#Opora

[ericsfanfictions]

New Demigod Cabin: Opora

Opora is a minor Greek goddess of fruit and the autumn harvest. She doesn't have an exact Roman equivalent but Pomona is similar. Opora attracted the attention of the star god Sirius, who is associated with the "dog days" of summer. He burned hotter and hotter as his love for Opora remained unrequited, scorching the earth. Eventually mortals cried out and the north wind god Boreas sent his sons to bring Opora to Sirius, making the story a sort of parallel to the one of Helios' son Phaethon.

Opora's cabin is full of fruit snacks, candy, fruit itself, and lots of fruity drinks and smoothies. There is a tree that has all kinds of fruit growing on it, while many different birds inhabit the tree. A small fruit garden is attached to the back of the cabin. An orangutan named Amber watches over the cabin. Opora's children tend to eat healthy and many are vegetarian. They can also identify which fruits are edible and which ones are poison, though they themselves are immune to all poisonous fruit. Opora's children often hang out with demigod children of Dionysus, Demeter, and Graces. among others. They carry a bag of seeds in their pockets which can grow quickly to provide fruit.

Opora's children can inflict scurvy on enemies, and they often have weapons dipped in poison. They can also summon bees and other pollinators, and some can even turn into fruit-eating creatures. They are also decent healers due to their knowledge of fruits and herbs.

Historical Demigods/Legacies: Johnny Appleseed, Agnes Block, Paul Cézanne, Carmen Miranda, David Fairchild

Cabin Members: Georgia Perry, Kiri Parata, Yesenia Morales, Barry Appleton, Polycarp Adamos

Head Counselor: Clementine Poirot

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

@kleenexwoman

[apolloeuterpesmusic]

Relax and Listen to the Rain

Take a deep breath and let the sounds of the rain calm your mind 🌊💆‍♀️. In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle. But remember, productivity and creativity thrive in a calm and focused mind 🙏.

[normal-thoughts-official]

Lembram quando o Lula desceu o sarrafo no Bolsonaro por ter deixado o Zé Gotinha de lado? Pois é, o nosso presidente também apoia ele no torneio sexyman

Confira algumas frases do presidente:

"Zé Gotinha é um gostoso como nunca se viu antes na história desse país" (O GLOBO, 25/04/2022)

"Eu queria fazer uma campanha com o Zé Gotão pelado pra vacina do HPV, mas a Dilma não deixou" (FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 30/07/2021)

"Se o Zé Gotinha perder eu explodo esse país e fodase" (TOTHETRASHWHEREIBELONG PONTO TUMBLR PONTO COM, hoje)

Em nome da união da esquerda brasileira, vote Zé Gotinha pra sexyman Brasil!!

@gravedangerahead

[askalexsocs]

Hello Aster! What’s your favorite thing to grow? (If you can grow anything-). Also, what’s the most important trait in a person?

Huh-

Oh uh. I like growing pumpkins and apple trees.

As for important traits? Loyalty. Kindness…and not that bullshit fake kindness either! Gods knows how much I faced that fake shit.

[jp-nichts]

Opora "Thistle" Cratercreek

My chlorokin character that I'll be playing for a homebrew Lancer game. Very excited to be playing this plant girl!

She is very much based on my A1-G33 character but I wanted her to be a bit grungier for this game and less space fairing. Gave her a pink flower on her outfit and in hand to pay homage to my OG chlorokin. IDK maybe the two are roommates or something 😜

[mariacallous]

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the country’s presidential election, that in peacetime would be expected next March, will not be taking place while Ukraine remains under martial law and is in a state of war with Russia.

Western right-wing social media personalities predictably greeted this news as confirmation of their prejudices against Ukrainian democracy. Failed politician and 2020 U.S. election denier Kari Lake was among those who complained, saying on X, formerly known as Twitter, “Zelensky is considering canceling elections in Ukraine. I didn’t realize that Democracy could just be turned off & on like a TV.” Not wanting to be left out, reactionary Michael Tracey dedicated several tweets to misunderstanding Ukraine’s constitution while furiously denouncing his own followers for correcting his mistakes via X’s Community Notes feature, claiming that “it’s totally false that holding elections during Martial Law is ‘banned’ by Ukraine’s constitution.” (The Community Note is, in fact, correct, and Tracey is, of course, wrong.)

So while, I hope, everyone knows not to take such figures seriously, Americans might still have qualms over the failure to hold elections. The United States itself has a habit, rare among democracies, of keeping the vote going even during wartime, as in 1864 and 1944.

