#and that in and of itself is poetic

[thechaosgods]

I’m mythologizing the ideas of Jaegers again.

Imagine your whole life is spent with fighting, but from the *MOMENT YOU WAKE UP* to the moment you fall back asleep, eternally- or you get turned off. All you feel is the love and devotion and fervor of your pilots.

I feel that it would make a god out of anything. The simple worship of life itself born of pain and misery.

I feel that the Jaegers would be the most loving things in the shatterdomes, simply out of principle.

#pacific rim #I feel that this fandom kinda under-appreciates them #and it’s not bad but it’s a little sad #they are cultivated though their pilots and their care and devotion to their planet and way of life #and that in and of itself is poetic #we as humans are simply a fragment of their mind #but we are still encompassing them in their entirety #pacific rim jaegers #jaegers #pacrim

[somerandomdudelmao]

Besides the movie (if there is), was there anything else that made you create this amazing comic?

Actually..ahahfjgj aCTUally, the movie wasn't what inspired this comic at all.

Fanfics and comics, however....

#I mean #come on #those 3 minutes is cool #but not enough for me #but fanfics #they add so much depth and context #they made me love the future timeline #and I always draw stories about things I love so~ #I think it kinda means that this comic was created because of the fandom #not because of the franchise itself #poetic #in a way

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area) #but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad' #some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though... #bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!! #and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥 #and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

[kwillow]

Started this back in February when it was more topical but... I suppose no time is a good time for romance as far as Theo is concerned.

#doing a meme like the old deviantart days #good for the soul #theo #my draws #amaranthine #technically #i could ramble on about some of the choices here but perhaps it'd be best to let it speak for itself #also i think that's supposed to say “physical touch” but i couldn't find a font that matches to correct it #so my neurotic self had to leave the author's typo for the sake of aesthetic coherency #ok one piece of commentary: brain problems + highly repressed upbringing = where i put theo on the kinky slider. it had to be there #you should think less '50 shades' and more '50 year old guys waxing poetic about quicksand scenes in old adventure films' for that one #he's not a quicksand guy. but that's the vibe.

[kalpalatas]

(slowly unhinging) it wasn't the earrings and the touching that made hirano realise the entire actual depth of kagi's feelings for him. it was basketball.

#(yelling into a megaphone) #HIRANO UNDERSTANDS KAGI LOVES HIM BECAUSE THE KAGI HE LOVES IS THE KAGI WHO LOVES BASKETBALL #AM I MAKING SENSE #i could be more poetic about it but its 1am and this paper wont write itself #kghr #hirano to kagiura

[fangznhxlos]

healers who transfer wounds onto themselves will never not be a great concept btw

#pvpspeak #like as a game mechanic spending hp to heal others is cool #also just kinda hot in itself #and narratively poetic of the self-sacrificing character #with a hint of sh fetishisation

[myreputatioooon]

If I can be Stupid For SIGNALIS againt he fact that Elster literally has it hardwired into her code to obey shit like no running in halls and no more than six objects even though is fucking w/ me

#SIGNALIS #for later #if she were human i would waxing poetics about how 'Its a metaphor for how thourghly Da Rulez were instilled into her!' #'obviously. why else would she follow rules destrimental to survival with no authority to punish or applaud her for doing it?' #'unless following the ruels has becomes the reward itself?' #which is in fact what im feeling but a yeah sure that can read into Elster still obeying the stupid rules #and reconciled with the likely in-universe possibilty she is Designed to Not Break Rules #i forgot where i was going ng lmao #LSTR #Elster

[mishy-mashy]

What point is there in ruling the world, if the people you want in it are already gone?

The goal to rule the world is hollow now. All For One wanted a world where everyone existed for his sake.

Yet, the one person (possession) he wanted most by his side, as the one whose dreams inspired him to find his own, and the first person AFO declared them to, is already gone.

