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“A spellbinding, fast-paced and deeply romantic fantasy.” —Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Sunbearer Trials on Infinity Alchemist. This advertisement is for Chaos King, the explosive finale to Kacen Callender’s New York Times bestselling dark academia fantasy series, Infinity Alchemist.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Return to New York Times bestselling author Kacen Callender’s world of alchemy, power, and romance. A new dark and violent threat looms over New Anglia. Ash, along with his partners Callum and Ramsay, must band together to fight against powerful forces devoted to destroying their world as they know it in this riveting conclusion.

no im not getting overly exited for a comic panel that wont be revealed for another 6 months what are talking about.

1-494 resident

494 is the amount of songs on my playlist as of posting this. Give me a number between 1-494, and I'll make up a resident story for it!

HAPPY VDAY

what’s your thoughts on different languages in winx club? like on other planets do they have other languages?

I like to think other planets and regions within them have their own lingua franca, yes. I don't recall if languages were ever mentioned in the RAI dub, but I do remember that the 4Kids dub (2.13) mentioned Aisha having to learn hundreds of languages as a princess. In the same vein, I like to headcanon that princesses (and royals in general) from other planets have to learn several languages. There’s an emphasis on language classes for royals in particular because most of them need to create strong politico-economic ties with one another, and languages are a gateway to understanding people and their culture.

Magix is the melting pot of linguistic and cultural diversity. Most people who live in Magix are multilingual and have a common language they speak with different accents. I haven’t yet figured out how Bloom understands it, but I suppose the language Bloom speaks on Earth is very similar to the common one in Magix.

Goro (pointing at Motaro): Is there no way we can get rid of him?

Shao Kahn: Not without a cause.

Kintaro: We have a cause. It is beCAUSE we hate him.

Soap: *sitting next to Ghost while squeezing a rubber chicken*

Ghost: *ignoring him*

Soap: *squeezes the chicken right next to his ear*

Ghost: *hits Soap in the stomach as a response, causing Soap to double over in pain and flops onto Ghost's lap*

Ghost: *starts petting Soap's head as if he didn't just hit him*

Alejandro: You two have a very interesting way of showing your love for one another

QOT MC: What language do you guys think Vivienne thinks in?

Remy: Maybe French?

Jett: Probably English.

Nikolai: It's obviously Mandarin.

Zoe: Bold of you to assume she thinks.

thinking about how after john andre was captured & staying at the patriot camp, ben tallmadge was assigned to basically hang out with him while the army decided what to do with him, and one day randomly was like “have you heard of nathan hale,” and andre was like “idk maybe, why” and ben was like “well he was my BEST FRIEND and they HANGED HIM AS A SPY” and andre was like “oh… sorry for your loss… but you wouldn’t do that to me would you haha” and ben was like “ACTUALLY WE DEFINITELY WILL” and that was how andre had to learn that he was gonna die lol

Indeed she does

she craves violence

Hey y'all,

I'm willing to beta-read fanfics and original works. So, if you're interested message me here on Tumblr, on AO3 @animekitkat24601 or on Fanfiction.net @Maplesong of TreeClan.

Oh dear lord... thank you so much for posting this, I'm not the only one who thinks this way. It drives me nuts that pop culture will set a show/movie/book (well, maybe book(s), not entirely sure on that one,) in Ancient Greece, or maybe will just use the Greek names of the Gods, but Heracles will be called Hercules.

I also appreciate that you pointed out how the Greeks also used syncretism

Listen, this is a very specific topic to be iffy about, but for your knowledge, the Roman gods are not the Greek gods.

The Romans were big on syncretism (the combination of different forms of belief or intellectual thought) and the adoption of foreign gods. The Greek deities were known since very early periods via the Etruscan culture, which was heavily influenced by Greece since the middle of the 8th century BC because of trade routes as well as the Greek cultural potential and would come to be completely engulfed around the third century BC with the Roman-Etruscan wars, but just like you’d see the Romans claiming the Germanic tribes worshipped their own gods under different names (the Germania by Roman historian Tacitus, written around 98 AD), the same happened here, and the fusion wasn’t 100% accurate.

While in the case of Zeus and Jupiter, for example, it worked well, Venus is far more motherly and political than Aphrodite (as Mars is the Father of Rome via the myth of Romulus and Remus, Venus is Venus Genetrix, Venus the Mother, and the only time you’ll see Aphrodite being motherly is in… the Aeneid, a distinctively Roman piece), Mars is an agricultural god as well as the god of war and has way more political connotations than Ares (he was a member of the archaic Capitoline Triad), Mercury is far more linked with commerce than the more pastoral Hermes, and the list goes on. Apollo was imported directly and very early (a temple for him, the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, was erected in the city of Rome as early as 431 BC), thus keeping the name but undergoing a very distinct Romanization of his attributes and worship. Janus, Quirinus and Terminus were very important Roman gods which had no Greek equivalent.

Isis, for example, was worshipped as herself, equated with a number of deities in both the Greek and the Roman worlds and some of her methods of worship and symbolism were associated with the Virgin Mary. It’s a far more complicated scenario, babes, especially when you consider Alexander’s conquests and the expansion of Hellenistic culture as well as its contact with many other cultures.

