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The AU-blog Ankh-Morpork University is on summer hiatus, but I couldn’t resist making something for it and agentsandyquinn (whose art style I dearly love you should maybe follow them).

A la Colour of Magic, Rincewind has maybe kind of accidentally stolen the final exam answers, and is fleeing with his loyal Lug-gauge bike*, given to him by the exchange student Twoflower in his freshman year.

*Which is on a personal best this term of breaking seven legs of enterprising thieves, causing a few hundred shin bruises and severing one toe with the bike chain. This is a malicious bike ok. Rincewind always gets it back, because no one else can touch it without causing themselves injury.

Overwatch designers: Astrophysicists like Siebren de Kuiper wear cool ass heavy-duty lab coats while they're working with math for some reason

Me, an intellectual who was a physics major for one (1) semester: You know damn well Siebren de Kuiper spent a majority of his time working in khaki shorts and tshirts with shitty physics puns while in a constant state of looking like he woke up 5 minutes ago

Descriptions of Stannis' eyes throughout the books

Blaze Road / Frank Prigent Available in art print, 60x90cm, limited edition of five.

I have to say that the idea that Talon is manipulating Sigma by using the “melody” that he always hears doesn’t seem to hold weight in canon. The “the melody is a harness” whisper that people have claimed to have heard backwards in his short is actually another repetition of him saying “gravity is a harness” so that one piece of evidence isn’t correct — also, he asks “what that melody?” long before Talon ever had a hold of him. So it’s related to whatever happened to the black hole on the space station, not Talon’s manipulations.

The music he’s hearing is probably a reference to “the music of the spheres” —

Kepler wasted his entire life trying to prove this theory about the planets having a musical kind of harmony, and his attempts to map out this theory looked like Sigma’s hyperspheres.

So his weapon, that he uses rhythmically like a musical conductor is like... a reference to a life of research wasted on enormous metaphysical explanations of the universe that seem just out of reach of even the greatest minds, and the idea is that he somehow grasps these ungraspable connections by actually being able to hear this “music of the spheres”

Siebren in Overwatch drabble (I can’t think of a name, again) 

Contains: Not translated Dutch, emotional turmoil, near death.

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How do you kill a God?

Aphrodite laughs, head tossed back with stars in her hair, ‘We are immortal. We are ageless. We will never die.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Hera sighs, ‘You rob them of love and loyalty. They will be alone and unhappy, and eternity will seem like a punishment, but it is not death.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Zeus declares, rather confidently, ‘You deny them their power. Poseidon nods his head in agreement. ‘They will be weak and defeated, perhaps even chopped up into pieces, but it is not death.’ 

How do you kill a God?

Apollo closes his eyes. ‘You strip them of their senses. Their eyes, and they cease to see. Their ears, and they are rendered silent. They will be in the dark, conscious and cut off for millennium, but it is not death.’

How do you kill a God?

Hades whispers, though still his voice carries, ‘With another God. An immortal for an immortal. Era for an Era. A celestial being to strip another’s soul. He pauses, the rest are silent. ‘A God for a God.’

L.H.Z // How do you kill a God?

IDK.. but I like them

Yes, It’s Overwatch fanart, not Finding Nemo or something

If you want to read it, I suggest you click it.

The Enterprise’s menu!  From Lora Johnson’s Mr Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise (1987)

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.

A Case for Reed Richards’ Asexuality: Aphobia and Amatonormativity in Marvel and its Fandom

I have been thinking quite a lot about how fandom’s rampant aphobia factors into Reed hate, probably because I recently discovered that a Marvel artist had vilified Reed in the past over on Twitter by claiming that he is an asshole who thinks of his wife as “just a friend,” as though it somehow would make his love for her less valuable or important if he did. So I’m going to talk about the ways in which Reed has been coded as ace within Fantastic Four canon, and how he is troublingly framed as strange, abnormal, and Other both by official FF canon and fandom over this ace-coding. To be clear, Reed has never been explicitly called ace in canon, but there are moments where it’s been made abundantly clear that he does not experience sexual attraction and that he is fairly ambivalent about sex. 

It does bear pointing out that Reed DOES love his wife romantically—if you’ve ever read FF comics, that much is fairly obvious:

I love you, Susan. You bring light…and life…and joy…and meaning to my days. Now and forever.

