#she’s the personification of virtue

[booksanddarkchocolate]

In gotg3 the spaceship of the villains is called ‘arete’ and I found that hilarious because arete (αρετή) is Greek for virtue and everything that happened there was anything but that

#also the Greek goddess of virtue is called Aretê #she’s the personification of virtue #her Roman name is Virtus how original hahah #gotg3 #gotg #guardians of the galaxy #gotg vol 3 #rocket #rocket raccoon #groot #peter quill #nebula #drax #mentis #gamora

[baezdylan]

sorry to break it to you, but jo march is not the feminist icon you think she is. forget what the 2019 movie told you. stop voting for jo march on that poll.

#i love that film but oh boy does the women have minds blah blah monologue upset me #THAT IS NOT WHO JO IS!!! i wish it was but... she's a toxic boyfriend girlfriend :/ #she makes fun of 'girly girls' with her best friend :/ #her wanting to be a boy is not this grand feminist statement... #her anger is not centred around the need to alter the world for every woman... it's centred around her own displeasure #how the world wrongs HER specifically #AND THAT'S THE POINT! SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE FLAWED AND MESSY!!!!! human flaws aren't pretty... #i often say how the sisters are all focusing on the wrong characteristic they claim to be their fatal flaw #which in reality is just one of their virtues exaggerated... jo's rage is her passion flipped upside down #jo in the tardis* #i'll lose followers for this but oh well it needed to be said #jo march is not a feminist icon she is literally the personification of not like the other girls syndrome #and i'm not saying this as a hater! she's literally MY character... but there are such interesting discussions to be had about why she #feels that way... #i just- can't with this

[geekgirles]

Even though we all saw it coming from a mile away, I really do think Vaggie being a fallen angel is the best direction for her character and the one that best explains it.

First of all, it explains how one of the most decent demons in Hell after Charlie would even be there in the first place. Because she never belonged there.

Then we have an immediate explanation for her hinted military background back in Scrambled Eggs. Of course she was a warrior, she went out to massacre demons each year!

It also sheds her attempts to protect Charlie in a more meaningful light. Because let's face it, admirable as it is, a mere sinner, and not even an Overlord, acting like the Princess of Hell's loyal guard dog and facing off against threats like Alastor seems extremely foolish; if she were a mere demon, she would definitely be biting more than she can chew. But she is not a demon, she's an angel, an exorcist; a species that isn't just far more powerful than demons, but that can even kill Overlords. And even if she lost her wings, given Lucifer's angelic nature is the reason he got to rule Hell in the first place, then clearly, Vaggie still is more powerful than most demons.

And finally, it explains her stance on Charlie's plan; that unyielding support coated in rightful doubt. On the one hand, her devotion comes from the fact that Charlie, Lucifer's daughter and a demon, showed her more compassion and care than her fellow angels, the supposed personification of everything good and perfect. Not only has she seen first hand how not all demons are that bad or deserving of death, but she stands out as the only angel so far to feel any mercy for them even before being exiled.

And what did that get her? Exactly. Exiled from Heaven and with both her eye and wings amputated. Again, Vaggie knows first hand how truly vile Heaven is. How, when it comes to demons, everything is a mistake that must be rectified through the most violent means possible. If Heaven, which is supposed to reward virtue, punished Vaggie, one of their own, for displaying a virtuous behaviour towards a demon, what chance do actual sinners have to ever be redeemed in their eyes and hence accepted in Heaven?

I guess this all comes to show how that just because a development is obvious, it doesn't make it any less good or fitting.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #vaggie #charlie morningstar #lucifer morningstar #heaven #sera #emily #adam #lute #hazbin hotel analysis #vivziepop #vivienne medrano #vivzieverse

[fluorescentbalaclava]

In honour of the playtest of Hades 2 an Ate I did in the style of the game!

"(She) that blindeth all—a power fraught with bane; delicate are her feet, for it is not upon the ground that she fareth, but she walketh over the heads of men, bringing men to harm, and this one or that she ensnareth."

In the Argonautica, Hera says that "even the gods are sometimes visited by Ate".

Ate is the greek goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. She was considered the personification of ruin. According to Hesiod (Theog. 230), a daughter of Eris, and according to Homer (Il. xix. 91) of Zeus.

I personally made her like Eris, and like her grandmother Nyx, with soooome details of Zeus.

Ate appears in a story in the Iliad, where it is told how she came to be thrown out of Olympus, and never permitted to return. Zeus held Ate to blame for blinding him to Hera's trickery which resulted in the loss of the birthright Zeus intended for his son Heracles: to be lord over the Argives. As punishment, an enraged Zeus:

"seized Ate by her bright-tressed head, wroth in his soul, and sware a mighty oath that never again unto Olympus and the starry heaven should Ate come, she that blindeth all. So said he, and whirling her in his hand flung her from the starry heaven, and quickly she came to the tilled fields of men. At thought of her would he ever groan, whenso he beheld his dear son in unseemly travail beneath Eurystheus' tasks."

Homer, Iliad 9. 498 ff :

"The very immortals can be moved; their virtue and honour and strength are greater than ours are, and yet with sacrifices and offerings for endearment, with libations and with savour men turn back even the immortals in supplication, when any man does wrong and transgresses. For there are also the Litai (Litae, Prayers), the daughters of great Zeus, and they are lame of their feet, and wrinkled, and cast their eyes sidelong, who toil on their way left far behind by the spirit of Ruin (Ate): but she, Ate (Ruin), is strong and sound on her feet, and therefore far outruns all Litai (Prayers), and wins into every country to force men astray; and the Litai (Prayers) follow as healers after her. If a man venerates these daughters of Zeus as they draw near, such a man they bring great advantage, and hear his entreaty; but if a man shall deny them, and stubbornly with a harsh word refuse, they go to Zeus, son of Kronos, in supplication that Ate (Ruin) may over take this man, that he be hurt, and punished."

#hades game #hades supergiant #hades #hades 2 #supergiant games #fanart #greek mythology #greek gods #greek quotes #zeus #zeus deity #eris goddess of chaos #eris goddess of discord #ate goddess #she ate #mythology #illustration #my art #my artwork #digital art #art #artwork #homer #the illiad

[highpriestessarchives]

Know Thyself: How This One Exercise Shaped My Writing

“Know Thyself” Interpretations

Heraclitus: “It belongs to all men to know themselves and think well.”

Charles H. Kahn: this fragment echoes a traditional belief that “know thyself" had an essentially similar meaning to the second Delphic maxim, “nothing too much;” both sayings might be considered alternative ways of describing the virtue of sophrosyne.

