wildly bad but still pretty good

[sanguine-humor]

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

[sanguine-humor]

he keeps me sane

[sanguine-humor]

btw, idk if this will be seen by any of the countless people who already have seen and reblogged this post, but heres the original guide posted on how to make the chibi-rocky! the OP also has a separate guide for a more accurate rocky, though obviously less simple of a guide than the little thingy shown off

(im surprised this post gained any attention, haha, if i had known i would have just shared the guides, the more handmade pebbles in the world the better)

[puyopuyo]

things in this world that kick ass

1.

[duskdragonxiii]

Why is pet play always dogs anyway

[duskdragonxiii]

Youre a dirty little goldfish arent you. daddys gonna clean your tank out so good so you have to wait in the sink until im done.

[quasarkisses]

Apparently because you have no idea how to care for anything but a dog

[duskdragonxiii]

Daddy is not known for his animal husbandry

[deliciousghosts-final]

how did anyone accomplish tasks before the invention of power metal

[elexuscal]

you might think the worst type of adaptation that can happen to a fandom is a bad one. but in truth, i find that's rarely the case. usually the world at large doesn't pay attention, the fandom unites around the piece's badness, and otherwise continues along as usual. hell, if the adaptation is so-bad-it's-good then it really can evolve into quite a nice treat, once the sting has worn off.

no, what you actually gotta look out for is the mediocre adaptations. the pretty but soulless adaptations. the technically-competent-but-misses-the-point adaptations. because there will be enough folks who think that the new Adaptation is Good, Actually, and no matter how politely you word your disagreement, they will resent you for saying as much.

[pjackk]

The crazy part about pain is that it actually hurts alot

[princessdraconic]

actually ive changed my mind. even the slightest attempts to communicate render you vulnerable to harm so we should all die alone in the dark

[an-ruraiocht]

which of these classical texts have you read?

the iliad, the odyssey, and the aeneid

the iliad and the odyssey, not the aeneid

the iliad only

the odyssey only

the aeneid only

the aeneid and the iliad, not the odyssey

the aeneid and the odyssey, not the iliad

I have read none of these

Remaining time: 1 day 7 hours

"what if I've read part of it" if it's a large enough part that you would consider yourself to Have Read It in general contexts, then it counts. if it's not, then it doesn't. only you can be the judge of that, but I'm not giving you a nuance button.

any translations count, but abridged retellings don't

obviously, there are lots of other classical texts out there. you might have read none of these and be an expert on greek tragedy. I'm not judging your classical knowledge so you don't need to tell me all that. I'm just curious about combos of these specific texts and their popularity, bc a post i just saw got me thinking about it

[an-ruraiocht]

#i want to hear from the 1.7% who have read the illiad and the aenied but not the odyssey #<- SAME #you read everything EXCEPT the most iconic story?? #how?? why?? (via @shrinkthisviolet and prev @bobakick)

hi it's me op that's my combo!

firstly, i don't think i've ever particularly thought of the odyssey as more iconic than the iliad, so that's the exact kind of cultural attitude towards the texts that prompted me to make this poll; it seemed from conversations that @postarcadian was having in the notes of related posts that in north america at least, it's very dominant, but i wanted to see how widespread this was. i think this particular dominance or preference is not global. in england, for example, you wouldn't read the odyssey in school unless a) your school offered classical civilisation as an elective subject (already a minority of schools) and b) opted to do the odyssey-specific module (only one of lots of modules). if they don't do class civ, you probably wouldn't read any ancient texts in school!

my school did class civ but not the odyssey module, so it never came up, which brings me onto:

this is the module for which i read the aeneid and the iliad when i was 17 and in secondary school. we read the whole thing although the commentary passages were from selected books. the odyssey was not relevant to this module and we did not have time to read it unnecessarily. but you can see based on the themes and focus of the modules why the aeneid-iliad combo would be chosen!

(sidenote to the person in the notes who said they think you need graduate level study to understand the cultural context and references in the aeneid... i don't think you do? they're teaching this to 17-year-olds reading in translation with no latin background? i mean, obviously if you do it at a graduate level you're going to understand it more and in greater depth and get more nuance and whatever. but it's not Impossible To Comprehend The Aeneid And Its Themes as a layperson. can attest that 17-year-old me managed it well enough)

now obviously i'm 30 now so there's been loads of time to read the odyssey since then for funsies. and i've had it in my house since 2018. and i've started it multiple times. and i just can't get through it tbh. one day i'll get there maybe. but as a medievalist the latin texts were always a lot more relevant (medieval authors primarily had access to the classical world via latin) and i work on heroic literature of a very particular sort so i've ended up more in the aeneid - statius - latin histories end of things insofar as i look at anything classical (which isn't very much)

i have however read Merugud Uilix which is the medieval irish version of the odyssey and which is completely bonkers and absurd and absolutely nothing like the actual Odyssey

and finally there's an extent to which when something is very culturally well-known you just kinda take it in via osmosis and then it feels less compelling to read the original. like i read a bunch of retellings as a small child i think? and things like Ithaka by Adele Geras. and that filled the niche. that was enough odyssey for me. wasn't really fussed. maybe one day i'll get through the rest of the real thing though.

