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spacecadetspe · 8 months ago

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A snippet from last year…

Mar. 12, 2023

I got word that Echidna was going to try to process Typhon.

This whole rigamarole has left me with scars on my torso (most notably my sacrum and solar plexus) and root.

Mother called me out. Over the last few weeks, I've made the perpetual mistake of not enforcing a boundary with Echidna: the necessity that she pursue a path of healing for the duration of her employment. Without that boundary in place, she's proven that she can easily undermine my authority. In turn, I've been putting out more fires than usual, becoming scattered, paranoid, and isolated.

Admittedly, the self-isolation is a trauma response.

And it all came to a head when my boss (from my job in the mortal world) informed me that my company was extending my temporary status until approximately the 1st of April.

To frame my frustrations, they hired me on in May of last year. I love working there. But they told me up front that this would be a temporary job. However, it's been ten months, now. I want to stay. I want full-time and benefits. I don't like feeling like I'm being led on by extending for another two weeks every time the deadline closes in.

And then to reframe; this gives me more time to find and settle into a new, potentially better occupation. It's a financial cushion... for until I find a job that's right for me. (Hades interrupts to say "You could just ask me." Sweet thing.)

Mother gave me some comfort, saying that the universe was giving me the chance to continue working towards my goals, to create the opportunity I desire. "You have the power now, daughter."

"To do... what?"

She invoked my purpose, causing my tattoos to glow iridescent. "Anything!"

I felt my eyes watering, and I rushed through the entire tangled web of feelings I'd had over the past weeks with Echidna. I felt like I didn't know what to do... like I had no idea what was really right. And then, with what happened in the Forge and the overwhelming love and support I felt... I just felt more confused and lost than before.

But I finally found the right question to ask. "What am I doing wrong, that I keep coming up against this obstacle?"

Mother gave me hints leading up to the answer, but ultimately let me gain the insight on my own steam.

"Echidna's position amongst the Oneiroi is contingent upon her healing. I didn't have the clarity to insist on it, which allowed her to undermine my authority and reflect that imbalance across the Dream World." I let her breach a boundary that I should have made more clear. That broke my power (solar). The wounds she inflicted on the dream spirits damaged my connection to them (root). And the desire to be loved and supported in spite of self-isolating ruptured my sacrum.

Dear gods, I'm a mess.

Ekibyou informed me then of Echidna's plan to reunite with her consort, and showed me the crest of Mt. Etna.

Mother offered me transportation in the form of a hot air balloon, as well as a koan about the nature of my scars. I didn't know where they came from, or why they continued to be so painful after I left the Forge. Where did they come from?

"The same place where silence arises when you stop playing an instrument."

I stopped trying. I let someone make me believe I wasn't good enough. To love... to be worth supporting. And because of that, I fell into a depression.

But I'm going to keep trying. I'm going to break my cycles and get better.

I let myself be airlifted to Mt. Etna, where I was met by Etna of the Ourea, herself. I told her what was going on, and she called Athena. I get it; it's her territory, after all. But dear lord, she's got just as much trauma as Echidna.

I called upon a few of Michael's platoons to watch my back while I cast a "Cauldron of Violet Fire" spell over the entire mountain. For those of you actually reading this, the Violet Fire is a practice I got from Theosophy; it's an imagining of the power of the Virtue Love, and is used in dire needs of healing and change. I'd just never cast one so big. In addition, I capped the spell with the Angurgapi rune, to keep anyone from getting out.

Apollo and Hermes showed up, so I put them to work; keeping the fire going and the runes in place, respectively. After that, I went in.

It didn't take a whole lot to convince Typhon to let things go... With the Violet Fire in place and Echidna's embrace, his entire vendetta went up in smoke. And most of him went with it.

The problem came with Athena... which is fair, really. She didn't think it would be responsible to let Typhon out. The Bane of Olympus couldn't possibly be worth my trust, or the trust that he might adhere to a new path.

So she lashed out at me.

"What is your definition of 'monster,' Athena?" I asked.

"Anything that maliciously disrupts the order of things with the intent of bringing chaos," she replied with thinly-veiled anger.

"So… by that definition, any challenge to the current order of things?"

"A challenge is a separate matter." She gestured from Apollo to herself. "We challenged Zeus to make things better, not to bring chaos."

"You also collectively stood with Hera against me," I pointed out. "And I brought chaos." I sighed and lowered my voice. "I am as much a monster as they are, Athena. Echidna... she wants to heal. And if you didn't notice, she convinced Typhon to want that for himself, too." I showed her the remaining orb of his soul. "His ill will, his vendetta... it's all gone. You've never seen him this way before. A brand new being!"

Athena flailed her arms. "And look around you! Nothing short of an army to accomplish it! Does that even remotely sound like he 'wanted' to heal?"

I thought about it for a moment. "It sounds like we were a bit preemptive, really. It didn't take an army to accomplish this; it just took her embracing him."

"So Apollo, the legion of angels surrounding the mountain, calling down the head of a pantheon, the flame of Olympus, and the head of entirely different pantheon from another plane of existence is just...what? Window dressing?" Her voice kept rising until her composure was entirely gone.

I corrected her on a few misconceptions in that assumption, saying that I didn't want all that corruption spilling all over Sicily.

Athena was adamant that it was a problem that didn't need any fixing in the first place. Keep the giants and demons confined under Etna and nobody would be subject to that destruction again. And the eruptions would keep stupid people out. Two birds, one stone.

I was about to ask her if she knew that employing Echidna had been Hermes' idea, but I was tired of arguing and ready to get to the meat of what was really bothering her.

"Yes, he does keep me abreast of the current events. You do what you always do, which is go to the deep end of fringe logic to justify taking the worst of people and somehow think you can always transform. And before you retort, if the shoe were on the other foot, I would have left Olympus in rubble."

Ah. That was it. I assessed the situation a bit further, and then calmly sat down on a nearby rock. "You'd have left Olympus in rubble..." I mused. "Go on."

She broke then, admitting her experience with monsters led her straight back to the heinous acts committed by her father. I watched her as the wall around her heart came crashing down, revealing how terrified she was of becoming like him... and initiating a war with the titans or the giants for the same reasons.

The Violet Fire, yo. It'll cure 90% of what ails you.

So I asked her, very quietly, "Do you not think you deserved to be spared?"

She looked away stubbornly. "I already gave my answer. Rubble."

"Then why do you yet exist?"

She looked up at me. "The Fire of Olympus thought otherwise..."

I laughed and shook my head. "Zeus said the same thing."

"And his word crumbled with his rule."

"So what's the right answer? You exist, you persist because, even in your darkest hour, someone loved you."

She thought about this for a moment, and then handed me a tarnished key. She informed me that Hades has the other one, and I should ask for it.

Which, I suppose, is why he's sitting here with me now. Well, it was the initial reason, anyway. I told him I was too tired, and still convalescing ("You're using my words now?") and basically not in the mood to start into another crisis when I just finished one.

But... the world tends to go on without me if I don't keep up. On his last rounds, Hermes found (and subsequently dropped) Hebe's chalice, which is just another can of worms... I've now got a key (one of two) to a cell in the depths of Tartarus (so much fun)... I've got two traumatized titans as new citizens of the Dream World (more work for me)... I'm still not finding any good jobs to transfer into (still frustrated, I see)... And I'm still struggling to internalize this idea of who I am.

He looks surprised that I'm typing all this out, admitting it to a bunch of strangers online. "I had no idea it was that dire," he admits. "You've always been an entity that surprises and even frightens others with your power... the depth and reach of it is astounding. I had no inkling that something so... petty... could hinder you."

You have no room to talk.

He held up his hands. "I'm not judging you. Lord knows, I'm still figuring out who I am. But... it might behoove you to ascertain what the basis of that uncertainty is."

Looks like I've got some work to do. Even Surtr admits some amusement about how I always seem to stay injured, for someone who can do anything.

"You already answered that. You're tired."

Yeah, I kind of screwed myself over. Let me check out for a couple days, and I'll be okay. My root literally just snapped back into place. It felt like somebody snapped a rubber band on my asshole.

He made a face. "Ouch."

Yeah.

"Well, at least you were able to rest and get your thoughts together today. You need some time to recuperate." He comes over to plant a kiss on my forehead. "And you got a better idea of where you belong." He wraps me up in a lanky hug.

And I got to cuddle you all afternoon.

"Surely you're not going to tell them that."

Not like they'll believe me.

#mythology and folklore #dreams #spicy psychology #trauma #magic #shadow work

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winns-stuff · 2 years ago

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LO RANT:

Each time I hear about the chapters they continue to prove my point each time. Hades really is a fucked up person, you mistreat and abuse your employees who you’ve known for a long long time.. those who’ve worked under you and have obviously formed some kind of understanding with you since they have to live in your realm and work in your corporation, along with your citizens who also deal with you on a daily basis and help keep your realm financially and physically stabilized. All of those people who’ve been there longer than punk ass Persephone and you only give her respect, compassion, understanding, and respect. You’re a fucking asshole, there’s literally no redemption with Hades and that’s exactly why I absolutely despise his ass.

