#and i love demeter

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

[queeniegalore]

I know there is sunrise because I am a sailor…

Godspeed to the Captain of the Demeter, he was the best of us 😭

[nymphsupremacy]

Iasion knows how much Demeter suffered.

[buildoblivion]

listen dracula is my favourite gothic novel for many MANY reasons, but the winner has to be the literal ghost ship with a desperate dead man tied to the wheel in eternal prayer

[tellewell]

some of my fav cats scene redraws :3

[pinkbarbiecowboy]

I love demeter so much I'm a proud women lover and gilf lover 😞

[idiotwhotalkstoomuch]

Ngl I'm pretty weirded out by depictions of Circe that make her characterization as motherly when her myths are *reads notes on hand*

Turning Scylla into a monster because she was jealous her lover liked her.

Making Odysseus sleep with her after turning his men to swine and discovering he took moly.

Turned Picus, a married man, into a woodpecker because he said no to her sexual advances.

[tiramisuwithmascarpone]

,,Let's do matching keychains!!"

,,Let's do matching pfps!!"

Okay, but who's gonna start dressing up as the greek gods with me and make a little band so we can honour them through songs and tell their stories every single day

[cillyscribbles]

cats (1998) + demelurina propaganda

[fistfightinganxietyandlosing]

I find the demonization of Demeter in supposedly feminist retellings of the Hades and Persephone story thoroughly fascinating because she was actually the myth's protagonist

A lot of retellings focus on the "lovebirds" but the myth was moreso focused on Demeter's quest to bring her daughter home than any romance they might've had. In fact, the original source material is entitled "Homeric Hymn to Demeter"

It followed the goddess of harvest searching desperately for the whereabouts of her kidnapped daughter, enlisting the help of deities and mortals alike along the way, and eventually forcing Zeus himself to come to a compromise through sheer stubborness and pure love for her child

An interpretation I really like is that the tale is an allegory for mothers in Ancient Greece whose daughters were taken away from them to be married off without them having any say in the matter

Putting all that aside, I'm really curious as to what prompted people to portray Demeter as a control freak who doesn't want to see her daughter happy with the one she loves when originally, she was simply a mother who fought tooth and nail to see her Persephone returned to her

[davidmonster]

My type:

Tall

Dark

......and Dastmalchian

[wooluuna]

"i'll not lose her again... i shall freeze hell in it's entirety if that is what it takes to get her back"

[pinkieclown]

the long awaited jellicle posts 4!!!!! >:)

part 1 :) part 2 :)) part 3 :)))

[mewmeow8]

Something.!. I love about the 1998 Gumbie cat song is while for most of the show the older cats do get to have fun a lot of what they do is for the sake of protecting. Entertaining or explaining things to the kittens however in this song while the kittens do participate the older cats are mostly the ones having more fun. Its nice to see

[deadbaguette]

I found this absolute GEM on twitter !!!

THIS IS LITERALLY EVERYTHING TO ME OH MY GOD OHHH MY GOD???? HEARING ANGRY HADES!ACHILLES??? LOGAN CUNNINGHAM THE MAN THAT YOU AREEEE

I need to draw this I need to draw this I NEED TO DRAW THIS I NEED TO DRAW THIS I NE

The devestation and anger in his voice that he achieves without raising the voice too much ITS SO GOOD YOU GUYS

[bruciemilf]

WAYNES + Greek Gods