Thus, it’s worth going into detail as to why the Ukrainian government has taken this position and how the Ukrainian electorate is responding to that. This news certainly didn’t come as a surprise to anyone in Ukraine, and the pressure surrounding wartime elections has been entirely external, leaving many Ukrainians baffled. The most prominent of these interventions was made by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who on a visit to Kyiv in August said he believed the Ukrainian government should hold elections in 2024. While it should be noted that, in responding to Graham, Zelensky appeared to hold the door open for elections next year, he also stressed that they were legally prohibited under martial law in the same interview.

These opinions are not confined to American conservatives either, with the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, telling European Pravda in May that Ukraine is expected to “organize free and fair elections,” shortly before walking those comments back in a subsequent interview.

For the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians, the idea of holding elections next spring is absurd. A recent poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 81 percent of respondents thought that elections should not be held until after the end of the war. This view is shared across the country, with those in the eastern and southern regions most impacted by the ongoing conflict also overwhelmingly opposing holding elections during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian civil society has also reached the same conclusion, with more than 200 civil society institutions, NGOs, and human rights networks officially declaring their opposition to holding wartime elections. The prospect of holding elections next year had already been deemed “impossible” by Ukraine’s leading election monitoring NGO Opora in July, long before Graham arrived in Kyiv for his moment in front of the cameras.

For those who are unaware of what martial law is, in most countries it entails the suspension of a civilian government, replacing it with a military administration enacted during times of war, and it normally involves the curtailment of peacetime political freedoms such as freedom of speech and the freedom of assembly. While martial law is never a positive political development for a nation-state, at times of war, such as the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, such legal measures become unfortunately necessary to save lives.

Both constitutionally and legally speaking, the Ukrainian government is simply following Ukrainian law. The Ukrainian constitution and martial law legislation clearly prohibit presidential, parliamentary, and local elections from taking place under martial law, and Zelensky’s comments last week were merely a repetition of what other Ukrainian government officials have said on this topic in recent months. Other European countries, such as Germany, have similar provisions for postponing wartime elections.

In response to Kox’s comment in May, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said: “The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe should clearly understand that there is a Constitution and laws of our country that we have to live by, and we will figure it out on our own. No elections can be held during martial law.”

Similarly, in June, Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, said: “If elections were possible during martial law, it could lead to the rupture of the state, which our enemy is waiting for. That is why I think the most correct and wise decision is to hold elections immediately after the end of martial law.”

Speaking in August, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said: “It will be very difficult to hold elections in the country under such conditions. Indeed, there is martial law, there is war. When we end the war, then we will talk about elections.”

Some might dismiss the position of Ukrainian officials due to their own self-interest in remaining in power. If Zelensky were trying to cling to power against the wishes of Ukraine’s electorate, martial law would seem to provide the Ukrainian government with the legal and constitutional power to do just that.

However, this theory collapses on contact with Ukraine’s opinion polls. A survey taken this summer on a potential presidential election in Ukraine showed that more than 70 percent of respondents were planning to vote for Zelensky, with more than 50 percent of respondents supporting his ruling Servant of the People party.

The scale of the commanding lead that Zelensky has over his political opponents is nearly unheard of in any democracies, let alone Western ones. Few leaders around the world have the same level of popular support and legitimacy that Zelensky’s government currently holds. This is not a government that is in doubt about its democratic legitimacy, and if there were elections in March, the results would be almost guaranteed to be a landslide victory.

It is also true that Zelensky’s government under martial law banned 11 opposition political parties last March. However, the part that is often left out by those complaining about this is that these parties had explicit links to the Russian government and were in many cases actively assisting the Russian invasion. It’s hard to imagine any country not responding the same way when under invasion. For example, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s government banned Oswald Mosley’s pro-Nazi British Union of Fascists at the outbreak of World War II. Again, none of this means that Ukraine is no longer a functioning democracy—it is merely a democracy that is currently fighting off an invading army.

The final point is also the most overlooked by external observers pressuring the Ukrainian government into violating its constitutional obligations: the matter of safety. Holding elections while Russia continues to bombard civilian targets in Ukraine on a daily basis is not just dangerous; it is outright irresponsible. The Russian military has a track record of systematically targeting any large congregations of Ukrainian civilians. In October, Russia bombed a cafe where people had gathered for a wake, leaving 59 people dead.

In any wartime election, polling stations would become high-value targets for a Russian dictatorship that is hellbent on destroying Ukrainian democracy and a Russian military that carries out war crimes against civilians as its modus operandi.

