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[point-two-two]

if the symbolic representation of the American Dream killed your piece of shit dad and taught you politics would that be fucked up or what?

I'm always talking about various black-haired twinks and their older more typically masculine blonde abusers lovers so I think it's high time I introduced my own!

EVERYONE MEET AMERYN AND WESTLEY!!!

A little on the story, and character blurbs:

In a world where belief makes power, the upper echelons are quite literally divine. They may look like you and I, but as long as we love, fear, obey them, they live on. The story starts at the tail end of a devastating war: the nation Westley was meant to inherit is a smoking mess, and he has no idea how to rule. At the same time, alliances are shifting, and if Ameryn wants to defend his position as the most powerful god in the world, he must expand his influence wherever he can. What starts as a mentorship and pact of mutual benefit quickly spirals into an affair of blurred lines, teetering between romance and power game.

Westley of Prowess — Too timid, too docile, not commanding enough; Westley has always been a headache of a sole male heir. The occasional beatings have, unsurpringly, only aggravated his condition. When his father is killed in battle, he is forced to learn the ways of godhood — from the very man who killed him. Under Ameryn's wing, Westley learns to use his face, posture, and words not to shield himself, but to control others, and realizes he could get used to this.

Ameryn of Fairness — Press conference, rubber stamp a meter-tall stack of documents, war room debrief, rinse and repeat; being a god isn't so glamorous as he makes it look. The short stint as a silver screen star was fun, but really, he's acting every day. So when Westley comes to love him as a person rather than the persona, Ameryn allows himself this affair, tells himself he has it in check. But Westley grows more self-assured each day, and Ameryn realizes he can't stand the thought of losing control of him.

[eyegens]

doodling central europe and searching my gallery for refs. no idea if this guy was ever posted

[point-two-two]

German test done. Feeling confident. Will find out if we passed in two or three weeks

[callsignsundance]

the thing i can't stop laughing about this is that it reads like an actual sentence you might find in shakespeare, with slight error in tenses (though you could argue that the past tense of "am" could be either "was" or "were").

"would i were [x]" is used in shakespeare frequently. rosalind's "i would i were at home". henry vi's "would i were dead". romeo's "i would i were your bird". i could go on.

so technically, the sentence "would i was shookspeared", is grammatically correct and structured like a line from shakespeare. however i cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell getting "shookspeared" could be, and i'm honestly not sure i want to know.

[nathanielthecurious]

can’t believe I only just learned about the attested Gaulish word “marcosior” (< PCeltic *marko- ‘horse’ but as a passive verb in the desiderative or future) which means “I want to be ridden like a horse” and occurs in exactly the context you’re imagining

[nathanielthecurious]

that was fast. easy website

im seeing people fact-check this in the notes so i'll add that the full inscription is "marcosior maternia" and if you search that in google scholar you'll find lots of sources. it might not be true but it's definitely real, by which i mean that scholars don't know for sure what "marcosior maternia" means but this is a common interpretation. it's written on a spindle whorl (little weights that are used in spinning) and there's actually a lot of spindle whorls from roman gaul that have sort of amatory inscriptions on them, so they might have been gifts for lovers but it's not clear, but anyway a sexual meaning is perfectly expected for this type of object, and maternia looks like a woman's name in either the nominative or instrumental case, and marcosior looks like a passive verb related to the word for 'horse' in a desiderative or future form. so "i want to be ridden by maternia", "i will be ridden by maternia", and "maternia will be ridden" are some of the plausible interpretations.

also i didnt emphasize in the post just how fragmentary this language is. there's only a few hundred inscriptions in gaulish and theyre short. we dont know if there was an optative mood. but we do know how to say something about getting ridden by maternia

[nathanielthecurious]

someone in the notes writes asterix fanfiction but isn’t putting sexy spindle whorls in it. coward

[roconize]

Today I woke up at 2 AM. Instead of falling back asleep my brain decided to conjure up these images which haunted my mind palace until properly expelled

[ravioliet]

[seleniumtetrachloride]

10 mins caelius doodle idk

just a 🐆

[blairwitchdiaries-deactivated20]

👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

[nanasibrushes]

chichi to haha icha icha….😘😘

[curioscurio]

ads these days are so sensitive to being tapped like darling my fingers barely brushed you and youre already opening yourself for me... well close those damn legs. dont make me get the taser

[christiannegg]

[goodnightngoth]

me: sorry i’ve been busy

me for the last hours:

[amandapostman]

My great uncle is Neil Postman, who wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book that critiqued the prevalence of television as a means for conveying information versus providing entertainment, and now I really want to resurrect him and get his opinion on Tenna.

Me: So there’s a character who’s the personification of a television, right? And his raison d’etre is to entertain the main characters of the video game— that’s kind of like an interactive television show— so much so that they stay with him in his world and away from their real-life problems, like how you described television as a version of “soma” from Huxley’s Brave New World. But he himself is just as affected by those real-life problems as the protagonist, and his flashy, attention-grabbing persona is really just a bid to be loved as he slowly becomes outdated, paralleling the main character’s isolation in the aftermath of their parents’ divorce. How does that affect your view that television is a means to advertise lifestyles rather than convey information?

Neil: Donald Trump is president?

Me: Oh, and he’s implied to have previously been in a romantic relationship with the personification of a spam email— gay marriage is legal now, by the way— which, while a newer technology than television, is also becoming obsolete, and is also centered around being attention grabbing and spreading misinformation. Does the inclusion of this relationship imply that genuine connection can be found through the spectacle of these media forms, or does the relationship’s failure condemn both television and internet as vapid reflections of true connection?

Neil: The media gave Donald Trump enough free publicity that he became president?

[godzillabreath]

Artfight revenge for perpetualpeep ⚔️

[doubleca5t]

[bambasbatenthusiat]

@point-two-two

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[alleesaur]

[ ArtFight 2026] [7] L'Ange Gardien

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