#anyways isys is also my child

[eintausendschoen]

what’s your opinion on Leucothea?

First of all: 💙💜💙 That's such a lovely question, thank you so much, because... *sigh* I am missing Leucothea in EPIC so badly (of course I understand the need to cut corners to keep the narrative concise)!

Mainly because her part in in the Odyssey keeping Odysseus safe from Poseidon's wrath was always a bit funny for me. Just Poseidon's reaction to seeing Odysseus abandoning his ruined raft dressed in Leucothea's veil! He goes shaking his head at it like 'ah whatevs, you'll face enough pain anyway, why bother' and just goes back to his own business... 😂 ... bit anticlimactic. (I strongly imagine WolfyTheWitch's Poseidon with that xD)

But! Leucothea!

She's supposed to be protector of mariners after all, but from what I remember her backstories/myths sum up to "no good deed goes unpunished", I'll try to put them below, but I'm not an expert.

So - you asked, and I did a gigaton of research into the sea goddesses :)) but it's all myth and hard to pic out facts for a non-historian like me with limited sources, so here's the bits that stuck. Which is still a lot. Sorry, textwall incoming. 🙏🙇‍♀️🙏

I just love how myth and lore transforms with the cultures they belong to and I live and breathe for tidbids from the bronze and iron age! Here you go:

As Ino, she'd be fostermother to Dionysos punished by Hera via proxy (driving her husband mad) for helping the child, and casting herself and her son into the sea as last resort. Both were made deities of the sea, protecting the sailors (her) and harbors (her son, mainly Corinth as far as I could discern, worshipped as Palaemon).

I also remember a temple where Poseidon was worshipped alongside Leucothea and Palaemon, which is quite and interesting parallel to the phoenician trias of gods (father, mother, son) that you could know from a wide range of biblical texts maybe as Baal/Astarte/their offspring. (And that part is tremendously interesting because Astarte transformed into the greek godesses Aphrodite and Artemis, as well as the egyptian Isis, and was a goddess of sexuality, fertility, war and the hunt, protector of mariners again and associated with horse and chariot). These cults died with the Bronze Age collapse, or were overtaken and transformed by other religions.

But back to backstories: As Halia, she'd be Poseidon's wife, and again the punishment by madness theme strikes here: her relatives are driven mad by an Olympian (this time Aphrodite) and lost.

Her name meaning 'saltwater'. And that I find really interesting because, with Poseidon being a storm god, is a big parallel back to the myths of Tiamat (saltwater ocean in which the land was born) and Abzu (cosmic sea of sweet water - the sky ocean aka the god of storms and rains and atmosphere) from ancient Babylon, who created the whole of land and sky in their union.

Tiamat (as wild, untamed nature) was later fought by Marduk, a male god and cultural hero, representing the triumph of human culture over primal chaos, but also patriarchal society over matriarchally led tribal society.

In my fic I tried to incorporate Leucothea Halia's aspects into Amphitrite, her being an ancient saltwater goddess, a 'white goddess' in appearance with lots of silver and reflective scales and eyes, association with white birds and bright sunlight.

And lastly, because I loved the question so much: What's your ideas about her? :) Would love to hear 💙✨🙏

[fableforger]

I was curious, Will we get to read more about the people we answered the prayers of? as well as Lykon and Kastor. And it also seems that some gods have more flavour text early on, with the memories being associated with water and the nymphs and the luck being associated with the pavilion of Pan. And later on the God even thinks about Pan when interacting with the child. It's very endearing.

I never knew that names like Helios and Iris were originated from gods. It was a very interesting read. The whole article makes you miss the introduced characters, I played as different gods and chose different personalities in each one but my favourite character is definitely Isis and Eileithyia- she's really cool. Each of her lines changing according the god chosen.

Charikleia and Hermes were also very fragrant and flavourful.

Even what the god wears have flavour text, though feeling out of place when the wear chosen is of defering style than the God's station. I would like to write about more things in detail, but I have to abstain out of fear of ruining someone else's experience.

Anyway, I think that your article is very cool and cleek. I will appreciate it through emoticons and as well as your hard work🌸🌸🌸🌸

Send you well regards. A very recent reader. Stay well, stay hydrated, refrain from blackening into a black lotus. Thankyou for your time.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed message. 😊

It honestly means a lot when someone takes the time to give such kind and attentive feedback - I really appreciate it.

You definitely have a sharp eye (or instinct would be the better word, perhaps). 😉

Those who once reached out in prayer - or in desperation - may yet have a small part to play. Let’s just say... some threads don’t stay quiet forever.

I’m aiming for high replayability overall - ideally, if that’s your kind of playstyle, you’ll want to dive back in right after finishing, just to see how different paths unfold with a different god(dess) at the core.

Some moments, some routes, are only possible with certain aspects of divinity. I’m hoping to expand on that even more in future updates.

Wishing you soft days ahead - and thank you for your time and interest. 💙

[bestygogirl]

BEST YGO GIRL: ROUND 4, GROUP C

Match 2

please use this as an opportunity to say why you like a character, not why you don't.

Propaganda under the cut!

Mana

mana is the apprentice to mahad and her ka is dark magician girl. she is the basis for apprentice illusion magician. she is the first one to inherit the millennium ring after mahad, while it allegedly has yami bakura in it. her fate is left up to the viewer. another fun fact is she teases atem like he's her big brother and hides in vases. she makes fun of set's stupid hat and turns it in magical hats. she's a fun loving child who is put in a position where she needs to fight a war. and like. she's my daughter please vote for her.

Isis Ishtar

gorgeous, very caring sister, strong duelist, and the only woman to ever make Seto Kaiba squirm

anyways. not only as mentioned above is she the first woman to make kaiba squirm, but she was by all means going to beat him if not for the millennium rod's millennium interference. yami marik admits that she's a strong duelist with a strategy that's been working for literal years-- and given that she's not like, a professional duelist, thats pretty impressive

she also recently got some really cool meta bumps and let me point out that an "ishizu deck" now includes obelisk the tormentor-- which we knew she had prior to giving it to kaiba, but i think it only solidifies my opinion that she very much could wield an Egyptian God Card, an exclusive little club for top tier duelists

as a character she presents herself with an amazing amount of poise and grace, shes compassionate and kind and stays with mai and serenity even though she only just met them. shes struggling through living the past 5 years of her life drowning in guilt for her family's tragedy just because she wanted to make her little brother happy and shadi is a fucking liar. shes foretold her own death and marches towards it grimly but with so much love in her heart. and even then shes 20 years old and holds an important position in the egyptian government that typically requires a doctorate degree AND has been dealing with mariks off-and-on bullshit entirely by her lonesome. she also likes to flex her fortunetelling a little which is awesome i think she should do that more that scene where she tells the guy exactly how the stele is being transported was so everything

speaking of shes got such an attitude. "is it your destiny to waste my time?" iconic. never seen before will never be seen again. watch the duel between her va and joeys its so fucking funny

shes excult. shes doesnt flinch in the face of god nor death. seto kaiba and yami marik respect her. shes so sad and so sweet and battle city couldnt have happened without her.

also her parallels with kaiba are what motivate kaiba to give yugi the card he needed to beat marik.

kaiba, in duelist kingdom, was ready to jump off a ledge if yugi didnt let him through to face pegasus while trying to save mokuba out of sheer desperation to save his little brother. he KNOWS what that dedication feels like and the iron kind of will you need to have to make that kind of gamble. isis is being so fucking legit with what shes saying and he respects that and her judgement enough to change his mind and not only watch the duel, but give yugi a card that eventually helps him win, even if he has no real confidence in the odds. but theres a CHANCE, which is the same thing he taught her when he beat her in a duel. the layers its her faith that moves him to act. which is so crazy

anyway vote isis shes my best friend forever and a real rep for all the 20 year olds who honest to god did not sign up for this bullshit

[platinumrosetail]

Hello, I would like to ask you for a request for the ennead.

