#and only by the grace of the gods

[eaissilyy]

A kinder mother would sure seek her sons, even if it was her who abandoned them.

(Just a Thought of Marika in ragged clothes and covered in veil, unfortunately didn’t hide her grace, descending down to the shunning ground she made to cage her rage and grief from the time long past, just to see her sons who she refused to hold and look at their births. SADLY THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED AHUGHGAHHHHH)

[as-amemory]

Hi! Long time listener, first time caller. This is my attempt to dip my toe in the fandom. I wanted to create a space where I could explore my love for a certain horse-lord(s), all things Rohan, and anything else I find aesthetically pleasing.

[icarusredwings]

There are two types of Logurt /Nightwolves shippers.

There's those who make them do the nastiest things you've ever to the point Kurt stops caring about the religious community will think of him and they can't keep their hands (and tail) off of each other because "It's not a sin if I never marry" (seeing as they aren't allowed to marry anyway)

And then there are those who imagine the most passionate yet celibate relationship riddled with the most non sexual (okay, maybe a bit, but it never goes too far) Body worshipping I've ever read with such reassurances that despite their sins and misfortune, Kurt loves just as how he was meant to.

Neither involve Kurt trying to preasure Logan into believing, and neither invovle preasuring Kurt into anything he's not comfortable with either.

Both involve Kurt questioning his status and feeling guilt, even if just a thought.

Sometimes, it invovles them to adopt a lot of teenage girls together.

Sometimes, it invovles ethical Polyamory on Logan's end.

And SOMETIMES- If you're lucky- it involves Logan bringing kurt flowers in the middle of his sunday school lesson and the students knowing Logan by name and laughing as he embarrasses their youth pastor by grabbing his face and kissing him all over until his face looks purple and shoos him away giggling.

"Today's lesson- Temptation."

[klanced]

“Keith is not a tsundere he just sucks” you know and understand more than a simple mortal mind could ever dream

i feel like a quintessential part of understanding keith's character is realizing that he is generally okay at socializing with people (he just doesn't like dealing with strangers), but there is something very specific about lance that makes keith fumble every single interaction they have

[julientel]

one year ago I played the game for the first time right on its release day and fell in love with these two

[duahauuoplanh]

but I warn you, I'll break your heart.

[avalencias]

something something you can always tell when i’m extra extra stressed out by my posting habits, feat. the gorls

[dykedvonte]

Can you talk about trans!Curly a little bit more? I'm curios if you have any headcanons and the like

-💀

It's just such a thing in my mind because it adds a truthful sadness and differing aspect to mouthwashing.

If Curly was trans it adds the horror of the horribly selfish thought he could have easily been in Anya's situation. It could've been him but it wasn't and he so conflicted on the pit it put in his stomach that brings and the shameful relief it wasn't. In this scenario he is friends with Jimmy for a long time still. Jimmy likely knew him pretransition. Maybe he gave Curly weird looks then, maybe they never stopped after, maybe they seemed meaner. They are guys now, bros, both of them are. He doesn't really have to worry what those looks mean anymore, Jimmy just has that face with him sometimes. It's recontextualizing a lot of things for him that he was in denial about or too ashamed to admit. How naive he was being and how he let that get another person hurt.

Specifically with Anya, it's he knows the dread and fear she's feeling. He can understand it because he had to live with it for a good portion of his life, he knows it cause he still does, just in a slightly different way. It makes him think of all the times he's been alone with Jimmy, all the times he's been way more drunk off his ass and not remember the night, Jimmy was always with him the next day. Makes him think of the comments he would laugh off both because that's what guys do but because that part of being a girl says to laugh so Jimmy doesn't do something. It's the selfish realization that he was never safe and he's uncertain now too. Mad at himself for forgeting that feeling, espcially since for a long time he would've been considered the only woman on a crew (with all that implies) for a long time.

He should've taken those blinders off, step back into that position for just a moment and it's so much more painful that Anya likely came to him because he should've gotten it. Those thoughts don't leave his mind after the crash when he's in an even more vulnerable position than she was...

[aroaceleovaldez]

Something something Jason feeling like he doesn't quite fit as "Greek" or "Roman" as a metaphor for bisexuality, particularly the semi-canonical bi-coding in his half of experiences during the Cupid scene and how Favonius and Cupid speak to him in parallel to the scenes confirming Nico is gay.

