rowan

him/her | desi | 17 ao3 @rowan_ao3 :)

[dr-gaytorius]

um sorry for moaning when you stabbed me. it's been a really long time since anyone touched me like that

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[rowanintheriver]

if i scheduled this right. happy moon day monday???? :)

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[rowanintheriver]

if i scheduled this right. happy moon day monday x

[rowanintheriver]

byler is so cute too bad romance isnt real lol

[sacredtongues]

we should torture princes more. and make their knights watch but be unable to help. we should lock them up in cellars but make them unable to touch. all they can do is talk. the knight is quite terrible at comforting people with words but god he cannot bear to hear his prince cry any longer.

[bisexualcroissant]

rereading the lost hero and i’m so struck by how much of jason’s pov is about how his brave persona is a complete act and how inside he really feels scared and lost all the time. in his head he’s so full of self-doubt and fear, about not knowing what to do or where to even start. but jason always just shoves this down and puts on a brave face because he’s supposed to be a leader. this being a recurring theme of his life, too: jason having to stomp down on any weaknesses from the age of two because lupa, the closest thing he had left to a family, would tear him to shreds if he didn’t.

all of this only to be mischaracterised for years. like the whole point of jason’s image as this “perfect hero” is that it’s a facade. only a mask, not the real person underneath, who was constantly afraid, constantly wondering. who wondered if anyone actually cared about him, if anyone was out there looking for him like they were all looking for percy. who was devastated to find out that his mortal parent was unstable, neglectful and descended into madness. his only shred left of a family, and that was what he got. thalia telling jason about their mother and leo for once not being jealous of him, because even though his own mother was gone, at least she had been loving, at least there had been good memories. but jason didn’t have any. even if he did remember, those memories weren’t good ones.

for all his bravery, jason never had anything to fall back on. all his life he’d found that courage from inside himself, somehow, some way, because he had no other option. leo’s “you’re not alone” because in that moment he realised just how little jason really had.

it’s just so startling to me, how imperfect and human jason is, compared to this warped idea of him in fanon. he’s constantly doubting himself and afraid, he just puts on a brave face because he has to. “everyone seemed to think he was so brave and confident, but they didn’t see how lost he really felt.”

[myauditionfordrphil]

yeah let's hold sonam wangchuk under scrutiny for apparently not fasting properly and his intentions but how dare we hold the minister under whom 7 national level papers were leaked accountable. how dare we question our supreme leader who still wishes him a happy birthday while parents are mourning their children who were killed by the system they created. istg if this fuck ass public questioned the govt as much as they are questioning the protesters we would not even be protesting. they'll ask every question - why is dipke not fasting, why is wangchuk allies with cjp, is he truly even fasting, how is he not dead he must be eating in the bathroom, why a hunger strike, blah blah blah but dare we actually ask people - mind you public servants meant to serve us - these kinds of questions rather than people who owe us absolutely nothing. our leaders - yes, that includes the absolutely incompetent opposition as well - are the ones who owe us shit but we'll question and probe into everybody's actions but theirs. atp i think sonam wangchuk should break his fast because the youth he is protesting for are also walking the path of their whatsapp educated parents, supporting a political party who hurted students in a way like no other and holding the people - their own peers- who are fighting for their cause accountable for the problems of the country. i have seen enough "youths" in comments section being so unbelievable vain and honestly fucking dumb that it boils my blood, i have no hope in this fucking world; call me full of hatred of what but i hope they fucking die, that they feel every ounce of pain that the children who killed themselves felt and even worse i hope they feel the same level of hopelessness that the children who are still alive, still fighting for their basic rights while their own people bash them instead of the perpetrators felt, if our generation cannot bring a revolution for our own future and on top of that bring down the people bringing one, then we dont deserve that future.

[samtf]

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[byjove]

Elliot Page does not play Achilles in The Odyssey like transphobes were preemptively angry about but Homer just told me he updated the Iliad and Achilles is canonically transgender now and not just subtextually transgender like in the first draft.

[cloudycleric]

genuinely something that warms my heart is “mike would have explored” because YES HE WOULD! idk, maybe it’s just me, but i very much see mike deciding to give will a shot, or kissing him, or something like that, even if he didn’t necessarily have conscious romantic feelings towards him. i feel like he loves will so much (even as just a friend) that he would have given will that in the very least. i can see him asking, “why did you stop crushing on me?” & stuff along those lines. idk. ive been up since 5 am & god gave me this vision

[rowanintheriver]

cannot do ts

[rowanintheriver]

im never watching that again

[kyleesarthell]

Achilles being honest

[elianzis]

👀

[lesbodysseus]

reasons I don't support Achilles of Phthia and why you shouldn't either, an indepth analysis post by totally not Odysseus of Ithaca.

