#sid & beowulf

[sillypikmin]

Sid looks like they get into crimes. Would the police be interested in her location?

she's completely innocent 😊

#pikmin oc #sid & beowulf

[chiropteracupola]

tagged in a thing by @verecunda!! it took me ...several weeks to actually do it, but I Have been thinking about it the entire time. so.

rules: list ten books that have stayed with you in some way, don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. LeGuin - this is the book that I spent my whole life looking for, was certain existed, and well - it's real, and was exactly what I needed when I found it, and that's not something that happens often.

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - so many of the best developments of the past few years of my life can be owed directly to this book. which is a wild thing to say, I'll admit.

Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson - ocean's haunted! whales are full of weird goo! and other fun facts written in such a tranquil manner.

Beowulf, as translated by Seamus Heaney - it's Beowulf. what more have I to say. if you know you know.

Bonnie Dundee, Rosemary Sutcliff - that incredibly rare thing, a book that actually depicts the artistic process in a way that makes sense to me as a person who draws.

The Flight of the Heron, D.K. Broster - previously unimaginable occurrences have in fact Repeatedly Occurred because of this book. shan't elaborate as I'm sure you've seen my soupy state of being over the last year or so.

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn Green - almost positive that this was the first book I ever truly Shouted about. there's a half-written stage adaptation written by twelve-year-old em around in some folder somewhere still...

In Small Things Forgotten, James Deetz - sends me into some kind of Architectural Trance every time I read it.

Tim To The Lighthouse, Edward Ardizzone - administer this potion to your children at frequent intervals to most certainly turn them into boat-obsessed scribble artists who will never recover.

By the Great Horn Spoon, Sid Fleischman - ...actually I just realized that a lot of the way and what I write now can be traced directly to having this poured directly into me as a small child as well. hm.

and I shall tag... @sailorpants, @dxppercxdxver, @sanguinarysanguinity, @natdrinkstea, @alizuriacrow, @cytocutie, @what-even-is-sleep, @graveyardrabbit, @annabellioncourt, @cedarboots, if you'd like to share?

#one of those tag things #an example of How I Am About Beowulf is 'happy 21st birthday! I'm going to do an impromptu reading of the first part of beowulf at you!' #...you get the idea.

[starwarmth]

Books Read In 2023

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (1/3/23)

East by Edith Pattou (1/4/23)

Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osbourn (1/16/23)

The Lady or The Tiger?, and The Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton (1/17/23)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1/21/23)

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1/22/23)

Tiger Queen by Annie Sullivan (1/22/23)

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1/26/23)

Batgirl, vol. 1: The Silent Knight (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 2: To The Death (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 3: Point Blank (1/28/23)

The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling (2/17/23)

Batgirl: Stephanie Brown, vol. 1 by Bryan Q. Miller (2/19/23)

Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, vol. 2 by Bryan Q. Miller (3/4/23)

Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren (3/4/23)

The Queen’s Blade by T C Southwell (3/5/23)

Sacrifice, The Queen’s Blade #2 by T C Southwell (3/9/23)

The Invisible Assassin, The Queen’s Blade #3 by T C Southwell (3/13/23)

Mermaids by Patty Dann (3/14/23) X

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald (3/19/23)

The Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos (3/21/23) X

The Missing of Clairedelune by Christelle Dabos (3/22/23) X

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy (3/24/23) X

Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren (3/27/23)

Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono (3/30/23)

Brine and Bone by Kate Stradling (4/10/23)

Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith (4/17/23) X

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Stanley Mitchell (4/22/23)

When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster (4/23/23)

The Princess and The Pea by Hans Christian Anderson (4/23/23)

Deathmark by Kate Stradling (4/25/23)

Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (5/5/23)

River Secrets by Shannon Hale (5/6/23)

The Fairy’s Return and Other Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine (5/8/22)

Batman Adventures: Cat Got Your Tongue? by Steve Vance (5/14/23)

Batman Adventures: Batgirl — A League of Her Own by Paul Dini (5/17/23)

The Girl From The Other Side: Siúil a Rún, Vol. 1 by Nagabe (5/19/23)

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda. Translated by W. S. Merwin (5/26/23)

Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak (6/21/23)

A Bride’s Story, vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori (6/25/23) X

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils (7/17/2023)

Storefront Church by William Waring Cuney (7/24/23)

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), compiled by Arnas Bontemps (7/28/23)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (7/29/23)

Strawberry’s New Friend (Flower Fairy Friends series) by Pippa Le Quesne (7/29/23)

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (8/11/23)

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (8/18/23)

Convent Boarding School by Virginia Arville Kenny (9/05/23)

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (09/18/23)

The Betsy Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace (09/27/23)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall #2) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Caleb’s Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Maelyn by Anita Halle (10/06/23)

Imani All Mine by Connie Porter (10/15/23)

The Perilous Gard (10/22/23)

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery (10/29/23)

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (11/19/23)

Gone By Nightfall by Dee Garretson (12/02/23)

The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim (12/08/23)

A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla (12/10/23)

The Thirteenth Princess by Diane Zahler (12/23/23)

The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle (12/26/23

The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (12/31/23)

#i saw others doing this on tumblr last year and now i want to as well!