#id put that extra stuff in tags but theyre usually swept off and i want that image for reference #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #spoilers #afo #all for one #yoichi shigaraki #419 #407 #this thing posted itself prematurely man #anyway the italic line was the first thing i thought of when i saw this chapter #is the world worth it if you have nothing in it you find valuable anymore? do you still want it by then? #without people you want to see live whose sake do you live for? #for afo who lived to possess everything... when the last thing he really wanted (his brother) is gone he just lives for himself #whatever is left of him after yoichi truly disappears #tried doing that thing where people post a pic and put some italic text under it but its not my style #feels weird to look at this eugh. im not poetic

[theprinceandthewitch]

Stringbean was a mistake because Luz shouldn't be given something that brings her closer to Azura's image. Luz being able to separate fantasy from reality was something Witches Before Wizards set-up as a lesson Luz needed to learn so she could grow as a person. If Luz actually needed to use a palisman during her final fight with Philip it should have been Flapjack. As Flapjack is the physical representation of Caleb's and Evelyn's love AND Luz is obviously the "Evelyn" to Hunter's "Caleb".

In this essay I will

#lunter #dont get me wrong this show is still dead to me. #but i was thinking about ways for Flapjack to die that are meaningful to the story and not insulting to his character #and i was like... Flapjack insisting Luz uses him after Hunter risks his life to bring her back to life #is 1000% more interesting than Luz getting her own palisman #also having Flapjack sacrifice himself to bring Hunter back from the dead so that history doesnt repeat itself... #poetic cinema

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

There are three count them three modern pieces of media that I consider to be basically the modern equivalent to the tradition of poetic heroic epics, i.e. Gilgamesh, Homeric, arthuriana, etc.

The first and easiest is superhero comics. Self explanatory.

The second is unfortunately all nine Star Wars movies, plus andor and Rogue One. The rest are less exercises in storycrafting and more the quickest and easiest possible cashgrabs guided by production priorities and nostalgia bait and not thematic execution. Yes I know that also describes the last three Star Wars movies, that’s why I said unfortunately.

The third is the WHEEL OF TIME yes that’s right this is just another post of me saying why people should read and/or watch the wheel of time congratulations. I think Rand al’Thor and Achilles would get along. I would include Arthur Paendrag in this but I KNOW he and Rand would get along great because he is already IN the wheel of time. Just like every other concept that anyone has ever said ‘I wish more fantasy did this’ Robert Jordan already did that shit and he started in the 90s!!!

#the wheel of time is itself an epic poetic cycle ABOUT epic poetic cycles in this essay I will #the wheel of time #caitie speaks #wot liveblog #hey actually wot folks gather round #this is going to be a spoiler non book readers and people who don’t want to be spoiled look away #if the ta’veren boys are like. to some degree the equivalent of the Norse gods. #separated by a few ages #where in the full cosmological timeline of the wheel of time do we think the equivalent of the classical Greek ‘heroic age’ falls

[beanghostprincess]

Do you think someone getting a fruit is just an accident or is this some kind of destiny?

Mmm. Saying it's destiny does sound a lot more poetic and it's said fruits have a soul of their own and it would make sense that a lot of these devil fruit users were found by the fruit and not the other way around. However! I think destiny gets in the way of freedom and being the one to act upon your dreams and decisions and free will, so maybe it's some kind of destiny. But also maybe, in Luffy's case, he was just a stupid kid who wanted to follow his dream so bad he chose to act freely and eat the fruit. And I think the fact that Luffy ate it because of his personality and views on freedom is more poetic than destiny itself. Maybe it's a mix. They were destined to find each other at some point, but because Luffy is the personification of freedom and joy, he kind of found his way to it on his own. I think it really depends on the fruit and the character, ngl.

#honestly who else would eat that fruit if it isn't a kid (joy itself) following his dream (freedom) #so you can say it's destiny but i say it's chance and that's even more poetic #but also maybe the fruit was silly goofing around and destiny brought them together who knows #a lot of fruits are oddly specific and fit the characters too well for it to be pure chance so maybe destiny does have something to do #but in luffy's case i think destiny is a bit odd considering it gets in the way of free will #and if you asked him he'd say he did it bc he wanted to and that destiny doesn't exist bc nothing should be able to control your choices #one piece #monkey d. luffy

[videogamelover99]

PLEASE tell me more about emily dickinson. she looks so rad.

Ah, ofc!

My process for her was basically this:

I wanted Chuuya to have another foil, one that functioned similarly to Dostoyevsky being a foil for Dazai. I wanted Chuuya to have his own Fyodor character, someone who can rival his prowess in battle while having polar opposite ways of handling the way they live.

