May I Ask? Why Did Odysseus Try To Kill Diomedes?

lurien’s butler being the embodiment of a ‘cowardly husk’ in their end really does set the precedent for how you’re meant to interpret lurien himself imo

My favorite thing about Kim Kitsuragi is that he’s a huge liar.

He describes himself as a fun-hating spoilsport and then he gets overly aggressive about a game of Suzerainty that he said he was Much Too Busy to play, and declares “Nobody fucks with Kim Kitsuragi >:)”.

It turns out he’s in to driving really, really fast and making sure his RCM-issued vehicle is customized to Him, and is Very Pretty and Cool and Fast, and he is So Coy about it.  “I’m really just a professional, normal guy.  Just a really normal button-down cop guy that drives my custom-painted sports car.  do you want to hear about the engine?  It’s got 12 cylinders by the way. Lotta horsies.  Very fast.”

I think a lot of things because of that Au mine that I don't know how to do but the point is this I think that the decision to be a consulting detective is something that did a lot of good for Holmes in many aspects of his life but I think one of the most relevant was in improve the relationship with his brother.

Personally I don't think they have a love / hate relationship or a strained relationship for siblings who get on badly in the canon are the Watsons.

For me it is more than anything a matter of characters: Mycroft does not is someone who shows his affection in an explicit way and although Holmes has very sweet moments and gestures from him, he also does not have the habit of being like that expressive.

So the Holmes brothers get along; In their childhood it is not crazy to think that who first develops his observation / deductive skills is Mycroft, in fact it makes sense and with things like the Diogenes club it is not so crazy to say that he is a lonely and lives in his own way but then there is the little Sherlock.

According to the case Gloria Scott Holmes considered his observation and deduction skills at that time a simple hobby. And he was seen as an aimless young man but why would someone develop such a strange hobby? I think the answer is that little Sherlock did it to get closer to his brother mainly and if he continued with that it was out of his own natural curiosity.

The point is that Mycroft is the first to be different if we deviate to a somewhat queer perspective. If Mycroft is the first who knows that he is different, maybe many of his attitudes are to protect himself; observing the people around, being able to do this from a seat, his search and acceptance of a position of power and imposing - politics isn't easy or light! -.

So his own little eccentricities are why his younger brother manages to form a bond with him, they bond over and maybe even one day he will be honest with Sherlock when SH realizes his own distinctions but his attitude is different, Mycroft points out that Holmes has the energy of the family and the desire to do fieldwork.

I think this again is a reflection of how they handle things, Mycroft does not want fights, he does not want direct confrontations, he wants to deduce everything from a chair, hidden, protected in his own sanctuary and with the assurance that if someone were to try to harm him. .. It would be complicated but Sherlock is different, he is there saying his name out loud when a dangerous criminal abruptly enters his home, he makes jokes after almost dying, he is the type who is not afraid of confrontations in reality. (Maybe in other areas yes, but in apologizing for being who he is? He is not afraid of being who he is) There is even something careless and reckless in his youth.

But returning to the subject, in addition to their own personalities, these different paths that each one takes are the only point that could have separated them; because these are two very different perspectives, it is not hatred or contempt just to grow up and belong to different worlds.

They would still have their little deduction games and a few visits but there would be an outside line until Sherlock Holmes decides to be a detective. What I'm going to is that in his youth he had many doubts about what to do with his life; we know he could be just a chemist, or an actor in the theater or a violinist or an underground boxer! but S. Holmes, thanks to Trevor's father, argues that what he likes to do, what was his first approach to his brother could be useful to live and help others.

If Sherlock had dedicated himself to something else I feel that Mycroft would have supported him but there would be some inevitable distance that is broken a bit when their jobs / life missions intersect as much as when Sherlock is a detective, we saw it in the Greek interpreter, from time to time Mycroft helps him solve cases or guides him in the matter! In stressful and difficult matters that Mycroft faces in his work, he can directly request Sherlock's support and even see how he solves that complication in his life!

