#The myth of youth

[bowldrips]

*youth pastor voice* "You know who else had 'mad drip'? The serpent that Skaði placed over Loki's head—"

[pelideswhore]

a suffix to their name.

Barbie (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig // Les Misérables, Victor Hugo // Barbie (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig // Achilles Come Down, Gang of Youths // Barbie (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig

[nemainofthewater]

They foil plots against them for breakfast, receive a bit of light bribery for lunch, and finish off the day with widescale manipulation.

These characters may nominally be servants, but they hold all the power in the Palace and are going to live long, long lives.

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Photo by n.a.williams

[passionsofthegods]

Hebe Tells Ares What To Wear 😖

***Ares is home from battle, dressed in "barbarian" warrior attire, discussing Hebe's upcoming bday.***

Hebe: I hope you are planning to change your outfit before my celebration.

Ares: What is wrong with what I am wearing?

Hebe: (scrunches face) Trousers are informal attire.

Ares: But they grant me flexibility in combat. A long tunic is much too constricting.

Hebe: I can assure you there will be no fighting at my party. 

Ares: (heavy sigh) For shame.

[savagechickens]

Fountain of Youth.

And more youth.

[gingermintpepper]

On that trojan war au thing you're writing. 1. What are the tags for it, cause I'm super interested! And would love to read what you have so far! 2. "And Odysseus is a much grimmer darker man due to his home being one of the places that were first swallowed up by Erebus" - I wanna know more about this. Please tell me more.

Oh , wow, I'm so flattered! I'm very happy it sounds appealing to you <33 This work is a huge passion project of mine so I'm always glad to talk more and more about it, especially since there are many aspects occurring in the background (such as the alternate fates of the main players of the Trojan Conflict) which I cannot properly cover or even explain within the events of the novel itself.

That said: 1) If you mean tags as in ao3 - unfortunately, this work isn't on ao3 my friend :( As I said above, these are elements and concepts in the greek mythology based-fantasy novel I'm currently writing (the concept of which I outlined here in the introductory post of my novel concept!) As for wanting to read whatever writing I currently have available: I currently have three fics available on ao3 that are written in my Pursuing Daybreak verse!

The Prince and Princess series deal with a young Apollo and Artemis and the many consequences they face after Apollo has slain Python. The two works uploaded right now are Exeunt Phoebus Apollo which covers the murder trial of Python and Manent Apanchomene Artemis which covers the intense feelings of helplessness and alienation Artemis experiences after Apollo returns from his banishment and is completely changed. Both of these have themes of family, grief and relationship exploration at their heart.

The third bit of writing I have up is quite outdated but does cover the immediate aftermath of Hyacinthus' death. It's called A Petal Falleth and features Apollo making one of those Big Silly Decisions that have completely unintended but extremely important consequences: namely, instead of the larkspurs being made of Hyacinthus' spilt blood, Apollo anchors the boy's soul to the flowers so Thanatos wouldn't take him. Like the Dawn is also set in this world but because it is nsfw in nature, I wouldn't recommend it as easily as the other three bits of writing. If you don't mind the whole naked men thing though, I'd definitely suggest reading Like the Dawn for a better idea of what my current writing is like (along with eventually getting to see characters like Hector, Andromache and Cassandra/Helenus) Like the Dawn's themes are also different to the other three works with it focusing more on the power dynamics of a god/mortal relationship, exploring masculinity and masculine sexuality and self discovery.

The running theme here, of course, is that all of these bits of writing are centered on Apollo/Artemis or Hyacinth because my novel itself is centered around them. There are, of course, other important characters and figures like Eros, Psyche, Penthesilea and Iaso (one of Asclepius' daughters) but while there is the definite presence of characters from the Trojan War they most certainly aren't at the center of the novel (and the ones that are aren't the Greeks but rather the Trojans i.e Hector, Alexander, Andromache, Cassandra, Helenus, Aeneas, so on and so forth.)

2) The basis of the apocalypse in my work is cosmological! Due to Apollo's err-- untimely departure, there's no longer anyone maintaining the axis of the heavens or the navel of the earth. Because of this, Erebus - whose darkness is usually kept firmly in the spaces between the realms - begins to spill out into both the heavens and the earth. The beasts of Erebus (referring primarily to the Seven Curses - Old Age, Misery, Deceit, Violence etc etc) consume, torment and destroy whatever is inside of Erebus' darkness and Ithaca, as one of the islands on the far edge of the world, was one of the very first places that were devoured in this manner. Odysseus was visiting the Argives at the time for a festival and had left the pregnant Penelope at home since he didn't want her to suffer through the voyage in discomfort. He only finds out about the destruction of Ithaca after it had already been consumed when Athena personally interrupts a feast to warn both him and Diomedes. Needless to say, Odysseus, like everyone else, assumes that everyone on Ithaca has died and thusly is a very, very different man in terms of humour and comport. A part of him still stubbornly clings to the belief that Penelope managed to escape - that she was smart and resourceful enough to see the end approaching and do her best to escape - but that doesn't stop him from being dour for the majority of the time. Diomedes does his best to keep his spirits up in the meantime. Without him around, Odysseus is something of a black hole when it comes to the oppressiveness of his discontent though he does manage to lighten up when in the company of Helen, Clytemnestra and even Menelaus on occasion.

