Snakes in various ancient Roman frescoes and mosaics.
Cosimo Galluzzi
YOU ARE THE REASON

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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DEAR READER
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Janaina Medeiros

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Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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Snakes in various ancient Roman frescoes and mosaics.
Karen Mulder @ Dolce & Gabbana 1995
joy and whimsy
smile, dog!
Malevolent Spirits
Summary: Sylvia has two problems. One is a ghost in her house. The other is her husband. (Tw: domestic abuse, violence)
Morgan is not a malevolent spirit.
Her visitors treat her like one. They crawl through her rotting house with cameras clasped in sweaty hands, hissing about evil and violence. They bring out objects of prayer to ward her off. Some of them try to trick her into speaking. Into acting. They spend hours recording the whispering of the wind through the cracks in the attic or the creaking of her home sinking into a century old foundation.
Morgan watches them from the slanted chandelier in the foyer and never says a word.
Truthfully, she doesn’t hate them. They’re alive and addicted to the strange cocktail of hormones the body produces when afraid. She can’t hate what is created by nature.
Perhaps that’s why she isn’t a malevolent spirit. She knows addiction and to be alive is to be an addict. Food, water, passion, lust, greed, love, fear. A complex array of cocktails all pumped directly into your receptive brain. The bad ghosts are jealous of it. Greedy for it. And Morgan simply…isn’t.
She has her routines. She stays well out of the way of the people who come to explore her abandoned and withering house. When those who need the shelter of her walls find themselves there late at night, she makes sure that the wind doesn’t blow the doors open, that they choose the rooms with the best windows, that the pests that have started to nest in the roofline don’t wander down.
On days she has no one, she stares out the window of the master bedroom - what used to be her bedroom - into the garden. Her neighbor’s houses shrink and expand, fall apart, get torn down, and then reemerge like new, brightly colored with gleaming windows, but her garden stays the same. The weeds bloom into late spring, pops of white false morning glory all along her wrought iron fence, and wither into long, thin stalks in the winter. The squirrels she once chastised for eating her tomatoes lay down to rest and their descendents descend on the new vegetable patches in the neighborhood.
Then, one day, a man in a white van pulls up. He cracks open the back door and pulls out a long orange banner. This he strings along her fence with precision, pinning it so that it lays flat. He examines his work, nods, pulls out his phone to snap a picture, and then he’s on his way.
When Morgan goes to investigate, she finds the words UNDER DEVELOPMENT emblazoned on the banner.
Thoughtfully, she returns to her window.
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The imperial army attacks your village, on a dark moonless night, the time when you, the strongest Solar Mage, would be powerless. However, you are a Star Mage actually.
It is a clever strategy to move at night when your soldiers have quiet feet and you have the foresight to stain their armor black with ash. However, the Emperor has a noted distaste for cleverness that comes from outside his own head and he insists on leading the imperial army himself that night. As a result, the only cleverness to be found comes in the form of one hundred men managing to find the one path through the woods to their remote village that allows them to march two by two rather than single file.
An emergency meeting is called close to 2am, summoning the adults and elders to the community hall. Unlike the soldiers, they do not shine under the full moon and their thin, leather shoes make no sounds as they sneak from home to meeting.
The windows are shuttered and only a small magelight in the chief’s hand lights the two dozen townsfolk. It casts a blue glow across anxious and fearful faces. The light hits right under the chief’s chin and brings to mind the face of a grim reaper as it throws curling shadows under his eyes.
“The only option is to evacuate,” the chief says. Behind him stands his own mother, the chief before him. She nods along with his words. “We know the mountains better than them. We can take the North passage.”
“The North passage is already slick with ice,” a villager says. They speak in the same hushed whisper as the chief. “The children and the elderly won’t make it.”
“We can hide them in caves along the way,” a man says. He’s clutching his hatchet as if its his lifeline. He looks anxiously in the direction of the woods as if he can see the army drawing closer. “Come back for them when it’s safe.”
“Coward,” someone hisses.
i don't think im gonna make it to the end of the year
Hermes clenched his teeth. He lowered the cattle prod, and it turned back to a staff. “Percy Jackson,” he said, “because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you.” (The Last Olympian)
Anyone else think its interesting that the Curse of Achilles effectively puts Percy on level with the gods in terms of power and durability (or perhaps even more so) when considering every book before the last olympian, the gods voted on whether or not they should kill percy (and other children of the big three) because the power they hold and are capable of is far too great for the gods liking???
