#— enyo rambles

[antimatterz]

so i met daman mills today ( blade en va ) and he was so nice ??? like, i thought it was just a quick signing but apparently it was a whole ass meet n greet so i got to talk to him and he was so sweeet !!! really nice n easy to talk to ( i was so nervous beforehand hhh ) but it just melted away when we started talking. and !!! i got a signed blade print and he tried to pronounce my name ( which is pretty hard for foreigners ) and he actually managed really well ? he also did a few lines in bladie's voice :> all with all it was such a cool experience and i had a blast <333

[switchthedragon]

crappy sketch of a new oc-

basic stuff about it included lol

[deathlessathanasia]

There are many… shall we say, Greek mythology headcanons that keep being passed off as fact despite having (to the best of my knowledge at least) no (or minimal, maybe if you squint and are motivated to see it) evidence supporting them in ancient sources, or if they are supported by a particular source people never bother citing it. These are a few of them in no particular order. If anyone knows of a legitimate source for any of these do let me know!

Persephone's original name was Kore;

Hestia gave up her place among the 12 Olympians for Dionysos;

The birth order of Kronos and Rhea's children is Hestia-Hades-Demeter-Poseidon-Hera-Zeus;

Zeus served as Kronos's cupbearer;

Thanatos and Makaria are a married couple;

Ares and Aphrodite have a daughter named Adrestia;

Hephaistos demanded Aphrodite be given to him in exchange for freeing Hera from the golden throne;

Ares and Aphrodite were a couple before she became the wife of Hephaistos;

Hera was an aspiring eternal virgin like Hestia, Artemis and Athena;

Hera rejected multiple marriage proposals from Zeus + she was hesitant to marry him because of his promiscuity;

Enyo is the daughter of Zeus and Hera;

Zeus removed Poseidon and Apollo's divinity when they worked for Laomedon (granted this idea does appear in one of the Vatican Mythographers but, like, does that really count? + Apollo was made mortal while serving Admetos);

Medusa was Athena's priestess;

Hera was the one who changed Tiresias' sex when he attacked the copulating snakes;

Hestia was the only Olympian not to participate in the (attempted) binding of Zeus;

After rebelling against Zeus, Hera was forced to swear to never do it again and that is why she targets the women he sleeps with and the children he has with them instead of him directly;

Titans and gods are different species;

Titans are bigger than the Olympian gods;

Hades was tricked into becoming the ruler of the Underworld because Zeus cheated during the division of the cosmos;

Ares is portrayed negatively in the myths because he was the patron god of Sparta and the Athenians hated him for it;

Hephaistos is disabled because he is a product of parthenogenesis;

[badtakesandbascinets]

And sometimes you stay up way too late for several days in a row trying to determine if there is a link between two figures and the answer is a resounding maybe. I hate this field so much I never want to leave.

I've been hanging out in the Greek mythology sphere for a while and I learned 2 things:

The more you learn about the myths and its many versions and analyses, the more you'll realize just how little you actually know. What you know before may not even be relevant anymore. There are always more to learn.

I can never enter the classics and mythology field because I can easily explode from being overwhelmed (I am currently on the verge to explode and I hope it won't happen)

[corneroftales]

Also still talking about the MHA campaign, my character has canonically ordered from an online store custom made plushies for the whole party + the three NPCs that they really care about, but it’s only gonna arrive after we leave the lave we’re in…..and Yara is not getting out of there alive…..

But yeah, I’m drawing over ten reversible octopus plushies designed after the party that are gonna become emotes on our campaing server

[wyked-original-writing]

Moros intro

Name: Moros Enyo Anordú

Nickname: destruction

Age: 26

Sex: male

Appearance:

Occupation: assassin

Family members: sister

Way of speaking: carefully as he likes to gather information while only sharing the littlest tidbit in return.

Physical characteristics (posture, gestures, attitude): blends into the shadow or commands attention no in-between. It depends on what the mission takes.

Items in his/her back pocket/ purse: blade.

Hobbies: cooking and studying maps. Especially the ones made by the masters family

Abilities/Talents/Powers: trained assassin and has knights training as well.

Relationships (how he/she is with other people): seems friendly but is analyzing every movment in a room for escape and or murder if things go south.