[thingsareswinging]

Nobody is ever obliged to care about anyone else’s D&D stories, but I just wrapped an experimental 20th-level campaign, and I need to holler about the most unlikely bullshit that ever happened.

SO. The conceit was that a groundhog day was going on, and these three level 20 heroes had to stop it. Blah blah adventures, but eventually they discovered that the cause of this calamity was an evil time mummy who was trying to remake the timeline into something he found more pleasing. A large gong that was also the entirety of time (one part the shield of achilles one part that one futurama episode where their entire universe is inside a cardboard box) had been shattered to bits and he was trying to glue it back together in such a way that he would be king of everything, essentially.

MEANWHILE. One of the players is running a 20th-level Champion, a pastiche of Don Quixote. He was a very very old man who, as a boy, was inspired to heroism by a book telling the (fictionalised) exploits of a hero named Sid (get it?). He modelled himself after the hero of this book, taking his name and everything, but has been adventuring so long that he has long since forgotten that the book is not about him, and also everyone he meets assumes the book is his biography.

AND SO. After they kill the evil time mummy, Our Heroes are trying to put the timeline back together, and due to some spectacularly mediocre rolls and a very high luck check, they only managed to repair history to about 84% accuracy. And SId physically welded the gong back together using his flaming sword.

WHICH MEANS. Sid has retroactively inserted himself into every folk mythology on the planet. He’s accidentally remade Beowulf and Hiawatha and Gilgamesh in his image. He’s a guy who forgot he wasn’t fictional who has become fictional. His book is now much less popular because it’s just full of tropes. His character arc has become a perfect circle. This is so goddamn stupid.

[iliiuan]

Epic Fantasy through the Ages

A Chronology of Story

This is a work in progress, but here is my list as of 6 July 2023. Please feel free to send me additions or corrections. I have focused on epic (works that are long and took a long time to create) and fantasy (works that include an element of magic, the supernatural, or superpowers). Some of the list could be categorized as myth, some as Literature™️, some as science fiction, but beyond these categories are the two main criteria of epic and fantasy. I also don't fully know what all of the ancient to modern works encompass, but that's the fun of read and find out. I probably have added some things that don't properly meet my criteria, and that's fine with me. 🌺

Works by Mesopotamian Bards (3100 BC - 539 BC)

Enumah Elish (Epic of Creation)

Atrahasis (The Flood)

Epic of Gilgamesh

Descent of Ishtar

Epic of Erra

Etana

Adapa

Anzu

Nergel and Ereshkigal

Avesta by Zoroastrian Bards (1500 BC)

Ramayana by Valmiki (750+ BC)

Mahabharata by Vayasa (750+ BC)

The Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer (650+ BC)

Thoegeny; Works and Days by Hesiod (650+ BC)

Popol Vuh (4th century BC)

The Torah and other Jewish stories (4th century BC)

Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (270 BC)

Bellum Punicam by Gnaeus Naevius (200 BC)

Annales by Ennius (170 BC)

De Rerum Natura by Lucretius (50 BC)

Poem 64 by Catullus (50 BC)

The Aenid by Virgil (19 BC)

Metamorphoses by Ovid (2 AD)

Punica by Silius Italicus (50 AD)

Satyrica by Petronius (60 AD)

Pharsalia or Bellum Civile by Lucan (62 AD)

Argonautica by Valerius Flaccus (70 AD)

Thebaid by Statius (90 AD)

The Irish Myth Cycles: Mythological, Ulster, Fenian, and Kings (3rd Century AD)

The Bible and other Christian stories (5th century AD)

Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis (500 AD)

The Quran and other Muslim stories (7th century AD)

Arabian Nights (7th century AD)

Hildebrandslied and other German heroic lays by Bards (830 AD)

Shahnameh by Ferdowsi (977 or 1010 AD)

Chanson de Roland (1125 AD)

Cantar de Mio Sid (1200 AD)

The Dietrich Cycle (1230 AD)

Poetic Edda and Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson and others (1270 AD)

Beowulf by Old English Bards (11th century AD)

Nibelungenlied by Middle High German Bards (1200)

Amadís de Gaula (13th century AD)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri (1308)