Yandere Seth x Fem reader.

Warning: The reader is a goddess with a great love for humans. So much so that she wants to be human and is willing to give up her immortality. She also doubts very much whether Seth really loves her, due to her closeness to his brother Horus (I don't know, it can be added again that she is the eldest daughter of Osiris). What if she tries to become human, distancing herself? herself from Seth, wishing him to be happyI don't know where it came from but I guess I have a big imagination.

How would this jealous redhead behave?

Ooooh, interesting! I’ll try my best on it. 😁

Warning: noob author, female reader, yandere romantic character, and others.

Character: Seth.

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You are the older sister to Horus and first daughter and child of Osiris and isis.

You were in a relationship with Seth; the god of war, which made your mother have a negative reaction every time she sees him with you and every chance she gets she tries to break you two up though it doesn’t work.

You loved humans and try to help the unfortunate ones as you could by blessings and giving good fortune to them.

You noticed that Seth had grown closer to Horus but you don’t know if it was romantic or just because of the trials that they have against each other but you didn’t know if you should ask or not as that could leave to some negative reactions that can turn into violence if one wrong move made.

You began studying ways to turn fully human and distancing yourself from Seth as you wanted to help him get a happy ending after all he’s been through from the family and because you would love to experience what it’s like to be human and go through the cycle they have from life to death and repeat, you also distanced yourself from your mother and brother as you thought that they would try to stop you and try to convince you to not do that.

You didn’t succeed as Seth found out and stopped you, he also found out the reason why you were doing this besides your love for humans so he made sure that you knew his love for you from then on.

(You didn’t say if the reader succeeded or not so I just went with this since I thought it would make sense what with Seth being a yandere here.)

He began to keep you near him at all this just in case you began to think he doesn’t love you even though he loves you more than anyone else and also to make sure you don’t turn human so you can’t leave him by mortality.

(A/n: I hope you like it! I hope the ending was to your liking as like I said before you didn’t put if she succeeded or not so yea, anyway hope y’all have a wonderful day/evening/night!!)

[mybreadsmybutters]

top 10 men?

LONG long list with extensive explanations under cut. you are forewarned.

1. aidan gallagher. continually charmed and enchanted by whatever is deeply wrong with him and the weird fucked up shit he has going on with his clinically insane dad. he wrote rpf about HIMSELF. who is doing it like him. who COULD do it like him. he needs to come out as gay immediately. at least bisexual. to improve his image. he even makes BAD terrible music. incredible guy all around. i watch his content the way people watch isis beheading videos.

2. my real life actual grandpap. he is so definitely in hell one of the worst people ever. his number one political philosophy was being a hater and fighting anyone who looked at him wrong. i miss him everyday. perhaps the most insane person i will ever meet in my entire life.

3. idk if you wanted real men but the rest of this list is probably gonna be fictional characters due to the fact that i know about ten people. anyways number three is my beloved best friend seasons 1-3 five hargreeves of the umbrella academy. WHAT a character. what if you were a cis guy who could time travel and definitely liked killing people but also were obsessive and crazy and also had a fucked up weird thing with the woman who dragged you out of the apocalypse after you spent 50 years alone and also your body wasn’t your own because your dna got swapped with that of the most prolific murderers of all time and also you were stuck in the body of a child that might’ve been You at some point and everyone is patronizing and doesn’t believe you AND you watch your family die over and over again across every timeline as you constantly fail the ones you love. what a guy. five hargreeves you will never be replicated. also homewrecked his brother with the woman whose parents he murdered like 4 timelines back and then immediately convinced everyone to kill themselves but he did that in season 4 so i dont Really count it but it was still awesome. he’s experiencing types of body dysphoria that i cannot ever fathom i projected onto this guy so hard as a little in denial 13 year old. also when i was 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and 21 he just kind of lives in the back of my mind perpetually.

4. JOE GOLDBERG FROM HIT FRANCHISE YOU. oh man i love that fucking freak and his mommy issues and the fake woke feminist facade and nightmares in the suburbs and the Knight in Shining Armor carried out to its most horrific prolific potential UGH. i want to pin him on my wall and frame him in glass like a butterfly. he means everything to me. EVERYTHING. so many neurotic tendencies and problematic behaviors spawned from exposure to his character at a critical age. wow i love that guy forever.

5. stefan salvatore vampire diaries. first ever vampire with a binge eating disorder (kills people pathologically) THAT is intentionally narratively framed as an addiction. ALSO in some weird fucked up forced-fated-cursed love triangle forever when his soulmate is clearly just his brother. my number one favorite vampire forever. did i mention he has no sense of humor. oh MAN i love that guy.

6. FICTIONAL ANIME BOY LIGHT YAGAMI. I LOVE SERIAL KILLERS WITH AN ABSOLUTELY FUCKED MORAL COMPASS WHO HAVE A WEIRD THING WITH THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING THEM. also see the entire death note musical. where is the justice when the guilty all go free… what would it be if i saw the world like him like a synonym… he is ensouled in the same way JD heathers is

7. fictional anime boy kusuke saiki… man where do i even begin. he’s blonde. he’s a sadomasochist. started world war 3 in an alternate timeline. weird fucked up thing with his brother that is ambiguously sexual. holds a gun at one point. wears a labcoat. wears his hair in a PONYTAIL at one point. foundational to my adolescent sexual awakening. also the entirely fanonical dynamic he has with fellow anime boy makoto teruhashi is world changing to me.

8. mildly famous comedian gianmarco soresi who i am parasocial with. i hope to be as mentally weird about things and be an attention whore and obsessive weirdo when i am 35 too. also first ever visibly gay straight man i think which is just endlessly fascinating to watch.

9. CHARLIE DAY

10. perhaps my most controversial and vaguely revealing choice for this list but one i stand by… porn star and tik tok influencer noahwaybabes. voice of a generation. also i think he’s so stupid hot like in a way that pisses me off. also i find him vaguely annoying but i think that’s because he’s funny and hot which is a REALLY unfair combination. also because he just is annoying due to being a tik tok influencer. probably steals off twitter but i dont use twitter so i dont care.

HONORABLE MENTIONS!!!

youtuber pyrocynical who was not included in this list due to the fact that i hate him and he sucks.

jd heathers who JUST barely did not make it on. im sorry that annoying tik tok influencer who i jerk off to sometimes won out but when it comes down to brass tacks i thought including even more fictional characters would make me seem like a huger massiver loser than the other option

[spiritualpuzzleshipper]

YugiohxEpic! The Musical Story Idea

Just listen to me closely as I go down this rabbit hole and drag ya'll with me! I am wanting to write a crossover. A chapter for each song, but instead of it as a song, just a drabble. I created a list of characters and I have two ideas for some changes vs what I originally wanted. I'm gonna post the ideas under the keep reading and I would love opinions on it. I will also add the reasoning behind the characters and why I want them as that way. Again I would LOVE opinions and thoughts as this is my first crossover of anything like this and also me trying to dive back into the realm of writing. I figured adding my love for this musical(all musicals lol), Yugioh, and writing, this would help kickstart me and encourage myself to do better.

