#about ginger

[reimeichan]

weeeee been fronting most of today and it's actually kinda weird! you'd think I'd be used to it being one of the former hosts and the one who's been host the longest, but it's been so long since I regularly fronted that honestly it's a little bit strange to realize I've been out and about for most of the day! p sure Crimsy is exhausted and depressed out of his mind and Cyan is tired from dealing with the whole Ginger/Cardinal/Green fiasco.

(also I haaaaaate not being able to use our Actual Names and use my nickname for Crimsy online, but it is what it isssss)

also p sure our body is now too Old to handle my hyperactive forever 12 ADHD energy which SUCKS ughhhh whyyyyyyy I just wanna do things and hang out with people and talk to people but noooooo I'm "tired" and my friends and partners are all "busy" or "asleep" or "getting ready for bed" >:( HMPH maybe yall just cant handle my fabulosity *hairflips*

and also maybe maybe MAYBE the others in my brain are telling me to also go to bed and stop bothering people fjajfbsnghd

NO I will be AWAKE and HYPER and do my own shit YOU CANT STOP ME MUAHAHAHAHAHA

*forcefully dragged away from tumblr by an exasperated Green* D: #rude #howdareyou

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

🤓 Ginger Hope?

her film studies elective

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[blessyouhawkeye]

all interviewers want to ask chappell roan is how she's dealing with sudden fame and what celebrities have reached out to her instead of REAL questions like has she read gideon the ninth. can she please read gideon the ninth. when will she read gideon the ninth.

[gingerdunbroch]

sometimes i think about how when i was in third grade my hyper fixation was this biography of Joan of Arc i had borrowed from the classroom library

i was so obsessed with it that i made my mom take the book to work so she could use the copy machine to make copies of the paintings in the book for me to hang on my wall

but wait

it gets weirder

there was this one painting in the book that i saw and thought “i should recreate this with my barbie”

so i took a barbie, made her a dress out of tissues and a hair tie, and tied her to the leg of my nightstand with some yarn 💀

children are so fucking weird

[goryhorroor]

"we all go a little mad sometimes, how about you?"

[aria-greenhoodie]

WOE, NEXT SUMMER DESIGNS FOR SOME OF THE GRAVITY FALLS KIDS, GO!

Click for Quality!

Pt 1/2/?

[maggiecheungs]

CARY GRANT as Barnaby Fulton and GINGER ROGERS as Edwina Fulton

MONKEY BUSINESS (1952) dir. Howards Hawks

[hunnam]

[river-of-wine]

Luck of the Irish

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ferdibirthdays

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

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James Hall & Clara Clemont in... Swing Time!

[hoofpeet]

Cleanup <3

[fearandhatred]

crowley.... crowley ur so pretty..... save me crowley..........

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Happy Super Bowl, ya goblins!