Teseida by Bocaccio (1340 AD)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Middle English Bards (14th century)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1392)

Morgante by Luigi Pulci (1483)

Le morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory (1485)

Orlando Innamorato by Boiardo (1495)

Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1516)

Os Lusiadas by Camoes (1572)

Gerusalemme Liberata by Tasso (1581)

Plays and Poems by William Shakespeare (1589)

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer (1590)

Discourses on the Heroic Poem by Tasso (1594)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1614)

L'Adone by Marino (1623)

Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained by Milton (1667)

Le Lutrin by Boileau (1674)

Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson (1679)

Mac Flecknoe; Aenid English translation by Dryden (1682)

The Dispensary bu Samuel Garth (1699)

The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub by Swift (1704)

The Rape of the Lock; Illiad and Odyssey English translations; Dunciad by Pope (1714)

The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson (1749)

Scribleriad by Richard Owen Cambridge (1751)

Faust by Goethe (1772)

The Triumphs of Temper; Essay on Epic Poetry by William Hayley (1782)

The Task by William Cowper (1785)

Joan of Arc; Thalaba the Destroyer; Madoc; The Curse of Kehama by Southey (1796)

The Prelude; The Execution by Wordsworth (1799)

Jerusalem by Blake (1804)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge (1817)

Laon and Cythna; Peter Bell the Third; Prometheus Unbound by Shelley (1817)

Hyperion: A Fragment; The Fall of Hyperion by Keats (1818)

Don Juan by Byron (1819)

The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot (1835)

Sohrah and Rustum by Matthew Arnold (1853)

Hiawatha by Longfellow (1855)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855)

Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1859)

Cantos by Ezra Pound (1917)

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (1922)

Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion etc. by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (1946)

The White Goddess by Robert Graves (1948)

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1949)

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1950)

Anathemata by David Jones (1952)

Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper (1965)

Briggflatts by Basil Bunting (1965)

Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (1968)

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (1968)

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (1970)

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (1976)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson (1977)

The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony (1977)

Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf (1980)

The Dark Tower by Stephen King (1982)

Belgariad and Mellorean by David Eddings (1982)

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1982)

Shannara by Terry Brooks (1982)

The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist (1982)

Discworld by Terry Pratchett (1983)

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1984)

Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

The Black Company (1984)

Redwall by Brian Jaques (1986)

Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (1987)

Memory, Sorrow, Thorn by Tad Williams (1988)

Sandman by Neil Gaimon (1989)

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (1990)

Queen of Angels by Greg Bear (1990)

Newford by Charles de Lint (1990)

Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

The Saga of Recluse by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (1991)

The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski (1993)

Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind (1994)

Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb (1995)

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (1995)

Old Kingdom by Garth Nix (1995)

A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (1996)

Animorphs by H.A. Applegate (1996)

Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott (1997)

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (1997)

The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steve Erickson (1999)

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (2000)

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (2002)

Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker (2003)

Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud (2003)

The Gentlemen Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch (2004)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (2005)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (2005)

Temeraire by Naomi Novik (2006)

The First Law by Joe Abercrombie (2006)

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (2006)

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss (2007)

Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2008)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)

Graceling by Kristin Cashore (2008)

Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan (2008)

Night Angel by Brent Weeks (2008)

The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett (2008)

Inheritance by N.K. Jemisin (2010)

The Lightbringer by Brent Weeks (2010)

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (2010)

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (2011)

The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence (2011)

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (2012)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012)

Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo (2012)

The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron (2012)

Worm by Wildbow (2013)

The Powder Mage by Brian McClellan (2013)

The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin (2015)

Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston (2015)

The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee (2017)

The Band Series by Nicholas Eames (2017)

Winternight by Katherine Arden (2017)

The Folk of the Air by Holly Black (2018)

The Founders by Robert Jackson Bennett (2018)

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (2019)

Grave of Empires by Sam Sykes (2019)

Djeliya by Juni Ba (2021)

#epic fantasy through the ages readalong #a chronology of story

[incorrect-galavant]

ignoring all historical accuracy and the existence of different time periods, i think galavant should exist in the same universe as every single other legend/epic/myth and happen at the exact same time as them

season three: Galavant fights Beowulf

#galavant #gal & beowulf would HATE each other & you can't convince me otherwise #gal thinks he's so stuck up & beowulf thinks gal is so selfish #sid: i don't get it! you guys should be best friends. you're both famous heroes that have daddy issues #beowulf: i do NOT have daddy issues???? #sid: okay so you definitely do #(beowulf also doesn't like sid) #okay side note but. beowulf was really out there havng NO meaningful relationships beside a parade of dead father figures hjidijfhdjiaosdfhj #he makes arthur pendragon look healthy #actually. no he doesn't #where's that hand meme?? #galavant arthur pendragon & beowulf: daddy issues #ACTUALLY #every single mythological hero: daddy issues

