People Saying Shit Like "oh Confidence Is Hot As Long As It Doesn't Tip Into Like, Smugness Or Arrogance"

So I was going through an image gallery of these old Wizard of Oz promotional pictures and uh-

...🤐

We have to save them. We’ve got all the kids on board. No, Pete. The rest of them.

My evening came among the alien trees and spoke in a language which my morning stars did not know.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL3

you ever see a character and go "wow, this character is so nuanced and morally gray! their actions and morals don't always align! they're complicated and make bad decisions and behave painfully realistically! I hate them and love them at the same time and that's on purpose! they're so cool! .... fan content is going to misinterpret them completely, isn't it."

The classical vibes of griddlehark are impeccable. Yes, they have Hades and Persephone aesthetics; the lord of the cold dead and the blooming flower her heart keeps trapped in the darkness. They also have the courtly love of a knight for her untouchable Lady, if her Lady were also her King. Then they're Orpheus and Eurydice too, she's kept alive as long as she refuses to look at her. One of them is also lesbian Jesus with Mordred's origin story, why not. And of course they're also Achilles and Patrocles, naturally; an unstoppable force on the battle field, together from childhood, there is no me without you, at the end of everything a final blurring of their edges. Mingled blood, mixed ashes. It's a Lot.

One thing I can tell you as someone so zoology obsessed is that books, articles, blog posts, any literature at all is highly likely to let you know if an invertebrate or reptile has ever been known to eat its own young but not nearly as likely to admit how many widely beloved mammals will do the same (most of them) or how often (way way more often than the scorpions or snakes)

you’ll wish she didn’t!

For science, I collected what each of the Houses hears when Gideon speaks to them for the first time.

Seventh: “Yo. Step off.” (when Cytherea faints)

Sixth: “Then get off your ass and help me.”

Fifth: never got to hear her talk :(

Fourth: thee line of all time, which is to say, “Did you know that if you put the first three letters of your last name with the first three letters of your first name, you get ‘Sex Pal’?”

Eighth: “They had names, you lily-livered, tooth-coloured asshole, and if you want to make a thing about it, I warn you that I’m in the kind of mood that can only be alleviated by walloping you.”

Corona: “No. I thought their arms would all flop around.” (in response to Corona asking if she’s seen a necro hold a sword before)

Ianthe/Babs, probably also the Second: “Why?” (after they gather to confront Cyth about Pro’s head)

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic