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the debate between whether to back-to-back memory chapters.
like.
there's a cutting off point. a separation point.
(a turning point where beyond this point it's got to stay together.)
but also this is intended to be one whole. sequence.
so i'm just staring at this like.
the thing is that because of how memory chapters are set up, it feels long, too. because for every memory, there's something else happening, too - and it's longer in this chapter than it has been in other memory chapters (because junko and ryoko are using the mechanics in a way that kyoko didn't), so it is just.
it is a long chapter that feels long.
and that...is not great.
so i think i'm going to put a chapter break??? at that point and then make that decision later, but for now, i want to try and keep it as one whole thing.
i just think that it's gonna end up hitting 7k or more, which is way longer than i want a chapter in this duology to be. ><;;;;;;
#musings#bandit writes fic#dr1 end rewrite fic#and yes sometimes chapters are going to be long#some chapters are going to be longer than others#but also like#it /can be a choice/#like /intentionally this chapter is long/#and if this is the middle point of the fic then having that be a longer chapter as a turning point also makes sense#but i'm not sure this is the middle of the fic#there is so much left#there are so many things ryoko still needs to remember#and i haven't even gone back to kyoko yet#and i /do not like/ that i'm /nearly 55k in/ and /don't feel halfway/#i just#i'm not padding it i'm not#i feel like i'm actually missing a lot of important stuff#but it's so much bigger than i thought it would be and so much bigger than oaei#and that's the harder thing that like#...gonna make another post for this
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i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism
(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)
#literally please be so so so fucking niceys to her i am so nervous about this for no reason#it's literally fine it's gonna be perfectly functional. I Am Going To Lose My Mind#i can always make another post if it gets fucked up somehow... i can always make another post...#anyway. hi. this is aromanticism. i made her for class. and then revised her for class. and now she's like my child#losing my miiiiiiiind#poetry#kind of like a uquiz too. to be honest haha#except i can make you read more somehow (long questions instead of long answers)#it's a little choose your own adventure......#poem#poems#poets on tumblr#poems and poetry#poetsandwriters#poems about aromanticism#aromantic#aro poet#aro poetry#aro#aromanticism#aroace#arospec#aspec#itch.io#GOD OKAY I'M JUST POSTING IT.
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9-1-1 | Bobby & Athena ↳ Bobby keeping his arm around Athena
#911#bathena#911edit#911 abc#bobby nash#athena grant nash#you know what? this is better than hand-holding#he loves her so much and he makes it so obvious and i'm so weak#also#the issue with joining a fandom late is that i'm pretty sure that everything has already been done like 50 times#but is someone really gonna complain about another bathena post?? no#if they do they're wrong#there'll be more because i had a different plan but then i got distracted by the arm thing#my gifs
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💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖
For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!
The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^
What's been added to the 3.5 version?
📺 Streamer Mode!
I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.
Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh
This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!
⚙️ Custom Pronouns!
It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;
Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!
💗 Choose how others perceive you!
You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.
For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!
📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!
You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3
Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!
I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;
I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao
📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!
You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!
Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!
I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;
It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)
🖤 Additional Scenes Update!
Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!
If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.
After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga
🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!
I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!
I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.
Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.
How to download and play the update?
(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!) To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!
Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)
Enjoy!!
#14 days with you#14dwy#💖 — 14 days with queue.#🖤 — updates.#🖤 — spoilers.#I'm not gonna say much about my current doxxing situation because I've got it under control now + it's being handled privately#Plus I don't wanna give it/the people involved any unnecessary attention. I just wanna announce the update and Get Back To It™️#(''it'' bein the grind 💪 It never stops lmao /silly)#OG followers will also know that these topics aren't the vibe I normally have on this blog (or any of my accounts); so I don't think I'll—#—make ANOTHER public post about the situation and bring more attention to it (when I just want everything to be over and put to rest ^^;)#However I also don't want people to think that I'm... ignoring?? the situation entirely (because gettin doxxed is a very endangering thing)#So I DO want to quickly acknowledge it here and say that it's all currently handled + I'm safe and okay + this won't stop me from—#—continuing to work on 14DWY (and other future projects). I also don't want to give these awful people more power and incentive to continue#—this kind of pathetic behaviour; so the less attention and encouragement being shown will ultimately be better in the long run :3#Aaaaaanways!! 😮💨#My other accounts will be restored shortly and my askbox will be opened once I feel comfortable. I'll get around to following folks—#—again in my own time; so please don't feel offended if I unfollowed you during a moment of vulnerability and anxiety!!#This is all EXTREMELY overwhelming and scary for someone with SAD/AvPD; and I /gen can't handle seeing it all over my timeline ;v;#Sorry this got ranty and personal again hjdsgjsdh T_T I said I wouldn't say much; so I'll shut up now hehe#🖤 — shut up sai.
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i love how instead of the voices haunting odysseus, for once they’ve come back to support him and help him. it’s encouraging instead of reminding him of all that’s terrible.
polites always says “greet the world with open arms”, reminding ody of how open arms failed him and got his men killed. now it’s changed to “you can relax my friend”, basically telling him to relax and keep pushing forward
eurylochus said “how much longer till your luck runs out”, reminding ody of how his luck did run out, partially because of his own actions. now he says “look at all we’ve lost and all we’ve learned” which (i’m assuming) refers to ody losing all 600 men, and learned the whole idea of ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves.
anticlea says “waiting, waiting” reminding him of just how long he took to get home and how his mother died waiting. now she says “i’ll stay in your heart” giving him the strength he needs to keep pushing forward, someone else to fight for.
instead of the crew singing anything about letting the cyclops live or ody being the reason they die, they instead sing “odysseus. waiting, waiting, waiting” which i interpret as the men waiting for odysseus to make their deaths worth something, to bring them the justice they deserve. because if odysseus dies, the other deaths were for nothing.
ARGHHGH I LOVE THIS MUSICAL <333
#epic the musical#epic the vengeance saga#the vengeance saga#odysseus#epic odysseus#anticlea#epic anticlea#polites#epic polites#eurylochus#epic eurylochus#i’m gonna make another post JUST about polites’ part because i think i have a lot to say about it
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coolmovie watched it 8 times ..
#saltburn#felix catton#oliver quick#cattonquick#jacob elordi#barry keoghan#fanart#my art#was gonna make another blog to post this but im lazy sorry
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uh idk what i should say i just decided to post my toddblack fanart (from 2023 till now) here
enjoy ig :)
this one's supposed to be a reference to that one meme with a girl staring at a man's chest (i hope you can see my vision 😔🙏)
these three are my favorite ESPECIALLY the last one im always scared i draw them too ooc and im kinda happy with how they turned out here !!
yep.
btw i draw them mostly pre canon so they're kinda soft(??) with each other yeah.... and well i love fluff sorry 😔
#that's it for this post#gonna make another one with silly sketches#my art#toddblack#toddblack fanart#not me#not me the series#not me fanart#not me todd#not me black#how else should i tag....
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oh noooo or whatever
bonus aka The Real Motive Behind This:
SURPRISE double bonus. textless ver of the first pic under the cut
#xmen#xmen comics#cherik#professor x#magneto#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#erik magnus lehnsherr#max eisenhardt#snap sketches#guys i drew cherik after walking to the comic shop to see official cherik omg .....#context if needed: in like. issue 17-18 of the og run magneto hijacks the x mansion and sets up The Mental Wave Distorter trap#and unfortunately the second i saw it i knew what i had to do because I Cannot Be Salvaged#tbh this was suppoesd to be moooorrreee 2011 Yaoi Doujin Core but clakjkl i like it like this way i fear#i was gonna put dialogue bubbles for the first pic but like that a lot. even tho i did post a textless ver Bro My Head Hurts#this was also supposed to be quick and thats why its in a limbo of Effort Was Made and I Held Back#because after the sketch i realized i wanted to lock in. sort of 💀 still like it tho !!!!!!#more importantly dont take me to comic shops all ima do is think of ship art to make later !!!!!#on that note tho i did have a silly giggle to myself when i saw the resurrection of magneto#like it was the silliest reaction i felt like a dog jlvkjavlka#i also found another magneto-centered run im excited bout ...... both sets were missing One book so im gonna scream but moving on#uhhhh ok im done here. my heads been hurting all day i hope its nothing serious#whats funny is that i actually planned to draw movie cherik today but alas. plans were changed#theres always tomorrow !!!!!!!!! i love you tomorrow .....#bye bye im going to bed
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they're matching costumes.