[penny-anna]

just reblogging this again with some additional context:

as far as the Ancient Greeks were concerned, the Iliad was THE epic poem. the story of the Trojan War was The foundational myth cycle and the Iliad was The Trojan War poem. it was & tbh is generally considered to be the superior of the two. if I HAD to say which one is more 'iconic' I would point to the Iliad.

I think it's fair to say, the reason the Odyssey has become so widely studied at school level is because it is, to be blunt, 'easier'. it is structurally much more like a modern novel, it has a relatable protagonist in Odysseus, it's got a bunch of fantasy adventures in it, many of which are straightforward stories w clear and easy to understand metaphors and/or morals.

the Iliad in contrast is, if you like, a 'true' epic poem? it doesn't really have a conventional A->B->C plot and a lot of it is 'guys you've never heard of killing other guys you've never heard of'. I would say it is significantly more esoteric. Speaking from personal experience: i read both as a teenager and had a massively easier time with the Odyssey.

in terms of the emotional impact of them as works, obviously YMMV but to me, the Odyssey is a fun romp and the Iliad is like getting hit by a truck.

anyway in short, I don't think it's accurate to say the Odyssey is 'more iconic'. I think it's just a very popular choice for USAmerican school curricula.

[limitedmedicine]

【Rippi/リッピ】

fuzzy bugs series

w140×h130xd90mm

@shiba0607

[largishcat]

you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence

[spiritcornelia]

If you're cold, they're cold; let vampires into your home.

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm “Smell of Chamaenerion angustifolium”. 2024

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly think the Carl betrayal hits harder in some ways because like… Stratt was never fully Grace’s friend.

He was certainly closer to her than most people got to be, and he clearly made an effort to reach out to her as a human being, but they didn’t exactly hang out.

Stratt was Grace’s boss. She made an effort to support him and believed in him when others didn’t, but it was a workplace relationship.

Carl and Grace were actual friends. Like you can debate how close they were (since Carl doesn’t get too much screen time) but they indisputably enjoy hanging out together in the scenes they share.

Carl and Grace muck about together, mirror watch other’s body language and act much more like peers than Grace and Stratt ever do (because, again, she’s his boss).

Carl is professional and very much Here To Do A Job, but he’s having fun with it.

And like, how often do we think he gets to have fun at work? Dude’s job is kidnapping scientists to help avert the apocalypse. He’s probably CIA or something. Carl has likely seen and done Some Shit.

But hey, sometimes you get to take a breather. Sometimes you get a cushy job goofing off with a middle school science teacher and you get to do a bizarre craft project and justify putting candy on your expense account.

Oh, what’s that? The fate of the world now rests on killing the fun science teacher? While he screams and begs for his life?

Okay then.

Like I keep thinking about how Carl ended up by the fence. When Stratt picks up her phone and says “yep he’s running”— wouldn’t it make sense for the person on the other end to be Carl? One of her main security guys? Also someone Grace explicitly trusts?

And now he has to watch the guy fall and listen to him beg for his life while knowing that he can’t help him. The stakes are too high, it’s the whole world vs one man.

But also the guy just wants to go back to teaching kids, something he would be doing right now if Carl hadn’t encouraged him to take those dots.

Stratt is furious with Grace for his cowardice, and honestly I think with herself for allowing this catastrophe to happen. Like maybe if she’d put in more failsafes when designing the trolley, she wouldn’t now be stuck holding the lever.

Her last words to Grace are meant to hurt.

Carl, on the other hand, does try to give him some comfort. He can’t save his life, can’t spare him from the horror he’s about to go through, but why not let the last words he hears on Earth be something kind?

“You know who you are. You’re gonna do great.”

Let him go out knowing someone believes in him, even when he so wholeheartedly doesn’t believe in himself.

[deliciousghosts-final]

in the last few therapy sessions, I have been given (verbal) gold stars, so it turns out that it is possible to achieve

[catasters]

[year9000ovvvhellfireandratbites]

why people on the internetdo a shouting? small letter, small voice, small baby bird. thank u

[cosmicam-amor-deactivated201410]

What?

[year9000ovvvhellfireandratbites]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[seren-starlight]

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin