Yorick, the Shepard of Lost Souls

Greetings to an Island once blessed by greatness; now just a shadow of its former self. I am its Shepard and, hopefully, its liberator M!A-Status: -None-

[quietwingsinthesky]

why so many "feminist" retellings of the persephone & hades myth and yet none where persephone kidnaps him instead. do we not believe in women's wrongs.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“how would that even work” easy. she’s spring, she’s renewal, she’s the flowers that grow out of gravedirt. she knows what death is, and she hungers for how it feeds her. innocently, in her way. not innocent of desire; that’s nature taking its course. innocent to the upset it causes, if she extends her reach. she inherits a very powerful mantle, mother to daughter.

so if she should lay a trap and lure the king of the underworld out of his realm and into hers? it might take a while to notice he’s gone. she has the world’s worth of beautiful sights and smells and sensations to dazzle a god whose subjects are dampened souls and cold metal. who could bring themselves to mind the dead when a goddess is brushing rich petals against your cheeks? when she’s as warm as the sunlight you rarely rise to see? when she appreciates you so much more than anyone else has ever feared you, and twines herself around you like a strangler fig?

and her mother loves her, of course, so she gets whatever she wants. if her daughter wants to throw the world into disarray for her satisfaction, that’s a fair trade to hear her singing with delight about her dear husband. you shouldn’t eat the food of the dead, but you shouldn’t let a god who has had corpse rot on his tongue for most of his existence taste the sweet spoils of the living, either. he won’t know how to give it up. (and if that wasn’t enough, there’s other fruits of temptation to offer him—a secret tasting amidst her body’s valleys, where the lush reeds part and the soil is ever fertile. really, even it he wanted to say no, do you really think he could?)

eternal spring is it’s own horror. not at first. it’s paradise in the beginning, but when the sun never stops shining and the birds get too tired to sing, then it starts to sink in. she’ll keep him forever, if she can. her mother will help her freeze time beautifully.

it’ll take more than a messenger to make her relinquish him. she’s reckless eternal youth, and worse still, she’s in love. that’s where winter comes from. if she can only have him for half of the year, then she’ll make her kingdom like his own until he’s returned to her. she will remove herself from the world, and let it suffer from her absence as she suffers from his.

[quietwingsinthesky]

and like if i wasn’t clear enough here, there is some sex pollen shit going on here so that she can fuck him whether he likes it or not. that part of the myth also gets to stay <3 for her <3

[b1rd1e]

tmi doesn't exist to me. I love information

[b1rd1e]

This is what TMI means to me

[carsonjonesfiance]

“You can’t vote out Capitalism” yeah but you can vote for Elizabeth Warren and her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau you can vote for not abolishing food stamp. You can vote for Biden’s millions of dollars in federal loan forgiveness. You can vote for Medicaid expansion to help those at the bottom rungs. You can vote for racial, gender, and sexuality protections in the workplace. You can vote for a million things that improve our life under Capitalism and saying “voting doesn’t change anything” only shows how much privilege you must have that you wouldn’t notice the difference.

[transchaoswizard]

"You can vote for Biden's millions of dollars in federal loan forgiveness" We did that though, and he proceeded to quite immediately and explicitly Not make it happen.

[carsonjonesfiance]

He forgave $188.8 Billion USD in federal student loans. I’m sorry you weren’t one of the borrowers who qualified, but he forgave billions with a B

[carsonjonesfiance]

5.3 million borrowers had their loans forgiven and while, yes, that’s only a drop in the bucket, that’s still a 5.3 million Americans who had a financial burden taken off their back and acting like that didn’t happen when these numbers are a Google search away can only be explained by ignorance or malice.

[emptydragonseverywhere]

Also, acting like it was Biden and not the GOP who blocked further student loan forgiveness can also only be explained by ignorance or malice. Biden fought his entire presidency to expand loan forgiveness and Republicans in every branch and every level of government fought back at every opportunity. Biden was unable to expand loan forgiveness because Trump got to stack the Supreme Court in his first term (after the GOP's senate majority took the unprecedented step to refuse to confirm Obama's justice pick in his last year as president) and bc folks didn't show up to vote blue in the midterms in 2022, giving Republicans the majority in the House and thus the ability to block Biden's policies.

It wasn't Biden's fault that he had his student loan forgiveness plans blocked. It was the fault of every Republican and, truly, every American who could have voted blue down-ballot in every election they were eligible to vote in since 2012 and chose not to. If you aren't voting for dems in congressional and gubanatorial elections then you can't blame the dems when they don't have the power to implement the leftist policies you want to see. That's on you.

[zigdirty]

As someone who did benefit from the student loan forgiveness (on loans that my mother's second husband fraudulently took out using my information, no less), it absolutely provided immense relief. And I ONLY had less than $5k left to be paid back (although I never even received a dime of the loans.)

Reagan put the US on a path to destruction and every time anyone that isn't a far-right lunatic tries to course-correct, the conservative dark money made sure they never succeeded.