Heraclitus defines sophrosyne as the art of “perceiving things according to their nature,” apparently referring to the perception of objective, material facts. If so, and if self-knowledge is the same as sophrosyne, then, as Kahn writes, “the deepest structure of the self will be recognized as co-extensive with the universe in general … so true self-knowledge will coincide with knowledge of the cosmic order.”

A fragment from Ion of Chios provides the earliest explicit reference to the maxim. It reads: “This ‘know yourself’ is a saying not so big, but such a task Zeus alone of the gods understands.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates

Soliloquies of Augustine: The book has the form of an “inner dialogue" in which questions are posed, discussions take place and answers are provided, leading to self-knowledge. The first book begins with an inner dialogue which seeks to know a soul. In the second book it becomes clear that the soul Augustine wants to get to know is his own.

The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius writes The Consolation of Philosophy as a conversation between himself and a female personification of philosophy, referred to as “Lady Philosophy.” Philosophy consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of wealth, fame, and power (“no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune"), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the “one true good.” She contends that happiness comes from within, and that virtue is all that one truly has because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Meditations: Marcus Aurelius likely didn’t intend for Meditations to be published, as the work centered around his own self-analysis and self-guidance. Aurelius advocates finding one's place in the universe and sees that everything came from nature, and so everything shall return to it in due time. Another strong theme is of maintaining focus and to be without distraction all the while maintaining strong ethical principles such as “Being a good man.”

...to think that all of these classic works are “regular” people figuring themselves out. I decided to do the same.

Writing My Own “Soliloquy”

I’d like to clarify that I, in no way shape or form, see myself as this great thinker or philosopher or anything like that. I recognize that this practice is but one way to understand myself, especially since I struggle with mental health and a lot of spiritual questions (but that’s another topic).

In choosing to write my own soliloquy, I am becoming my own Devil’s Advocate. Like Boethius, I’ve decided to structure my journaling as if I am arguing with someone. I will choose a topic that I am passionate about or that I am having my own crisis over, such as “Why do I not believe I am a good person?” or “Why do I prefer logic over emotion?” or even “What draws me to classical paintings?”

What I found is that anything and everything that I am attached to says something about me on a deeper level.

Here is where it gets a little tricky: in continuing to argue with myself, I’ve found that I get better at coming up with counter points. In other words, this self-analysis becomes more and more complex the more used to it you get. It’s almost like you’re playing some mind chess and this fictional opponent, who is also you, as they are but your own Devil’s Advocate, is also getting better and learning with you.

But, to me, that is what makes this “Know Thyself” maxim important. You are not meant to have a full-fledged answer. We are constantly evolving and changing, as will our knowledge of how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive the world in response to it.

How It Affects My Writing

To start with the obvious, the character development and creation changes so much when you get to know yourself. At least, for me, the world becomes less and less black and white (not that it ever was black and white to begin with). Because of that, my characters become more dimensional.

I am no longer afraid to write controversy. There is a... debate, for a lack of better words, on the media literacy rate nowadays. Because of this, I would fear that, just because I wrote about it, people would assume that I am in support of it; or, for example, just because there is a mainstream focus on one demographic, that nuances of that focus cannot be written about (again, another topic).

However, writing my soliloquies reminds me that my work is meant to be a message from myself to the audience first and entertainment second.

As artists, authors, creators, etc., there is a danger in losing ourselves to appease the masses. There is the question of whether we should create what we want or stick to what is trending, and I’m not immune to that spiral, either.

In knowing yourself, you become your #1 advocate. You know what your boundaries are, what your morals are, and what your values are. It gets harder to allow those who don’t do that same work to sway your pen.

Closing Words

Whatever form that takes, get to know yourself. For me, that’s journaling whenever I can as if I’m debating with someone. Grab a journal meant specifically for this exercise and go crazy! No one’s going to read it (unless you become someone like Marcus Aurelius and your own version of Meditations comes out. In which case... sorry?)

Never stop challenging the way you think, too. It can be uncomfortable and hard, but change always is. Perhaps you will stick to your ideals, and that’s okay, too! Do not live life on the easy path.

As always, these exercises are not a substitute for professional or medical help. I will always encourage those who need it to seek therapy, as I believe it is a great tool to use alongside this exercise, should one feel inclined to do so.

#writers of tumblr #writing wip #writers #writers on tumblr #writing #writeblr #writers and poets #authorlife #indie author #author #authors of tumblr #writer #fiction #creative writing #novel writing #books and novels #readers #philosophy #life #soliloquy

[darkfluffydragon]

CR Headcanon Ideas: "Cookie" in names

This headcanon is basically where cookies don't usually add the word "cookie" to the end of their names. For example, Gingerbrave Cookie would call Strawberry Cookie, "Strawberry", and Wizard Cookie, "Wizard". There are only a couple exceptions to this.

First, the Dragons. They do this because they are not cookies. They use the word "Cookie" to emphasise their differences.

Second, the Elementals/Gods. They follow the same logic as the dragons since while they are technically cookies now, they weren't originally. They're personifications of their elements, Sea Fairy is the sea and Wind Archer is the wind. Though, they use the word "Cookie" more out of habit than the dragons, who do it purposefully.

Timekeeper is an outlier since while she is the god of time, she was originally a regular cookie. However, she calls others "Cookie" because she no longer sees herself as the same as everyone else. Sort of like alienation. She still refers to herself as "Timekeeper Cookie", perhaps because she's still trying to keep a hold of the past she no longer remembers even if she claims otherwise.

Lastly, The Beast and The Ancients. The Beasts gained this particular mannerism not because they wanted this habit, but rather because the witches instilled it into their very souljam. They weren't supposed to be just "regular cookies". They were virtues, created to be powerful and radiant beings. They were emissaries of the Godly Creators. They were never meant to be seen like cookies, despite being called cookies. This would also be shown with how they are referred to as Beasts. They could have been called "Corrupted Cookies" or something similar, like the Cookies of Darkness. But instead, they were called Beasts. Beasts of Deceit, Apathy, and so on. Not cookies of deceit, but beasts. Other cookies seemed to accept these titles easily because of this unintentional distance.

