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a few more Skeletor gifs. This time including Those Scenes

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SKELETOR Masters of the Universe (2026)

just-things-i-enjoy

a bunch of non-spoilery Skeletor gifs from the new movie

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Can we please appreciate Odysseus being a silent stalker in the shadows, taking out suitors with his bow, not deigning to speak to them as he takes them out one by one

until some of them go "we have to strike him in the darkness too! we know the halls of this palace! the odds can be tilted!"

and Odysseus, built this palace with his very hands, has to step out of the shadows like "are you this fucking stupid"

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a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

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(not) made of stone

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Ok so as funny as calling Alastor a fraud is, it's also missing a LOT of nuance in his deal with Rosie and this nuance is. Kind of crucial. So I think it's important to clear up now that:

Alastor did not "cheat."

There's a very small detail about his deal with Rosie that actually makes it VERY different from the other kinds of soul deals in the show. Most of the other soul deals are very straight forward, classic selling-your-soul type things: you are given (blank) in return for selling ownership your soul to the person giving you (blank). Or, in slight variation: your soul is taken by (blank) in exchange for whatever you asked of (blank). It's kind of one-and-done thing. You make the deal, you're contracted until one of you dies permanently (presumably) or the deal is forcibly broken with. Simple, right?

This is NOT what Alastor's deal is. His deal isn't giving Rosie his soul in exchange for power, it's Rosie giving him power and keeping his soul until his debt is paid. There's a very clear "out" clause. He didn't sell his soul, not really, it's just being held from him (like a frozen credit card, if you will) until he pays Rosie back by completing whatever "task" she has for him. Granted, we don't know what this task is or if either of them even though, so this could be a loophole Rosie exploits to essentially keep him on a leash forever, but I really doubt that she doesn't have some modus operandi that Alastor is integral to and will honor their agreement afterwards.

This very particular detail is what makes their relationship so interesting, but that's for another post. My point in bringing this up is that this isn't Alastor boosting himself on someone's power, not really. After all, it's pretty fair and completely transactional. He gets something from Rosie and he then pays her back for it, simple as that. To put it in a more mundane scenario: if you borrow an egg from your neighbor, you're probably going to let them take a measuring spoon next time they ask, because that balances it out. They just haven't done their balancing act yet. You're not dependent on your neighbor just because you borrowed something once, the scale just hasn't been settled, so to speak.

Because, really, Alastor doesn't NEED Rosie's power. Even with his staff broken (which seems to contain the magic Rosie gave to him), he's pretty damn powerful. Rosie definitely played her cards right in that regard, because Alastor very likely would've become an Overlord without any boost from her just fine, it just might've taken a few more years. He's no fraud. He's not even "cheated"—he's leveraged himself a head start that he's going to repay.

And it may seem incredibly skewed in Rosie's favor, but it's not really when you look beyond the soul-owning thing. Not only is it temporary, but they're both, at the end of the day, getting the same thing: power. Souls give you power, so Rosie gets power. Rosie gave Alastor power too. It's mutual. And with how she talks about him being "the one" (for her plans) compared to Alastor's ability to stand on his own, I would even argue that she might need him far more than he needs her. But that's also another post.

TLDR; If anything, this wasn't even really a boost, it was a business deal.