Marvel Knights 4 #21

But the fact that he doesn’t behave like a stereotypical heterosexual man—in possession of a high libido, sexually aggressive, obsessed with sex, constantly sexualizing and hitting on and competing over women the way Ben and Johnny do, etc.—means that, in many people’s eyes, Reed’s love for his wife is somehow lacking and not really love. Personally, I think it factors quite a lot into people’s arguments that Reed is “abusive” for “neglecting” his wife, which he simply is and does not do in canon. The implication is that it’s because of his lack of sexual attraction and low sex drive – Reed “owes” Sue sex because he’s her husband, the thinking goes, and his failure to provide it consistently means that he is failing in his husbandly duties. The aphobic notion that aces are abusive to their allo partners because they “withhold” sex is, unfortunately, old and familiar, and it is coercive and, worst of all, encourages rape. Unfortunately, it’s not an interpretation of Reed’s behavior that hasn’t been encouraged in official FF media – take, for instance, this exchange:

Just think of the technological marvels that ancient spaceport might hold, darling!

[sighs] I can see a bikini doesn’t stand a chance with you.

Fantastic Four: The Animated Series: Ep 2x12: The Sentry Sinister

Discussion of aphobia below the cut.

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Was Reed’s dad shitty?

Oh, he is INCREDIBLY shitty. But it’s important to understand the specific type of shitty Nathaniel is because a lot of who Reed chooses to be as a father and husband is in direct opposition to Nathaniel and his truly terrible parenting choices. If Nathaniel ever has to choose between the greater good and his own son/his son’s emotional well-being, he’ll always choose the greater good. So Reed is determined to be a great, present, caring dad and husband and to always put his family first because he knows how much it fucking hurts when your dad DOESN’T put you first. This is why it annoys me so much when people try to argue that Reed cares more about science and the greater good than his wife and kids….no. That is his father. Reed goes to great lengths NOT to treat his wife and kids that way because he knows firsthand how much it hurts. For Reed, family comes first, before anything. And he has ACTUALLY SAID that his dad is why in canon, in this letter he wrote to Sue the day he became a father:

I want to be a good father, Susan. The best! I want to have a close and loving relationship with my son. The kind I could never quite achieve with my own father! But I’m going to need help. You’ve always been the stronger and more focused one of us, and I’ll forever count on you to keep me on track.

Fantastic Four: The Legend (x)

It annoys me when people ignore this. But anyway, time for:

THE STORY OF NATHANIEL RICHARDS, AKA HOW TO CONSTANTLY ABANDON, DISAPPOINT, AND ALIENATE YOUR FAMILY

Reed’s mother died when he was about seven years old. Meaning that Nathaniel is Reed’s only surviving parent, for all the good it’s done him. Nathaniel stuck around for a couple of years after his wife’s death, but then he began his lifelong habit of abandoning his son when he joined the Brotherhood of the Shield and ran off to protect time and the universe with Howard Stark, another shitty dad (although Howard just straight-up faked his death and said he was never coming back while Nathaniel at least felt bad about abandoning his teenage son…but also he still abandoned him). Nathaniel gives Reed a bullshit speech before he goes about how he wants Reed to be a better man and father than he is, which basically boils down to “do as I say, not as I do, aka I know abandoning you to protect the world is wrong but I’m gonna do it anyway.” UGH. Little Reed clearly is not okay with his dad leaving, possibly forever. His dad goes anyway. From Fantastic Four v1 #572:

Hickman’s Nathaniel, for the record, is largely considered the best/nicest version, and look at him…HE IS STILL AN ASSHOLE.

Cut for length.

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Reed and Sue

WHAT FANDOM THINKS THEY’RE LIKE:

SUE: Reed, you are going too far! That person doesn’t deserve to be hurt! We should forgive them. 

REED: Oh, thank you for stopping me and saving me from myself and my logic. I never would have forgiven myself if I hurt them!

WHAT THEY’RE REALLY LIKE:

SUE: Honey, this bad guy tried to hurt our daughter. Hold my coat while I bash his skull in.

REED: Of course! Let me know if you need any help with that, sweetie. I support you completely.

SUE: Nah, I got it.

