#because I’m their goddess

[ewwww-what]

friendship so strong it grants you a sixth level spell slot. I have words to say.

#you aren’t always supposed to handle doubt alone. #even if you aren’t afraid of the dark it’s easier to navigate with someone holding your hand #Kristen said ​‘I just love my friends. I love my friends so much.’ #and Fig said ‘maybe I’m not an artist. maybe I’m just a really good friend.’ #and everyone in the world wanted me to be okay and normal about it #queerplatonic love comes in so many forms and this is one of them #fig and Kristen. fig and Kristen. fig. Kristen. #also also #I’ve been so emotional about the fact that all of the bad kids care so deeply about Cassandra despite not worshiping her #‘​I believe in Cassandra because I’ve seen her!’ like they have come eye to eye with a goddess and chose the mutual friends route #god I love it so much #also nonbinary fig believers how are we feeling tonight #fantasy high #d20 #d20 fantasy high #d20 fanart #fh #fantasy high fanart #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #fig faeth #fig fantasy high #kristen applebees #kristen fantasy high #faebees #queerplatonic #that’s important to me. that is an important part of this. #undescribed #my art

[dekariosclan]

Hear me out.

I 1000% agree that non-godhood, orb-free, romanced professor Gale is the best ending. He and Tav are SO happy and in love, Tara approves, Gale’s mom isn’t sad, it’s nothing but good things and I absolutely adore it and it will have a place in my heart forever.

I also agree that in the Godhood ending, while Gale retains aspects of his former self, he has changed. His most precious human qualities have been replaced with ambition and pride. And you can’t ignore the fact that Tara is now unhappy, Gale’s mother misses her son, Elminster is distraught and feels responsible for Gale having chosen this path, and there’s the possibility of looming disaster in the future as described by Raphael.

…and yet…

…seeing how much God Gale still loves Tav—and knowing they’ll get to spend an eternity together—is pretty damn wonderful, too.

(Note, playthrough not mine, I captured these screenshots from a public YouTube video posted by user MUNMOMUU)

#I guess I would end up as the Goddess of Simps because I wouldn’t be able to turn God Gale’s offer down either #I don’t want to be a Goddess or him to be a God but I would love him too much to say goodbye #Despite everything I’m just glad he’s got an ending where he gets an eternity with his beloved Tav #Bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale x tav #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #spoilers #bg3 epilogue spoilers

[apollosothertwin]

Meg is going to become immortal. Think about it, the things that stopped Percy from becoming immortal are his relationships with Annabeth and his other friends. Jo and Hemithea gave up their immortality to be together. They all wanted to be mortal because the only way they could be with the person they love most is to be mortal.

For Meg it’s different, because although she does have mortal friends, her strongest relationship is with Apollo, and the only way she can be friends with him and not make him sad when she dies is to become immortal. I think Meg will spend some more time being mortal so she can at least have a better teenage life (and also so Apollo can get a bit more in Zeus’ good graces so he won’t be hurt as much when he turns Meg immortal), but then she will become immortal.

#what I’m really wondering is if she just immortal or a full on god #because what would she be goddess of? #apollo #trials of apollo #toa #toa apollo #percy jackson #rick riordan #the trials of apollo #lester papadopoulos #pjo apollo #apollo and meg #meg mccaffrey #sunflower siblings #immortality #headcanon

[eewtp]

Chalice of the Gods, Wrath of the Triple Goddess…

Nico and Will I’m sorry you two go stuck with the title that you ended up with

#I’m so negative today but 😐 sometimes I can’t stand the name tsats #especially when all the PJO books are titled very nicely #and this tsats business was not it and so very obviously an outlier 😭 #I can’t do better don’t even ask because I am struggling to name the rewrite I’m working on #pjo #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #solangelo book #the sun and the star #tsats #chalice of the gods #wrath of the triple goddess #pjo fandom

[lukeskylovr]

i think about her every day

(my picture)

#went to the british museum specifically looking for her #it took 45 mins because she’s so small #and i’m not very observant #i love her #my favourite artefact ever #hellenic polytheism #hellenic deities #hellenic polythiest #selene goddess #selene #hellenic gods #moon deity #moon goddess #ancient greece

[dice-n-antlers]

Thinking about Astarion (because of course I am) and the spell True Resurrection.

