#Goddess Courses

[red-moon-at-night]

okay the whole vase is great but something about Helen sitting on Aphrodite's lap as she wraps one arm around her shoulder and brushes her leg with her hand, staring into her eyes like that... as she is persuading Helen to go with Paris (while Peitho aka persuasion stands behind them) is so incredibly iconic.

and gay. toxic yuri, if you will.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

[piastrw]

carlos x girl oscar

[arataka-reigen]

"Percy takes Annabeth's last name" "Annabeth takes Percy's last name" Actually, Percy and Annabeth never get married as a way to piss off Hera

[scatterbrainedart]

Chat. I may have gone a bit overboard

[jacqcrisis]

I like how in the first game, Aphrodite is like 'Mm Charon? Oh, cool, yeah, you bought my boon from the boatman and his nasty trash :/ As least he's a greedy weirdo, otherwise I couldn't make head or tails of him.'

And now she's all 'oh Charon! I love him. He's so tall and strong. Of course who wouldn't fantasize about him coming to your aid~'

I like to believe that this is because, as the goddess of love, she couldn't figure out a damn thing about Charon since he's in the underworld, and, canonically, the Olympians can't feel what's going on down there. But then she saw Hermes slobbering all over him at the post-game party, and after god knows how long with Charon and Hermes being topside and pining completely platonically over each other due to their separation, she's realized Charon is a prime cut of grade A Beef as she should have centuries ago.

I'm very proud of her.

[justaz]

arthur (prince of camelot) still has to study under a tutor bc yknow uther wants him to be very intelligent before becoming king or something bc its super important idk idc anyways merlin is doing chores in his chambers while arthur is squinting at a book and merlin eventually caves and asks him what he’s reading and arthur gruffly explains that its a collection of stories from greece that make absolutely no sense so merlin asks him to read them outloud to him. arthur of course teases him and calls him an idiot and asks how he could possibly help but does as he’s asked and reads the stories to merlin as he does his chores. merlin (being crushed under the weight of destiny and tormented by the prophecies that kilgharrah spews) understands the stories almost immediately and gets all excited and starts rambling about them with arthur. arthur is glad to have someone who understands so he can give something that reflects a hint of understanding to his tutor who accepts it and moves onto the next unit of education.

the thing is, arthur finds more stories in camelot’s library and brings them up to his room to read them aloud to merlin under the guise of completing his studies but really he just wants to watch as merlin’s eyes gleam when he understands whats happening and listen to him ramble on and on about them bc he’s gay. the stories stick with merlin though and he realizes that they’re cautionary tales, that the heroes who were told too much of their future doomed themself to fulfill them - that them fighting the prophecies led to their completion. merlin takes it to heart and gives a big “fuck you” to kilgharrah before forging his own fate and helping morgana with her magic and handing out an olive branch to mordred and now everyone can live happily and peacefully in an albion teeming with magic.

[blackholesun321]

I can’t decide if Zeus picked Calypso’s island because he wanted to torture Odysseus some more with the fact this goddess was keeping him here from his true love treating him like a pet a taste of the love he craved but twisted— a sort of tantalization and constant reminder of his sins and what he sacrificed everything for accept he’ll never get it, all in one.

Or he in all his Zeus douche baggery ‘I cheat on my wife because it’s a Tuesday and I’m bored’ magnanimousness was trying to do Ody a solid. And thought living on an island with everything you can ever want and a hot woman throwing her self at you would be like a gift.

[sunflawyer]

i adore selfshippers who have such a deep lore story for their s/i & ship because to be honest mine is filled with domestic lovey dovey stuff like us being emotional at our son's first day at the daycare or him telling me to take a bath together ... ⚖️🌻... 😭

[cartoondrawer]

[medusas-rockin-tits]

You know I was thinking about Ankarna and I realized something.

What she is, is hope

Hope isn’t always pretty, sometimes hope is violent and you carve it out with your teeth. Hope burns and screams and clings with bloody nails to the very edge of the cliff but won’t let go. Hope is the one hot coal in the dead fire that won’t stop burning. You can’t kill it, you can’t extinguish it. Hope is rebellion, hope is putting your faith in your friends and believing that’s enough, hope is courage, hope is faith, hope is peace and war, hope is the promise of a new start

Hope can’t be killed, hope can’t be destroyed, no matter how hard the forces against you may try, you will always find hope again. Even hidden under snow on ancient stones in Elven forests.

Hope is knowing that it’s always darkest before the dawn

[sailormoonsub]

Do you think rei would still feel like she doesn’t need to be romantically involved if she wasn’t a senshi?

Rei's "I don't have time for romance because I am dedicated to my work" strikes me along similar lines as Ami's "I'm not interested in dating because no one can live up to my crush Albert Einstein," i.e., a teenage girl's excuse for not being interested in boys

I think Rei's loyalty to Princess Serenity is very real, but also conveniently allows her to rock that ace lesbian lifestyle with minimal judgment

[nightmarearian]

blood dripped from Poseidon's mouth, red.

red.

the day they overthrew Kronos, child-eater (stomach acid crawling around them, after maw of teeth grazing his small, child body), his golden ichor bled red.

god blood, degraded into a mortal's.

the day Typhon, father of monsters (as big as their father was, as big as the Titans with sharp claws and teeth) ripped out Zeus' tendons, his blood was red.

Poseidon, god of the tides, son of Kronos, looked up at the dark shape stood above him, his own golden trident in his hand, the teeth like prongs drenched in red.

Odysseus is a mortal. was a human.

sharp webbed ears spread out on the side of their head, scales grew around their neck and arms, shining like a coral reef, illuminated by their growing red eyes, that were shrunken to slits.

Odysseus' teeth glinted in the lightning, showing their unnaturally sharp point.

monster.

[luckyjak]

I have made the mistake of reading reddit, and there is a lot of speculation there that Critical Role, as a company, is gearing up to Nuke Exandria and replace it with Daggerheart. Which I am all for, personally, but that's not this thread.

One chain of comments is that the PC's previous characters would become the gods of this new world--i.e., Vax would become the god of death, Jester a God of Chaos, ect. And someone said Caleb as a God of time.

No no no no no.

*Essek's* the God of Time. Caleb?

Caleb is the god of *change.**

Caleb is the god of hearth. He is the god you pray to in the cold dark of winter to keep your family warm. He is the god of light and fire and hope. He is the god of no more children on pyres, of a difference thinner than a razor.

He's a god of redemption.

They say, at the Church of Widogast, that everyone is capable of redemption. That it is never too late to change.

A popular story at the church is that even a shadowed hand may find its way to the light through Widogast, although there are none alive now who know the origin of that phrase.

[sarafangirlart]

Kaos!Eurydice being stuck in an unhappy marriage, resenting her mother for abandoning her, hating the gods for taking her mother and using her as a pawn… that’s literally just Hermione of Sparta.

[kleioscanvas]

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