[ladyespera]

OBviously i'm sending you dmc for the blorbo ask game

you ask me about my favorite current interest even though it is not your own? you ask me like a good mutual? oh! oh! hearts for as-dreamers-do! hearts for as-dreamers-do for a thousand years!!!!!!! (jkjk obviously i'm still interested in all kinds of things but this week is dmc love)

ANYWAYS~ (this is gonna be a mess bc my brain is a tired distracted wreck)

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) AGONY they're all my faves but if we're being 10000% honest based on my art/writing....vergil i guess. even though i love dante too with my whole heart and soul i PROMISE. vergil is just my mental health comfort character (though honestly if my day is getting too bad...nope time to resort to dante bc vergil isn't very healthy). also his sword is just SO COOL i want a katana that can cut space. and he wears old-fashioned clothes! and talks kinda formal! and has sorta skinny jeans legs! i am (mildly) represented.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) nero. perfect, precious, protect at all costs. foster dad loves girlfriend steady job somehow holding the single sparda braincell. setting standards for genuinely good men and tbh that's only a handful of characters for me. has done nothing wrong ever. got blue translucent wings thru the power of love. angry at all times. feral child. i love him (both dmc4&5 versions).

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) i feel like kyrie is underappreciated by capcom AND NEEDS MORE CONTENT ON SCREEN c'mon all our fanfics out here doing all the heavy lifting.

(also someone please get her better outfits ASAP she looks like she can't decide whether she's going to a funeral as a 40 yr old widow or to a wedding 😩)

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) I KNOW PATTY ISN'T AN OBSCURE FAVE IN CANON AS A WHOLE but in the videogames she's only there as a voice for like 10 seconds and i need more of her. also my non-dmc friends must be so confused whenever i talk about the weapons as if they were people. (oh look, yamato, rebellion, ebony and ivory, blue rose, beowulf...etc.)

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) he isn't problematic, unpopular, nor controversial, but he sure is pathetic...Vergil my beloved. sir ur comic literally saves me.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) i think i do this to vergil. i'm sorry. we're in this together.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) mundus is already in hell and if i were to see him again i wouldn't send him to superhell i'd strangle him with my own two hands i would kill him i hate him so much if he ever lays a finger on any of my boys again it's on SIGHT. angus and sanctus and arkham can all go to superhell tho. plus sid and that random rapey prison guard in dmc anime and whatever that villain in dmc2 was called who was so boring i forgot his name.

#ask games #answered asks #asks #blorbo asks #devil may cry #as-dreamers-do #also i'm so mad that lady and trish aren't in here bc they don't fit any of these categories for me but i adore them #COOL STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMEN I LOVE

[baeddel]

Hey darling, are there any particular translators of old English poetry that you'd recommend? The Wulf and Eadwacer posts have got me intrigued to read more :3

hey! :3

yeah, so I think for AS poetry, like a lot of poetry in translation, you really need to read multiple translations to really get the idea. Old English is a really hard language to translate and AS poetry has a bunch of very extensive formal conventions which were easier to deal with in Old English because word order and so on was a lot looser. For this reason the overwhelming majority of translations are prose translations that don’t even try and get into all that, but the problem with them is that you’re going miss most of whats going on in the poem. At the same time, some of the poems, when translated poetically, are kind of unreadable. Some of the best poems in prose translations are totally garbled in all poetical translations. So sometimes you really want to use the poetical translations as a sort of map for the prose translation, which you reference to find out what the kennings are and so on.

Anyway, all that said, for the most part I’ve been reading Sid Bradley’s prose translations in his compendium, Anglo Saxon Poetry. This is a really useful book because it translates the entire corpus (except for about three mysterious omissions), and he writes a little preface for every poem that provides you context. It’s extremely well written, but it has a few problems, namely that the translations are sometimes outright misleading, as we discussed. Unfortunately this book isn’t available for free anywhere that I could find. I had to get it for $3 on Amazon and its stuck in the kindle reader otherwise I’d upload it myself >.<

For poetical translations I’ve been reading Aaron Hoestetter’s translations at the Old English Poetry Project. This site contains most of the corpus and is free. Hoestetter is kind of a madman, who writes long rambunctious manifestos about Foucault and Helene Cixous and the need to break with academic dogma, and has a somewhat unrealistic vision of AS poetry as a refuge of queer resistance, but his translations are nonetheless good and dependable and the only place you can legally read them for free.