Fears: being imprisoned away from his sister

Faults: Will follow orders that he hates

Good points: loyal

What he/she wants more than anything else: To not have to watch his back twenty four seven and perhaps for his sister to be happy.

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[atdutiesend]

Enyo beamed, closing their eyes and tilting their head back, one hand touching their mask until... There it was. Bright and hot as a beacon, even against the brilliant, overwhelming glare of Amaurot. They let the hand drop, offering it instead to their daughter.

"Thesprotia. It's where I grew up, almost from your age. My mama and mum didn't do a very good job with me, you see, so I went to stay with... I always called him my uncle, but nobody is sure if he or Auntie Venat is older, and he isn't saying. Anyways, Phobos runs Thesprotia and has as long as anyone remembers, and he makes sure the public gardens are beautiful. It's very peaceful there, most parents who aren't of the Words of Emet-Selch tend to think it's terribly gauche and morbid."

For once, they're mostly staying on the right route.

Continued from here

@atdutiesend

Enyo was more than aware, remembering well how miserable schooling had been before they'd made their precious friends. They knew better than most, too, how trying to force it would only make their darling daughter miserable. Far better, in their mind, that Hadianna know beyond a shadow of a doubt her parents would always support her, than feel she would be left at the mercy of her peers. One hand rested protectively on the little one's head as they smiled softly.

"Of course, sweetling. Or, if you can help Mama keep track of time, we can go on a little trip - there's a very beautiful place that isn't too far, and isn't likely to be crowded." Those who weren't aching with the loss of a friend or loved one rarely visited Thesprotia, and Hadi was likely to appreciate the beauty of the public gardens.

" I can try and help." Hadianna stated as she looked at her mother. She could have been better with time too, but at least she didn't get lost. That was at least a plus. " Where are we gonna go?"

[elshells]

WIP Filenames Tag

Thank you so much for the tag, @writernopal! Check out her post here.

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

I basically went through my entire Google drive, and what a nostalgia trip! Some of these are currently in progress, some are long abandoned, and some I have no memory of ever creating. So this was a lot of fun! Feel free to ask me about any of these if you'd like!

AA - SOPHIA

AA - HARLEY

Encore

The Opus Society

EMBR of the Earth

Halfway House

Pandora’s Box

I Miss You with No Response

Homebody

Sea Urchin

Alley Cat

Lionhead

Witches

Water Nymphs

The Hunter’s Legacy

DRAGONS

A Murder of Crows

Codex

Enyo and Thaedhel

The Other Side

Olly Olly Oxen Free

The Treasure of Faringray Manor

Aveline

The Hunts of Piper Field

Wayward Girl

That is TWENTY-FIVE files, and unfortunately, I do not know twenty-five people on Tumblr. Oops XD

Welp, I'll do my best! Tagging @dragonedged-if, @princessw0lf, @ryns-ramblings, @mariahwritesstuff, @e-klair, and @bitchin-beskar, plus anyone else who wishes to do this! Absolutely no pressure, of course, and apologies if anyone I tagged has already done this!

[atdutiesend]

{ updated group shard photos! }

First up we have Dove and Enyo, with Rubicante, Vallaria, and Nhaama! Enyo is very proud of their shards. Probably could have added Severus and I might go back and do a redux later, but it's past bedtime now so... not tonight.

Vallaria is Dove's shard from the First and in their timeline replaces Ardbert [in shared verses, she's one of Ardbert's companions]. Nhaama is from the... second astral era? I think. It's been a minute. She died while on a hunting trip, and Emet-Selch stole her body, creating the early heroic tales that morphed into the modern goddess.

And then we have Grim, with Evander and Scarmiglione, and The Husband, Diodore, Chrysanthos, and Phobos. He'd say his shards grew like weeds [complimentary].

Actual au info for Husbun coming up later, I'm working on it. It's rambly. Short version, he's from the same timeline as the Exarch and was sent to the First, first, to create a beacon for the tower to latch onto. Unfortunately, someone added an extra zero, and he ended up in the time of Ronka instead. Normally he keeps a glamour up on his hair to hide that he's gone grey.

Diodore is Grim's counterpart from the First - the Husband's soul merged with his before he was born, so there's no real sign of this except for his magic being notably more powerful than most.

