#yes I know she’s a goddess

[snarky-wallflower]

ATHENA WHEN I CATCH YOU I SWEAR TO GOD—

you let a monster in your temple because your daughter embarrassed you?? your 12 year old daughter? that would have killed her had it not been for a boy more loyal to your daughter than you ever could be? oh!! oh!! jail for Athena! Jail for Athena for one THOUSAND years!

#yes I know she’s a goddess #yes I know she would vapourize me #but OH MY GOD I FEEL MURDER IN THIS CHILI’S TONIGHT #that is your daughter! how dare you! #percy my beloved I hope you get to sass Athena for this #pjo show #pjo series #pjo tv #percy jackson spoilers #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #snarky speaks

[shakingparadigm]

they are sooooo cute

#by the way. sua with glasses. yes. #senior sua..... #sua is the senior who is calm and sweet with everyone like a goddess #till is the senior who looks lowkey hard to approach and goes straight home after work so nobody is really that close to him #if senior sua will comfort and gently encourage her juniors with kind words #till is the senior who seems stricter and will give criticism (with good intention. just a bit blunt) #mizi being shy in the offrec au is so cute 😭😭😭 and the fact that even though she's shy she was the one who offered to approach till #is sua offering mizi a coffee? or is it the other way around? either way adorable #i love how mizi and ivan are taller than their seniors 😭😭😭 soooo cute wah #till and sua are friends in this au. let me believe in these lies #the cool seniors who go out for lunch together and stay in each other's trailers/rooms to talk about their respective headaches #i don't know why i made this post sorry. moment of weakness #literally just rambling #anyways offrec au my beloved #alnst #alien stage #alien stage till #alien stage sua #alien stage mizi #alien stage ivan #ivantill #mizisua

[bluebelledmoon]

the goddess incarnate herself

sequel to this!

played around with some cool colors this time :)

#you know i think im obsessed with goddess themes. im not sure why #dont ask me what this issupposed to be #shes supposed to be sad #and yes i posted a wip of this a while ago #a... long while ago #i have definitely learned more since that last zelda and im happy about that #but im not where id like to be. so im practicin real hard 💪💪 #anyway #HER #sksw zelda #zelda #skyward sword zelda #skyward sword #sksw #princess zelda #loz #loz zelda #bluebelledmoon's art

[okurrroye]

OK BACK uP cause wt- you mean to tell me Hermes is literally the god of thieves and these idiots think a child of Ares stole the masterbolt???

#child of Athena where #like Percy and Grover get a pass but come tf on bffr isn't Athena supposed to be the smart goddess and they really got her golden child out #out here looking like a aboslute clown like shit is embarrassing #like if she wants to disown her for something then it should be for that #like Luke tell me you did it without telling me you did even though you just played yourself by sounding sus as fuck #like lmao are they serious here #like I don't know Greek mythology so l just assumed Ares did it because he's an instigator and would do anything to start a fight/war #which technically is still true because he literally let this boy get away with thief to just get another fight going like yes Ares it's #it's true you’re a simple minded meat head and your sister is definitely smarter than you so suck it up buttercup #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #grover underwood #annabeth chase #percy jackson #clarisse la rue #luke castellan #ares #ares pjo #hermes #hermes pjo #athena #athena pjo

[sarafangirlart]

Honestly we need more villain Hermes. Zeus and Apollo have at least a handful of adaptations where they're the bad guys but Hermes? None. For all the shit he does, it's surprising no one has made him a villain or even antagonist.

Omg YES. I think the reason a lot of ppl don’t think of Hermes as a villain is bc he’s often relegated to the comic relief or an exposition machine. Closest I think was in Circe by Madeline Miller, he’s charismatic (and not really an antagonist) but still very much a pervert like in mythology.

#Apemosyne baby you deserve better #I would read a retelling of Larunda #yes I know she most likely was only part of roman mythology #but her trying to find her place in the underworld and raise her children would be interesting #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #greek goddess #Hermes #hermes greek mythology #hermes greek god #hermes god

[thewinedarksea]

we went to iceland!