Hello gang my name is NOT Odysseus of Ithaca you may call me nobody for short today I will be telling you all the truth about Achilles of Phthia since it seems too many people like him in this side of Tumblr so here is my reasons for why we need to cancel Achilles because someone like him doesn't deserve fame or glory. This is all coming from a reliable source within the greek camp so you can't doubt me at all.

1— kills people

That's just so wrong??? Like uhm I know we're in a war but he's just extra brutal about it personally me nobody have never done that in my life I think a good example of a GOOD murderer is Odysseus God he's just so handsome and charming and best of all he kills people in the halal way they don't even feel a thing he's such a good guy! God I need him.

2— owns slaves

Apparently that's wrong? Allegedly? I think? The kids these days are saying slavery is wrong so uhhh I would NEVER support slavery tsk tsk that's just wrong unless this generation doesn't mind it I mean uhhh take Odysseus for example he has NEVER taken a slave in his life and don't say Hecuba or Laodice or whoever else I mean uhm look at poor Briseis and whatever the hell the other one's name was uhhh I think it was similar to uh? Diomedes? Diomede? Something like that?? Speaking of Diomedes Ineeddiomedesofargosinmybedrn UHHH I MEAN THAT WAS THE WIND

3— blue eyed

Get your disgusting blue eyed blinding stare away from me making eye contact with this guy SUCKS it feels like my eyes are being burnt someone get him some brown eye contacts

4— blonde

Arguably worst crime on this list

5— Gay

usually I don't care about what anyone does in the bedroom but he makes US know what he's doing in the bedroom istg him and Patroclus be moaning WAYYYY too loud brother we are trying to SLEEP keep it down and if it's not Patroclus he has Antilochus in his room or even both and he be doing this EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. like brother don't you get tired??? because WE definitely are tired of having to hear THAT.

6— manchild

Just look at this. God he disgusts me. Put the blanket down and get up and go FIGHT. Sitting in your tent sulking ain't doing ANY of us justice.

7— I don't like his son

Self explanatory, He keeps giving me— I mean Odysseus a hard time Achilles should've pulled out the fact he didn't and let this kid be born is bad enough by itself I hate you Neoptolemus.

8— he's so dumbbbbb

I HATE stupid people take Odysseus for example he is so smart and hot and intelligent

9— daddy issues

SKILL ISSUE 😂😂 I GREW UP WITH LOVING PARENTS AND A GOOD FAMILY 😂😂 ACHILLES YOU'RE SUCH A LOSER 😂😂

10— I ran out of reasons

He just sucks okay. Trust me on this one.

THE END, anyways this post was sponsored by Briseis of Dardania, Paris of Troy, Hector of Troy, Apollo, Agamemnon of Mycenae, Raid shadow legends and a lot of others I'm too lazy to name click the link below to learn more!

[cthucthme]

no because i need a lot more people to talk about neoptolemus.

neoptolemus's identity is shaped by the father's sins. forever, he is the son of achilles. he is bound to the legacy of the actions commited achilles's rage, his grief, his hubris. even his name means 'new warrior'; a testament to his existence being a replacement for his great father who left behind his trail of glory for neoptolemus to follow, his old military shoes too big for a child to fit into. he never even knew his father as achilles. he knew his father as the greatest of all greek warriors, commander of the myrmidons, blessed by the gods, he who slayed mighty hector in front of troy's gates. how would he know, if all he hears is tales of how achilles feuded with agamemnon, how he grasped his spear and drove it through hector, how he dragged the prince's body with his chariot, how he massacred everything out of his grief for beloved patroclus. how could neoptolemus have been good if the one he based himself after is his father at his lowest point? how could he have been remembered as great if he was nothing but the shadow casted by achilles's sun?

[atsumarii]

dear everyone who says jason got branded at 4: no. he got his tattoo at 3. he had 12 marks by the time he was 15 so he got his tattoo when he was 3!!!!!!! "jason got it at 4" NO. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT HE WAS 15 AT THE BEGINNING OF HOO. THAT HE WASN'T 16 UNTIL THE END OF MOA. and bonus letter to the people who think jason died at 17: WRONG. HE WAS STILL 16. HE DIED IN LATE MARCH TO EARLY APRIL. WHICH WAS BEFORE HE COULD TURN 17. bro didn't get the chance to be the dancing queen