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Chen is indirectly linked to so many things in Ninjago happening and it's kind of crazy
#ninjago#lego ninjago#i'm gonna reblog this with an in depth explanation#like a full on essay#but i just gotta finish writing it#but yeah i've been losing my mind over this since i started thinking about it last night#so now im gonna make it everyone else's problem lol
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Gay pride happens in June and gay wrath happens whenever hbomberguy drops a 3+ hour video essay about a specific topic
#hbomberguy#Just watched the full 4 hour plagiarism video and go OFF you funky bisexual king#Also I feel like people casually mention that Internet Historian and that Blare chick should've gotten mentioned more but honestly#Good on him for taking down Luke Stephens too-- who is now afaik a huge channel for video game news#So anyway video good go watch it and go support queer content creators who are not James Somerton :)#See y'all in 2024 when he drops a 5 hour essay on Onion farming or whatever#Seta speaks#top posts#5k#10k
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i know i talk about it all the time bc it’s one of my favourite lines from fantasy high but sandra lynn saying to fig “everything you’re going through is something that i get i was just like you” in light of her (most likely) being groomed by bobby dawn, with figs ill-advised interactions with older men in freshman year….. ya i’m thinking about it
#siobhan was bang on when she was like it’s easier for her to give me advice bc she doesn’t see so much of herself in me#sandra lynn faeth u will always be famous i’ll kill and die for u#fantasy high#dimension 20#everytime i could write a full essay on someone i use tumblr dot com to make a vague point + then put an elipses in so u can join the dots
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Absolutely reeling.
So I knew that the origin of "Hector was a great man, moral, noble, better than all of the Greeks" began as Roman propaganda that somehow has made it to now, the year 2023, and is still taught to high school students.
What I did not know was why scholars shit on Achilles as vehemently as they did (and still do).
My copy of Fagles' translation of the Iliad has a preface by a different scholar who I'm not going to bother to name because he's an idiot (and idk probably dead at this point). I read the entire thing, absolutely baffled, because he would cite a part of the text (that I admittedly had not read yet! at all!), quote it, and then come to the most batshit interpretation based on that quote I had ever seen in my life. His general take was that Achilles was a sociopath who had no feelings for anyone other than himself and his own pride, and every action he took (until welcoming Priam into his hut) was done in service of that pride. To support this, he decided that Achilles did not see Patroclus as a person, but rather as an extension of himself, and thus someone injuring Patroclus was them injuring Achilles, and so he did not care about Patroclus, he only cared about his wounded pride.
Yeah.
That sounded wrong before reading the book, and while reading the book all i could think was, "Did we read the same fucking thing???" Put in context, those quotations still did not support his conclusions whatsoever.
But i cracked open Caroline Alexander's "The War That Killed Achilles" last night, and she solves this mystery of "Hector good, Achilles bad" for me right out the gate (which is good because so far I've only read the preface).
Western Europeans by and large learned about the Trojan war from Roman stories, which became fairly popular, and not the Iliad, which was not translated into French or English until centuries later. As mentioned, these were propaganda that cast the Trojans in a much better light than the Greeks because the Romans believed they were descended from Trojan refugees. This starts a trend that is still going on in scholarly circles as casting the Iliad as a war between "barbaric Greeks living in a shitty, lawless camp" vs "civilized, educated, weaving, real-wife-having Trojans," making the Iliad a tragedy in which Homer for some reason skewers his own people and their warlike culture as barbaric while propping up a dead, foreign city-state. This interpretation is still extant and was the postscript to another copy of the Iliad I have.
According to Alexander, scholars closer to Homer's time saw the entire war as a tragedy--both the destruction of Troy AND the destruction of the Greek army. While this is not covered in the Iliad, very few Greeks actually made it home after Troy. Some that did were then outcast (Teucer for example), some were murdered (bye, Agamemnon), some went on to create new kingdoms in other places (Diomedes), but by and large, there was no going home from that war. There was no great victory with all their loot. The entire thing was a disaster for both sides, spurred on by fickle gods.
Back to the more recent European interpretations of this story, one reason Hector ended up cast in such a "good" light, despite being a dumbass who wants to dishonor dead people just as badly as Achilles ever did, was in order to make Achilles look worse. Why was it important that Achilles becomes a villain in this story in which he is very much not a villain? Because Europeans were involved in so much war with each other and the rest of the world that a young, insubordinate man who criticizes his idiot of a commander, decides his life isn't worth throwing away for this war, and refuses to fight to sack a city was an affront to their values. Young men were to be obedient, follow their commanding officers, and colonize the world for queen and country. Achilles suggesting losing his life is not worth it to prop up Agamemnon's war is a dangerous precedent for all the good little soldiers needed to make their nations wealthy.