There’s been some debate over the dates on his headstone and how long he’s been dead and how old he was when he died. The dates are listed kinda weird, but the general consensus is that he’s exactly at or just under 200 years (un)dead.

It is true that, as written, the creature must be dead “no longer than 200 years” for the spell to work.

However.

I think you can argue that in Astarion’s case (and for vampires in general) that it doesn’t matter.

Of course, to work within the confines of the game, the spell has to be written with specific rules and limits. However, rules can be bent and in a tabletop setting, this would be up to DM discretion. As you can see in the spell description, the soul of the creature must also be free and willing to return to life and their body must not have died of old age. So, why the 200-year restriction? To answer that question, let’s talk about souls in the Forgotten Realms.

In general, when an ensouled creature dies, the soul moseys on over to the fugue plane over the course of a few days or even up to a month. This is why there are different resurrection spells that have to be used within a minute or ten days; because the soul is still sorta hanging around.

Once on the fugue plane, the soul just kinda hangs out. Waiting. After about a tenday-ish, a divine postal worker from the soul’s chosen deity comes to pick up the soul and deliver it to its final resting place on the home plane of their deity. The soul can’t be forced or tricked into following the wrong mailman. And there are exceptions to this rule as well. For instance, a soul who wasn’t particularly faithful might end up waiting centuries before someone shows up. If they wait too long, the soul may fade out of existence or Kelemvor may judge them before then.

Once the soul has been prime-delivered to their deity’s planar doorstep, they become a petitioner and their form and the nature of the afterlife can vary wildly depending on who they follow. Some exist in bliss or anguish. Memories of their life on Toril may fade. In the case of elves, they tend to retain their individuality and identity and may eventually be reincarnated in a cycle seeking perfection.

(Note: non-elven petitioners of the Seldarine pantheon of Arvandor could appear as elven or with elven features in death even if they were not elves in their mortal life. Same goes for drow, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings and their respective gods and planes. So you could even make the argument that a non-elf could then enter the elven reincarnation cycle and be elven in their future life if they worship Sehanine Moonbow or Corellon Larethian, etc. Consider also that the Reincarnation spell has the potential to change a dead creature into almost any race without effecting their soul; therefore reincarnating an elf into a tiefling but not removing them from their normal elven reincarnation cycle.)

(But I digress)

The point is, when you are raising a creature from the dead, you are pulling them from somewhere in that natural process. Depending on how long they have been dead, they may no longer exist, or may have little to no memory of their mortal life, they may not want to come back, they may have already been reincarnated into another life, or you might be pissing off some deity. In fact, once a soul is a petitioner, their deity has to approve of their return to life as well. Not to mention, for most souls there may not be much worth coming back to after 200 years; there is likely nothing remaining of their former life and loved ones.

Again, the soul must be both free and willing.

So what about Astarion? To bastardize his own quote: his soul is RIGHT THERE.

He died, sure, but his soul didn’t go anywhere. If you didn’t ascend him, you know his soul exists intact. It’s not on the fugue plane or any final resting plane and hasn’t been reincarnated. His body is dead(ish), but didn’t die of old age. Not to mention, the Monster Manual specifically lists (re)killing them and bringing them back to life as a potential way to cure a vampire.

Assuming that Astarion is willing to return to a full, mortal life, I see no barrier to True Resurrecting him… except that you might need to kill him first… and you need a fuckton of diamonds.

In short: think of the 200-year thing as more of a guideline than a rule. Alternatively, consider that Astarion may have been un-dead for a good long time, but he has not been dead-dead for 200 years.

Now, go forth Tavs! Go kill and resurrect your vampire boyfriend!