See, I knew I was on to something when I said that Hades is nowhere near a morally grey character, he’s literally the worst person ever. He has no redeeming traits at least that he chooses to display, he never tries to actually fix his problems instead he gets someone else to, and whenever he’s confronted on his shitty behavior he gaslights and manipulates the person confronting him. He’s so fucking evil like I have such a deep hatred for him, he’s not even that fucking nice to Persephone literally he’s becoming borderline controlling and condescending. You can’t say you respect Persephone and then spoon feed her information like she’s an idiot, you can’t say she’s mature or an adult when you baby her like she’s 4, you can’t say that she should be the queen of the underworld if you won’t even let her help with actual situations that need to be dealt with in her realm. I mean… it’s almost as if.. We knew that Persephone was nowhere near capable or even showed any sort of leadership traits when it came to actually being a ruler.

Genuinely I never saw Persephone as an actual queen or adequate ruler of the underworld. Hell, Hades isn’t even cutting it either with his terrible communication and behavioral issues that he keeps projecting onto people he believes is less than. But the problem I have with Persephone is that there’s no record in the comic of Persephone actually trying to improve her understanding of the underworld or trying to come up with any solutions to its problems either. Like she literally just came back from the damn mortal realm after being there for 10 years and even before she got banned she’s never even had any motivation to learn about the underworld. The only motivation she’s ever had was flirting with Hades, she never asked about the realm, how things worked, what the citizens’ concerns, what additions they need to add, nothing. It’s always been about Hades and she’s only had one panel where she was actually interested in taking the realm but of course it was cut off because you can’t have romance and the female lead to have actual aspirations not revolving around flirting and being with the male lead.

This whole situation is irking to me, so many people time and time again always excuse Hades’ shitty behavior and instead try and punish the other characters for doing either the exact same thing or nothing at all. I’m so tired of this bullshit, Thanatos does not deserve to be so disrespected and unappreciated that he gets so jealous at the sight of Hades treating Persephone like a normal person to the point of actively trying to ruin her life. That speaks volumes on how badly Hades always treats him, he got desperate at the opportunity to actually be respected and noticed by his father figure Hades. The fact that this motherfucker brought Thanatos into his damn office just to talk about Persephone who was around the time still A FUCKING EMPLOYEE being queen is just so creepy to me. Like Persephone was still there to work and yet she’s effortlessly rewarded straight to the crown even though this bitch doesn’t do shit. Show me any scene or panel that Persephone actually deserves the crown because genuinely there is none, it’s creepy and weird how obsessive Hades is and how he wants Persephone so badly that he continues to call her his wife and address her like she’s basically his even though she’s already said that she wants to take things slowly. The man obviously just wants a wife he does not care about Persephone’s feeling or anything, he believes that her kindness is an invitation for him to court her and it’s really weird that no one’s thoughts of that.

Anyways that’s the end of the rant on both Persephone and Hades because they genuinely get on my nerves. Persephone is just as much to blame for Hades’ behavior too, I know there’s a few time she’s tried to correct his behavior but it seems like she really brushes it off unless it affects her in some way. Like she never sticks up for anyone else that Hades berates and insults or even try and get him to change. She just allows him to be absolutely unbearable without checking it so yeah it is partially her fault as well because as his only development the more time he spends with her the less of an asshole but instead it seems like Hades is now acting aggressively to “defend” Persephone which is really making things worse. But like I always say this is just a meaningless rant and whether or not you agree or disagree is fine with me, none of these rants hold a lot of weight since I come up with them on the spot so don’t take any of these as fact or importance, also don’t use this as fuel to go after any Hades or Lore Olympus stans, people are allowed to enjoy their characters.

#lo critical #anti lore olympus #anti lo #lo hades #lo persephone

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1111jenx · 4 years ago

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Hi. Can you please tell us more about Lilith in the 2nd house? Thank you 🥰

Hi there!

I took a few days to myself and my family as a treat after finishing all of my paid readings 🥳 So glad to be back with you guys! ^ I wrote that literally 2 weeks ago omg I've been slacking for real haha sorry guys. Lets get right into it shall we:

🩸Lilith in the 2nd house🩸

Check out my full Lilith in the house series here

The 2nd house, the house of Taurus, being ruled by Venus, the 2H covers finance, money and general resources.

More than whats on the surface, the 2H even goes in-depth about topics such as one's self-worth, one's natural abilities to generate money and how the native defines safety and security.

The 2H signifies the material resources that the person must come to terms with both in the physical world and the spiritual world. Assets, wealth and physical resources. Priorities and principles will also be represented in this House.

Planets in the Second House are related to material needs, often reflecting what you value most.

Lilith spends lots of time discussing instinctual impulses that come from deep inside and lead us to transcendence. She becomes a major supporter for salvation and regaining fulfilment as her power is created and explored through spirituality. Lilith here is reluctant at Venus's soft and passive energy. She doesn't hate Venus yet she and Venus has a lot of difference between one another. Yet since the Venus energy here is represent through an earth house (2H), Lilith(air) sees herself constantly contradicting whats best for the individual as a whole yet she also feels extra guarded here, in traditional astrology 2H is referred to as the gates of Hades, hence Lilith feels extra defensive and aloof.

As a result, natives with Lilith 2H as a child may have a hard time with subjects surrounding their own self-worth and financial stability. The forces in which caused these individuals to feel as such could possibly be a higher authority or someone that has more power over them.

They constantly feel the need to protect themselves and their finance. They would have extra plans drawn up to make sure they can enjoy retirement without worrying. These natives can be very careful with their money in general.

When they were younger I would not be surprised to hear that there were things taken away from them. It could be a toy, a puppy or something that reside very close to their heart. They feel as if they have no control over things they call theirs. Desperately want to feel in control. To them security=money.

This manifest in their later adult lives a very picky personality, if not closed off and extra possessive. What belongs to them will always belong to them. Think about this both in terms of belongings and people. Have an extra hard time letting things go and not knowing whats gonna happen next.

Very similar to Lilith in 10H, but more fixated on the idea of owning. They don't care about their reputation as much as Lilith in the 10H, what they need is resources, people, ownership, money, estates and possessions in general.

Wealth comforts them and they thrive in the knowledge that their financial are stable and sound. Would not hesitate to go to the extreme to make sure things stay where they should. Would do bizarre things for money if badly aspected.

^Either that, or they could strongly reject the idea of assets and materials. They hate the materialistic side of things and how it has affected people. Often times they find themselves having a love-hate relationship with their ambitions and possessive traits.

Nothing can satisfy them. Would always want more power, wealth and money. If Lilith is powerful in the chart, the individual will use literally anything, will do anything, and I mean this, to become rich. Even if it goes against societal standards, as long as it aligns with their purpose, they would give it a go.

Thirst for resources. Because they understand that ultimately, resources=money=power. They want people to know what they have been through, could be very ruthless in the sense that they refuse to see things from other perspectives sometimes.

Sex with them is very personal. Makes you feel like you are adored and valued. Would want you to give them all of your secrets and all of you. Would want to own you, to consume you. To possess you. Surprisingly dominant.

Mind my words once you have received physical experience with them, you won't be able to forget their sensual touches, their lingering kisses and their ability to almost mimic whatever you're doing.

Interestingly, others would not be able to see this side of them right away. It would take some time of digging, of connecting the dots and of seeing over their front to recognize their thirst. Cruel and heartless even if they have Lilith-Mars or Lilith strong aspects to Pluto.

Take pleasure in the material world. They often are pretty aware of how materialistic they are yet they brush it off. What they need and crave is the green colour of the dollar bills.

If badly aspected can indicate a greedy person. Will be very prone to going in spending sprees and retail therapy. Use money to cover their trauma. Truly thinks dollar bills can do anything.

A lot of time it could have been very possible that these people have felt rejected in terms of their social classes or lack of resources when younger, this becomes the drive to their insatiable need for financial security.

In terms of sexuality, these people are very sexually repressed individuals. They take great pleasure in sex yet also experience a lot of pain in love. Its possible that they might try to get detached as quick as possible after having sex with someone. They can't afford it.

In addition, could have also felt very burden with the wealth and position that were put upon them. Could have grown up in a family where everyone had GREAT expectation for them but they strongly hate this dynamic. They hate how shallow some of their family can be and how they don't value whats underneath. With aspects to the sun or prominent planet can indicate being an unhappy heir, literally. Inner rebels.

Since 2H does talk about desire, these natives in their earlier years or even as they start to become a young adult, had felt shamed for their inner desires and want, or perhaps even rejected for their choices and preferences.

The type to hold grudges but can be surprising amazing with people. A lot of wealthy celebs have this placement. (Beyonce, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet)

Amazing with their finance, blessed placements (to venus or sun, 8H ruler, 10H ruler) can even indicate that they have exquisite and calculating minds when it comes to their money. Know what to do to make sure the income flow stabilized. Typically can be very goal oriented individuals.

If badly aspected, we have people who can be very stingy with their money sometimes. The type to make millions but still go thrift shopping. Don't blame them for this, not all of them came from money.

Will always want what they can not have. Prone to go after wrong people and wrong thing. They will question their ability and self worth if they aren't able to get what they want. It is crucial for these people to learn about boundaries and what's healthy for them.

In a partnership, they need someone who they can trust, who teach them that its okay to share and as you give you'll eventually receive, someone who's able to tap into their softer&charitable side. Someone that can offer them a lot peace of mind and utmost loyalty. God they value loyalty so so much, stability comes hand in hand with it as they deep down, crave this so much, as much as Lilith 4H do.

Use their Lilith to get to the top. Will use their charming&lustful nature to get what they want. Whether its power or resources, they'll get it at all cost.

