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T | Oneshot | 12.5k | BeckyAnya ft. Becky Character Study
“I’m so sorry,” Becky cries, voice cracking. “I’m so sorry, Anya, I’m so sorry—” “Don’t apologize!” Anya presses her forehead to Becky’s. “Don’t you dare be sorry for something like this.” And Becky suddenly has a feeling Anya knows, has always known, has known all along, but she needs to say it herself. (Or: Girls like girls like boys do, nothing new.)
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i love dming because it's just me pretending to be severely wounded at my pc's success
the "evil cackling DM who is constantly thwarted by the players' plans and successes" kayfabe is so fun. I'm a cartoon villain. nooooooo. how DARE you defeat my demon puzzle. I'm totally not logging off after this session to rotate your perfect blorbos and their wonderful choices around in my mind and plan for all the good and nice things I want them to have in their lives
no yeah this is so true
damian x anya, post-strix, post everything tbh. your bittersweet angst
The word peace secured, secrets unveiled. At last. Anya is looking at the boy man that used to haunt her dreams (well, let's be honest, Strix related nightmares at first). His hand is in his pocket, and he's contemplating giving her the ring. Really, deeply contemplating it, pictures of their quiet dinners mirroing the cold lonely evenings of his childhood, neutrally absent expressions of his parents' faces. Endless romantic and mundane opportunities already passed, each one a bittersweet relief that ends up not demanding a definitive answer from her. She's so bad with definitives.
His mind is an Ode to Dissapointment. The horror of it, the inevitability. He strives to never fail spurred on by decades of judging shadows, with only chunks of metal to fill the absences. The victory - she - they - have been. Something just for him. Someplace where he wasn't a second priority. So what if it has come to be because of his criminal of a father. All the tears she cried and laughs she laughed weren't owed to that man. No, they were merited on his own. And he cherishes each teardrop and smile as the prizes they are.
So no, Damian doesn't fail. Not at this.
Anya puts her palm on his forearm, a small and warm interruption. "Damian, you know I can still read your thoughts? Full offence, they look daunting."
Damian scowls. Then frowns. Swallows. Then..... sobs. The ringbox stays where it has been for the last however many weeks, unopened.
Anya thinks—well, she knows, in the way she always knows—that she understands why he won’t ask.
If he asks, she would have the chance to say no. And no is a response Damian has never been good at accepting.
Which isn’t to say Anya would refuse, of course.
But she might.
She can’t deny the possibility.
That Damian loves her? This Anya has never doubted.
That Damian loves what she—her existence, her experience—signifies for him? This Anya also knows.
She’s the girl who fell for him when all he was, all he had to be, all he could be was himself, right? And there’s something idyllic, certainly, in that storybook affection. And there’s something destined, certainly, in the presumed happy ending.
And there’s something painful, too, in the knowledge that she’s not unlike a prize, a trophy, a promise he can look toward as reminder that he was worth something to someone after all. Or maybe despite it all.
Oh, how does the saying go again? She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won; she is Anya, therefore must be loved.
And Anya is...
Anya isn’t unhappy. Damian still makes her laugh, still knows her in a way second to none—or perhaps second to only one, depending on which of her shadows are being exposed to the searing light. That Damian ever forgave her for Operation Strix was nothing short of a miracle itself, evidence—essence?—of love divine that she would be a fool, surely, to throw away. To refuse.
To say no to.
Anya has spent so long saying yes to everyone. And maybe...
Maybe yes to herself must be no to someone else.
To someone she holds, now and always and forever, so dear.
But Damian doesn’t ask. Therefore Anya doesn’t say.
She smiles, squeezes his forearm, embraces him through his tears, and wonders how much longer either of them can live—can love—like this.
the more ardent, the more selfish
T | Oneshot | 3.5k | Vampire!Anya – Becky Reveal ft. Queer Friendship | Part of Secrets of the Blood Moon (Vampire!Anya AU)
Becky all but lunges forward, grabbing her friend’s hands before Anya’s fingernails can pierce the fragile skin of her temples. “No, you don’t understand.” She keeps Anya’s wrists locked in her hands, aware somewhere in the back of her mind Anya could easily force her away with vampiric or even regular strength but really and truly not giving a damn. “When I said, ‘I love you,’ there wasn’t a fucking asterisk next to that sentence, Anya Forger. I love you, full stop. Got it?” (Or: Becky learns Anya is a vampire.)
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Inner Peace
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sometimes you have to step off tumblr to remind yourself of a prevailing critical opinion
the more ardent, the more selfish
T | Oneshot | 3.5k | Vampire!Anya – Becky Reveal ft. Queer Friendship | Part of Secrets of the Blood Moon (Vampire!Anya AU)
Becky all but lunges forward, grabbing her friend’s hands before Anya’s fingernails can pierce the fragile skin of her temples. “No, you don’t understand.” She keeps Anya’s wrists locked in her hands, aware somewhere in the back of her mind Anya could easily force her away with vampiric or even regular strength but really and truly not giving a damn. “When I said, ‘I love you,’ there wasn’t a fucking asterisk next to that sentence, Anya Forger. I love you, full stop. Got it?” (Or: Becky learns Anya is a vampire.)
