You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches.
"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time
You know, museums lend exhibits to each other all the time so it's not like the British museum would be completely without exhibits from other cultures if they returned the stuff people are asking for. Unless they've made so many enemies that nobody wants to lend them exhibits I guess.
People ask me how I can be queer and Christian at the same time and the answer is that I’m just that cool and epic
Seriously though I just do it. Jesus never said it’s illegal for me to be this cool. Religious queer people in general often get asked by faith communities and the queer community how or why they do that and the answer is: What are you, a cop?
I’m in an archaeology class this term and fuck, people really are just people no matter what.
I have an essay due tonight and I’m crying about the 3cm comb found in a small girls tomb, suggesting her parents buried her with a doll made of cloth or other material, leaving only the comb to be preserved. The girl found cradling another’s baby to protect it from the ash in Pompeii, the two pregnant women found alone in a house, the younger one being just 16 who was curled up in the other woman’s arms. I’m thinking about the 14 year old who was buried facing their ivory doll. These children who died, but who were not unloved.
There is so much love in these ancient burials and it makes my heart ache.
Oh Laika, patron saint of one way trips, I hope our sun is a warm yellow ball to forever play with.
a list of “ship tropes” that aren’t really tropes yet per se, but I need them to be
Kind, gentle man+ eldritch monster/horrifying werewolf/scaly abomination/hairy Creature wife
Battle couple whose respective fighting styles are “stealth, silence, precision and cunning” and “walking tank with a gun as big as they are” respectively
Mad scientist+mad scientist in a different branch of science
Regular scientist+actual wizard
Human+ alien and/or robot who is discovering what Emotions are
Lithe, androgynous elf guy+ bearded, hunky dwarf girl
Succubus/incubus and angel, except all the Love and Affection stuff is new to the succubus/incubus and they are adgftbnjgfsfvhjj inside
big, hairy werewolf jock girl+ regular boy who is soft and cute
big, hairy werewolf jock girl+ edgy, chiseled-jaw werewolf guy who kisses her hand and lays his head in her lap
realistic “Alpha male and female” werewolves who just are super affectionate with each other and have a really big, boisterous family
two heavily autistic-coded dragons with completely different hoards which regularly bring one another gifts to go in their hoard
mild-mannered, introverted naturalist+ Bigfoot
very normal atheist+ actual minor god
large orc girl+tiny human girl who is strong, athletic and likes to Fight
superhero’s costume/outfit designer+supervillain’s costume/outfit designer
PhD’s without a braincell’s worth of practical knowledge between them
Here's something that's a good source on Hermes, if you're not really sure what he's like as a god and a person.