#i love her myths so much

[thingsphoenix21]

Athena: Hera can I ask you a question why do you always throw such a fit of rage when Zeus... Like he's not gonna change. Hera:I was taught that keeping quiet kept the peace. Until I realized who's peace is it keeping? His? No fucking way.

#incorrect greek gods #greek myths #greek gods #greek incorrect quotes #greek mythology #ancient greek #zeus #hera #athena #athena trying to understand her stepmother #hera with her lessons #i love them both so much #i think their bond is underrated #what's a bit of competetion between them #other than love

[happyk44]

PJO: we need to recognize the value of the minor gods. The Olympians are important, sure, but the minor gods do a lot of work in maintaining and assisting the pantheon, have their own kids and deserve to be seen and valued just as much

HoO: Back at it again with Olympian-only nonsense!

#i really really think that half the team should've been minor gods and the other half olympians with Hazel as a bridge between the two #because pluto/hades borders the two worlds #happy talks pjo #i just think there's so much value in showing that the other kids can be just as powerful #why couldnt piper have been a daughter of eros? it would've changed nothing about her powers other than erase her weird feud with drew #but lmao that still could've happened #frank didnt have to be the son of mars there are a million other war gods out there that couldve tacked onto him instead #he could've been reyna's half brother! or the son of Honos (chivalry honor and military justice) or Virtus (bravery and military strength) #idk any other fire deities for greece other than hestia whose a virgin and thereby not applicable #i guess Prometheus? maybe? idk #the creativity and engineering aspect of Leo's character can exist independent of who his father is #man actually son of prometheus would be a good look for leo #the prophecy comes to light and people see the betrayer of the gods and are wary #but his arc is a representation of how yeah Prometheus betrayed the gods but saved humanity #plus some myths depict Prometheus as the creator of humankind so I'd love gaea trying to entice Leo to join her side #by offering the chance to rebuild the world how he wants with people who love and admire him #god wait no im getting too into rhis someone stop me

[sidetongue]

what even is she

#i love her so much #such an enigma #a creature of myth and magic #budgie #dogs

[wheretheresawyll]

Character parallels - Tabris Origin | Loghain Mac Tir

"I see that the path that led you here was not easy. There is suffering in your past: your suffering, and the suffering of others. By the time you reached Shianni, she was broken, brutalized – you were too late. Tell me, pilgrim, did you fail Shianni?" "Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir, the brilliant commander. Pity the one time you tried to rule, you failed so miserably. You had to be beaten, humiliated, lest you destroy your own country. You even doomed the Wardens by bringing the Inquisitor down on them. You destroy everything you touch."

#dragon age #dragon age origins #da:o #loghain mac tir #warden tabris #kallian tabris #my stuff #this doesnt look my own tabris at all lol BUT #kristen stewart would deliver a world-weary tabris so well #i know loghain can parallel any of the wardens #but there's something about kallian tabris that just makes it COMPLETE #and its also why i love anora becoming queen and bestowing that title #it just makes SO much sense for it to come from her #to use the myth of her father to create a new one #youre stepping into loghain's shoes. you're taking his mantle #and the knowledge of his fate dangling over your head #of what he became #how both the warden and loghain have death seem to be dead from the start #heroes living past their time!!! #anyway this got out of control #but point is: #tabris and anora and loghain and the weird chain of mythology and legend my BELOVEDS

[applecherry108]

LOOK AT HER! I’M OBSESSED!! 😍

#god help me if you give me a girl character with a pink and white motif I will immediately love her #her name is Lita and she’s an albino human mutated into an albino turtle #and she TIME TRAVELS AND HAS CALLED LEO DAD ASGFMTGEFWNJSGHS #SHES!! SO!! CUTE!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭💘💗💖 #apple talks #tmnt lita #ngl this alone is going to get me to read the idw comics omggggg #and reading her turtlepedia page has warmed me up to jennika too #who I guess is like. in charge of mutant orphans?? she seems like a much bigger part of the myths than I thought she was #catch me making a rise ver of Lita so Casey jr can have a sister 🥺🥺

[sarafangirlart]

Remembering how this one person on here claimed that Hephaestus kidnapped Hera by chaining her to the golden throne (as if Hera wasn’t on Olympus during that whole ordeal and obviously this person should pick up a dictionary to know what kidnapping means) in order to demand Aphrodite as a reward to release Hera.

