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OKAY, so, here's something I've been working on for a while now. I've had an idea for my own trek series, as some of you may have seen from the drawings, and I wanted to write some of it down. First time I've ever used ao3 so apologies for any weird formatting. I hope you enjoy if you check it out and I'd love to hear any feedback!
Thank you so much @spindlewit for this amazing comission!! I love it!
One of the things that I really enjoyed about the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is that Gilgamesh is a shitty person. Like, he's a king and two-thirds divine and all that, a warrior among warriors, his experiences could not be more different from the average person, and yet none of that saves him. I think the messages about grief and mortality hit as hard as they do because he's so selfish and privileged and awful at the beginning, before being irreversibly changed by friendship and love and loss and regret. He has all of this classical "greatness" and that does not spare him. He has been changed and chooses to change, and there's no miraculous reward for that. None of the widespread pain he's caused and is still capable of causing his subjects spares him either. There's something striking in seeing this greedy, cruel, mythologically "heroic" figure be so deeply humbled by a universal tragedy; to see him essentially crying out, "Not even me?" and receiving the firm answer of, "No, not even you."
Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
It's obviously loaded but something I do find charming about early Cloak and Dagger is that every time they lose their powers or something, Ty is always upset because he thinks Tandy is going to leave. He is so insecure and feels so much self hatred about his learning disability, about his speech impediment, and about how without being Cloak he isn't tied to Tandy in that way, so it's only a matter of time before she finds someone better, someone more suited to her personality and life, someone who doesn't stutter like he does, and he feels so much guilt about wanting Cloak back because it put them more on an even playing field in his mind, versus Tandy who is always like "This is great! Me and Ty can be normal kids! And I'll live forever with my best friend Ty who I want with me all the time and who does so much for me, my best friend in the whole world Ty Johnson โบ๏ธโบ๏ธโบ๏ธ" and Ty is an active suicide risk.
i have never understood or played magic the gathering, but i have nothing but respect for it after seeing this tittieless snake woman
you could have gone the easy route. you could have given her titties. but you didnโt. cause sheโs a reptile. thank you mtg. thank you.
She is feeling Fresh and Fabulous.
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