#personal headcanon that yomiel never dresses up for halloween because nothing can top the getup he wears on the daily#also my personal belief that sissel and yomiel went into halloween 100% confident in their “costumes” and saw zero problems with them at al#nothing can break the bond between a dead man and his dead cat#this is perhaps the stupidest looking cat ive ever drawn in my life there is ZERO thought going on behind those eyes#jowd is gumshoe because obviously but also it was the only costume he agreed to wear because “he's a detective? i'm a detective.”#lynne is luffy because nigh invincible + looney tunes ahh situations + untamed appetite + i think they'd be friends :)#ghost trick#ghost trick phantom detective#ghost trick spoilers#jowd#lynne#sissel#yomiel#ghost trick sissel#ghost trick lynne#ghost trick jowd#detective jowd#my art#fanart#art#comic#coloredart#halloween 2024#at this point im just not putting a signature or watermark because i like how the final products look cleaner without#but don’t repost or you're gonna be the one without a good costume next#every year i fulfill my ghost trick post quota (1) by making the unfunniest joke known to mankind and releasing it on halloween#ignore yomiel's veiny ass hands it's just another personal hc
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FYI:
sudo shutdown now: Shut down immediately.
for i in $(seq 1000); do yes & done: Open 1000 "yes" process at the background. Each of them alone can throttle your CPU usage at 100%.
:(){ :|:& };:: Fork bomb, eats all your resources.
sudo rm -rf /: Erase the system and all your disks.
Don't run any of this if you don't know what you're doing.
#i just think it would be funny if v1 hijacks gabriel's shell when he does maintainence#i was originally gonna put the command prompt only but that gave too little context so im just gonna yoink my art from previous post lol#i do have another similar idea that i may draw tho#to put it more precisely its more like a revisit to the previous post's idea#why do i keep making gabriel a cs engineer wtf#anyway for now enjoy a little bit of cs joke#(on second thought this is really not that funny)#ultrakill
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a list of palestinians who have reached out to me because tumblr seems to favor these types of posts (red= under 10% funded, orange= under 40% funded, pink= around halfway funded, blue= over 60% funded)
UPDATED NOV 2
35% @abedallhferwanagaza (and wife @olagaza) - vetted - gfm link €13,255 / €35,000
6% @abeerashraf91 - vetted (#79) - gfm link €3,165 / €50,000
2% @ahmedabuzuorfamily - vetted (#16) - gfm link €594 / €30,000
37% @ahmedziad - vetted (1, 2) - gfm link £11,019 / £30,000
4% @alimeq92 - vetted (#54) - gfm link €3,085 / €70,000
77.2% @aseelo680 - vetted - gfm link $77,278 / $100,000 (met and raised!)
61% @asmaayyad (and sister sama) - vetted (#43) - gfm link €27,465 / €45,000
11% @farahmohanad2 - vetted (#42) - gfm link $4,074 / $35,000
66% @fidaa-family2 - vetted - gfm link $79,391 / $120,000 (met and raised!)