This trait affected the Ancients as well since they inherited the souljams. It's what creates such a large division between "normal cookies" and the Ancients. That and also because they're immortal. They're admired, praised, and seen as heroes. Yet they also have immense expectations placed on them due to this estrangement. Unless a cookie was to know them personally, the Ancients would likely be seen as very "other". The Ancients themselves were unaware of their habit, finding it instinctual. The ones most likely to notice their speaking habits would probably be either Pure Vanilla Cookie or Hollyberry Cookie. Even then, they would find it difficult to change this habit and would still slip up.

There’s probably a couple leaps in logic here and there, but I didn’t want to forget these ideas a couple hours later. I just wrote whatever came to mind :’D

#fyp #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cr kingdom #crk #pure vanilla cookie #crob #cookie run ovenbreak #hollyberry cookie #ancient cookies #white lily cookie #golden cheese cookie #dark cacao cookie #beast yeast #I have no idea if I managed to convey my thoughts clearly #it made more sense in my head #legendary cookies #dragon cookies

[catboyrichardkarinsky]

okay Felix's ocs big infodump post

featuring picrews made with this maker because I don't have the energy to draw

Seth (he/she/they/xe)

Seth is completely removed from society by choice. They ran away from home when he was 16 because their father was not a very good person at all. Xe moved into an abandoned garage and got (stole) a motorcycle. She makes money by running a not exactly legal piercing/tattoo shop. Xe has a snake named Libby who they care about more than anything else. They're generally really passionate about snakes and have a snake tattoo. He believes being authentic is the biggest virtue someone can have and lives by it. Basically this is my weird child, I found them in a trash can and I love her. They're 19 years old. Oh and she plays the guitar.

Lena/Lemon (she/her)

Got the nickname Lemon as a child and it stuck. She loves organizing things. She has an extensive collection of different plants and stuff. She's planning to go to college later, but is taking a year off. Her parents are kinda rich, which is how she was able to move out as a 19 year old and own a house. She's endlessly positive and caring to a fault (doesn't really prioritize her own needs which is how she's ended up in multiple toxic friendships and a relationship with a guy she doesn't really like). She has a cat named Honey. She's really scared of snakes.

Irene (she/they)

She always manages to be the weirdest person in the room no matter what and is proud of that. They have an original character named Luna who's basically the personification of the moon and then fell in love with her. She constantly paints Luna and wants to become a professional artist. Very strong moon theming going on for her for obvious reasons. Their parents divorced when she was young so she lives with her mom. They got a few tattoos secretly from Seth without her mom knowing about it. She strongly identifies with the three weed smoking girlfiends (yes she smokes weed. no she doesn't have a girlfriend though. she wishes.) Their pseudonym is Pygmalia because of the whole fell in love with her character thing. She's 18. Seth and her are best friends/sometimes friends with benefits

Mike (he/him)

the thing about Mike is that once upon a time he used to be the main character but now I prefer to focus on Seth so he got significantly sidelined. He loves music and writes some of his own sometimes. He's depressed, but working on it. He has a crush on his best friend Dom who also got sidelined somewhere along the line (or more accurately he's too similar to another oc I used for another story which i actually started writing but then discontinued). His parents and Irene's parents are friends, so they've known each other all their life. He's 17.

Christine (she/her)

it's her, she's the problem, it's her. Lena's best friend since high school. Very manipulative, but deep down also very insecure. She has problems and she's definitely not a good friend. She's always wanted to be a singer or dancer. Loves being the center of attention. Gets jealous very easily.

Ella (she/her)

Lena's other best friend since high school. She's the enabler. She sometimes realizes Christine isn't a very good person but is too afraid to say anything and even goes along with it sometimes. She wants to be an author, although she didn't realize that for the longest time because she made Christine's goals her own goals too. She's just trying to find herself mostly.

Leo (he/him)

Local prettyboy. Also went to high school with Lena and her friends. Most girls had a crush on him and he ended up dating Lena, because he genuinely liked her and she felt pressured by her friends even though she really would've rather stayed friends with him. He has a strong interest in reptiles and is a bit of a nerd but he's conventionally attractive enough for that to not bother people. He's actually a pretty decent person.

Okay now some story:

as I mentioned Seth lives in an abandoned garage. They knew the house it belongs to isn't in use, but figured he doesn't need more than the garage itself (he decorated it and everything). But then Lena moved in without Seth knowing about it, because Lena didn't use the garage and Seth didn't use the house attached to it, they just kind of lived next to each other without knowing for a few days.

Then Lena, being the "queen of road safety", almost got hit by Seth's motorcycle, because she may have crossed the road at red light. Seth managed to turn in time, but drove right into a tree, wrecking her motor completely. Yeah this is their first meeting, romantic isn't it? So after Lena apologizes a few hundred times (over apologizer), Seth is about to head home when they finally realize their accidental cohabitation. Since Lena still feels guilty about her recklessness causing Seth to lose his motorcycle, she agrees to let him stay anyway. Though she probably would've either way because she's a people pleaser and like she doesn't need that garage either way. Cut to slice of life sitcom shenanigans of two VERY different people trying to live together. Spoiler alert they fall in love. Which leads Lena to the soul crushing task of breaking up with her boyfriend who she didn't even like. Except he's actually fine with it and they stay friends and he even gives her advice once she later admits she's catching feelings for Seth.

Also Seth introduces Lena to Irene at one point and they don't initially get along, since Irene is somewhat overprotective of Seth and doesn't trust people easily and Lena is slightly creeped out by her chaotic nature, but they come around to each other.

Seth also helps Lena become more confident, which leads her to finally stop being friends with Christine and Ella after realizing how unhealthy their friendship is. Although Ella later apologizes and they'll rekindle their friendship eventually but that still takes time. Also Ella and Leo might end up dating, idk.

Meanwhile Lena helps Seth be slightly more adjusted and to work through her trauma. Plus xe does start to love her which forces him to learn a kind of vulnerability he's never shown before.

Overall I'm just kind of obsessed with all of these depressed bitches ✌️

#Felix's ocs #can you spot the citc parallels. yes you can. there's a lot. #stardust‚ sunshine & moonlight

[mask131]

For my last Helluva Boss celebration I made a whole series of posts about the Nine Circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno (see a few reblogs below). For my new Helluva Boss celebration, I wanted to take a look at various literary depictions of the seven deadly sins as personifications. This post was originally prepared to celebrate Mammon’s Magnificent Musical, but given the release of “Look My Way”, it will still work even though I post it quite late.