Finally!!!! One more step to finishing my Lilith in the houses series🥲 So so happy guys ahaha, once again tysm for your immense support. Please let me know what you guys think down below🤎

love,

saint jenx<3

#astrology observations #astro notes #astrojenx #lilith in the 2nd house #2H lilith #lilith 2H #lilith in the second house #second house #lilith in taurus #taurus lilith #lilith aspects #lilith signs #lilith series #black moon lilith #lilith #lilith rising

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antiloreolympus · 3 years ago

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10 Anti LO Asks

1. To add to your collection of RS's old tumblr ask screenshots (LO canvas league era), i distinctly remember there was an ask where someone asked why is mortal realm so behind olympus technology-wise and RS responded something along the lines of technology timelines not being aligned "because the gods don't wanna share the goodies" (the quotations are her exact words, to be precise) and it was kind of an early red flag for me? I mean, the greek myths are all about gods helping humans and giving them the means to survive or about explaining natural phenomena that benefits humans whether it's prometheus with introducing fire or athena and hephaestus spreading the knowledge of crafts among humans or even ares and poseidon making way for the first court trial in greece on areopagus. You don't get the permission to "deconstruct" the myths if you don't even know what they are initially about

2. What makes me tick is RS makes everything up instead of working with mythology (first thing she'd have to do is to...ummm, know mythology but oh well). She seems to see original mythology as something limiting to her creativity instead of something that unlocks more possibilities for more interesting storytelling. If someone wants concrete examples, let's say persephone's half-bothers plutus and philomelus who'd make an interesting dynamic of maybe two protective/concerned older or younger bros (it'd lessen the portrayal of demeter's "bad" parenting) and she'd have a support system of two guys who don't have the motive to get in her pants, unlike , ykno, the rest of the male cast. Also it'd even out the playfield between Perse and Hades finance and power-wise as Plutus is a god of wealth and Perse,aside from being a heiress, can also turn to her brother for financial help instead of being reliant on Hades all the damn time. Intead RS put Arion just for some lame joke of persephone having a horse brother and is stripped away from any familial connections (male or female) she has in myth so she'd fit in Hades's waifu mold with no risk of going sweet home alabama that myth implies so much

3. the fact persephone is barely over the age of 18 doesn't help when there's so much panels and art of her where's she's literally just naked. if she was 300 or smth we could at least know we are likely not looking at a naked underage girl, but instead it's like??? you're just praying youre not?? especially when she's around grown adults like hermes and hades?? rachel please i dont want to be put on a list -

4. i feel so bad for RS' partner because apparently hermes is based off them (and everyone knows persephone is her self insert) yet in comic hermes' whole purpose is to simp for a woman who literally doesnt like him and being a walking joke. like idk id be so offended my partner sees me like that?? like damn i cant even be with you in your fantasy?? you rather run off with blue mads mikklesen if given the chance?? anyway poor hermes and that kiwi i appreciate you 😭

5. I can’t take Persephone serious as a protagonist she failed to grow as a character in her own. She can’t do anything without Hades she didn’t fight back against Apollo, she failed to tell Zeus the truth, and hen warrant for her arrest was made she didn’t think about her mother at all being in danger! And her punishment was basically doing her job and growing her powers…?

6. "the art is subjective!" well i wish i wasnt subjected to it 🤔

7. I know this whole comic is full of un-self reflective hypocrisy, but are we really not supposed to find it stupid minthe is basically slut shamed for wearing a revealing dress around a child, but its perfectly fine for persephone to wear as revealing of clothing around the same child they're so concerned over? it's not even a cause of showing hades' hypocrisy, it's just straight forward "yep! minthe is evil no matter what but it's ok with persephone does the same thing!" like ???

8. There's something funny of LO fans trying to accuse Ava's Demon of ripping of LO as if it wasn't already published and popular in 2012, aka nearly SIX YEARS before LO even came out. Hell, it was HUGE on tumblr when RS was on it, there's no way she didn't know about it, and a lot of the LO characters seem awfully similar to Ava's Demon (Hades and Gils being a VERY obvious similarity). I'm not saying she did so, but if any sort of ripping off did happen, it would be from RS, not Michelle.

9. This is coming from someone who does have a huge age gap in their parents marriage(about 8 to 9 years apart) but the reason I don't see a problem with mine is that they both meet when they were MATURE ADULTS with jobs. Persephone cleary is not mature enough for Hades minus all the other problems with this relationship.

10. LO fans hates Hadestown because tthey can't stand complexity, the cast and crew who love to shit on HxP, or the Persephone actresses who especially love to push a Hermes/Persephone supremacy agenda!!

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lo critical #lore olympus critical

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wickedwitchoftheemidwest · 4 years ago

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Happy New Year, everybody! I know that Literally no one cares or will read this, but I have to rate and talk about what I’ve read this year and this is my page, so deal with it.

2020 may have been a dumpster fire of a year, but I did read so me pretty good books. I didn’t get to read as many books as I wanted (like always), but that’s life. If you couldn’t tell, I do have a preference for romance novels, and these selections are very... 🌈 and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Here we go:

- Lies we Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (4/10)

- I think I could write a dissertation about why I have a problem with this book, but I think I can just stop with “a white lady writing an interracial queer romance in the 1960s where the lead white character is literally a racist” should about cover it. Absolutely disappointed.

- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (10/10)

- Oh my god does Casey McQuiston know how to write a book. Classic enemies to lovers, my favorite trope. This is my comfort novel that I use as a form of escapism, and probably the reason I didn’t read many new books, as I reread it about five times. It’s my comfort novel, and I come back to it every time I need to feel happy. I’ve made three of my friends read this book, and I recommend it to everyone

- These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (8/10)

- It’s sapphic, it has witches, and it’s adorable; what more could you possibly want? The ending left me wanting more. I was finally able to buy the sequel and I can’t wait to get into it.

- Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (7/10)

- I think this book is sort of a classic when it comes to gay YA. This was a pretty good book, but it took me awhile to get into it.

- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (9/10)

- What did I say about enemies to lovers? HRH was regarded as sapphic Red, White, and Royal Blue, which I think is all you need to know to be interested. This book and short, sweet, and to the point. It’s an easy read (I read it twice, both times in one day). I think there could’ve been some more character building, but it’s so adorable I literally do not care. When I say I want more cute gay romcoms, they should use HRH as the blueprint.

- It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura (7/10)

- A cute, interracial sapphic love story where no white people are involved (the main character is Japanese American and her love interest is Mexican American). This coming of age story deals with acceptance, cultural differences, racism, and coming out. I think some of the points it was trying to delve into were too much on the nose at some times, but I really enjoyed this book.

- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (9/10)

- A fun romp set some time in the 1700s with a chaotic bi as the main lead? Count me in! I read this whole series this year, including the novella (the gentleman’s guide to getting lucky), and I loved every second of it. It’s an adventure series with some romance sprinkled in (a hella slow burn, but definitely worth it). The whole series has gay, bi, lesbian, and ace aro representation, and I was in love the entire time.

- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (8/10)

- The black sapphic book I needed. Liz Lighty decides she wants to leave her hometown and go to college, but after losing the financial aid she was counting on, she remembers the scholarship that prom queen gets every year, and decides to run. Sprinkle in a cute love story, and I’m hooked.

- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (10/10)

- I... cannot put into words how this book made me feel. When I finished TSOA, I cried all night trying to recover. Beautifully written, and I still can’t get over Achilles and Patroclus. One of my favorite books this year.

- Sorry Not Sorry by Naya Rivera

- After Naya’s tragic passing in July, I struggled to find her autobiography anywhere. However, I was finally able to get my hands on it, and am so glad that I did. Naya Rivera was just as genuinely funny and carefree as her previous costars have said, and I wish the world could’ve gotten more of her.

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- Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (9/10)

- Sapphic love story about a princess who has been betrothed to a prince from a nearby country her whole life who instead falls in love with his sister. The main character, Denna, also possesses magical powers, which is forbidden in their land. One of my favorite things about this book is that it’s set in medieval times, but no one cares about queer relationships. The only problem with Denna falling in love with the princess is that she’s betrothed to her brother and nothing else. I recently bought the sequel to this book as well, and I’m excited to read it

- The After Series (books 1-2) by Anna Todd (-400/10)

- I was curious about this series because of how terrible the movies are, and needed to read them myself. I apologize to myself every day that I every even wasted my time on these two books. If I ever see Anna Todd, it’s on sight immediately. Not only is the writing terrible, but the romanticization of abusive relationships is absolutely unacceptable. I think I could take less issue with these books if the author wrote them as a “what to look for in men you should never date” rule book, but it isn’t. I could actually write an essay on why these books are more harmful than entertaining and how I genuinely think this series should have never been published. Also, Harry Styles did not deserve this.

I also discovered WEBTOON this year, and here are some of my favorites that I have read:

- Always Human by creator walkingnorth, a finished WLW story which was absolutely beautiful to look at and delightful to read.

- Lore Olympus by creator Rachel Smythe. I don’t think you can find too many people who haven’t heard of this story, but it’s a retelling of the Hades and Persephone mythology, and I adore it.

- Novae by creators KaixJu. A historical, queer and paranormal romance about a necromancer who falls for an astronomer.

- My Lady Artemisia by creator rimarza. This WEBTOON is a little bit newer with fewer episodes, about a knight tasked with guarding the princess, which starts to prove difficult once she starts to gain feelings for the princess, and an impending threat might cause her to past to come to the surface.

