#Zuse was a dick

[lillykepler]

As a mentally disabled and disordered person, I empathize deeply with the character Prometheus from Greek mythology. His story goes that he stole the eternal flame from the gods and gave it to mortals. As punishment, Zeus tied Prometheus to a rock where a giant eagle would peck at him and eat his entrails every day until he died. At the start of the next day, he would be made whole again, only for the eagle to start the torment anew—an unending living hell.

While I haven't stolen anything from any god nor do I have a giant bird eating my insides every day, I do face a similar relentless struggle. Each day, I wake up to a million different thoughts rushing through my head, all competing for my attention. It feels as if my brain is trying to tear itself apart in my skull. Despite this chaos, I struggle to maintain consciousness, even though lying back down makes me restless.

For 45 minutes to 2 hours, I battle these voices telling me how worthless I am, calling me a faker and a malingerer, urging me to end my life, spewing confusing nonsense, and making my entire consciousness sound like the wailing cries of hell. Once I manage to get this under control, I am left with 12 to 16 hours of empty, free time while my brain does everything it can to make me dissociate, distract me, and force me to relive embarrassing or traumatic memories.

Nothing holds my attention. Nothing feels right. I feel useless all day. I walk around confused, empty, and exhausted just from fighting my brain that is constantly causing trouble for me. My hobbies feel hollow, video games are boring because I've played them a thousand times, I have no money or energy to leave the house, and reading is an impossible task. I can't even make it through movies and TV shows.

At the end of the day, I take my meds, climb into bed, and battle my brain some more to allow me to sleep. When I finally do, I have weird dreams and nightmares, only to wake up to the same proverbial eagle tormenting me, making me live my never-ending hell.

Allow me to end this by putting you at ease. This may sound like I'm on the verge of doing something permanent, but this is probably the furthest I've been from wanting the forever sleep since I was eight. So don't worry about me. I am on the road to recovery and am hopeful that one day I can live a more full and fulfilling life.

Thanks for listening.

[queenzora]

Call me a romantic (because you’d be right) but I subscribe to the non-kidnap versions myself. Also, Persephone chooses to eat the pomegranate seeds as a way to thwart her overbearing and controlling mother, and to stay with Hades (two birds yo!).

Don’t get me wrong- Zuse is a dick and will probably forever be a dick, but I’ve a soft spot for Hades and he doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with his dick of a brother.

My take on Hades & Persephone!!

*disclaimer* This is my own retelling of the myth, she doesn’t get kidnapped in this version

[maximumsunshine]

cannot-kill-the-sun replied to your photoset: Tumblr! I need your help! I have a week off from...

zuse grants stupid wishes is an a+ read and might be short enough that you can also start tithe

That’s two votes for Zeus.  Which is probably what I’ll end up reading.  I’m going to dick around on the Tumblr for a few more and see if I get any more votes then I’m going to dedicate myself to reading.

[namesovile]

knowingoverseer replied to your post: ...

idk aboUt yoU bUt ive met a lot of ‘gods’ and only aboUt half of them inflate thier dicks and only a fraction of that talk aboUt it bUt Uh kinda? some crazy kid by yoUng zUse a long ass while back bUt im assUming yoU mean the greek hUman god right?

yeah no i feel ya but still a fifty pprrprf fifty percent ratio is still pretty still pretty intense dontcha think kinda kindaaaAAaalarming in a weird kinda way

balloon animals that’s all they are

anywayss

yeah i mean the greek god zeus thundercock

[robert-eo-swagwagon]

Hades is one of the least dickish of the gods. He's just a depressed older brother who grew up in his dad's stomach, raised his other 4 siblings, got vomited out, overthrew a regime, literally got the short end of the stick and stuck underground when him, Zuse, and Persidon were flaming terf, now dealing with dead people all the time, super rich with nothing to spend on, and only has a three headed dog named Spot and his wife that shows up half the year keeping him sane. Like the only real dick move he did was kidnaping Pesohone and making her marry him. Meanwhile Zuse and Hera are the real villains with Zuse raping people via animals and Hera murdering or curlely tourtering anyone Zuse even flirts with.

People who make hades the bad guy and only unattractive god in a movie are cowards, its 2018, it’s time to grow up and blame zeus for everything