When it comes to looking at classic embodiments of the deadly sins, I want to begin with one of the “modern, non-Antique epics” that marked the history of literature, like the Orlando Furioso or Paradise Lost. I want to take a look today at Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, the great British epic of the 16th-17th centuries, a medieval-romance-like set of stories depicting the adventures of allegorical knights fighting allegorical monsters. The poem is filled with characters embodying various vices and virtues – the very heroes of the story are a set of knights acting as the champions of the various Christian virtues (the Redcross Knight is the champion of Holiness, as an avatar of saint Georges the patron of England ; Guyon, first of the Faerie Queen’s knights, is the champion of Temperance ; Britomart, the woman-knight, is the champion of Chastity, Artegal is the champion of Justice, etc, etc.) ; while the villains are very unsubtle in their nature (a female demon named Ate is assisted by Duessa – deceit – and spreads discord among friends ; a lonely man named Despair convinces the hero to kill himself, etc, etc.)

But today I want to focus on a specific episode of the epic’s first book. An episode usually known as the “House of Pride” and where the main hero (the Red-Cross Knight, the protagonist of the epic’s first book) encounters the embodiments of the seven deadly sins.

For a bit of context, the depiction of the seven deadly sins here is meant to parallel and counter-exemplify two other parts of the poem. On one side, the House of Pride is later opposed by the “House of Holiness” where the Redcross-Knight is helped, healed and cared for by a lady named Caelia, who has three daughters, Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa. This is all supposed to embody the Christian concept of the “three theological virtues”, the three virtues that come from God – Faith, Hope and Charity, born of “The Sky/The Heavens”. On the other side, the House of Pride and its queen are meant to mirror the titular Faerie Queene of the poem, Queen Gloriana – a very flattering fictional portrait of Elisabeth the First, but also the embodiment of “Glory” as her name says. Aka the positive, well-deserved and non-sinful twin of the viceful Pride – here embodied by the dreaded lady Lucifera.

Lady Lucifera is, it comes to no surprise, the owner and ruler of the House of Pride. The other deadly are all male, and act as both her counselors and her court wizards (being called alternatively “sage counselors” and “old wizards”). This all fits within the accepted idea that pride is not just the most dangerous and “important” of the seven deadly sins, it is also their root and their “superior”. In many metaphors, it is translated by pride being seen as the “king” or “mother” of the other deadly sins: in the Faerie Queene, she is their ruler, their queen. But, in an interesting twist, Spenser establishes a true relationship of co-dependency between the sins: the other six might be Pride’s servants… but they are still her advisors, counselors, and they are later literally seen pulling her chariot, clearly showing that while Pride leads them and gives them order, without the other sins, Pride would literally go nowhere.

But let us return to Lucifera before looking at her “old wizards”. Lucifera is obviously named after Lucifer, the figure of the fallen angel that became a devil, if not THE devil, for thinking of himself as better than humanity, and ultimately rebelling against God and trying to cast Him down. Lucifer is commonly seen as THE demon embodying pride – and Spenser also loves to throw various references to the mythological origins of Lucifer, as his name meaning “light-bearer” is due to how, in Greco-Roman mythology, Lucifer was the spirit of the Morning Star, announcing dawn. Here, Lucifera is constantly described as “bright” or as “shining”, and when she leaves her castle on her chariot, she is explicitly compared to “Aurora in her purple pall” coming out from the east of the world – aka, Eos, the Greek goddess of Dawn. Not only that, but the excessive “shine” and almost blinding light that is emitted by the lady of Pride is also put in parallel to the light of Phaeton. Remember Phaeton? The human who thought he could drive the chariot of Helios/Phoebus, the god of the sun? And who in the process almost destroyed the earth, and had to be killed by being thrown out of the sky with a fire-bolt? Another example of pride punished, and one explicitly meant to mirror Lucifer’s own fall from Heaven. But this woman is not a fallen angel, no: rather she is described as an actual goddess, “daughter of grisly Pluto and sad Proserpina, queen of Hell”. So, she is a deity, but part of the grim, sinister, chthonian gods of death, and she is a princess true, but a princess of the Underworld (aka Hell, since the two are treated as one and the same, and Pluto/Proserpina gained demonic connotations by this time). Already we have here a Pride that is explicitly rooted in death and the afterlife, in darkness, oblivion and rot – we are in the same logic as the “vanities” and the “memento mori”, the lesson that ultimately nothing is eternal, and vanity is a folly because all beautiful faces will end up as a skull.

However Spenser cleverly also prepares us, by this mythological references, to the presentation of what Lucifera’s behavior and crimes are. Because Lucifera is not one of those “vain fools” who think of themselves as beautiful when they are not – on the contrary. Lucifera is immensely beautiful, and even if it wasn’t for her beauty, she sits in an array of immense luxury, wearing the most refined and outstanding clothes and dazzling jewelries you can imagine. Lucifera is a truly admirable figure – quite literally since it is said that knights and lords from all four corners of the world come to her palace to admire her. The twist lies in HOW she behaves and acts. Because Lucifera does not care for her many guests, hosts and admirers, treating them with only scorn and disdain – breaking the basic law of hospitality and the rules of courtly behavior by her immense selfishness. Her many admirers and courtiers are said to constantly make themselves prettier, shinier, more noble and more appealing, attracting, charming, all in the hope of pleasing her – but she does not care at all for all their effort, and probably does not even notice them. When great knights and lords offer themselves to her, she does thank them… But in a disdainful way, and with very brief words, and only because they promised to spread words of her fame and glory and beauty. She is said to hate everything that is “low” (which is why, out of allegorical joke, she always sits on a high throne and makes sure she is above everyone else) – but given she thinks of everything outside of herself as “low”, she ends up hating everybody. She only looks at two things – either her hand-mirror (because her own reflection brings her “great delight and joy”), either the heavens. Again, due to a hatred of “anything low” and a desire to only have the highest, tallest and grandest things – but also because she rejects her own chthonian, underworld-roots. Indeed, while she is the daughter of Pluto and Proserpina (Hades and Persephone), she rather places herself on the same level (and sometimes above) as Jove (aka Zeus). Zeus/Jove, Eos/Aurora, and Phaeton: Lucifera dreams and fashions herself after the celestial beings of the sky and of light, when in truth she is a chthonian entity of death, earth and darkness.