If you’re going to read Beowulf, the most famous of the AS epic poems, my favourite is Roy Liuzza’s translation. It’s a masterpiece, a poetical translation that preserves all of the formal poetics while being very readable in English, and has very useful footnotes to explain ambiguities and context where necessary. Liuzza has also published a translation of most of the corpus, as Old English Poetry: An Anthology, but there’s no ebook version :(

Finally if you want to cringe, there’s a ‘feminist’ translation of Beowulf that translates it mostly into twitter memes by Maria Dahvana Headley, which was somehow positively reviewed everywhere. AS studies is basically divided between parochial high tory grognards and liberal progressive gays who love Hamilton. That’s culture!

[solynacea]

So, I was replaying Devil May Cry 3 recently, and happened to binge the anime not too long ago, and I realized something about Dante’s character that I don’t think has been addressed. (Not that I’ve seen; if someone has written a meta about this, please send me a link!) Note that what I’m about to go into is based on my limited memory of the plots of Devil May Cry 1 and 4, my recent play throughs of Devil May Cry 3 and 5, and the anime, as well as my personal inferences.

There’s an interesting facet to Dante and how he treats demons. I remember browsing FF.net and Deviantart years ago, after first playing 3, and seeing so many stories that revolves around Dante absolutely hating demons. But I don’t think he does; not, canonically, in such a violent way as is sometimes written. Does he like them as a whole? Probably not. Even the ones I’m about to mention are treated rather scathingly by him. However, I think how Dante reacts to demons revolves entirely around how they themselves act.

In DMC 3, the only demons he kills are the low level spawns (after they raid his shop and wreak havoc in the city), Leviathan, and the Gigapede, none of which are shown as capable of reason/regret/etc. He has plenty of opportunities to destroy more powerful ones: Cerberus, Agni & Rudra, Nevan, Beowulf, and, hell, even Jester before it’s revealed that he’s actually Arkham in disguise. But what does he actually do? Fights them, beats them, and lets them live on as weapons, with the exception of Beowulf.

Each and every time Dante encounters an opponent who can talk to him, who presents a challenge, he’s intrigued, if mocking. And he never kills them. Each one, after witnessing his strength (and, I think, his compassion, a concept that is odd to demons but cements his role as a true legacy of Sparta, who cared so much for a weaker race that he ultimately died for them) offers their soul to him as a weapon, and he accepts. And, in the case of Agni & Rudra, who are demonic swords with souls, he takes them along under the condition that they say nothing.

(For an interesting contrast, consider how Vergil, after defeating a weakened Beowulf, mutilates his corpse. Strong enemies equalling weapons is nothing new, but Dante earns those weapons with the consent of the enemy he beats, whereas Vergil ruthlessly slaughters the enemy to acquire the weapon. Devil nature versus human nature in play, which has always been a core of their conflict.)

In DMC 1, he rather violently meets Trish, who he has every reason to hate. She’s a demon made in the image of his mother, meant to manipulate him to his death. But when she proves that she can change, he grows to respect her, and even mourns her apparent death. They wind up working together for a while and are still close in the events of DMC 5, decades later. And, in the anime, he repeatedly spares Sid, despite how much the demon annoys him, until Sid betrays that good faith and tries to destroy the world. Only then does Dante kill him. There are the demon swordsmen, as well, who he only fights at their demand, and who he makes a grave for after killing them.

Time and time again, we’re shown situations where Dante could be more like his father. He could be a cold warrior who obliterates his enemies, but each and every time, he chooses compassion. He chooses to embrace the parts of his humanity left to him by his mother, to use the power of his bloodline to protect those who cannot protect themselves, even if that compassion means letting demons live on as weapons or locked away behind trinkets like bells. He gives the opponents who are still capable of change a chance to do so, only striking them down when they prove that they’re committed to causing great harm.

I know this has been rambling, and maybe one day I’ll sit down and do a proper meta about it, but man . . . Dante really is just a good guy with a bad past and no good coping mechanisms.

#text #dmc #devil may cry #dmc dante #dante sparda #musings #it’s 4 am and i was listening to the dmc 3 soundtrack and thinking

[gettinggraphical]

Beowulf by Santiago Garcia and David Rubin stands out among the many graphic adaptations of the medieval heroic poem on account of its length, insight and art. Theirs is a cultural translation that adapts medieval to postmodern tropes. This article examines how their reading brings closer the character of the medieval hero with the contemporary superhero. It also explores how both creators subvert the tropes of the hero and the monster in terms of graphic treatment and storyline, whether approaching original themes under a new light--such as guilt--or hybridizing monstrous bodies and aligning them with humans.