Epic the Musical characters and the Yugioh Character counterparts. WARNING IT'S A LONG READ! You don't need to read it if you are not interested LOL

Odysseus: Pharaoh Atemu. (This is the OBVIOUS choice!) Penelope: Yugi or OC. (I want to do the puzzleshipping and I want Yugi to be the tough badass character that Penelope is! The other option is a random female character(oc or if we can find a character that fits) ) Telemachus: OC or Yugi. (If we don't do Yugi as Penelope then I want him as Atemu's son...because I said so! If not then Yugi and Atemu have an adopted child that will be either named Telemachus or a name picked for him.) Zeus: Atum/Aknadin? (This one is tough for me. I want to do Atum from the Egyptian lore but I also think Aknadin would be a good "Zeus" cause of the hatred he has for Atemu yet he also follows some of the laws of Egypt(just doesn't like them all the time) ) Eurylochus: Priest Seto. (I want Seto as Eurylochus or Polites. I think he fits both! But I like the idea of what all happens in the plot of Epic and how Eurylochus is portrayed just fits Seto more then Mahad.) Polites: Mahad. (Just as with Seto I think he works great as both! Mahad's stotryline in Yugioh I think works great with how Polites goes in Epic. His death triggers a lot for Odysseus and same for Atemu and Mahad.) Athena: Mai. (This one is just too good to pass on. I want more Mai and she is a badass!) Aeolus: Mokuba. (I think the playfulness of Aeolus goes well with Mokuba. I also think more so the manga Mokuba from the original series is a "we can do that BUT..." just like Aeolus offered to Ody.) Poseidon: Bandit King Bakura. (Hatred...pure HATRED! It's perfect!) Circe: Tea. (This one was hard. I wanted Mai originally but then I was like, she has to be Athena, so I moved Tea to Circe. I just like the idea of Tea seducing Atemu, even though I am not a believer she was choosing him over Yugi, I do like that idea since it was my first ship.) Hermes: Pegasus. (This character was hard but I really like the idea of Pegasus taunting Atemu through out the songs like he does in the anime XD) Anticlea: Atemu's mom as a OC since she isn't canon. Tiresias: Shadi (I think that since he used the key to see into people's mind, I can see him seeing the future as well.) Sirens: Sirens are just that, Sirens lol. Scylla: Apep (Apep is a snake like creature of Chaos in Egyptian Mythology. So I thought that it fit well, but I am open to suggestions) Calypso: Mana. (She wants Atemu, she can't have him, cause he is in love with another. End of discussion lol) Apollo: Ryou (The reason is it's such a small role and I think he deserves that spot. Apollo's smile in fanart remind me of Ryou anyway) Hephaestus: Solomon. (Cause his words are always wise and I think he fits it lol) Aphrodite: Rebecca (Rebecca is trying to make "Yugi" hers so I see her as a seducer. So I thought why not!) Ares: Rafael (strong, angry at Atemu, and wants to fight. That is why lol) Hera: Isis (Isis wants to defend Atemu but she also needs to stay kinda chill so she encourages Mai to keep trying to convince her) Polyphemus: A cyclops. Needs no explanation!

[sweetbillwriting]

Love Just Happens

Everything She Wants - Part 15

Characters: The future's Bill Skarsgård and others close to him. The rest is my own characters. 

Setting: This story is set in the future but because it's hard to say how the world is then (and it isn't that important for the story) the future is similar to our time now, even with fashion and so on. 

Warnings: 18+, age difference, smut, alcohol, ageism, family problems, jealousy, kinks and fetishes, bullying, mentions of plastic surgery, talk about weight and looks, sexism.

Bill sat with his youngest daughter in his lap. She couldn't sit by herself yet but she liked to sit leaning against you and look around. She was a social, curious child but also grumpy and showed clearly that she didn't like to be left out. Bill's other daughters were in Sweden, at their mom’s but conversed with them through facetime. Isadora couldn't really understand where the voices came from and even if Bill pointed at the laptop screen for her she didn't seem to see her sisters. She sat instead and looked out the window dreamily. He noticed his other daughters got a bit disappointed that she didn't give them any attention but she was so pleased just watching the garden to the house they rented in L.A.

After they had talked about his daughters week he told them about theirs but left out the parts they could be jealous of. There was no reason for them to know everything.

“But wasn't Aurora's record already finished?” Asked his oldest when Bill told them she was recording at a studio. Bill sighed a little and caressed Isis' head. She had curls in her dark hair just like her mom. By the first look she resembled mostly Aurora, with her hair, big brown eyes and pouty lips but when she made some expressions it was obvious she was her father's daughter, she also had inherited his dimple and upturned nose. Aurora also had a slightly upturned nose but surgery was behind it.

“They didn't like it…” he said with a sigh. “So now they have collected other songs for her…”

Bill had heard some of it and didn't really like it. She had always had a bit of an RnB feel to her songs but this sounded like the soundtracks to a high school movie. It had more of a punk pop feel to it and didn't fit her voice at all.

“Isn't it good?” Continued his oldest, she could always read him.

“Sure… I think you will like it… I just thought her own material was much better.”

“I think it will be good. Lou is always good,” said his youngest and Bill smiled warmly at her. She was always proud of him and Aurora.

“When will you be home?” Asked his middle daughter without letting Isis go with her eyes. Isis had lowered her gaze to her dad's hand that laid on her tummy and played with his thumb with both her hands.

“You know that, in six weeks… But the time will go fast,” he said with a bad conscience.

“Can't you and Isis come home earlier? You don't do anything there anyway.”

Bill licked his lips and laid his head to the side. They had gotten used to his middle daughter's behavior now. She wasn't as entitled as before but she couldn't accept that the family constellation was really different now.

“Isis and Lou must be close for now. None of them would be happy without the other. And then it's the breastfeeding…”

He didn't say more than that because it would be a long explanation of how breastfeeding works. His middle daughter sighed deeply, the other had accepted how life was. His oldest had started to get her own life while her youngest so easily adapted and had a closer relationship to Aurora.

“Are you with Isis the whole days now?” Asked his youngest. Bill laughed and looked down at the baby.

“Yeah, maybe I will soon also be able to breastfeed,” he joked and all three of them giggled at the thought.

“Were you with us so much when we were babies?”

Bill paused and looked out over the green shades of the garden. He had been with Isis everyday the six months she had lived. He hadn't been around that much with any of his other kids. He had said no to projects he liked, choose to have meetings over zoom instead of going to the USA and had been as involved as Aurora in the caretaking. He hadn't done any of that with his other kids but the situation was so different then but he couldn't really say to his kids that their mother was unemployed while Aurora earned money every minute just by showing her face in public. His career was also different, now he got exciting projects offered to him all the time and rarely needed to audition. He had many director friends and could say no and knew they would contact him again.

“No… I wasn't…”

His oldest gave him an emphatic look because she remembered how it was when both her younger sisters were born. He worked so much, like his value as a human was decided by his work. They had talked about it, just she and him and she knew that situation was really different and also that her father had never really thought about how hard things would be when they got kids, especially when he was the sole family provider. He was still quite young when they got her and his career wasn't stable the way it was now.

“Why not?” Asked his youngest. It wasn't accusatory but Bill felt like it was. He was much younger then but couldn't say he regretted his choices either. He loved his girls, loved being a dad but he was so much more than that, something Aurora understood in a way no other had. They were equally as ambitious. But his age had also changed things. In his 30s he was so restless and after only just a few days free from work he had started some project. He was 46 now and much calmer and grounded in himself. He could appreciate just sitting on the floor helping his daughter trying to crawl instead of having a project in the back of his head.

“Mom was home with us all the time,” said his oldest daughter as she tried to help her dad but it just made the nine year old furrow her brows.

“But why couldn't dad be home?”

Bill sighed. He wished he got some help from his ex to explain it but knew she wouldn't help him. Now when they weren't a couple she always made it sound like he chose to be away from his girls and didn't let her work.

He heard the entrance door open and breath out in relief, hopefully this subject would be forgotten when Aurora came into the room. Isis looked towards the hallway and when her mom showed up she made a happy scream and squirmed in her dad's lap. Bill smiled amused down at her, then towards Aurora that reached her arms out and smiled brightly. He heard his other daughters giggle but didn't know if they understood Isis did it towards Aurora who was behind the laptop.

