#myth city

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Decided to make Hailey, Benny, and Izzy from OTO distant descendants of Shay and Maverick and Helena, respectively, from my old webcomic Myth City for...a couple reasons, honestly. So have the cryptid/supernatural kids hanging out with their (literally) godly ancestors :P

In case anyone was curious about how they're related: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PX4_XJPEn6tkiKrq_5dPguKbtRVY4qqVczP6Cd9XFMM/edit

If you 'like' my art, I kindly ask that you also reblog it.

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[the-colors-of-tokyo]

Memories of Autumn:

My favorite persimmon tree.

Memories necessary to escape the artificially intensified heat of summer, a result of living in a manmade island of concrete and asphalt and to ave something to look forward too.

One could say that autumn in Tokyo begins in November when leaves start changing colors. This may seem a month or two late, but one has to remember that Tokyo is southern area at about the same latitude as Winston-Salem, North Carolina or Athens, Greece. And, believe it or not, Las Vegas. (Tokyo is between 35-36 latitude north. Tokyo is not a city, it is a prefecture.)

Small Town Tokyo: Himonya

[ofswordsandpens]

the chalice of the gods becomes objectively funnier if you head canon that percy and annabeth only stay at New Rome for a single semester before realizing its batshit insane there and running for the hills

[nachtdereulen]

[nando161mando]

[coconutcows]

I don’t know Ya’ll, there’s an awful lot of pearl clutching over the Typhlosion myth for a fandom where Ash’s mom dating a Mr.Mime has been one of the most common jokes for a couple decades now

[gwyns]

i don't understand the hatred some people have for hunt... like hasn't he been through enough to prove to y'all he's not evil? are you forgetting he, alongside two of his best friends, were TORTURED? and he never ONCE broke? are you forgetting the hatred he had for himself to the point where he had to shut his brain off and become a zombie to be the umbra mortis? did you forget how he made bryce come alive again?

i've been saying it since the beginning and i'll continue to say it. this fandom doesn't deserve hunt athalar

[m1nsur0]

[JTTW OC: 智平] Always two pretty bitches telling each-other exaaaaaactly 💜💜

men so androgynous they’re called “lady” by strangers more than “lord”

[sreegs]

A few myths about New York City that I'd like to dispel:

The subway is not dangerous and people will help you find out how to get where you're going if you're lost.

Not many people speak in a Brooklyn accent anymore, except for older natives or families who have lived here for multiple generations.

The giant metal sphere ten times the size of Jupiter that floats over just a few feet over isle of Manhattan every year on the vernal equinox must be struck with a feather lest Baal be angered.

The people are not rude! New Yorkers just respect each others' privacy and space, so they come off as cold. But they're always willing to lend a hand.

[rhys-ravenfeather]

I might, at some point, start drawing Myth City comics/minicomics again. But until then, have Helena cosplaying Gwen/Spider-Woman.

...listen, this is as close as I'll ever get to drawing a spidersona, just take it.

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[doodle-do-wop]

Y'all ever think about how absolutely unhinged Juline Dizznee is?

She has human movies, joined a rebel group, said 'fuck society I like this funny potion man' and married him, has probably thrown hands, (once again) JOINED A REBEL GROUP, was willing to lose her memorizes when on a mission with her own son, has probably said 'this is my jam' in reference to a jar of jam, has seen her son throw multiple bombs at the government leaders of her home

[starfish458]

"i can fix her" her:

made by me ౨ৎ˖ ࣪⊹

[6lovelytenders]

I'm way overdue on making my own Tugs OC, so... everyone, say hello to Cassiopeia.

Cassiopeia was an ocean-going tug that lived in Bigg City Port in the early 1910s. She belonged to a tugboat company that went under just as the Star and Zero fleets started to take up contracts. Due to the controversial reputation both the tug company and Cassiopeia had, they had all but vanished from the minds of everyone in the port. The only way she is remembered now, are from vague ghost stories about a spirit that resides next to Dem-der rocks, who warns lost vessels in the fog to be careful.

[greekgodssitcom]

Apollo: Like he was really mean to me but do I tell him he’s going to drown in a bathtub?

Poseidon: Nooo, wait until the week of, then send omens and watch him try to prevent it, that’s always so funny

Apollo: omg you’re so right

[monicole-art]

The terror UNLEASHED (a lvl 1 conjurer wrecking havoc on Unicorn Way)