Ten years later:

REED: Honey, the bad guy who hurt our daughter ten years ago sounds like he’s really sorry now. Maybe we should forgive him?

SUE: Pftt. I love you, but you’re too naive. He hurt my daughter. I will not ever forgive him. He’s an asshole and I’m about two seconds away from bashing his skull in again just on principle. 

SUE: glares at former bad guy

FORMER BAD GUY: faints from sheer terror

REED: (sighs) Sometimes I think you like making them faint. 

SUE: It means they’re scared of me, and they should be scared of me, sweetie. I will hurt them.

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.

I just had a GALAXY brain idea, Rincewind says that his mother ran away before he was born, right, which ISN’T POSSIBLE

… if she’s cis. 

I have a theory about Rincewind. We all know that Esk is the female Wizard but narritive convention would dictate that she have a counterpart. What if the reason Rincewind isn't good at wizard magic is because he's more suited to witchcraft then wizardry? Has anyone talked about this before? I want fanfiction of this...

“I can’t be having with this,” Granny said, each word sharpened to points and enunciated with the accuracy of a champion knife-thrower outlining an unlucky target. Her glare was focused like a laser. It looked as though it could shatter rocks and burn cities to the ground. It was only slightly undercut by the enormous array of novelty candles that adorned Nanny Ogg’s mantelpiece. Rincewind, the unfortunate soul in her cross-hairs, shrank a little deeper into his armchair. He rather felt he couldn’t be having with this either, and tried to say so, but the old woman’s look seemed to have fused his tongue to the roof of his mouth.

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nobody asked for scientist hygiene headcanons but here they are regardless. here’s an idea and I promise it’s not as cursed as you will probably think it sounds. Hermann doesn’t shower much but he DOES have excellent hygiene and always smells nice. 

1. Look, he has a sink in his room! He has a shaving kit! He has towels! He can shave and splash off and wash his hair and clean off with a damp towel he’s fine showers aren’t needed nearly as often as people seem to think! He showers…. a few times a month, it depends on the month. Why, you ask? ok so 

2. the Shatterdome has communal showers and they are aaaaaallllll the way down a super long hallway and he uses all his energy on research he’s just too tired to walk aaaaallllllll the way down there. 

3. also they’re communal showers and he’s shy 

4. and there’s no easy way to get dressed in the stall in your clothes without getting your clothes all wet and he’s NOT walking all the way back in a bathrobe 

5. nobody else is that modest and people are just walking around Completely Naked and he feels out of place in his standard 999 layers but also he’d rather die than remove a single layer

6. The Tiles Are Dangerously Slippery 

7. One time he came in for a shower and There Were People Everywhere and he was waiting for the single disabled shower stall and Ranger Hercules “Herc” Hansen, whose body befits his Herculean namesake, comes out of one of the showers completely naked and walks over to him and starts chatting with him in a friendly way and Hermann, who was at the edge of panicking to begin with, is standing there astral projecting into a realm of internal screaming while hit Chris Fleming song “I’m Afraid to Talk to Men” (I’m afraid I’ll look at their dicks. IT’S NOT THAT I WANT TO! I’M JUST AFRAID I’M GOING TO!) plays on endless loop and he never wanted to know how much chest hair Ranger Hansen had but the man is just standing there talking about the Kaiju-invasion-influenced weather patterns while he drips on the floor and the stall still isn’t open and Herc is between him and the door and there’s no polite way to get out of this and he’s nodding politely and finally the stall is open and he goes in and stays there for a solid 45 minutes having a panic attack and waiting for people to leave the showers so he can hopefully get out of there without any more horrible social interactions but There Are So Many People Still and finally he gives up on waiting. He manages to psych himself up from being terrified to being angry by mentally griping about how many people who don’t need to use the SINGLE disabled stall on their floor use it and he is LITERALLY the only one in this military base who needs it and if anyone else thinks he’s taking up space well too bad he is CANCELING his guilt trip they can just WAIT. Like he did. So he psyches himself up and he leaves the stall and he immediately slips on the tiles and wipes out in spectacularly undignified fashion in front of a bunch of cadets who all politely try to help him up, which is a convergence of all the things he hates, 1. being publicly embarrassed 2. strangers touching him 3. strangers who’re convinced they’re Helping Him so he feels obligated to thank them rather than yelling at them to leave him alone which is what he wants to do and he’s still kind of having a panic attack and 

8. he decided he would only go late at night when no one else was around, so he could avoid people. that would work right? so late one night he walked into the showers. he saw 2 people making out in one of the stalls. he walked out of the showers. he decided Not to go to the showers late at night. 

