#of the eldest gods

[oftheeldestgodspod]

We think the paintballs probably have centaur blood in them. It just makes sense.

#pjo #percy jackson #of the eldest gods #oteg #my cabbages! #podcasts #podcast episode

[mugentakeda]

couldnt stop thinking about this idea i had of lu tens spirit being tethered to his medal that zuko gave iroh at his funeral so hes now cursed to have a front row seat to all their life-threatening shenanigans without actually being able to do anything about it so hes the most stressed guardian spirit of all time

#not even being able to finally chill in the afterlife after dying brutally would definitely happen to an eldest sibling i feel like #i always find ways to insert my beautiful lovely oc lu ten (joke) into everything. but this time i dont really have to try hard thank god #ALSO I THINK IM GETTING THE HAND OF DRAWING NATLA IROH... AMEN #iroh #zuko #lu ten #netflix avatar #natla #avatar the last airbender #atla #alicias art

[s0mewhereweaknessis0urstrength]

The way Kate is bascially season one Anthony toward Edwina's suitors:

Pure poetry. 😄

#anthony bridgerton #kate sharma #anthony x kate #kanthony #bridgerton #eldest siblings #thank god they found each other #for their siblings sakes

[upperranktwo]

☆Gifset Per Episode - Kimetsu No Yaiba☆

Swordsmith Village EP01 - Someone's Dream

#knyedit #knysource #dailyanimatedgifs #fyanimegifs #kimetsu no yaiba #kny #demon slayer #sky gifs #usergojoana #useradrienne #usermica #tuserelena #usergokalp #userokkottsus #useraki #userartless #omg back at it again with this series!!!!! #also can you believe it's my first time gifing kokushibo #god I love that he is a twin and the eldest one as well he is LITERALLY me #I saw this episode in cinema like 3 times btw #I paid like 40 quid total to watch..... someone that much I am literally so normal it's crazy #will probably try and spread out the uploads of these unlike the last ones were it was everyday sadhjasdasdsa just wanted to make a start!! #loved this episode so so so much!!!! #I will never get over akaza that panel always made me laugh #remember when me and one of my mutuals did matching icons of it for the entire summer in 2021 omg #time flies

[randomprose]

i get him. i get him so much. i am the eldest kid and this is how i look like. the eyes, the bags under his eyes, the cigarette, yeah yeah that's The Long Suffering Eldest Kid Look™️

BUT WAIT. YOU KNOW WHAT GETS ME HERE?? YOU KNOW WHAT?? HE CHENG WAS GETTING A MASSAGE. HE WAS RELAXING. He probably just finished a whole day of meetings and doing mob boss things and then he gets a fucking call that he’s stupid little brother and his stupid friends have done more stupid things and he has to bail them out AGAIN because Brother Qiu would kill them himself if he doesn’t.

So now here He Cheng is. In his bathrobe. Outside. In the rain. Watching as his stupid brother and his stupid friends climb out of Qiu's carーwhich was actually He Cheng's and which he thinks Qiu probably damaged on purpose just to get back at him foisting He Tian and his friends at him. He Cheng probably didn't even get to finish his massage. He's having the universal Eldest Child experience of something going wrong the second he tries to relax all because his little brother is such a little shit. That cigarette dangling from his mouth is his last life line to sanity.

#19 days #he cheng #my god i relate to this man on a spiritual level #shitposts #i am in love with him your honor #his eyes are so dead is just so quintessential Eldest Child #your eyes will go dead too if you have HT as a brother #HC is exhausted not bc of his job but bc HT is such a piece of shit #mine

[brother-emperors]

ANTONY: if Caesar doesn't set Sextius Baculus up in a house worthy of Lucullus for all that he did, I'll kill him myself.

so the fun thing about the Caesarians is that there is. weird stuff happening in there. a lot of focus seems to go towards non Caesarian dissent, specifically with the conspiracy of Cassius and Brutus, but there's like. stuff going on in Caesar's own camp that's very Intriguing.

