#not joy

[ringer04]

Did The Rock just kiss Cody? Our lovely little (and greatest) fanfiction bicycle just struck again and got a new admirer.

[rainbowdragonlair]

Not very many pictures from tonight’s game because it was mostly filled with jerks (On both sides).

Only positive (That I didn’t take pictures of, because I’m an idiot) was a nice Hag who saw one of my teammates decided to farm altruism points off of me and let me escape as a result.

The very last match of tonight left a bitter taste in my mouth because someone didn’t even get into the match (We were up against the Clown), he killed the only dude (Either a Jake or a David) and then he decided to just torment me and a Meg. Then, once Meg was dead, he just kept spamming the tonic thing and was camping the hatch.

Naturally I’m like “Fuck this” and decide to just do the last generator and try and get out through the exit gates. He lets it open and only once it’s open does he kill me. He then has the balls to make it sound like it’s our fault we all died. All I could say was that he shouldn’t camp.

he then said (And I quote) “Sucks to suck”

I told him he would know.

I’m not saying I’m an awesome player, heck, I am terrible at this game. However, I get very pissed off when people do things that are against the “Invisible rules”. I’m not saying this is strictly a problem of killers hatch-camping or face-camping, but it is the most prominent to me. Killers are already OP, don’t be a coward and camp, it makes you look tacky and pathetic and desperate.

[awed-frog]

I wanna be a theologhy and mythology nerd too, but I don't know what books to read and what places in the internet to go to? Where and how do you satisfy this amazing nerdiness?

Lol, thank you for this very cute ask - where do I go to satisfy this amazing nerdiness? These days, my own head, mostly. But if you want to fall headfirst into this kind of things, what I can suggest is 1) have a look at the original texts, 2) plunge into authors who’re good at world-building and 3) maybe read a bit of non-fiction about the culture, as well.

As I said in that other post, I think you can tell people for whom world-building is more a chore than a joy, and it doesn’t have to do with what they’re writing, either - you find some fantasy books where things are very mechanic, while other people are clearly insane and almost live inside their thing, you know? and make it come alive.

My book rec for mythology would certainly include writers like Neil Gaiman, Morgan Llywelyn, Pat O’Shea, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Renault, Philip Pullman, Gabriel García Marquez…some of it is more magic realism than ‘true’ fantasy or historical novel, but I find them all wonderful authors. I can also suggest fairy tales - many of the original versions are incredibly trippy, and you should definitely have a look at Italo Calvino’s or W. B. Yeats’ collections. Growing up, I also read every monster encyclopedia I could find (I’m currently enjoying Shigeru Mizuki’s work), looked at a lot of art books, and was mostly moved to tears by studies such as Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough. 

But it’s a journey, really.

The thing is, I think it’s hard to define what mythology is - the boundary with folklore and fairy tales is pretty thin, and since mythology can be retold in any form, from novel to play to poetry, it’s sort of hard to pin down what is it I’m looking for when I say I’m a nerd for this sort of thing. Maybe what I like is the questioning and the sense of awe and marvel for our world that mythology awakens in us. There is something in those stories, in the idea of gods and monsters, which, when done well, captures the essential mystery of our existences and the landscape stretching out around us, but I feel that how we get there, that’s mostly personal? For me, it was about reading a lot, and reading everything, even books I now recognize are not very good, or accurate, but it was also about studying Greek and Latin, and sitting through dozens of bad movies, and, mostly, walking around in the mountains. The wilderness - for me, that’s how I became a ‘mythology and theology’ nerd - because there is where you feel all those gods and monsters you read about. They come alive in undisturbed nature, in lonely dawns, in the fear that grips you in the dead of night (not the bad fear - the fear you’ll be attacked and mugged and left for dead in a ditch, but that other fear - the realization that you don’t know what goes on in the dark, that you’re just a tiny person in a boundless, expanding universe, that you don’t know, will never know, if that sudden cold you feel are ghosts or your brain playing tricks on you - worse, you don’t know which option scares you the most). So, if you can, when you can - I don’t want to go all Shakira on you, but try everything - do everything - travel, push yourself to your limits. In every culture, mythology is about giving an answer to those things you feel inside yourself, and I think the one way to really get what these stories are about is to allow yourself to feel these things in the first place, without fear or self-doubt - to just be. 

[avtrose-blog]

so um – this is gonna be short, bc i’m terrible at stuff like this but !!!!!!!! i just wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s been in advent (and especially to the admin team !!!!!!! i love u) it was a good run even if it was also a short one for me, and i love all of u whew /throws sparkles at y'all

but I’m also terrible at goodbyes so pls don’t leave me i have a kkt (teacosies) pls come hmu on it (if u want to okie!!!!!) i will provide snuggles and bad puns!!!!! n i’m not logging out of joy’s acc LMAO so – y'all know where to find me too

/pew pew finger hearts i love u all

[avtrose-blog]

hiatus notice

/floops on everyone ahhh i’m going to be starting my internship soon so both joy n miryo are gonna be on hiatus until 30th jan!! i know i owe a bunch of replies n starters (esp miryo omg) so i’ll maybe be online occasionally to do those/reply messages etc if i’ve got time but yes yes i will ~see you all soon~

[earthlaughsinflowers2]

Ahahahahahaah “Ogilvie, put your hand down.” Ahahahaha you dork ass loser.

[trans-enby-intersex-joy]

why are you gay?

(in the voice of vine lady) who says im gay