✧ Blood and Darkness ✧

You've heard rumors about Hades' son.

They say he's not in possession of a particularly impressive stature; he's of average height, with dark hair, and he's quite thin, really, for a God. That's what he is, after all, just a God of the Underworld. One of many. And one who looks like he's not indulging himself in ambrosia and nectar as much as he should be at that, it almost seems like he's ungrateful for all the blessings and curses that come along with being the Prince of the Underworld.

They describe him as far smaller and more pathetic than Achilles, their blush showing on their ghostly complexions as they describe how his hair is cropped close to his neck and black and unflowing, not at all like the golden locks that fall around Achilles' nape.

Oh, Achilles, why must you torture us with your divine beauty and arrogant sneer? We know our ghastly, hellish faces are unworthy of your gaze, but a small, simple kindness-- in the form of a smile from your handsome face-- would satisfy us for eternities to come. By Achilles, by Thetis, and by Zeus, please let him stroll by and be pleased by something enough to smile for us, even if his pleasure comes from our misery. Surely, one of us can think of something to poke fun at Hector... much like the spear of Achilles' poked at his neck... surely so, surely so...

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2021 even

This isn't a bug, this is intentional

I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this

This makes an INCREDIBLE difference!!!! For fuck sake go vote!!!!

A few years back a Republican won my house district by six vote. Now she’s talking about making it illegal to protest the Gazan genocide. Pay attention to Congress

if any of your circle is telling you voting is useless and it will never get us anywhere is lying to get you not to vote. republicans will always vote. not voting is just pulling your teeth for them. go vote and dont reblog propaganda that makes you feel hopeless

guys. guys please listen. i am gently cupping your face as i say this.

the scarf is not "hijab". hijab is not a headscarf. hijab is modesty. it means to cover. the hijab is to cover your body. not just women wear hijab. men have their own hijab too. hijab is the concept of modesty, it does not just refer to a random scarf on your head.

do not call a headscarf a "hijab" for non muslim women who wear them, especially if they are not living a modest lifestyle. hijab is for every person who is muslim, whether it's for a man or a woman or whatever else. it does not refer to the scarf. the scarf is just a small part of what "hijab" is. hijab a concept, not an object.

hijab is both physical and social. the physical hijab is about covering your body (in front of non-mahram), and the social hijab is about how you interact with non-mahram ie. averting your gaze, avoiding unneccesary touch, and so on. covering your head or even your whole body is only a part of hijab.

imagine if you will, a fairly dry survival crafting game in which you live in a bunker and must periodically venture out to scavenge food, set up turrets for attacking monsters, etc

now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.

now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.

it is only at this point that the purpose of this entire contrivance becomes clear: to create the most deranged speedrun community the world has ever seen.

Eurovision is in a week so reminder to not watch or support it in anyway with the fact that Israel is still in the competition 

Seconding this For Azerbaijan which is also genociding ethnic armenians in Nagorno Karabach and has not been excluded from the competition

Cowabummer!

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

this is the '10 year mutuals you've never spoken to once' site

A civil conversation with your local lake fish sturgeon

guys i'm going a little crazy with the art, i still have more

TAKE ALL MY HARVEY ART, TAKE IT ALL

(and this is harvey from stardew valley if anyone is still wondering 😭)

So the zionazis who attacked students at UCLA are being speculated to be zionist terrorists who had just returned from pillaging Ghazzah. The reason why? They literally used the same military tactics, they played sounds of babies crying around the encampments before they attacked, thinking it would draw the students out.

This is what we mean when we say the fascism you impose on us will come home to you if you don't stop it in its tracks. They are literally testing techniques and new weapons during the genocide so it can come back to you as fascism and authoritarianism.

To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

I once held hands with my husband at an event where my wife was also present, and a concerned parent lectured me about how she didn't want us to "influence" her son. Our icky gay polyam hand holding was such a threat to this woman that she made a point to corner me away from my partners and get me on my own to lecture me about being "indecent." If she had been inclined toward violence, I would have been fucked.

Hand holding. That's all it fucking took.

So catch me at Pride in a leather harness and holding a bat, because if hand holding is all it takes, we owe it to each other to stand together.

We're here. We're queer. Get fucking used to it.

The sheer number of LGBT people who have called me a "degenerate" and a "pedophile" and an "abuse apologist" and a "homophobe" and a "woman-beater" over this post, in the less than 24 hours since I have posted it, is proof that it needs to be said.

Call me a degenerate if you want. I don't care. It has always been the degenerates protecting each other when the cops raid our bars and inspect our clothing and haul us away for being cross-dressing, family-destroying, society-polluting, tranny dyke faggot freaks.

I know who I'd rather have on my side, and it's not the self-loathing pieces of shit who would rather destroy their own people than dismantle systems of oppression.

You will never be wholesome and pure enough for the bigots, no matter how much you distance yourself from the kinksters. Once they've killed all us degenerates, they're coming for you next. And we won't be here to fight for you anymore.

This post has been getting a lot of notes again recently, and there's something I finally feel the need to clear up.

In the last reblog I said that people got nasty on this post and referred to me as a "woman beater." Many people in the notes have apparently been confused by this, because they think the accusations of woman beating are related to the woman who cornered me. I've gotten a lot of questions about how I could be a woman beater if I didn't get into an actual altercation with the woman.

And, y'all, that's not why people call me a woman beater for this post.

They think I'm a woman beater because I'm into BDSM. They think I abuse my wife. They think that consensual kink is the same thing as real violence. They saw that I like women and like BDSM, and instantly assumed I must be a sadist Dom who is violent with women.

Never mind that I never specified what kind of kink I'm into, what my specific kink dynamic with my partners are, or what my preferred roles are. Y'all have no idea whether I'm actually a Dom or not. Maybe I'm actually the one who likes getting flogged. Maybe I don't like flogging at all. Maybe I'm a switch and like both. Maybe I'm not into doing or receiving but I like to watch. Maybe none of these things are true. Maybe several of them are. You have no idea, and I'm not going to tell you.

These people also managed to conveniently ignore the part where I also have a husband, because they are so wrapped up in the idea that "consensual BDSM = men violently abusing women." The idea of three queer trans people in a consensual polyamorous kink dynamic is so fucking confusing to them that they defaulted to "Ren must hit their wife."

And to round it off, I also never specified my gender or pronouns or orientation, prompting several nasty comments on this post about cis men being predatory. I am not a man, cis or trans, nor do I think it's beneficial to treat all men as inherent predators.

Hope that clears up some confusion.

On April 30th while reporting on the Students Revolution at Columbia University, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt made reference to Hind Rajab as 'A Woman Who Was Killed in Gaza." Hind Rajab was six years old.

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