#this one is for the angst-with-a-happy-ending fic writers #astarion ancunin #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 posting #I spend too much time thinking about death in the forgotten realms #I play a grave cleric worshipper of a homebrew goddess who rules over The Grey #best described as the transition area in the fugue plane for souls #my DM tweaked the fugue a bit because death is fucky in TFR and she didn’t like the normal process #said cleric is the tabaxi in my pfp #but I’m rambling again

[sapphoismymuse]

Athena, goddess of handicrafts, wisdom, and war

I always see boards and depictions of Athena focusing on the wisdom and war sides which, yes, those are the more popular aspects, but they always feel too pristine and white. Athena’s also the goddess of handicrafts!! Of weaving and spinning and pottery and arts and making things with your hands!! She isn’t clean and pristine and greys and whites all the time—she can be colourful, she can be messy.

#photos from pinterest #this post is sponsored by me being an athena kid but not relating to any of the aesthetic boards people make #because i’m both a burnt out gifted kid and an artist #but athena’s aesthetic is always white marble and snowy owls and clean papers #and never paints and messy writing and hyperfocusing #athena #athena aesthetic #greek mythology #percy jackson #athena cabin #pjo #pjo aesthetic #greek gods #greek goddess #moodboard #aesthetic #art aesthetic

[chayannecraft]

I know all the hype is around purgatory right now but. but hear me out. qsmp botw au with Chayanne as Link and the Antarctic Empire as a kingdom completely seperate to hyrule with Philza trying to get his kid back. Did Chayanne get kidnapped?? Did he run away? Do you hear me. Is this thing even on. Hello. H

#qsmp #qsmp chayanne #qsmp Philza #philza #chayanne the egg #I’m leaning towards Pomme as Zelda #because I think the dynamic would be cute #and it’s also interesting to me to have this warrior put in the position of the goddess #something she can’t do as well as fighting #but i also don’t know a lot about Pomme so the positions are very ehhhh right now #I’ve been thinking about this for like #a week #I have so much lore seperate from the games #ILL PROBABLY DRAW DESIGNS MAYBE #I DONT KNOW #qsmp botw au #<— that’s the tag

[goddess-of-frot]

A good way of ensuring your sub gets proper anal training to take whatever you want is to set a rule that they aren’t allowed to masturbate or cum unless something is in their ass. It provides a lot of incentive, and teaches them to associate cumming with their ass being full.

#the goddess speaks #men dni #Thinking of this because I need to train more and I’m considering setting it for myself lol #My girlfriend is both tragically and luckily massive so I need to put in the work first

[godsofhumanity]

poll time!! you guys voted here, and now the poll’s ready!

no gods included in the poll haha but if you want some background to the characters who made it in, check below the poll!!

AGAMEMNON (king of Mycenae, see: the Iliad)

Filicide (kills his daughter Iphigenia, albeit at the request of Artemis)

Dishonours his allies (takes Achilles’ war prize Briseis)

Murder (kills his wife Clytemnestra’s first husband and her infant son)

Rape (Cassandra became his concubine after the sack of Troy)

ATREUS (king of Mycenae, Agamemnon’s father)

Murder (kills his half-brother Chrysippus)

Hubris (promises Artemis a golden lamb, but then hides it from her to avoid having to sacrifice it)

Cooked his brother Thyestes’ sons and forced his brother to eat them

THYESTES (king of Olympia, brother of Atreus)

Murder (kills his half-brother Chrysippus in order to take the throne of Olympia from him)

Adultery (sleeps with his brother Atreus’ wife Aerope)

Rape + Incest (rapes his own daughter Pelopeia in order to conceive a son to kill his brother Atreus, as prescribed by an oracle)

NIOBE (daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion who, with his brother Zethus, built the walls of Thebes)

Hubris (boasted of her great blessedness in having produced 7 sons and 7 daughters where the titanide Leto had only managed to produce a single son and a single daughter (Apollo and Artemis)

TANTALUS (ancestor of Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, and Niobe)

Filicide (kills his son Pelops)

Hubris (steals ambrosia and nectar from the table of Zeus, and then tricks the gods into consuming his son Pelops’ flesh to test their omniscience)

MINOS (king of Crete)

Betrayal (tricks Scylla into sharing with him the secret to killing her father, and then punishes her for betraying her father for him by tying her to a boat and dragging her till she drowned AND imprisons Daedalus and his son Icarus within the labyrinth they built for Minos purely to protect the secret of the labyrinth)