Of course, I’ve also spent a lot of my time on A03. I know I’ve read more, but here are the ones I bookmarked and have come back to this year:

- kiss me (if you mean it) by nerdybutpunk

- Carry On fanfic, short but sweet, absolute fluff

- Camp Llwynywermod by bleedingballroomfloor

- Red, White, and Royal Blue AUwhere Henry and Alex are camp counselors. It’s so good and I find myself waiting every wed and sat for the updates.

I read more this year than I have in a long time, and I enjoyed it most of the time. My goal for 2021 is to read at least two books a month and to expand my horizons to something that isn’t YA and isn’t romance. Also to find Anna Todd and tell her off. Hopefully we can accomplish some of that.

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miekasa · 3 years ago

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MA'AM-

I wanna start this ask by saying that this comes from a place of love and I am trying in NO WAY to be rude or sound like I'm trying to tell you what to do, so I apologize if anything sounds that way cause it's really not my objective nor place to do that

If you wanna travel, go for it ! I'm realising it can be scary on your own, esp as a woman, but you shouldn't let only fear stop you ! (Ofc there are a lot of things to think through when you wanna travel, and I personnaly never did that on my own, but I've seen a lot of women ~on the internet~ do that and said they really enjoyed it and it did them good and stuff)

Treat yourself for your birthday !! I do realise it's always agreeable to have people show and tell you they care, but that doesn't mean you're not allowed to love and care for yourself too ! Do that thing you've always wanted to try, or try out that new restaurant you heard about, or buy yourself that one thing you've been eyeing for a while ! (Well then there's the financial aspect, but as long as you know what you're doing and that it's safe then who cares ?????)

Your life doesn't end once you reach your thirties. Today's society really makes it seem like our twenties are the funniest years of our lives, but the majority of people in their twenties don't seem to be the happiest. People over thirty tho ? They've hade more time to figure things out, and they're over the limit society has imposed to "have fun", so who can stop them ? Your life isn't worth "less" just bc society claimed you HAD to have fun now if you ever wanted to have fun, that's bullshit. You wanna "have fun" when you're 50 and over ? You go do it if you want and if you can. Assuring yourself a future doesn't mean you can't enjoy things, and working a job in your "more adult" life doesn't mean you can't still do things that are enjoyable in your eyes.

There's a lot more I could say there, but all in all I just wanted to say that you shouldn't lose hope ❤ You'll get there, you'll get to enjoy things, and you'll meet people you'll love and who'll love you back just as much. And remember to take a break too. Whether it's from being productive in work or at home, or from just thinking of things that can get heavy to deal with for you, you deserve and you should take breaks and rest your body and mind from these things ❤

Sending you lots of love and hugs and support and early birthday wishes ❤❤❤

Thank you my dear :(( I know everything you said is true (I’m not necessarily stopping myself from traveling, but yeah the whole being a woman + other factors + my parents are for sure a deterrent, but hopefully I’ll be on my way soon). I’m 100% okay with being alone and I’ve found peace in being on my own, but I think I’m at the point where I wish I didn’t Have to do everything alone—and/or have something in the way of the things I /want/ to do alone. Idk man making friends and finding people worth your while is hard and I KNEW that I just wish it was easier 😭😭

It’s okay, I’m just having a Moment. I know I’m young and there’s so much time in life to figure things out, but things like work and school still trick me into thinking there’s a time limit for everything, you know? I’ll figure it out, but thank you thank you thank you for all the kind words <333

#anonymous #pls my birthday is so far away i’m just in my bag bc of my parents bye

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notfeelingthyaster · 4 years ago

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Imagine (inspired by the incomplete fanfic Son of Underworld) (2/5) (Son of Hades! Percy AU)

Check the other parts in the masterpost - read the warnings before proceeding. Good reading!!

After the worse summer, Percy goes home.

Luke's proposal keeps swimming in his head - the blonde is not wrong, but Percy has been scammed before - he remembers once that a "friend" convinced him to be a lookout for him to do something shady at the Dean's Office and then put the blame on him.

And he was blamed - Percy is black, and black kids are never the innocent ones - but now he knows better.

Being a child of the Underworld gods is not that different from being black.

Percy is comfortable with his skin though - his mother is incredible, and most people at Camp are mixed up. Charles is African-American. Selena's father is Muslim, and the Stoll's mother is Jewish (half the reason they are year-rounders). Clarisse's mom is from Nicaragua. Michael Yew has a Brazilian grandma with Japanese heritage.

He isn't friends with most of them - Charles is like a big brother to him and Michael Yew taught him how to shoot an arrow, but Clarisse is at most a good spar partner and nor the Stolls nor Silena care for his company very much.

Percy tells himself that he doesn't care.

He packs his bags - a blue and red backpack and a few surf shirts from the amusement park where he destroyed a pool and made the ground swallow mechanic spiders, both the Minotaurs horns, now fashioned into very cool knives, his Warhammer and his ax slung across his back. The only sweater he has, the one he came here with, the blue one, is warming him up to the chill of autumn.

Chiron asks him if he doesn't want to stay. He touches the willow standing in the furthest shore of the river, the one that marks the barrier of Camp Half-Blood. It used to be Thalia Grace, daughter of Poseidon.

Chiron looks to him with pity. He doesn't need to know that Percy is planning to murder Gabe Ugliano.

Percy goes to do that. He travels, by car. He has enough money - he has money appearing in his pockets all the time now, his father must be truly guilty.

Then he opens the door of his old apartment - but Gabe is not there, in the living room. There's just his mom, on the couch.

His mom

Alive

Percy cries, and they hug, and then they trade stories. She tells him she was asleep in Olympus, and Zeus gave her back when the bolt got to his hands.

He is less angry. But the heavy weight of indignation seats in his stomach.

There's no time for it now: Percy is going back to Yancy Academy - his grades were not bad - and Gabe is now a very charming statue for someone very rich (later, he will discover it was Persephone who bought it).

He tells her everything, safe in her arms, no shirt, no gloves. His mom can touch him everywhere - not even a cell in his body would attack her.

He is so touch starved he keeps sleeping in her bed for a week, and, at night, he cries. Percy has horrible nightmares - he is just twelve and he has killed.

He tells her about his meeting with his father in hushed whispers at an evening where the sky is blue and pink - just how he likes it.

Sally almost goes to the Underworld herself smack sense in her ex-lover, but she knows Persephone would do so for her.

Percy tells her about Luke - not about the Rebellion, lest any gods hear him, but about Luke and Alabaster and Ethan and those kids, alone in a Cabin of rejects.

She says she is going back to college - and that she'll do her best to go see him every weekend at Yancy.

He tells her about his powers. Sally doesn't like the risks but say he should start practicing for his own safety.

They cuddle and Percy clings to his anchor like a lifeline. Percy wants to go to the Underworld again sometime - more to play with Cerberus than to do anything else.

He takes the bus reluctantly - he offers to stay and go to public school, but he knows his chance lays at Yancy.

Percy study Math. He is in seventh grade now - the real Math is here, the financials and calculus and they keep putting him in "Gifted and Advanced" classes for it.

His English still sucks. Biology, for all that should be easy for him, its way too boring - he prefers dead bodies, thank you very much.

He excels at Math and Health&PE (which summer camp took care), passes with acceptable grades in World History, Geography and Social Studies (he nails a project about demographics with some really helpful ghosts), does badly in Science and fails tragically at English and Literature.

They call him a genius - and a genius has areas they specialize in. His grades in math are enough to push him to the eighth grade.

At weekends, when his mother can't come to see him, he locks his dorm and practices his shadow traveling and his powers over the earth and metal manipulation.

His shadow traveling is a mess - once he ends up in Ukraine, and panics trying to come back, just to end up in Wyoming. Again.

Thrice, he manages to reach the underworld. It's winter - Persephone is somewhere down there, but he doesn't want to see his father. He plays with Cerberus when he has some energy - the first two times he just cuddles up with the dog and sleeps a little.

The last time he goes to the Underworld, it's the last day before summer break - he still has not made any contact with his dad, he still doesn't know if he wants to join Luke, he still doesn't know if he wants to go back to CHB.

He goes back to his Mom's house with a hellhound puppy and makes kitten eyes until she lets it stays - if he trains and feeds him and whatnot.

He has dreams about Grover in a bride's dress. It freaks the hell out of him because there's a cyclops in it.

Percy is crossing the street with groceries when he sees a cyclops. He doesn't give the creature a chance to see him - he goes to his room and start packing - it's too dangerous for him, and he can't lose his Mom again.

He cuddles his Mom and the puppy - which he named Blackjack - and calls Chiron.

Chiron is sending Annabeth - apparently, something happened to the borders of the camp.

Percy decides to help, for Annabeth, for Grover, for the small kids at Cabin 9 and 11, and the newbies (there's one, Will Solace, who isn't even eleven yet and he has been there for a year).

He packs his colorful sweaters (rebelling, but in the opposite direction of his father’s aesthetic), put his puppy in a leash (it's bigger than a mastiff now, but all dogs are puppies) and wait for his best friend.

She meets him with an expression of someone who is announcing a funeral - Grover is lost in his searches for Pan.

Percy thinks the little tremor that shook his building it's a good enough hold in his powers, nothing is broken and no one is dead, so it's fine.

He hugs Annabeth and feels warm inside. Health classes covered changes in his body, but he didn't expect to be that quick. Annabeth is taller than him by at least five inches and much prettier.

