#The God of war

[girl4music]

If you ever wanted to know the other popular ship in ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ and another reason why they didn’t confirm Xena and Gabrielle as an official couple.

Ares and Xena was also a very popular romantic ship and there were constant ship wars in defence for it.

They kept the romantic tension between the ships because it wasn’t just about romance. But nature.

It was very important to always have that conflict in Xena’s heart because it influenced Xena’s nature.

Plus it was a great bisexual narrative that fully proved that Xena was a bisexual character and not a gay one and that’s a huge reason why I didn’t want the reboot.

So I was all for the love triangle and to this day I think Tapert was right on this and back him up 100% for it.

I think Xena and Ares is toxic as fuck but like with Bangel, I appreciate what the ship brought to the individual characters and how they grew through it.

Besides… Xena and Gabrielle had their toxic moments too and that was also incredibly important to show for exactly the same reasons as it was for Xena and Ares.

And that was basically it. Nobody cares about any other ship in this fandom. Well… maybe Chris Manheim… who ships Gabrielle and Joxer...

Probably the only person that does… 😆😂👌

But yes, in this show it was either Xena and Gabrielle

or Xena and Ares. And it was always important that they went neither way definitively on which it was and Xena was constantly caught up in her heart’s conflict.

And the way the creators handled that was better than most TV shows handle love triangles because it was about far more than romantic interests and desires.

So although we know who truly has Xena’s heart, it was important that they never went one way or the other on confirming it in the text for Ares’ sake too and that was something Tapert was adamant about but if you asked him he would tell you he ships X&G.

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[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[perplexi-glass]

I have delivered🫡

Based on my HC from… literally half a day ago blasting 600 strikes on repeat can do wonders apparently

[valtsv]

i really do love those military jackets with embroidery that resembles a gilded ribcage they serve sooooooo much thanatological cunt it's unreal. the memento mori of it all. the bastardised martyrdom. the self-fulfilling prophecy of dressing yourself in silver and gold evoking the final, fragile shield between the most vital, vulnerable parts of you and annihilation, just to go to a place where the objective is to hack it to pieces as cruelly and efficiently as possible until you resemble nothing more than ground meat trodden into the dust you came from. fuck the military for real and forever but they went harder with horrifically ironic self-deceiving propaganda than anyone ever has or will. give it up for the old lie everyone!

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[elucubrare]

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

[razberrypuck]

no bc ford and bill's falling out is so silly to me because its like. ford's obsession with bill was the closest to "religious" that he's ever tread, and that kind of betrayal was earth shattering and hurt ford in a way he had NEVER been hurt before, causing him to completely mentally and emotionally unravel. meanwhile bill is like "can we talk 🥺" as if he hasn't been using ford for years, and when it became clear ford hated his ass bill got so drunk he forgot his mom was dead. what an INSANE dynamic to establish 8 years after the show ended.

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for @gurinderstehara!

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[axiliern]

god please take every traumatic incident i had as a younger sibling and give it to tim drake

[girl4music]

“Xena wasn’t gay. Xena was straight. She was attracted to Ares. They clearly showed that.”

Yes, they did. Because she was bisexual and was attracted to both Ares and Gabrielle romantically.

It’s easier to understand all this if you just understand it as depicting a bisexual narrative and a love triangle.

Then the back and forth hot-potato writing doesn’t seem so frustrating because Xena is attracted to and has feelings for and romantic relationships with both men and women because she’s a bisexual character.

And she’s a bisexual character before Gabrielle too. Her sexuality doesn’t change. It’s always the same.

It’s Gabrielle’s sexuality that changes. Well,… I guess it really depends on if you take her male love interests seriously. Personally, I never did. Not even Perdicus.

There was too much compulsory heterosexuality there to me which - when read between the lines - is about Xena and how much she’s “running home to mama”.

[title]

“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[wizardnuke]

hozier songs are all "i wouldn't be here without black artists" "you should kill your boss" "i love ireland :(" "DO Y OU NEED A DOG. I CAN BARK"