19% @hadiah1111 - vetted - gfm link €9,290 / €50,000
76.3% @ibrahimsworld - vetted (#25) - gfm link €7,629 / €10,000
25% @khalid-sisters - vetted - gfm link $6,303 / $25,000 (goal raised by 10k)
7.4% @mariam-gaza - vetted - gfm link $1,487 / $20,000 gfm link missing
3% @maysaayahya85 - vetted - gfm link €1,152 / €35,000
22% @monagaza1 - vetted (#164) - gfm link $20,087 / $92,000
16% @mones1998gaza - vetted (#64) - gfm link $3,254 / $20,000
36% @nisreensuhail (as well as her family members) - vetted (1, 2 [#75]) - gfm link €17,822 / €50,000
95% @noorabd-1992 - vetted - gfm link $42,650 / $45,000 (so close!!!)
64% @omargaze2 - vetted - gfm link £12,851 / £20,000 goal
3% @samialkhalili - vetted (#21) - gfm link €901 / €30,000 (goal lowered by 20k)
19% @savemohammed - vetted (#57) - gfm link €3,899 / €20,000
38% @shamfarhat1 - vetted (#248) - gfm link $11,235 / $29,500
7% @shamraed - vetted (#8) - gfm link €2,304 / €35,000
1.7% @shery-89 - vetted - gfm link €871 / €50,000 gfm link missing
83% @wafaaresh6 - vetted - gfm link $70,415 / $85,000 (met and raised!)
#i'm gonna make another post like this soon hopefully#life is really busy rn#free palestine#from the river to the sea#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#palestine#gaza#gaza strip#gazaunderattack#gaza under attack
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🌊🌊🌊🌊
#i made another set of edits and nearly all of them are about loop fjdkhfd guys i may have a favorite character#gonna have to go make another set so i'm not just posting eight loops in a row (watch the next set also be all loops)#in stars and time#isat siffrin#isat loop#isat#siffrin#loop#silverstarsedits#siffrin & loop
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house is always very adamant about being the smartest person in the room, the one who can think in ways and find answers that others can’t.
people rarely dare to say, even as a joke, that they’re more intelligent than house, because he’s so obviously brilliant that it would just seem wrong. if they do, house tends to roll his eyes and ignore it.
but then, when wilson bests house in the stupidest games or prank wars, and cheekily declares that he’s the smart one, house just looks at him with the most adoring smile. like it’s such a soft and sweet look. tooth-rotting. he is so, so in love, oh my god.
#they are sickly sweet#gonna make another post soon about the context in which wilson gives house these same looks#hilson#hugh laurie#robert sean leonard#rsl#gregory house#james wilson#house md#hate crimes md#starlightseraph’s brainrot
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04/14/2024
‼️needed TODAY‼️
Hey yall, my partner needs their medication, without it they're susceptible to seizures, nausea bouts of chronic pain that leave them unable to function
I recently got employed as of last week (yay) but they pay bi weekly so I'm not getting anything until the 23rd, hopefully I won't have to keep doing this for much longer but they can't go another week with no relief, anything helps!!
$150 needed
CA: $lezsalt or $sleepyhen
VM: wildwotko
DM 4 PP
#sorry we are poor#anything helps right now#its already been a couple of days and they are not well#struggling to eat and get out of bed#i cant wait to not have to make these posts anymore but thats gonna take another week
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never change, man !