Furthermore, 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory is under Russian occupation, and those citizens have just as much right as those living in Kyiv or Lviv to participate in Ukrainian elections, but trying to organize those under Russian occupation would put participants and organizers under mortal peril. Ukraine does not have the means of ensuring the safety of its electorate during this democratic process, and it’s arguable that no democratic nation could ensure the safety of its citizens under these conditions.

Lastly, while this situation has not arisen in Western democracies since the end of World War II, the United Kingdom also did not hold elections between 1940 and 1945, and at no point during that time were substantial parts of Britain occupied by Nazi Germany. Most of democratic Europe was occupied during World War II, but during World War I, France and other nations suspended elections. I have never heard anyone try to say this meant those countries ceased being democracies. The United States was able to hold elections during wartime because the front line was mercifully distant; Ukraine does not have that luxury.

Given that the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian politicians, Ukrainian civil society, and the Ukrainian electorate have categorically rejected the notion of holding elections while the country remains locked in an existential war with Russia, there is little excuse for external observers to be piling additional pressure onto Kyiv to hold a dangerous, illegal vanity contest with an already foregone conclusion.

[mythological-art]

Pomona

Artist: Robert Tournières (French, 1667-1752)

Collection: National Museum Stockholm, Sweden

Pomona

Pomona was a goddess of fruitful abundance and plenty in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit", specifically orchard fruit.

Pomona was said to be a wood nymph. Pomona does not have a clear counterpart in Greek mythology, although the fruit goddess Opora can be seen as her equivalent.

[lucystark12]

little sneak peak of things to come because i feel bad that i haven't updated in a week 🫶

i'll finish the third chapter soon- this is gonna be a long one for sure so just bare with me-

“Hey.” Mike says, leaning over and speaking quiet enough so that just Will can hear. So that just Will can hear. Will would wonder how he could be so lucky, but he knows he isn’t, because something is wrong. “Sirius.” Mike says, pointing up. 

Will, slightly dazed, responds “What?” 

“Brightest star in the sky.” Mike says, letting go of his hand in favor of rolling over to talk to him, their faces only inches apart. “There’s a Greek myth ‘bout him too. Fell in love with Opora, a goddess, but 

“He couldn’t have herhim.” Two voices overlap as the last words come out of his mouth, Mike’s, and the same voice from the last dream. His. Will stands up, leaving the younger version of himself laying on the grass, cheeks flushed. He looks around expectantly, waiting for the vines to come back and wrap around him the same way they did the other night. He waits to have to fight them off again, but they never come. “So he made people suffer. Because he wasn’t loved. That’s you, Will. They don’t love you. He doesn't. And he never will.” Suddenly the voice is behind him. Will spins around, staring him in the face for the first time. Vecna. The person terrorizing Hawkins. The one who had started this, done this to him. He feels himself cower, much to his own regret. He always hoped that one day if he came face to face with the voice who spoke to him back in the Upside Down, the one who nearly drove him crazy with the constant taunting and teasing. This reptilian mummy was the one who had done it. And here he was, clutching the back of his neck like a lifeline instead of striking, punching, kicking, anything. 

“I… no. That’s not true. He’s my best friend.” Will says, devoid of much else to say or think. Vecna laughs

“Oh is he now? Where were the letters? Why didn’t he call? He doesn’t care, Will. I was like you as a child. Now look.” Vecna says, snapping his fingers. As he does, the whole scene shifts around him, the grass turning to metal beneath his feet, his peripherals reflecting desert hay around him instead of the darkness it did just before. Suddenly, he’s sitting, words pouring out of his mouth before he even realizes it’s happening, because he was just dropped into this moment. 

“You feel like a mistake.” He says naturally, a continuation of the sentence,  before realizing this isn’t where he’s supposed to be. “Wait… no. What?” Snapping out of it, Mike drops the painting into his lap, meeting his eyes. “No. Shit. This is wrong.”

yes that is a marauders reference shhh

[hannahhook7744]

Gods of Descendants Fancasts (Part 1);

Lana Del Rey as Hera.

Anthony Head as Zeus.

Kevin Sorbo as Hercules.

Alexandra Shipp as Hestia.

Crystal Reed as Artemis.

Alex Pettyfer as Apollo.

Courtney Eaton as Athena.

Lexi Hensler as Aphrodite.

Brett Patrick Dalton as Ares.

Devan Chandler Long as Hephaestus.

Sheila Carrasco as Demeter.

Cheyenne Jackson as Hades.

Eva Green as Persephone.