[sololinuxes]

Devuan GNU - Conocemos la distribución Debian sin Systemd

Devuan GNU - Conocemos la distribución Debian sin Systemd, que acapara todas las miradas por ser totalmente libre. Devuan es basicamente un Debian modificado, que viene sin el administrador de sistema systemd init. Su entorno de escritorio predeterminado es XFCE, además viene con muchas aplicaciones gratuitas como LibreOffice o GIMP. Devuan GNU es compatible con sistemas de 32 y 64 bits, así como con Raspberry Pi, Nokia 900, etc. Esta interesante distribución linux, nos ofrece un SDK para que otros programadores puedan crear una nueva distribución GNU-Linux basada en Devuan GNU. También incluye por defecto Refracta Installer, para que puedas crear un remaster o un LiveCD totalmente personalizado. En este artículo explicamos brevemente qué es Devuan, dónde descargarlo, el sistema init que usa, su entorno de escritorio predeterminado y alguna cosa más.  

Devuan GNU - El Debian sin Systemd

Para hacer el articulo más entendible iremos por partes, por tanto comenzamos por... Por qué Devuan y sus versiones Su nombre oficial es Devuan GNU + Linux. La curiosa y similar denominación a Debian proviene de Debian + VUA (Administradores veteranos de Unix), y su principal propósito es promover el concepto conocido como Init Freedom, a través de un sistema operativo Debian pero libre de systemd. El lema de Devuan es... "Libertad de software, hazlo a tu manera" Las versiones de lanzadas por Devuan son las siguientes: Ceres: Lanzamiento continuo, equivale a Debian "Sid". Beowulf: Versión de prueba, equivale a Debian 10 "Buster" (16-3-2020). 2.1 "Ascii": Actualmente es la versión estable al 100% (25-11-2019). 1.0 "Jessie": 25-5-2017.   Donde descargar Devuan GNU Devuan GNU nos ofrece descargas directas, por torrent y magnet. Se recomienda las descargas por torrent o magnet. Puedes acceder a las descargas a través de su sitio oficial. https://files.devuan.org/

Descargar Devuan GNU   Devuan, Debian y el sistema init La diferencia principal es su sistema init: Debian usa systemd y Devuan usa sysvinit. Sysvinit es el sistema init utilizado por Devuan como reemplazo de Systemd. Devuan considera que la campaña Init Freedom, tiene como base principal liberar a los usuarios de systemd. Puedes compartir sus ideas o no, pero una cosa te puedo decir... Devuan es una gran distribucion linux. Todos los componentes en Devuan están desarrollados para que no depender de systemd, y hoy en día es algo complejo pues la mayoría de herramientas y aplicaciones se desarrollan pensando en Systemd. Esto hace que Devuan sea especial y un proyecto muy interesante.   Arquitectura e instaladores El equipo de desarrollo de Devuan GNU hace un trabajo excelente, lo demuestra con todas las arquitecturas admitidas, increible. i386 amd64 arm64 armhf armel  Puedes usar Devuan como sistema de escritorio o portátil para tu trabajo diario. El tamaño de las iso pueden variar dependiendo del tipo de instalador seleccionado, pero lo mejor de todo es que tiene versiones de 32 y 64 bits. Instaladores disponibles: desktop-live : Para usuarios de escritorio. minimal-live : LiveCD basado en línea de comandos. netinst : Instalador en línea de comandos a través de la red. cdrom : Tres isos en formato CD. dvd : ISO completa. embedded : instalador para sistemas ARM como Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black y Odroid. virtual : Imágenes vm para instalar en QEMU o VirtualBox. El usuario y password de la live cd: Usuario - devuan Password - devuan El root y password de la live cd: Usuario - root Password - toor Devuan GNU usa como instalador gráfico Refracta. Este instalador funciona muy bien, pero ojo... sigue los pasos que te indica después de comprender lo que te explica. Si solo manejas instaladores tipo Ubuntu o Calamares, Refracta puede ser un desafío ya que se ejecuta en dos ventanas diferentes, una es la de diálogos (aún le falta documentación), y otra es la consola / terminal.   Escritorio y aplicaciones Por defecto Devuan viene con el escritorio XFCE, pero en sus repositorios también puedes encontrar KDE Plasma, GNOME, Cinnamon y MATE.

