Heavy

We’re in lockdown so guess who’s back.

Have some angst because that’s how I’m feeling. I really miss my boyfriend but quarantine, baby.

This is based on this wonderful song by Orla Gartland, please go give her Freckle Season EP a listen, and the rest if you can.

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A deep sigh left Race’s body as he rolled over in his bed, wrapping his blankets tighter around his body. He sniffed, wiping his eyes on the corner of his blanket, and stared up at the ceiling. The sun was setting outside and Race’s room was losing light fast, but he really didn’t feel like standing up to turn any lights on. He was fine with lying in the dark.

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shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero

The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”

so… Poseidon made his trans boyfriend bulletproof.  alright.

I’ve been thinking about that last thing all day and

I’m pretty sure I have a new ship…

Sharing this here because everyone seemed to really like the first one and I’m so pleased with the way my dumb drawing came out

You know what the ABSOLUTE BEST PART of this is?

Caeneus wishes for a man’s body– and Poseidon doesn’t sigh and half-ass it, doesn’t break up with him for no longer having a female form, doesn’t even simply carry out Caeneus’s wish to the letter.

No no.

My boy Poseidon decides to give his boyfriend something EVEN BETTER just because.

It’s like he couldn’t contain himself; like he couldn’t even deal with how in love with Caeneus he was.

MALE FORM? DONE. WHAT ELSE CAN I GIVE MY LITERAL FAVE? I KNOW. I KNOW. I WILL MAKE SURE NO ONE CAN EVER, EVER HARM HIM. FOR ANY REASON. I WILL KEEP HIM SAFE EVEN BEYOND THE REACH OF GODS AND TIME. I JUST LOVE HIM SO MUCH.

Okay I don’t know if we’re all looking at the same image or not but it says that Caeneus was raped by posedion. It goes on to say that the wish was to have a male form so that they couldn’t be raped again. And then Poseidon proceeds to make a joke of it by giving him impenetrable skin, so that Caeneus can’t be penetrated. This isn’t a “oh by the by I’m trans and want to be seen as man physicaly” this is “oh hey so that no one every forces themselves upon me agian I want to not have a vagina.” And if I have to explain the reason why the skin that can’t be penetrated, it’s a joke about rape y'all :/ This isn’t Percy Jackson, it’s actual Greek mythology and actual Greek mythology can be terrible.

Though I mean I do like this version that Tumblr has made, I feel like it’s important to not bury the fact that this was a rape by making the these two male lovers. Let’s have Caeneus be a trans icon separate from Posiedon if anything.

i was about to have a stroke because everyone was ignoring the RAPED BY POSEIDON part

listen, representation is good but please dont…. dont make them be lovers when it is pretty obvious poseidon was a huge piece of shit

I noticed that and was like increasingly becoming more uncomfortable as I went through the post

ok usually i don’t reblog discourse-y stuff but this is the WEIRDEST glitch i have seen on tumblr- some people are reading a post that has completely different wording than others

The wording here says “he was abducted by Poseidon, who fell in love with him.” So the implicated here is that he was first kidnapped, and afterwards Poseidon fell on love. But on mobile:

This is the version says “he was raped by Poseidon.” and that he wanted to be a man “so that he may never suffer the same thing again.”

I have no idea how this has happened. This is the same post, not edited, being viewed on the same blog, on desktop and mobile. There’s discourse going on in the notes about the fanart, but the person who made it has probably only seen the desktop version and not the mobile version. 

This is such a wild glitchy discourse, I’m honestly fascinated by this. Neither side knows what the other is talking about.

This is INCREDIBLY weird. I see different versions when I switch between app and browser, too. How would that even happen? Did the OP upload one screencap and later updated it with a different screencap, and for some reason Tumblr is disseminating both images as one?

Anyway, there’s a lot of outrage in the notes that only makes sense if you see the mobile version. On mobile it appears that people are blithely romanticizing a rape when they are in fact interacting with an innocent version of the same post… how weird.

(Note: there are a lot of versions of the same Greek myths that were often told very differently by different storytellers, so if people are free to create consensual and minimally creepy versions of Hades and Persephone, I think the same liberties should be permitted for other myths.)

out of all the times it seemed like people on tumblr had seen totally different versions of the media they were arguing about, this time they LITERALLY WERE.

wow.

Can confirm: tumblr mobile app says one thing, desktop version says another. What in the fuck, Tumblr.

They are romanticising an abduction, even on desktop, though?

Have you read any greek mythology? That’s like half of it

Yes, actually, and I can appreciate Greek mythology whilst acknowledging that they were all awful. It doesn’t mean you have to romanticise it

shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero

The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”

so… Poseidon made his trans boyfriend bulletproof.  alright.