Jerry Habibi can be Zargeus.

Emma Greenwell can be Melinoë.

Natalie Dormer can be Macaria.

Cody Fern can be Thantos.

Ginnifer Goodwin as Hebe.

Brett Gelman as Dionysus.

Rosario Dawson as Ariadne.

Charlize Theron as Eris.

Katie McGrath as Hecate.

Luca Hollestelle as Opora.

Laura Harrier as Amphitrite.

Jason Momoa as Poseidon.

Caitlin Stasey as Astraea.

Anya Taylor-Joy as Brizo.

Nathan Fillion as Hermes.

Olivia Newton-John as Pysche.

Patrick Swayze as Eros.

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(Thanks for the help @bellalampwickrossi ).

[deesdressup]

Alcohol Goddesses - Ninkasi (Mesopotamian) - Menthe (Greek) - Opora (Greek) - Varuni (Hindu) Marriage Goddesses - Sati (Hindu) - Lofn (Norse) - Hera (Greek) - Umi (Etruscan) Mountain Goddesses - Lelluri (Anatolian Hurrian) - Maria Makiling (Philippine) - Konohanasakuya-hime (Japanese) - Ninḫursaĝ (Mesopotamian)

Wisdom/Knowledge Goddesses - Chachy (Itelmen Russian) - Chista (Zoroastrianism) - Saraswati (Hindu) - Ihi (Tahitian) - Anyanwu (Ọdịnala Igbo) - Prajñāpāramitā Devī (Mahayana Buddhism) - Vör (Norse) - Seshat (Egyptian) Magical Goddesses - Huitaca (Muisca) - Isis (Egyptian) - Gullveig (Norse) - Circe (Greek)

[proton-wobbler]

Genus: Oporornis

Connecticut Warbler (Matt Tillett)

You may know of the "Bird Names for Birds" movement, which has helped in advocating for birds to be named after their own behaviors or appearance rather than a human being. [It should be noted that the inciting and most pressing cause for renaming eponymous birds is to stop the glorification of colonialism, racism, and inequality.] Personally, I would love to propose a second branch of the movement, where location-based names are also taken into consideration for review. Many birds are named after the first location in which a specimen was collected for "official naming" and study by European naturalists, but this leaves a lot of birds with misleading common names. The Connecticut Warbler (CONW) does not breed in Connecticut, and is only found in the state during migration, albeit in low density.

The genus name Oporornis means "autumn bird" from opora 'autumn' and ornis 'bird. This is likely due to the fact these birds are easier to find during fall migration, but such is the case with many bird species, due to the amount of juvenile birds undergoing their first migration south and essentially "doubling" the number of sightings from the spring migration. So... it's a better name than the species name, but still a bit clunky and not very descriptive.

Despite being one of the larger wood-warblers, CONW are known to be hard to find as they prefer to ground forage in dense underbrush and have a low population density. They used to share Oporornis with the MacGillivray's, Mourning, and Kentucky Warblers, but newer genetic analysis split those birds into Geothlypis and showed that Semper's Warbler is actually the sister species to Connecticut Warbler.

[i-am-more-than-you-will-ever-be]

Není to tak dlouho, co deprese či něco podobného ovládalo můj život. Pamatuju si momenty, kdy jsem doslova nebyla schopná vylézt z postele. Měla jsem pocit, že nemůžu ovládat vlastní tělo. Doba, kdy i dát si jedno jídlo denně byl největší výkon. A neřekla jsem to nikomu. Jenom jemu. On byl moje opora ve všem. Já a on proti všemu, co mi osud udělil. 

A teď sleduju, jak stejná a pravděpodobně třikrát horší věc trápí moji sestru. A vidím, jak se jí všichni snaží pomoct. Jak pro ni dělají první poslední. Jak ji berou za každým psychologem i psychiatrem, který má zrovna volný termín. Jak jí nasazují prášky a sledují, jak a jestli fungují. Ale taky vidím, jak to absolutně nechápou. Nechápou, že občas člověk není schopný si ani dojít do sprchy, ne že by nechtěl, ale protože prostě nemůže. A myslím si, že dokud tohle nepochopí, dokud jim nedojde, že deprese nemusí mít důvod a nevybírá si, tak se v tom bude trápit víc a víc lidí. 

A přestože jsem si stejnými pocity prošla sama, tak netuším, jak o tom s ní mluvit. Protože já si vybrala to zamlčet, tu pomoc nevyhledat a překonat to sama. A teď jsem já ta dcera, která to všechno nevyřešené nosí v sobě, ale na kterou spoléhají, o které si myslí, že funguje správně, že její mozek je v pořádku. A občas je toho prostě moc. Třeba teď. Ale já si nemůžu dovolit tomu podlehnout znovu. 