He picks up his Warhammer and his ax (how does the mist occlude that? do everyone think he is doing cosplay?), throws a duffel bag in his shoulder, his loyal puppy beside him.

"Are you getting into the dark vibe, Corpse Breath?"

"Shut up Annie"

The camp is being attacked - they get a weird taxi thing, pay extra and are given three random locations in the mainland.

Percy doesn't forget the names. There's Agramonte, in Cuba; Okeechobee, in Florida; and Pic La Selle in Haiti.

CHB is being attacked when they get there - by bronze bulls no less. Percy goes to battle with a weapon in each hand, like a war god.

Clarisse does way more damage than him, bashing bull metal skulls left and right like a master. But he kills one of five and does damage to other two.

She claps him in the back - he is glad he has a sweater on, even if it is a horrible shade of brilliant orange.

Charles and him take the weapons to the Forge to correct any damage. Charles hugs him and then starts gushing about Silena.

Charles and Annabeth takes him to see the new Camp Director.

It's Tantalus.

Percy laughs so hard he almost falls down, and Dionysus looks bored - but Percy isn't dumb, he sees mirth in his eyes.

He wants so badly to do a smart comment. He wants to see if his powers can rip a ghost that his father reinstated. He wants to taunt Tantalus.

"What are you laughing about, metic?"

"Nothing, you remind me of someone."

But Percy fends off other questions, and sits at the Cabin 11 table obediently. He wants to startle that man so badly he won't ever sneer at Percy anymore.

He knows just the people for the job. They aren't in any way close, but they all up for mischief. His opportunity comes with the chariot race announced - Percy corners the Stoll Brothers.

"Let me race with you" He starts, and they look surprised by any emotion coming from him in their direction (Percy smiles were reserved for Annie and Grover and Luke and Alabaster and Ethan).

"I want to startle Tantalus and you want victory - I can give you any chariot, if you let me swarm the whole road with skeletons"

The Stolls look at one another, and mentally say something, before doing a random coin toss.

"I'm racing with you" Says Connor.

They mark a time to see the chariot in the next day. They take the whole Cabin 11 with them to prevent attention - Percy is not letting this game go.

Percy gets a chariot directly from the underworld, black obsidian (not Stygian iron, way too rare) and silver, with blue gems that glisten under the sun, a Helm with wings marking its front.

There are four horses pushing it - skeletal horses, incapable of feeling pain or thirst.

It's the first time Percy feels like he belongs - this is a competition, and he is going to win.

Connor and Travis have an array of contraptions and grenades and smoke bombs.

They arrive at the start line at last, for maximum impact. No one is expecting this - they're waiting for Hermes' old chariot, a rickety thing that should be scrap years ago, with any Pegasi they managed to gather in the stables.

They forgot something: Percy exists. It's normal, and Percy it's okay with it in this instance.

The Stymphalian Birds appear - and are countered by his skeletons hitting their spears and swords on their shields. None of them hit him, and the Cabin 11 arrives at first followed by a disgruntled Clarisse after she fought at least 20 skeletons.

Tantalus tries. He really tries to accuse Percy of cheating, but it's pointed out - with approval of Dionysus to boot - that the Demeter kids used their vines to place third and Pollux and Castor did the same to get the fifth spot - just behind the giant contraption that was the Hephaestus chariot.

Clarisse is not happy with the second spot and the silver laurels, but she claps him in the back anyway - Ares is the god of war, not bad sportsmanship.

The Hermes Cabin is in euphoria - Apollo, who placed last, after Aphrodite since they unleashed a dozen doves with a sleeping potion in their faces, it's doing all of the Cabin 11 chores for a month - and they are having a feast of the gods.

Just that night, Percy sacrifices a big pomegranate for Hades and one for Persephone - forgiveness, can you imagine?

He sacrifices to Hermes, as always, for taking the small kids. He sees the joy in their faces - and while Percy is a person reserved to his friends and now he is mostly stoic Perseus, son of Hades, forge gremlin, he always hugs the kids that have nightmares.

It's not what he wanted - it's weird to be touched. It's weirder to have someone want to be next to him. Percy is a cactus, he is prickly. He never smiles. He misses his mom - she would know what to do.

But the little kids trust him. Lou Ellen is unclaimed since the ending of last summer - Percy doesn't know if she has someone to return to.

Those kids at Cabin 11 deserve more then a couple of teens taking care of them. Those kids deserve better, they all deserve better.

There are seven-year-old children there. They barely know how to read. Percy teaches - Annabeth teaches history and myths and Greek, but is he who takes on math to the younger ones, the ones who barely know how to multiply.

He considers staying year-round. They all had Chiron - but it isn't enough. It isn't a family. It isn't. Percy is not their family either - he doesn't overestimate himself - but at least he cares. Not because of their godly blood, but because they are children.

He still hates touch. He is never without his sweaters and gloves. He never smiles at anyone that isn't Annie or Grover or Luke or Alabaster or Ethan.

These days, he only has Annie.

He misses Luke, and he wants to scoop all of these children and take them with him to Kronos, away from the gods. But for what? Another master to fight for?

Was Luke the one who poisoned Thalia? Would he do the same to Percy if Percy denied him?

A mission is issued to go after Golden Fleece - it's in the same place Grover is, it's what Annie and Percy agree on.

Percy is a calculating boy. He deals in numbers, in measures. He is completely oblivious when it comes to feelings and anything that's more subjective than an equation.

But she thinks he likes them. Her and Grover, and those little kids that follow him around sometimes.

She likes the way her yellow hair contrasts with his dark skin, the way his curls flop in his forehead. She likes the specks of green in his eyes. He is her best friend. It's not the love she has for Luke, but it's something akin to admiration.

Percy and Connor are chosen to go on the mission - and Tantalus tries and bullshits some reason for them to go alone, but Percy shakes his head.

"The oracle said, three people"

He is bullshitting them. Tantalus makes him take Clarisse, and Annabeth stays behind.

"I doubt you can get in the sea of monsters without crossing water, eromenoi"

Perseus laughs and laughs, and his eyes are dark as the night without moon. He shoves his hands in the pockets of his soft blue hoodie, and motions for Connor and Clarisse to follow.

Before he leaves, he kisses her cheek softly. It's going to be okay. He will bring Grover back.

He shadow travels the three on them for the closest location the Grey Sisters gave him. It’s difficult, even with a hellhound. He aims for Okeechobee and lands in Miami.

Percy needs to sleep for at least a day, so they use the time to reach their destiny by car. Connor is a very adept child of Hermes, and soon they’re on the road in a red old pickup.

“So Corpse Breath is the hammer, and you’re the polishing stone? Fitting” snorts Clarisse, and just like that, they are bonding.

Percy expects them to trade shitty childhood stories and stupid hobbies or badmouth their deadbeat godly parents, but that was another trip, with very different people.

Clarisse La Rue is sixteen. Her favorite weapon is a javelin or a spear, but she will always prefer hand to hand combat. She loves Led Zeppelin and thinks Silena’s white hijab is the cutest thing in the world. She speaks Spanish - a relief because Percy barely speaks English.

Connor Stoll is fifteen. He prefers gas bombs to grenades - and he does a mean Molotov. He did graffiti until he was twelve. He thinks the Gardner Sisters from the Demeter Cabin are both cute - but Pollux got hot during the winter.

That’s how Percy discovers bisexuality - in a stolen car with a giant hellhound, a girl who has arms larger than his thighs and drives like a grandma and a boy who is two seconds away from spontaneous combustion.

He thinks that explains Luke and Annabeth - but he doesn’t voice it.

Percy doesn’t smile to them for a long time - he knows not even muscular spasms are free of charge.

He stays stoic until they stop to sleep - and Connor has wings in the back of his underwear and its the most ridiculous thing ever.

They reach the city and wander. They do encounter someone - Hecate herself.

She says to Percy it is her last favor - and he knows she already left for Kronos. Luke’s drachma burns in his pocket. She opens a wall of stone - a passageway the Huntresses use sometimes.

“My son waits for you” his quest mates pretend not to hear it - and he pretends nothing is happening. At least Alabaster is okay.

They walk across the cave for what it feels like a day. He is almost sure Hecate has plans to kill them when they find the exit: In an island spa.

A girl comes and analyze them. She looks at them with a kind smile - but Percy knows smiles have prices.

They go meet with the owner: C.C. He doesn't recognize her, but Connor takes one look at those weird guinea pigs and tap Percy's hand twice.

It's a code: Danger.

They are patient. Clarisse is looking at the flimsy girls with their togas and golden braids - she is not going with them.

C.C. Apparently accepts that Clarisse is "more male than a female" like gender is something defined by dresses and makeup.

As soon as the girls are out of the room, Percy taps Clarisse's hand, and she runs her spear through C.C.'s belly. The woman bleeds ichor - but disappears in a cloud of golden sand.

They go through her things for money while Connor explains that he learned about her from Charles. Charles's first mission almost ended up with him as a guinea pig. At least now they know they are in the right place.

Percy takes all her money and their weapons back. He straps as many knives he can throw in his pants and belt: One can never have enough weapons.

They find some hoods and sneak out to the boats on the beach. Connor steals again. Percy hates water: But the Sea of Monsters is beyond Poseidon's direct control, and Percy is going to hole himself up until they get to the next island.

He vomits. He is so seasick, it's not even funny. He hates boats. He hates large bodies of water. Anything bigger than a pool, and he is out.