Hubris (substitutes the white bull Poseidon sends him as a sacrifice for another bull, against the god’s wishes)

Murder (orders Athens to sacrifice 7 young men and women from the city in return for Minos not attacking them)

THESEUS (king of Athens)

Betrayal (abandons Ariadne on the island of Naxos after she betrays her country to help him navigate the labyrinth (though this may have been at the behest of the gods, sources differ))

Kidnapping (kidnaps Helen (future queen of Sparta, pre-Iliad) to make her his bride)

Hubris (dares to kidnap the goddess Persephone from the Underworld as a bride for his friend Pirithous)

Filicide (has Poseidon kill his son Hippolytus after hearing that the boy attempted to force himself on Phaedra, Theseus’ wife and Hippolytus’ step-mother, which was not true)

LYCAEON (king of Arcadia)

Filicide (kills his son Nyctimus)

Hubris (attempts to trick Zeus into consuming his son Nyctimus’ flesh to test his omniscience)

LAIUS (king of Thebes)

Rape + Kidnapping (defiled and abducted Chrysippus who was the son of Pelops, the king who welcomed Laius into his city after Amphion and Zethus usurped Laius’ father’s throne in Thebes)

Attempted filicide (tries to kill his infant son Oedipus when a prophecy warns Laius that the only way to save his city is for him to die childless)

MEDEA (princess of Colchis)

Murder (kills her brother to distract her father while her lover Jason escaped with the Golden Fleece from Colchis AND tricks Pelias’ own daughters into murdering him (though these things may be credited to the influence of Eros’ arrow which had struck Medea by the will of the gods))

Petty revenge (curses all Cretans to never be able to tell the truth after the Cretan Idomeneus judges the Nereid Thetis to be more beautiful than her)

Filicide (kills her children by Jason in revenge for him abandoning her for Creusa, princess of Corinth)

Conspirator (attempts to deny Theseus of his royal birthrights by trying to convince Theseus’ father Aegeus that Theseus was not his son but an imposter who needed to be killed)

#medea has done some pretty nasty things and i wanted more women in the poll so she’s here. i still love her thoughNn #no Circe because i’m on the fence about whether she’s a goddess or not and couldn’t decide if she was eligible for the poll #poll

[padfoot-lupin77]

I hate it when people go “back in my day people weren’t gay”, firstly because this is factually wrong, and secondly because I’m the worst person to say this to. I’m gay and a nerd, so I’m about to pull every myth, legend and story about queer people in the past. Like oh you think queerness is a new thing then let me tell you about the myth of Apollo, Hyacinthus and Zephyrus which was created about 3000 years ago. Sorry dude next time pick a fight with someone whose brain is the same size as yours.

#cause my class was arguing about gay people and this asshole goes #well I think they’re wrong and I don’t like them #‘people just can’t be gay’ WELL I GUESS IM A POTATO THEN #thank god we had this good teacher who mentioned Alan Turing as proof that it isn’t a new thing #but oh my god I almost started crying in class #because two other bitches were trying to CONVINCE me that being gay is a trend #one of them said ‘If the kids in The Wave were affected by fascism then wont teens be affected by the lgbt ‘movement’’ #And it’s ridiculous cause that girl is named Athena like girl you’re supposed to be smart but the goddess of wisdom rightfullyabandoned you #I’m sorry but I’ve been holding off this rant since last Friday I could keep it any more

[artinvain]

I miss the magicians (I’m rewatching it) specifically Margo and Eliot season one and two because ugh my favourite gays in love.

Margo? Margo my dear we love you eliot is very real he’s so me if I let go of my inhibitions

#The magicians #eliot waugh #margo hanson #quinten coldwater #i also love and miss Julia but that goes without saying because she’s my goddess #just the magic #The colour of brakebills #As a postgrad student I’m waiting for my letter this is like my hogwarts #I can finally relate bc hp kinda lame

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Today was the last DND session for a three-year campaign and I am big sad :(

One of the players brought whiskey for a last toast, which was very kind of them. I had never had whiskey before. Turns out I do not like whiskey. Unsurprising.

It tastes like slightly nicer hand sanitizer.

