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ok but the way Odysseus falls into each of the main Olympian’s domains?

Zeus (God King): King of Ithaca

Hera (Goddess of Marriage): c’mon, Odysseus is THE Wife Guy

Athena: Warriors of the Mind/her chosen champion

Ares: courage and valor needed for success in war; additionally after his transition into The Monster, he becomes brutal and arguably lost in bloodlust when dealing with the sirens/suitors/POSEIDON

Apollo/Artemis: Archery

Aphrodite: man is motivated only by love

Hephaestus: Odysseus built his own damn raft to leave Ogygia/built his palace

Demeter (who also has domain over marriage): see Hera

Poseidon (Sea God): Sailor/Captain (also ruthlessness, eventually)

Hades: "600 men who died under your command"; sailed through the Underworld

Hestia (Goddess of the Hearth): Man who wants nothing more than to get home

Hermes (God of Travelers): man’s been traveling for 10 years; also Odysseus is his great grandson

not to mention their actual interactions

I'm just saying

Y’know, maybe it should never have been shocking that as the son of an amputee, Jayce has no trouble seeing the beauty in imperfections and how they make us who we are.

Jayce didn’t encounter his first disability with Viktor, or in his own household when his leg was broken, but with his mother when she lost her fingers to the cold on the day the mage (Viktor) saved them both. Her disability wasn’t a weakness to Jayce, it was a product of profound strength battling the elements to save her and her son’s life.

the woman ever actually

Mel ✨

yes yes we all see how jayce has to follow the steps of viktor's journey, to climb all the way up from the lowest bottom (zaun) to the highest top (piiltover) with a damaged leg...

but why is his leg damaged? it is not the fall down that leads to the fracture. no. it's his hammer.

jayce's leg is crushed by his own hammer. the same hammer he used as a weapon, betraying his and viktor's original hextech dream of progress, hope and prosperity, for zaun and piltover both. the same hammer he used to kill a zaunite child. the same hammer, the symbol of jayce's choice: confrontation over progress, council chamber over a science lab, everyone else's expectations over viktor, golden boy over partner. the same hammer, a promise broken.

it's the consequence of his own actions that damages jayce's leg.

his hammer - with everything it symbolizes - crushes him. so later we see jayce dismantle it to brace his leg.

jayce lets the past go with all it's mistakes, leaves it behind and climbs up, and then, and there, he gets a new hammer. a new promise. a new oath.

i understand now. my place was always here in the lab with you

As someone who has worn a brace similar to Viktor’s for a fair amount of time, it’s important to me that you all know that that man is constantly wearing the dress pant equivalent of skinny jeans. Like, TIGHT.

Braces like that are SUPER awkward to wear over anything looser than leggings without some weird folding going on, and since Viktor never wears it UNDER anything, I think we can make some assumptions about the fit of his pants.

Do with this what you will.

Undiagnosed

Do you think about me when I think about you?

Viktor’s stance on Hextech weaponry is so important, actually.

Viktor is the only one vehemently against using Hextech to create weapons. Jayce initially agrees, but Mel convinces him that it is necessary, that it would keep more people safe than it would hurt.

Viktor stands firm in his insistence to not do harm with their creation, not just because he is from the Undercity and familiar with the violence Enforcers inflict on innocents, but because he himself is a victim of constant violence. From his body. Viktor is the only character near the council that is so intimately aware of what it is like to be in pain, and they want him to agree to create weapons.

Viktor, whose lungs were wrecked by the Grey so badly that his blueprints are often stained with red. Viktor, who works hunched over a desk, tuning out the aching signals from his leg, his back, his arms, his everything. Viktor, who is in a private war against time, against the consequences of previous Piltover innovations, against his own body.

Viktor never wanted to be a part of anything that would make anyone feel what he feels. And they wanted him to put ultra-powered guns in the hands that were strangling the place he desperately wanted to help.

Over his dead body would a weapon be powered by Hextech.

(Over his dying body, more like. Jayce should have listened.)

Clash of legacies!!

Your mother will have justice, I swear it.

uh idk what act 2 you guys saw but i'm pretty sure this is what happened?

I don’t think we talk enough about how well Bill controlled Ford through isolation. Yes he scared Fiddleford away, and threatened to further break his relationship with Stanley, but he also successfully isolated Ford from basically the entirety of HUMANITY. Bill’s praises weren’t just an appeal to ego or to convince Ford he was smarter than everyone around him, they convinced him he could accomplish more than any human ever could. Any relationships Ford could have were worthless, don’t you agree? They could never understand — how could they? They were human, and Ford was being blessed by something more. What could they have to offer him, that Bill couldn’t?