Chrysanthos is from Allag, and formed the foundation of "I am allergic to responsibility" that Evander inherited.

[f0xgl0v3]

Ares in Pjo/maybe Hc/ I just ramble

Might possibly make a Ares post to add to the new episode dropping tomorrow because hehehehehehe Ares :3.

Never mind I’m talking about Ares now. Glad to make a longer post :3

I… have my thoughts about him and how he’s portrayed in Pjo (seriously what happened my dudes-?) blah blah blah I’m not quite qualified to yap about it because I’m not a super cool mythology classics trained interpreter or whatever but I am a person on the internet with a surface level idea on Greek Mythology.

First off, would like to say. Biker Ares is such a silly concept that is so fun. I never thought about him in biker concept when going modern; I personally would’ve immediately gone to a punk leaning or shifted him to a more rocker (though all of those communities have pretty cool overlap). But I always sat there thinking about Ares and got the image of punk.

But, I can say- sleazy Ares, now with more info about actual mythos. It’s. A choice. Like Hera (who also had a thing happen to her that I personally don’t like becusdbeisnfianfjedj I really like Hera) but Ares- uh, dude is like historically loves his girlfriend, his kids, and his mom. My man would not be as.. icky to his kids (what was even going on during SoM?) and totally would’ve.. cared more about them? Or be shown to have more explicit worry and concern and pride in them (thinking of that one daughter he had and the son mentioned in the Iliad)? But again might just be my read on it. Of course there’s stuff I love about it, he’s totally ravenous, totally embodies that war spirit that I think of him as (if anyone wants my take I really feel like between all the war deities I know, Athena is the general/high ranking militaries god, Ares is the soldiers god, Enyo is that battle frenzy bloodlust we’d associate with Ares, etc,etc). While also being caring.

When I talk about these Gods in Pjo I think of them and how my brain characterizes them in, their sort of more myth based part, the varying versions of themselves’s from their ‘forms’ in other regions. I still have them in my re-imagined Olympus staying on Olympus, but Gods still somewhat reflect their realms/domains.

Ares somewhat holds qualities of all the bad things of modern war, while also our modern look on wars of the past (specifically like, pre-civil war) and our view on them. Along with his myth alignment, and somewhat taking little bits from other forms.

Also he is a mother’s boy. No idea if it’s canon but I say it’s canon, he loves Hera :3 and his girlfriend. (Whenever I write about Aphrodite along with bringing up that war form of her I’d also like to say that I’m fully supporting the eye beauty of beholder appearance shift). He checks in on his kids much more frequently, whether inadvertently or very obviously (we see him offer the core trio practically McDonald’s and giving Clarisse the boat thing, and calling her).

Okay I’m very tired and I don’t know what I wrote because all of this is like almost midnight for me so uhhh. Maybe I’ll have more brain thoughts at some other point.

Also my room is so grossly warm, I live in a colder area but my room is at sub-tropical temps due to my snake (who I love dearly, his name is Wilbur) but I swear I have to open my window not to overheat constantly, while I’ve adjusted to the heat In the room that everywhere else in the house is cold :[

Okay goodnight.

[antimatterz]

anyone want to become moots? i want more friends on here but i'm sooo socially awkward help

[pandora-whowalksbetween]

Belphegor: no humans allowed

Enyo: *calls Lucifer a boomer*

Belphegor: ... one human allowed

[deathlessathanasia]

"Accounts of Enyo differ: for some she is the mother of Ares, some his daughter, some his nurse." (Cornutus, Compendium of Greek Theology)

[mst3kproject]

The Thrill Killers

In case you’ve forgotten, Ray Dennis Steckler from MUZ made more movies that starred himself under the name ‘Cash Flagg’, which is right up there with ‘Touch Connors’ on the list of Stage Names People Probably Cringed Over Later In Life.  The Thrill Killers also features a number of other people who were in MUZ, including Atlas King (the foreigny guy), Erina Enyo (Estrella), and Carolyn Brandt (Marge). It’s also got Gary Kent, who was never on MST3K but did do stunts on Bubba Ho-Tep, so that’s neat.  Almost all of these people are playing characters with the same first name as themselves, which seems to suggest the writers weren't feeling very creative.