There's a couple places where you can see some clear points that would be grounds for a conspiratorial falling out between Caesar and Trebonius, but from the way that Trebonius tries to seduce Antony over to conspiracy, I wonder if there was a secret third thing that was going on since Antony turned him down but. didn't snitch intriguing!

anyway, all of this is to say that this means I get to invent some shit. like, I'm drawing comics which is already invention, but this is one where I get to really start throwing stuff into the narrative soup because it has to set up three different character arcs (Trebonius, and then Antony twice)

(in theory, this would be explained in the story itself if I did the entirety of the Gallic Wars out as a comic. which I have not done because I do not want to draw horses. I wanted to fuck around with some panel layouts and not draw a single horse, so now I will provide the context and revisit this in the future)

Antony's comment about Trebonius running himself into a grave has to do with the Caesar's Gallic Wars have a lot of men doing a whole lot for Caesar that has me going. hey. hey guys. uh.

specifically, Sextius Baculus:

The War for Gaul, Julius Caesar (trans James J. O'Donnell)

and the closing comment from Antony is playing on several things: romans claiming gods on their family tree (see: Legendary Genealogies in Late-Republican Rome, T.P. Wiseman for more on this) and then divinization arc of Caesar and Octavian. Antony himself will later be taking part the same kind of god-association that has prompted his disdain in this scene

At any rate, when Antony made his entry into Ephesus, women arrayed like Bacchanals, and men and boys like Satyrs and Pans, led the way before him, and the city was full of ivy and thyrsus-wands and harps and pipes and flutes, the people hailing him as Dionysus Giver of Joy and Beneficent. For he was such, undoubtedly, to some; but to the greater part he was Dionysus Carnivorous and Savage.

Plutarch, Antony 24

and the second layer of thematic fun: Antony's later relationship with his soldiers is something similar to what Caesar had with his here, but ultimately: decayed. Antony's love affair with his military makes his failure to lead well at the end a worse betrayal. at some point I'll talk about Antony's Tormentous Military Nightmare and cite some academic sources, but Linda Bamber's description of the final tragedy of Antony and his men lives in my head rent free

Cleopatra and Antony, Linda Bamber

where's the fun in doing identity focused tragedy if you don't become unrecognizable to yourself later on! isn't that right mark antony

ko-fi⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

#gaius trebonius #mark antony #man. this explanation for the scene. is longer than the three panels. #anyway i changed my mind about how trebonius gets his eyebrow scar. he gets it during his Fight with caelius #oh! the crassus mentioned here is the eldest son! sure hope something bad doesn't happen like his father and brother dying haha ha h-- #(head in hands) #long post #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #anyway. i need to. i need to get my sketch book. this book i was reading called trebonius a pro cassian commander #and im fucking. losing my mind about that. oh my god.

[danielslaw]

ROBB STARK AND JON SNOW being proclaimed kings in the north by the northern houses. GOT 1x10 / GOT 6x10 THE YOUNG WOLF AND THE WHITE WOLF

#gotedit #asoiaf #asoiafedit #robb stark #jon snow #gotjonsnow #gotrobbstark #caliedits #game of thrones #caligifs #my kings in the north! #i know this been giffed endlessly #i don't care i wanted their faces : #catelyn's face is motherly pride mixed with worry #that's her baby boy her eldest and he is now king #i love how their expressions sort of mirror one another #ned prayed to the old gods that they were close as brothers and behold they are brothers they are mirrors

[shellem15]

Thinking about the Dawnfather. A god of light, a god of harvest, a god of the sun itself. Good but not nice, kind but not soft. Life-giving but also scorching. Protective, warm, and kind, but also stern, harsh, and abrasive. His light can foster growth, can protect and guide, but it can also scorch and burn. The sun is warm and nurturing but don’t stare at it too long, child, it’ll blind you.

Was he always so hard? Did he always hide his face with the harsh light of the sun? Or was there a time when he smiled and laughed, let others see him as he truly was?

Thinking about the Schism. Was the Dawnfather close to the Betrayer Gods before they turned? He must have been, Asmodeus wouldn’t be so hung up on him if he wasn’t. Speaking of Asmodeus, he was once a being of light, like the Dawnfather and the Everlight are now. Were they closer than the others? When the Gods came to Exandria, did they come from the same place or were they scattered, a ragtag group of survivors fleeing from predators seeking to devour them? And if the latter is true, did these three beings of light come from the same place? Siblings, born from the same stuff, forever tied to one another?