What if, they offered to make Percy a god not just as a reward for his heroic acts but as an attempt to once more gain control of him now that he has the curse of achilles – he would never be able to rebel because he would be, in essence, apart of them.
If you can’t beat them, join them – or in this case, since we can no longer have the capacity to destroy him, he must become one of us.
And you know how Hera chose Percy to be sent to New Rome and of course it makes perfect sense because naturally you’re going to choose one of the most powerful demigods you have at your disposal, especially the one that quite literally saved all of Olympus three months prior.
But isn’t it almost just too perfect that in doing this she effectively forced Percy to be stripped of the curse that gave him power that could very well rival theirs and all I’m saying is Hera knew exactly what she was doing
I have to make mistakes in order to learn & grow
This section of the Last Olympian is so small that it may be entirely irrelevant in terms of analyzation, but still I can’t help but think its interesting that when Percy and Annabeth were doing cabin inspections, multiple times Percy tried cheat the scores while Annabeth wouldn’t let him.
When they got to Percy’s cabin and his stuff was messy, he tried giving himself 4/5 and Annabeth pointed out he was being too generous with himself and gave him a 3/5. When they got to the Aphrodite cabin he tried docking a star (when everything was perfect) because it smelled too much like perfume - However to be fair, that may have just been him being sarcastic. Then when we get to Annabeth’s cabin, and everything is clean except for her own bunk, she could have easily done what Percy did and tried to give herself a higher score. She even promptly cleaned her section, but still gave herself a low score because otherwise it wouldn’t be honest. “Three out five - for a sloppy head counselor.”
Obviously this is such a simple thing, but still I feel it hi lights one of the differences of their characters. Percy “Hey lets fudge the numbers when it benefits me” Jackson and Annabeth “No, I have to earn my keep” Chase.
I also just want to clarify that I’m not trying to paint Annabeth as a rule stickler and Percy as a rule breaker, because they both do break the rules or what have you, its just when and how and why that I think creates a distinction.
Like another example of this that I adore is their encounter with the sphinx. Annabeth could have easily answered the trivia questions but just couldn’t because it would have been a slight to her intelligence, her wisdom, her smarts and had wanted to be tested.
And Percy’s just standing there, watching their opportunity to easily pass fade away, and is just like answer the questions Annabeth answer the questions
Tim Drake in modified versions of outfits I've worn
Ray Johnson, Candy Darling cast, 1970
sometimes I have fluffy ideas come to me while I’m on the treadmill.
then sometimes I get fun ideas like “what if Batman’s cape couldn’t put out the flames on Harvey’s face in the Dark Knight?” swiftly followed by “what if it was fireproof and put out the flames but the cape burned into Harvey’s skin and whenever Bruce sees him after that, he’s got shiny thick burns healed around tiny shreds of his own cape.”
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the daring young man...
comm for @daalchinis , tysm again!
spoiler alert!
reminder that adhd medication isn’t a luxury or preference, but a lifesaving medication. a 10 year long study in the usa showed that, when properly medicated, the rate of car crashes people with adhd get into goes down significantly–men’s rate drops by 38%, and women’s by 42%. the med shortage, denial of meds by doctors, rising prices, and war on drugs has killed–with such a car dependent society, not driving frequently isn’t an option, which means we need better healthcare and need it now.
https://shorturl.at/8VD8B
edit because i forgot to explain: short link is to an article by the washington post, it should be free to read
I’m pretty sure there’s also been a study that unmedicated ADHD increases the risk of developing dementia in old age. I’ll get back to yall when I find the study
Found it and here’s a Washington Post article if you don’t want to read a medical journal.
@icy-moons thank you for this incredibly important addition!!! People with adhd are almost 3 times as likely to get dementia, and the way to prevent that is stimulant medication–more people need to know this
Not to mention being properly treated and medicated for ADHD reduces the likelihood of developing an addiction or substance use disorder.
The articles below are free to access, they cite their sources if you wanna check out the studies themselves.
ADHD medication is not a gateway drug. In fact, teens and adults who seek treatment for their ADHD symptoms are much less likely to abuse dr
To reduce the risk of substance-use disorders, treatment with stimulant medication should begin prior to 9 years of age, according to resear
ADD-certified therapist here. These claims are ALL TRUE. I don’t have the link to hand but properly medicating ADHD also reduces anxiety and depression rates and I’ve seen it improve eating and sleep over the long haul, and improve aggression in young children.
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