I think the main problem with modern adaptation retellings of ancient mythology is the common want to depict gods and heroes as good, noble people who would somehow aknowledge 21st century ideas of morality. I do believe that you could make a TV show with the Ancient Greek Pantheon as modern human characters, but you’d have to set it up like one of those trashy 2000s MTV reality tv shows about messy rich kid jackasses acting like messy rich kid jackasses.
An episode where Zeus is at a night club, dressed way too flashy and trendy for a middle-aged man with multiple adult children, unsuccessfully trying to hit on a clearly newly 18-year-old girl who is visibly uncomfortable and has no clue how to get rid of him politely.
Then all hell breaks loose and there’s shaky cam fighting as bouncers are trying to throw both Zeus, the camera man, and Hera out of the establishment, as Hera is trying to drunkenly throw a chair at the poor girl, inconherently screaming something about little sluts trying to steal her man.
Trying to write sex scenes is so aggravating because honestly describing sex is pretty boring. It’s mostly just people putting bits of themselves on or inside other people’s bits so you run into a lot of “they walked to another room” type problems where you can get caught up in just describing where everyone’s limbs and shit are. What really makes smut interesting and hot, in my opinion at least, is sensory description but that’s also hard because you’ll be sitting there trying to find a new way to say “they were feeling sexual pleasure and it felt pretty good”. Then you also have to figure out how to write dialogue that doesn’t sound completely ridiculous and hackneyed. Really makes you want to just write “they boned down real good and it was totally hot trust me, it was definitely the kind of thing you’d want to jerk your shit to,” and have done with it.
i think most ‘what if countries were human’ stories are conceptually flawed but i almost respect hetalia for being like “well this is already a bad idea we might as well do wild irreverent yaoibait comedy on top of it. and set it in world war II. whatever.” like yknow at that point it crosses the line into the kinda trainwreck you watch with popcorn.
Star Trek headcanon: Federation Standard isn’t a single language, it’s a way of speaking other languages that make it easier for universal translators to translate them.
Features of Federation Standard include minimal use of in-jokes and memes; expressing yourself primarily verbally (so the meaning can be translated) rather than through body language (which can’t be); avoiding ambiguous phrasing and garden-path sentences; and not conveying meaning through features of your own language such as puns or alliteration that don’t translate.
Federation children learn their own languages at home, but are taught how to use Federation Standard at school. Not every language can be spoken in Federation Standard (e.g. Tamarian) but most can.
A resident of Hamnavoe, Shetland Islands in Scotland, Anne Eunson decided to knit herself a beautiful lace fence using twine. The fence is fashioned from strong black twine - the same kind that is used to make fishing nets - and Anne knitted it on specially adapted curtain rods. It took her about three weeks to knit enough lace to surround her front garden, using a 23 stitch repeat of a familiar Shetland lace pattern.
Why are the muscles in your feet like that. Ohhhhhhh sorry you flexed the wrong tendon in the wrong place at the wrong time. Torture dungeon indefinitely unless you assume this specific position for a minute
Miri ♥ old enough to have seen some shit ♥ she/her/hers ♥ aroace. English. Teacher. Degree in over-analysing fiction. Emotions over characters a lot. Currently living in Japan. I have a queue running from about 3-12pm GMT, so if you see me posting around then you can probably assume it's that. This is a multifandom blog, whose main focus depends heavily on what my dash is reblogging today and/or what shows are currently airing. A complete list of fandoms you'll find on here would take forever, so just rest assured that I always tag stuff with the fandom for your TS needs. (Also included on this blog are random nonfandom things that make me feel things or I think look cool, and a fair bit of posting about social justice issues.) I'm something of a multishipper. Even if I don't ship it, my policy is ship and let ship, so I won't judge you for yours if you don't judge me for mine.