#it was our 5th year anniversary trip. yes we went the first week of october yes i am posting this more than a month later this is bc im #allergic to social media and will forget for weeks on end. it is a miracle this is getting posted at all. #anyways!! iceland is the most beautiful country ive ever been to. literally in love. incredible time. most of these are from reykjavik #proper. top left is the view right across from our hotel (haunts me still I Miss Her). middle is black sand beach. top middle is me and my #most beautiful wife who didnt like her face in this so she is instead a heart (tragic bc i looked amazing in this set). #pls know that every picture that i will be posting my wife took bc she is a camera GODDESS (all from her phone bc she does hard mode). dont #ever make the mistake of thinking i am posting my pics i cannot take them and they always come out blurry #everyone *suffered* with my snapchats and then i went and posted the Good Ones #we did an escape room in reykjavik too--mafia-themed it was great--and walked all over and ate a great deal and saw so very many cats. huge #fan of all the cats. #prepare for spam #iceland trip #mine.txt #my face #i think is my tag? #i reach for you in the night

[dootznbootz]

opinions on helen of sparta being compared to prey animals? blink blink

*blink blinks back* Then immediately sits like this because of the question.

It's a good question that I'm happy to answer! It just makes me mad.... I sincerely hate the wording of "prey" being used to describe her.

SHE IS A VICTIM! THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS "PREY"!

I can...see how people in ancient times may have used that word and still meant it in how she is a victim... but modern-day English-speaking people calling her that??? (considering how in different languages the word "prey" could have different meanings.) I'll just say that as someone who has been "prey" herself at one point, I REALLY hate that word as a descriptor. Just say victim or survivor. 👍

Honestly to call ANY victim "prey" is so fucked up. "Prey" to me, feels like "it's meant to happen." "Prey" are part of the food chain and so that's what happens. And to compare that to abduction and SA? Almost as if "that's our place"? It also kind of implies something being "eaten" or killed... Helen SURVIVES. She's traumatized and definitely needs healing and support but it's not like she can't find joy or peace ever again. Prey just feels so fucking gross.

Also, if someone calls victims "prey", I hope they know that Moose, Elk, Boars, Bovine, ZEBRAS, etc. are technically "prey". And these are VERY aggressive animals while still being "prey" for some other animals. And also that doesn't mean that "Oh, they're powerful! Clearly they should've been able to stop it." That's victim blaming :P

She is a clever, determined, caring woman who was ripped from her home for YEARS because Paris was a dipshit who decided he needed the prettiest woman in the world despite already having a wife. He didn't care about the fact that Helen didn't want to be there and was already married. He is so selfish that he will not let her go back even when THOUSANDS have died in the war! EVEN HIS BROTHER HECTOR AND PRIAM DO NOT BLAME HER! Granted, we do not know if Aphrodite would have let him undo their deal of "I want the prettiest woman" if he DID end up feeling bad for Helen and he wished to let her go home (I doubt it based on his personality though).

"Oh, if she is so independent/strong, then why didn't she just kill Paris and leave?"

AGAIN! Victim blaming!!! First thing, people who ask that have media literacy that is piss on the poor. You also have no idea about the political implications that would have happened if she DID kill Paris. She literally cries about staying there and argues with Aphrodite about seeing Paris, only to get strongarmed by Aphrodite as, guess what? A GODDESS WILL ALWAYS OVERPOWER A DEMIGOD. (This isn't Percy Jackson where he "killed" Ares as a 12 year old (Percy, you were my childhood, but that's bullshit.))

Even confined in Troy, she ARGUED with APHRODITE about going to see Paris! She is not some meek woman who just does as she's told with no pushback! She argued with a GODDESSS! Very few survive doing that!!!

She's not "Prey to fate", she's a "VICTIM of Fate".

