#hera speaks

[junoinouterspace]

happy one year of tumblr-ing for meeeee

ty guys for sticking around :)

[askherademonqueen]

holy shit, that's really far down there

THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!

[askherademonqueen]

how often do you fight off bridge trolls with a combination wrench?

Not often enough, tbh

[wegog]

And I'm more than just your dear beloved wife, aren't I? Seeing as I am the blasted Queen.

The fact that Zeus presents Hera in the first place as his wife (while Hera distinguishes herself primarily as the queen) is interesting because it's the complete opposite of how Hades speaks of/treats Persephone...

My Queen

Our Queen

The Queen

bonus:

True rivals for Hera and me!

No, Zeus, sir, it could never be a competition...

[askherademonqueen]

small animal friend I have BEEN there

She’s on morphine

[kermit-coded]

hello wolf 359 fandom.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Rebels writers in season 4 for some reason: will Kanan and Hera ever get together??? the tension!!! the yearning!! will they?? won't they?? nobody knows!!!!

everyone: what are you talking about. they've been together this entire time. look at them. they're married.

Rebels writers: NOBODY KNOWS!!!!!1!!

[sabines-wrens]

imagine being hera and having to explain to the senate that yes famed jedi ahsoka tano was swallowed by a star whale. yes she's almost definitely alive. no i don't think anyone's tried it before. no this doesn't surprise me. have you met a jedi before? this is a normal taungsday for them.

imagine leia organa just nodding along totally unphased. imagine mon mothma having to just accept that with a straight face.

[askherademonqueen]

my husband would love these. he would throw them at me, but he would love them deep down.

[fangirls-just-want-to-have-fun]

"I seldom cahoot"

babe wake up biblically accurate Hades just dropped

[liatorii]

AU where Kanan comes back as a Loth wolf. That’s it, that the post.

Click read more if you dare:

[askherademonqueen]

ugh now I want to dig some of my dresses out and model themmmmm

[askherademonqueen]

this is so wonderful to hear... I should visit this place next

the way my jaw dropped at this bit

[nonhumanhottie]

'Senator Organa says she can only give us cover for so long.'

LEIA COVERING FOR HERA shut up that means everything to me

[gingermintpepper]

One of my biggest pet peeves is the assumption that something has to be sad for it to be tragic.

I've always been a big believer of the 'Apollo has an awful love life'/'Apollo is plain unlucky with love' line of thinking but it does bother me that the general reasoning for that statement is given to the concept of 'Apollo is somehow undesireable and thus rejected' (Cassandra/Daphne/Marpessa) or 'his lovers die young and thus their love is unfulfilled' (Cyparissus/Hyacinthus/Coronis). I personally think that's a very unfortunate way of looking at things - not only because it neglects the many perfectly cordial entanglements and affairs Apollo has had, both mortal and divine - but because it presents a very shallow interpretation of the concepts of love and loss and how loss affects people.

Apollo can still grieve lovers that have a long, healthy life. The inherent tragedy of an immortal who knows his lovers and children will die and cannot stop it does not stop being tragic simply because those lovers and children live long, fulfilled lives. The inherent tragedy of loss does not stop being tragic simply because someone knows better than to mourn something that was always going to end.

What is tragic is not that Apollo loves and loses but that loss itself follows him. Apollo does not love with the distance of an immortal, he does not have affairs and then leaves never to listen to their prayers again. He does not have offspring and then abandon them to their trials only to appear when it is time to lead them to their destinies. He raises his young, he protects the mothers of his children, he blesses the households that have his favour and multiplies their flocks that they may never go hungry. He educates his sons, he adorns his daughters and even in wrath he is quick to come to his senses and regret the punishments he doles out.

Apollo loves. And like mortals, there will always be some part of him that wishes to protect the objects of his affections. Apollo, however, is also an emissary of Fate. He knows that the fate of all mortal things is death. He knows that to love a mortal is to accept that eventually he will have to bury them. There is no illusion of forever, there is no fantasy where he fights against the nature of living things and shields his beloveds from death. Apollo loves and because of that love, he also accepts.

And that, while beautiful, is also tragic.

[askherademonqueen]

I think I could handle the strawberry car