Lmao

#I love Hera but she deserved that shit #and she’s probably agree with me too since every other myth about her relationship with Hephaestus #has her praising or defending him #saying Hephaestus kidnapped her is so fucking funny #imagine being that much of a hater #even I’m not like that with Zeus #also does anyone else remember that post bc I remember blocking them lol #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #hera #greek goddess #hera goddess #hera deity #hera greek mythology #hephaestus greek mythology #hephastios #hephaestus god #hephaestus #hephaestus x aphrodite #Aphrodite

[iwasbored777]

My cat started bringing dead animals (mostly mice and rats) that she hunted and she leaves them on my terrace or in front of my house almost every day and I already knew that it's a sign of affection but I found out that it's also cuz she's apparently worried cuz we don't hunt like she does and she wants us to eat more and learn how to hunt so she does this for us. I love this baby girl so much 😭❤️!

(It's not lovely to look for your shoes and stumble upon a dead animal but it's in the name of love and it's not inside of my house so I don't mind. I just hope she doesn't bring anything alive)

#she knows i call her my daughter so she's like i will take care of my mother and bring her food #i love this fluffy baby so much #I can't believe there is a myth that cats don't love you this one was addicted to me when she was a baby and she loves us so much #cats #personal post #pets #i love my cat

[presefone]

*takes a deep breath* ok so i want to talk about my personal criticism regarding the myth of persephone in common media etc because this has been told so many times across enternainement that i feel like some of its meaning has been lost through time. i'm a huge history enthusiast so this plays a role, definitely, and i'm not saying anything else besides what i'm writing here is wrong ; these are just my thoughts on it. basically, hades and persephone are not the protagonists of the story and they never were. it was always demeter. homer called it 'the hym of demeter' and praises her love for her daughter instead of anything else. there's truly no discussion about 'hades and persephone's love'. hell, persephone doesn't even have a line in the hym ; we don't hear her thoughts at all, which of course opens to a very welcomed interpretation but alas, let's move on. zeus' offers his daughter to marriage without hers or her mother's consent and awareness. his daughter, who he never helped raise and nor was involved in any way. his daughter who was never truly his daughter in anything but conception, but was above everything else demeter's creation, her most treasured companion, her gift and sole happiness in a world of mortals and olympians. a young 'maiden', stolen by death, never to be seen again. all gods knew of zeus' allowance and where persephone had been sent to but couldn't tell demeter, at all, by orders of their king. yet one god took pity of demeter's pain, hekate. demeter, who roamed the earth crying for her baby, who was taken too soon, without warning, to the darkest place in myth ; death. and demeter, who raged like the mother earth herself to get her child back, who cried and screamed in pure agony : all of this is the central theme of the hym, not hades, not even persephone herself. this is a clear story about ancient greek lives where fathers would send off their daughters to marriage without questioning their wives, and where daughters died too young in the process. i say this because normally what we have is a very ''cool but brooding hades'' who is ''misjudged by everyone'' and a ''sunshine and flowers persephone who is the only one who makes him smile'' and against that we need a clear antagonist, so common perception has a demanding, cruel, controlling demeter. this is not accurate at all. demeter is not the villain and again, neither is hades ! but he isn't the victim here too ! did persephone go willingly? only two myths tell that, so, it isn't the wildly accepted version. in most, she was kidnapped, taken, or lurred. and after that, we don't hear what happened because unfortunately her view does not matter, nor hades', nor their possible bloom of love. it is not really her story nor hades'. i personally fufill that gap that yes, she did come to love hades, hence the eating of the seeds and the marriage bond (and after all, hades was hit by eros' out of aphrodite's demmand to avoid kore from becoming yet another virgin goddess, so again, outside forces). her position as queen became more and more tempting as she is a goddess and any god wants power and glory, a maiden to be rival to hera, and stand up to her mother as equals, and not just a tool to her existence. my persephone longs for that power, for that duty, for that respect, and i take into accord the other myths she comes by as the dreadful, just, allurring queen. i also complete in my head that it was always her destiny from the beggining to be a god of underworld, since her name itself is leading to a destroyer and not just spring. but it all comes down to the meaning of the hym, of demeter, of her being 'kore', being a girl, a young girl, stolen and taken too soon. dead too soon. like the many greek women who were sold off to marriage never to be seen again ; dying in more ways than one.