#Thank you for the ask anon!!! :D It's a very fun question! I just really don't like the word of 'prey' being used to describe her. #... #Yes. there's poetic shit with writing. but if I heard someone say 'Helen is prey to Paris' I would be miffed and think that person's stupid #Prey just feels like 'one and done. You'll be a victim from now on and nothing else. You have no life after this.' #I mean you can probably say that if you simply mean that Paris is an abuser I guess. but...idk homies. I just really hate Helen being calle #that you know? #as if she could never be anything but prey in a way. as if she herself has never been the one pulling the strings or the trickster #Helen isn't a rabbit in an eagle's talons about to be eaten. She was a PRISONER. Who still lives and thrives afterward. #idk I'm probably looking too far into the word 'prey' and what it means to ME as an animal lover and survivor but it just feels #really bad to me. like wrinkling my nose and thinking 'out of all the words out there. that's the one you use?' #*sighs* #probably got quite fired up about this :P #ask #anon #yes I plan to write Helen as a big buff cheeto puff but again. she could never fight a goddess no matter how strong!! she's Mortal! #end of story!! I just want to write her that way as A.) it's fun. B.) Sparta upbringing. #(I got SUPER into ancient athletes stuff. (look up Pankration. it's so cool) and since I really love writing women. I just...like it :D #And no. everybody is strong in their own way even if they don't physically fight. I have plenty of women who are not fighters #but still have their own strengths and personalities and silliness #Leda actually doesn't like the 'exercising lifestyle of Sparta'. Ctimine loves running but that's it. Anticlea is the one who taught #Odysseus how to carve wood and is a 'trickster' but she's not really into athletic stuff. (she actually has a heart condition later on) #there's more too it but...tags are already long as hell #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #my headcanons #kind of #If Helen is prey then she is “prey” like those clever mother birds who pretend to be injured to get predators away from their nest. #*shrieks into a pillow* I'm fine now :D

[buzzcat]

today's wordcount brought to you by: there is no way on this green earth that Gale Dekarios doesn't have a good relationship with his mother, and i'm going to write nice cozy friends-and-family fic about it

#bg3 #gale of waterdeep #anyway i have Thoughts about Gale that have me chewing the drywall #so for now i'm just writing fluff about Gale and family and coming home with friends #like you KNOW Gale's mom was worried about her son being lonely. nerd magic protegee who hangs out with: #Mystra the Goddess of Magic; Elminster; Tara #like that's Gale's entire social network #you KNOW what his mom wanted was just for him to have friends. just friends not Forces of Nature just friends #and he never really had those because he was being a Big Cool Wizard from the age of like six #so anyway Gale comes home with his friends and his mom goes full Mean Girls Mom mode #she's just so excited her son has friends but she's also trying to be chill #one's a vampire? chill what kind of blood does he want #one's a warlock? okay; that's new but rolling with it #like Gale could bring home three goblins but if they didn't hurt him and he called them friends his mom would make it work #anyway this consumed my thoughts for like three hours today so yes i'm writing fanfic about it #Gale has a good relationship with his mom and you can't change my mind

[see-arcane]

The Underappreciated Undead Squad: Clarimonde, Lord Ruthven, and the Family of the Vourdalak

If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll know I’ve been getting sucked into a resurgence of old school bloodsucker literature. Not just with the fun of Dracula Daily—thanks again, Matt Kirkland!—but revisiting some even older vampiric favorites who have been kicking since long before the Count started planning his English holiday. From left to right above, we see Gorcha, patriarch of Aleksey Tolstoy’s, “The Family of the Vourdalak,” (1884), Clarimonde, of Théophile Gautier’s, “La Morte Amoureuse,” (1836), translated into English as ‘Clarimonde’ or, ‘The Dead Woman in Love,’ and Lord Ruthven, of John William Polidori’s, “The Vampyre,” (1819).

I’ve been dropping hefty blurbs about each of them, but I figured a master post was in order. Much as Dracula Daily is/will continue to pick up its pace as autumn ticks along, I know there are folks out there itching for a broader classic vampire fix than just another reread of, “Carmilla.”*

*Who does not get to sit at these guys’ table, considering she has a web series, a movie, and a number of animated cameos (hi, Vampire Hunter D and Castlevania babes), while everyone on this guest list has no mainstream spotlight, period. Sorry, Millie.

 Assorted Synopses and Story Links Below!

1.    Clarimonde—“La Morte Amoureuse” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re a newly minted priest doing priest stuff in the middle of Le Bumbfuck Village in Nowhere, France. You fell in love with the hottest party girl in Paris. She dies. She resurrects herself and appears in your room looking like this ^^^ saying she came back to life because she’s into you. She asks if you’re down to run away to Venice with her. Wyd?