Clarisse thinks it's funny. She laughs at him - and weirdly, he smiles back a little. The daughter of Ares plays with Blackjack, and they bond.

They are not friends - but they would kill for each other. They find it weird they had no godly intervention from Olympus - but then, Percy remembers he is just a son of Hades, and the Olympians hate him.

He burns food to Hecate. He doesn't burn food to Hermes, who appears in everyone else's quests, but avoid his own son's.

None of them has enough hubris to try and listen to the sirens. Clarisse's fatal flaw is bloodlust and Connor's is arrogance - the idea he can do anything, steal anything, and he'll never be punished.

They don't hear anything. Their next stop is the Isle of Polyphemus.

This time around, Connor is Nobody, Clarisse sneaks under a sheep to save Grover, and Percy gets the Fleece. They try to escape through a passageway that Percy's powers say lead to Haiti, but the cyclops colapses it with a boulder.

Percy hates cyclops.

They shadowtravel. Percy isn't any better at it, and with Grover tagging along, it's pretty obvious what happens, even if he is wearing the Golden Fleece like a giant blanket of strenght.

They end up in Wyoming. Percy sleeps for a week: he is starting to flick, like a ghost, and the magical sheep skin can only help so much. In this week, apparently, they meet the Party Ponies.

Chiron takes Percy in his back to CHB with the Fleece, but his friends stay behind because the centaurs won't let them mount, and they can't keep up on feet.

Clarisse, Connor and Grover meet Luke, Ethan and Alabaster in their way to an airport. It goes badly, but no one dies. They tell him Ethan only has one eye now, and that Luke looks tired and mad.

Percy thinks joining Kronos might be a bad idea. But then, he goes back to Camp, save the tree, and things don't change. The kids are still kids, alone and sad.

Will Solace was claimed. He says he misses Cabin 11, and some of his brothers don't want him to talk to Percy anymore.

It hurts. They try and keep contact for the following week, but peer pressure pushes Will away. Percy doesn't blame him.

The tree spits Thalia, daughter of Poseidon. She has black hair with green accents, green eyes, uses heavy makeup, and looks like a "Hades spawn" should look.

Percy likes her. He has no need for being the leader, and he has Annie and Grover (and Luke, and Alabaster, and Ethan, he thinks). Annie and Luke love her, so she must be amazing. He tries.

Thalia doesn't like him. She hates Hades, the one who killed her. She doesn't trust him or the fact that he never touches anyone.

Perseus tells himself he doesn't care. And suddenly, Thalia goes from "could be a good friend" to "better stay away".

The Camp celebrates Thalia. He is the hero, he brought the Fleece back, he is also a child of the Big Three. But they hate him, just like the kids in school hate him for his skin colour.

Annie has no time for him. Grover goes back to his search. He doesn't think he is going to join Kronos, but the drachma is still in his pocket.

He goes back to his mother, and then, to Yancy.

This summer, he was the hero. But no matter what, he was still the son of Hades.

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theliterateape · 4 years ago

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I Like to Watch | Zack Snyder’s Justice League

by Don Hall

Mythology is fun.

As a kid I loved reading Edith Hamilton’s book on the Greek gods and the myths. Hercules, Perseus, Apollo, and Hera—this fell completely in line with my love for superhero comics. The strangely petty human traits of envy, greed, and lust combined with the power to level cities make for some great storytelling.

Zeus was basically Harvey Weinstein in the retroactive revision we’re mired in today. If Harvey could’ve changed into a golden animal and boned unsuspecting ladies looking for careers in Hollywood I’m pretty certain he would. The gods and demi-gods of the Greeks dealt with daddy issues, mommy issues, bad relationships, and fighting. Lots of fighting. Sometimes for the good of humanity but more often for the glory of winning.

Zach Snyder is in the business of tackling myths and reframing them with a style all his own. His career has become its own myth.

From Dawn of the Dead (not so much a reboot of Romero's zombie mythology but a philosophical reimagining of the genre that arguably jumpstarted The Hollywood fascination with it), 300 (a borderline homoerotic take on the myth of the Greek underdog), and Watchmen (a ridiculously ambitious attempt to put one of the most iconic takedowns on the potential fascism of the superhero legend machine ever written) to his nearly single-handed hack at answering the Marvel juggernaut with Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Snyder is in the artistic business of subverting and re-envisioning the mythologies we embrace without even seeing them as such.

Snyder's style is operatic. It is on a grand scale even in the most mundane moments. The guy loves slow motion like Scorcese loves mobsters and Italian food. When you're tackling big themes with larger than life stories, the epic nature of his vision makes sense and has alienated a good number of audience members. With such excess, there are bound to be missteps but I'd argue that his massive take on these characters he molds from common understanding and popular nomenclature elevates them to god-like stature.

Fans of Moore's Watchmen have much to complain about Snyder's adaptation. The titular graphic novel is almost impossible to put in any other form than the one Moore intended and yet, Snyder jumped in feet-first and created a living, breathing representation of most, if not all, of the source material's intent. Whether you dig on it or not, it's hard to avoid acknowledging that the first five minutes of Watchmen is a mini-masterpiece of style, storytelling, and epic tragedy wrapped up in a music video.

Despite a host of critical backlash for his one fully original take, Sucker Punch is an amazing thing to see. More a commentary on video game enthusiasm with its lust for hot animated chicks and over-the-top violence that a celebration of cleavage and guns, the film is crazily entertaining. For those who hated the ending, he told you in the title what his plan was all along.

The first movie I saw in the theaters that tried to take a superhero mythology and treat it seriously (for the most part) was Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie. Never as big a fan of the DC characters as I have been of Marvel, it was still extraordinary to see a character I had only really known in pages to be so fully realized. Then came Burton's Batman movies. The superhero film was still an anomaly but steam was gaining. Things changed with Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, then Raimi's Spiderman, and those of us who grew up with our pulpy versions of Athena, Hermes, and Hades were rewarded with Nolan's Batman Begins. A far cry from the tongue-in-cheek camp of the 1966 TV Batman, Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne was a serious character and his tale over three films is a tragic commentary filled with the kind of death and betrayal and triumph befitting the grand narrative he deserved.

I loved Singer's Superman Returns in 2006 because it was such a love letter to the 1978 film (down to the opening credits) but by then, the MCU was taking over the world.

Snyder's first of what turns out to be an epic storyline involving perhaps seven or eight movies was Man of Steel. It was fun and, while I had my issues with the broodiness of Kal El, the odd take on Jonathan Kent, and a redheaded Lois Lane, I had no issue with Superman snapping Zod's neck. Darker and more tragic than any other version of the Kryptonian, it was still super entertaining.

Then came Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. By 2016, Marvel had codified their formula of serious characters wrestling with serious issues of power and responsibility peppered with lots of good humor and bright colors. Snyder's desaturated pallete and angst-filled demi-gods was not the obvious road to financial competition.

I'll confess, I hated it. BvS felt half-rendered. Lex Luthor was kind of superficial and played as a kind of Joker. The whole Bruce Wayne wants to kill Superman thing felt undeveloped and the "Martha" moment was just stupid.

When Joss Whedon's version of Snyder's Justice League came out in 2017, I was primed for it to be a turd and I wasn't surprised. So much of it didn't work on any level. I dismissed it as DC trying and failing miserably and was comforted by the coming of Thanos.

Following Thanos and the time heist was COVID. Suddenly, we were internationally sidelined and the movie theater industry caved in. Streaming services started popping up like knock-off smartphones and Hollywood was reeling, doing anything and everything to find a way back. Since Whedon's disastrous helming of Snyder's third act, fans online had been demanding to #ReleasetheSnyderCut but no one was ever really taking them seriously until all movie production was shut down for a year.

The stage was set to remedy a mistake (or at least make some bucks on a do-over of a huge box office failure). Snyder had left the production in part because of the suicide of his daughter and in part due to the constant artistic fights over executives looking for the quippy fun of the MCU but he still had all the original footage. Add to that the broiling accusations that Joss Whedon was "abusive" during the reshoots, the path seemed destined. For an additional $70 million and complete control, Snyder delivered a four hour mega-movie streamed on HBOMax.

Of course, I was going to watch the thing as soon as I could.

The Whedon version opens with an homage to the now dead Superman (including the much maligned digitally erased mustache on Henry Cavill). The SynderCut opens with the death of Superman and the agony of his death scream as it travels across the planet. It's a simple change but exemplifies the very different visions of how this thing is gonna play out.

Snyder doesn't want us to be OK with the power of these beings unleashed. He wants us to feel the damage and pain of death. He wants the results of violence to be as real as he can. When Marvel's Steve Rogers kicks a thug across the room and the thug hits a wall, he crumples and it is effectively over. When Batman does the same thing, we see the broken bones (often in slow motion) and the blood smear on the wall as the thug slides to the ground.

The longer SnyderCut is bloated in some places (like the extended Celtic choir singing Aquaman off to sea or the extended narrations by Wonder Woman which sound slightly like someone trying to explain the plot to Siri). On the other hand, the scene with Barry Allen saving Iris West is both endearing and extraordinary, giving insight to the power of the Flash as well as some essential character-building in contrast to Whedon's comic foil version.

One thing I noticed in this variant is that Zach wants the audience to experience the sequence of every moment as the characters do. An example comes when Diana Prince goes to the crypt to see the very plot she belabors over later. The sequence is simple. She gets a torch and goes down. Most directors which jump cut to the torch. Snyder gives us five beats as she grabs the timber, wraps cloth around the end, soaks it with kerosene, pulls out a box of matches, and lights the torch. Then she goes down the dark passageway.

