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Sorry for reblogging so much great dunkbaelor art today it will happen again and I'm actually not in any way sorry

there's a trojan war suburban au that only exists in my and izzie @wizardjail's heads where agamemnon owns a greek restaurant chain that keeps buying up other restaurants and priam has a family-owned turkish restaurant, and also all their kids go to the same schools. paris comes home from college and has an affair with helen, and in revenge the atreides try to destroy priam's business. they get odysseus involved because he's their only friend with a real business degree. odysseus files a disability claim to get out of contract but palamedes pushes telemachus' stroller into traffic, forcing odysseus to sprint after it to rescue him. agamemnon 'ruins iphigenia's future' by taking the minivan when she was supposed to be at an archery tournament, thus missing her chances of getting scouted; after which agamemnon and clytemnestra get divorced, but keep having more kids, because odysseus is anonymously suicide-baiting agamemnon and unintentionally driving him back to his ex-wife's arms. the pta is in shambles.

priam and hecuba have an open marriage. hektor is master chef; paris went to, like, juilliard but has no interest in cooking, which is his family's standard of masculinity for some reason. troilus is hecuba's son with local pharmaceutical company owner apollo. one time at the town's yearly all-ages charity soccer game, achilles got way too into it and illegally body-checked a 12-year-old troilus and broke his arm. apollo was in the bleachers and now has beef with this high schooler. he releases 1,000 mice into agamemnon's restaurants so they fail their health inspection. despite being, like, 17, achilles is too fucking good at his restaurant job so they keep giving him just way more responsibility than he should be trusted with. he's a branch manager. when he gets promoted patroclus solemnly dons his gyro mascot uniform

to my audio drama mutuals: does anyone have a recommendation of a short audio drama that someone could listen to in a day or so? I really want to get back into audio drama but all of my favourite shows are quite long and with a lot of them I kind of need to relisten to parts before I catch up and I think this is making me procrastinate getting back into them. I think if there was something that I could listen to quickly I’d get reinvested in the form and feel more motivated to catch up on my favourite shows if that makes sense. Really any genre is fine just as long as it’s shortish and it’s something you really like.

Chiming in with one of my favorites, Janus Descending! Sci-fi horror about two scientists who go to a distant planet and what happens to them there (not good things). Chel's parts are told forwards, Peter's parts are told backwards, as they slowly reveal what happened to make it go so wrong. Approximately two hours total.

I struggle manfully at all times not to think about this.

The idea of them adding rain and Dr Grace immediately disliking it and going inside is just so tasty. On an animal level the biodome team are simply not pleased that he displays an aversive response!! AND YET this is precisely the whole deal with rain... even if they know that and the experience coordinator appreciates the extra tool to encourage him to move through different areas and spend his time in different places... it's just inarguably annoying to see Dr Grace squint and hunch in your PRECIOUS RAIN.

I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you

a deer is like a forest horse if you think about it