Not only that, but she fashions herself a queen when she is not… Remember when I said that she was the daughter of Pluto and Proserpina, king and queen of Hell? It makes her a princess alright… An eternal princess, since her parents are immortal gods and thus will never pass any crown onto her. But Lucifera, devoured by ambition and arrogance, HAD to be a queen. So what did she do? She went onto earth and there obtained a crown… “with wrong and tyranny”. She literally stole and took by force a crown that was not hers, usurped a territory and made herself the sole and absolute ruler of it. Not only is she a false ruler with no actual right to sit on the throne, but she even went as far as to usurp a domain that had no relationship to her parents, lineage or world – daughter of the principles of death and the underworld, she decided to make herself a queen of the livings onto earth’s surface… Even worse, she is not a good queen, because according to Spenser, beyond being a “tyrant”, she does not rule with “laws” but with “policies”. And in the language of the time, “policies” are here to mean “cunning and crafty devices”. She is a tyrant who not only brutally seized a crown and usurped a thrown, but on top of that establishes her rule through cunning, trickery and unlawful behavior (it is not surprise that here, her counsel is explicitly described as being formed of “six wizards” – they are not men of the law, they are not men of politics or courtiers, they are not men of war or economy, they are wizards and sorcerers, forming a government of magic tricks and deceiving enchantments). As a visual touch to denote the evilness and danger inherent to her superb appearance: at her feet, lies a dragon, that forms a “hideous trayne” to her glorious, shining, sparkling and luxurious dress.

[There is also a “gentle husher” that works for queen Lucifera, and notably always prepare her passage before she goes anywhere, obviously called Vanity, but there isn’t much to say here since he is a one-line reference]

Just as important as Lucifera herself is the palace she lives within and rules from: the House of Pride, which is the architectural twin of Lucifera, and the inanimate embodiment of the sin of Pride (and of all sins and vices in general). The House of Pride is described as a great and grandly palace, all filled with luxuries, all shining and bright… It is covered in gold! Or rather… it is foiled in golds. The walls of the palace were covered in a thin layer of gold to hide the actual material in which the castle was made – a very rough and very poor material. Great and high walls that impress everyone by their size – but which are made of bricks without mortar, and are thus very easy to destroy. The palace is thought of as grandiose because it has many hallways and numerous towers and a LOT of rooms – but its foundations are actually very weak, since the castle was built… on a “sandy hill”. A hill of sand that is very unstable and regularly collapses – threatening the entire palace, which “shakes with every strong wind”. Finally, while everybody amasses themselves and awaits by the front of the palace, its backrooms and back-parts, those not seen from the path leading to the House, are noted to all be old ruins… but “painted cunningly” to hide their own decrepitude. You could say that Vanity, the “gentle husher”, is an extension of the House of Pride itself – since it all depicts the sin of vanity itself. A great care of appearances and an obsession with beauty forcing one to hide the truth, to fight foolishly and senselessly the effects of time or one’s true nature, all to create a deceptive idea of an ideal self that never truly existed. More generally, the House of Pride represents the very trap that is a sin, or a vice in general – it is the House of Evil if you want. It is grandiose, immense, beautiful, shining, with all sorts of riches and treasures… But it is built out of poor materials, it offers no real protection or comfort, its riches are only skin-deep (or wallpaper-deep), and it is overall an unstable structure that is already a half-ruin. The danger of the House is made even more explicit by the large road that leads to it – a large pathway that many people take to go to the House, but that very few people use to leave… And when Lucifera leaves her castle on her chariot, and goes down the road, the protagonist can suddenly see what paves the way and that he missed before – the things the wheels of Lucifera’s chariot gleefully crushes. The bones and skulls of all those that “went astray” and went by the House of Pride…

The dual of nature of the House and Lucifera (who represent the two sides of pride – Lucifera is scorn, disdain, ambition and arrogance, while the House is vanity and vainglory, Lucifera is the “superbia” pride while the House is the “vanagloria” pride) is even reflected in a sort of bizarre “competition” that is sets between the two. Indeed, when we see Lucifera sitting on her throne… The poet sarcastically describes how both the throne and the queen on it shine brightly, and they glitter and sparkle so much as if “the blaze of the glorious throne” and the blaze of the queen herself tried to “dim each other”. Pride will always be the most envious and jealous of itself…

After spending some times inside the House, we follow Lucifera as she leaves her castle and takes her coach by the road. The coach is just as luxurious and glittering and blazing as the House and the queen, since it is all of “gold and garlands”. And again, we have explicit mythological comparisons: Lucifera, with all those flowers around her, make her look like “Flora in her prime”… But she actually tries to imitate and surpass another goddess – Juno, aka Hera, queen of the gods and the heavens. The parallel is even reinforced by the presence of peacock feathers on the chariot. “Argus’ eyes”, on one side, the mythological emblems of Juno/Hera… But also the common symbol of vanity and pride, the peacock being considered THE bird of this sin.

And if it was not clear enough that this was an EVIL queen, the coachman of Lucifera, the one holding the whip… Is said to be none other than Satan himself. Aka THE actual Christian Devil, THE Great Fiend himself who gleefully leads queen Lucifera wherever she wants to go. And whips the six other sins to ride faster… Because, as I said before – Lucifera’s chariot is not pulled by horses… But by her six “sage counsellors/old wizards”, aka the other deadly sins. However, since this post is already getting quite long, I’ll keep them for another time.

#seven deadly sins #pride #the faerie queene #lucifera #deadly sins

[bleachbleachbleach]

hi!! I’ve been binge reading ur fics and I’m so glad that it led me to your blog!! Hinamori and Hitsugaya are also my blorbos and I love your take on their characters and dynamic which is that they’re different flavors of what it’s like to be young and screwed over by the system you’ve been nothing but dutiful towards. In Hinamori’s case, she earnestly did believe in the ideals of the Gotei 13 (like seriously, one of her first character defining moments is rushing towards someone who needs help regardless of orders to do otherwise like with renji being injured and hisagi being attacked) but was constantly screwed over by the someone who she thought was the personification of those ideals and was just expected to immediately bounce back from that . Meanwhile Hitsugaya, who was already more reluctant from the get go, not only had to watch all that happen to her in real time, but keeps getting thrust into every shit show from the fuck factory because he unfortunately possesses the skills to do so. In some of your fics, Momo frets over how much being a Shinigami takes so much from him without giving him much back for his efforts and I wonder if he hasn’t thought the same about her?

And yet…at the heart of it…both of them just want to do good!! They just want to do right by people even if it’s in the world that constantly tries to chew them up and spit them out. Hinamori would still fret over and try to rush towards someone she thinks needs help and Hitsugaya will still go into a shit job sighing but hell still do it by the virtue of being one of the few ppl that can. I’m sorry if this ended up turning into a ramble but you just get it!!! God, they need another cathartic non traumatic field trip post TYBW. We rlly deserved a scene after all the battles where they make a long walk towards each other, stumble into each other’s arms or even just sit next to each other and go “holy shit you’re still here. We’re still here” and not get disturbed for 20 mins before they help each other up and do their jobs again.