9. Additional, Secret reason that he tries not to think about too much: Newton, who despite being German is just as intensely American as Hermann, despite being German, is intensely British, showers a lot and Hermann hasn’t run into Newton in the showers before but he’s terrified that if he does he will have a gay stroke and die on the spot from having to confront the idea of Newton being naked in his general vicinity 

anyways he changes his inner layers regularly and is arguably cleaner then Newton on days where Newton just sort of turns the water on himself and zones out while standing there for a couple seconds and then leaves, sometimes even without getting his whole body wet, whilst Hermann is carefully cleaning behind his ears etc. w his washcloth, look. look. I know that absolutely no one asked for this information. but I’m giving it to you. you’re welcome. deal with it. 

So Moira’s eyes have always been a very fun but seemingly random detail about her. But it turns out there might be a myth to explain it.

The whole myth is weird and long but basically- there was a fae lady named Pressyne who married the king of Scotland. She had a very specific rule about not being seen while bathing. At her daughter(s)’s birth, he breaks this. So, she runs back to the otherworld with her daughters. When her eldest daughter (Melusine) learns he did this, she goes back and kills him.

Her mother still held some love for him, so she curses her to become a mermaid like creature on Saturdays and that, if any man sees this, she will become a full serpent. She ends up falling for a king herself and she has kids with him, all odd in some way but healthy. With the eldest having one blue eye, and one red. But he breaks the rule (because of course he does) and she becomes a great serpent-like dragon. But she still loves her children, so she returns for them. Much like the banshee, she still comes to their ancestors to warn them of tragedies.

Which means that:

Moira has A LOT of references to ancestral spirits who warn of tragedies.

Also betrayal. Lots of backstabbing.

She has more mythological justification to summon a dragon then Genji or Hanzo combined.

may i ask? why did odysseus try to kill diomedes?

1) why indeed 2) in the version that story’s from, afair odysseus wanted not just some but All the glory for stealing the palladium from Troy so after diomedes helped him do that he tried to shank him on the way back to the Greek camp lol. (this shady bastard characterization >>> modern bland Pure Good Guy Hero odysseus, for the record) 3) can i just say that i love that their friendship survived this? pictured: diomedes after turning around and seeing his closest ally and bro was about to murder him just for some reputation points

sorry but it’s sympathetic reading of agamemnon time, feel free to scroll past this if you don’t want to see agamemnon appreciation, but agamemnon is so interesting because he DOES learn from the lessons of his ancestors and from the cursed history of his house. he looks at his great-grandfather who killed and cooked his own son, his grandfather who betrayed and killed the man who helped him win his wife, and his father who killed his nephews and fed them to his brother (as well as previously killing his other brother), all three of them thoroughly cursed for their actions. and agamemnon takes away from that the message that godcrimes are a serious thing. not something to be trifled with. so he’s very very careful to live his life in keeping with the gods’ rules of right and wrong. when he’s offended artemis, he takes every possible measure to set things right with her, because he knows what happens when a god has it in for a man. he’s so hesitant to tread on the carpet clytemnestra lays out because he’s afraid of appearing over-proud and of offending the gods by rising above his place as a mortal. he makes so many sacrifices and is so careful to avoid getting on the bad side of the gods, any gods, because he knows what a terrible fate it is to have a god hate you. 

and in doing so, he forgets to avoid getting on the bad side of other mortals. he does not consider what it might mean to be on their bad side. in the eyes of the gods he’s done nothing wrong– it was a god that ordered him to sacrifice iphigenia, and why should the gods concern themselves with petty mortal things like the seizure of briseis or the murder of the trojans? no godcrimes were committed, no godlaws broken, it’s not like it was wife-stealing or kin-slaying or the murder of a guest. slaves and trojans are fair game. by the rules set forth by the gods, he has been pious, afraid to misstep and careful to make amends. he forgets that other mortals may not see his actions the same way. he forgets the mortals have different ideas of right and wrong and that what is right and proper by the laws of the gods may not be so in the eyes of his wife or his comrades.

