If You're Waking Up Like Me Thinking "where Do We Even Go From Here?"

Feelin’ Blue

Arthur Morgan but painted with purely blue tones! I kept the color wheel on the same spot while only adjusting values n stuff-

It’s not my best but I’m getting back into the groove of art after a bit of a break!

I’ve shared this bit of advice before, but it’s worth sharing again.

I am almost 8 years on HRT and before I even started taking estrogen, spiro, or progesterone, my doctor looked me in the eyes and asked a very important question…

She asked: “Do you want big boobs?”

I said yes, I wanted something that matched my frame.

She immediately told me: “Then do not go on a diet, maintain your fat, because your body will be using that and whatever you’re eating to build up your breasts and other features.”

And bless her because I’m rocking an H Cup these days.

So my trans girlies who are just starting out, I offer that bit of advice to you as well.

Writing "My" Ares

I love Rick Riordan and you can read my appreciation of him here, but I have always taken an issue with his portrayal of Greek Gods. I obviously understand they are kids books, and he is doing narrative work, but I have always wondered about his portrayal of Ares.

Ares, who is brash, whiny, cowardly, a loser--and perhaps that comes from his mythological portrayal, especially in the Iliad.

It is interesting to me that the Greeks chose to portray their War God as a loser often times, and I think that speaks to the fact that in conflict--someone must lose, and the war god will always taste it. He is portrayed as losing to Athena, losing to Diomedes, trapped in a jar by giants. All of these are valid ideas and concepts about Ares, but it totally skips out on his hymn.

It's only seventeen lines, but its just so opposite of what his portrayals are in mythology. In mythology, he gets portrayed as a coward, but the hymn calls him "doughty in heart." He is the "defense of Olympus." Not only that he is the "leader of righteous men." The "Sceptered King of Manliness"--what in the world, sceptered king of manliness has to be my outright favorite line of all time.

But, even more than that, Ares is the one that crushes the "deceitful impulses of [the] soul." The deceitful impulses of the soul tells me he is giving people power over themselves, he is that feeling inside right before you throw a punch or say words that can never be unspoken and he draws you back, and he says fight another war. Fight better, in fact, fight righteously, fight with courage.

Further, the hymn asks Ares "Give you me boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death." Ares is master over those things, he can lead men to it, and he can save men from it. And that's how I chose to write Ares. He doesn't necessarily win his battles, and he can be fought against pretty easily, but he fights anyway--I think my favorite line from him in one of the upcoming chapters for my fic is when he is speaking with Nike.

“You cannot fight him,” Nike said despondently. 

“Why not die trying?” Ares said. “I would rather try and lose than be a victorious knave.”

I think he is a more compelling character than "War god bad brrr." He is a path to peace and a path to war, and we get to look at Lord Ares and decide which we choose.

In the story I am writing, he is one only one who looks at the ill going on in Olympus, sees the darkness, and he just will not stand for it. He walks away, turns his gaze from the evil, and he chooses a peaceful path, which is not out of character according to his Homeric Hymn. He abandons the fight for power that is going on, and he chooses to save someone he loves instead of going to war.

all quotes come from -- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

Hi, I'm generally new to this blog, but I needed a warmup to start writing an essay for school and this Au inspired me! Hope it's okay I wrote a snippet for Jonathan's first awakening.

(this is me rn ⬇️)

Jonathan couldn't feel, not really. He hadn't felt in ages, except for the occasional sharp pain over his birthmark. Not enough to tell he was alive, truly, but definitely enough to say he at least wasn't dead. He didn't know what he'd done to deserve this. Maybe Father was right, maybe he wasn't good enough, wasn't perfect enough to protect even himself, much less Erina, or Speedwagon, or anybody he loves-

And for the first time in ages, Jonathan feels.

It begins with a sharp pain in his temple. Far away enough to be written off as his mind finally beginning to betray him, but also there enough to be cause for questioning. Then it's the pain in his abdomen. His shoulder, his leg, his heart. Someone, somewhere is hurting, and it makes Jonathan feel.

It's been a very long time since Jonathan had felt anything, so it takes him a long moment to recognize the feeling. Sadness? Melancholy? Frustration? Anger?

Fury.

Someone is hurting something of his like Jonathan was once hurt. And he had sworn to not let it happen to anyone else.

And, suddenly, Jonathan felt everything.

Jonathan felt bone cracking under his fists, the confused screams of the assaulters, his own throat and hands burning with the strength of his breaths, his life, his Hamon, and his screams. This thing, this boy, Jonathan learned when he looked back at what exactly he'd been protecting, was his, and he didn't like for things of his to be hurt.

Jonathan knelt next to the boy, and was met with a frightened flinch and scramble back. That was understandable, Jonathan must've been incorporeal at best, and a veritable sight at worst. Then Jonathan looked down at his hands to survey the damage.

Purple fingers. Black gloves. Golden knuckles. No blood. Jonathan didn't recognize the body that must've been his. He looked back at the boy who was staring at him like he had murdered an entire city. Jonathan reached out, trying, desperately, to reassure the boy that it was alright.

"Or-"

And Jonathan was thrown back to the unfeeling.

(Just gonna @ you here too in case Tumblr pulls some bull like its done to me before-)

@starry-blue-echoes

This theory has been rotting my brain as of recently ✨so✨

AU where Jonathan is Star Platinum

Jonathan has no idea what’s going on.

He’s pretty sure he died but now he’s floating and glowing which definitely isn’t normal and also there’s this teenager in black who’s being cornered by four guys who are armed so guess he better deal with that- Oh. Oh, he’s a lot stronger than before. Huh.

Oh bother now the boy thinks he’s an evil spirit haunting him, which is a tad rude since sure he might be a spirit but he’s not evil- Oh, now he’s locking himself in a jail cell.

So yeah, Jonathan has A Time in this new day and age

Cyclops seems like a good name for Scott, on the surface.

He tends to his flock of people in his care, lashes out against outsiders who threaten them, and that whole one-eye thing with his uniform. And yet, if you read the Odyssey- the story which features a cyclops the most- the cyclops is injured. He loses control of his greatest strength and would require great help to even grasp at that again. And when he cries out to the other cyclopes who scorn him, he is shunned for being injured and tricked, and is left to fend for himself. Even with only the eye being struck, there would’ve likely been at least a little bit of brain damage. And after the plane crash, Scott was basically left blind, burdened with having to cover his eyes so his mutation wouldn’t hurt others as migraines ravaged his senses. And he lost his brother as well, not for scorn, but simply because he was undesirable to potential adoptees. And here Xavier comes along, injured like Scott. He promises Scott a home and a way to improve- which, to his credit, he did. And in exchange, he made Scott a child soldier, his prototype, his test. A test to see whether or not he could take these children and make them into war. And Scott, poor, injured, love-starved Scott, went along with it because Xavier showed him the smallest bit of consideration. He believed that Xavier truly wanted the best for him and to help, and in return he was made into a soldier and named something that reminded him of the very accident that started him on this trail.

He is close to Jean because she can enter his mind and understand, and he is close to Logan because he has been through the same.

Merry Chrysler, this is the onceler,

This is much thoughtfuller, but I got you a Christmas murderer

Welcome to:

✨Crackhead redraws!✨

no.4

Where my friends send me dumb photos to redraw because it’s funny!

This one was actually requested by me! I asked my friends to send me a fantasy female piece of art that a man would never be drawn as, and I drew it as a man

Reference here as always!

I swear I get sad if I wake up and one is on the floor