I stay in my Bubble for a REASON

Talk about book, anime, movies, shows, or litterally anything (she, her are my pronouns, I'm 21) -- currently reading PERCY JACKSON (Instagram: @spots.and.claws)

[spotsandclawsthings]

Music playlist for 2026 (always Updating)

[unspokensuggestion]

you are allowed to be wrong you are allowed to mess up you are allowed to be embarrassing.

[unspokensuggestion]

you are also allowed to do this.

[kingoftheu]

One tragic aspect of the Odyssey that I've never really seen handled by any adaptation is the link between Odysseus' marriage and the Trojan War itself.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

So his own plan, to marry Penelope and stop a hoard of ravenous suitors, ends with him forced to defend his own marriage from a hoard of ravenous suitors.

[glue-bubbles]

Simple kataang cosplaying nalu

[saturnsconstellation]

Men use “I’m just a man” to cheat on their wives. Odysseus uses “I’m just a man” to kill, slay and torture people to get back to HIS wife. They are not the same.

[bookishjules]

starting the dark artifices during the presidential race in 2016 and having to stuggle through not only the blackthorn angst but also a too-close-to-reality political plot during trump's presidency. and now ten years later we'll be starting the wicked powers and *record scratches*

[spotsandclawsthings]

I wasn't able to get the Rotten Mango sweater T__T

[alphacrone]

fruits basket is the greatest manga ever written almost solely for the fact that from the first chapter we’re supposed to be mystified and curious about these elusive shape shifting boys that are so incredibly rare and impossible and secretive. meanwhile one of the protagonist’s best friends and her little brother are also just casually psychics and everyone seems to be vaguely aware of it??? and they also literally never use their powers to do anything about the sohma family curse they’re just twinning in goth fashion and making biting remarks???

[spotsandclawsthings]

I dnf The Lost Book of the White (I'll read it at a later time).

Can just someone just give me the main bullet points of the story and what's going to be referenced later?

[spotsandclawsthings]

Reading The Hunger Games for the first time and every so often there's a WTF moment.

[aphoticfirefly]

one day soon I'll hold you like the sun holds the moon for kataang week day 8! based off of this fic by the loveliest @pardonmymannerssir

[spotsandclawsthings]

This comic is so cute, but I'm low key freaking out Maiko in the background 😅😅🤭🤭

Also Suki and Sokka💕💕

And whatever argument Toph and Sokka are having 🤣🤣

[spotsandclawsthings]

Did They Reference Conan Gray's "Vodka Cranberry" in My Life with the Walter Boys during Grace's birthday???

Can someone check for me bc it glossed over my head and it came back to hours later when I was in the shower

[alarasglorxx]

just watching mlwtwb and why is chad from descendants here LMAOOOO

[spotsandclawsthings]

FR THO

[fallenangel126]

Thats not whoever he is. Thats Chad Charming from descendents lmao

[spotsandclawsthings]

I thought I was going crazy when I saw him lmao

[spotsandclawsthings]

I just watched 3 season finales for 3 different shows today (My Life with the Walter Boys (S3), Avatar: The Last Airbender (S2), and Miraculous (S6)) and only one was a rewatch (Avatar: The Last Airbender (S2))

[reyleese]

Anyone else really feel for Cole.!?

Don’t get me wrong, he made mistakes and did some crappy things in the first season. It’s that he doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break with anyone around him though. People are constantly telling him he’s selfish or a waste of time, or not going to amount to anything, and it had become so easy for these characters to do so.

It’s almost as though people took this worst year of his life and have chosen to define him as that time only. Even his own brother, who yes has some reason to hold a grudge against him, can’t give him the benefit of the doubt for five seconds.

I was actually concerned there might be an element of mental health in this season that led to talk about self harm or things more severe even, just based on how so many people treat him.

Again, I’m not excusing the bad things he’s done. In some cases, like with Erin I can understand her bias against Cole based on how he treated her. However, what I don’t love is Danny’s acceptance that Erin will only ever speak poorly of Cole and think the worst of him. While I think it’s important for Danny to recognize Erin’s experience, I also think it’s important for their future and honestly for Cole, that Danny is able to get Erin to see that’s not ALL Cole is.

Through this show, it’s been incredibly easy to blame Cole for just about everything that goes wrong. I wouldn’t mind seeing SOMEONE, especially his family, stand up for him, or say something good about him for once.

[translucentshine]

jackie and cole got in trouble after the party but no one cares that alex is being indoctrinated by a bunch of drug using, predatory grown men who get him drunk, give him weird pills and gave him a TATTOO? on the back of a truck with a dirty tattoo gun. like where are his parents or friends why does no one care 😭

[spotsandclawsthings]

TRUUEE!!!