If this was the case, then, what was their relationship before the Schism? Did they call each other “Brother” and “Sister”? Did they hold each other when they were scared, dry each other’s tears, laugh and joke and tease and fight and make up because they were siblings and they’d always be together, and they loved each other with every fiber of their being and they only had each other. When Predathos came, when it devoured two of their newfound siblings, did the Dawnfather hold them both and promise them that everything was going to be okay because he was their brother and he was going to protect them, all of them. The gods, mortals, the world itself, they would not be devoured, they would not be destroyed, because he was there and would fight until his very last breath to keep them safe.

Wondering then, was that the moment when Asmodeus truly grew to hate their creations? Seeing his brother and sister and siblings risk their lives just to protect some mewling mortal wretches when they could just leave it all behind and start somewhere new. Was that the moment when he realized that mortals had done something to them, changed them when they were not supposed to change. Why else would they risk being devoured by Predathos, why else would they suffer through war with the Primordials? Why else would they choose them over him!? Was this the moment when he decided to conspire with the Primordials and the other Betrayer Gods? To destroy this world and the mortals on it so they could finally leave. And they would leave, of course, because the Dawnfather was his brother and the Everlight was his sister and the Gods were a family, and at the end of the day, they would always be together, and once the corrupting influence of those mortals was gone, they would surely all see reason.

And when the Dawnfather discovered this betrayal, when all the Prime Deities did, he must have been furious. How could they!? His kin, his brother, who had always been by his side through everything, how could they turn around and destroy their creations, their children. And so he and the other Primes took up arms and fought against their own family to protect this world they had created, and their children who inhabited it. Those battles must have been brutal, bonds of comradery broken, kin clashing against kin, screaming curses as they tore each other apart.

During those final battles of the Schism, when the Dawnfather clashed against Asmodeus, did they scream at each other in rage? A twisted reflection of previous squabbles, different because this time it was real, this time there is no forgiveness, no making up. When the Dawnfather knocked Asmodeus down, crushed his throat under his foot and banished him to the Hells, was he yelling when he disowned him? Or was he quiet when he did it, his voice going into a low growl, deadly calm as he told him that he was not his brother anymore. And moments previously, when the Dawnfather could have easily killed him, did he look into Asmodeus’s eyes and see his brother? Scared and hurt by his hands, hands that once held him and swore to protect him. In that moment, did the Dawnfather realize he couldn’t kill him? Because that was his brother and despite everything, he still loved him, and hurting him brought him more grief and pain than he could ever imagine. So instead, he banished him, locked him and all the other Betrayers away because he and the other Primes couldn’t bring themselves to kill their family, but they also couldn’t let them free.

Was this when the Dawnfather obscured his face? Hardened his heart because otherwise he would break, and he cannot break, because the other gods need him to be strong, because Exandria needs him to be strong. And so he stayed strong, despite the grief, despite the guilt, despite the pain of heartbreak, of hurting the ones he loved to protect the ones he loved. And this hardening must have continued, running himself ragged during Calamity, beating back Tharizdun, protecting Ioun after she almost died, sheltering the Everlight after Asmodeus once again betrayed her, stabbed her in the back and left her broken and weak when all she wanted was to do was get her brother back, to save him from his own wrath. Failure after failure after failure to protect those he cared about, to protect his siblings and mortals and Exandria itself. The guilt of his failures must be overwhelming, and these are his failures: Predathos devoured his siblings under his watch, his siblings betrayed them under his watch, Calamity ravaged Exandria under his watch, and even now, the threat of Predathos has once again returned under his watch.

No wonder he is so harsh now, so controlling now: because every time he has failed in his vigilance the world has suffered for it. He can’t fail again; he can’t lose any more siblings. And so, he continues hardening his heart, continues fighting, because the sun must always rise again in the morning, no matter what.