“Mamma is here,” he said so they would understand Isis' reaction but also that she probably wouldn't be that present anymore. Aurora sat down next to them and took Isis in her arms who laughed when she saw her mom again. She gave Bill a peck on the lips and then turned to the screen.

“Hey girls! How are you?” She said but Isis immediately began to whine in her arms. She didn't want to share her mom.

“We miss you! What is it with Isis?” Said Bill's middle daughter and looked at the child pushing her face into her mom's chest. Aurora sighed a little and looked at the baby. She could be so happy with her dad but once she came into the room all her energy went to claiming her as her own.

"She has missed her mamma, she has been away for four hours so it's a lifetime without her,” joked Bill and looked at their baby nosedive into Aurora's chest.

“And I've been leaking half the time…” said Aurora while trying to make her daughter sit up. Bill heard his youngest giggle, the breastfeeding was odd for her and that Aurora could start leaking just by thinking about her baby was really weird for her.

“I really need to shower…” continued Aurora and Bill nodded a little. “I can take her…” he tried to take Isis back but it made her whine and fuss. Aurora gave Bill a tired look. It wasn't like Bill wasn't a really present father, he was with her as much as Aurora but she was the one with the food so it was probably a reflex, a survivor instinct to have Aurora close but Bill could be a bit jealous anyway that she always prefered her mother.

“Ehh… Girls I’ll call you tomorrow instead. I think me and Isis will need to be an audience while Lou is showering…”

He said it a bit annoyed because they rarely won over Isis. Already at six months old she knew how to get what she wanted.

“Oh…” they said, disappointed but smiled understandingly. They knew their little sister could be grumpy. She had, after all, been a diva all her life.

They said goodbye to the girls and said sorry for the short call then hung up.

“That was a short call,” said their mother and looked at them where they sat on the couch, disappointed with the closed laptop in front of them.

“Yeah Isis got grumpy…” said the oldest girl.

“She doesn't seem to be as easy as you three were…” said their mom.

“She is just used to getting what she wants,” said the youngest with a shoulder shrug. There wasn't any value in what she said but the others could hear it didn't sound so good. Isis sounded spoiled and favored, even if it was far from the truth. She was just a baby and needed other things than the three of them did.

“But girls, I want you to know that if there is something I will talk with your dad. I know it can be much around Au…” she paused when her oldest walked away. “Honey?” Their mom asked, confused after her. She stopped and turned to her mother.

“Life is what it is. I'm grateful you have always been there for us, but so is dad. So is Aurora. They just have careers and a baby. Mom…” The girl gave her mother a careful look. “You maybe should date a little? I think you need to think about something other than dad.”

Her younger sisters looked at them interested but also a bit worried. It wasn't the best thing to say to a single mom.

Their mom was silent and looked away.

“I'm sorry…” said her oldest daughter awkwardly when she saw her mother get upset.

“I'm just worried…” the mother said and her daughter nodded a little. She meant well but she didn't have a correct picture of their dad and his wife. The conversation ended abruptly when their mother got a call. The sisters looked at each other. They loved both their parents, also their dad's wife. He was more present in Isis life, but it wasn't because he had a bigger interest for Isis, it was because he now had the possibility but also was forced because of Aurora having a career too. All of them spread out in the apartment but none of them could stop thinking about the situation: did Isis get everything she wanted?

×××

After Aurora had showered, fed the baby and helped her to sleep she searched for her husband. He stood leaned down, putting away Isis toys with his butt in the air. Aurora looked at the view. He had his new jeans on, they were in a medium blue wash with small distressed details. His ass was as pert as it always been. Carefully she sneaked up on him and squeezed his cheeks with both her hands. Bill turned his head and looked up at her but didn't stand up. He smirked a little and threw away a stuffed giraffe.

“You can spank me if you want,” he joked and looked at Aurora's naked legs. She had just a silky robe on after her shower.

She looked back at him playfully and spanked his ass, hard. Bill made a liking moan and stood up. They smiled playfully towards each other before Bill moved close to her.

“What's under that robe?” He asked darkly. Aurora looked up at him and felt the power switch when he loomed over her. She looked at him with big eyes and gave him silent permission to open the robe. Bill's long fingers played with the knot and after some struggle he succeeded to untangle the hard bow. He pushed it off from her shoulders and looked at the naked skin that became unshielded. She wore just a pair of white, basic thongs. She played with her fingers while Bill looked at her. She always got nervous when his power got so obvious. Not because she didn't feel safe, far from it, but because it was so erotic. He looked down at her from his high height. His big strong hands still laid on her shoulders heavily and weighed her down a bit. He stood fully dressed and it was his decision if he would take his clothes off or not.

Bill looked at her amazed with a small smile. Even if he had the power he never lost his sweetness and kindness. The power never took him over and he wasn't aroused from abusing it. Aurora had been with guys that liked to feel that they owned her, that she was there to please him, only him but they didn't have the physical power Bill had over her but as the expression said… “if you're big, you must be kind” and Bill was those wise words personified.

He lifted her up from the floor easily so she could put her legs around his waist and she laid her hands on his cheeks so she could steer his face towards her and kiss him passionately.

While making out, Bill carried his wife to the bedroom and laid her down on the bed. She stretched her arms over her head and moved her hips teasingly. Bill looked at her up and down and thought about for a short second how sillily attracted he was to her. She was so perfect and his cock got as hard as when he was twenty by looking at her.

“Strip for me…” Aurora said playfully and dragged her toe over Bill's jean clad thigh.

Bill smirked and took off his clothes slowly. He let the erotic atmosphere hang in the air and gave her sultry looks while looking at her biting her lip.

Aurora dragged her foot over his thigh again when he stood in just his black boxers. He looked at her sun kissed foot moving over his hairy leg while he had his hands on his narrow hips. In anticipation he waited on her to drag her foot over the thick line in his boxers but didn't show it. He wanted to pretend he had more control than he had. Aurora looked at Bill amused because she could see what he was thinking and chose to continue to tease him. She dragged her toe on the inside of his thigh, scary close to where he wanted her and looked at his face that became more and more pained. He dragged a big hand over her calf without trying to move her foot but hoped it would make her move it by herself.

“That looks painful…” said Aurora with pretend sympathy and nodded to his cock. Bill made a groan and looked at his erection. It started to hurt a bit, he was so hard.

“Yeah…” he said painfully and continued to drag his hand over her leg.

“Pull them down so I can see.”

Bill smirked a little pleased and put his thumbs in the elastic of his boxers.

“Both on three?” He said playfully and looked down at her thongs. Aurora giggled and nodded a little. Bill counted to three and pulled down his boxers in a swift movement. His cock slapped up on his belly and he looked at it impressed. For a few seconds he was so impressed by his own hard on he forgot his wife had also pulled off her underwear. He looked up at her, worried he had missed something under the short time he had looked at the veins on his member but met the view of her lying naked with spread legs for him. She even spread her pussy apart with two fingers so he could easily dive into her tightness.

“Give me that cock now, big boy…” she said with a whiny voice. Bill smirked and crawled on top of her. In every movement he poked her with his hard on and she was forced to control her giggle. Sometimes he still felt like a teenage boy. He looked at her pussy and took over to spread her open. With his other hand he held his cock and teased her with his tip but also slapped her pussy a bit. Aurora looked at him and whined. Bill smirked but made her whine for another reason when he suddenly pushed into her violently.

×××

They sat close together in the bed after their love making. Bill drew circles on her back while she sat with her cheek pressed against his chest and didn't seem to notice that the circles were just a way for Bill to feel how her ribs felt. There was so much that indicated she wasn't happy, even that he had given her two orgasms and he had come deep inside her and that she already was in her own head, was a bad sign.

“You don't like what they're giving you…” he said carefully. “They want you to be someone else.”

Aurora didn't look up at him, just pushed her nose into his chest and took a deep breath.