A narrator introduces us to Joe Saxon, a guy attempting to schmooze his way into the movie business by throwing incredibly lame parties and inviting Hollywood bigwigs.  This doesn't seem to be impressing anybody, and certainly not Joe's wife Liz, who soon gets fed up and decides to leave him.  When Joe follows in the hope of winning her back, their paths cross with those of three escaped mental patients, who have been murdering their way through a bunch of NPCs as they head for who-knows-where.  From there, it's just twenty minutes of bongos, people running around in the desert, and disorganized shootouts.

The narrator is only in the first five or six minutes, which is a shame, because during that time he rambles in a way that's almost as mesmerizingly incoherent as in The Beast of Yucca Flats. He even has a similar favourite word!  Instead of 'progress', this is 'unreality', as he tells us that Joe is living in a fantasy of future stardom while the real world is fast catching up with him.  I was very disappointed when the movie traded the Narrator for actual dialogue.  He was my second-favourite character (my favourite was the horse).

The narrator also introduces Dennis Kesdekian, a Greek immigrant with a family to support.  In contrast with Joe, Dennis is a realist, who intends to work hard and build a life for his children in America. The setup leads us to expect that the two men will meet and their worldviews clash over the course of the story, but it's a trick – moments later, Dennis is murdered by Steckler, who steals his car and leaves his corpse at the side of the road.  This once, it's actually kind of effective, but our lesson has been learned: the movie only wants us to like these people so we can be shocked when they die, and we're not going to fall for it again.

It doesn't help that the next people who crop up are obvious Designated Victims – a couple, Ron and Carol, who are on their way to look at the house they're buying in anticipation of their upcoming wedding. If that weren't enough, the house is a dilapidated wreck and Ron has to cheer Carol up by talking about how they'll renovate it as they wander around looking for the owner they were supposed to meet. Between the ominous surroundings and the couple looking forward to a bright future, these two are definitely going to die.

And they do... but man, do they take a long time about it.  It's respectable as an attempt to build suspense but everything goes on just a little too long before they find the escaped murderers and the previous owner's rubbery severed head, and then a little too long again after. There was a moment in there when I thought Carol might survive and escape, but again, it's a trick the movie plays on us, and she finally dies as well.

This is pretty standard behaviour for a slasher movie, but for some reason it pisses me off here.  I think it's because it actually worked so well in the opening.  The death of Dennis really was a surprise, but it also made me cynical.  The Thrill Killers clearly doesn't care about its characters or their stories, it just wants to show me violence.  When it later pretends that Carol might escape, it's only so that it can show me more violence, as the three murderers chase her, capture her, and lose her again, threaten her with guns, knives, and an axe, and as she screams and sobs and pleads for her life.

To nobody's surprise, most of this drawn-out torment is visited upon the women in the movie.  Ron's end is delayed a little, but that's mostly to further abuse poor Carol – his actual death is swift, as he is beheaded.  Another victim, a dancer, is teased and beaten up before finally being stabbed to death with a pair of scissors.  Joe's wife Liz is chased around the desert by a knife-wielding maniac at ridiculous length, and when she finally manages to flag down a car it turns out things have only gotten worse, as the driver is another murderer! Her prolonged terror was so similar to Carol's that I was actually astonished she survived.

Other than Ron, when men die in this movie, they do so quickly and with no fuss.  Dennis at the beginning is shot and dies at once.  One of the escaped murderers drinks strychnine-laced coffee and immediately collapses, which I don't think is how poison works (Wikipedia bore me out on this: even strychnine takes at least ten minutes).  Another is thrown off a cliff using the classic 'toss a cloth dummy over the edge' technique, which is always hugely unconvincing but often, as here, very funny.  A third is shot by a policeman after a long horse chase.

We've arrived at the horse!  Ray Dennis Steckler rides through the desert on a horse being chased by a cop on a motorcycle, with the terrain and the vegetation always giving just enough of an advantage for Steckler to stay ahead.  This is a cool idea but it goes on way too long, and the sequence is designed to feel very different from the torturous chases of Carol and Liz.  The women's escape almost always seems hopeless, and they have no weapon to fight back against their pursuers.  All they can do is run, on their feet, in high heels. Steckler has a horse and a gun.  He shoots several of the cops before they finally catch him, which only happens after he's been forced to abandon both mount and weapon.  Where Carol and Liz were always helpless, Steckler is in a position of power even when he is desperate and running for his life.