The gigantic, lush diversity of Snyder’s vision of the DC superhero universe—from the long shots of the sea life in the world of Atlantis to the ancient structures and equipment of Themyscira— is almost painterly. Snyder isn't taking our time; he's taking his time. We are rewarded our patience with a far better backstory for the villain, a beautifully rendered historic battle thwarting Darkseid's initial invasion (including a fucking Green Lantern), and answers to a score of questions set up in both previous films.

Whedon's Bruce Wayne was more Ben Affleck; Snyder's is full-on Frank Miller Batman, the smartest, most brutal fucker in the room. Cyborg, instead of Whedon's sidelined non-character, is now a Frankenstein's monster, grappling with the trade-off between acceptance and enormous power. Wonder Woman is now more in line with the Patty Jenkins version and instead of being told about the loss of Superman, we are forced to live with the anguish of both his mother and Lois Lane in quiet moments of incredible grief.

To be fair to Whedon (something few are willing to do as he is now being castigated not for racism or sexism but for being mean to people) having him come in to throw in some levity and Marvel-esque color to Snyder's Wagnerian pomposity is like hiring Huey Lewis to lighten up Pink Floyd's The Wall or getting Douglas Adams to rewrite Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

I loved Snyder's self-indulgent, mythologic DC universe.

So much so that I then re-watched Man of Steel and then watched the director's version of BvS (which Snyder added approximately 32 minutes). The second film is far better at three hours and Eisenberg's Lex Luthor now makes sense. Then I watched Zach Snyder's Justice League a second time.

After nineteen hours of Snyder's re-imagining of these DC heroes and villains, I saw details that, upon first viewing, are ignored or dismissed, but after seeing them in order and complete, are suddenly consistent and relevant. Like Nolan or Fincher, Snyder defies anyone to eliminate even one piece of his narrative no matter how long. With all the pieces, this is an epic story and the pieces left at the extended epilogue play into a grander narrative we will never see.

Or maybe we will. Who knows these days?

#I Like to Watch #Zach Snyder's Justice League

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thecanadianowl · 4 years ago

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Justice league Snydercut review

Wow talk about a long movie. Remember Mass Effect's 3 shit endings that were later improved (sorta) with DLCs. Well that is kinda how this movie is.

Before we start this, I just wanna say that I was very impartial throughout the whole snydercut movement. I wasn't part of it but I do see the good that they did in regards to some of their charities and with how the fandom itself has been painted in a negative light. So its good that they got what they have been demanding for quite some time. Snyder as director for me, I really am not the biggest fan of. His movies have some great cinematic moments that look amazing but the context around it is what muddles it for me.

Is it better than Whedon's JL? YES. To start I'll look at some of the things that I do like.

I do like how it was split into parts. Gives it that miniseries/Comic book feel

Thank god they removed that stupid cringy flash landing on top of Diana's chest scene.

Darkseid looks good. I know some people have issues with it but I liked it. I mean looking at it first glance has me convinced its Darkseid. His voice isn't too bad either. Reminds me a bit of Injustice 2.

As much as I have issues with Darkseid being introduced so early I do like that he had a brief confrontation/glaredown with the League, foreshadowing a possible in person encounter and that the League needs to expand if they are going to fight against Darkseid.

Steppenwolf's design has greatly improved and looks better than before.

Loved the scenes between Alfred and Diana. Wish there was more of that.

I loved how the movie added Cyborg, Aquaman and Flash attempting to stop Superman from getting to Batman. I also liked how in this version, Batman pleading to Clark's humanity telling him that world needs him and he needs to snap out of it. Also bonus for taking out that scene of Batman on the ground groaning about how old he is getting.

Okay seeing Clark get the black suit and having the voiceovers of both his father's merge together works in terms of Clark's arc into becoming the person he was meant to be. Also like the use of Zimmerman's Ideal of Hope score wished they let it play out a little longer. Probably my favourite moment in the film is where Superman just takes Steppenwolf's Axe like its nothing and freezes it.

Now to go into some of the more critical stuff that bugged me when watching.

For a movie that is 4 hours long, pacing issues were bound to happen. I think the first example of this can be found in the opening with the Superman scream wave (which started to get a bit hilarious when his screams could be heard every now and then) hitting all three mother boxes. they are shown individually reacting to it and it takes time, where it could have just showed them together or an compilation of each of the motherboxes waking up. I know it Snyder's thing but tone down on the slow mo. Like some instances its fine (like with bullet time or Flash's scenes) but other instances I'm just like alright I get it.

The scene involving Cyborg transferring money into that single mother's bank account. Is he gonna do this for all the people suffering just like her? or just for that one person? I mean if you can hack into the world monetary system, you can solve a lot of financial issues affecting the majoirty and not just one person. Did I miss the scene but why did Cyborg go from helping one poor person, suggesting the potential good he can do to change the world for the better to "Fuck the world". Seems a bit inconsistent in character. Especially since he knows who Diana is (from what he says) and that Parademons are after the motherbox. Maybe her offering help, you should take it? idk Vic. Also the whole Auto defense system malfunction, would it not be better if this was established beforehand where we see Vic struggling to maintain his body's autonomy leading up to the Superman confrontation? Prior to that it seemed he had it under control and his biggest conflict throughout the movie seemed more to be with him coming to terms with his new body. With that being said, Cyborg's character here is much more interesting and better than it was originally. I can see why Ray Fisher is so pissed (well that and the abuse he faced). I am glad this was improved and gave the character a lot more to do.

The movie still has the same issue as before in regards to the whole motherbox plot and how convenient it was that all three are located on earth. You would think that with the involvement of Darkseid/Steppenwolf that separating them to distinct locations across space would make it more difficult to collect them. I mean we know that the Green Lanterns exist (we saw one get chomped), you'd think that they or the guardians would take one and secure it on Oa. The pushback to this would be "well there was only one green lantern and he died, so how could they retrieve the box?" which begs my question, why send only one? I mean it has been established that Darkseid is a known conqueror of worlds, you'd think the Guardians would be smart enough to send more than one Lantern to aid Earth in their fight. Did they not think it would be a good idea to have the corps be more involved/keep an eye on earth since it is the only planet that was able to repel Darkseid's forces?

Why is it that the best idea of security when it comes to humans is to bury it? Would it not be better in optics to look over it and know its location instead of dropping it somewhere on the off chance that someone might find it due to being curious or the land changing/altering making the box more easy to attain? A situation as dire/serious as this, you would think that the Amazons/Atlanteans would have been better prepped with armor/weapons for such an event. I mean you have the arrow of Artemis that shoots quite a distance to give Diana a message but not some kind of weapon that hurts/cripples Steppenwolf? Or better yet, how about the moment that the boxes started acting up after Superman's death, that Atlantis/Themiscarya would put aside any differences they had with one another and to the outside world to come together to secure the boxes? How could Darkseid forget the name of the only planet that was able to force him to retreat? nor does he know that it harbors the anti life?

Did this movie break Aquaman's continuity? because from the dialogue between Mera and Arthur, its implied that Atlanna abandoned/left Arthur at Tom's doorsteps whereas in the movie, we see Atlanna spend a couple of years with Tom and raising baby Arthur before she was forced to come back. You'd think Zack being a producer for the Aquaman movie would have edited that line or made it more clear. Well that or James Wan F'ed up when making the movie.

"I've never seen a being as strong as Steppenwolf" Did Diana just forget Ares aka the god of war who killed the Greek Pantheon/Old gods and orchestrated the first World War? Hell from the looks of the flashback it seemed Ares (I'm assuming its Ares, if its Hades, my bad) was getting some good hits in on Darkseid, who is superior to Steppenwolf. While we are on the topic of Diana, it's a bit odd that Snyder who was a producer on WW84 where one of the biggest focuses on the movie that Patty Jenkins talked about was how Diana doesn't solve her problems with violence (even though her primary weapons in this movie are a sword and shield but okay. Then again New 52 hasn't done a good job in disproving that), yet in this movie we see her using her gauntlet smash to fucking kill the one remaining terorrist. Like sure you can argue that they were terrorists and deserve to die, but given how easy and quick it was for her to take out the previous guys, why do something that runs the risks of destroying the very building that you are in (with hostages). I mean from the look of the blast and how much debris fell from the building outside, and it was a miracle no one (but the terrorist) got hurt/killed.

Why did Steppenwolf kidnap them in the first place? Just use that mind extracting device you used on the Atlantean soldier to see if they know. Seems like a waste of time to collect them in one location only to interrogate them later.

Okay, I'm sorry but even in this cut I still don't like Miller's Barry Allen. He isn't as bad as he was in the theatrical cut but man does it stick out. When he is helping to escort the kidnapped civilians out, why doesn't he just grab them and transfer them to a safe distance? He even makes a comment about how slow they are going. Can I also just say how weird it is for Barry to take time saving Iris to caress her hair and look at her more creepily in slow mo? Like yeah its in slow mo but still I think your priority should be to get everyone to safety as quick as possible and check if anyone else could get hurt. I will admit that Barry's speech as he is running so fast to reverse time at the end was really good. Tho the more I think about all the slow mo Flash scenes are good.