“You don't need to do what they say…”

Aurora sat up properly and pulled up her knees to her chin. She laid the cover over her legs like a protective shield and closed her eyes.

“I will lose everything if I do that… But yeah… They.. They're so mean…” she said and broke down in tears. Bill sat up more properly too but didn't touch her, she knew he was there if she needed the closeness but for now it seemed like she needed the space.

“They complain about everything! Even that I seem to have more muscles in my legs. They want me to be… fifteen!”

Bill licked his lips and looked at his wife worriedly. The weight loss was someone else's idea, it was obvious.

“They’re trying to put in my head that I need surgery. They’re trying to put in my head that I must stop breastfeeding. They’re trying to…” she looked up at Bill with glassy eyes and sighed. He knew what she was meant to say. They wanted her to break up with him.

“Do you believe them?” He said lowly, even if he tried to be neutral and not get upset. But it was upsetting to hear someone trying to make her believe she was better off without him.

“No! But… Some things? Maybe I look like a tired mom?” Bill made a grunt like it was impossible.

“No. No. You're as beautiful as you've always been, it's just that you're older. No one stays twenty their whole life and you're beautiful as a woman now, instead of a girl.”

Aurora breathed heavily and dried her tears.

“But… I'm thinking about botox… Just to look a bit more plump again?”

Bill wanted to roll his eyes but didn't. To him it was silly his wife, who was sixteen years younger, would do such a thing, when he didn't even have a skin routine he could remember to do. She looked so young and beautiful and he noticed how people could stare because of her beauty and yet some negative comments made her believe she needed botox.

“That's up to you… But I can't see any reason for it. None at all. You don't even have lines in your face. I had so many more when I was thirty and I heard all the time how I looked tired. Still do,” he said with a crooked smile.

“But lines are sexy on a man! I have loved the lines around your eyes since the first time I met you. You liked my fake nose and perfect make up!”

Bill made an offended sound. Yes he loved her nose, maybe even the make up but he also loved everything else… He thought back on the moment in Italy. How gorgeous and charismatic she was. How young… Oh right. He dragged a hand through his hair and licked his lips.

“I loved everything about you when we met.”

Aurora looked at him with love but also sadness.

“And I'm not that girl anymore…”

Bill made a face. She looked the same to him, mostly. She had a thinner face and something else in her eyes. Her breasts were heavier from breastfeeding and because of the pregnancy and then the weight loss she had lost that girly softness to her body.

“No, you're a woman now. But you aren't so different from earlier as they try to make you believe.”

Aurora sighed and moved closer to him again.

“So what should I do? I can't lose my contract… But I can't do that Lolita inspired shoot they want me to do!”

Bill turned to her fast with furrowed brows.

“What do you mean?”

“It would be a photoshoot where I would look like a ten year old in my bedroom… I'm a mom! And step mom to three girls in a sensitive age!”

Bill gave her a big eyed look but then took a hold of her neck and kissed her hard. Aurora gave him a strange look, because for her it wasn't the right moment for such a kiss.

“Aurora Lou… I don't think you understand how much I love the woman you are. And you should love her too because… Fuck you're perfect in every way.” He took her hand and kissed it, down to her finger tips and she giggled with tears in her eyes.

“Being a woman is nothing to be embarrassed about, you have become just a better version of yourself and… I want everything with you, give you everything. Just… Let us do this our way.”

Aurora looked at him with big eyes, waiting for him to say more.

“You know… I had a small, very, very small record label in my thirties. I shut it down because we lost inspiration but… We should just release your record on your own label. You don't need those assholes. It's them who needs you. You should be able to do everything you want.”

Aurora giggled and laid her hands on her warm cheeks. She didn't know why she got embarrassed but Bill's love just did that to her sometimes.

“Would you help me? I can't do such things… You know I can't even do my taxes.”

Bill smiled a bit amused.

“You can't even pay a bill.”

Aurora smiled amused too but it changed to a playful one.

“You want to be paid now?”

Bill just gave her an amused eye roll but then kissed her again and again.

“I will help you. We will do this together. We’ll make a video again, we hire the best fucking photographers and make a sexy cover for a grown woman, okay?”

Aurora smiled brightly and dragged her fingers through the hair on Bill's underarm.

“But it can be pink? Because I love pink. And bows. And glitter.”

Bill laughed and hugged her.

“Yeah, that's just you… And long hair, high heels and a great fucking ass,” said he with wagging eyebrows. His wife laughed and pushed his cheek like she was annoyed but kissed him right after.

×××

“Baby? Bill? Bill. Billy baby?” Aurora looked out from the kitchen in the rented house in Los Angeles. Her husband didn't answer and wondered if he had left without saying goodbye. It had happened a few times when he was really stressed. She walked to the big living room where she found him sitting on the floor with their daughter. She tried to crawl to her dad and looked at him with big eyes.

“You can do it, baby. Yeah come on, Isis!” He said encouragingly to her.

Aurora looked at them with a loving smile and leaned against the doorway. Bill sat in his expensive beige suit with his hair perfectly styled while Isis was just dressed in a diaper and a pink striped t-shirt. The image was too cute and Aurora snapped a picture of the pair.

“Didn't you have a premiere to go to?” She said and walked up to them. Bill looked up at her and sighed.

“Must I?”

“Yes. Max will be sad otherwise.”

Bill looked at his daughter again, painfully.

“But you know I hate such things? And maybe I’ll miss her crawling when I'm away?”

“You can sneak in from behind and she will be going to bed in a half hour, she will not crawl tonight.”

Bill looked up at Aurora and tried to hide a smile.

“But I'd rather sneak in from behind here…”

“Mhm,” she smirked and put a hand on her hip. “But sometimes you must go through other doors than my back door.”

“Whyyy?” He whined and threw his head back, at that exact moment Isis' strength to hold her head up failed her and it dunked down on the floor and she started to cry.

“Oh honey!”

“Isis!”

Bill and Aurora cried out at the same time and Bill lifted up the baby in his arms that cried loudly against his chest. Aurora sat down on the floor and looked at her with a small smile. She could see the difference between real tears and attention tears. This was attention tears. She was good at faking it and in a few years she maybe also would be actor material.

“She's okay. The drama queen,” she said and dragged a hand through Isis's dark hair. Bill wiped away a tear on her chubby cheek and looked down at her.

“I didn't think a baby could act so well.”

“She will play on our bad conscience the rest of our lives.”

“Like it wasn't bad enough being a dad to four girls.”

Aurora giggled and patted Bill's cheek soothingly.

“But baby?” She said when it looked like Isadora would fall asleep against his chest.

“It's time for you to go to your premiere.”

Bill's smile fell again and he pressed his cheek against Isadora's head.

“Yeah, yeah. Okay… I think I spend too much time with her, it just gets harder and harder to be away from her.”

Aurora smiled and laid down her head on Bill's shoulder.

“I know… Even if she can be so grumpy and stubborn.”

Bill smiled and then shook his head.

“Oh well… Time to go…”

×××

It was a big premiere with many celebrities as guests. He was invited as PR like so many other people but he was also invited personally by the director Max who had become a close friend in recent years. He was a bit late but was quite pleased with that, one more reason to sneak in the back door. He would never be comfortable with that sort of attention, even if it had become better with time but also by being with a girl like Aurora, he had been forced to show himself in other ways and get used to people wanting more from him.

He took a seat in the back and pretended like he was totally unimportant even if he could see some younger men look at him with big eyes. He was a horror Icon after all and married to a beautiful, successful singer. He knew he was interesting even if he pretended he wasn't. When the movie was over he thought he would be able to hide among all the other celebrities mingling after the showing but he could feel eyes on his neck while speaking with an actress he worked with. He looked around a bit, maybe it actually was someone he knew but met a short man's eyes. He had never seen him before but gave him a nod just as a polite gesture. The man smiled big and seemed to have seen it as an invitation to talk because he came up to him with his hand outstretched.

“Bill Skarsgård, right?”

“Yeah, yeah,” said Bill unsurely. He wondered if he was a fan but he didn't get that feeling. Something was familiar with the man and he tried to remember if he had met him before.

“Felix,” said the man with a smirk. Bill smiled with furrowed brows because it didn't say anything to him.

“Felix Floria, Aurora Lou's favorite uncle?”

×

[akindofmagictoo]

Hi maybe sorcery

How well do your characters interact with children? Rank them please.

Isi is pretty good with kids; she’s not bubbly, but she’s kind, and with some prompting can be reminded how to play. in her world, children are raised somewhat communally, and she’d love to be an aunt. she’s also very responsible. talks to babies like they’re adults, but doesn’t always know how to continue the conversation.

Robin is a child himself. he’s pretty good at being friendly with younger children, but doesn’t feel comfortable being responsible for them.

Sierra is more fun than Isi, but less responsible (she is also a child in this world, but technically an adult in ours), though she’s less bothered about it than Robin. FANTASTIC at the conversational aspect.

SB professes to be awful with kids, but actually really likes them. he sometimes has to rein in the snark and bluntness, but he has to do that with adults anyway. kids probably think he’s hilarious, and he’s remarkably responsible when he knows people are depending on him.

Holly doesn’t really like kids and struggles to interact with them on their level. gets stuck at not knowing what to say. she’s reasonably responsible (also a child) but not exactly good with kids.

Enya is Baby.

as a bonus, my D&D character Iphigenia has twin siblings ten years her junior, and they adore her. she’s not as much the fun big sibling (that was her brother’s job before he disappeared) but she’s great at asking them about what they’re doing, and reading them stories. I had a fun moment a couple sessions back where they were making potions in the backyard, so I narrated coming to them and saying “oh what’s in your potion? oh dear, I think you’re missing an ingredient” and so on. so like… verbal play, not necessarily physical involvement. incredibly responsible, if stressed about it - no child in her care is going to be unsafe or neglected, but she will be mentally going through a checklist every five minutes to make sure she hasn’t forgotten anything.

[barbthebuilder]

I'm genderfluid and transmasc, and I'm very worried about my name.

I'm changing my first, middle, AND last names. I really like the ones I've chosen. They all make me happy on their own and they flow great together. It WOULD be perfect, except for my initials...

With my middle name, it's CAP, which is a word. No big deal, I can live with it. I think (hope) I'm past the age where my peers would use it to make fun of me lmao. HOWEVER. Without my middle name, it's CP. Which is short for child predator.

It bothers me soooooo much. I have no idea what to do about it. I'm wayyy too attached to my first name to change it, and I really don't want to change my last name either... But should I? Would it be for the best? Or am I just being really dramatic? Would anyone besides me even think of this? How concerned should I be? What do I do? HELP!

Yo! Thank you for the ask. I'm not sure if I'm the best person to give advice since I'm not familiar with name changing prosedures and such. But I will try anyway!

So, I think it's important to consider few aspects. First: how often will you be using your initials? Second: would anybody pay attention to them and then make connection to what they sound like? And if so... would they care? Would they make fun of your or bring it up? I personally think the chances are slim.

However it's another story if the abbrivation is bothering you specifically. Still, I would encourage you to think how often are you using you current initials, and if you do use them often, can you change that in the future? Or can you use CAP instead?

Have you heard of "good Adolf Hitler"? A man named Adolf Hitler won local elections in Namibia despite having such unfortunate name. He is apparently a cool guy and is not aiming for world domination lol.

Or, another anegdote. There was this guy who tattooed on his body name of his shop. What was that? "Isis". He did that before the organisation had been created so he had no idea.

Those silly stories prove that we sometimes are attached to certian words or letters that also have different meanings. That doesn't make us bad people and others are usually very understanding of that.

Anyways, if it still bothers you then I would consider changing last name to something else. Though, not to invalidate you or anything, I do think you are overthinking the whole situation a little bit ;) I genuinely think nobody will give you trouble because of your initials and if your last name makes you happy there is no need to change it.

But that's just my opinion!

[heartlites]

tomorrow, friday, is my last day working my crummy job. i told myself i would go in today (thursday) but i didnt. i just cant bring myself to care- and i had a massive headache this morning (and leona was being a lil shit all night). but, anyway, i will work friday to say good bye and to try to make sure i have okay-ish money saved for a little bit. im going to still pay for groceries until i run out of money. i see my therapist this coming wednesday, the 17th, and i will talk to her about starting my disability application.

anyway, with the coming freedom, there's a collection of things i want to do. i really need to clean my room, the messiness is killing me. i want to get my kitchen back to decent, too. i want to try and get back to painting or drawing, in particular i'd like to paint something for my therapist as part of my farewell to her after working with her for 9 years.

i also really, really want to get back to my spiritual practices. i havent really done any prayers or spent time with Isis in months and i miss it. i wish i had some guidance while working with Her and exploring my faith, too. i feel like im fumbling around in the dark, trying to be true to the practices that have been in place in devotion to Her, but i lack any good foundation or knowledge. i feel like a blind child reaching for Her.

outside of this, other things i want to do include finishing my recent embroidery project even if its a bit fumbled and messy. i need to get a punch needle to finish the other two. this saturday i am going to go to barnes&noble to pick up some new books to read through in the coming months. i want to get some kind of history book and then some kind of mystery novel. at least two books, maybe up to four depending on prices. then, there's the shows, movies, and other media i want to watch, read, and/or play. this list as follows:

interview with a vampire

bridgerton

nimona

dungeon meshi (currently watching a little with friends!)

that's all i can think of for now. i want to add more books to this, i'll probably come back and edit this post once i've gotten my new books this weekend (side note: wish there was a used bookstore i could go to, but alas, i don't know of one anywhere near me; additionally, wanna get back to going to the library).

[cits-ocs]

I don't use this acc very often but it's 3 AM rn, I want to ramble about my characters. No pinned post about each of them yet, so I'll use this as an opportunity to get people to know my fellas.

We'll start off with Andres and Indah, my two OCs who I've been focusing on a lot, since a lot happens in their story. I'm going to start from how they were conceived and how they are now.

Back in June 2021, I was reading Legs That Won't Walk, a Korean BL that involved gang members and stuff. I was getting angry from it, because man was it just so toxic but I was like, "I'll make characters that aren't as toxic as them!"

Lo and behold, my 2021 design of Indah and Andres, respectively. (Fun fact I designed Andres off of a picrew I made of him. Indah's hair was just bullshitted.)

Indah back then was just cold, not necessarily apathetic. Like the kinda mean sort of bad boy. Andres stayed the same-ish, he's just a mean goober.

So, we got the designs and personality. Now it's backstory time...

In 2021, I was also sort of interested in human trafficking? It will come into play later, but basically I decided their backstories will be darker than the usual. Like, besides domestic abuse, there's going to be actual crimes.

Their backstories were ROUGH, the worst part is I didn't even have a solid story. Just a stupid vague one and nothing ever stuck, it was just a mist. Since I didn't have a story when developing their backstories, the backstories were more fleshed out than the actual story.

Anyways, let's talk about their original awful backstories, starting with...

Andres P. Matay!

(I removed "Cris" in his name since I ended up having a character whose nickname is Cris.)

He's a Filipino, grew up in the Mindanao part of the Philippines. He had a twin sister, but his dad and mom separated and the mom left to go somewhere and took the sister. So now, it's just him and his dad. They're poor, so his dad had to do multiple jobs to keep them going.

One day, when he was like 13 or so, he came home and saw the police outside his house. Turns out, his dad's been murdering people and using their meat for food. Like, the food Andres ate that contained meat? Yeah, human meat. Now his dad is in jail and he doesn't want to eat meat because he's afraid it's gonna be human meat. So he has no dad now, he's gonna be in the care of social workers.