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A very nice cat just greeted me like an old friend and escorted me from the bus stop to the shop while meowing conversationally and keeping perfect pace with me the whole way which was already incredibly charming but then it also waited on the corner by the shop, shouted to get my attention when I got out, and then chattered away while walking me back to the bus stop and demanded 5 minutes of little cheek scritches before wandering off into the night?? Who was he. Missed connections me 25M you cat of indeterminate age or gender interests nighttime walks do you wanna hang out again some time
I'm gonna be honest, I fuck with a movie that's all about the collapse of a society that perpetuates certain morals and laws that itself is not willing to uphold when it comes to interacting with the rest of the world.
The Greeks used the excuse of a woman and the war of gods to wage war with an economic competitor, then showed up on their enemy's shores and broke their own laws of hospitality to win the war and ransacked the city and its people. The story of those actions traveled the world, making everyone afraid of the "people from the sea," even the Greeks who WERE the people from the sea.
The suitors cried about the laws not being upheld for them but were unwilling to uphold them themselves. The same society was terrified of this invisible enemy that would invade because of their lack of morals, unaware that THEY are the ones who broke the laws first. They are their own boogeyman. The fear of foreignors was never about the actions of foreignors but their own actions.
The gods haunt the narrative as an ideal. If they were confirmed real, then this movie becomes a warning against breaking away from "the correct religion." Instead, it is a warning of how mutual care and respect for your fellow man, whether gods exist or not, is the backbone of society, and without it, morality becomes something to twist and fear monger.
The gods couldn't exist in this adaptation, so a lot of the plot points involving the gods had to be changed or left out. "Nobody" only matters if Odysseus doxxes himself for poseidon to punish. (The crew members insisting that they definitely heard the cyclops say posiedon and jumping to the conclusion that he was poseidon's son and they were cursed was a great change in my opinion.) The wind bag can only exist if the gods exist. Athena can only guide Telemechus and Odysseus if the gods exist. ("Athena" potentially only being Odysseus's guilt for the preistess he let die who only shows up in times where his actions in Troy are thematically important was *chef's kiss*.) The Trojan War is only a war sanctioned by the gods if the gods exist. Odysseus being stuck with Calypso for so long needs another reason (the lotus) if it's not by the will of the gods. What would Circe and Calypso be like if they weren't eternal goddesses? Did the crew go to Hades, or did they just perform a spell that raised the dead?
Magic and Monsters can still exist without the gods, and everything else can be explained by superstition, nature, and bad luck. The ideal of the gods haunt the narrative so wonderfully.
I'm not a fan of Nolan's directorial aesthetic, but for the themes he wanted to explore, I think this was a fantastic retelling of the original. Accuracy isn't and shouldn't always be the goal. Sometimes, taking an existing story and making something new in order to speak to a different aspect of humanity is all we can really hope for.
This doesn't mean people HAVE to like it. There are plenty of "good" movies that I do not enjoy watching. However, acting like it's an objective thing to say that this was a failure of an adaptation is very annoying. It's a subjective opinion of art.
Take it as you wish as a casual viewer, a cinephile, a classicist. You may find your issues with its pacing or its cinematography or its loyalty to the text, and I understand, really. I’m not in the business of defending this film for x, y, z reasons. I just want to point out that maybe people have forgotten the whole meaning of the word adaptation. READ MORE
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Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.
the more ardent, the more selfish
T | Oneshot | 3.5k | Vampire!Anya – Becky Reveal ft. Queer Friendship | Part of Secrets of the Blood Moon (Vampire!Anya AU)
Becky all but lunges forward, grabbing her friend’s hands before Anya’s fingernails can pierce the fragile skin of her temples. “No, you don’t understand.” She keeps Anya’s wrists locked in her hands, aware somewhere in the back of her mind Anya could easily force her away with vampiric or even regular strength but really and truly not giving a damn. “When I said, ‘I love you,’ there wasn’t a fucking asterisk next to that sentence, Anya Forger. I love you, full stop. Got it?” (Or: Becky learns Anya is a vampire.)
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fun fact ☝️if you can’t think of a pose to draw a character in you can draw the,m looking at one (1) rat
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the more ardent, the more selfish
T | Oneshot | 3.5k | Vampire!Anya – Becky Reveal ft. Queer Friendship | Part of Secrets of the Blood Moon (Vampire!Anya AU)
Becky all but lunges forward, grabbing her friend’s hands before Anya’s fingernails can pierce the fragile skin of her temples. “No, you don’t understand.” She keeps Anya’s wrists locked in her hands, aware somewhere in the back of her mind Anya could easily force her away with vampiric or even regular strength but really and truly not giving a damn. “When I said, ‘I love you,’ there wasn’t a fucking asterisk next to that sentence, Anya Forger. I love you, full stop. Got it?” (Or: Becky learns Anya is a vampire.)
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the more ardent, the more selfish
T | Oneshot | 3.5k | Vampire!Anya – Becky Reveal ft. Queer Friendship | Part of Secrets of the Blood Moon (Vampire!Anya AU)
Becky all but lunges forward, grabbing her friend’s hands before Anya’s fingernails can pierce the fragile skin of her temples. “No, you don’t understand.” She keeps Anya’s wrists locked in her hands, aware somewhere in the back of her mind Anya could easily force her away with vampiric or even regular strength but really and truly not giving a damn. “When I said, ‘I love you,’ there wasn’t a fucking asterisk next to that sentence, Anya Forger. I love you, full stop. Got it?” (Or: Becky learns Anya is a vampire.)
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