Rihanna in 2007 ・゚゚・。ᡣ𐭩
"who are you without the media you consume" bitch ask who i am WITH IT. I am the hoarder of stories, the ancient sphinx carrying the wisdom of generations, the ophanium with an all-encompassing gaze. My mind is the modern Library of Alexanderia, containing tales of countless universes. I watched the worlds rise and fall, and i changed them to my will. I sympathized with the villains and condemned the heroes; I was the hero and the villain. I've seen love in a million ways and I've bathed in the rays of its beauty. Grief, pain, wrath, sorrow, hatred, numbness — I've seen it all. I explored those worlds, holding them in the palm of my hand. I exist in all of them, and they exist in me. I am in the past and in the future; I am nowhere and everythere.
turn around.
Amphitrite kids 🪸Shy 🪸Accomplished 🪸Hate conflict 🪸Prefer old movies and classic lit over anything contemporary
Poseidon kids 🔱Problems with authority 🔱Chill af 🔱Do NOT have their shit together 🔱Somehow everything works out for them
Aphrodite kids ❤️Mad gossips ❤️Discerning ❤️Hate your ex on your behalf ❤️Reality dating shows = bloodsport
Hephaestus kids 🔥Cynical 🔥Brilliant 🔥Need to touch grass sometimes 🔥Great in a crisis
Ariadne kids 🧶Bighearted 🧶Resourceful 🧶Abandonment issues 🧶Use a planner religiously
Dionysus kids 🍇Don’t care what other people think 🍇Excellent cooks 🍇Commit to the bit 🍇Will randomly drop off the face of the earth with no explanation
Demeter kids 🌱Authoritative 🌱Slightly unhinged 🌱Can’t stand lazy people 🌱Love being outdoors
Karmanor kids 🌾Community-oriented 🌾Not afraid to get their hands dirty 🌾Obsessed with their local farmer’s market 🌾Indecisive
Epione kids 💊Compassionate 💊Great listeners 💊Clueless when it comes to fashion 💊Can always spot a lie
Asclepius kids 🩺Sleep-deprived 🩺Log major volunteer hours 🩺Trustworthy 🩺Tend to hyperfixate on their current interest
Hera kids 🦚Formidable 🦚Know what they want 🦚Never quite satisfied 🦚Love a fancy restaurant
Zeus kids ⚡️Leadership Potential™️ ⚡️Strong sense of existential dread ⚡️No chill ⚡️Fear them
Iris kids 🌈Peacekeepers, moderators 🌈Kind of woo-woo 🌈#1 enemy of climate change deniers 🌈Maximalism > minimalism
Zephyros kids 🌷Sweethearts 🌷Aspire to a cottagecore lifestyle 🌷Give great compliments 🌷Constantly flake on plans
Keto kids 🦑Love to learn 🦑Always telling you about the latest conspiracy theory 🦑Enthusiastic 🦑Easily offended
Phorcys kids 🐟Tricksters 🐟Know how to work a crowd 🐟Original thinkers 🐟Hot-headed
Persephone kids 🌹Kind 🌹Major seasonal depression 🌹Strong sense of stranger danger 🌹Value stability
Hades kids 💀Principled, diligent 💀Caffeine addiction 💀Won’t make direct eye contact 💀Cool under pressure
Psyche kids 🌟Empathetic 🌟Determined 🌟Major trust issues 🌟Don't like attention
Eros kids 💘Overdramatic 💘Protective 💘Everyone is obsessed with them 💘Serial monogamists
Naissance Rose by Arman
💣Soldier Boy💣
Acting as a parody of Captain America, Soldier Boy exists as a manifestation of everything America needed post-WWII. Strong, durable, and dutiful, he maintained the persona of the perfect little soldier boy, who could endure both enemy fire and the passage of time without flinching or aging respectively.
However, in true The Boys fashion, he’s a charlatan. While he did serve in WWII, Stan Edgar even claiming he “killed Germans by the dozen”, the majority of his all American backstory detailing him as a war hero, barring in mind his pompous, macho persona, sounds too good to be entirely true.
While this post isn’t supposed to debate his true involvement in WWII, I find his unique reaction to V resulting in immortality to be a cruel twist of karmic irony. He appears to have little value for human life, being quick to resort to murder to settle scores with his old teammates. He’s so ruthless that when Black Noir, a seemingly apathetic and unfeeling indestructible superhuman, gets word that Soldier Boy’s been released from Russian confinement, he practically pleads for Homelander to give him a swift death so as not to die in tortured agony by Soldier Boy’s sadistic hand.
In total, I find it ironic that the soldier forced to kill and slaughter into oblivion with nothing but his PTSD and flashbacks as a testament to his body count, is condemned to an endless immortality. You almost want to mourn the man he could have been had he never been shot up with experimental V. He was a victim of verbal abuse from his father, feeling pressured into potentially dying in WWII just to prove something to him in hopes of finally making him proud. However, he did screw a nazi for years, so, meh.