Oh, Clarimonde. She’s probably the best way to (un)die you’ll ever meet in classic literature. Gautier wrote her story with all kinds of ribald and religiously risqué (if not damn near blasphemous) joy, and managed to sneak a genuinely heartstring-tugging romance in. She’s probably the first vampiric character to ever be written in a truly sympathetic light, while also being one of few early seductive/bawdy female characters to not be given the ye olde ‘EW NO EVIL POWERFUL LILITH CHARACTER BOOO’ treatment.

2.    Lord Ruthven— “The Vampyre” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re the tenth adulteress tonight to try to get with the sexy stranger who lives to make everyone around him miserable (sexily). All you’ve managed to do is interrupt his game, in which he plans to bankrupt a father of seven, followed by maybe hunting down his innocent daughter to stick a dagger in her for a midnight sip. Oh, you were after a blood sugar daddy? Too bad. Take that thirsty bullshit to Carfax and duke it out with Renfield.

Lord Ruthven is the original undead bastard. His hobby is ruining the lives of good people, driving virtuous girls to madness and/or murdering them for a drink, and collecting fancy bejeweled blades for a little flair with the latter. Our guy is Not Interested in romance as anything other than a performance to get close to a young lady for the purposes of either ruination or slaughter. Nor is he about to churn out any more of his kind willy-nilly. Why bother? Maybe that shit flies for those needy Transylvanian hoarder types, but he prefers to go solo. He seems like a unique polar opposite to most ‘teaching a moral’ monsters—in his story, only the purest of pure mega-good characters suffer. If you’re anything less than saintly—see: horny chicks, folks with personal vices, et cetera—Ruthven either ignores you outright or tosses you some cash to aid your selfish aims. Thanks, man.

3.    Gorcha and Kin— “The Family of the Vourdalak” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You are a traveler meeting the dead and knowing eyes of Gorcha and his family. This ends one of two ways. Version 1: Gorcha and his family decide they hate you. There is only room for murderous hate or consuming love in their still hearts, as is the condition of the Vourdalak. They will nail your head over the door. Version 2: Gorcha and his family have decided they love you. So much so that they must empty your veins and welcome you into the family. Forever. What’s that, traveler? You’d like to leave before they decide either way? Who said that was an option?

Vampirism and love have always managed to overlap throughout the genre. But the condition of the Vourdalak flavor is especially fixated on it. The gist is that where ordinary vampires will target whoever, whenever, Vourdalaks are driven specifically to drink from their loved ones. Family, friends, lovers. It’s how whole villages have gone underground, with kin and neighbors preying on each other in a warped display of grim thirst and affectionate preservation. On the flip side, those not loved get put down. Messily. It would almost be sweet if things like ‘consent’ or ‘neutrality’ could come into it, but no. You are loved and kept or unloved and slaughtered. The only third option is to run—if they let you.

 I really recommend giving all these guys a read. Right now, we’re enjoying a bit of a vampiric/Dracula renaissance. Silly stuff like the What We Do in the Shadows series is going full blast, Castlevania is entering another run, and the Count has a whole slew of movies lined up. While I very much did not care for this year’s, The Invitation, 2023 is due to dish out a fun dark comedic romp called Renfield centered on our favorite inventor of the Victorian small-scale turducken (with Nicholas Cage as Dracula!), and a genuine horror movie offering with, Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by the same man behind The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Promising stuff!

My fingers are crossed that between all that and the clear popularity of Dracula Daily, we can dust off some other coffins and, maybe, give these older undead characters some overdue love. (At a safe distance.)

#before anyone comes at me about Clarimonde's period inaccurate dress #1) I know. #2) Her introduction has her wearing the most VIVID rainbow palette finery I've ever read. She deserves color! #3) I always mentally tied her with the Psyche myth #the Goddess of Soul with the butterfly motif and a whole story dedicated to love and th breaking of trust #also death and resurrection; so you know--I have my excuses #4) I can't not picture her being a carefree trendsetter hedonist #if she wants her bosom up and bodiced with gold jewels butterflies and ye olde gauzy sparkles all over? #She Will Have It #Ruthven just always struck me as a russet/old bloodstain palette kind of guy so ^^^ #Gorcha's tale paints him as corpse-colored and the story takes place in the cold #lots of grays and deep unhealthy blues/silvers seemed right #plus a stylish accessory head #anyway #vampires is fun #and there's more than Dracula and Carmilla to play with in the classic lit #go meet them and get inspired #clarimonde #la morte amoureuse #lord ruthven #the vampyre #gorcha #the family of the vourdalak #dracula #dracula daily #carmilla #reading recs

