#— 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

[artificialharmony]

No but the fact that Paul Mescal is the same age as me just doesn't compute in my head, like sir why do you look like a 35 year old father while I just got asked for my ID to buy beer at the supermarket, we are both 28 what do you mean 😭

[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)

[wyked-original-writing]

V day kiss master post

This will link to each of the snippets I wrote and have warnings here

Oisìn/ Daimhín ( spoilers for book three)

Silent Jack/Kenny (No spoilers)

Jade/ Galen (super low spoiler level)

Braith/ Morana ( implied violence, possible gore)

Amon/ Oscar (spoilers, misunderstanding, first kiss/stolen kiss, might be considered dubious consent.)

Nimue/ Davy (light spoilers)

Taz/ Moros (heavy spoilers, near death, and connects to Heather and Enyo)

Heather/Enyo (light spoilers, way less then Taz/Moros. Light violence.)

Alex/ Antim (this will give insight into background events in book three but overall not really spoilers as at the moment I don't plan to go into this to much..just showing the progress they make.)

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[aliciavance4228]

Sorry about that. I didn't wanna write a massive text wall so i just did a short version but i see now its very confusing. So please bear with me. First of the definition of chtonic deities is extremly blurry. "The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion" from Arthur Fairbanks explains that or at least tries to. Not just underworld gods get to qualified under that term also olympian gods like Apollo and artemis can get called as such. So its irrelevant who their parents are or if they are at home in the underworld. A theme of chtonic gods is that they work as benefactor and harmer at the same time. Like they can help you to get what you want but you have to sacrifice for it. Ares fits that theme. He gives you strength in war but doesn't guarantee that you survive.

"Ares as chtonic deity in classical sources" on roderic.uv analyses the theory, but you need an account to read it.

"Aspis of Ares" compares the similarities between ares and hekate (i would take that one with a grain of salt as its an online-blog)

I think "War and the Warrior: Functions of Ares in Literature and Cult" mentioned the theory the first time but i'm not sure.

As for the ares/nyx lover myth, its probably a oral myth like the myth that priapos was ares trainer which was an oral tradition in boetia but i'm not certain.

When i wrote "vibe" it was an awkward formulation. Thats on me. What i meant he is pretty similar to underworld deities. With domains like death, misery and vengance he fits right in with violence, bloodthirst and rage. Its the same with phobos and deimos. Fear and terror fit more in the underworld than on olympus.

To the parentage of certain deities: parentage in Greek mythology is a mess. With every author or old text the parents of a god change. Its as if the writers back than played darts blindfolded and depending on which names where hit the parentage was determined.

I prefer hesoids family tree where eris is nyx daughter. The parallel that both have multiple children on their own without fathers and that she just gets named as zeus and heras daughter only in the ilias solidifies that for me.

Kydoimos is part of the makhai daimons of war. They are eris children so he has a parent.

Polemos has no parents as you said, many minor deities and daimones dont. But in the pindar he gets named as father of alala who is also one of the makhai which condradicts that eris bore all of her kids alone. But the real kicker is that the suda names him as the father of phobos and deimos, which gives him a very special link/relation(?) to ares, but that would be a completly different post.

Sorry rambled there quite a bit of theme.

Anyway what i wanted to say was: in the end the mythological lineage or homestead of a deity doesnt automaticly disqualify them as chtonic and Ares shares similarities with certain chtonic deities.

I think i got most covered what i wanted to say but maby i forgot something. Thank you for answering. Sorry if this text wall is so confusing.

Last thing to add: it really irritates me that there is no clear parentage of enyo

Thanks for this ask! It actually makes much more sense now and I can see why would someone consider Ares a "chthonic" deity.

[number1-hera-defender]

Eris talks about her dad with Ganymede

"He wasn't always like this. Zeus, I mean." She says softly, almost like she's afraid of someone hearing. Ganymede didn't know what to say, so he silently waited for her to continue.

"When me and Enyo couldn't sleep, he'd sing us a lullaby, when Ares would get into fights he'd be the first to defend him beside my mother." Eris laughed, though it was bitter. "But all of the changed when Leto appeared. He was suddenly distant, like he didn't care about us." Eris rambled, "then Apollo and Artemis appeared. I'm not blaming them but..." "It's okay, I get what you mean." Ganymede nodded solemnly, "you know it's not their fault but you can't help but be mad." "Yeah... Apollo and Artemis were nice, but it was awkward and for the longest me and Ares were just straight up dicks about it, and it wasn't like they did anything." Eris sniffed as she started to cry.

[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.

[antimatterz]

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

[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.

[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)

[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]

My writing master post will be updated frequently

Tags so far #tpcg for the series #tpkodr for book one #tpcp for book two and #snippet for writing shares #tpmb for Jack and Kenny's short story

Information about the books and book links

book one TPKODR here

Book 1.5 TPMB post about where to find it

Lore of the world and places along with creatures

Haunted sea, haunted seas part two , Bioluminescence sea, Merfolk , spirit fae, earth fae, fire fae, water/sirens fae, air fae. The shadow realm

God intros

The first spirit solace , Nereza

Charter intros

Amon Rùn, Adoh Stone, Morana Blank, Braith Blank, Daimhín Heorot , Oisìn Mallory , Silent Jack , Kenny Silvain , Mal , Taz , Galen, Prince Jade

, Moros, Enyo

Villain intros

Queen kia, pirate king Cutthroat, Nereza( can be found in the gods section)

Random fact's

Soulmates , story tour tag , Pinterest board I crafted,

Vday kiss event (has links to snippets)

Other original writing by me posted

The Christmas ghost

Mall Santa turned ghost still playing the part of santa will he get help to cross over or will he be this Mall's Santa forever?

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