[theboundprometheus]

i’ll never be normal about the fact that gang of youths wrote a song titled achilles come down and added spoken lines from albert camus’ the myth of sisyphus about rage, grief and hopelessness that perfectly apply to achilles’ story. how dare they?

[opold]

when i was very young i thought libraries didn't let you check out more than 10 books at a time i didn't realize this was a fake rule made up by my mother to stop me from Going Hamm in the children's section

[bowldrips]

Othin spake:

23. "Though I gave to him | who deserved not the gift,

To the baser, the battle's prize;

Winters eight | wast thou under the earth,

Milking the cows as a maid,

(Ay, and babes didst thou bear;

Unmanly thy soul must seem.)"

Loki spake:

24. "They say that with spells | in Samsey once

Like witches with charms didst thou work;

And in witch's guise | among men didst thou go;

Unmanly thy soul must seem."

-Lokasenna

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mira Lazine at LGBTQ Nation:

In its latest attack on transgender youth, lawmakers in Tennessee passed a bill to stop the nonexistent problem of adults kidnapping kids and taking them to other states for gender-affirming care.

The bill, S.B. 2782, was passed by the Tennessee House of Representatives on Thursday and is on its way to the governor’s desk. It amends a 2023 gender-affirming care ban, adding civil penalties for any adults who aid an unemancipated minor get out-of-state gender-affirming care without their parents’ consent. The bill passed along party lines 63-16 in the Tennessee House of Representatives and previously passed the state’s Senate 25-4. This would be the first state to pass a law of this kind, according to the Associated Press. S.B. 2782, is headed to the governor’s desk. Gov. Bill Lee (R) is expected to pass the legislation, as he previously advanced anti-LGBTQ+ bills, such as one that would allow LGBTQ+ foster children to be placed with foster parents who are opposed to LGBTQ+ rights. It was introduced by state Sen. Janice Bowling (R), who has been introducing anti-trans legislation since at least 2020, and contains exemptions for parents, guardians, those with the consent of parents and guardians, and common carriers like bus drivers, airline pilots, and ride share app drivers. An earlier version of S.B. 2782 reportedly had criminal penalties for adults; however, this was removed in committee. [...]

This type of legislation comes as a reaction to conspiracies that there is a ploy from transgender adults to kidnap kids and “turn” them transgender. A recent bill in Maine made headlines in the right-wing press for supposedly being a “transgender trafficking” bill. A recent bill in Maine made headlines in the right-wing press for supposedly being a “transgender trafficking” bill. The bill, L.D. 1735, makes Maine a safe state for trans people, protecting refugees from other states. Anti-trans advocates like Chaya Raichik (of Libs of TikTok) and Riley Gaines opposed this, arguing that it promoted the alleged kidnapping and trafficking of youth across state lines to give them gender-affirming surgery, something transgender youth almost never get. This culture of fear about children transitioning behind their parents’ backs has been promoted by anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who alleged that there are states that want to take kids away from their parents and make them transition. There is no evidence to support any of these assertions.

Tennessee passes anti-trans bill SB2782 that is based on the "transgender trafficking" myth spouted out by anti-trans extremists. The bill has several exemptions: parents, guardians, those with the consent of parents and guardians, and common carriers like bus drivers, airline pilots, and ride share app drivers.

[nemainofthewater]

Has a character been pregnant for two years? Does a journey take both seven episodes and about two days? Has a child become a toddler in the blink of an eye? Is the time dilation between the mortal and Heavenly realm even more ambiguous than usual?

These are all signs that your drama might be stuck in a time vortex (tm) and you may be eligible for compensation (a LOT of fic taking advantage of it).

Shout-out to Reset which is actually stuck in a time loop.

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[quote-tournament]

Second round, seventh fight

Quote number 26 :

What we call a reason to live is also an excellent reason to die.

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (quote used in the context of the song Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths)

VS

Quote number 27 :

"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do"

-Angus, Night in the Woods

[thegarden-ofeden]

hebe aesthetic [c18]

gods and goddesses masterlist

[jocanneverdecide]

I think the fact that in the song 'Achilles come down' that depicts the scene of Greek mythology hero Achilles, that is known to have the one of the most tragic stories, contemplating s*icide on the roof of a building while fighting his own inner monologue, contains quotes and passages from Albert Camus's 'myth of Sisyphus' essay on s*icide and in french after the verses, is probably my fav fact.

one of the quotes is "je vois que beaucoup de gens meurent parcequ'ils estiment que la vie ne vaut pas la peine d'être vécue. j'en vois d'autres qui se font paradoxalement tués pour les idées ou les illusions qui leur donnent une raison de vivre"

which translates to "I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living."

[myfriendscallmeweird]