it's funny that we were all so worried about viktor's villain arc and then jayce was like L + ratio + here's my unconditional love and forgiveness + i always thought your imperfections were beautiful + nothing about you is broken to me + in every universe i will find you and save you from your loneliness + none of this is worth it if you arent by my side. and viktor folded IMMEDIATELY
Pienso en el budín de pan que me trajo mí amiga: está dulce, tal vez demasiado dulce, esta vez tiene demasiada leche y poca consistencia pero está hecho con amor; aunque mí amiga siga sin entender muy bien cómo se hace un budín de pan. Pobre budín, no te censuro, noble budín de pan, aunque vayas a pasar como víctima de mí rotación mental.
Por supuesto que no le voy a decir esto a mí amiga.
Pero un poco pienso que algo así nos está pasando, en un sentido menos literal; a nivel generacional. Pensamos sin experiencia, sin instrucciones y nos desbalanceamos los sabores del intelecto. Pienso: quiero pensar con bagaje, improvisando recetas con el conocimiento subyacente de un balance que no veo que se incentive activamente.
He escuchado a buenos pensadores, pensadores inspirados, que me emocionan y fascinan. Pienso en mí generación, en nuestros incentivos, nuestra cultura inmediata e ignorante, olvidadiza, distraída, ansiosa y deprimida. Pienso en la desesperanza y en la apatía, en el individualismo exasperante, en la prédica del no-le-debo-nada-a-nadie. Pienso en la gracia de hablar sin saber y más o menos pegarle, como una eterna conversación de sobremesa un domingo en la casa de una tía vieja e indistinta de cualquier otra tía vieja que escucha la radio todo el día. Pienso que esta sobremesa se extiende, ineludible, a la televisión, la radio, las redes y casi todas las conversaciones. No pienso en los nichos, pienso en la conversación que nos supera a nosotros, snobs de manual, intelectualoides baratos y caros. Pienso en las discusiones que no estamos teniendo entre todos, no solo entre nuestro nosotros de nicho, entre todos-todos.
Pienso en todas las personas que no saben cocinar.
En realidad, pienso en Beatriz Sarlo que se murió hoy.
viktor arcane has to be one of the characters ever.
he's gay. he's terminally ill. he's suicidal. he's from league of legends. he's in a toxic relationship with an orb. he also might be the orb(???). he bullshitted his way into the academy by pretending he went there. he rizzed up a guy so he wouldn't kill himself. he then tried to impress said guy by breaking into his boss's lab. then when he got caught he tried to play it off by saying he thought this big intimidating door was his bedroom door and he was just trying to sneak a guy in there. he nearly died because hetero sex was happening like a mile away. kinda. he took illegal drugs. he's also the apprentice of the guy who's making the illegal drugs and never mentions it. he's inspired off of the tale of frankenstein's monster. he got shot by a missle and fucking died. when he came back to life he immediately broke up his messy gay situationship and became jesus fucking christ.
swifties keep saying taylor swift "is the music industry" and I just can't comprehend the mind of someone who thinks that's a compliment.
like, yes, you're right. she is the face of and leading innovator in draining music fans for every last penny you can get and encouraging parasocial behavior. congratulations, you're a devotee to the goddess of capitalism.
The year is 2042. Your daughter is awkwardly silent as she eats her dinner. “Something wrong sweetie?” She sighs and puts down her fork. “I was digging really deep in AO3 last night…Why didn’t you finish that coffee shop au?” It happened. Your past has come back to haunt you. Nay, it never truly left.
OKAY BUT WAIT. This has happened to me. Recently. Because I am old and I have things out there from previous fandoms with previous pseuds and one day my teenager begins a rant at me about people never finishing any WIPs on the pit of voles (which he does not call the pit of voles because he has No Knowledge of such a thing but yet he still reads on which I didn’t think anyone did any longer) and he points out an example to me of something I WROTE AND LEFT WIPing for ages and he has NO IDEA #1 that his mom wrote this and #2 How much it still haunts me to this day that it will. sit. there. for. eternity. because I am too lazy to pull it down.
This is a personal rant about how I, as a Greek and mythology lover, view these modern retellings and how they came out more as a disappointment.
Here are some examples of forced labelling from the book sites like Bookreads:
Do you see a pattern? Is not only they are telling the audience rather than showing how "feminist" are these retellings but also..
Man vs woman
According to the retellings all ancient Greek men are bad, sexist, misogynists, worthless, abusers and women are girlboss ✨. But it's obvious that humans regardless of gender are complex beings.
But when you read the Original epics you realise that women have as much importance in the story as men. But not in the way you are used to...
The women aren't afraid to speak their mind, they have agency, they are a driving force the admire, but it's not with shields, armor or physical strength. They are also showing it with kindness, empathy, cunning but also with anger, sorrow, vengeance.
Penelope, Electra, Antigone, Ariadne, Andromache, Helen, Cassandra etc. ARE strong women! They don't have to go to battle to prove it!
BUT that also doesn't mean we should glorify the women who are abusers and do wrong things!
Clytemnestra for example, exiled Orestes, had her daughter Electra a slave, showed proudly her Trojan women (also slaves) and killed Cassandra an innocent woman.. Do i understand how and why she acted? Yes 💯. Does this justifies her actions ? Of course no.
Medea, killed her brother and her children, and also poisoned Jason's next wife and her father because "she wanted to make him suffer like her". Do i understand why she did it? Yes. Does it justify to have everyone suffer because of one man? No.
Hera, punished several women and men alike because she couldn't do it on Zeus (because he is the king and stronger). Is cheating bad? Yes. Does it justify her to punish someone who was obviously a victim or was powerless against a god? No.
The retellings:
fail to do complex characters.
fail to let the audience come to their own conclusions who's right, wrong or neutral.
They fail to make daring characters without be labelled on a modern stereotype.
Fail to understand the norms of ancient Greece and how they shaped these stories.
Fail to realise that men and women are more complex than modern stereotypes.
I am not against retellings but do better! Making a great retelling respectful to the source and having complex characters with quality reading would be deeply appreciated.
And to the readers to not rely on retellings as "faithful resources".
god “your counsel is dead”, no jayce or viktor or mel in the trailer, enforcer vi, “neutralize any agents still loyal to silco”, vi having claggors goggles, sevikas new arm, “finally got the name right”, vi and jinx fight, END MY LIFEEEEEEEE
the fact that the vi vs jinx fight was foretold from the beginning. the fact that the opening credits ends with their fight immortalized in stone, so that every episode you watch is a reminder of the immutable truth of it. the fact that every moment is building to this, that the show will culminate in this. this was always going to happen, they told us this from the beginning, and nothing anyone could do will ever change that.
“What will I be if I don’t graduate/don’t get a promotion/don’t get my shit together/don’t make this relationship work?” You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits
achilles: Hateful as Hades' Gate, to me, is the man who thinks one thing and says another. So here is my decision. Neither Agamemnon nor any other Greek will change my mind, for it seems there is no gratitude for ceaseless battle with our enemies. He who fights his best and he who stays away earn the same rewar-
odysseus: the ragerrrrrr
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