They still kept the "Let's use the mother box to bring back Superman plot". Why? This is a piece of tech that you don't fully understand how it works and you are going on the whims of someone you just met. Especially if they come back as a different person/mindset all together. If Superman 's death was the reason that allowed for the Mother box to call to Steppenwolf/Darkseid, what the hell were they doing prior to Superman's arrival on earth? I mean we've seen how easy it was for Steppenwolf to attain the two boxes even if they were guarded, so why the wait ?. I get that Batman is going through an arc and trying to change from the person he was but how does go from "1% chance of absolute certainty" to "let's go on a whim and have faith" when it comes to resurrecting Superman?

Its gonna be awkward as to how Clark will explain his sudden return from the grave around the same time Superman came back.

I was wondering when the Knightmare scene will play out. Jared leto's Joker isn't over with me, it seems way too try-hard to be edgy. Other than that yeah, not much I can say about it. Tho do we seriously need another iteration where Superman (or someone with Superman like powers) is evil?

I also love how nonchalant Bruce is about J'onn appearing in front him. However the revelation that J'onn was that army general all the time breaks so much of continuity (and just why now did you decide to show up and help and not idk the time Zod invaded and nearly terraformed earth, HELL WHY TF DIDN'T SHOW UP TO HELP THE LEAGUE IF YOU KNEW ABOUT DARKSEID, I'M SORRY TO RAG ON BUT REALLY THIS CAMEO JUST OPENS UP SO MANY QUESTIONS, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE AN "PALPATINE WAS BEHIND THIS ALL ALONG" KIND OF THING ).

In terms of getting a sequel, I am not sure if WB is going to go through with it given that their current vision seems to be a different route than the one Snyder intended so who knows. Despite my criticisms I do believe this is Snyder's best DCEU film to date and probably one of his better films. You could tell that he put in a lot to make this. The movie itself does have issues mostly due to the plot surrounding the motherbox as well as pacing. I would say it's worth the watch at least once, though I think its best to watch it in doses rather than one sitting. Ultimately this is the version that we should have gotten and I can see why so many people who were supportive of Zack wanted or vouched for him to finish it. Regardless, I think the very least I am happy for Snyder. If you like Snyder's previous stuff, you will like this one, if you don't, your perception of the film won't change significantly other than some cool bits here and there.

#dceu #justice league #snydercut #snydercut spoilers #dc comics

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antpernas · 4 years ago

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PAST TWO WEEKS SUMMARY

I really don’t feel like making a journal entry for every day I’ve missed, so I’m just going to bullet the important things I remember for each day.

1/25/21

Tried to have a heart-to-heart with my mom to see if I could reconcile with her and confront all the trauma from my childhood, inspired by Scorpio’s recent impact. Utterly failed, only ended up assuring me of the fact that I should absolutely cut my family out of my life once I become financially independent. Also ended my OnlyFans and made amends with some people I ended things badly with.

1/26/21

Told a bunch of friends I love them, especially ones I hadn’t reached out to in a while.

1/27/21

Worked out for the first time in forever!! Died in the process. I think I also found my GoPro.

1/28/21

First leg day in FOREVER. Also died again in the process. Also played volleyball and tested out my GoPro, it works okay!

1/29/21

Went kayaking at a park I’ve been meaning to see for a while!

1/30/21

Let myself be depressed all day, bought and started playing Hades and BOY what a mistake. Spent the whole day playing it.

1/31/21

Got flaked on, but I salvaged the day by meeting up with an old friend and going to the beach and getting dinner!

2/1/21

Finally managed to fix my registration to my new college, got a student ID and account set up. Joined a piano discord and started getting acquainted with how it works!

2/2/21

Stayed the night with my friend.

2/3/21

Helped my friend cheat on a Calc exam. Finished Kakegurui with them, then went home after!

2/4/21

Did some chores!

2/5/21

Got my car checked out since it’s been making a noise. Practiced piano!

2/6/21

My snorkel goggles shattered somehow? Went to nurseries with my friend, dirtied the shit out of my car. Watched a piano recital!

2/7/21

LOTS of chores (laundry, mopping/cleaning my room, cleaning my car again). Also, finally finished a playlist for a friend. Piano!

2/8/21

Finishing up on the chores I didn’t finish the day prior (grocery shopping, some other stuff I can’t remember)

2/9/21

Finally fixed my sleep schedule! Caught up on all my diaries, delivered some medicines, then went on a hiking trail with my friend. Went back to his place and hung out with him and his roomie after! No piano because it’s late.

AND THAT’S THATTT I’m excited to get back to making regular entries!!! And having a routine again!!

#mydiary

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pagan-prophet · 5 years ago

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Hecate, Hades,Hera & Hermes

It’s been some time since I’ve made a personal post about the Theoi I adore, but I must confess: I’ve become closer to the Theoi as time has progressed. Specifically the above mentioned four. Each will have their own story as to why we’ve become closer, and why I give each of them praise.

Hades

Hades, my Patron, my Master and Guide, my King, my friend. Hades is the first of the Theoi to ever speak to me, and thus I have a natural inclination to go to him when I have my doubts. As always, he answers. Sometimes not right away, he’s a busy God. However, he does answer nonetheless. Hades has provided for me financially and he has been keeping his end of our bargain. So long as I come when he calls, he will provide in many ways. Every promise I have made any Theoi have been conditional: so long as their requests do not interfere with my promise to Hades, I devote myself to them. Hades has been so kind, patient, generous and friendly that some days its hard to believe such a being exists. Not everyday is easy. But he reminds me how to power through, not to complain about the cards dealt to me, to endure.

Hera

Hera, Queen of the Theoi and Goddess of Marriage and Family, she has guided me in the troubling times with my fiance. She has given me advice, guided me and granted me patience when I had none. I owe her so much.

Hermes

God of Luck, they say. Hermes, quickest of the Theoi, has always felt so elusive to me. He is quick, so quick sometimes he escapes my mind. I am embarrassed to say that so many times I have forgotten to give thanks to him, or he be the last of all the Theoi I remember. Yet, despite this, he smiled upon me. I’ve been trying for 7 years to be a streamer. I’ve tried every platform, every method, everything. Nothing has worked. Just last week, I tried a different website, Mixer, because I saw Ninja was headed there, and Twitch being so saturated with streamers, I sought other sources. In one week, I had gotten 3 followers, all of whom are regular viewers, which is 3 more than I had gained in 7 years. To some, it is not a lot, but to me it’s so much more. I’m hoping my luck persists and I can continue to do what I love so much, and am able to succeed where the last 7 years have failed.

Hecate

Goddess of Night, Queen of Darkness, Goddess of Witchcraft, Dark Maiden, the Three-Faced Goddess. Hecate, my Guardian. Hecate, or Hellcat as my beloved fiance calls her, is the Goddess who has made herself most known recently. And the one who reached down into my very soul and reminded me of who I am. She has balanced me in a way that I’ve tried for years. In another post, one day I’ll go into detail of all of this, but to shorthand it all, I felt for years that a darkness was creeping into my soul. Being raised christian, I was taught to fear dark things, that it was satan’s attempt to grasp my soul. Now, I know far better. I was scared to turn back to that darkness, that which tempted me and twisted my mind. The darkness, as I learned, is not something to let yourself be swallowed by unprepared. If you do not know what lies within, or steel yourself, you will sink. That being said, my inclination to worship Hecate was apprehensive at best. However, I still wanted to try, I didn’t want to avoid her because I was afraid. I didn’t quite know what to do, especially since I’m a beginner witch and I’m still getting the hang of things. I didn’t want to upset her. Hecate must’ve known how I felt, for one night, she guided me in a way I could never have imagined.

My cats had escaped that night, due to an accident on the part of our roommates. Frustrated and concerned, we searched the cul-de-sac for them. Only two had gotten out, but my fiance and one of our roommates went one way to find them. I decided to try a different path. I prayed to Hecate, for guidance and help finding them. The moment I walked outside, one of my cats was right there on the porch. I smiled, picked him up and brought him in. I went to search for my other cat, and tried the opposite direction. I stopped at the exit to the cul-de-sac, and looked at a blinking lamp post. I stared, watching it buzz on and off. I closed my eyes and prayed to Hecate for guidance. I opened my eyes and pointed to my left, but the lamp post did not answer. I sighed, believing maybe she didn’t want to help me due to my hesitation before. I pointed right and the moment I did the lamp post shown brighter than before, as though it had never flickered before. I walked to the right and lo and behold I found my other cat, right next door to our house. I got him, brought him in and thanked Hecate endlessly for her help and blessings.

Hecate has even reminded me that in life, you must balance the light and dark within yourself to become whole. She has reminded me of my love for fall & All Hallow’s Eve. I feel it already in my veins, the smell of cinnamon, pumpkin & apple cider. She is the guide of my soul, and I feel her call so strongly. Hecate protects me and my family in the night, reminds me that I am and am not my darkness. It does not rule me, nor I it. Darkness cannot be ruled, only channeled within. It is not evil, nor good. It just is.

I’m so grateful to these four.

I pray they continue to bless me, and that I can do for them. May you all find peace within the Theoi as I have. May you walk in shadow or light protected by your patrons. May you achieve all you try, and may all of your spells succeed (so long as they’re not malicious.)

Theoi be with you.

#hecate #hecate worship #hades #hades worship #hera #hera worship #hermes #hermes worship #witchcraft #darkness #cats #spells #hellenic polytheism #hellenismos #hellenism #theoi #greek gods #blessings

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