I needed a poet, and I needed one that had similar vibes to Nakahara Chuuya's poetry, from what I've seen of it. And this is a hot take, but I think Emily Dickinson deals with a lot of the same themes? They both deal with grief and beauty and a lot of their poems are melancholic in nature. There's also some similarity in their biographies. Both of them were pretty obscure before their death (though Dickinson published even less). Both had an antagonistic relationship with education. Dickinson is also sometimes classified as a "transcendentalist" (though a lot of scholars don't agree on that front, and that her verse is a lot more innovative for the time).

I'm sure there's probably another poet who is more similar, but I was also a big fan of Emily Dickinson before this so...yeah.

I'm rearranging a lot of my ideas for this character, especially when it comes to her power. Lets just say I was deliberately avoiding an obvious choice for her power, but then I was like "Why, when that poem is rad". So, maybe I'll reveal more later?

#bsd #asks #ocs #emily dickinson #bascially both of them were influenced by the transcendentalist movement so theres that obvious parallel there #nakahara lived almost a century later though so they are very different in terms of poetic verse itself. translation wise at least

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I love how Station Eleven is an apocalyptic novel, but it's so diametrically opposed to the dystopian or usual post-apocalyptic genres. it's prose and narrative art at its best, kinda vague except where it's very specific, very grounded in humanity and storytelling. in a world where the apocalyptic genre is full of nitty-gritty dark stories of survival and overcoming, Station 11 is instead essentially a story told through prose poetry, about telling stories. there's something really cool about that.

#like it's almost self-aware bc it's a story about the arts and how storytelling is important and the book itself #is written very poetically and artictically stylistic #obsessed with the prose style honestly i want to create something that feels like that #Lu rambles #i haven't said a ton about this book but that's bc this month has been FULL of Very Good Media for me #and it's all kind of simmering. but i just wanted to say this #station eleven #i do intend to watch the hbo show btw. like for a comparison

[moe-broey]

Like @ prev post (don't wanna sound too insane in op's tags even though this is the being insane about your blorbos website)

I feel like it has A LOT of comedic potential especially in a setting where you can't just look shit up on your phone and get Shrimp Image, like part of the comedy here would be Alfonse going across the fucking room, fishing out a very specific random ass book on his bookshelf, flipping through it and then Finding Shrimp Image, PHYSICALLY presenting the book and pointing at the Shrimp. Comedic potential off the fucking charts here for physical comedy and props, ect ect

But the thing is. The thing is. I think Alfonse would be Just As Bad as his freak summoner. Like I think you can argue him landing in either camp about it, and the potential is So There, but I have arrived at the Hard Stance that Alfonse would not only share his toothbrush with you if you asked, he would be REALLY NOT NORMAL ABOUT IT.

#one thing about alfonse in my mind is that he is a bit of an obsessive weirdo. he's good at hiding it (mostly) #he WILL find a way to erotize sharing a toothbrush. he will find a way to wax poetic and pine over it. #an indirect kiss...... #he's just not well-adjusted about it at all. #i do think that post could work between my trainer and arven though. esp since arven is a clean freak #he WOULD be really fucking bothered by that LMFAOOOOO #and then a comic like that would be ultizing pokemon setting and rules which also could lend itself to extra layers of comedy #but also when the pokemon fixation is off it's off. #i. cannot fucking maintag this i will sound fuckinh insane.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone." ― Larry Brown

[poetic outlaws]

#quotes #life itself #poetic outlaws #Larry Brown

[xserpx]

Logen looked at his bloody hands, slowly turning them over and over. They were his hands, no doubt. There was the missing finger. ‘Nothing’s changed,’ he mumbled to himself. Bayaz straightened up, brushing the dirt from his knees. ‘When has it ever?’ He held out the sword out to Logen, hilt first. ‘I think you’ll still be needing this.’ Logen stared at the blade for a moment. It was clean, dull grey, just as it had always been. Unlike him, it showed not so much as a scratch from the hard use it had seen that day. He didn’t want it back. Not ever. But he took it anyway.

— The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

#the first law #the blade itself #joe abercrombie #logen ninefingers #bayaz #poetic cinema tbh #just so much about this i loveeeeee #bayaz nudging logen back to violence #bayaz who is himself changeless #logen looking at his hands #knowing how it ends esp in light of red country! #i think this is the most i've ever enjoyed TBI lmao idk #i even like SULT this time i mean who am i???