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 97

Mother of Sunflowers

A little insight to what I’ve been working on-I did plan to draw Pix’s statue of Pearl, and I wanted to do a little Malayna/Malon adjacent kind of thing, like maybe there was a citizen living around the area who was just Pearl in disguise. However, I got really really tired of drawing wings and got really frustrated, so I had to drop it. Maybe someday I’ll get back to it

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #empires smp #there was this comic i saw years back #of malanya revealed to be basically malon but in a different form #and i really like that headcanon #like the comic was link talking to malayna #and as he left malon appeared behind the fountain #'goodbye fairy boy' #i cant find it ._. #but yeah #but yes i know about the craze of pearl being a literal goddess in empires #i havent watched sausages video #i might if i have time #so sorry to you empires fans but i am a hermitcraft main ;;;; #i might do something with gem being the princess of dawn and pearl #also #i think its funny #that pearl is literally 'pearlescentmoon' #and in empires she has all the associations and imagery of the sun #i just think thats funny haha #mod morph

[apollo-just-ice]

Going to stop overthinking placements and just post this

Hi! Meet Heiðrena, in a more official way now :)

I have a few fics about them if you are interested/ want to get to know them even more,,,

#feh #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #fe heroes #feh heiðr #feh heidr #feh heithr #feh sharena #sharena feh #heiðrena #rarepair #yes goddess counts as a gender. gods are gonna perceive gender differently methinks #some of the things here would change over time but I’m going off of an earlier point in their relationship #like for example at first Heiðr doesn’t know much about cooking she’s a goddess who doesn’t even need to eat food #and Njörðr being how he is (strict) I doubt she ate food often if at all… it’s just not the proper godly way #so she doesn’t really know the first thing about food in general #but with time Sharena teaches her and she gets better at cooking :)

[gailynovelry]

Diversity win! The world was created through yuri.

#are we shitposting about HoR again? yes #tl;dr the Romne (and Rhimn) were brought into being by two of the original six creation goddesses (Nyatari and Daimir) #Gardhe just came from Lykari tho #The Romne are older than him #Lykari looked at the Romne and was like “but what if I did that by myself” and then she did <3 #secondary aromanticism win there #well maybe not a win in ultimate outcome since we all know what Gardhe is like #Alluari’s relationship w/ the Romne is “these are my sister’s sad little failchildren who are very good at not dying” #love me some weird pantheon familial dynamics #and. yeah. them being related doesn’t make Gardhe any less willing to kill them no #also via reincarnation shenanigans Silamir is sort of the Romne’s half sister??

[acircusfullofdemons]

[ context ] || so glad you asked @shrimpnymph !!

So Vitalis (Life) & Theia (Death) were part of a small pantheon on Earth I. Their worshipers were animals -- but like sort of the anthro/furry kind, y'know. Anyway, things were fine for a bit, with the two living happily, though they couldn't interact often/for long due to the nature of their jobs.

Then Vitalis created Humans. They were meant to be a gift for Theia, since whatever Vitalis created would eventually end up in her kingdom. Of course, Humans are Humans, and they make things exceedingly difficult for the anthro-furry creatures. During this time, Vitalis gets a lot more...cruel, beginning to take sadistic joy in how they all hurt each other. He started making more, adding fuel to the fire and giving the two sides more reasons/scenarios to hate each other in. It was basically a 12yo discovering oc making for the first time.

