#greek users

[juno-stuffs]

is this anything?

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

can a brave soul with a m&g ticket PLEASE tell dan that the word monochrome means one colour and not achromatic colours (white, black, and grey). please. i’m begging you.

[ilions-end]

thinking about euripides' hecuba and how there is at least some small satisfaction in a narrative where hecuba is allowed to enact some revenge for the mistreatment of her family.

i think what's missing is cannibalism. she wanted to eat achilles' liver in the iliad, and never got the chance. when she gets turned into a dog she never, as far as i know, gets to eat any king's genitalia (which you have to admit would have made a perfect circle re: priam's speech).

yeah. i think hecuba should have been allowed to eat a man. as a treat.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

About to flip my shit trying to find a photo of stamnos supposedly in the Louvre, but at least I came across this photo of a wine jug depicting an absolutely magnificent owl with arms and… well, arms.

[moeblob]

OC

[super-paper]

LOV-centric text memes, part 6 (5) (4)(3)(2)(1)

[enjolrashisace]

Some times I think it's hilarious that my patron god is Apollon as I'm very much disabled. I will occasionally, if not every 2 months, suffer because I decided to be an idiot and put my ankle against the floor or pop put something to impress someone with my hypermobility and somehow Apollon saw me and went "yes I pick this mess of kindergarten glue joints tight together with mental disorders"

[kebriones]

Undead Hector AU for @mitsybubbles (I used their apollo design for this since I don't have one of my own :D)

Apollo is not done with him yet.

(based on the disturbing fact that while hector remained unburried and got daily dragged by achilles, he was miraculously healed and fresh every morning, thanks to apollo and aphrodite. )

[triple-pupil]

Just did this drawing of two members/alters of @skykiuwu and @thewingedgoat 's systems with personal interpretations of how they may look like.

And I was just too proud on how it came out to not brag about it so have it.

Also Lil' practice doodles I did before the Main drawing to understand how I wanted them to look like.

[dead-orange-club]

Is it okay if I can request a userbox that says "This user is a massive mythology and folklore lover"?

Here you go!

[chaoticamelay]

i firmly believe that in the coming days and weeks we will see attempts by power structures in the so-called united states (ex: legacy media outlets) to challenge italian-american assimilation into whiteness. in this essay i will-

[demeterdefence]

my energy has been low lately so i've stuck to just liveblogging chapter releases, but i was thinking earlier about why lore olympus really nettles me and it's truly indicative of a wider issue.

it's disappointing that a major ancient religion that is still practiced by some people today has been reduced to a caricature of itself, and i say this knowing that there are thousands of reinterpretations of the greek myths, there will always be a new opinion or retelling of them. retelling the myth of hades and persephone isn't necessarily the issue, so much as the constant and dripping disdain to the cultural roots. we don't need to be greek to appreciate the story, but why remove everything greek from it? why westernize every aspect and remove ties to the cultural roots? why whitewash everything from a myth thousands of years old?

part of the reason these myths continue to resonate with us is because the themes are still relevant today. the loss of a child, the struggle against impossible forces, the (often patriarchal) powers against you, a mothers love. these stories hold power, they gave hope and inspiration, they created meaning and connection, and they were vital to the people who lived in that time, in that place. they will resonate with us for many years still, but stripping the roots and core of it out only makes it a hollow, shallow imitation. it's reality tv with neon colours, no love or heritage present; it's cold and shiny and plastic, and it insults what it claims to portray.

[red-thread-and-constellations]

[autism-swagger]

Y'all....

[where-is-vivian]

regulus drew the rays of sun on a celestial body.

[wingsofhcpe]

Every few years the tumblr queer community decides that we clearly don't have enough problems as is with real bigots, and they pick a sub-category of other queer people to convince us that "actually these are the True Oppressors, Guys, I Promise, they're too loud and privileged and stealing our rights as we speak!" while also mostly using recycled terf rhetoric but Woke This Time to support these accusations. At some point it was bi people (especially bi sapphics), then ace and aro people. Now it seems it's the turn of trans men & transmasc people in general.

And of course, if you as a member of the targeted demographic try to speak up, you're labelled as proof of the accusations. "See? They're loud and annoying and are oppressing us by not letting us target them, instead of shutting up and taking it like good little victims!".

And I, for one, I'm not having it.