#and thus i invoke ╲ proserpine › about. #long post cw #i'm champion of the demeter squad #seriously #and so is persephone #she will fight bite her mom but she is the LOVE of her life tysm #the way this damn myth was twisted and turned in so many modern media #to be akin to grumpy x sunshine trope #i'm sorry it drives me nuts #its one of the reasons i'm selective w hades' shipping because i really don't want to go into that #their undertones present are much more interesting than just that trope that DESTROYS the original myths' morals and message

[shmreduplication]

me: I don't like stories where a man creates a woman, like literally thru sci-fi or fantasy means, and then has sex with her my sister: oh well you just haven't watched this movie yet

#i didn't like ex machina and i didn't like poor things #maybe i should recommend her to watch splice (which i haven't seen but been recommended by others due to my profession #and i've read the wikipedia summary) #just to see if there's anything in this genre that she doesn't like #also tbh I do like the original pygmalion myth but imo he's ace #i never saw that as him marrying his statue because he's in love with her so much as #he extremely does not want to marry any women in the village to the point that he'd rather marry a statue than a woman #like a DIY beard ykwim? #also alita battle angel was meh but really good wrt her father figure/creator did not want to fuck her

[unexpectedgeese]

Fate is already decided, is the thing. The giants of Gigantomachia have already lost. Secretive Plotter has already lost everything. 999th YJH has already died. Orpheus has already killed his father. And there is no undoing any of that; The stories that unfold on the page are immutable. These people have wounds, and they can’t be healed.

The Star Stream is a system built for tragedy. Again and again incarnations have thrown themselves at impossible dreams of a happy ending; and every time they die for it. There are hundreds of regressions, thousands of victims, a million stories unfolding— Every last one a tragedy.

Is there meaning in a story with a fixed end? The incarnations write their own downfalls, bound into tragedy by an impassive system. Yoo Joonghyuk dies again and again, eventually succumbing to overwhelming despair.

You cannot change the past. You can’t rewrite a story that’s already been written.

You can read it, though. And that’s the point— the entire point of a story is to be read. To read a story is to understand, to love, to pick through a lifetime of suffering and find the good in it; To take that story with you when you write your own.

And what then? What if every story is meant for one reader? What if that reader writes their own story in turn, influenced by their predecessors, bringing those scavenged bits of hope along?

If every story is told and listened to, every failure a building block of some unseen future, are we still writing a tragedy? When that original story is  built on, bookmarked and dog-eared and woven into a final epilogue, is it still a record of hopelessness— or is it a way to survive?

Every story has a flaw. This means that every story can be completed. If reader, writer, and protagonist all band together and just try to reach the ending— 10 times, 100 times, 1000 times, each one compounding on the next— What will happen?

These people can’t be healed. But they can be saved. You cannot change the past, but you can change the future. You cannot rewrite a story, but you can give it an epilogue.

We are not reincarnators, or regressors, or returnees. But if we tell our stories, isn’t it a similar thing?