#did i make my first post a 1000+ word essay about the dawnfather? yes #did i write this instead of doing my work? also yes #would i do it again? absolutely #i have so many thoughts about the gods of exandria #i want to shake them in a jar and examine them under a microscope #it is my foremost belief that pelor has eldest daughter syndrome #like surface pressure from encanto is literally the perfect pelor song tell me im wrong #he is so stressed. all the time #like pelor IS a dick. absolutely #he has definitely done some fucked up shit #but he's not malicious or evil. hes doing what he thinks will protect everyone #he is in desperate need of a nap. a hug. and a therapist #this definitely delves into headcanon territory but i dont care #critical role #cr spoilers #cr meta #cr headcanons #dawnfather #everlight #cr asmodeus #pelor the dawnfather #cr sarenrae #cr gods #shelley's overdramatic character analysis

[deesi-academia]

i eldest sister-ed too hard and now my younger siblings cant talk to me openly because im "too perfect to understand their imperfections"

#mission failed successfully #dear god i am NOT your strongest soldier #where do i go from here. #eldest daughter #eldest sibling #desiblr #desi #chaotic academia #humor #memes #desi culture #eldest child

[matmiraculous]

My AU's

Goofy post about all the Au's I have/coparent

Eldest and Youngest: John comes back to raise little Branch after Grandma dies. https://archiveofourown.org/works/52235974/chapters/132132889 and https://archiveofourown.org/works/53586511/chapters/135644155 Flower Au: An alternate version of Eldest and Youngest where John also takes in young Creek. Unusual Brother: John finds Creek after movie 1 Cocreated by @ijjstlostthegame https://archiveofourown.org/works/52791313/chapters/133523965 Naturally: John Dory but he's got kids and trauma and he's old https://archiveofourown.org/works/52625296/chapters/133113991 Dad JD au: An alternate version of Naturally where he has even more kids and a bit less trauma but a lot more grey hair.

Bug AU: An Au where JD and Clay are a team in the wild and Grey Spruce raised Floyd and Branch. Also they're moth fairies.

God AU: Brozone are gods and JD is very very very sad.

#trolls #trolls band together #trolls 3 #dreamworks trolls #trolls john dory #john dory #eldest and youngest au #the eldest and the youngest #tbt #trolls tbt #trolls branch #trolls creek #trolls brozone #trolls au #bug au #god au #fankids #trolls bruce #trolls spruce #trolls clay

[oftheeldestgodspod]

Charlie and Raye have finished their show coverage, so OTEG is returning to The Last Olympian. Here's our newest episode on chapter 10.

#pjo #percy jackson #of the eldest gods #oteg #podcast #pjo podcast #podcast episode #the last olympian

[keefechambers]

All hail the new Planetary Governor of Arrakis!

#dune #dune 2 #house harkonnen #feyd-rautha harkonnen #glossu rabban #vladimir harkonnen #god the damage this man did to these two #rabban's barely contained terror and eldest daughter syndrome vs feyd being fully brainwashed and into it

[cluescorner]

I gave myself a writing challenge and I am fascinated by it

So basically I put the robins in a randomizer to give them a new order/role (because I just...kinda wanted to see what would happen + I like role-reversal AUs) and got results that are giving me a fucking brain blast.

Stephanie, the first sidekick who defines the role

Tim, the sidekick who dies and comes back wrong

Dick, the sidekick who saves Batman from himself

Damian, the sidekick who was never supposed to be a sidekick but would go on to prove everyone wrong

Jason, the youngest sidekick who is still the Kid Wonder

...So this is fucking wild. I've got some ideas and several of these fit perfectly (Dick's role is pretty similar to his one in canon), but some of these are fucking INCREDIBLE to explore (Steph being the first Robin is something I never even considered but tbh I kinda love it).

I probably won't write a fic or anything because tbh I don't like publishing my writing that much, but I might expand this into a full AU and post about it. I might randomize other stuff too (ie, stuff that I cannot change vs stuff that I cannot keep the same) but this fucking rules as a starting point.