It's almost funny that these analyses propping up Troy as a beacon of civilization were made by people living in countries so bent on colonizing the world. They identified with the city being sacked and not the greedy sackers of said city, who they were much closer to. And Achilles, educated, morally rigid, emotional Achilles, is recast as a sociopathic asshole who doesn't care about anyone other than himself, unlike all of those other beacons of selflessness among the Greek leadership.
The tragedy of the Iliad is that Achilles is right, the war is pointless, Agamemnon did dishonor the shit out of him, and it doesn't matter because he's going to die in it anyway.
Frankly, given how badly his character has been interpreted for so long, I think the muses owe him an apology.
#the iliad#achilles#I have only read the preface of this book#hope yall like essays#writing essays at 6am and hoping they are grammatical#haven't even had my coffee yet my head is too full of achilles#also a hefty chunk of it was FRENCH propaganda like come ON
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can we not use the Tommy tag when we’re just making post about he’s a stepping stone for buddy?
Tommy deserves better
#911 abc#tommy kinard#like whenever I’m in his tag#it’s a bunch of fans talking about he’s just here to make buck open his eyes for tommy#Just full out essays on Eddie beings bucks no1#Use the buddie tag
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Since The Batman(2022) I thought that no one could out grease Robert Patterson’s Bruce Wayne…
AND THEN I SAW RENFIELD!
My guy Renfield is the soggiest piece of toast I have EVER seen
Look at his fucking sweater!!! I can’t 😫
He is living in my head rent free
Also look at this fuckin scene
So creepy, such a story to be said, just mwah🤌
The story of the movie was also amazing so if you like lots of blood, vampires, and greasy little guys then watch this movie
#this is all I’m going to be thinking about#aaaaaa#he’s like if Gerard Way was a drown cat and work for Dracula#it was Creep by radio head and it fit his character so fucking well#I’m going to return with a full essay and a hyper fixation#lily’s rants#renfield#the batman 22#renfield 2023
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oooo you wanna vote for Gem and Pearl so bad
ft. some of my favourite Secret Life moments of them
#please nobody does it like them#I will write a full essay for their whole secret life relationship please please please vote for them#I had to cut the compilation down so much because EVERY MOMENT WITH THEM IS GOLD#they’ve got it all the sillies the fluff the angst#gempearl#pearlgem#shiny duo#shinyduo#trafficshipping#tournament propaganda#mcyt#saved clips
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its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3
all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):
hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also
his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.
the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)
a whole lot of AU stuff
the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.
cases include:
Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)
Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)
Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))
The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)
Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)
The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)
Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)
Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)
the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao
there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.
the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.
for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.
it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.
tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me
Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost
#PLEAAAASE send it to me if you do actually use my animations in a case🥺#here im adapting mdzs to aa gameplay rather than making a mdzs AU where they are lawyers#so jiang cheng is not a prosecutor in this hes just angry. and on the right side of the screen#that man has not graduated law school but then again no one in ace attorney has either#the names are based off of how ace attorney cases are either named after a distinctive item/location (bigtop bridge samurai etc)#or the main emotional/character type thing that happens (goodbyes reminiscence farewell)#the mdzs/aa au where the stories get blended (ie my tags on the nhs post) is very interesting but i would have to think about it very hard#and i dont want to . i would rather think about what the court record would look like (its full of severed limbs)#MDZS' EXPLORATIONS OF MORALITY MAKE ME CHEW ON ROCKS#urrgh i got carried away writing this post & wrote a couple hundred words comparing aa and mdzs' attitudes towards morality & public opinio#i could write an essay on this topic tbh.#can i call this an au? its the same story in the same universe just in a different format. hmm#mdzs#aa#art#mo dao zu shi#ace attorney#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#cql#the untamed#jiang cheng#jin ling#objection.lol#flashing image tw#pixel art#animation#my art#franziska von karma#i guess??#mdzs aa au
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Okay so rewatching sk8 again because I miss them desperately and I accidentally paused and
Jesus fucking Christ.
Reki, my dude, it is episode TWO. You have known Langa for like. A DAY. Good lord
#sk8#sk8 the infinity#renga#no wonder Langa folded so fast goddamn#anyway now I’m thinking about how Langa is kind of Reki’s like… second real friend? and I just#how#this boy is so sweet and so full of love that he just wants to share#no one touch me I’m emo#I’m gonna write an essay one day I swear to god
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PROGRESS!!!!!!