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

I am reading Pratchett again and realised that Discworld probably has many characters who could become avatars of the Entities and never even noticing because That's How Life Has Always Been. namely I can think of Bloody Stupid Johnson for the Spiral and Rincewind for the Hunt but I'm sure there are others

Rincewind as a Hunt avatar is GALAXY-BRAINED, my friend. Rincewind isn’t a Hunt avatar who makes you feel hunted - not in the usual way. Not with eyes too sharp and teeth sharper yet, the sense that he could lunge at any moment - ha! No. No, Rincewind is just so terrified of being hunted himself that it bleeds out of him; you make eye contact and suddenly you can hear the hiss of arrows in the air, see the flicker of threats in the corner of your eyes, feel the hunters at your heels. Rincewind is the Herne the Hunted of people.

Not a romantic job at all

I feel like sigma would have absolutely insane stories from being an astronaut. I think he would only talk a bit about them if he found them relevant but it always catches everyone off guard (I think people would have this perception of him not having many crazy stories due to being a civilian/not having combat experience for most of his life) but sometimes something will happen and he’ll say “oh this is just like the time an experiment exploded and it vaporized the guy a few meters in front of me and we all almost died” or “you know they really tried to test everyone’s personality to make sure that they’d get along with everyone else but once in a while you’d still get a few duds, such as the one time another astronaut said he’d drain all of another astronauts blood and drink it and you’d never guess what happens next” or “once we were confronted with someone begging us to let them in from the cold abyss of space and they kept saying that they were one of us but that person was already onboard with us and kept trying to assure us that the other person wasn’t real. Anyways I wonder what they’re doing now”

‘By looking far out into space, we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe.’ - Siebren De Kuiper

Y’all know how Odysseus’s grandpa was a shapeshifter thief

AU where Hermes gets Odysseus to do something cool for him during the War and as a thanks Hermes, who is nice but doesn’t understand mortals, turns him into a shapeshifter too

Odysseus, having to try and hide his new status as a body horror abomination in the most high-stress situation possible: 🙃 thanks Lord Hermes….

idk what ricks daemon would be but i feel like their relationship would be really volatile cus ricks got a pretty self-destructive personality also pretty sure mortys daemon hasnt settled yet (but itd be cool if it was usually a guinnea pig cus that kinda works with the whole being used in mad science experiments thing)

ah definitely! i can see their dynamic as being very unbalanced though.. i feel like rick’s dæmon would be pretty ruthlessly cruel to him (”jeez rick why did you fuck that up!” when he makes a mistake; ”hey remember that time you fucked up!” when he’s trying to relax–probably one of the reasons he drinks so much is to sedate her & get her to shut up)

meanwhile he’d be kind of affectionately grumpy towards her, but idolize her too? because she’s this purely intellectual being who ultimately doesn’t have to take any responsibilities for her actions, just perch on his shoulder and theorize & scheme, and i think he’d envy her detachment and kind of put his own wisdom & knowledge on a pedestal you know?

also he gets a raven because.. i enjoy obvious mythology cliches, and like..

“Odin, the father of all humans and gods, though in human form, was imperfect by himself. As a separate entity he lacked depth perception and he was apparently also uninformed and forgetful. But his weaknesses were compensated by his ravens, Hugin (mind) and Munin (memory) who were part of him. As a god, Odin was the ethereal part—he only drank wine and spoke only in poetry.” -x

(also a guinea pig for morty omg–me and janin were thinking some kind of sad little rodent too? janin says a rat, but also i like the idea of a hamster, because hamsters look so harmless, but they seem like they are secretly bloodthirsty..)

J & I (mostly J) put together our Ultimate magnus & pickles playlist !!

please check below the cut for songs, links & lyrics (and try to guess who put in which song haha)

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I cannot properly express my love for the fact that Rincewind is a wizard not because he does magic or is particularly intelligent, which he doesn’t and isn’t, but because that’s who he knows he is, it’s an integral part of himself despite his not fitting any wizardly criteria other than wearing a hat with WIZZARD written on it, and all the other wizards think this is fair and don’t question it.