#phantom of the paradise#potp#swan potp#nightmaretheater#65 layers and about 24 hours . Eeeyyuppp#Look into my beautiful mind boy#Its a bit unusual to what i usually draw#but i had to push a specific look for this piece#hopefully you all are picking up on the corperate look . the advertisment look#Sneeze. Anyways my point is industry destroys creative people. This includes swan#I feel like phrases like these ; how he was put on a pedistal…. it lead him to be Like That#as awful as he is he desperately needed help#it might seem like vanity on the surface#but i think its… more than that#long story short: we need to destroy the beauty industry. the skincare industry. the anti-aging industry#It ruined his psyche forever and he cant let go of the ideal version of himself he will never truly be again#i dont think he can at this point. hes in too deep and hes suffering for it no matter how much he feels hes fixed his problems#he cant accept a version of himself that isnt that perfect young man. because he never confronted his problems. he just ran away#anyways . Hi swath *punches him**kicks him*#i dont care if nobody gets me lalalalla my truths and headcanons are awesome forever and i live in my own reality lallaallal#sorry i think im gonna be posting about swan alot for a few months hes making me sick#i wass gonna post this earlier but my internet was real bad#*lays down in my pile of pillows* eat up boys. haha#sidenote: drawing white blond people is horrifiying. Boy your skin and hair are the same color. Introduce some contrast to yourself. Please#adding on: its inportant to note this focuses on him looking st himself in the mirror alot on purpouse#to remind himself what he ‘’’’really’’’’ looks like#the 4 middle pannels all represent that too . u have to be in my brain ri get this#sorry for unleashijg another swan essay in my tags. will happen again lol
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ARES IS NOT THE PROTECTOR OF WOMEN IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
He is never presented as such in any source, there is no evidence such a role was ever assigned to him in any account, and as far as I'm aware this popular yet unattested assertion is born from the echo-chambers of tumblr. In fact quite the opposite could be argued. TW for sexual assault.
This baffling claim seems to originate from a sort of shallow examination of the way Ares "behaves in myth", and the following arguments are the most frequently presented:
1. Ares protects his daughter Alkippe from assault, and is therefore morally opposed to rape. (Apollodorus 3.180, Pausanias 1.21.4, Suidas "Areios pagos", attributed to Hellanikos)
Curiously this argument is never applied to, among other examples: Apollo for defending his mother Leto from Tytios, Herakles for defending Hera from Porphyrion (or his wife Deianeira from Nessos), or Zeus for defending his sister Demeter from Iasion (in the versions where he attacks her), etc. The multiple accounts of rape of the previously mentioned figures did not conflict with these stories in greek thought: they're defending family members or women otherwise close to them. This sort of mentality is not uncommon even in contemporary times, e.g. a warrior may have no ethical problem killing men, but would not want his own family or loved ones to be killed. The same goes here for sexual assault.
2. There are no surviving accounts of Ares sexually assaulting anybody.
The idea that the ancient greeks pictured that, among all the gods, Ares was the only one who shied away from committing rape is baseless and borders on ridiculous. In this case absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The majority of surviving records regarding Ares' unions are presented in a genealogical manner, and do not go into details on their nature. This is the case for most works of mythography, where specifics of sexual encounters are to be found elsewhere. However, common motifs present in other accounts of rape also appear in stories concerning Ares' relationships, e.g. tropes like shape-shifting/the use of disguises, the victim being a huntress, secrecy, and the disposal of the concieved child, are to be found in the stories of Phylonome and Astyoche respectively:
Φυλονόμη Νυκτίμου καὶ Ἀρκαδίας θυγάτηρ ἐκυνήγει σὺν τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι: Ἄρης δ᾽ ἐν σχήματι ποιμένος ἔγκυον ἐποίησεν. ἡ δὲ τεκοῦσα διδύμους παῖδας καὶ φοβουμένη τὸν πατέρα ἔρριψεν εἰς τὸν Ἐρύμανθο
"Phylonome, the daughter of Nyktimos and Arkadia, was wont to hunt with Artemis; but Ares, in the guise of a shepherd, got her with child. She gave birth to twin children and, fearing her father, cast them into the [River] Erymanthos." (Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 36)
οἳ δ᾽ Ἀσπληδόνα ναῖον ἰδ᾽ Ὀρχομενὸν Μινύειον, τῶν ἦρχ᾽ Ἀσκάλαφος καὶ Ἰάλμενος υἷες Ἄρηος οὓς τέκεν Ἀστυόχη δόμῳ Ἄκτορος Ἀζεΐδαο, παρθένος αἰδοίη ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα Ἄρηϊ κρατερῷ: ὃ δέ οἱ παρελέξατο λάθρῃ: τοῖς δὲ τριήκοντα γλαφυραὶ νέες ἐστιχόωντο.
