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reading about german folklore jester till eulenspiegel and one of the pics on wikipedia features this photo and

he’s literally

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Nickelodeon blonde girls powa ✨

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I'm disqualifying the peanut butter chocolate due to my peanut allergy. Out of the rest the cherry cordial is easily the worst.

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Down by the River, Music Box Version

I could listen to this all day.

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Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

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"Aetos came around eventually..."

This line from Prometheus intruigues me. How did this happen? For aeons, every single day, Aetos has been making a return trip to the Prometheus's mountain jail to tear out and eat his liver personally.

It wasn't personal, of course. Aetos was acting on Zeus's will, and as we know, "the will of Zeus is inescapable".

So what changed? Zeus's will certainly didn't. Old fuck was happy to let the torture continue till the end of time. He commanded Aetos, bent the animal to his will, and the animal obeyed because Zeus is the king of the gods.

Aetos is an animal, made immortal, it seems, for the sole purpose of being Prometheus' eternal tormentor. From Prometheus's comment, it would seem that Aetos was able to have a change of heart in regards to his part in the whole process - to question the morality of it - and turn its tail on Zeus.

Quite the extraordinary animal! But is it?

Animals are creations of Epimetheus, just as humans are the creations of Prometheus. Not only that, but Epimetheus bestowed traits upon the animals to help them survive. Epimetheus is their god, not Zeus.

Why, then, did Epimetheus not command Aetos to stop? Not to lay a claw on his brother?

As I've said before, when Prometheus was punished, Epimetheus was in the unenviable position of helping and protecting humanity in his brother's place, when the gods - Zeus in particular - were dead set on harming them. Epimetheus was the only thing standing between humanity and the gods who wanted to subjugate them. If he defied Zeus's will, he would incur his wrath, and humanity would suffer. Prometheus was suffering daily agony to ensure their safety. Epimetheus could do nothing but accept what he was given.

I think Aetos "came around" when Epimetheus - its creator - exercised his own will, breaking Zeus's dominion over the bird. And that would only happen after Pandora opened her box.

The drive and rage in Aetos's blue eyes make me think that this is Epimetheus's influence. Epimetheus, who may not be in a condition to fight himself, is fighting by his brother's side through Aetos.

GET HER AETOS.

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Waiting the next Hades update, and I’ve got to say your essay posts about Epimetheus are a joy to read! Really got me rooting for him to show (or at least be mention!) in the game.

Thank you very much! :) It is one of my current obsessions at the moment lol. Brought me right back to an old cassette retelling of the Pandora myth that I really love, got me back into my Greek Myth Nerd Phase again actually!

I'm trying (and failing) not to get too attached to my interpretation of Epimetheus. I'm sure Supergiant will do a fantastic job, as they always do, with his character.

I was very hyped to hear Prometheus reference him in a line of dialogue as the "scatter-minded one". I'm probably reading too much into the voice actor's delivery, but the slight pause before he says it gives a sense of suppressed emotion. He had to think for a minute and choose his words. Or maybe thinking about Epimetheus gets him more worked up than the others. Which, given everything, would make sense.

I believe that Mel is wrong (she is wrong about many things) that Prometheus hates his brothers/family, though he does not correct her when she makes that comment. Prometheus is clearly feeding her bits and pieces of information, enough for her to chew on and make her own mind about.

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if demon yoriichi and kokushibo existed side by side, i imagine he would be a brat and have a new sense of pride. He would let out those bottled up emotions he probably felt when he was human. I don't think he'd talk much to anyone except kokushibo (whom he'd be bratty and menacing to). but then i can also see him still have some kinda love for kokushibo? like he'd say some uncalled for things then the next thing you know he's being gentle.

overall idk what are your thoughts?

Hmm. Possibly. Though Yoriichi from a young age showed extraordinary maturity and empathy, and I don't think he would lose that just because he grew up with his brother in this hypothetical scenario. He also had exactly zero interest in fighting, and barely wanted to speak about it at all.

If anything, I could see Kokushibo blowing a fuse and separating from Yoriichi much earlier than he did in the canon timeline, simply because Yoriichi would not change, no matter how badly he wanted him to. That is the tragedy of their relationship. Yoriichi just loved his brother. Kokushibou could not do the same because he was too concerned with concepts like strength and legacy.

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I love your douma analysis pls do more

Thank you! That's very kind of you :)

To be honest, I feel like I've said all I can say for his character. Maybe I'll think of something new in the future and write about it, but right now I think I've rambled enough lol.

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hey! you keeping up w blue exorcist?

Hi there, sorry for taking so long to reply! Finally getting round to tackling my inbox.

Like a lot of manga I used to follow very closely, I go through spates of obsession, but generally drift in and out.

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Heimdall study

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Another Epimetheus thought. People might blame him for accepting the "gift" of Pandora from the gods after his brother explicitly warned him not to, but when you stop to think about it, what choice did he have?

Either 1) Reject Pandora, piss off the gods and have them take out their anger on mortalkind with extreme prejudice themselves, or have Pandora open the box right then and there and do the job for them.

Or 2) Accept Pandora, treat her with love and kindness, and maybe, just maybe, she will never open the box, because she loves him, and she would not betray him.

Except THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THE GODS MADE HER FOR. SHE WAS COMPELLED TO OPEN THAT BOX NO MATTER WHAT.

Pandora could fight it all she wants, but the will of Zeus is inescapable, and she was going to open the box at some point. She was created for the sole purpose of destroying Prometheus’s legacy, keeping the mortals he had fought so hard for squarely under his divine boot. It was never a question of "if".

Epimetheus was fucked no matter what, but Option 2 gave him the illusion of choice, the false hope that things could play out differently.

All this thinking makes me think that Prometheus is referring to his brother when he refers to the person whose "troubles he means to save". Epimetheus has to be so psychologically damaged, and I think Prometheus understands this now, presuming he didn't at the time, and he wants to spare his brother more torment by taking on the gods alone (in true Prometheus fashion).

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I just had a horrible, angsty thought about Epimetheus again.

Prometheus is credited with the creation of mankind from clay, and Epimetheus made the animals.

Epimetheus was also given the special task - BY ZEUS - of distributing traits, bestowed from the gods, to animals and mortalkind. Likely due to a bit of creator's bias, Epimetheus started with animals first. He gave them strength, speed, fur, claws...all the tools they needed to survive.

Much later, when Zeus wanted to punish Prometheus for his theft, he sent the eagle Aetos to torture him every single day.

Aetos had a beak and claws and feathers to fly with because Epimetheus gave them to it.

Zeus sent one of Epimetheus's creations to ritualistically maim his own brother using the gifts Epimetheus gave it, forever.

EPIMETHEUS UNKNOWINGLY MADE HIS OWN BROTHER'S TORTURE DEVICE.

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there's just something about Gale and lightning...

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“Ready and willing”

Tested a new pack of brushes and who else to sketch if not our wicked?

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might be a little obsessed with my bard tav