Pairing: ThanzagSummary: "Please consider what I’m about to say. Think of it as you return to your mother. You must put as much thought into it as you can. Will you? Please, promise me you will.”
“Yes! Whatever it is, I’ll consider it.”
“Eventually Lord Hades will have mercy upon you. He will. I know that must sound strange—the most severe of the gods showing mercy where his kindred won’t—but it’s the truth. The Olympians are more… unreliable. The only way I can see to protect the Underworld and in turn you and your mother is this: Bind yourself to me.” His hands tremble. He brushes his thumb along the crook of Zag’s throat, so very sweet, even when he’s rigid with tension. “Wed me.” Raised by his mother far away from both Olympus and the Underworld, a strange series of events leads Zagreus to meeting a faceless, nameless Chthonic god.
Pairing: ThanzagSummary: “You’re so beautiful,” Zagreus whispers as if it’s a confession. He’s breathless with the truth of it. He kisses Than’s jaw before finding his lips. His skin thrills beneath Than’s touch. His heart lurches. “I—Than… you were just so beautiful.”
Speaking it doesn’t ease the pain; his chest feels as if it will crack, sending the love multiplying within him spilling forth, but such sublime suffering it is.
Pairing: ThanzagSummary: “Beloved,” Than breathes. Humming quietly, he adjusts his hold, so his hand is higher on Zag’s thigh. Than tilts his head, catching a kiss meant for his jaw with his lips. It’s a fleeting, lovely thing—there and gone so quickly Zagreus feels bereft. “Are you sure?” he whispers, a dangerous edge to his voice. “Do you know what you’re asking for when you plead for me to sate your hunger?”
Than and Zag have a rare moment to themselves.
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“My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay” is a mockumentary project made to imagine a world where Asian bodies navigate as cyborgs in a hegemonic human society. It explores the complex state of being cyborgs and asian — fluid, transgressive, marginalized but also stereotyped as unemotional and inhuman. In A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway once suggested that “'women of color’ might be understood as a cyborg identity, a potent subjectivity synthesized from fusions of outsider identities’’. Cyborg myth for Haraway is about “transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities which progressive people might explore as one part of needed political work”. Asian bodies especially, in the media and in general are often seen as robotic, intelligent but less human. Different from Orientalism, the Techno-Orientalism found in many speculative fiction films and books, such as Blade Runner, imagines the future to be hypo technological cities resembling Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and sexualized, dehumanized asian looking cyborgs. The series is an attempt to create a narrative of cyborgs of our own: My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay. It is to envision a change of the prevalent binary view, reconstructing the boundaries of daily life and to create a dangerously happy ever after posthuman world for cyborgs.
so enamored by this photo project by ramona jingru wang
[image id: a ten-panel comic by @key48return. two women are sat down on a white background with coffee cups in hand. the woman on the left is wearing a blue shirt and brown pants. she has pale skin and dark hair. the woman on the right is wearing a blue dress. she has tan skin and light brown hair. the comic panels are arranged so the woman on the left is asking a question, and the woman on the right answers it.
The first panel reads: “So aren’t Israelis and Palestinians just fighting over religon?” “They are not ‘fighting’, Israelis are the oppressors and Palestinians are the oppressed and the situation is about anything but religion.”
The second panel reads: “Isn’t it just and argument over land between Jews and Muslims though?” “No it is not. Before the creation of 'Israel’ only 73 years ago, Palestinian Christians, Jews and Muslims all co-existed peacefully in Palestine. The Palestinian Christian community is the oldest Christian community in the world.”
The third panel reads: “Oh there are Palestinian Christians?” “Yes there are, there are also Palestinian Jews like the Samaritans who reside in Nablus, both are oppressed by 'Israel’. The point is, making the suffering of Palestinians seem like a religious conflict is factually incorrect.”
The fourth panel reads: “So if they’re not fighting over religion what are they fighting over?” “There is no 'fighting’, there is only Israeli occupation, ethnic cleansing, military occupation and apartheid. When I say 'Israel’ I am referring to a group of people, a group of settlers, who are colonizing Palestine.”
The fifth panel reads: “'Israel’ isn’t a country?” “No, they are a settler colony. Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism that seeks to replaces the native population of the coloniszed land with a new society of settlers. This is what 'Israel’ is. Palestine is the country they are colonizing.”
The sixth panel reads: “How are they able to do that to Palestinians?” “It’s because they have the support of other settler colonied like the United States, Australia, Canada and also support from former colonial powers like the UK, France, Belgium and others. For them to call out 'Israel’, they would have to start to answer questions about their own existence, about reparstions and justice, for the people they colonized.”
The seventh panel reads: “So why did I think it was a conflict over religion?” “'Israel’ tends to spread misinformation about its’ own short settler colonial existence, in order to conceal the reality on the ground. It is a lot easier to disassociate yourself from a situation that has been wrongfully minimized to a 'religiois conflict that has been happening since the beginning of time’.”
The eight panel reads: “What are 'Israel’ trying to conceal by saying it’s a religious conflict?” “Everything. The fact that they didn’t exist before 1948, and they only exist because of Zionist terrorist groups who ethnically cleansed, massacred and destroyed over 540+ Palestinian towns and villages, and…”
The ninth panel reads: “They massacred and destroyed over 540+ Palestinian towns and villages?!” “Yes. They’re also responsible for the displacement of over 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, and deny them their legal right of return. Saying it’s a 'religious conflict’ denies Palestinians their right to liberation, freedom and justice.”
The tenth panel reads: “'Israel’ is responsible for over 7.2 million Palestinians being refugees?” “Yes. 'Israel’ tries to minimize what’s happening to a 'religious conflict’ to draw attention away from the fact that they are a settler colony still in the process of brutally colonizing Palestine.”
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?