I’ve been thinking about that last thing all day and

I’m pretty sure I have a new ship…

Sharing this here because everyone seemed to really like the first one and I’m so pleased with the way my dumb drawing came out

You know what the ABSOLUTE BEST PART of this is?

Caeneus wishes for a man’s body– and Poseidon doesn’t sigh and half-ass it, doesn’t break up with him for no longer having a female form, doesn’t even simply carry out Caeneus’s wish to the letter.

No no.

My boy Poseidon decides to give his boyfriend something EVEN BETTER just because.

It’s like he couldn’t contain himself; like he couldn’t even deal with how in love with Caeneus he was.

MALE FORM? DONE. WHAT ELSE CAN I GIVE MY LITERAL FAVE? I KNOW. I KNOW. I WILL MAKE SURE NO ONE CAN EVER, EVER HARM HIM. FOR ANY REASON. I WILL KEEP HIM SAFE EVEN BEYOND THE REACH OF GODS AND TIME. I JUST LOVE HIM SO MUCH.

Okay I don’t know if we’re all looking at the same image or not but it says that Caeneus was raped by posedion. It goes on to say that the wish was to have a male form so that they couldn’t be raped again. And then Poseidon proceeds to make a joke of it by giving him impenetrable skin, so that Caeneus can’t be penetrated. This isn’t a “oh by the by I’m trans and want to be seen as man physicaly” this is “oh hey so that no one every forces themselves upon me agian I want to not have a vagina.” And if I have to explain the reason why the skin that can’t be penetrated, it’s a joke about rape y'all :/ This isn’t Percy Jackson, it’s actual Greek mythology and actual Greek mythology can be terrible.

Though I mean I do like this version that Tumblr has made, I feel like it’s important to not bury the fact that this was a rape by making the these two male lovers. Let’s have Caeneus be a trans icon separate from Posiedon if anything.

i was about to have a stroke because everyone was ignoring the RAPED BY POSEIDON part

listen, representation is good but please dont…. dont make them be lovers when it is pretty obvious poseidon was a huge piece of shit

I noticed that and was like increasingly becoming more uncomfortable as I went through the post

ok usually i don’t reblog discourse-y stuff but this is the WEIRDEST glitch i have seen on tumblr- some people are reading a post that has completely different wording than others

The wording here says “he was abducted by Poseidon, who fell in love with him.” So the implicated here is that he was first kidnapped, and afterwards Poseidon fell on love. But on mobile:

This is the version says “he was raped by Poseidon.” and that he wanted to be a man “so that he may never suffer the same thing again.”

I have no idea how this has happened. This is the same post, not edited, being viewed on the same blog, on desktop and mobile. There’s discourse going on in the notes about the fanart, but the person who made it has probably only seen the desktop version and not the mobile version. 

This is such a wild glitchy discourse, I’m honestly fascinated by this. Neither side knows what the other is talking about.

This is INCREDIBLY weird. I see different versions when I switch between app and browser, too. How would that even happen? Did the OP upload one screencap and later updated it with a different screencap, and for some reason Tumblr is disseminating both images as one?

Anyway, there’s a lot of outrage in the notes that only makes sense if you see the mobile version. On mobile it appears that people are blithely romanticizing a rape when they are in fact interacting with an innocent version of the same post… how weird.

(Note: there are a lot of versions of the same Greek myths that were often told very differently by different storytellers, so if people are free to create consensual and minimally creepy versions of Hades and Persephone, I think the same liberties should be permitted for other myths.)

out of all the times it seemed like people on tumblr had seen totally different versions of the media they were arguing about, this time they LITERALLY WERE.

wow.

Can confirm: tumblr mobile app says one thing, desktop version says another. What in the fuck, Tumblr.

They are romanticising an abduction, even on desktop, though?

This has the same energy as an interaction my friend had when a boy tried to kiss her

Friend: I’m a lesbian

Boy: But I’m hot?

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IVE BEEN NEEDING THIS FOR YEARS AND NOW I JUST FIND IT WHEN IM IN A GIANT WRITING SLUMP WHAT THE HECKITY HECK

the lightning thief musical truly is galaxy brain

calling ur dad “my father” is just the socially acceptable way of saying “my dads a bastard and i hate him”

my immediate thought was “katherine pulitzer ghostwrote this”

Raynaud’s, like

I think it’s really funny how I see fics where the characters are in a modern setting or with their s.o.’s and they’ll go by real names instead of newsie names, like in mordern AUs calling Crutchie Charlie or the abundance of sprace smut where they call each other Sean and Tony, but never once in my experience in this fandom has anyone ever acknowledged Fr*ncis S*lliv*n

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