This is from over a month ago now, dear anon, I am SO sorry. I was feeling really good about being on top of recent asks and then remembered that we have several months of messages we have failed to respond to. It is not for lack of appreciation, truly! Just lack of being on this page. I remember reading this message when you sent it and being, at the time, EXTREMELY hormonal and it was so kind and so needed and it means a lot that you came here to say it. <333333333333

Something I hear a lot is “the institution will not love you back”—the warning being not to fall into the trap of loving it, or giving too much to it, because it will only take. I think that’s true, but I also think that there are many professions that make the actual practice of this impossible, because they require you not to love, per se, but to really care, and really give—if only because if you don’t, then the thing becomes a monster. It is alive, it is not a thing that withers and desiccates if you do not care for it. It becomes a worse thing and harm is done, if you don’t care, no matter how much you’ll never get back when doing so.

I imagine the Gotei being a lot like that, and while I don’t imagine Hinamori or Hitsugaya loving the Gotei (Hinamori might have been, during various periods of her life, closer to that word than Hitsugaya will ever be; and I think at points may have even thought so, or entertained the slippage being loving the Gotei and loving other things; but even then, even then—) they definitely care a lot. It’s a troubled care, and something I find really interesting about both of them is their ongoing negotiation of how to believe in some version of the Gotei but not believe in it but adhere but not adhere but fuck all but not fuck all.

You asked, “In some of your fics, Momo frets over how much being a Shinigami takes so much from him without giving him much back for his efforts and I wonder if he hasn’t thought the same about her?”

I think he does, but in a different way than Hinamori does for him. In my version of their story, Hinamori has a certainty about how the math works out, and it’s not really in Hitsugaya’s favor, and she mourns that. Regardless of how she understands Hitsugaya to have internalized it, she is going to mourn that. It’s not that she doesn’t care about the first part, it’s just part of some other math.

Thinking about Hinamori, Hitsugaya has also done the math, but it’s not really the straight math he’s focused on. He’s more interested in how Hinamori is carrying it, if that makes sense. He wants to know her thought process, and what he sees there is going to impact how he feels about it. Like, the math’s bad, it will always be bad, but is it hurting her? Does her attitude toward it feel like delusion masking pain, or is it the clarity of acceptance coupled with conviction? She carries it differently than he does, he knows, and as long as he can be certain that it’s not that first thing, he can accept her acceptance. He admires her for it, that particular kind of resolute clarity. His version of it is not the same (and to him feels like a worse version). It’s not naivete; it’s not delusion, or desperation. It is Hinamori.

#there's a version of this post where i close read all my favorite panels and talk about how i came to these feelings #but that probably is a separate post #thank you anon! #to anyone reading this i issue my perennial invitation for anons to join tumblr and/or talk to us off anon #because i want to know you and talk to you and be friends! #tumblr anon culture is so confusing to me #i want to make friends! #hinamori momo #hitsugaya toushirou #asks #bleach headcanons #no brain just bleach #bleach is my workplace comedy my workplace drama my workplace therapy

[ella-animine]

I can’t stop thinking about Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss while I’m at work… so pardon me I guess

But!

I know everyone is really jazzed about/talking about the 7 deadly sins and their characters and how despite being Sins they have good attributes etc, and I’m with you! I’m doing all of that too!

However, I do see an untapped opportunity(likely bc the universe is largely confined to Hell itself, I know) to create characterizations of the Sins foils

The Seven Heavenly Virtues

Humility(Pride)

Temperance(Gluttony)

Kindness(Envy)

Charity(Greed)

Chastity(Lust)

Patience(Wrath)

Diligence(Sloth)

I mean, I think there’s a lot of good narrative potential to play around with, and I think it would be interesting to see how these virtues add to the larger narrative of Heaven not really being perfect, or not being “good for the right reasons” for lack of a better way to say it

Like I could TOTALLY see Charity being a clout chasing vlogger type, who shoves a camera in people’s faces to document how “generous” she is, while making money/fame off of exploiting others

And Diligence is the personification of Hustle Culture and Grindset Mindset and actually ends up causing detriment to himself and his relationships, and experiences burnout frequently only to get upset when it happens bc he’s ‘not working hard enough’ or being ‘lazy’

And Patience and Kindness are little pushovers who will let people take advantage of them until something happens in their story to make them grow a backbone

Chastity is a little toxic, screams abstinence from sex. Says sex is dirty, shameful, should not be pleasurable, only strictly necessary to procreate and you shouldn’t even LOOK at your partner when doing it. I mean, just ALL the puritanical ideology around sex lol

Humility and Temperance are the only sort of normal ones, like Humility is always trying to convince the others that “it’s not about being the best! It’s just trying to be better than you were yesterday! Everyone is on their own path and it’s important to not get caught up in comparing ourselves to others!” Meanwhile Temperance is doing their best to balance what they want with what is reasonable to indulge in. Like someone trying to restore a healthy relationship with food/alcohol.

Is this something? I’m probably going to be thinking about this for a long time lol

Someone spiral on this with me, please

#Helluva Boss #Hazbin Hotel #Hellaverse #Seven Deadly Sins

[infjtarot]