(Nothing but unconditional love. And Bill can’t have Ford knowing that someone might love him despite his mistakes, that someone might love him not because of what he’s accomplished, but because of who he is.)

there’s always something about a dying character who’s desperate to keeping living, not for the sake of living, but for the sake of being remembered when they’re inevitably gone

tfw the autoimmune disease makes you too tired to sit up straight but the joint/rib pain makes it too painful to slouch

Omfg Jayce coming to understand the destruction that magic can cause and resenting it AFTER two of his loved ones manifest themselves in it is so…

I am just a dog with a thorn in its paw and time is the little girl that finally draws me out of the bushes

yeah sometimes things get really painful but have you considered that sometimes you're the hissing, starving cat in an alleyway and the world is the soothing shushing that coaxes you into the warmth because sometimes, you can't always see how the scary thing might be the thing that heals you

yeah sometimes things get really painful but have you considered that sometimes you're the hissing, starving cat in an alleyway and the world is the soothing shushing that coaxes you into the warmth because sometimes, you can't always see how the scary thing might be the thing that heals you

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but MY GOD I don't think people realize how stupid other people are unless you've worked retail. Or, not even stupid, but they just believe the rules don't apply to them.

I'll give an example.

I work in a coffee kiosk inside of a grocery store which has two main entrances/exits and a third through our liquor department. Management decided that on weekends, the entrance (technically) in the middle would close/lock at 8pm, even though the store doesn't close until 11pm. This is kind of stupid to me, but I also see how empty the store is around 8, so eh, not my problem. The kiosk also happens to close at 8, and also also happens to be situated right next to the now-locked entrance/exit.

Between the kiosk and the registers there is open tile, though not really a lot width-wise. Management, in all their wisdom, locks the door at 8 sharp, and puts a dandy little sign in the middle of this walkway. I'm kidding about the little part - this sign is about two and a half times bigger than your common Wet Floor sign.

Notice earlier how I said the sign is in the middle of the walkway? That means that people have to ACTIVELY walk around it in order to continue on the the doors. Barrier 1, ignored. Now they are at the automatic doors, which are not opening. Because they are locked. This is when they really notice something is wrong. Barrier 2, noticed but ignored. Instead of looking at the paper, eye-height sign on the door that says THESE DOORS ARE LOCKED, they instead push on the automatic doors like that's a normal way to open them. Barrier 3, ignored.

My coworker and I are finishing up closing around this time, and we get to watch the fireworks. We could be kind, and stop these poor souls from getting too far in their fruitless journey, but after so many back-and-forths of

"Sir you can't go out that way, those doors are locked."

"Wh-But that's the way I came in!"

"I know sir, but now they're locked."

"Well that's stupid!"

"I know sir."

a barista gets tired. Eventually, either they get frustrated and walk away from the locked doors, or they turn to us and ask why they aren't opening.

This sometimes leads to my favorite exchange:

"Those doors lock at 8pm."

"Well they should put a sign up about that!"

"They did ma'am. You walked right past it."

Sometimes there will be a modicum of shame, but most of the time they just walk off. But the best part will always be when someone else watches this exchange go down, walks right up to the doors, and expects them to open anyway.

Humans are truly a wonder.

i would love to talk about moral ocd its just that like any time i mention it i worry im coming across like an asshole whos trying to excuse his bad actions and shitty behavior

GOD I want to enjoy the opening sequence of Arcane S1 but unfortunately I am an ex-dancer and managed to traumatically injure myself while dancing to that song and don’t particularly like dissociating bc of Imagine Dragons so what’re you gonna do

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

haven’t even been on break from college for a day and already I have subjected my mom to a rant on generative AI

Words cannot describe my loathing for GenAI but damn I give it my best shot

the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

chat the horrors are getting to me

I think the police should have to go through a couple suspects that are clearly not right before they are allowed to even entertain the idea of getting the right one.

Y’know. Like a medication or something.

this poor poor man

The art is gorgeous tho 💕

I need someone to draw this:

Odysseus, covered in blood, ragged and looks like death warmed over: *wearing a sash that says “most valid crashout” across it with Hermes/Athena bestowing a pageant crown upon him*

Optional skewered Poseidon in the background

When your Character...

Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight

Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love

Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns

is...

A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Baby/Child ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer

Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy

needs...

A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison

To be Killed Off ⚜ To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound

To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ A Drink

loves...

Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils

Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers

Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Fight ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga

has/experiences...

Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings ⚜ Bruises

Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness ⚜ Food Poisoning

Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Mutism ⚜ Pain ⚜ Poisoning

More Pain & Violence ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds

[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]

hey whats up guys @castielrisingabove's tags on this post absolutely obliterated me. so i drew them and now they get to obliterate you too. enjoy

locking in or crashing out? No im a secret third thing (paralyzed with existential dread)

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.