#uhhh what am I calling this?? #randomizedrobinsau #stephanie brown #oh my god I am so excited to figure out how tf to write this. #because she's my favorite of these characters and having HER be the first sidekick + the one who has a mentor/older sister relationship #with the others?? kickass. though I'll probably keep her and Tim's relationship as 'dating-then-exes' because I think it's funny #and then SHE can be the Robin who Tim got fixated on + figured out her identity?? holy fuck and then the angst of Tim later dying #Tim Drake #tbh I kinda wish he'd gotten a different position because 'sidekick who dies' Tim has kinda been done a lot with the standard #reverse robin aus. But it'll still be fun to write. Definitely going the Joker Junior route with this because Batman Beyond kicks ass #Dick Grayson #He'll honestly probably be the easiest. Like...his role has not changed much outside of being younger/not the one who defines this #But I still think it'll be good to see how well I know Dick beyond his eldest brother thing (which is my best way of relating to him) #Damian al ghul #damian wayne #oh this is gonna kick ass #Bruce does not want his son to be a sidekick but Damian just kinda forces his way into that role #and everybody doubts him because of his history with the league but he later proves himself more than capable #to the point that he can set out mostly on his own and still thrive #Jason Todd #Jason being the baby of the family is also something I have never thought about but holy shit it could kick ass #I really hope that I don't roll 'Jason must die' or 'Robin 5 must die' on the randomizer. I just kinda want Jason to live this time #But unfortunately I double-screwed him because he's on the 'must happen' wheel twice now. I did not think these prompts through #TBH I am so happy that none of them rolled their OG roles. because that would have been so fucking boring

[renarin-spren]

reading a Sanderson book is like. wow I can't wait to read the most fucked up insane sibling dynamic ever

#im a simple man. i read Sanderson i think about what it means to be a sibling and then i scream #wasps are trapped in my head everytime i think about how adolin and renarin literally adore each other #but then you hop over to mistborn and read about kelsier and marsh and youre like FUCK oh my GOD #lets not even delve into how hard i go thinking about shallan and her brothers #something something ive known you since the day you were born and i love you so much but sometimes i have to hold back #AND TIEN??? ohhhhhh ohhhh my god #Kaladin sums up the eldest sibling thing he really does like. imagine. #tien being the person who cheers him up and then LOSING HIM?? #then getting a bio brother plus all of bridge four as brothers #im sobbing <3 #stormlight archive #cosmere #renarin kholin #adolin kholin #tien #brandon sanderson

[introspectivememories]

#god i don't remember what fic this was from #but i remember reading and thinking '...huh.' #i've read so many atwow fics recently it's insane #also the jake & spider dynamic is insane to me #wait it was from that one locorro sentinel/guide fic #back to the dynamic though #this is a kid you've seen grown up. your children call him brother. your mate calls him demon. #in the darkest corners of your heart where no one can see the depth of affection you hold for him you call him son. #you will never say this aloud. you see too much of your other self in him. he is more na'vi than you ever will be. #he knows the songs better than neteyam. his bow posture is better than lo'ak's. his weaving better than some in the clan. #kiri and him are so close you sometimes wonder where one starts and the other ends #tuk does not know a life without him. still you say nothing. #(the rda takes him and you will yourself to ignore lo'ak and kiri's pleas to go back. you ignore neteyam's heavy gaze. tuk's wails for him. #desperately you try to convince yourself that youre doing the right thing. after all it's not like hes your son right? just a family friend #you do your best to ignore the part of you that screams for your eldest son. you are unsuccessful.) #(this action will have consequences.) #jake sully #tsyeyk suli #spider socorro #spider te suli tsyeyk'itan #avatar james cameron

[floof-writes]

Kristen is only 17 years old. Her parents abandoned her. She is looking for certainty and is only finding doubt. She's hurting and struggling and her brain feels like mush.

Cassandra is only 5 months old. Her creator is abandoning her, but won't actually let go. She is looking for love and is only finding doubt. She won't abandon her back. She's hurting and struggling and her chest feels like it's fracturing.

Kristen made her bed. And it's not a bed it's a person. And she has a responsibility to either hang on or let go. She can't do both. Executive dysfunction explains but does not excuse. Get her help.

#look #Kristen's situation is far more analogous to a teen mom situation than a child hero/eldest daughter syndrome situation #Kristen chose this and she has the right to let it go #she has the right to let go of the responsibility and help Cassandra go to a place (summer court) where she won't be in danger #but then what? #she feels like a failure #and she's so scared of that #(and god if Cassandra left of her own accord what a mess Kristen would become) #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #cassandra #i love them both #don't pretend like either is in a powerful position here