can we go back to secret life gempearl

candle ✧ she/they/it ✧ adult ✧ digital artist and occasionally writer ✧ currently obsessed with those little block vampire freaks ✧

[candlelitcanvas]

Candle (she/they/it) We should go back to secret life gempearl and also vsmp shubbledrift. I post shippy stuff, evil things, analysis, crit, etc. So if you don’t like any of these things, block and move on pls <3

✧ INCOSISTENT TAGGER but here are my tags anyways ✧

#candlesaysthings - thoughts, rants, answers to asks, etc.

#candledrawsthings - My art pieces, doodles, WIPs

#candleflickers - any sort of post thats crit, neg, weird, or just Kind Of Evil

#candleflames - my longer analysis posts

[not all of my posts are tagged properly with these yet. I’m gonna try and comb through them soon! Also i’m working on character tags. Also coming soon]

[lorefulgood]

male translators adding misogynistic overtones to helen’s dialogue that weren’t present in the homeric original is kinda like the fh happily ever after, in a way

[lorefulgood]

bear with me; this is still about minecraft youtube. it’s about the misogyny inherent in translating a word that means dog as bitch only when it’s applied to a woman. it’s about male translators making helen call herself a whore when in the original text she called herself an ill omen. it’s about selective editing, at the core of it; redubbing and rewriting helen’s description of herself into how men think she should describe herself: slut, whore, bitch. it’s about dogs :) and about how no one has ever seen helen as helen, they only see her as an image, a symbol, an object, a possession. she’s trapped in her own narrative. she’s a harbinger of doom. she’s not even allowed, in translation, to keep her own words. in 3L ep 1 scott tells jimmy use your words and then edits out specifically that line. in 3L ep 4 jimmy says I look like the villain, but I wasn’t and scott edits out specifically but I wasn’t. jimmy didn’t get a say in whether he was going to be part of scott’s happily ever after, because you only get to see that happily ever after from scott’s perspective. he wanted jimmy there and so jimmy was there. twice now has helen’s eidolon been brought to troy.

a note: helen does have a misogynistic view of herself and her role in the narrative—all characters in the iliad view helen through the lens of both cultural and personal misogyny—but the specific word choices made by male translators often superimpose modern misogynistic language atop the original layer present in the text. one such instance is when helen, speaking to hector, refers to herself as ἐμεῖο κυνὸς κακομηχάνου ὀκρυοέσσης (6.344). literally translated, that’s I | dog | harmful | horrible. most male translators over the years have interpreted dog as bitch, e.g. “bitch that I am, vicious, scheming— / horror to freeze the heart!” (robert fagles, 1990); “I’m a horrible, conniving bitch” (ian johnston, 2000); “I am a bitch and a cold-hearted mischief-maker” (anthony verity, 2011); “I’m a bitch, a horrible mischief-maker!” (peter green, 2015). when the same word is used elsewhere to describe men or actual dogs it is usually not translated as bitch.

a further note: to be clear, I’m comparing the dehumanisation inherent in stripping a woman of her own words when translating her dialogue to the dehumanisation jimmy experienced by being stripped of his autonomy in third life. I’m not saying the way jimmy was treated was misogynistic, although most hierarchical systems of dehumanisation are structured similarly, so there will of course be parallels. really the reason I’m comparing jimmy to helen is because they’re both hot and everyone wants them.

[televenus]

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[candlelitcanvas]

IM FINALLY FREE

[tpwrtrmnky]

There's straight up no such thing as an apolitical fandom space btw, there are participants in fandom who are privileged enough to not notice the politics, and there are people who, if they speak up about bad experiences in fandom, are Making It Political.

[errorryx]

THE UNPROCESSED CHILDHOOD TRAUMA SISTERS

[exitwound]

mutuals

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

Which is prev?

Unmarried girl

Apologist

Craftsman who works with a wheel

Archivist

Dying person

Educator

Girl

Jurist

Knife sharpener

Lawyer

Librarian

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

[hydrocities-left]

If you don’t like rice then idk man get well soon I guess

[hydrocities-left]

all the bitches in the notes saying that rice sucks need to remember that rice backwards is ecir which means absolutely nothing. just like their opinion

[tomorrowillbeyou]

i keep seeing drawings of that project hail mary dude and thinking it's either jimmy solidarity or anthony green and they're at like 2 ends of a sliding scale of Something

[tomorrowillbeyou]

My mysterious sliding scale of some bullshit

[adhd-vibes]

i need to change my whole life in one day. watch out world. i'm about to rearrange my furniture and cut my hair and develop new yet fully formed healthy habits all in the span of 24 glorious hours. i will also be buying groceries.

[candlelitcanvas]

The Ancient Greeks were sooo gay yaoi and honestly, being a demigod is such a metaphor for queerness when you think about it

[normcdf]

(-> not on topic) aromanticism is less of an orientation to me and more of a political stance... i mean it's an orientation also... but like. gestures and gestures and gestures what is the difference between platonic and romantic love!!! social construct. noted similarities between polyamory and aromaticism... i think it's important to understand. that like. that's not a sexual orientation. it's something different... it's a way of understanding social connection between humans? which is of course partially based in innate feeling but also learned stuff. about how connection works in a given culture. and ALSO i do think that everyone needs to get comfortable with no clear lines between the platonic and romantic and also i think we need to abolish marriage and also that cheating isn't real and i think... that if you think these ways regardless of the feelings towards social dynamics you have "innately"... that kind of makes you like. aro/poly in ideology. i don't think those are orientations in the same way gay/bi/ace are i think those are decisions that everyone actually needs to be making

[2l2w]

fool me once, kill yourself. fool me twice, kill myself. fool me thrice kill scott smajor. or something like that

[sunshinerotting]

ever since i was a child ive had a headache

[pillowspace]

Learning that being 19 is a very weird age to be, socially. I am in quite possibly the most specific age group that none of my neighbours are in

[pillowspace]

Young enough that my neighbours call me a kid, old enough that my older neighbour texts me to hang out. Young enough to be invited to a neighbour’s upstairs to play with the kids, old enough to unsurely decline because I didn’t feel that was my space to be in. Young enough to stumble through the grass looking like I’m 12, old enough to know that I’m a vastly different person from when I was 12. I’ve decided that this is an unpleasant age to be

[pillowspace]

People under this post being like “I can’t wait to turn 20.” I am NOT gonna stop being 19 when I’m 20, it’s gonna still be there

[thriplerex-trx]

the queens

[fabledfeathers]

calamity trio 😇😇😇