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banes-favourite · 26 days
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what imagining how gortash could have turned out had he been shown a slither of kindness from literally anyone as a child feels like
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authoratmidnight · 6 months
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that last post got me thinking about Greek heroes/characters who end in tragedy and, you know most people don't think of as a tragic character but 100% is?
Narcissus.
Literally all people really remember is 'he's the self absorbed guy who fell in love in with his reflection' which yes, did happen but, like, you wanna know WHY that happened?
He was CURSED.
Narcissus was a hunter, the son of, either a river god and a nymph or a mortal man and the goddess of the moon Selene, depending on the version. He was, by all accounts, very beautiful and men and women alike fell for him, but he turned them all down.
And it was turning down one of these advances that got him cursed.
I've read some versions that say it was him turning down the nymph Echo that got him cursed; and there's other were it was a young man that had fallen for him that he turned down he got him cursed(tho the Echo story still happened).
Either way, someone was turned down and, bitter and broken hearted, turned to the goddess Nemesis to curse Narcissus. And she did, she cursed him to never be able to be with the person he loved/to fall in love with his reflection. And so, the next time he saw his reflection in a pool of water he fell hopelessly in love with it.
And he eventually died, either b/c he just wasted away looking at his reflection, or because he straight up committed suicide. And then turned into a flower that bears his name.
And yet. Somehow he's only ever remembered as 'a self absorbed guy who fell in love with his reflection' and his name short hand for someone who is shallow and vain and self obsessed and generally just, all around negative connotations.
So not only is his story itself a tragedy in the confines of the myth (literally, all he did wrong was, turn down unwanted advances, and not even advances form like a god, just ordinary ppl), but outside the myth it's tragic as he's been reduced to 'hurr hurr guy who loved his reflection'.
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vroom-vrooms · 1 month
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When my card declines at therapy so they show me little max (I can’t save him)
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freakurodani · 2 months
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the avatar was hope
but do you ever think of the horror people felt, when they saw aang and saw that he was a child, and that he held so much weight on his shoulders?
when they grieved, do you think it was for him, his childhood, his people? or his inexperience?
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popponn · 5 months
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sae going to spain at 13 and coming out like that makes so much sense actually
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cosmic-khaos · 4 months
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Just listened to the newest dndads episode! I am,,, NOT OKAY
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chapinii · 5 months
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nobody ever mentions just how young q!cellbit was in the war and it stabs me in the heart everytime I think about it.
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aerticent · 2 years
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I've mentioned it before but I'll say it again. It makes me so genuinely upset that Annabelle and Julien never get told off for their treatment of Maven. Like I don't believe that Cal wouldn't at some point tell them off for how they treated Maven when he was growing up. Cal beats himself up for not saying anything or noticing anything when he was child, but you have two grown adults who KNEW what Elara was capable of. They knew that she was capable of getting into peoples heads without them ever realizing and they never thought that maybe they should at least try to help this child. But that's not even the best part, they never noticed anything was off about Maven because they never cared enough about him to get close to him. HE WAS A CHILD. He didn't kill Coriane. And instead of shining a light on that and acknowledging that yes Maven did awful, irredeemable things, that doesn't make Annabelle and Julien right in their treatment of him it instead ignores this and just makes it out that they were right in their assumptions of him. Like he wasn't born a monster it didn't happen over night. Maven becoming who he was was a long process that couldve been prevented if anyone had ever cared.
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limetameta · 7 months
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My mother: your friends brother died
Me: no tf he did not he is like 5 years younger than me
Me, checks
Checks out
Me: ????? Why??? Does??? Every??? Year??? Have to involve me giving my condolences?????
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peppsta · 1 year
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Maturing is understanding that what Hugenay did in "Erbe des Meisterdiebs" was another kind of fucked up 😔
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greatapebroly · 2 years
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I get the same vibes from Judd from big mouth and Levi Ackerman
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greyspilot · 2 years
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as an abused kid, i kinda never want to watch stranger things again i need a fucking break
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junkartie · 4 months
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The creator of squid game spending years trying to get his point across that exploiting the poor and desperate for entertainment is bad watching netflix make a spin off of his fictional series where they in fact exploit the poor for entertainment
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mydairpercabeth · 2 months
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Everyone holding Annabeth to an impossible Standard
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And then there’s Percy
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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.
as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."
NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING
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laughingcatwrites · 4 months
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As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.
For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.
But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.
Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.
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