I think there is something... there at the bottom of how both have improved their relationship by ending up in two parallel paths; each one is different but from time to time they cross paths and meet and it's cute.

the most accurate snape quote i’ve ever read by someone on a forum: “

Risking himself to save others is the pattern of a man who believes in a good beyond himself, his own interest, his own loves and hates. For those who believe Snape can only be motivated by revenge- keep in mind- he had his chance at revenge on Black when Black was unconcious after the Dementors attack. What did he do? He conjured a stretcher and delivered him to Pomfrey for medical attention, in sharp contrast to Black’s own recent treatment of the unconscious Snape, dragging him and bumping his head into things. Snape changes over the course of his lifetime. Snape never becomes a nice person. He does become a good one.”

no one asked but i never saw snape's story as a redemption arc, mainly because it turns out that for the entire length of the series he was already working on the side that is meant to be good so more like a revelation arc? not all of his actions were entirely great and they are not supposed to be, but many of the ones that made harry and co. hate him have different meanings when you see them in their full light like always being in the hallways catching harry out when the kid was wandering around (or making a beeline for the exact thing that is trying to kill him), he's not just trying to get harry in trouble but also trying to stop him from getting dead (a sisyphean task if there ever was one) i suppose snape's over-arching narrative must be considered a redemption narrative since it exists in a very strict good vs. evil/black-and-white world, but i don't know something seems "off" about that at least to my very specific brain...

I'm always shocked when I see canon art where Reed is just... ripped. Like, I fully expect him to have at least SOME muscle (he's been a hero for a long time after all) but then there's art where he's just a svelte muscle man and I'm like W O W

Personally, I prefer my Reed very tall and very, very slender, with like…hardly any muscle at all. Looking very much like the nerdiest professor on Earth. Ben, the former football jock turned test pilot and wannabe astronaut, is the one who should be built like a brick house, even before the cosmic rays, not Reed. I wouldn’t mind buff Sue either — she was a jock in high school and on the swim team, and she has her own pool in the Baxter Building where she swims regularly. And she’s an expert martial artist, trained by Danny Rand himself. So she should have muscles. I just don’t really buy that Reed would, like…work out. Or care about his appearance at all. I don’t know if he even technically has muscles anymore, so working out wouldn’t help him at all anyway. I honestly just HATE IT when he’s really buff — I despise Eaglesham’s Reed (from Hickman’s run), who looks like he has Clark Kent’s body type, which…Reed should never look like that.

This is more like what I picture Reed looking like:

TALL AND SKINNY. YES, THANK YOU.

He CAN actually make his body look however he wants it to, though. So if he wanted to have giant rippling muscles, he technically could fake it. Personally, whenever I see him looking very buff, I imagine he’s doing this:

And Sue, Johnny, Ben, Val, and Franklin are all just giggling quietly to themselves because Reed just showed up to breakfast one morning with bulging muscles out of nowhere. And then they disappear just as abruptly after Sue has a talk with him.

anti-papyrus-babyification brigade forever but you can tear sans' mom moments from my cold dead hands

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Rincewind: The world stresses me out, man. Twoflower: You could try meditation. Rincewind: No. I need to be fully in the shit. Stress keeps me grounded. Reminds me that I’m here. It’s almost a spiritual thing.

Been thinking about Lumon/Kier’s obvious disdain for nature. The aggressive sterility of the severed floor. Dieter’s connection with nature being something to be shunned. His natural sexual urges something to be divinely punished, the punishment being a violent reclamation by nature of his body.

Gemma’s “life” being unnaturally extended into Ms Casey. Gemma always being pictured surrounded by nature, Ms Casey’s office being a thin facsimile of it. She tells Irving that he’s a talented lover, she stops him from sighing in pleasure.

Irving admits that their status as people without histories is “unnatural”. He worships a man made god, and when he finds something organic to love in Burt, they make a secret space for each other surrounded by greenery. It’s as close as they can get to feeling normal.

Persephone the goddess of spring, kidnapped to the underworld. Demeter protests, throwing the earth into an eternal winter, awaiting her return.

Irving saw the outside world blanketed in snow one day. He tries to get Burt back. He wakes up almost half a year later, he’s told. He goes outside again and it’s still snowing.