#out of queue#ani rambles#so the problem i had earlier was ‘i made 2 chains when i wasnt supposed to and everything was whack’#but i fixed it so now its Less Whack.#this is gonna be the hood i have like 12 more rows to stitch which might be a full ball of my yarn#also im understanding how motherfuckers listen to podcasts#i listened to like 4 video essays dissecting hozier lyrics and comparing them to dantes inferno#like my other hobbies (drawing and writing) require imagination and concentration and Specific Vibes#crochet requires a different kind of concentration#but so far its good for listening to new music and videoessays so maybe i’ll try a podcast tomorrow. or friday#tomorrow meaning later today because ITS FIVE AM#AAAAAAAAA
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The creechur
The silly (crazy? I was crazy onc-)
So I got inspired to finally post this guy because of this post by @z4n3jul13n (cool person you should look at their stuff)
full version with my doodles under the cut
(I have a whole au based off of this guy)
#So.#the silly.#stares at the like 17 long rambling basically essays in my notes app about this guy#Also looking at the number of layers and how long this took I really need to streamline my process for drawing because damn.#This should not have taken almost 24 hours it is not even full artwork#ANYWAYS so how we feelin#Once again thanks to z4n3jul13n for making the post that got me motivated to post this#I’m not actually done with the au in question so I was kinda hesitant to post it but yeah#Ok now to tag this#art#digital art#ninjago#ice emperor#ninjago season 11#ninjago crystalized#Crystalized Ice Emperor#Yippieee#This is what that one post I reblogged was about#The whole waiting until the thing is finished#i am at it again#YOOO SO WHILE I WAS MAKING THIS POST THEY POSTED THEIR DESIGN FOR CRYSTALIZED ICE EMPEROR AND LIKE WHAT ITS SO COOL#Wow the tags got long ok I’ll queue this for lateerrr#Turns out I don’t know how to use the queue have this now
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I did this one to celebrate Silver's bday back in 2021, a sonboy to me who deserves the world ;-;
#kagarts#rival silver#silver pokemon#trainer silver#pkmn#pkmn hgss#hgss#pkmn gsc#gsc#i think i've seen a lot of characterization of him that makes him like. edgy brooding and cynical#and yeah sure i half understand that given his whole story but i think a lot of ppl miss the whole like. growth part of his arc#learning to care not just for people that genuinely support him but his own team as well#competitive mindsets are temporary; love is forever to your team and your friends#but i think he can be a little rascal as a treat (a trait he totally didn't get from the rest of the quartet lmao)#don't enable me i could write an essay about him but i'm a full time student#character development good i definitely don't have a ton of headcanons stashed away with friends somewhere
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but fr artists should be allowed to eat the faces of whatever "journalist" is acting like this
#i could write a full 5 essay on how that one guy annoys me and why people like him make me so angry#but instead i made this meme to cope#the way he laughs while asking the questions as well because he knows full well he shouldn't be asking stupid shit like that#luckily bojan is super good at answering even the invasive and provocative questions but he shouldn't have to be#joker out#bojan cvjetićanin
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Ok so Time’s like
Which seems really crazy when he did ALL THIS
But friendly reminder this is the same person who did THIS
He strong
#run away dink#at first I was kind of like ??? seems pretty strong to me that’s a lot of wood#but then I remembered that scene#he freaking stabbed a hole in fucking CONCRETE#I like how dink looked so scared when he literally was coming at him enough to STAB A HOLE IN THE WALL#also how time knows his power well enough to identify what his full strength is and know when that’s not it?#he just needs to herd some goats and he’ll be fine#sorry for doing an essay in the tags#one of my favourite comics updated last night so sleep became irrelevant#linked universe#linkeduniverse#lu update#linked universe update#Lu twilight#Loz#Lu time#Lu dink
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out here in the desert, your shadow lives on without you (otherwise known as grief, in five acts)
[ID: a digital drawing of the girl from a high angle —her head is tilted, eyes tearing up angrily. large, shadow-like figures of the fabulous four stretch out behind her, each of them faceless and pictured in the position of their death. party poison’s chin is tilted upwards, jet star is outstretched, limbs askew, fun ghoul raises his arm, aiming their ray gun, and kobra kid falls backward, arm limply falling to his side and head turned away./end ID]
inspired by @graffitibible / @omegalomania’s incredible fic i’m not a messiah (just a mess)
#danger days#the girl#party poison#jet star#fun ghoul#kobra kid#ttlotfk#killjoys#my art#listen. to anyone reading the tags. if u havent read pray for disaster yet (the full fic series)#you are not living ur life to the fullest. PLEASE READ IT#im not about to write a whole essay in the tags but. oh my god#anyways i read it last summer and i havent stopped thinking abt it since#to ao3 author omegalomania: what the actual fuck. holy shit#u understand danger days like no one else im going to lose my mind
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Business meeting
#pizza tower#pizzahead#my beloved#saltsart#this is based on my entire mood today all I wanted to do today was go home and play and have fun but I had to write essays and make appoint#let a man be whimsical and full of joy#he would play with toys still I think#doesn’t want to deal with his responsibilities just wants to go play#he’s just like me fr
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