[normal-thoughts-official]

[Pra Todos Verem: O Do Contra jovem com a bandeira trans ao fundo. Ele está de braços cruzados e sorrindo, olhando de lado com cara de confiante. Fim da descrição]

Já que estamos falando de Do Contra, vamos seguir falando de Do Contra

Motivos pelos quais o Do Contra é trans

[Texto: “motivos pelos quais o Do Contra é trans” em letra grande]

1. O nome dele é literalmente Do Contra. Esse é o nome de uma pessoa cis pra você? Não. Esse é o nome de um TRANSMASCULINO IMBECIL e todo transmasc do mundo tem inveja dele por isso

2. O nome dele é literalmente Do Contra. Você acha que ele ia falar pro seu gênero imposto ao nascimento e falar “ata concordo”? Não. Ele seria trans só pra contrariar, embora eu ache que na verdade foi o ser trans que deu nele essa mania de querer ser diferentão e recusar padrões™ em tudo

3. O cabelo horroroso do Do Contra criança é claramente o resultado de tentar cortar o próprio cabelo pra ficar mais curto e acabar uma bosta

4. A família do Do Contra se mudou pro bairro do Limoeiro depois do resto. Por que eles fariam isso? Pro Do Contra poder transicionar em paz sem ficar cercado de pessoas que sabiam o nome morto dele e não respeitavam o gênero dele. Literalmente não existe nenhuma outra opção possível então não venha discutir

Portanto, um voto pelo Do Contra no torneio sexyman é um voto pelos direitos LGBT, igualdade, e pra atropelar a JK Rola com um caminhão

VOTE DO CONTRA

[radosestalo]

27. duben

Jsem u mamky doma a hlídám pejsky. Už se tu cítím dobře, nemám pocit, že to na mě všechno padá. Asi to prostě chtělo čas, ono se časem všechno nakonec nějak vyřeší. To je jako s J. – každý máme svoje strachy a bubáky, ale mluvíme o nich a oni postupně odchází. Už mě neděsí, že je mezi námi všechno v pořádku, a kdykoli se objeví nějaký další strach, prostě o něm mluvím, i kdyby to měla být úplná blbost, a on se postupně odporoučí pryč z mojí hlavy. J. je pro mě velká opora, vždycky mě vyslechne a nikdy moje pocity neshazuje, uklidňuje mě a nevadí mu mi ty věci opakovat, když je to potřeba. A když mě přepadne nějaká obava, která se týká jeho, vždycky mi vysvětlí, proč to tak není, takže nezbývá žádný prostor pro domněnky a úzkosti, a tím pádem ani pro jakoukoli nedůvěru. Cítím se s ním krásně a hlavně jsem konečně v klidu, jsem tak nějak ukotvená hluboko v sobě, a to je báječný. Taky mi nedělá vůbec problém být s ním sama sebou, a nemusím se nijak hlídat, prostě to jde samo. A nemám nutkání koukat se daleko do budoucnosti a stresovat, co když něco z toho, co jsem si naplánovala, nevyjde. Prostě si užívám, co teď máme, a nechávám to plynout. A nejspíš je to tím, že jsme na to dva, takže máme přesilu a proto nám to jde, ale nějak nedokážu tuhle lehkost a plynulost a bezstarostnost přenést do tvoření. A hrozně mě to trápí, poněvadž mám pocit, že to prostě nejde samo, že to tak nějak drhne a stojí mě to spoustu energie. Kterou ovšem vkládám spíš do toho, že nad tím tak hrozně přemýšlím. Ta lehkost mi chybí právě v tom, že se nějak nedokážu jen tak zvednout a jít kreslit, jako kdyby o nic nešlo. Hm. Nojo, ale o co tedy vlastně jde? O dělání chyb. A taky o pocit, že nemám čas. To je ono. Že když zkouším něco nového, mám pocit, mám pocit, že to nakonec nebude ono, že se ukáže, že je to slepá ulička, a já budu muset začínat znova. Jenže v tomhle prostě vůbec nejde o nějaký cíl, ale o to, co se naučím cestou. A věřím tomu, že na té konkrétní cestě jsem z nějakého důvodu, a že kdyby mi to nemělo nic dát, tak mě to tam ani nezavede. Tak. Jen počkej, já ti to vytmavim 💗