He was put in an orphanage (or was just a squatter kid. I don't know, I had 2 ideas for this part) and ran away, but then he meets his uncle, who he thought was going to help him. Nah, his uncle kidnaps him. Now here's where my interest in human trafficking came in! He's sent out to be a child soldier.

For some context, in 2017, there was actually this thing called the Marawi war. I was pretty young at the time so I didn't care for it, but the basic gist is there were ISIS terrorists so there was a war in that city.

Andres was supposed to be a child soldier in that war, sent out by ISIS. (There were actually reports of child soldiers in the war) and yeah, long story short, shit horrified him. After the war was over, he had nothing, because the city he lived in is in ruins and he has no relatives to help him. He's skilled with guns so he becomes a criminal, ends up as a hitman. That was his bsckstory.

I made drastic changes lol, because it was just too edgy.

Now it's time for...

Mohammed Indah Monanandara!

(I actually thought "Mohd" was legit just the name but it's just a short version of Mohammed... He wasn't even muslim anymore when he changed his name.)

Okay, this one is like, edgy for the sake of edgy. I'll keep it short because I didn't even think of his backstory as much as Andres.

TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF RAPE OR SEXUAL ASSAULT

Indah is half-Thai, half-Indonesian. Why? I was active in this server during 2021, and one of the people there was Thai and I was watching Nanno too, so I was like "hm Thailand seems cool" but I forgot where the Indonesia part came from, but the Thai part came after Indonesia. Also that friend made me his surname (I just checked now and it's actually spelled "Monanandra" but ehhh...). Anyways he grew up in Indonesia, in Jakarta. He was also born a girl, this comes into play later.

He had a normal family and was a smart student. Until when he was in highschool, his father suddenly got into debt with like a gang. They lost money. I forgot how this ties into the next part, but the next part is one day, Indah gets confessed to by a male classmate of his. He declines. After school, the classmate and his friends found him alone on the school campus and... SA'd him. Then he got pregnant. Then he gave birth to a child (he kept her).

I was inspired by the first episode of Nanno season 2. Spoilers for Nanno, but first ep, Nanno curses this playboy guy to get pregnant. When I saw the stuff, the idea just popped in.

After that part of his backstory, it was really just empty stuff? I had the vague idea wherein he gets trafficked too or something, and then meets this gang leader who helps him out, etc. etc. Now he's a high ranking gang member.

In his revamp, I only kept the first few parts, then just filled in the rest of the empty spots. Why did I keep the SA part even though it kind of felt... weird? Because I have a friend who likes Indah and relates to him because of that. So, I felt obligated to just keep it in.

Ok this post is like very long and took me almost an hour to write.

Fun fact, Monanandara is spelled as "มรอนันตรา" and means "eternal death" which is very cool

Part 2 will be the next

Part 2, I'll mainly talk about how I revamped them and how they are currently compared to their 2021 versions. And I'm going to start tagging my posts with my characters' names

[polillastoryarchive]

As soon as she came out of the bunker, she spotted Lou.

"Hey! Just need a shower and a coffee and I'm with you?" She couldn't remember exactly what Lou was supposed to teach her, but she knew he was the one who would spend most of the day with her.

She also took the time to text Wesley, checking on Amani, and to call her mother. It was hard not to tell them she'd be back in DelSol soon. Even though she didn't believe she would turn into a wolf, she also couldn't completely rule out the idea of spending more time in Moonwood.

Then she met Lou back outside. He was lying on the floor, feet to the sky, eyes closed. She sat next to him.

"How are you?" he asked without opening his eyes.

"Slightly sore, but it's not too bad. I'm guessing once we start actually sparring, it'll be worse."

"Yeah. Only advice I have is to stretch well before and after."

Isi hummed, the urge to ask about Lux and Rory's relationship again. But this wasn't the kind of subject that Lou should give her insight on.

"You weren't ready this morning, I heard Ade come get you!" He said to fill the silence.

"I'm not a morning person, sue me!" she replied, already annoyed at the thought of having to wake up at the same time the next day. "And why do Ade and I have to run so early anyway?"

"Because she's got school after and she's been in detention almost every day lately so she can't go after."

Lou suddenly decided to straighten up, almost hitting Isi in the face while doing so.

"Sorry!" he laughed, and once he was upside up again, asked "So what do you want to do today?"

"Aren't you supposed to tell me?" Isi wondered out loud.

"Well, really my main job is to keep you company and teach you about our 'werewolf' ways. But in practice, it very much depends on what you're interested in. Whether it be going through history books, chasing bunnies in the woods, or just sleeping through the day, I've done it all before!"

"And what's the best way to learn, according to you?" she asked, amused by the list of experiences he'd come up with.

"I like to watch shows where werewolves appear and debunk a whole lot of what's in there!"

"Then that's what we'll do!"

His smile was the one of a child at Christmas. "Really?"

They headed inside to watch some TV shows, some episode of Buffy, some of Supernatural, some of Charmed.

Then they just continued watching Charmed, both of them too eager to rewatch a show they'd loved for ever. A couple of hours in, after two characters kissed on screen, Lou let out a deep sigh.

"What is it?" Isi asked, curious to know why his mood had changed so drastically.

"I just don't think I'm a very good boyfriend... Cel has been mad at me lately for not spending enough time with her."

A pinch of annoyance as Isi's thoughts drifted to the last time Lou had mentioned his girlfriend.

He noticed and looked like he was going to apologise again, so Isi spoke first, eager to bury the feeling.

"What if you got her a nice gift? If you can't give her quality time, give her something else to let her know she's loved."

"Could do..." She could feel him hesitating. "I just don't want it to be seen like I'm buying her."

Now this, Isi could handle. She'd always been good at giving love advice.

"What is she into usually?"

"Really, what she loves is deciding things for other people."

"Like, for you?"

"Yeah."

"Do you have some kind of event coming up? Maybe you could go out and buy outfits for it. If she gets to pick hers 𝘢𝘯𝘥 yours, she'll be over the moon!"

He looked at her again, a smile creeping up. She'd had a good idea, she could see it on his face.

"You're quite good at this, you know?"

[transgenderer]

@calamari-chaos said:

I'd be interested in your take on Aphrodite's alleged origin from the castration of Ouranos and the significance of such a myth and/or syncretic interpretations of Aphrodite with Ishtar/Inanna/Isis/others

hmmm. i mean. hesiod derives her name from sea-foam, and connects it to the castration. but that's not the actual etymology, which then makes you wonder if this was a pre-hesiodic explanation, or if it's just something hesiod made up because he likes etymology. MAYBE also motivated by her "ouranio" epithet. but also maybe this was a common myth, and the origin of her ouranio epithet! (i think more likely the former). homer says she's the child of zeus and dione, but dione just means like "woman associated with zeus". so that's weird, especially because zeus is totally unrelated to the sea-foam story.

anyway so all that is weird. but it makes sense that it's weird, because she's an import goddess missing all the superstructure that was around ishtar. i mean, my understanding of the scholarly consensus (all this, including the above, is mostly based on wikipedia diving. so. grain of salt) is that aphrodite is basically certainly an adaptation of ishtar/inanna, who is unrelated to isis.

so related to this specific question aphrodite is KIND OF straightforward. she's the god of beauty because she is so beautiful, a trait that humans also have for no reason. and that might be tied to why she's relatively unconnected to the rest of the pantheon, beauty is an independent phenomenon, it appears for no reason. it requires no basis.

as a kid i just took "zeus poseidon and hades drew lots to determine who would be king of what, and are truly equals" in stride with all the rest of the greek mythology, but the mention of it in the iliad (presumably how it reached "canonical" status, i would be surprised if this was part of any local cult practices) has me thinking about how weird it is.