Justice. Mystic Spiral Tarot

Themes and Keywords Truths. Balance. Equilibration. Order. The dance. Cause and effect. Action/reaction. Karma. Impartiality. Love (Venus) and law (Saturn). Severity/mercy = tempered justice. Nature’s exactitude. Structured air = music. Weigh and prune versus continuously adapt. Time and timing. Astrology/Element “Weight, measure, and balance” describes the process of Libra, the Scales. Weight correlates to the word Libra, but also to Saturn, which is exalted in the sign. Venus, which rules the sign, describes measure and balance, or the idea of fairness proximate to justice. Libra is the sign of partnership. It seems even the constellation doesn’t like to be alone, for in antiquity it was considered merged with Scorpio; it functioned as the claws of the scorpion. From the second century, the claws evolved into a separate constellation the Greeks called Zugón, meaning the yoke or crossbeam of the balance, which connects things together. The yoke was also jugum (Latin), meaning pair, couple, and wedlock. Libra means weight or measure, the Scales; Libra’s motto is “I balance.” This is the cardinal air sign, which initiates the element of air in the zodiac. The glyph of Libra looks like a stylized set of scales. It’s a flat line (horizon) with something that looks like a capital omega over it. As the last letter of the alphabet, omega corresponds to the end, and thus the Universe card, which is the card of Saturn. Nature is not just, but it is fair—a concept of both Libra and Saturn. The glyph looks like a bird flying toward you over a horizon, above the earth and through the air, rising above in order to get a top down, impartial, balanced, dispassionate view. It also looks a little like a waist (the flat line or belt) with the line under the ribs above it—the diaphragm, the muscle that relaxes and contracts to create a vacuum (Fool). Mythology/Alchemy Ma’at means “that which is straight”; that is, level and in balance. Her single feather represents her as the personification of truth, for it was her feather used as a unit of measure in the Egyptian ceremony of the weighing of the heart. In the Hall of Ma’at, also known as the Hall of Two Truths, the dead would need to profess their innocence of impure deeds before forty-two gods by name. Since the soul was thought to reside in the heart, the heart was weighed in the scales against the feather to see if there was balance. Anubis administered the test and Thoth recorded the results. If they passed, Osiris would admit them to the Field of Reeds, where they would be granted rebirth. Failure meant the heart would be devoured by the crocodile goddess Ammit, permanently condemning the soul. The Titaness Themis is the Greek personification of law and divine order also associated with the scales. Themis governed right customs and proper procedures. Her sword represented her ability to separate fact from fiction. Knowing both cause and effect, she was valued as a seer of truth and justice. With Zeus, she bore the Horae (Hours), goddesses of the proper moment and the rightness of order unfolding over time, and the Moirai (Fates), the sisters who determined the destiny of gods and mortals alike. Nemesis may have been a sister of the Fates (probably yet another progeny of Zeus). Her name relates to a word meaning “to give what is due” and shows her as the goddess of inescapable divine retribution for arrogance and crime. Sword, scales, crown, wings—this is Justice as the cardinal virtue, expressed in goddess-like form. (Ancient Italian Tarot) Susan T. Chang

#Justice #major arcana #Mystic Spiral Tarot

[deathlessathanasia]

"Modern understanding of nemesis has been much influenced by its traditional association with hybris: nemesis is the punishment inevitably meted out by the gods to mortals guilty of forgetting the limitations of their mortality, arousing the jealousy of the gods, boasting over-confidently or enjoying an excess of good fortune. Fisher's thorough re-evaluation of hybris has shown, however, that surprisingly few passages actually make this association explicitly, and hybris, rather than being primarily a religious term denoting an attitude particularly offensive to the gods, most often refers to 'specific acts or general behaviour directed against others'. Hybris can be defined essentially as the 'serious assault on the honour of another, which is likely to cause shame, and lead to anger and attempts at revenge'.

Clearly this has implications for our understanding of nemesis, which may require some adjustment - an examination of the goddess may shed some light on the concept she personifies. Some provisional definition is necessary, however, and two basic strands of meaning may be noted in the noun's derivation from nemo, to 'distribute, apportion'. The idea of 'first distribution', the lot with which you are born, associates Nemesis with fate, in the same way that two other 'fate' words, moira and heimarmene, are also derived from a verb of 'receiving one's share' (meiromai). The alternative idea of 'distribution of what is due' makes the link with justice, an association strengthened by the usage of the linguistically related nomos for 'law'. This latter aspect seems to be the most commonly emphasized, so perhaps the most generally applicable translation of nemesis is 'righteous anger' or 'indignation' aroused by injustice."

- Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece by Emma Stafford

#nemesis #hybris #hubris #quotes #excerpts #I really really want Fisher's book on Hubris. If only I could find it

[lightdancer1]

That also said:

While there is zero canonical support for it, in-universe I do like the idea that Haruka is not, in fact, a gold star lesbian where Michiru Kaioh very much is for the same reasons that Willow not being one where Tara Maclay is also works well in that universe. It illustrates a broader range of queer experience and in finest Sailor Moon fashion where appearances are outwardly deceiving the butch lesbian is the one who had a boyfriend as a younger woman and the femme is the one who's the gold star 'I am for one woman'. This is one of the many layers of how storytelling works in that verse and it also amplifies some key differences between Haruka and Michiru.

That said I do use some parallels in the Harumichi and Tara/Willow relationships. In each case there's a witch associated with an element (Earth/Water in the form of the Ocean) and there's a short-haired impulsive powerhouse who is a highly aggressive semi-rabid golden retriever who will bulldoze through things 100% of the time even or especially when finesse is the better option. Equally the elemental witch has some dodgy aspects (Michiru is canonically a stalker of Haruka in the anime, which by virtue of providing a past will do where the manga didn't) and Tara almost killing the Scoobies and sabotaging demon-detection spells that might have considerably shortened the Initiative plotline and then almost killing off her family of choice, well...there are some overlaps there.

While the short-haired powerhouses equally have massive doses of angst, take on themselves burdens that are not always the wisest to bear, and have the emotional intelligence of a rock. The main distinctions are that the Outer Senshi are both equally powerful in separate ways, and that the functions of magic and its wellsprings in the Sailor Moon universe between the Galaxy Cauldron and reincarnation factor function vastly differently than the more erotically charged sorcery of the Buffyverse.

The other distinction is that Tara Maclay, at least as I write her, is only a cinnamon bun relative to the rest of the Scoobies and when the comparisons are Spike, Xander, Anya, Willow, Buffy, and the like it's not hard to be the least morally ambiguous person in that bunch. Michiru, OTOH, is a stone cold manipulator-seer who uses her powers in the right ways, but is for all that by far the most ruthless of the Outer Senshi, as Haruka is far too impulsive to actually plan something where Michiru rivals Bruce Wayne for how OP she gets with prep time.

Of the two Michiru has by far the darker elements and the two would be highly at odds, as ultimately befits that Water and Earth have some particular geological antagonisms in science and equally so as elemental sorcery, and they operate on very different moral principles. Where, too, Michiru has intended seer-sight and anything I use with that with Tara tends to be the influence of the First, which is at least a part of any take on Season 6, with her being more easily manipulated via dreams of her dead mother playing into her insecurities in a bid to ensure a plan coming together works before the first components are truly assembled that misfires because the anthropomorphic personification of evil cannot understand human complexity and flaws and because Tara loves too much to truly fall into the fuller scale of the trap on the one hand and because Willow is not, in fact, truly evil or foredoomed to fall into darkness.

In truth as I write her and Setsuna both Michiru has the exact opposite problem that with reliable seer-sight her life often feels like a scripted thing of one damn crisis after another, which is why she goes for Haruka, because the impulsive golden retriever won't let things remain so stably serene as all that.

