Mesmerizing kimono coat in shimmering oil-slick tones. The pattern has bustling sealife with beautiful seahorses, different shells, algae, anemones, etc.
This intricate design has the same hypnotizing effect on me as Howl’s wizard bedroom:
When the Archon came to Heleus, he demolished our sovereign state -- took what he wanted, as if we were nothing. Now, the kett mercilessly abduct angara. Often, we never see our people again.
I love how Persephone was build up as secretly a super wrathful goddess (Ares literally calls her "the angriest Goddess in the whole pantheon" aside from Hera) and we get all these glimpses of a possible dark side - and in the end Persephone's "wrath" is just super underwhelming.
Her original Act of Wrath wasn't even actually one. She killed one guy in a daze, then spent the rest of the supposed AOW crying and stumbling around.
When she's the Dread Queen and going up against Kronos she's just super-chill the whole way through, not even a hint of anger there.
And after that the "wrathful" side of Persephone is mostly her having temper tantrums and/or bullying people from the working class who aren't able to fight back.
"Oooh, Persephone has so much anger in her" Where? Is the anger present? Is the anger in the room with us right now?
He's got daddy issues he's got mommy issues he's got brother issues he’s got surrogate father figure issues he’s got issues with the guy who’s not even his brother but pretended to be his brother once in a complicated dicks-out marriage fraud situation. Somehow he is simultaneously working for and working against every single faction in the story. He's my precious little catboy he's a war criminal (literal) he’s done everything wrong in his entire life. 5 different guys are trying to gaslight him simultaneously and one is hunting him for sport. Every single found family this man has been part of has divorced him. His own creator doesn’t understand why he’s popular with female fans despite illustrating a whole scene where he loads a rifle with his tongue. The healthiest relationship he has ever maintained in his entire life is with a man he’s never spoken to, they just watch each other eat snow through binoculars. Even all the other traitors and murderers he hangs out with think he’s a fucked up little freak. The nicest thing he ever did for anyone was shoot himself in the face and die
˗ˏˋ TAYLOR SWIFT
winner of Favorite Pop Album, Favorite Female Pop Artist, Favorite Music Video, Favorite Country Album, Favorite Female Country Artist, and Artist of the Year
— the 2022 American Music Awards
You know, in the past few years, I have released more music than I did in the entire decade preceding that. And I really feel like that’s down to the fact that you, the fans, made it clear that you wanted to hear lots of music that I would make. You encouraged me. And so I found that the more music I made, and the more music I put out, the happier I was [...] So I have the fans to thank, essentially, for my happiness. And I love you more than I can say. I cannot express how unbelievable it is to me that I still get to do this and that you still care. So, thank you underlined with 13 exclamation points, I don’t know what to say, I love you!
Taylor Swift attends the 2022 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California on November 20, 2022.