the relationship between a god and their domain is strange, right? it's usually "behind the curtain", they're just the gods, they have their traits for no particular reason, in the same way a person is tall or has dark hair for no particular reason. but for the gods, their traits are also their domains, the thing they have ownership, control over. and humans DO have ownership for reasons, or at least from histories. so then the origin of a god's domain/powers/whatever becomes something to tell stories about. some ways a god can have a power

conquest: this is a classic. "overthrew the last guys, acquired their status". kind of unclear what the mechanism of magic power is though

assignment: a higher god will give or assign you a domain, as a duty-power. zeus does this, and i think they do this in hindu mythology too

artifact: some other god made a very powerful magical artifact, and if you have it, it gives you a particular power/domain

innate: the most common and very weird. aphrodite is the god of beauty, but WHY is she the god of beauty? idk. if she wasnt the god of beauty she wouldnt be aphrodite. "god of beauty" is a slot in concept space. something must occupy that slot, and the thing that occupies it will be by its nature the god of beauty. its almost like an anselm argument

lottery: the inspiring example of this post, and a very weird one! helps to remember that before probability there was something sort of inherently magical about random events. they were a chance for some deeper capricious fate to make itself known

but generally, these are not foregrounded questions! which is kind of interesting, because the theogony is one of the classic greek works, god-genealogies are very cross culturally common, its not that people are uninterested in the origin of the gods. but i guess it doesnt really occur to wonder why they have the powers they do? in the same way it doesnt occur to wonder why some people are cleverer than others, or whatever

[taropioca]

3, 4, 16!

3. mutual(s) you’d want to call with? 

you & elena >:(  (yes i just really choose that to remind you that i wanted a call)

4. cutest mutual(s)? 

my children @vitaminjohnny & @cherryhyuck & @nothaechan !!

16. fact about one of your mutual(s)? 

i don’t know if you knew but!! mimi’s bias in monsta x is actually wonho!!!!!!!!!!!! unbelievable right???

@gothicmingi has never seen the full mv for shinee’s view until yesterday.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

It's funny because sometimes I'll get very angry and frustrated about something IRL, and my brain will just take all that anger and frustration and dump it into some old or new fandom thing I hate.

[kiwikipedia]

So its moon knight time again and I think I should start with a disclaimer that I’ve never read the comics so I really only am using the show and mythology as my refrence

Anyways.

As per my last post, I mentioned that I was odd that instead of Anubis, it was Taweret who was there to greet Marc and Steven in limbo/the after life. I had maybe hoped for a bit more or maybe Marc to realize something was weird— or maybe even just a complete erasure of Anubis. But that wasn’t the case.

We see the Scales are designed to be like Anubis, meaning that Anubis was the Arbiter originally. But now it’s fallen to Taweret to do so.

I won’t go over everything again, but we do get confirmation that Taweret is ‘new’ at the whole judgment thing— she really isn’t sure what she’s doing, to the point where she has notecards on everything. Meaning she likely hasn’t been the Arbiter for some time. To really look into why I think more on why Taweret and not Anubis again, we sorta have to go backwards to another theory I have.

We’ve already gone over the gods associted with death, and again I do find it odd that Osiris was still so flippant about everything. 

Which brings up a theory that perhaps the Osiris we see isn’t actually the ‘real’ Osiris— either by Corruption, or something else.

Big Name Gods (gods like Ra, Osiris, Ptah, Toth, the ones who deal with creation of life and balance) wouldnt be so careless about all of this. 

And Osiris, being a god of death, would have no reason to not go extra lengths to keep the world in balance if someone was trying to bring back something that was already deemed corrupted— as Ammit was deemed that. There is a lot of emphisis on balance and peace, from what I can tell, but you know who doesn’t really care about that shit?

Set.

Now, in myths Set is the brother of Osiris, and Set kills Osiris— there’s a number of possible reasons why, one of which was because he was furious because his wife, Nephthys, had conceived a child, named Anubis, by Osiris, others are because of jelousy, etc. 

Some other shit happens, Set and Osiris’ son— Horus— fight for the throne of the gods, and somewhere along the line, Osiris comes back to life through the help of a bunch of other gods including Anubis, but what if it wasnt just that?

Set, in myths, would go to great lengths to protect Ra. In fact, before the Osiris Myth, Set had a positive role where he accompanied Ra on his barque to repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos.

I might have said this before, but, I do also think something happened to Ra— we don’t see Ra when the gods met, which makes little sense to me considering how the actual, principal ennead was the Great Ennead of Heliopolis. This was headed by the sun god and creator Re/Ra or Re-Atum, followed by Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, and Osiris, Isis, Seth or Set, and Nephthys. Notice how Osiris and Tefnut are the only gods who are actually part of the Ennead of Heliopolis who appear in the summoning of the gods. 

Now, I do feel as if the faith of people has some sort of impact on the gods— as the people pulled away from Ra and towards Osiris, Osiris could have usurped Ra’s power. Depending on how many gods followed Osiris, he could have had him sealed away, or possibly killed him. Osiris’ wife already tried to kill him once so that Horus could bolster his royal authority, who is to say that Osiris wouldn’t try the same thing?

Whatever the case is, what happened to Ra caused Set's spiral into a being of Chaos— Set was not always seen as an Evil God, just like how Ammit was not always seen as an Evil Being either.

So, what if instead of Osiris being resurrected, but it was Set assuming Osiris' form? I did go back and look at the wall of imprisoned gods again, beacuse of course I did, and compared some of them to other statues. One of them looks a lot like Osiris. Osiris got sealed away post death so he could not be resurrected or at least not fully and when Anubis ‘killed’ Set, Set fully assumed the shell of Osiris’ corpse.  

Of course, After doing so— Set as Osiris could then systematically started to remove all the competent death gods for the sake of chaos— perhaps as revenge for Ra. Death and life are a balance, after all, and if he starts to remove one, he throws the other off.

Anubis, perhaps, was first. Both because of him being a cornerstone of the Afterlife and, almost because of revenge. Again, Anubis might not be Set’s son. Set seals Anubis away because of a duel reason, and because Anubis is gone now Ma'at and Toth have to focus on the under world instead of their usual duties. 

Take Thoth away and Ma'at has to run the whole show and shes under suspicion because Thoth is her husband— and vice versa.

That allows for Set to start whispering things to Ammit, for her to start being manipulated, to start sowing chaos. And perhaps it wasn’t exactly in his plans to get Ammit sealed away as well, but whichever one of the judgement gods remains can’t just rule the underworld alone— they have other domains, after all.

And, if Set can put a god who has zero experience into the underworld, cases that require a delicate hand would be brushed off. The whole no exceptions rule like this case, for example. 

Anubis, I believe, would likely see that something is wrong— and honestly, there's probably a procedure for DID souls that is a different from what Taweret is doing. Not only that but the whole incomplete thing I feel is like a "One can survive or all can survive" and Anubis would notices that there's one heart missing without fail. 

Taweret’s inexperience with actual judgement when it comes to souls that arent as straight forwards like Marc and Steven’s case, would allow for improper blanace even in the underworld. And, it would allow for obsticles that would make things difficult to be claimed before anything could get settled as Taweret would have no idea how to hold off the process like I’m assuming Anubis might be able to. 

TL;DR:

We know now that Taweret is inexperienced and likely hasn’t been the Arbiter of the Dead for very long in comparison to the other gods of judgement. 

The lack of proper judgement and her being in place could be a choice made by Set, who could possibly be in control of or acting as Osiris due to myths and how strange it is that Osiris, a literal god of death, is not really doing much in regards to things that would be happening in his domain.

Granted, this is all just insane ramblings and theories, me stringing up pins and yarn because I just think that it is intersting. Hopefully the final episode clears shit up too