#random grumbling

[despair-tea]

taking it seriously and working hard on this piece. but ough I'm losing my patience and I want to be done with it and I want to just call it done soon

[gracchisuggestions]

The Women of Troy: Miscellaneous Gripes

I get the feeling that the start of the book is spent hastily backing out of the corner The Silence of the Girls ended in. Waitwaitwait, we’re not sailing off just yet, we’ve got more plot to get through!

If you’re going to reenact Antigone then Polyxena would be the ideal Antigone figure seeking to do her father his due honors even at the cost of her own life but whoops, she’s already dead, so here have this OC who was her BFF.

Look at how Women Are Silenced! Women Are Forgotten And Left Out Of The Narrative! Like how Uza and Tecmessa from the last book are never heard from again!

Menelaus joins Agamemnon in the Evil Sex Club, so you know that in this army’s worth of men blithely raping their way all over the place the Atreides are Especially Evil.

Calchas (Trojan defector backstory BTW) is absolved of all involvement in the virgin sacrifices. The last book established that Polyxena’s murder was thanks to Agamemnon’s drunken whim and nothing to do with adverse weather conditions, so when Calchas makes an oracular pronouncement it’s to quit being mean to Priam’s corpse, mmkay, and also Pyrrhus needs to kill his favorite pony.

[kruk-art]

I should probably stop staring at my older art, but it already happened, and The Death card is not good enough so I redraw it, cause I can...

[deflare]

“Modern video games are just so *easy*! Skyrim? Yawn! Dark Souls and Bloodborne come the closest to actually being a challenge, and they’re still easy.”

Uh-huh. Sure. And I’m sure you also have trouble finding magnum condoms for your giant dong. Oh, how did I know you were a cis dude? Lucky fucking guess.

(Alternative situation similar to this: “It’s hard to find food spicy enough for me, y’know? I guess ghost peppers are okay...”)

[despair-tea]

mm, my stomach hurts and it's hard to concentrate today.

[despair-tea]

The other day: realizing my wife and I are having different conversations about how unfun our creative pursuits are because she can't stop playing keytar this past fortnight because "it's so fun"

[despair-tea]

why do people keep assuming I know stuff about events that no one has briefed me on, anyways? I hate hearing "you knew [whatever thing I'm hearing for the first time]" over and over. sis, folks don't tell me nothin'.

[despair-tea]

One common discommunication that bothers me a little is when someone (not an expert in ur nerdy field) is like "Oh I played one of those when I was younger but I don't remember" and you ask them to describe it a bit more and you know exactly what they're talking about and you've eliminated all other likelihoods and you know for a fact what they're talking about but when you're like "it's this thing" (it's definitely this thing. it's so clearly obviously this thing. you don't even have that much life experience so i know it has to be this thing. i won't say that part out loud because i'm being tactful but i know what i'm talking about okay??? it's that thing!!), they just repeat "i just don't remember"

begging the "neurotypicals" to update their scripts to add "oh is that so?" or to stop mashing so many buttons on chit-chat maybe.