#blue chatter #it was a flavored whiskey as well #everyone else who had it said it was rly smooth and sweet #so I don’t think I super wanna know what regular whiskey tastes like #it was supposed to be like vanilla caramel flavored or smth #I was told it was like cream soda and that was a LIE it was like disinfectant #with a vanilla aftertaste #the campaign went rly rly well though #I’m seriously going to miss it #the final boss battle was just pure catharsis we absolutely whaled on that dark abberant goddess #she got Destroyed #an entire section of the continent restructured bc of the removal of her corruption #I rly like that my character got to be disabled at the tail end of this campaign #they wielded experimental magic that wasn’t supposed to work and resurrected someone who the Keeper very intentionally kept dead #it worked because they partially fused with Arawai the goddess of life and became her aspect on earth #but becoming partially divine in a mortal body takes a toll #they had more and more limited mobility and the more they cast magic to compensate the more of a toll it takes #functionally that meant my movement speed was reduced #and I lost more abilities after each combat as the consequences of overextending myself caught up to me #I wish I’d gotten to play this longer to see how this ended mechanically but it was a lot of fun to get a character who is both #very magically competent and still disabled and that still affects their ability and they still get the dignity of risk #to choose whether to continue casting or not knowing the consequences of doing so #it is very much a fantastical disability which I flavored heavily off of chronic fatigue and a mobility disorder #in-game their skin became hard and brassy around their joints which make them difficult and painful to bend #they lose a lot of sensation and fine motor control #thankfully they have a lot of money from their adventuring so they can commission an accessible house and mobility aids #and their friends help take care of them

[stargatelov3r]

Elizabeth Weir Daily

Day 257

#the real world two days in a row because I’m Having A Day #(i’m fine i’m just grouchy) #but goddess please why are some people just ao #*so #elizabeth weir #elizabeth weir daily #sga #stargate atlantis

[queer-trashmouth]

Coolest thing on my trip has been today when we went to Hieropolis (?) in Türkiye and I got to do some oracle readings for our group (right next to the temple of Apollo!!!)

#me #Apollo #I volunteered and got to be priestess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #it was so cool and very funny since this a group of older Christian folks #one of the pastors was wary of this and lol he got one that was very positive and could be interpreted in a xtian way so he was happy #they said I should go into radio because I had a good broadcasting voice #mainly I’m posting about it bcus I don’t want to forget #the guide let folks pick a card and each one coresponded with a reading #the only gods that were name dropped were tyche (goddess of good luck) and nemesis (goddess of retribution)

[teecupangel]

Oh! Dear Goddess of this beautiful temple of teecups, your faithful servant begs for help. The rivers have dried up, the foot is not satiating completely and I can only ask for your blessing in... Desmond with Umar... that's it. I just cannot stop thinking about Desmond being with Umar and giving zero f*cks about Al Mualim. Also i just want to give you all of my kudos for your fics. Every new chapter always makes my day <3

Oh, my faithful enduring servant, my temple had to change location due to… god-related circumstances… as such, I have heard your prayers yet I have not been able to grant small blessings as my temple had taken quite a long journey to its new location.

My temple is still preparing the weekly wares to be peddled to the archives and thus, it seems that we will be unable to peddle our wares this week but, fear not, my faithful servants! For the festival this Saturday shall still commence!

Also, my temple is now ready to take in all kinds of travelers and journeymen!

First, I have answered an ask that ended up having UmaDes and UmaFahDes because that’s usually how we roll in this blog

So, since that ask above covers Desmond becoming Umar’s beau after Maud’s death, we’ll make an idea of Desmond being Umar’s beau before Umar met Maud.

The usual setup: Desmond gets transported into the past BUT this time Umar is the one to find him and Desmond freezes because he looks a bit like Altaïr but not really him?

Like, Desmond knows it’s not Altaïr but he also knows he knows who this man is supposed to be.

Anyway, Desmond realized who he is after he introduced himself as Umar, son of no one, and Desmond follows him to see the mentor because Umar saw him freerunning the rooftops of Acre (he was trying to understand why Acre looks a bit too different) and he thinks Desmond would make a great Assassin.

Desmond is surprised because Umar doesn’t take him to Masyaf.