#buffy fanfic #tara x willow #tara maclay #willow rosenberg #sailor moon fanfic #harumichi #haruka tenoh #michiru kaioh

[dea-abundantia]

15 Days of Deity Devotion: Abundantia

Day 1 - Basic Introduction (from this post)

Abundantia is a goddess of prosperity and abundance from the Roman pantheon. In ancient Rome, she was the personification of the public virtue by the same name. She is typically associated with the cornucopia, and was often shown on ancient Roman coins as holding one, spreading gifts from its overflowing mouth. She has also been associated with ships, harbors, and sheaves of wheat.

Abundantia has been portrayed in Western European art many times. Her image is often used as an allegory for prosperity, sometimes together with the goddess Pax, or peace. Today, Abundantia is worshipped by neopagans and polytheists who honor the Roman pantheon. She may be called upon by modern-day worshippers for easing of financial troubles, protection of investments, or even liberation from capitalism/abundance for all.

#so excited to write more about her! #i love her. i love being devoted to her. hoping other pagans can discover her too <3 #info #pagan #polytheist #paganism #roman pagan #roman polytheist #polytheism #deity work #deity worship #paganblr #deity devotion challenge #15 days of devotion #15 days of deity devotion #abundantia #mine

[zonerobotnik]

Years ago, before I ever saw Good Omens, Supernatural, or Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel, I had my own, uh, theological story that started out as a roleplay between me and a friend. I've since hardly done anything with it, but listening to Paranoid DJ's Angel Dust song "Use Me Up VIP", I was reminded of my character, Orexis, the Personification of Lust.

Long ramble under the cut:

Now, he originally wasn't called "Orexis", that's a new development, he was just called Lust and he's since had a lot of character design adjustments.

The story was called "Seven Sins", generic and obvious, I know, I wasn't the most creative at 17-18, and the storyline was basically about these two factions that opposed each other, the Seven Sins and the Ten Virtues. The Seven Sins were actually made in response to the Ten Virtues, who were created by Archangel Micheal to help spread their assigned virtue among the land, help the humans out a little. The Sins, well, they did the same thing, only opposite to the Virtues.

In this story, Satan and Lucifer were two different people because, again, I was a kid and barely knew the material and my friend knew even less than me. Anyways, Lucifer was the one that created the Seven Sins and Satan was the big boss. Also, I think Lucifer was half-human.

Somehow, Heaven caught on and sent Archangel Gabriel to come crashing down to stop the creation ritual just as Lucifer was starting on the final one, Orexis. His creation circle was damaged and, as a result, he came into being with no sense of what he was made for, no powers and the innocence of a small child. Satan helped him activate his powers, but his innocent personality remained and that made him a bit of an outcast with the rest of the group and Lucifer, as a result, had to maintain him a little more than the others, emotionally.

They were sent out to spread their Sin around, encountered the Virtues and while Orexis tried to pretend he was as badass as the others, the Virtue of Love, Ahavah, sensed that something was different about him and, after a messy first meeting where he was attacked for aggressively flirting with poor Chastity, tried to persuade him to stop spreading Sin around, that he can be better.

Well, what Ahavah said stuck with him, and he tried to do his job but his heart just wasn't in it. During this time, Lucifer had fallen in love with a human and married her, moving himself and the Seven Sins onto Earth in an isolated location. While the others went out to work, Orexis remained in the house with Lucifer nad his bride and got into drawing.

One day, while the others were out, aliens attacked the isolated house, looking for Lucifer's bride, after seeing Orexis and said bride outside together. I can't remember why, she escaped from them or something. It's been years. Anyways, Lucifer was mortally wounded by the aliens' weapons and Orexis tried to help his master's wife but was captured as well and both were taken onto the spaceship.

I can't remember what happened to her, but it doesn't really matter because after this she left the story. Orexis was experimented on by a creepy scientist alien and was changed so that when he's extremely upset, he changes into a beast form and goes rabid. Some of his blood is also taken to create a crystal that is put on a ring to control him.

Orexis managed to escape with the ring and fled back to the isolated house to find the others had returned and his Master was dying. They demanded to know what happened and Orexis explained, which infuriated them because if he had been more powerful, he could've prevented this from happening and they see him as having led the danger to their home and in the end they decided to split up into groups of two and continue their work, while Orexis, the youngest and odd one out, was abandoned.

Years later, while hiding from the alien scientist, who was looking for him, Ahavah and Orexis meet again and Ahavah decides to take him in and care for him, seeing that he's only sleeping around to survive and not because he's being malicious. While he doesn't understand the whole aliens and beast thing, he keeps him hidden and they gradually grow feelings for each other.

Also, there was an alternate personality thing in Ahavah that was the Personification of Hate and was born of him feeling negative emotions about Orexis when they first met, so that was fun. So, they both got issues.

Anyways, after I stopped talking to that friend and hardly did anything related to actual theology, I stopped doing anything with these guys. I just wanted to share it, though, because I was reminded of Orexis and his alien scientist creeper that he keeps being caught by and escaping from by the song. Oh, and these guys can take Hosts, and the ring works on him even when he's in a Host, so, uh…yeah. He has to keep a tight hold on that ring or he's bascially a slave to whoever gets ahold of it until he can get it off of them or Ahavah saves him.

And I was planning to draw something for all this, but I'm kind of drawing a blank on what the scientist guy looked like and so, I dunno, maybe I'll draw something later. Sorry for filling your dash with a random confession of my random theological story.

Here's a couple pictures of Orexis to make all this worthwhile. That's his old design on the right. His hair is still that long, it's just tied up in a braided bun now.

Maybe I'll do something with this character sometime, include him in a fic at some point. (Maybe have him as himself this time and not using a character that's already cursed by Aphrodite to sleep with anyone that locks eyes with them as a Host. >.> ) I might do a new picture of him, I'm feeling inspired. (By the way, though he identifies as a guy, he can change gender at will for whichever his sexual partner prefers.)

#zone kitty is drawing #ramble #old art #orexis sin of lust #i don't think it can call it seven sins anymore because of that show by the same name #what do i call this storyline? #original character #oc

[mythologer]

17th July: Festival for Victoria - Festival for Virtus.

Victoria is the goddess of victory. Her main festivals were held on July 17th and August 1st.

In art, Victoria is often portrayed as a winged woman. She often appears on coins.

Virtus is the personification of bravery in war, and of physical and moral excellence. He is often associated with Honos.