Every nationally beneficial piece of legislation in the last fifty years was from the left. Saying otherwise is sheer ignorance.

[callmearcturus]

And as someone who would have qualified for 10K of forgiveness only for the GOP to launch a dozen legal challenges: I hold all of you "lol the dems are useless" people personally responsible.

I think we've turned incrementalism into some great evil that must be destroyed because passing imperfect solutions isn't as sexy and fun as total reform. And I'm sick to my teeth about it.

Obamacare, the ACA, is an imperfect solution. It was not a universal option, and allowing the individual states to choose whether to take federal subsidies that were set aside for them regardless to expand Medicare created an enormous ironic hell. In red states, which refused the subsidies obvsly, you could be too poor for ACA coverage. I know because I lived in three such states. After Obamacare passed, I still was without insurance for years because I was too poor to be covered.

That, all of that? Is about as imperfect and fucked as a "solution" can be.

But then Obamacare literally saved my life. I would be dead without it. A few years ago, in Florida, I made barely enough money to qualify for ACA coverage. And then something went extremely wrong with my esophagus, and I had to get a magnetic ring surgically inserted around my throat or, y'all, I would have been dead in another month.

I'm sitting here alive because imperfect solutions. And when virtue-signaling cowards talk about how the Dems and GOP are the same, I want to scream, "The GOP would have let me fucking die! They have let so many others die! What the fuck is WRONG with you?"

You, all of you, are surrounded by people who are only here because imperfect Democratic solutions. And I think it's hideously disrespectful to the people who aren't here, who didn't survive, who didn't get the SNAP benefits they needed or didn't get the insurance they needed or didn't get the housing subsidy they needed, to pretend otherwise.

If that's you, if you have ever sat there and gone "the dems do nothing, I'm not going to bother voting," I want you to understand you were incorrect. And then I want you to do better.

[sonofshin]

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[keerieyuu]

[higyo]

An oldie but goodie sketch with a new brush. Yorick’s a cat lover, and the sheep is always up for some cuddles. 🐑💜 A cat café, you say? I’d totally drop by! Although there was supposed to be a wolf too, but… maybe not today.

[korsalis]

Isolde?

No... My Maiden

[phalanxus]

Make sure you're ready for the inevitable question with you undead friends

[bunnithy]

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[adventastic]

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[phalanxus]

Yorick meets Braum in Top lane

[phalanxus]

"This mist has become skin."

[hjartasalt]

I'm so tired of the way suspicious meat is always human meat like for once I just want to be surprised. Let it be something else I'm so tired of it being human meat

[hjartasalt]

Look I love horror I'm a big fan of it but guys. It's been overdone. At this point when I reach a point in a story where the meat starts being suspicious I roll my eyes because we all already know it's just some guy. Mystery meat could be so much more why won't we let it be more

Oh my steak is a guy? Yawn. Boring. That's every steak in horror.

Give me meat that just spawns randomly in your fridge. Meat that has no clear origin. Where is it from? We don't know. What kind of meat is it? No clue. It's mystery meat (non human (as far as we're aware of)). That's already a bit scarier if only thanks to not knowing how hygenic it is

Give me horror meat that isn't human bt has it's horror rooted in reality. Give me parasite pork that takes over your brain functions. Give me fucking prion disease at this point I'll take it. I'm so starved for mystery meat where the twist ISN'T that it's human c'mon people we can do better than this

[hjartasalt]

Give me meat that IS genetically human but can't be matched to anyone's DNA!!! Where the fuck is it from?? We don't know!! Scary!!!

[hjartasalt]

Oh people keep disappearing but hey at least the food is really good so that's something right? Womp womp you're eating a guy. Boring. Been there done that. Give me something new

[hjartasalt]

Give me a guy who works in a slaughterhouse who swears on his life he's killed the exact same cow every week for the past 6 months and every time it gets harder to pull the trigger as it looks him in the eyes like it knows him

[hjartasalt]

If your horror fully boils down to "there was a scary guy who killed and ate people" then I'm sorry but I'm bored. Add some dimension to it I believe in you

[hjartasalt]

Hi first of all I am in love with you

Second, I wonder if this disconnect between animals and their meat is also at least somewhat linguistically based? Cause I'm from a western country myself, but I would say that the general attitude towards recognising that your meat was once alive is much more relaxed here than in the US or UK for example and I've always wondered if it's at all related to them having separate words for animals vs their meat. Like pig and pork or cow and beef whereas in Icelandic a pig is a svín and pork is svínakjöt (pig meat). There is never quite the same level of disconnect because you can never not be aware of the fact that you're eating an animal

[hawke-archive]

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[pipo-doodles]

commissions what I got from Twitter, LOL

[phalanxus]

Repeat after Yorick: I am Kenough

[phalanxus]

"This land will never heal. But I will lay it to rest."

[aurelion-solar]

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