Theia, however, did not see the "fun" side of things, only seeing the tragedy and aftermath from those who entered her kingdom. She saw lives lost, families torn apart, and was starting to resent Vitalis for doing all this. Especially since it was, supposedly, all for her. She didn't want this. Yes, she was Death, but she didn't want people to enter her kingdom earlier than they were meant to. But, as she was Death, she couldn't do anything to stop Vitalis, so she broke it off with him, in hopes that maybe he'd see what he was doing isn't what she wants. (hint: he, in fact, did not, and somehow got worse)

tldr: life got a little to murdery & death didn't like that

#paraportal #luka.txt #console: phantasmagoria #game: as the world falls down #theia mortimer #vitalis zoticus #i love thinkin about them bc if u swap their domains they fit SO WELL #like yes theia is the goddess of death but she is so kind. she hates taking families away from each other and does her best to reunite them #when they enter her kingdom #and YES vitalis is the god of life but he could not fucking care about keeping his subjects alive #he just likes putting them through the Horrors and then giving them to theia to deal with #goddess of death caring about life & god of life caring about death....poetry.... #this isn't even going into their relationship with the twins (lumi & shadow) lol #theia: hey im getting a lot of new subjects fast do u know anything abt this #vitalis: it might seem crazy what im boutta say #<-- tiktok audio/meme/trend ref #player: shrimpnymph

[cocolacola]

it's 3 am and i am deeply invested in the fanon i have created for myself with my various evil british people shows

#super duper long tags below!! #dont say i didnt warn you!! #very specific brand of grellerin in my head rn that's like #grelle is in denial and is like ''hey mey rin wouldnt hurt a fly anyways so i guess i can at least *hint* to the reaper stuff'' #''so that she can know the real me!!'' then BOOM drama ensues #mey rin is like Why Is This Actual Goddess Telling Me This #like bestie it's because youre worth it!!! #but #i need there to be STAKES #just two crazy women in love trying to hide it from their superiors who they both also care for #chefs kiss just give me drama and fluff and theatric romance #i'll write for them one day.... finishing my sertegra stuff comes first sorry 😞 #which reminds me i MUST finish some gonzoverse stuff that i made ages ago #like if those two are gonna be so angsty they might as well kiss about it #their fleeting dialogue is so funny ''IM NOT LIKE THEM YOU KNOW!!'' like yes girl we know #you dont have to be so loud she can hear you just fine #also integra dramatically turning away from her in that scene too Can you both CALM DOWN #there is a lot of tension in them just. casually arguing about seras' bloodlust #like girl what are u gonna do?? lick the blood off her finger or something?? psssh like that would ever happen in hellsing canon #BWHAHAHAH ok sorry #sorry i needed to infodump so bad #it's storming outside about to get the crispiest sleep of my life #goodnight for now!!!

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

No thoughts just my favorite cat on planet earth

#she belongs to our family friends #and i would literally die for this queen #shes so lovely #and such a goddess #and she FRICKING KNOWS #shes like 'yes kiss my little head' and im like 'i love you' and shes like 'leave me peasant ' and that's all our interactions

[lieutenant-amuel]

I remember some time ago you mentioned you're going to introduce new characters in the next chapter of your Gabe fic. If that's not a spoiler, can you tell us who they are? Btw I'm excited for the update!

Thank you for this question and keeping your interest in it ❤

That's a bit spoiler-y, actually, but I'll give you some general information.

I'm going to introduce three new characters: one of them is related to Valerio, as she (yes, that's a woman) knew him before he got to Gabe's school (which means she knows about his scars and his past~); two other characters are related to each other, they're sort of a duet and will be very important for the main plot. They're also women because I need more important female characters who are not dead in my fic, lol.

Thank you again!

#Ask me anything #Was Born To Lead #Anyway if you ask me who are the most well-developed and complex characters in this fic I'll definitely say Valerio and his mom #Man she was a legend and I can't wait to introduce her #And Leticia is a goddess too #I can clearly see why Valerio fell in love with her I'm in love with her myself #So yep my female characters ARE wonderful #and I love them to death but it turned out that most of them are either dead or play a minor role #So I'm gonna change it #And there will be one more very cool female character whom I'm also very excited to introduce <3 #Although no #I already did ;) #Also thank you (yes again) for this question #I barely have time to actually write it now #(because uni and I currently work on another writing thing) #so it's nice at least talk about it and let you know I'm still into writing it and didn't abandon it #Maybe a huge maybe I'll update it in December #I still write the new chapter and given the fact it's not going smoothly at all and I'll need to translate it eventually #it will take quite a long time to finish it #But I'll try my best :') #Anyway keep asking me more questions about this fic if you want! #I can talk about it constantly <3