-Le Finale-
🇺🇸Homelander🇺🇸
Thank you to everyone who sat by and waited for this grand finale, it truly means a lot to me! You’re the heroes, truly! I added Superman by Ivory Layne because I associate it with America’s #1 Supe, plus I wanted to plug one of my all time favorite 2010s throwbacks.
I think Homelander’s “Evil Superman” pitch is definitely the main draw of the franchise, but I wish he wasn’t always shackled to that identity. He acts as an introspective analysis of the true evil of corruption on a radical/political level. I mean, the man was birthed in a lab and raised on straight looping American nationalist propaganda. He was essentially being hypnotized by Vought to be an All-American boy, and yet he turned out exactly like America itself; overpowered, inescapable, and caked in far too much makeup.
Homelander/John’s wide range of abilities stems directly from the versatile torture methods Vought used on him in infancy in order to rig the results of the V and produce the most amount of abilities. For example, my assumption is they would drop him, along with other flying Supes, from high places, and if they managed to float for survival they would grow up to be able to fly at dazzling speeds. This is based on the number of trials he endured, such as the oven he would be placed in for hours on end. He’s now invulnerable, but he had to quite literally be forged through flame to be so.
In addition to his range of abilities, the episode of Diabolical that depicts Black Noir feeding him his lesson on optics makes his inability to swiftly dispose of those who show no fear all the more reasonable. When he’s viewed as the monster he’s always been seen as (the whole “you ripped out of your mother and beamed through the bodies of the doctors in the room while flying like a scene from the exorcist” thing) he’s incentivized to be what they expect of him, almost like how he was taught to be what the masses wanted from him. The careful crafting and hardwiring of a monster stays, even though he’s subverting Vought’s benevolent persona.
When a character shows indifference or truly just a lack of terror, he spares them, deeply yearning for genuine human connection with an individual who doesn’t recoil from his advance. Whether it was Madeline, Stormfront, or Maeve, they all proved themselves to be fierce women who he had difficulty letting go of. Madeline in particular managed to survive up until the exact moment she admitted her fear of him, to which he incinerated through her skull with his laser vision.
Even when analyzing how he spares Hughie, Butcher, Annie, or the rest of The Boys, Homelander has ample opportunities to fly over and murder them all. He could kill them all in broad daylight and get away with it, but whether he’s consciously aware of it or not, he fully needs humans on this planet who know the truth about him and refuse to be afraid. The alternative would be too boring, and as I could imagine, horrifying. He doesn’t want to be a king, we see into his psyche too frequently to know he hates himself. He truly hates what he sees in the mirror, and masks it with a veneer of egotism until he eventually breaks down again. He wants people unafraid to challenge him, otherwise he would have used one of his several powers to slaughter The Boys ages ago. You may call it plot armor, but I think John needs someone to go blow for blow with. Butcherlander
John never had the chance to be human. He was directed how to be a god, and given the power to match. While every part of me sees him as the monster he is, rape and murder included, I almost feel like killing him wouldn’t be the karmic serve fans think it would be. I agree with the sentiment that he should be stripped of his power and condemned to live an average human life without access to Compound V (I like to imagine they’ll just blow up Vought tower in the finale, but we’ll see). His scenes with Ryan almost make me believe that he wants to be human, but he can never do that as the supervillain he is today. Maybe if he could try out being a human, he wouldn’t have to try and escape his humanity.
Little late to the Percy Jackson fan art but I really wanted to draw the fight at the lighthouse
on
Adoration of
Selene's Wisdom
O dea Selene, lucis et noctis regina,
Te adoro sub caelis serenitate divina.
Tua dona, intuentia et sapientia,
In cor meum descendat, tua potentia.
Adintra me, Selene, in tenebras mentis meae,
Ut lumen tuum inveniam, per teque laetor beae.
Sub caelo stellato tuae noctis clare,
Da mihi sapientiam, in lumine tuae lunae.
O goddess Selene, queen of day and night,
I worship you under the divine celestial light.
Your gifts of intuition and wisdom, so pure,
Descend into my heart, your power to endure.
Enter within me, Selene, the depths of my mind,
So I may find your light and be joyously aligned.
Beneath the starry sky of your radiant night,
Grant me wisdom in the glow of your moon's light.
Latin: "Te, Selene, veneror et laudo."
English: "I honor and praise you, Selene."
Latin: "Tua luce et sapientia me amplector."
English: "I embrace your light and wisdom."
Latin: "In lumine lunae tuae confirmor."
English: "I am strengthened by the light of your moon."
Latin: "Intuitionem tuam colo et sequor."
English: "I nurture and follow your intuition."
Latin: "In tua nocte, pacem invenio."
English: "In your night, I find peace."
Latin: "Selene, meam mentem illuminas."
English: "Selene, you illuminate my mind."
Latin: "Tua potentia me dirigat."
English: "May your power guide me."
Latin: "Sapientiam tuam quaero et capio."
English: "I seek and attain your wisdom."
Latin: "In tua lunae luce, prospero."
English: "In the light of your moon, I thrive."
Latin: "Sub caelo stellato, te sequor."
English: "Under the starry sky, I follow you."
Selene, the moon herself 🌕