Idk how I got here, but here I am

Lesbian. She/It pronouns. Too much fandom not enough time.

[mot-hesbian]

***Updated version***

I'm opening shop for fic requests, once again!

Send me a sentence prompt (e.g. "Why are you like this?"), a short (1 or 2 sentence) story idea, longer if you are up for a bit of a wait for me to write it, or a trope for a certain character, duo, or ship and I'll write a fic for it!

Specialties are just what I write about most often or characters I'm confident about writing, same goes for relationships. If there is an 'and' that means it's platonic.

Fandoms include:

Gossip Girl (my specialties are (in order) JENNY, LILY, Blair, Dan, and Eric, these are just the ones I write about most frequently. Ships I specialize in are Jenny x Agnes, rufly, Lily x William (I don't ship them, but I am fascinated by the toxicity), dair, blairena, blenny, etc.)

Gilmore Girls (specialities: Luke, Lorelai, Jess, Rory, Paris, Emily, and Richard probably, ships include Rory x Paris, Luke x Lorelai, Richard x Emily, and maybe some background Rory x Jess. I would like to explore possible Jess x male characters tho ngl.)

Riverdale (specialties: Alice, Fp, Hermione, Betty (my Betty is either a rep of how toxic she is on the show or an ooc version of her cuz I'm salty about bad mental illness rep), Jughead (no whump or woobifying him, he is a regular character who deals with less bs bc I don't feel like writing over the top bs in my stories...at least not to the extent of the show), VERONICA, Archie, Josie, TONI, and Cheryl. Ships I'm good at are Beronica, Falice, Barchie, Veggie, Jarchie, Jeronica, I'd be willing to watch season 5 to learn about Jabitha so I could write that, Choni, etc.)

Bridgerton, books in particular, but I can work with the show (specialties: Penelope, Colin, Lady Danbury, Violet, Eloise, Benedict, Sophie, Hyacinth, Felicity. Most characters tbh. Polin, whatever Daphne and Simon's ship name is, Benedict x Sophie, Hyacinth and/x Felicity, Lady Danbury and Penelope, Kanthony, (preferably one-sided) Eloise x Penelope, etc.)

[adistraughtjester]

This'll probably be the only other thing I post with my thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey. I'm not going to see it, because I know I'm not going to like it. This is based on Nolan's past issues with writing women, and my strong attachment to the women of the Odyssey.

That being said, it's unfair to expect Nolan's Odyssey to capture every part of the Odyssey accurately, and I think it would actually be a bad thing to portray the Odyssey the same as it was written. There's a lot of cultural and historical context that modern audiences will miss, and making changes to better convey the tone and ideas of the Odyssey is a good thing!

I have a lot of criticism for how Nolan has handled the release of the Odyssey, the erasure of Ancient Greek (and modern Greek) culture, and some of the comments he and other people have made regarding the film. However, this is not unique to Nolan, but rather a broader issue related to how we treat Greek culture and have treated it for centuries. I think Nolan is a good example of this erasure, and a good starting point to talk about overall how we've failed in our representation, and have a long history of appropriating Ancient Greek texts while ignoring modern day Greece and its people. I don't want Nolan's Odyssey to be the start and stop of this discussion though.

Please do not let your critique of the movie just be, "They changed this part of the Odyssey." That's not a fair way to critique adaptations, and you will always be disappointed if that's how you're deciding if an adaptation is good or not. Consider how the changes impact the story, if they suit the version Nolan is trying to tell, and if they make the story worse, or just change how the story goes. Also, if you haven't seen the movie, you probably can't properly critique the change, because you need to see it in the broader context of the movie. That's why I'm refraining on critiquing the changes I've seen. The only reason I commented on the xenia change is because that is an erasure of a larger Greek custom, not just an aspect of the story.

My final thoughts are that I hope Nolan's Odyssey at least gets more people interested in reading the Odyssey and exploring Greek culture as a whole. Even with all the criticism I have for Nolan, I do think that more reading and interest in the text is good, and we can use his failures to educate people on the actual culture and story, rather than just dragging the Odyssey for every little change it makes to the text.

[cloudcreates]

Laodamas: yo Odysseus come play some sports with us

Odysseus: no, I am too overcome by The Horrors™

Laodamas: okay, if your bad at sports, just say it, Jeeze.

Odysseus: me? Bad at sports?! How dare you! *absolutely aura farms and doesn't even bother taking off his cloak to throw the heaviest discus* try to beat THAT, you young men!!!

Athena: that's my boy

[pukicho]

Like this post to have everything ever happen to you

[pukicho]

Stop that at once

[totally-cis-offical]

You say that, but you yourself liked the comment

[pukicho]

I wanted to help

[pukicho]

Four words: don’t go to bed without a big fucking jug of water because what if you wake up thirsty

[pukicho]

Tomorrow I will be inventing the wheel

[pukicho]

Dude, hold on

[dankxsinatra]

[socialistexan]

[vitabreva]

[themummersfolly]

How dare you leave this in the tags.

[charlesoberonn]

[luna-azzurra]

Being a writer is wild because one minute you’re convinced you’re a genius and the next you’re googling ‘synonyms for walk’ like you’ve never used language before.

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[fort-cozy-mcblanket]

let's just say hypothetically....

amy lays next to you one night, she looks at you like this

as she plays this

and swears to you it's the best media ever created.

what would YOU do?

Listen, if I have Amy smiling at me laying beside me in bed, I don't think I'm going to complain about anything ever again. If she says it, it must be true, and I guess we're making love to Crazy Frog like what other option is there?

[plagg-supremacy]

I haven't properly watched Georgie and Mandy's show but today I watched some clips on YouTube and everyone kept roasting Sheldon lmao

Like for real 3 minutes of how he would die a virgin, would never marry nor have children 😭

Oh the irony of how he went onto have the most healthy romantic relationship and family out of the 3 siblings.

[sunnybugster]

sheldon cooper is the perfect example of how ship obsessed fandom people should characterize aroace characters in a relationship without erasing their aromanticism and asexuality

[sleazypeachy]

“to be loved is to be....” <3

TikTok: goshgillygee

[fort-cozy-mcblanket]

I don't know why but this small moment where he admits he was trying to attract Amy sticks out to me

[coast-modern]

I downloaded a fishing app to help me find places to fish near me but it turns out it's also a social media app for people who like to fish and I'm losing my entire mind over it

[coast-modern]

I would love to sit down with any of these anglers and hook a few

[coast-modern]

gar bait...merrt Christmas

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"