The horse chase is easily the funniest part of the movie, though.  It comes out of nowhere, for one thing – Steckler drives his car into a clearing where there's this guy in a cowboy hat sitting by a campfire.  We've never seen this dude before, and we never find out anything about him (although after the previous attempts to make me care about characters who are only going to die, I'm kind of grateful).  Steckler shoots him, takes his hat, and then gets the horse.  We have no reason to believe this character has ever been on a horse in his life, but the stunt rider they used clearly knows what he's doing... so I choose to believe that stealing the hat magically gave Steckler the ability to ride a horse!  Then there's the end of the sequence, when they get into terrain that can only be traversed on foot.  Steckler abandons the horse and runs off... and the camera lingers on the animal a little as it seems to stand there going, wait, wtf just happened?

While the beginning of the movie tries to set up a theme of the fantasy of success (delivered from heaven to solve all your problems) versus the reality (hard fucking work), and then shot itself in the foot by shooting Dennis in the chest... the ending manages to be even worse.  After all this stress and danger, Joe has decided to give up acting and get a real job, and Liz delightedly takes him back.  Then, however, a producer phones to offer him a part – ten weeks' work at five thousand dollars per week!  I have no idea how much this was in 1965 but I sure don't make five thousand dollars per week.  He happily accepts, and Liz also seems thrilled, so I guess the moral of the story is that if you 'earn' them by going through some harrowing shit, your dreams really will just fall into your lap.

Beyond that, the movie doesn't even really try to have a 'theme' unless you count the inevitable 'mentally ill people are scary and dangerous and need to be locked up so the rest of us can pretend they don't exist'. It just wants to show us horrible things happening to people who really don't deserve it.  The only character who might have deserved any of this was Joe, who was neglecting his relationships and chasing an impossible dream... he could have used a good slap about the head from the wet haddock of reality.  But Joe not only survives, he gets his dream just handed to him in the denouement, when he was literal days away from actually trying to get his shit together!

This actually seems to harken back to something from MUZ, a movie which gets a Bert-I-Gordon-esque self-plug from The Thrill Killers in the form of a poster on a diner wall.  In that movie, Steckler's character Jerry didn't want to work – he wanted to just "enjoy life". In The Thrill Killers, Joe wants to be a movie star and insists on living the Hollywood lifestyle even when he can't afford it.  I know I'm not qualified to armchair psychoanalyze these people but here I'm tempted again.  When Steckler's movies feature characters who want to be rich and famous without having to work for it... is he talking about himself and his own hopes for his movie career?

If so, I hate to tell you this, dude... but the reason you failed is because your movies suck.

[corneroftales]

Playing a campaign set on the MHA world is all fun and games until you and the GM plan to fucking kill your character in a way that’s gonna leave the whole party devastated….ANYWAY I love Yara my little Brazilian vigilante in Japan causing chaos

[mimssides]

Tibits from my Superpower Family AU

It will be a fun thing when Patton goes shopping with the kids and "Jake" wants to wear a skirt and Patton gets him one, like: "What colour do you want Jake?"

Orange: "Jake's a stupid name."

Pat: "Oh, did I choose a bad name for you?"

Orange: "Yeah. It was a stupid choice."

Pat: "Alright. What would be better then?"

Orange: Nemesis.

Pat: Uhm.

Orange: Persephone, has a cool meaning like bringer of death but pepole make that to Penny so that's stupid.

Pat: ... uh...

Orange: Minerva is also nice, but a bit too passive for a war goddess you know?

Pat just nods at this point.

Orange: Bellona would be nice but it sounds like belle and that's stupid.

Remus over-hearing the conversation: What about Enyo? That's her Greek equivalent. She helped Ares and Athena at the battle of Troja.

Orange: :D

Orange: I like it! Pat can I have that one?

Pat (had a similar talk with Remus when he chose his name): ... sure. Why not?

(Courtesy of my discord rambles)