Escritorio XFCE de Devuan Las aplicaciones preinstaladas por defecto son perfectas para tu trabajo diario. Parece mentira que estén todas en una iso de apenas 1GB. Listamos las más representativas. LibreOffice Firefox ESR web browser mutt email client Orage Calendar GIMP Ristretto Mousepad Text Editor Evince PDF Reader VLC Video Player Quad Libet Audio Player Xfburn Burner Xarchiver Archive Tool Refracta Installer and Remastering Tool Synaptic Package Installer GParted Partition Editor En el test realizado en sololinux, probamos a instalar y ejecutar Inkscape, GIMP, el editor de video OpenShot y matemático GNU Octave. Los resultados son sorprendentes, todo funciona estupendamente.   Otros detalles interesantes El administrador de archivos es Thunar de XFCE, pequeño, rápido, fácil de usar y de todos conocido. Otro detalle importante es que Devuan GNU al carecer de Systemd no tiene montaje de dispositivos automático, sin embargo eso no supone ningún problema para el administrador de archivos Thunar, pero si necesitas montar algún dispositivo lo puedes hacer con un click. El administrador de red predeterminado es Wicd, no NetworkManager. Tranquilo... es muy sencillo de utilizar, jaja. La búsqueda de paquetes online es similar a Debian: En Debian usamos packages.debian.org y en Devuan pkginfo.devuan.org. Realmente estamos ante una distribución linux diferente, de esas que la amas o la odias pero que vale la pena probar. Mi enhorabuena al equipo de desarrollo de Devuan GNU, hacen un trabajo excelente. Felicidades!!!     Read the full article

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[thedarkestsecretsblog]

Sunday Punk Playlist:

1- Doom Or Destiny - Blondie ft Joan Jett (Punk)

2- Rat Race - Brody Dalle (Punk Rock)

3- Come Home - Placebo (Post Punk)

4- The Crusher - Ramones (Punk)

5- I Promise - Siouxsie And The Banshees (Punk)

6- Grinding Halt - The Cure (Punk)

7- Die On A Rope - The Distillers (Punk Rock)

8- Date With The Night - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Garage Punk)

9- Excuse Me Mr. - No Doubt (Ska Punk)

10- Radio -Rancid (Ska Punk)

11- New York - The Sex Pistols (Punk)

12- R.A.M.O.N.E.S - Motörhead (Punk)

13- City Of Angels - The Distillers (Punk Rock)

14- Dig Up Her Bones - Misfits (Horror Punk)

15- Days Before You Came - Placebo (Post Punk)

17- To Have And Have Not - Lars Fredericksen And The Bastards

18- Disorder - Joy Division (Punk)

19- Chasing The Night - Ramones (Punk)

20- I'm Not Jesus - Richie Ramone (Punk)

21- Silly Thing - The Sex Pistols (Punk)

22- The Young And Hopeless - Good Charlotte (Punk Rock)

23- Digital - Joy Division (Punk)

24- New Rose - Blondie (Punk)

25- Fake My Own Death - Sum 41 (Punk Rock)

26- Pony - Cj Ramone (Punk)

27- Come Around - Transplants (Punk Rock)

28- Rebel Yell - Billy Idol (Punk Rock)

29- Total Immortal - AFI (Punk Rock)

30- Brandenburg Gate - Anti Flag ft Tim Armstrong (Punk Rock)

31- Outlaw - Tim Armstrong (Ska Punk)

32- Penguins And Polar Bears - Millencolin (Skate Punk)

33- Death Or Glory - Social Distortion (Punk)

34- I Am The Virus - Killing Joke (Punk)

35- Meet The Foetus/Oh The Joy - Brody Dalle ft Shirley Manson (Punk Rock)

36- What A Wonderful World - Joey Ramone (Punk)

37- Poison Heart - Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg (Punk)

38- It's Not For Me To Know - Dee Dee Ramone ft ICLC (Punk)

39- Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie (Punk)

40- Mirage - Siouxsie And The Banshees (Punk)

41- My Generation - Patti Smith (Punk)

42- In Cythera - Killing Joke (Punk)

43- Pulling Leaves Off Trees - Wallows (Post Punk)

44- Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) - The Buzzcocks (Punk)

45- All The Rage Back Home - Interpol (Post Punk)

46- Liebesspieler - Die Toten Hosen (Punk)

47- Skeleton - Bloc Party (Post Punk)

48- I'm Full - Wallows (Post Punk)

49- 17 Crimes - Afi (Punk Rock)

50- Satellite - The Sex Pistols (Punk)

51- Live Alone - Franz Ferdinand ft Debbie Harry (Post Punk)

52- I Fought The Law - The Clash (Punk)

53- Remember When - Wallows (Post Punk)

54- The Wait - Killing Joke (Punk)

55- Paint It, Black - Patti Smith (Punk)

56- Life's A Gas - The Strokes (Post Punk)

57- Mr. Brightside - The Killers (Post Punk)

58- Only Friend - Wallows (Post Punk)

59- Painted Birds - Siouxsie And The Banshees (Punk)

60- I Am A Revenant - The Distillers (Punk Rock)