"And they that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus of the Minyae were led by Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Ares, whom, in the palace of Actor, son of Azeus, Astyoche, the honoured maiden, conceived of mighty Ares, when she had entered into her upper chamber; for he lay with her in secret" (Homer, Iliad 2. 512 ff)
In neither of these cases is a verb explicitly denoting rape used, though it is heavily implied by the context. The focus of the action is on the conception of sons, the nature of the interaction is secondary.
Other examples are found among the daughters of the river Asopos, who where (and here there's no confusion) ravished and kidnapped by different gods to different parts of the greek world, where they found local lines through children borne to their abductors and serve as eponyms. Surviving fragments from Corinna of Tanagra tell us:
"Asopos went to his haunts . . from you halls . . into woe . . Of these [nine] daughters Zeus, giver of good things, took his [Asopos'] child Aigina . . from her father's [house] . . while Korkyra and Salamis and lovely Euboia were stolen by father Poseidon, and Leto's son is in possession of Sinope and Thespia . . [and Tanagra was seized by Hermes] . . But to Asopos no one was able to make the matter clear, until . . [the seer Akraiphen reveals to him] 'And of your daughters father Zeus, king of all, has three; and Poseidon, ruler of the sea, married three; and Phoibos [Apollon] is master of the beds of two of them, and of one Hermes, good son of Maia. For so did the pair Eros and the Kypris persuade them, that they should go in secret to your house and take your nine daughters." (heavily fragmented papyrus. Corinna fr. 654)
"For your [Tanagra's] sake Hermes boxed against Ares." (Corinna fr. 666)
It seems that, similar to the myths of Beroe or Marpessa, the abducted maiden is fought over by two competing "suitors", and though we can infer that the outcome of the story is that Hermes gets to keep Tanagra, apparently by beating Ares in a boxing match, we don't actually know what happened or how it happened. In any case, Ares does mate with another daughter of Asopos, Harpina, who bears him Oinomaos according to some versions (Paus. 5.22.6; Stephanus Byzantium. Ethnica. A125.3; Diodorus Siculus 4. 73. 1). There is little reason to suppose that this encounter wasn't pictured as an abduction like the rest of her sisters.
The blatant statement that each of his affairs was envisioned as consensual is simply not true.
3. He was worshipped under the epithet Gynaikothoinas "feasted by women"
This was a local cult that existed in Tegea, the following reason is given:
"There is also an image of Ares in the marketplace of Tegea. Carved in relief on a slab it is called Gynaecothoenas. At the time of the Laconian war, when Charillus king of Lacedaemon made the first invasion, the women armed themselves and lay in ambush under the hill they call today Phylactris. When the armies met and the men on either side were performing many remarkable exploits, the women, they say, came on the scene and put the Lacedaemonians to flight. Marpessa, surnamed Choera, surpassed, they say, the other women in daring, while Charillus himself was one of the Spartan prisoners. The story goes on to say that he was set free without ransom, swore to the Tegeans that the Lacedaemonians would never again attack Tegea, and then broke his oath; that the women offered to Ares a sacrifice of victory on their own account without the men, and gave to the men no share in the meat of the victim. For this reason Ares got his surname." (Paus. 8.48.4-5)
As emphasised by Georgoudi in To Act, Not Submit: Women’s Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece (part of the highly recommendable collection of essays Women and War in Antiquity), "it is not necessary to see the operation of an invitation in the bestowal of the epithet Γυναικοθοίνας on Ares". The epithet is ambiguous, and can be translated both as "Host of the banquet of women" or "[He who is] invited to the banquet of women". In any case no act of divine intervention occurs, and the main reason for the women's act of devotion lies principally in recognising their decisive role in the routing of the Lakedaimonians. It's they who preside/participate in the feast of war, the men are excluded.
