#between me and Him‚ basically. although that’s not to imply godspousing or anything i’m just using it as an easy example people will

[bog-horse]

anyway my issue with a lot of other helpols (which just makes me avoid the larger community and do my own thing in my corner) is that a lot of them are recon (which is fine!!!) but i am inherently informal and weird as shit in my practice. i call hades and hestia my spiritual dad/mom, hermes gets donuts as offerings when i’m trying to get to class on time and avoid traffic, i once asked artemis to keep deer from jumping out in front of my car on a road trip home with an offering of granola/sports bars. when people get too formal with the gods and pull out the titles, i usually bail bc it makes me uncomfortable. my relationship with my deities is extremely deep and connected, and it’s not that people who have more formal relationships with them can’t also have those, but it’s that if i called hades “lord hades” with any seriousness, he’d hit me with a rock, basically.

i don’t judge other people for their practices or more formal relationships bc honestly, it’s between you and your gods, but like… my go-to offering is the pomegranate brookside dark chocolates, and yes. sometimes i eat them out of my offering dishes the next day.

#i feel like recons are a lot more uhhh #noticeable on this platform? or maybe there really are just more of them #but i feel like us gremlin freaks aren’t very common on here #or maybe we just don’t get many posts bc people don’t relate as much or we don’t do the whole lists of offerings/altar ideas/prayers/etc #my list of offerings for hades won’t work for most people bc he’s very specific in how he reaches out to me #i have a severe aversion to mint. a lot of people put mint in their hades offerings and i know why #but i genuinely hate mint anywhere near me so i can’t use those #so i just don’t bother with a lot of offering lists and making them myself feels like letting people into my underwear drawer? like. that’s #between me and Him‚ basically. although that’s not to imply godspousing or anything i’m just using it as an easy example people will #understand. but yeah idk #i avoid a lot of the helpol community because i don’t feel like i fit in well #i am not recon and never will be bc it doesn’t vibe with my personality or lifestyle #i show my devotation in other ways‚ but those aren’t as easy to post online or share #and i don’t really want to share them either‚ soooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #pagan stuff #bones.txt #zeus gets titles when i work with him tho. i know he’s usually in good humor and the one time i made a bid to him for rain it went well #(after 4-6 weeks of processing time) but i still try to be extra polite to him #hades doesn’t care. zeus might actually strike me down with lightning y’know? #or at least threaten it idk