No.

He takes him to Alamut.

Because the mentor he was about to meet was Ḥasan ʿAlā Zikrihi's-Salām, the mentor who ordered Rashid to go to Masyaf and create a branch of the Brotherhood to oversee Levant.

Desmond had traveled to 1160.

2 years before Al Mualim would travel to Masyaf and create the Levantine Brotherhood.

Unorganized Notes:

My headcanon is that Umar is in his mid-twenties when he had Altaïr because Altaïr is the youngest Assassin to be granted the rank of Master at the age of 24~25 but Umar was a Master Assassin when Altaïr was growing up ergo, Umar should at least be in his mid-twenties (and not yet a Master Assassin) when Altaïr was born.

Because of this, Umar had to be one of the Assassins trained in Alamut and went with Al Mualim to Masyaf.

Desmond impresses the current mentor that he becomes an Assassin in less than a year. At that point, Desmond is just thinking of undermining Al Mualim’s authority so he doesn’t become, well, Al Mualim when they get to Masyaf.

Unfortunately, the current mentor is more or less at odds with Al Mualim at this point. The Assassins in Alamut are thrown between being loyal to Al Mualim or to the mentor and Desmond could see why Al Mualim had been ordered to travel to Masyaf. The mentor was trying to stop an already brewing discord between the two factions that would most definitely end with a civil war to take the mentor title by force.

And Desmond gets pulled into this by becoming the mentor’s new favorite, effectively setting him to side with the mentor’s faction.

It doesn’t help that any interactions with Al Mualim (Rashid, his name is Rashi, Desmond, he’s not yet Al Mualim) are very… awkward. Rashid is trying to gain his trust, Desmond distrusts him from the get-go and yeah…

He and Umar do get along quite well. Too well, some might say. Really, close friends bordering on cross-starred lovers kind of scenario at this point.

Of course, an Al-Sayf must always suffer so Faheem as to watch these two idiots pretend to simply be friends and miss the mark by a kilometer and land square on actually in love, no doubt about it, we don’t wanna talk about it.

Desmond is unable to stop Rashid from being ordered to take Masyaf and he ignores the mentor’s orders to stay in Alamut, joining them instead.

Rashid was actually thinking that Desmond is a spy then… he hears the mentor and Desmond arguing that Desmond should remain in Alamut and he just thinks “Oh. He’s coming because of love.”

Cue Rashid trying to be supportive of what he believes to be Desmond’s grand romantic gesture. Desmond has no clue what he’s talking about. Rashid believes Desmond is pretending not to understand because it is the greatest open secret in all of Alamut. Desmond absolutely has no idea what Rashid is talking about.

They get to Masyaf, Desmond intentionally starts to become Rashid’s devil’s advocate that keeps him in check by questioning his every move and, Desmond didn’t plan it, but he became Rashid’s second-in-command… He’s just… “What. The. Fuck.”

During this time, Desmond and Umar do finally start a relationship. Faheem (who is part of the council so Desmond talks to him a lot) just stares at Desmond, thinking if he should tell the man that he’d been in a relationship with Umar for years now then decided that conversation would just give him a headache so no)

By the time, 1191 rolls in, Altaïr Ibn-Umar is born from a very supportive (like, Desmond is pretty sure she’s the one writing all those… can he call them fanfics? Did she just unintentionally create fanfics in 12th century Levant???) Maud as their surrogate because Desmond reaaaalllllllyy wants a child (he doesn’t necessarily? He just needs to make sure Altaïr is born? Who is he kidding? He wants to spoil Altaïr rotten) and she doesn’t die because Desmond managed to make Rashid believe that the health of his people is very, very important.

Oh. Masyaf still separates from Alamut because the mentor there is a bit of a dick but they have a more amicable relationship because people in Alamut still loves Desmond.

#… writing the goddess part #my brain just kept going #‘your body is a temple’ #and let’s be clear #i’m talking about my work table where i work and write #it also has a small altaïr shrine because i’m trash XD #wasn’t i supposed to be an alchemist in this idea??? #welp #guess i’m a goddess now #teecup writes/has a plot #fic idea: assassin's creed #no usual tags because #umades