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv meta #analysis #long post #look man I reread ch. 334 of ORV today and I had Thoughts so I wrote this #but like MAN this specific thing is like there's so much of it!! #this is why they write ORV. this is why they write WoS. This is what Yoo Sangah references in her one speech to #that one historical grade constellation early on #When secretive plotter asks why it couldn't have been him this is why!!! #bc without his story nobody would've gotten this far #this is how the reader writer protag thing works on a non-magical level! #the protagonist who suffers the tragedy #the writer who tells it #and the reader who listens! #This is why you can't write a new story-- bc history is MEANT to be learned from and you have to do that to reach a happy ending!! #This is why KDJ calls himself a reincarnator that one time! #this is ALSO why he doesn't rewrite anything when he reaches the final wall-- #bc to do so would be to disregard the lives of the people he loves so much. #by creating a false myth-- by editing the contents for his own peace of mind #and becoming not a reader but an editor #MAN actually getting this thing to be coherent was a mess tho #I had the vibes in my brain for MONTHS #and I could only really articulate it on the reread bc so much of ORV's thematic weight is literally just said directly #if it wasn't so damn LONG it would be the least subtle book alive #AND ALSO this heavily relates into a lot of personal arcs for our gang #esp. KDJ's struggles with reading #bc!! You can understand someone through a story but not all the way #bc there's a WALL in the way #(hence 'reading together')

[crimeronan]

orpheus sucked. i've said it before and i'll say it again: if you loved her you wouldn't look. rip to eurydice girl if you were married to ME i'd walk straight out of hell and keep walking and if i never saw you again it would be okay because i'd know you were alive and carry that with me and none of the rest of it would matter because THAT'S WHAT LOVE IS and anything else makes my skin crawl. your husband fuckin SUCKSSSSS dude i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry an ugly bitch would do you like that i'm SO s

#is this a bad faith reading? yes. is it in response to people being condescending about this myth again? yes #the last time i posted about this a bunch of classics majors were like you've gotten the myth wrong #there are X reasons he looked back that didn't have to do with him being a little bitchass who can't follow clear directions #but listen. the only fucking thing people ever say is how he looked back out of love #and lemme shout it from the mountaintops #I DON'T WANT TO BE LOVED LIKE THAT!!! I DON'T WANT TO LOVE LIKE THAT!!!!!!! #IT SUCKS!! EURYDICE YOU CAN DO BETTER. CALL ME #there's too much adam in me for this nonsense. simply Do Not Look Back #JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. YOU SELFISH BASTARD. #IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING SEE IT THROUGH THEN DON'T GO TO HELL IN THE FIRST PLACE. #to Me this is way more about selfish stupidity and possessiveness in the face of grief you refuse to process #which is actually compelling!! and interesting to explore!! #but no. god forbid. we have to suffer through a million poems of 'in that last moment eurydice knew that she was loved' #NO. FUCK OFF. SHE KNEW THAT THE SECOND HER HUSBAND SHOWED UP IN HELL FOR HER. #IN THAT FINAL MOMENT SHE KNEW HE WAS A LITTLE BITCHASS WHO CAN'T FOLLOW THROUGH ON ANYTHING. I'LL KILL YOU #this rant is obnoxious but please know i'm making my own post so as not to put tags on the post of someone who is loudly wrong about this #because i am being polite. kind of.

[ghcstcd]

Alundra "Allie" the Underworld's guiding star for lost souls. Sweet as pie, for a hellish unicorn.

#original character #Alundra #oc alundra #unicorn #hellicorn #this is why pupper and I were like 'that's hilarious if my hc name for terzo matched Allie's name' #because I've had hell/demonic oc's related to the myth of the antichrist etc etc #for years before I was introduced to the band Ghost #I think it's silly and am delighted by those facts #anyway here is Allie I love her so much #and she is actually the lover of the son of the Devil named Malika #ghcstcd

[tertain-the-original]

Hello people. This isn’t DHMIS, but this is my beloved OC Alva. She is a demigod, her mother is Hel, but she takes after her grandfather Loki. She’s a bit of a prankster, is blind, and can’t see ghosts but she can hear them, smell them, and touch them. Idk who gave her a sword, but she’s got a summoning friendship bracelet with her cousin Rannúlfr (she calls him Randall sometimes just to get on his nerves). I’ll definitely post more of her family eventually, because this is my art account and I can do whatever I want with it.