Something something the camps as metaphors for traditionally acceptable forms of relationships and Nico living as a rogue outside of them, rejecting expectation (ergo in himself representing a metaphor of queer identity and living outside of boxes and defined/usually hetero-allonormative/binary ideas of what love/relationships should look like) versus Jason struggling with the expectation to conform to a label and even discussing with Nico both of them remaining at CHB together.

Something something the inverse of Jason shifting away from the camps after he breaks up with Piper, feeling lost and unable to find a place between the camps as he begins to explore his queer identity properly for the first time versus Nico only remaining at CHB because he has entered a relationship. In this essay I will-

[ylge]

NIGHT

Inspired by this scene in ToG S2's new opening song

[massiveladycat]

i actually kind of like ares, in mythology he's actually pretty cool--

anti ares people:

WARNING! SA AND R*PE MENTION DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU MAY BE TRIGGERED reasons of why i like ares:

protector of mistreated women halirrothius, son of Poseidon, thought he could do whatever he wanted because his daddy was the god of the seas and so he r*ped alcippe, daughter of ares, god of war. ares immediately killed halirrothius, and he was put on trial. he would have been declared a murderer but the goddesses declared in his favor. he looked out for his children too, and he never raped anyone

father, patron, and supporter of the amazons

freed Thanatos from Sisyphus (he got annoyed that death wasn't permanent but ykw he still did it!!)

when his son was killed by the trojans, he was literally livid. zeus had told him that he could not interfere in the war, but he still wanted to attack the trojans. once again ares is a great father compared to the others

gets portrayed as weak because the Athenians recorded most of mythology and happily screwed him over; he's not the most powerful god, but hes literally the god of the 'horrible parts of war' and courage. this man does NOT run away screaming at a little cut. maybe he doesn't like getting hurt because he's immortal and he's not used to it but come on man!!

[aamaryst]

“Only, if only, we can be brave this time”

pile of redraws bc the stray gods brainrot is so real and grace and freddie own my entire heart

[reddamselette]

Leo didn’t know how much longer he could take it. The constant excuses made and lies told from Jason to cling onto him for warmth or the lingering touches that left little waves of electricity mingle with his veins and surging through to his heart. Leo was only so strong enough to handle the soft, lazy smile Jason reserved for him.

How long would Jason continue deluding himself into believing they were just friends?

After suffering through so much heartache from someone he wasn’t even dating, Leo dragged Jason into the empty cabin of Zeus and slammed the door shut.

“Don’t— Don’t look at me like that, Jason Grace. I’ve had it with you and you’re driving me insane!” Leo narrowed his eyes into a glare towards the son of Zeus who stared back with unassuming sky blue irises. He’s so pretty but he doesn’t deserve special treatment right now.

Jason held up his hands in surrender, a soft furrow to his beautiful brows with a frown curling the corner of his lips. “What’s wrong?”

Leo huffed, shaking his head before rubbing his face with his hands. Frustration pulled and clawed at him and when he spoke, it was wrecked and cracked within every word. “For gods’ sake, Jason. How long— I mean how much longer are we planning to have this go on before you can admit that we aren’t just friends?”

Jason startled visibly as the realization dawned on him suddenly but slowly like the tip of a tornado touching the ground to destroy everything in the surrounding area. He swallowed as he dropped his hands to his sides and he felt regret rise in his heart.

Leo knew because Jason was always expressive with his eyes and he knew because he spent so much time being lost within pools of blue.

“Aren’t we?” Jason asked quietly, his voice just above a whisper like he was afraid to make things worse, to spark an ever growing wildfire.

“Don’t give me that. You can’t— Stop running away from me, why do you keep running away from me? This hurts me too! You not admitting what this is is hurting both of us!”

Their ears rang in sync as Leo’s words were drowned in the silence enveloping the cabin like a protective dome.

Leo heaved a heavy sigh, the telltale stinging pain of tears welling in his eyes told him he wouldn’t be able to keep himself composed the longer he stood in front of Jason. He wanted to reach out and kiss him but slap and punch him all at the same time. But until Jason faced what he created, Leo couldn’t continue torturing himself for the sake of figuring it out.

Because in truth—and he wasn’t sure when everything shifted—it was never casual.

[plutonianplaything2]

bye i relate to penelope featherington in an awful way bc i also am the unnoticed hopeless romantic chubby girl and episode four of season three has me crying

[ave-immaculata]

fellas we're once again wrestling with imperfect vs. perfect contrition and why imperfect contrition with a firm resolution to not sin again and promptly receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation doesn't save

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 3:10-11 (CEV) - God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build, because Christ is the only foundation.