Syncretism is way more complicated than “the Romans just stole the Greek gods and gave them different names, the uncreative fucks”. The traditional date for Rome’s foundation is 753 BC and the Western Roman Empire would last until 436 AD. That’s over a thousand years of conquest, trade and growing and shrinking territories, and none of these factors are likely to leave a religion unaltered.

Besides, the practice of religious syncretism is way older and more common than you’d expect. The Akkadians did it to Summerian deities a few thousand years before this especially after the conquest of Sargon of Akkad in 2340 BC (“Mesopotamia: the Sumerians”. Washington State University). The Greeks were doing much the same with the Roman pantheon itself (Dionysus of Halicarnassus and Plutarch use Greek names for Roman cult), with the Egyptian pantheon and with the Scythian pantheon (Herodotus in both cases, though the associations would outlive him, such as the case of Zeus/Amon).

So, no the Roman gods aren’t the plagiarized versions of the Greek gods, and I could defend this in front of a jury.

Not generally, but now I do

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

only i can touch you - javier x reader

Javier doesn’t like when people touch what’s not his - even if its for work.

whattup i am javiers filthy little whore. smut is below the cut its also on ao3 and if you like it consider buying me a ko-fi

Javier Peña didn’t like to share his girl. He didn’t like other men looking at you, thinking of you, nothing. He was protective, understandably so given his job. But when you had to go out on the field he was even worse. He was your shadow, he didn’t take his eyes off you. Which was terrible, considering you and him were tracking down people related to the biggest narco in Columbia and he needed to be focused on the job. You tried to get the ambassador to not assign you to someone else but she wouldn’t budge because he was on the other end insisting that the two of you stay together, along with Murphy.

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He is yours

Obi Wan Kenobi x Reader

Summary: Obi Wan finds out you have been hiding a secret from him for a few years.

Word count: 1.5k

You did not know how long it had been since you were in the Jedi Temple. About 5 years or so. You did not wish to return and yet here you were. The famed Jedi Master, who had been cast out, was now back.

You sighed as you walked through the halls, ignoring the looks you got. No one questioned you, they knew you had been asked to come back. But you refused. After you were cast out, you moved to a far off planet. A peaceful one and settled down. A year later, a knock came to your door.

Opening it, you found your old master there. “Kit” you greeted the man who smiled back at you. Looking behind him to see Windu and Master Yoda. You sighed and opened the door. Walking away from it, there was no point in inviting them in. They would come anyway. No point in turning them away, they would still make there way in. You leaned against your counter as the men sat at your table. Waiting for them to speak.

“I believe, an apology is owed to you” Windu started, you replied in a scoff. Blowing air from your nose and shaking your head. “You did not trade secrets… You did not break the code” Windu sighed, looking to Kit for help. “We are sorry” Kit said, looking to you. Hoping you would give him your famous smile and accept the apology. “What’s made you change your mind” was all you replied with.

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And I will never get over it...

Tenochtitlan :’(

Now I can't unsee it.... this 100% happened

Diogenes the Cynic circa ?BC

BEHOLD, A MAN! *slams a raw chicken on the ground like a football*

Yep, pretty much

Among Us is just 50s USA during the Second Red Scare

Yeah, yeah pretty much...

Hehe

Hitler plans his attack

Brilliant! It's even funnier because "Magnus" was a sarcastic cognomen used by Pompey's elders to demean him

Yeah, poor Lepidus; he was only a part of second triumvirate because both Augustus and Antony knew that he could be trusted to be a quiet third party

Ah yes, the second triumvirate: 

Octavian, Mark Anthony and *checks smudged writing on hand* Leprechaun

Church of England: Today is the feast day of Thomas More, when we remember the Reformation martyr-

Thomas More’s ghost:

The Divine Augustus is still watching over the world....

We act like Egypt was full of cursed objects... but I definitely believe that the Meroe Head of Augustus is the most cursed.

Maybe, but I have a feeling that that wouldn't go well... I always remember that only the Mongols are capable of doing that

some fun wintery ideas!!!

invade russia

Neither will I...

i will simply never get over the burning of the library of alexandria

Oh, oh honey no.... Also, Serbia wanted to keep the peace in Europe huh? (Sarcastically) Yeah, and Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to become allies with Britain

There’s nothing I love more than dramatic irony in non fiction.

“In 1913, Tzar Nicholas ii decided to align himself with a new ally equally invested in keeping the peace in Europe. Serbia.”

So good.... Seriously, read it

calamitous love and insurmountable grief

Pairing: Ezra x female!reader

Summary: Ezra returns home after a long time away.

a/n: i’ve been wanting to write a fic with this title ever since the song came out. i think this is perfect for it. anyway, let me know what you think!!

warnings: angst, sexual themes (+18), miscarriage mentions

word count: 3.6k

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The dry leaves crunch beneath their boots as they walk down the small earthly road. The cold air makes him shiver, although he tries to hide it from her. She did tell him to buy an extra jacket at Central, but he didn’t listen. He was too eager to come back here.

To come back home.

Ezra didn’t plan to stay away for long, but the events that took place in the Green stalled him too much. One thing led to another and when he realized, three years had passed since he had left.

Three years since he left the planet with the promise of one last job. Three years since he last saw your face, stained with tears, begging him not to go. His heart clenches at the thought and the regret eats him up on the inside. All that time in that stupid toxic moon, there wasn’t a day he didn’t think of you. There wasn’t a night he spent wishing he was back here, with you in his arms as he read to you.

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