Also this a local epithet that isn't found anywhere else in Greece. As such it would be worth reminding that not every Ares is Gynaikothoinas, in the same way not every Zeus is Aithiopian, not every Demeter Erinys, and not every Artemis of Ephesos.
4. He was the patron god of the Amazons
He was considered progenitor of the Amazons because of their proverbial warlike nature and love of battle, the same reason he was associated with other "barbaric" tribes, like the Thracians or the Scythians. In this capacity he was also appointed as a suitable father/ancestor for other violent and savage characters who generally function as antagonists (e.g. Kyknos, Diomedes of Thrace, Tereos of Thrace, Oinomaos, Agrios and Oreios, Phlegyas, Lykos etc.). Also he was by no means the only god connected with the Amazons (they were in fact especially linked to Artemis, see Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons by Florence Mary Bennett, if only for the bibliography).
Similarly, Poseidon was considered patron and ancestor of the Phaiakians mainly because of their mastery over the art of seafaring (and was curiously also credited in genealogies as father to monsters and other disreputable figures).
On another note I have found no sources that claim he taught his amazon daughters how to fight, as I've seen often mentioned (though I admit I'd love to be proven wrong on that point).
5. Finally, the last reason Ares could never be portrayed as a protector of women is because of his divine assignation itself
The uncountable references to his love of bloodshed and man-slaying don't just stop short of the battlefield, but continue on to the conclusion and intended purpose of most waged wars in antiquity: the sacking of the city. The title Sacker of Cities as an epithet of Ares (though it is by no means exclusive to him) is encountered numerous times and in different variations (eg. τειχεσιπλήτης or πτολίπορθος), and the meaning behind the epithet is plain. Though it is hard to summarise without being reductionist, the sacking of a city entails the plundering of all its goods, the slaughtering of its men, and the sistematic raping and enslavement of the surviving women (to name only a small few of the literary references see The Iliad, The Trojan Women or The Women of Trachis). There is little need to emphasise that war as concieved of in ancient greece, especifically the brutal aspects of war Ares is most often associated with, directly entailed sexual violence against women as one of it's main concerns. The multiple references to Ares being an unloved or disliked deity are because of this, because war is horrifying (not because his daddy is a big old meany who hates him for no reason, Zeus makes very clear the motive for his contempt in the Iliad (5. 889-891): "Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarreling is dear to your heart, wars and battles.")
Ares was only the protector of women inasmuch as he could be averted or repelled (e.g. surviving apotropaic chants):
"There is no clash of brazen shields but our fight is with the war god, a war god ringed with the cries of men, a savage god who burns us; grant that he turn in racing course backward out of our country’s bounds, to the great palace of Amphitrite or where the waves of the thracian sea deny the stranger safe anchorage. Whatsoever escapes the night at last the light of day revisits; so smite him, Father Zeus, beneath your thunderbolt, for you are the lord of the lightning, the lightning that carries fire." (Shophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, 190-202)
"And let no murderous havoc come upon the realm to ravage it, by arming Ares—foe to the dance and lute, parent of tears—and the shout of civil strife." (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 678)
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All that being said, this is a post about Ares as conceptualized and attested in ancient sources, made specifically in response to condescending statements about how "uhmmm, actually, in greek mythology Ares was a super-feminist himbo who was worshipped as the protector of women and was hated by his family for no reason, you idiot". It is factually incorrect. HOWEVER, far be it from me to tell anyone how they have to interact with this deity. Be it your retellings, your headcannons or your own personal religious attachments and beliefs towards Ares, those are your own provinces and prerogatives, and not what was being discussed here at all (I personally love art where Ares and Aphrodite goof around, or retellings where he plays with his daughters, or headcannons that showcase his more noble sides, etc.)
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I've seen that other people on tumblr have made similar posts, the ones I've seen were by @deathlessathanasia and @en-theos . I have no idea how to link their posts, but they're really good so go check them out on their pages!
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