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asexual, aromantic, German, she/her, multifandom, feminist; Dusana on AO3

[dusana-thewitch]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In which Percy Jackson is a firefighter and joins station 118 in Los Angeles.

A Riodanverse X 911 abc crossover.

I commissioned art for this fic, which turned out absolutely amazing and was done by @spectralcastle

[dusana-thewitch]

I've finished this fic. 🎉🥳🎇

With over 110k words it's the longest fic I've written to date. More to come down the line - I'm playing on writing another story in this world where the 118-crew finds out about Percy's powers - but for now, I'm giving this world a bit of a rest.

[charlesoberonn]

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[ao3commentoftheday]

Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read. 

Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people. 

Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!

[zoanzon]

[ao3commentoftheday]

The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.

[leadoodles]

I can’t believe that tumblr user ao3commentoftheday is telling KIDS to go out knocking on doors asking for the devil! /s

[ao3commentoftheday]

but only *after* they piss on the poor! /s

[decadentqueentidalwave]

If you see a Service Animal in public, ignore it!

Their handler has been asked about this 20 times already. They’re tired.

Their handler has already been yelled at for being “mean,” and not letting people pet it.

You cooing over it or petting it will distract it from helping its handler. Especially if the animal needs to constantly be on the alert for seizures or something.

It’s doing a job. Imagine if someone bothered you in your workplace just because they thought you were cute.

The animal does not exist to amuse you. Leave it alone.

Seriously. Go to a pet store or a shelter and ask to play with those animals. Bug your friends. Watch cute videos. Anything else.

[radishgirlsenpai]

And teach your kids about this!!

[shnowyfox]

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

[galacticsabc]

"Detailed Logs"... sure Grace, sure.

[inkcapcreature]

Made a little comic about my eridian Oc :-]

[gaykomaegi]

absolutely love this shot where rose is watching her home planet die off after five billion years and the doctor is just slaying off in the corner

[crystal-mouse]

Same image

[bushoutforbela]

Is this anything

[ivystorm1]

"Are you head over heels" Yeah that's how standing works

[rowark]

(X)

[goomymegpoid]

I wish this feeling upon everyone who wants to wear a dress, its really the best

[ghostlynblm]

this makes me so happy as a fat hairy guy who likes skirts and dresses i never get to see guys like me in dresses it’s always skinny twinks this makes me so happy 🥺🥺

[enki2]

[shiftycryptid]

[imamagicmuffin]

[mouth-less]

[hylianengineer]

I haven't seen Project Hail Mary yet but I am now reading the book and oh my God, does Andy Weir ever understand scientists. I'm at the point where Grace just figured out that he is one despite not knowing his own name, and everything about his thought process right now screams scientist.

He's puzzling out his own identity via trial and error. He's very, very observant and using every little thing as a clue. He thinks in miles, the tape measure is metric. He took the time to figure out stopwatch controls before an experiment, in the midst of an identity crisis. He knows how to improvise an experiment from really basic supplies.

As Mark Watney would say, he's sciencing the shit out of this. But Grace wouldn't say that because he has like the polar opposite of Watney's swear word vocabulary.

[hylianengineer]

Also the way he just trusts the data and runs with it. He doesn't go "acceleration due to gravity can't be fifteen meters per second, that's impossible," he goes "that can't be true on Earth so I'm not on Earth."

[hylianengineer]

Or it could be a centrifuge. He proceeds to spend half an hour proving it's supremely unlikely to be a centrifuge. Yeah, this man has the scientific method baked into his head.

[headspace-hotel]

Ohhhhhh it's the dude who wrote The Martian. I thought so but hadn't confirmed.

Yes!!! I've never even read The Martian but every time I saw stuff about it I was like "wow that is EXACTLY what my best friend (aerospace engineering degree) thinks like"

[the-haiku-bot]

Ohhhhhh it’s the dude who

wrote The Martian. I thought so

but hadn’t confirmed.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

[foxgloves-garden]

Our kid used the "milk" sign for any and every liquid, including Lake Huron. We went to Mackinac when they were a toddler, they looked over the edge of the ferry and got so hyped up yelling "wa-juice! Wa-juice!" (Everything was either water or juice at this point in their life) and signing about it. Didn't know what to make of the waves.

[sockdrawerdemon]

My friend's baby also learned some simplified baby AUSLAN and he would sign GIVE at whatever he wanted. Your lunch. Passing birds. The book he just handed you. Just at you, when he wanted attention. The time he demanded *the wind* was perplexing.

[elliefint]

I used to have a baby in my class who, any time we had a car go by the classroom window, would watch it go by and then look at me expectantly and start signing "more? more? more?" and pointing at the window. It was adorable, and sweet that he thought I was that powerful, but unfortunately I couldn't make more cars go by for him.

[your-baba-yaga]

Why does no one talk about the fact that babies can communicate way earlier than when their mouth is developed enough to speak? I didn't even know this was possible! This sounds like accessing a consciousness before the release date. Listening to the thoughts of a brain that's not done cooking yet. Now you can watch how a human brain interprets the environment even earlier in its life, through the eyes of even more underdeveloped senses. Fascinating.

[zyzscribbles]

Important question

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Okay but I think these two are onto something

[verbrannt74]

Test subject

(no bird was harmed)

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Somewhat disturbed at how fast this post started picking up notes.

[bisexualshakespeare]

don’t set out food if you don’t want us to eat

[wonderwomemes]

i love that i can’t write the word fuck on facebook without risking getting zucced and here I’m greeted everyday by posts like this

[cgaratenby-deactivated20220830]

my only problem with this is that this sounds less like a larp and more like the actual Wild Hunt

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Quality larps are as realistic as is practical.

[wastrelwoods]

been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information

[brawltogethernow]

They missed. 😔