disappointed at times, and not too cheerful. But with that said, he's definitely the camp director you'd be visiting much so making him more approachable along those reasoning made him a perfect fit!

Tbh, kinda missing a lot of Annabeth content since her role in introducing the camp to Percy has been filled mostly by Luke.

I guess we can see more of her in the episodes that follow which is why they took that direction. I mean, I def agree that we gotta give some more screen time to Luke.

Clarisse and her siblings are ... Probably how Gen Z bullies would act right now, I guess?

And focusing on Grover's whereabouts actually is the cherry I love from this show.

I definitely want the Capture the Flag to occur at night just like in the books (which is also one of the many complaints I have with the movies tbfh), because I feel the scene when Percy was claimed would've been more "atmospheric" with the glowing trident hovering above his head in the dark surroundings... but I guess there are some issues behind the camera that that will be a very tricky so I guess I'll just let this pass.

Prediction for that Ep 3 Preview

With the scene when Sally, and younger Percy talked about how not all who look like heroes are actually heroes, the same goes with monsters, whilst looking at the statue of his namesake holding Medusa's head;

Why do I think that Aunty Em wouldn't be viewed as antagonistic here? I mean, judging from the preview of the next ep, I kinda sense a vibe that she'll willingly offer her head to Percy and somehow tell a different tale from the story that we know about the gorgons?

This is just me, I'll definitely discard this once I'm proven wrong by the show (or not) but even so, I think that is actually a change I can accept also to further the message of

"Not those who look like monsters are amonsters"

Conclusion

Obviously there are complete changes they've done; from the casting alone, and also some specific conceptual description from the books that were somehow intentionally decided that they'd do the opposite, for instance: like what I've mentioned above, playing capture at day instead of night, Chiron's a black stallion from the waist down instead of white, Mr D not looking like a hubbub (erm cherub), Smelly Gabe not being that quite bald, and the fandom's issue with the hair and all that, those things considered that are superficial that even if you completely stray away from it, there won't be that much change at all...but like what I've also said, this is a fresh take and an adaptation that stands on its own just like The Lightning Thief Musical.

Tbh, if you're watching this show without having read the book at all, I'll say this that this is very distinguishable from it, judging by the two episodes alone. It is faithful with the essence but there are details that are only physically manifested from the book which they absolutely turn a 360. You can absolutely say that you're not required to read the series before watching this at all, but I will aso advise that you read it to know what I mean.

Also I can say that at times, I can also pick up some cinematic vibes similar with the hated Peter Johnson movies by most of the fandom, and I can't also help but cry over cartons of spilled milk with those movies are, because they definitely had the potential to be great, but it had all gone into waste!

Those movies could've been what this series is if only they honored the books faithfully beforehand. Such a waste for fans like me who have to wait for this day before getting this kind of adaptation but hey! What's important is now, and RIGHT NOW THANK di Immortales THAT uncle Rick is very much involved!

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roncheg · 1 year

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get to know me better tag meme

@idrilka, thanks for tagging me ♡

rules: answer all the questions, then tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

three ships: SEONHWI (my country: the new age), wangxian (mdzs), aaand i cant remember anything else at the moment, even wangxian feels a bit cloudyXD harry/drako in adult post-canon-slice-of-life AUs was always my comfort ship though.

first ship: oooh boy let me tell you a storyXDD it’s kind of irl RPF BUT (long story ahead!) -

here it is: i was ~15, and i was in a school hiking club, and we went on a 2 weeks mountain hike in two squads - older kids (last year of school) and younglings (like me, second to last year of school), supervised by our geography teacher. It was an amazing experience, we were responsible for everything but trail navigating and pace.

And in the older squad (those kids were like only a year older than us but the gap felt insurmountable, they were Wise Adults (TM)) there were two leaders, two best friends, one tall, handsome and like aristocratic (but pretty outgoing) and the other one an inch shorter, with longer hair, always laughing, and he had The Guitar (TM) and was not afraid to use it. All the girls were either infatuated with one or the otherXD

So, those two cute guys, always tousling, sharing a tent (with three more boys, ‘cause limited tent amount, tents are f* heavy), laughing, constantly bickering with lots and lots of innuendos, ‘cause you know, teenagers))

And one evening almost at the end of the hike we were sitting around the campfire, and The Laughing One with The Guitar was singing the most heartfelt song about a breakup , which coinsidentally had a name of his friend in it, while looking straight at said friend with laughter sparkling in his eyes,

and my little maiden heart went - OMG are they......... you know..................... ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

(mind you, i live in a very homophobic country and it was as bad then as it is now, i knew in theory abt possibility of same-sex relationships only because i was a curious child who liked to read too much for her own good and i’ve found an uncensored version of greek mythology in my mom’s books on the topmost shelf; but it was like historical and not applicable to modern society in my mind, so those two guys might’ve been pretty intense to even put a thought abt that possibility irl in my head)))

* in retrospect, a lot of my fictional ships make so much sense nowXDD i’ve just imprinted on those two guys)))*

//and if we are talking fictional ships - the first one would be Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Byakuya (Bleach)))))

last song i listened to: Иду - Танцы Минус

last movie i watched: /last movie i watched that left an impression, i def watched smth else after but can’t recall what was that/ - Triangle of sadness. Don’t go for arthouse usually, that genre can be too pretentious or too revolting for the sake of revolting but this one was good..

currently reading: i mostly read fanfiction these days; if we mean a novel - then Thousand autumns (it’s on pause, i’m too into my current obsession)))); reread some of shorter stories by Olga Gromyko last weekend, needed comforting)))

currently watching: psyching myself to rewatch MCTNA, planning do dive into WDH’s & Yang Se-jong’s filmographies; planning on watching A league of noblemen (gifsets on tumblr look intriguing);

currently consuming: nothingTT_TT food needs to be prepared asap

currently craving: roasted tofu from that one cafe my friend dragged me to last month*////*

tagging (not obligatory! ♡) @gorgeousgalatea, @dadwife, @opticor, @rej11, @soleil-tiara, @smallwinterchild, @turtlewobbles, @maureen2musings, @notenoughgatorade

#tag meme

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quitealotofsodapop · 9 months

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Trying to figure out a Celestial family tree from the Jade Emperor, even in it's most basic form is kinda hard.

In Journey to the West he def got a sister (Yaoji) and she had 3 kids including Erlang Shen (his nephew). Yang Chan/Sanniang (Erlang's sister) had Liu Chen Xiang according to one version of the Lotus Lantern fairytale.

Him and Queen Mother of the West have at least has 7 daughters according to "Weaver Girl and the Cowherd" which includes; Zhinu (the star Vega), Yanguang Niangniang (Goddess of Eyesight), Songzi/Zhusheng Niangniang (Goddess of Fertility/Childbirth). But the last one occasionally is three separate goddesses rolled into one, or is depicted as a version of Guanyin. Guanyin herself is either a former mortal than became a Bodhisattva, or a daughter of the Jade Emperor who became buddist.

But the tale of "Hou Yi and the 10 Suns" seems to change who's kids the Suns/Sons (puns) are depending on the variant - Jade Emperor is either their dad, granddad, or more often unrelated entirely.

Mythology is confusing.

In the LMK au Im crafting; I have it down that the Jade Emperor and QMotW only got the 7 daughters who are either alive but estranged/disowned (Zhinu and Princess Iron Fan), or reincarnated/died as mortals without their parents permission (Lady Yin). Erlang Shen is so high ranked cus he's technicallly the only male heir in line for the throne. Nezha barely scrapping the royal bloodline since his mom is a reincarnation of the Second Daughter.

This what I got:

If anyone with greater knowledge in Chinese mythos could give me a heads up regarding family trees, it would be cool.

#chinese mythology #the jade emperor #journey to the west #lego monkie kid #lmk au #im just an irish man trying my best

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thatonesongyouretryingtoremember · 2 years

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seduce me with your headcanons nerd (/lh /p)

Wait fuck why do I always forget my hcs when I get asked-

Elmax def kissed when Max was asking if Mike was a good kisser. That's canon, actually. I'm not t taking criticism.

Willel have talked about the Vegas Plan before, and got into a little fun trouble at school. (Everyone grafitties th-)

Jim Hopper is asexual biromantic.

Mikhail lived in the woods for a while in Hawkins, but before that he lived with Enzo's family and Enzo's 6yo kid loved having a brother.

I don't know why, but I feel like El listens to a lot of women rap artists once she starts cultivating a music taste.

Mike likes sharks. Dustin likes frogs. Lucas likes lizards. Will likes spiders.

Axel is aroace, Mick is panro ace, Funshine is queer, Kali is lesbian, Dottie is straight and maybe aro.

Robin really likes this song

Will knows alot about Greek Mythology.

Mikhail grows his hair out long and it's curly :)

Luz has wanted a pet snake since she was a little kid.

Willow hates pickles.

Gus is entranced that human realm schwarma/dunner/whichever one was on that skewer I couldn't really tell isn't filled with giant eyes

The Parks always have a bowl of fruit, and when they were kids and Amity was over, she and Willow would eat all the apples/ demon realm version of apples first way to quickly.

Gus really likes cashews.

Gus used to want a hamster as a pet.

Biana is gay and agender, Fitz is gay and aromantic, Dex and Keefe are bi, Sophie is straight (or maybe lesbian, I haven't read the books in a while)

Marella and Stina used to be best friends. When they started getting closer during I think book4/Neverseen, they may or may not have kissed. (I don't ship them though but this is 100% canon)

Iggy has thought of killing Forkle.

I once saw someone say t4t callum and rayla, so rayla is a trans girl and callum is nonbinary (but maybe still closeted rn)

Ezran has always been talking about talking to animals and whenever his dad or anyone responded they were like "oh isn't that nice" and he thought it was totally genuine. When he's like, 13, he wakes up in the middle of the night letting his thoughts wander and stays remembering what people have said and he realized they were just being nice but he gets really sad about it because he feels like they were just straight up lying to his face (which technically they were)

#headcanons #toh headcanon #kotlc headcanons #tdp headcanons #st headcanons #asks #mutuals #fandom

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