TRANS RIGHTS

In a lot of versions, his mother hides him away from war by making him dress as a woman and pretend to be one of the daughters of a king. She’s afraid that he will die in war, as was prophesied.

Odysseus finds and outs him by presenting the women with a variety of gifts- combs and fabric and etc. He includes one sword, knowing that Achilles cannot resist taking up the sword.

In my mind, he’s offering Achilles a choice: be closeted his whole life, or spend his life out, even if that means a shorter and harder life.

Langa: Hey man, how you feeling?

Reki, half awake and still clearly drugged: I feel like I got robbed

Shadow: You kinda did.

Reki, slightly alarmed as he tries to pat his pockets: Where's my wallet??

Cherry: No, Shadow's being an idiot. You didn't get robbed.

Reki, relaxing: phew, had my goin for a minute

Joe: What are you talking about, Cherry? They literally took a piece of him.

Reki: W-wait-

Reki, patting his groin: M-my dick?!?

Langa, holding in a laugh: Your packer is with your belongings

Idk, I just feel like he'd be the type to get periareolar but I also want him to have double incision (cuz they cool ...and I'm getting double incision soon hopefully and wanna project my excitement)

Thank youuuu @fieldsofdreamlesssolitude 🥰 This post got long on the og thread (check it out for some cool character analysis tho!). So, breaking this off for a new post here to save my homepage scroll lol

1. Last song I listened to: The most jmart song to ever jmart, The Fire by Vincent Lima 🥹

2. Song on repeat: I've been listening to a lot of Mon Rovîa lately (an Afro-Appalachian folk singer, one of my fave newly-found artists!). Damn These Forces has been on repeat a lot and I think about Jonathan Sims 😭

3. Characters most similar to me:

Ah. Jonathan Sims, my beloved. Never felt more seen in my specific childhood trauma and how it manifests in all the small, microaggressive ways in my life. That invisible, insidious kind of trauma that makes you relinquish agency in your own life. I relate to his temptation to self-destruction and his dogged tenacity, his depression and his convictions. He is my rock bottom dark fantasy and my catharsis, and he is everything to me.

The Tenth Doctor is the person I aspire to be. His empathy and his unrelenting love shaped who I am. Maybe more than someone similar to me, I guess Ten is the person I want to be real, so I could run away with him and find the courage to express who I am in a world I am so often afraid of.

And finally, Crowley represents the person I am to my soulmate, how we've never known a life without the other and spend our days pondering the mysteries of life together. Crowley's journey away from god is mine, not a dramatic break but "sauntering vaguely downward" to the person I am today.

Honorable mention to Douxie (Trollhunters) and Death (Sandman), my goth/emo/punk aesthetic inspirations. Even if Death comes from a franchise and an author I cannot support anymore, she represents the kind of wisdom, kindness, and hope I want to infuse in my life and stories.

4. First fandom: First protofandom (pre-Internet/community): Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes. First online fandom (livejournal era): Hogan's Heroes. First modern fandom for me (tumblr era), against which I compare all subsequent fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon

5. Reading: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack, in preparation for the TMA tarot deck I'm drawing!

6. Country: The one where Jonathan talked to Gerry Keay for the first time 😜

7. Meaning behind URL: Shared this recently in another post, so just linking that here.

8. What shoes I would be: Black Converse high-tops, or chunky black boots (I'm hoping to get my first pair of Dr Martens soon!)

9. Time I went to bed last night: I might have been pushing 3 am, whoops. Got caught up talking with @fieldsofdreamlesssolitude about this video essay about the horrifying sexism on The Last of Us adaptation. Fun times 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 (/sarc)

last song I listened to : Disco! In the Panic Room by bug hunter

song on repeat : not just one song but the whole of “in case I make it” by will wood (mostly white noise though)

characters most similar to me :

Wagyu (objectified), because I too, am a small bean nobody wants to be friends with who causes problems. Alistair (tales from the fringes) because I chose my name, like to create and build on ideas, I love magic and I like to world build to the max like them

first fandom : it was warrior cats

reading : you weren’t meant to be human by Andrew Joseph white and about to read somewhere beyond the sea by tj klune

country : ‘merica! (Wish it wasn’t though)

meaning of url : name is Martin, like TMA, hc the k in Martin k Blackwood is kartin so made that mine too, then 200 because that was the last episode of TMA and I has just re-listened to it when I made this account.

Shoes : I hate getting new shoes so I would just like my current shoes (green converse that I got used and aren’t made anymore) fixed, or the pride converse with my flags on them

time I went to bed list night : 12:39 am

Last thing I ate: Rice with egg

Childhood Fandom: Warrior cats

Shoes: I wear hiking boots every day and have for the past 3 years

Meaning of my URL: I just like raccoons, and I thought it was cool and it’s stuck. My phone is also named: Raccoon eyes

Reading: a load of fics

State: California

Characters I relate to

•Benji HFWU

•Nick HFWU

•Koro-Sensei(I have generally become an older brother to so many theater kids)

•Jon TMA

•Quifrey WHA

Favorite song: I have a 9 and a half hour playlist of Japanese music and anime openings

Song on Repeat: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring

Last thing I ate: frozen grapes 🤤

Childhood fandom: Ninjago

Shoes: I would be Vans

Reading: oh boy

The Song Of Achilles

Meet Cute Diary

The Transition

Rereading Compound Fracture

And Act Cool

Characters I relate to:

-Miles Abernathy (Compound Fracture)

-some of Lukas (from the movie 'Romeos')

-Reki Kyan (Sk8)

-Gorgug Thistlespring (Fantasy High even though I havent watched it in a bit)

-Lowkey a bit of Achilles (TSOA)

Idrk who else to tag so imma tag some friends from my other blog