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Level 1: Prophecy proclaims that no man can kill villain; killed by woman.
Level 2: Prophecy proclaims that no weapon can harm villain; pushed down stairs and dies.
Level 3: Prophecy proclaims that villain will be brought low by no mortal hand; kicked to death by angry mob.
Level 4: Prophecy proclaims that no power on Earth shall be villain’s undoing; fatally distracted by sun in eyes.
Level 5: Prophecy proclaims that only power of laughter can defeat villain; beat up by clown.
feathered flames.
@writersnet event 1 · april 2021 | mythology
One boy plummets, bleeding wax, raining feathers. Bleeding feathers, raining wax. Another boy crashes, bursting with stolen divinity, caught in reins he no longer controls.
They burn, each on his own, across skies, across worlds, across space and time. You know how these stories end. Hubris inscribes their fates—punishments, for curiosity, for aspirations—onto their skin in flaming ink, preserved by whispers and ink.
Perhaps the boys are less daring in some worlds, and heed their fathers’ advice. They are not lost to oceans—they drown in history’s forgotten abysses instead. Perhaps they laugh in some skies and scream in others. Maybe some gods are cruel, and have them languish for eternity and beyond.
But maybe some are kinder, and Icarus and Phaethon find their way to each other as they fall.
Have you kissed the Sun, too? I have been the Sun. That is why we fall from grace. We fall to glory, brother, and nothing less. Do not regret it. A charred smile. The world was not meant for such as us.
(Perhaps some other world will be.)
—aish. 03/05/2021.
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[ D ] uyong: mermaids from Malaysian mythology, their basic shape - the upper body of a human woman paired with a fish tail - comes from the legend of Atargatis, the Assyrian goddess of the moon and fertility. Unlike western mermaids, they tend to be of a mournful nature, a behavioral trait also derived from Atargatis.
There are not enough How to train your dragon books fanarts around tumblr so we(me and my sis) decided to fill this gap! Here is my Hiccup, Fislegs and Camicazi (and here is my sister’s version )
I never hear people saying "manic pixie girlfriend" as a compliment to a piece of fiction... What is it you like about that trope? 👀👀👀
girls being girls unapologetically!!!
thanks for asking bc this was a LOT of fun to think about and answer and it ran kinda long but uh THERE’S A LOT TO COVER.
like, yea, ok, there’s a legitimate literary complaint to be made when women are used repeatedly as a vehicle for a man’s exposure to a more exciting life, but actually, the complaint isn’t ‘this woman doesn’t have autonomy’, but more like...Well. the quote at the top of the tv tropes is just about perfect.
(not to mention, no trope in and of itself is bad - its the execution and overuse of tropes that can be bad. so even the actual ‘give women more autonomy instead of making her a plot element for a dude’ complaint is only partially valid. and sometimes its just straight up to personal taste! one person likes oranges, one person likes apples. so they eat different pies. that’s just fine. doesn’t make one objectively worse.)
it’s that whole ‘leave white girls alone about pumpkin spice’ thing, like, sometimes people can just like things and have personality traits.
let girls be manic! let them like polka dots! let them wear tutus over jeans, paint their nails different colors, and wear glitter every day! let them mix combat boots with floofy skirts! let them wear double pony tails!
let girls be naive, let girls be childish, let girls be dreamers! and u know what!! let them pull other people into their dreams, laughing and singing and dancing and being so unapologetically full of the gift from God that is life that they show others what a wonder it is to be alive!!!
there is nothing wrong with being so wonderfully manic that you make those around you a little less lethargic.
or - sometimes it can be wrong, and that’s a great set up for what motivates stories: conflict! what happens when your extrovert girlfriend wants to go to a different event every night and you, the tired introvert boyfriend, just wants to sit in and watch a movie with her? how do you compromise and fulfill each other’s needs? is it even possible? is it worth it? what happens when the adventure that manic pixie girl drags the boy into isn’t what the boy wants, or is more than the boy can take, or is only fun when the girl is there and apart from her isn’t worth it? what happens when she annoys her best friend because she blows glitter all over the room? what happens when she drops off the face of the earth for a month and misses school?
explore the trope!! don’t write it off, don’t never eat a pumpkin spice latte because people make fun of white girls for liking pumpkin spice lattes. pumpkin spice lattes are great.
for an example of a FANTASTIC manic pixie dream girl with excellent conflicts, look at pinkie pie from mlp:fim. like, literally. she’s off the walls energetic and drags everyone into her shenanigans and its WONDERFUL!!! she breaks into twilight’s home to throw her a welcome to town party on the day they meet! first episode and she’s already trying to cram twi into a brighter lifestyle! absolutely iconic. there are times when she’s obnoxious and upsets those around her with her mindless, manic energy, and there are times when her unending optimism and bright personality save the day. she’s given serious moments, sad moments, and determined moments, and all of these are just strengthened by her manic pixie girl personality. (i do think she’s not recognized as a manic pixie girl because she doesn’t have a romantic interest, but aside from not dragging her boyfriend or a local sadboi into stuff...she’s a manic pixie dreamgirl.)
Also, tons of respect to the guy who originally coined the term:
Rabin would later disown the term, because instead of creating awareness of the "lack of independent goals in female characters", the concept was misunderstood as a condemnation of ALL quirky and fun female characters.
IN CONCLUSION.
manic pixie dream girls get written off because sometimes they’re just used as vehicles for the male protag, and sometimes just because they’re a bundle of girlilsh traits that aren’t appealing to certain people, and sometimes because their blindingly bright outlook is seen as bad and/or unrealistic.
and that’s a crying shame.
I like pumpkin spice lattes, I like glitter, I like characters that are so ridiculously over the top energetic and bright that that rubs off on their friends, and I’m going to write so many fun, quirky girls who are unapologetic about their ‘girly’ traits and encourage those around them to Live. :D
Kikyo Gate (Kikyomon), from the series “Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tokyo nijukkei)”, Kawase Hasui, 1929, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art
Gift of Oliver Statler Size: 38.9 x 26 cm (15 5/16 x 10 ¼ in.) Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87304/
Algernon every time anything happens