#SHES MY BELOVED GIRL OKAY 🥺 #Norse mythology is literally so much fun #i love Loki and his siblings the biological ones and the best friend ones #Thor and Loki ain’t blood brothers but they sure are brother best friends. #the urge to make her a comic rn is just so strong #i love you mythology #my myths #my art #original characters

[dimensionalspades]

I made baby Mythe and he definitely improved with age. (I promise I'm getting drafts worked on thank y'all for your patience)

#I'm just running through with Mythe again #we're romancing kar.lach this time #I will TRY to not go after Wy.ll and Hal.sin but it's tough #i love them so much #but man i adore kar.lach #so I'm getting her #.more of a joker than the ace ; ooc.

[franeridan]

nah man I get hancock I really do if I had to pick a single man in the whole history of the world to fall for I'd pick luffy too, who are we kidding

#i love kuja island its a cool spin on the amazon myth and all the designs for the girls are extremely fun #i wish luffy had spent more active on screen time there the girls are fun #also i never spent too long thinking about it but it makes sense kuma would send him there #since he was trying to hide him and that's like #the only island that's completely off limits for anyone who's not a resident #smart thinking ! #also during the fight with the sisters they talk about conqueror haki and i thought about how zoro has it and #UGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he loves luffy so much!!! HE LOVES LUFFY SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! #it's LITERALLY in his very nature to stand at the top and follow noone and he still loves luffy so much he'd follow him to hell #he said so!!! on page!!!!! he would!!!!!!!!! #they repeat it a whole lot during the manga too #how a man like zoro could be a captain himself #how it's weird there's someone above him #he loves luffy so much he goes against everything anyone would expect of him to stay by him....... p l e a s e 😭😭😭 #on a slightly unrelated not just before being sent away nami looks at luffy and Cries and Asks for Help and luffy can't save her and I just #AUUUGHHHHH the callback!!! to her arc!!!!! and how while he tries to get back on the sea luffy thinks about her specifically!!!!!! #FUCK!!!!!!! #I'm fine I'm normal I'm not crying about something i first read 14 years ago what are you talking about hahahahaha

[poptartmochi]

in this house we love greek gods that preside over one specific thing and have fuckall to do for the rest of eternity <3

#sriracha.txt #creating some fuckt up little lady who presides Specifically over like. the point in which old crop is used to fertilize the new #thus playing into the whole cycle of life idea + giving her some foot to stand on as the kid of persephone and hades specifically #wrt the way old life supports the new? is this stepping on the toes of demeter and dionysus... yes... #but we pretend we do not see it.. i am overworked + low on spoons as it is and this is like.. niche lore for a character i am not paid to #play. i cannot dedicate much more effort to her. at least not right now #lament aside i think i will name her Rhoeas or something of that nature.. from what i can tell ῥόα is the word for pomegranates #which becomes ῥοιᾰ́ς for corn poppies.. #now sit with me boy 🕴 we lose the plot here a little bit + also extrapolate from wikipedia alone for this BUT. in many cultures poppies are #heavily associated with death and love alike. and ofc they grow in disturbed soil. #SO... if you look at the original myth with a modern + loose lens. i think you could justify some kind of poppy child being like #a bridge between demeter and hades.. she comes from the literal disturbed soil that came when hades abducted persephone #+ has ties with death and love + love that can endure death which can be a fun allusion to the way that demeter's love for persephone #persists even through persephone's stay in hades which houses the dead... do you feel me comrades #i think you could even apply it to persephone and hades themselves - a love that endures death? but naur offense hades is NOT the focus her #</3 🤪 coming back to this theme of like. love persisting through death and being sewn in the wake of death/disrupted soil. we come back to #the anchor point of her character which is the old dead crops being used to fertilize the new growth. it's the love the dead has for the #living right!! to help it grow in a new and difficult world! i think that itself ties back into the central theme w the poppies #and also demeter has ties to poppies so i don't think it would be crazy for some grandchild of hers to have ties to poppies :-] i think thi #all somewhat feasible if you reaaaalllly squint. anyhow i'm too tired to go any further with it rn #corylana