61- Aurelia -AFI (Punk Rock)

62- The Bitter End - Placebo (Post Punk)

63- Pleaser - Wallows (Post Punk)

64- When Your Heart Stop Beating - Plus 44 (Punk Rock)

65- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Ramones (Punk)

66- 2 Cents - Beowulf (Punk Rock)

67- Life Changes - Good Charlotte (Punk Rock)

68- Eternal Halloween - Aiden (Punk Rock)

69- Transmission - Peter Hook And The Light (Punk)

70- Pictures Of Girls - Wallows (Post Punk)

71- Bad Reputation - Joan Jett (Punk)

72- Loverman - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (Punk)

73- That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma (Punk)

74- LA Girl - The Distillers (Punk Rock)

75- Guns Of Brixton - The Clash (Punk)

76- C'Mon Everybody - Sid Vicious (Punk)

77- I Want The One I Can't Have - The Smiths (Punk)

#sunday punk playlist

[zolganif]

You’re 18. You feel sick to your tummy. You hate it when people have friends over and you look bad. You have to go to a young relative’s birthday party soon. You’re waiting for a pair of Toms to arrive in the mail. Tom Hardy is hot. Your hands are usually cold. You’re wearing UGGs and your feet are cold. Mac & Devin Go to High School is a good movie. You used to have horses and you would like them back. Your parents were divorced shortly after you were born. You get distracted and derail easily. Sometimes you just kind of don’t finish your sentences. You think you might like running into some of your exes, until you do. Your nails are always painted with only a clear topcoat. You don’t believe in any god, final judgement, or afterlife. You will spend hours rearranging everything in your room. You couldn’t imagine not having your own bathroom. You wouldn’t use a bathroom if the door didn’t lock. You touch your hair too much. You bite your lip when you’re nervous. You’re always nervous. You’re really bad at Algebra 2. You’re behind in some of your classes. You were recruited to work at Hollister. You would be mad if you weren’t hired after being recruited to work there. You didn’t learn to ride a bike until you were ten or so. You love Lana Del Rey. Cigarettes are gross. You’re not fond of your thighs. You don’t get jealous, you get insecure and distant. You will make things more complicated than they need to be. You like pretty things. All of your grandparents are dead. You don’t feel like" you should be the age that you are. It’s like 30 degrees where you live when it was in the 90s a few weeks ago. If you were Rose from Titanic, you would’ve went with Cal. You’re reading Gone with the Wind. You love Florence + The Machine. It’s not uncommon if you don’t eat a few days every week or so. You probably don’t eat enough. You stopped reading 50 Shades after Darker. The end of Mockingjay (Hunger Games) was disappointing. The end of Harry Potter broke your heart. Channing Tatum is hot. You don’t wear jeans  that aren’t skinny. Bread is your favorite food. Strawberries are your other favorite food. You don’t feel guilty about eating/using meat or other animal products. Yet you’ve seen Peta’s videos and realize it’s a horrible, ugly process. You loved studying literature like Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales. Your mom speaks to you as if you were a mindless toddler. You can’t wait for The Walking Dead this Sunday. You can’t drink beer. The taste is too bad. Boardwalk Empire is your favorite show. Game of Thrones is your other favorite show. Universal Studios, Orlando, is a good place to be. You love all games Zelda. Green beans are good raw. You want a puppy. You want to go skiing this winter. You laugh easily. Your crushes are many and short-lived. Your favorite movie is Sid & Nancy. You would love to be a flapper in the twenties. Purple is your favorite color. Your laptop is pink. You are mad that you don’t have a Mac. You want a Clarisonic. You love Gary Oldman. If you see a frog, you will probably try and pick him up. You turn on a box-fan before you go to bed. You never blow-dry your hair. You always straighten your hair. You’re bad at putting your hair up. Leggings are not pants. You’re not good at racing games.  Kinect face tracking is creepy. When you were younger Avril Lavigne was all you listened to. You can’t wait to see Silent Hill Revelation. You hate feeling like someone is uncomfortable because of you. Your hair is very long. Your vision is awful. Your glasses are Marc by Marc Jacobs. You don’t think you could have too many clothes. You like new things. You have never dated a guy that was shorter than you. You want a new North Face jacket. You’ve laughed in the midst of first kisses. You like a guy that is entirely indifferent of your existence. If someone wants to fight you, you are probably going to run like hell. You can run fast, though. It’s adorable when a guy offers you his sweatshirt. You’re bad at reading people. You have a  shiddy-shoddy  part time job. You’re addicted to Diet Coke. You love thunderstorms. In elementary school, a counselor told you that you have a lazy tongue. And now you have a little bit of a lisp that you cannot rid of.