#randomly rambling

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Ich hab jetzt eine Zugfahrt mit zwei Umstiegen, einer davon mit nur fünf Minuten Umstiegszeit, wünscht mir Glück

[villainsrtasty]

I just want to make you giggle and/or cum with my writing

[arcademotif]

The feeling of rereading a fic you know left a big impact on you many years later is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking feelings I have ever felt

I remembered about two months ago two Xanlow fics that left a big impact on me during 2019 + they were the first fics I had ever read on AO3 so they were reaaaally important to me then

So I just finished rereading them and I just felt this sense of nostalgia and happiness because I thought about how cool it is to have such beautiful stories about any characters of any media shared by such talented writers,

but I also got sad because people move on and it is obvious that some fandoms are going to be way more inactive now than before, but it's still a very nice experience to check all the fics that were written during the prime moments of those fandoms (I guess I could compare it to being in a library or when you check the past generation's yearbooks)

Idk I guess I wanted to get that off my chest because I feel a lot of emotions rn and I'm also very sleepy, but I thought ranting to the void might do me good

[helenaus]

What being ‘of Sparta’ means to Leda

The biggest difference between Leda and my other Spartan muses (Helen, Hermione) is that Leda became “of Sparta” through marriage rather than heritage. This means that Leda’s upbringing was drastically different from theirs. Thinking back on the Achaean kingdoms, Sparta stood out for the position of women in society. The model of Athenian democracy in Ancient Greece might have seemed attractive in comparison to the Spartan’s strick way of life. There is a reason why in modern language we still use the word ‘spartan’ as an adjective for austere, strict, severe, etc, but the Athenian way only really worked for men (I’m not even going to discuss the issue of class, to prevent getting sidetracked). If you were a woman in Ancient Greece, Sparta was the place to be. 

Leda is a woman of ambition. Her father was a son of Ares and through this heritage she has a warlike, passionate nature. When instructing her daughters on marriage, her words would go along these lines: “Do not expect it to be easy, because it never is, but you will do well because Laconia has given you gifts that I never had”. This is not victimization. Leda has a good relationship with Tyndareus, despite her love for Zeus. The point is that she wishes that she was born of Sparta, because it is a land where she is able to exert her power and to have real, effective influence.  Leda is also not as skilled in hunting and fighting as her daughters are because she was not raised to be, though she certainly would practice and develop some skill after moving to Sparta. 

She needed no convincing to advocate a spartan way of life. No wonder. To think that the other city-states fed the girls less than the boys and kept them locked in their homes and that Leda saw her own daughters being equally fed and just as influential as their brothers, that the girls were free to exercise and even flirt must have proven an impactful contrast to her own upbringing. 

That’s not to say that Ancient Sparta was an utopic feminist paradise, but that’s a very meaningful difference, I suppose.

[burritofulloflove]

True love is when your daughter ask what girl power is - and your husband chimes in that I'm girl power cause I came from shit and I'm trying to make something of myself 😭😭

My mom use to always tell me bad shit happened cause she never went to school. So I was driven to eventually finish school and college. But she never mentioned that it was the people she surrounded herself with.

That makes an impact on you too, if i didn't have my husband's guidance, i probably would have ended up like my mother too.

[toxicfallenangel]

Things I learned from college that my professors didn't teach me:

Freud's mom had HUGE tiddies.

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My friend is sitting next to me scrolling through the good omens tag trying to piece together the plot from that (we both have not seen it) and I am about to explode because I can't watch until the evening and don't want spoilers

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I have eight minute transfer time with deutsche bahn tomorrow, please pray for me