Hi. This is weird asf for me to write, so bear with me here. I’m Irefy, or Ira or Iffy, if that’s what you want to use. I’m currently writing mostly for Epic: The Musical, but have actually been getting pretty into the original poems and Greek tragedy in general. I read a lot, mostly fantasy, and occasionally post about the Magisterium series (Holly Black & Cassandra Clare). Shoutout to anyone who knows what that is.
Now that that’s out of the way:
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Come yap here or in my asks. I swear I won’t think you’re weird, even if we’ve never directly interacted before. We’re all at the devil’s sacrament. No DNIs or anything, we’re all here to have fun.
You may know me from my fics, or maybe my magisterium timeline.
The timeline: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
1912 Iliad research: here
My Fics
What do I say? (What do I do, for something like this?)
Oh man. My first posted fic. It’s real short, basically just a drabble. ATLA
The Fires Of Hate
I still like this one. It’s the Purge from a Camelot knight’s perspective. The first of a series I haven’t finished, but it stands well on its own. Merlin.
Red Rage
Sequel to The Fires Of Hate, though it doesn’t really read like one. We switch perspectives again, and see the purge from the point of view of a little girl. Merlin.
The Peace Of Night
Another short one, 647 words. Just Danny enjoying the stars. Danny Phantom.
Promises (Broken and Kept)
The Ultimate Enemy forces Sam to make a decision that could save them all, at a cost which will break her to pay. Danny Phantom.
Growing Seeds
Another short one. Made for the nine year anniversary of the Iron Trial. Call struggles to understand and accept the new friendships he’s been faced
with in his first months at the Magisterium. Magisterium.
A Field Of Dandelions
Sequel to Growing Seeds. Made for the five year anniversary of the end of the series. Takes place post-cannon. Magisterium.
Embers Of Time
Stereotypical Zuko tells the Gaang about his scar fic—with a slight twist. ATLA
Holding On
Now that he’s home, Odysseus is ready to forget the past and enjoy a night spent in his wife’s arms. Unfortunately for him, he can’t escape the pain which still clings to his restless mind. (Yea, please read the tags on this one guys.) Epic: The Musical
Letting Go
Penelope struggles with what is and what could have been. Sequel to Holding On. Epic: The Musical. The Odyssey (characters and some story elements)
Would You Do The Same? (So help me you better)
Perimedes’ perception of the world falls apart. Crack taken seriously. Basically, how the crew finds out Odysseus’ sister is Eurylochus’ wife. Epic: The Musical, The Odyssey (again, characters)
Don’t think you can out swim the past (it’s always close behind)
Odysseus, suffering from being wounded during the mutiny, attempts to navigate his changed relationship with the crew and his place in it, all while being forced to face a secret which belongs far beneath the waves…mermaid!au, based off the little mermaid, one of my favorites. Epic: The Musical, The Odyssey (mixed characterization, still mostly an epic fic but does use some Odyssey concepts as well.)
they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
It's always "hail Mary, full of Grace" and never "Eva, the first woman, whose sins cast humanity away from Eden (but humanity found it's place out there)".
Anyway, Eva Stratt, you did everything correctly, you made the wrong choice, humanity is alive because of your determination, the most woman ever. They coul never make me pin your morals down as 'good' or 'bad'.
"English doesn't really have any equivalent whatsoever to Japanese honorifics, so we just completely leave them out of our subtitles because there's no way that our English-speaking audience could possibly grasp their significance in explaining these character's relationship with each other"
There is a character named Robert Thomson.
At work, he's known as Robert by his coworkers and Thomson by his boss. At home, the people in his neighborhood call him Rob. His parents, spouse, and closest friends call him Robbie. His best friend from childhood calls him Robbie and also sometimes calls him Roberto. The children in his neighborhood call him Mr. Rob but when he does volunteer work at the library the kids there call him Mr. Thomson. Children in the wild who don't know him personally call him sir. When he goes to anywhere with reception, he's typically addressed as Thomson.
So explain to me again why English speaking audiences can't grasp that those kids are calling that woman Oneechan because she's a young adult woman that they aren't personally acquainted with, and more importantly why you chose to localize that to her given name and not the equivalent of "Miss" or even "Miss Given Name"? Because if your goal is to replicate the experience that the original Japanese audience would have with those characters, you're failing spectacularly. Because now not only do you have a bunch of kids going around calling adults by their given names when in the original language they're calling them a cultural equivalent to Miss or Mister, but your insistence on removing all honorifics and just using names means that there's no absolutely zero difference in the way a person is addressed by the people closest to them and total strangers. Which is not only wildly inaccurate to how the Japanese audience would experience that, it's not even that accurate to English, either.
“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
If minimum wage you'd like to make,
This ancient quiz you'll have to take.
Step right up, but be prepared.
Those who fail are poverty-snared.
Question One!
If your labor proves most fruitful,
Raking quarters by the bootful,
Who should excess profits reap,
Me the wolf or you the sheep?
Question Two!
If, by merit, you're made pope,
What will be your fervent hope?
Law and order justly paired?
Or mercy and the guilty spared?
Question Three!
If a train should leave Topeka
Driven by a solar squeaker,
How then should the cat behave?
Give it milk or give it grave?
Question Four!
Do you have a criminal record?
So, unlike Eridians, we discovered fire very early on and so our civilization kinda grew up with combustion right? We've had thousands of years to normalize it and get comfortable with the idea of using it casually for warmth or cooking etc.
In contrast, Eridians had to discover fire in a lab since their atmosphere doesnt have O2 like ours. So they dont have, like, an entire culture normalizing fire.
> Be me. Rocky the Eridian cosmonaut
> Tell Grace about Eridian space elevator design made out of Xenonite. Grace very impressed, says humans only dream about making space elevator.
> Odd? Ask Human friend Grace how humans got into space. Expecting some high tech solution since science humans clearly know more physics.
> Grace explains Humans strapped other Humans on top of Fire-Explodatron-9000 machines made out of weak human metal, basically Eridian cardboard, then shot them into orbit. Grace say the fire it makes is quite pretty to look at
Can you imagine being rocky tossing over that capsule during first contact. Like oh yeah, theyll probably use their robotic arm to catch it. And then you see like. This horribly clumsy alien come out of the ship, flailing about, wiggling across the hull trying to catch the capsule. Like oh. Oh so thats the kind of species i am dealing with
