#mythology references

[evigheden-ending]

REVERSED JAMS AU

In the distant past, when the chaos of iron and flame still reigned, five cookies were baked by the witches. Radiant beings graced with wisdom and power parallel to their own,the five were destined to reshape the tempestuous world and usher in an new era of peace, prosperity, and enlightenment for all.

Alas, great power always begets corruption.

One by one, their will crumbled under the weight of their own strength. Once promised saviors, the five became twisted apostles of evil, and brought forth darkness and devastation.

The witches could not bear to watch the calamity that had befallen the precious land of their creation, and so the witches and the five began a war so destructive that remnants of it’s jam-shed were still evident in the lands, these five, who were given powers parallel to their creators managed to hold off the witches, even managing to kill one.

Because of their sister’s sacrifice, the witches managed to take a large portion of the beast’s power, sealing them and their forces in the remote continent of Crispia, with the vestiges of power left behind, the witches then decided to create 5 more, heroes formed from the purest of dough and the half that the witches did manage to take from the beasts, it was purified in an enchanted sea and bathed in starlight, blessed by the winds, given the ferocity of flames, and merged together by nature and frost, thus creating 5 heroes, Truth, Resolution, Abundance/Change, Passion, and Freedom.

Some notes:

This is the initial plot for my Reversed Jams Au,

It's not really fleshed out yet, but I know what I want.

Pure Vanilla will be inspired by Prometheus (his backstory)

White Lily will be inspired by Pandora

Golden Cheese will be inspired (slightly) by Niobe and Isis

Holly Berry will be inspired (slightly) by Ishtar

Dark Cacao Cookie will be inspired by....idk..

Shadow Milk will be inspired by Odin

Mystic Flour will be inspired by Guan Yin

The rest of them? Idk, like I said I'm still fixing this up and making details along the way...

[cosmicourple]

*manifests into existence graphically & gruesomely* *walks over to mic* Pokémon A.U ideas I’ve had buzzing around in my brain for a bit (that I will also explain rlly poorly) haha cough dies:

-Sycamore & Diantha are funni siblings, Xerneas is their smooshy grandmother, real world mythology (specifically Norse) exists, Yveltal does not like Lysandre or his ancestors (…also Fae & similar forces exist & are hungry :))

-Rainbow Rocket keeps getting its arse beat by (some not so anymore) trauma fuelled children, Sycamore, R.S.E! Maxie & Colress are friends (and really should not of been God Save Us), the Ultrabeasts share one braincell (and Guzzlord ate it)

-the world is an unknowable horror filled with nothing but pain and suffering, forcing those who dare to think themselves above it and the power it holds to choke on their hearts, their voices, their thoughts, until all they can perceive is that nothing is for them and all shall be as it is, cursed and shattered because of arrogance and ignorance, tortured and twisted, swallowed up by the light and the fire that should not of been.. And oh how You should of Known, oh how You all should of Thought better than That and now you are Here and there will be no escape from The Voið øF Wħő Ý ò ų ÆŘß —- (AKA Cyrus calls an ambulance, the others eat shit, Lysandre gets scammed by love & Xerneas is a amazing mum AND baker 🥰)

-live family reunion

-“how to care for your now deceased lover’s (Xerneas.net) children and also teach them how to control their powers because they are the heirs of Nature plus how do you teach creatures with Natures Abilities how to control them when you yourself are technically Death incarnate (Yveltal.net)” (AKA Yveltal get’s reading glasses, Zygarde is very happy to be an uncle (figure only. -Yveltal) & Augustine n Diantha luv their dad :3)

-there are three (read many) different variants of Sirens, Maxie & Maxie won’t stop arguing, the Pirate Life was (not) for Lysandre, only in Ancient Greecetm

-three very important rule:

Be very careful what you wish for,,,

Don’t finger fuck reality.

Never ever let a group of villain’s children play a metaphorical-game-of-Russian-Roulette-as-a-represention-of-their-descent-into-and-inability-to-escape-the-life-their-arsehole-parents-somewhat-accidentally-pushed-them-into-and-then-building-off-of-it-to-create-something-objectively-more-dangerous.

-Augustine go’s to Hoenn for rocks, accidentally gains two husbands, freaks out to Diantha on the phone Malva chuckles as she watches from her comfortable spot on Dian’s’ bed. Her girlfriend makes such funny expressions when exasperated >03

-typical fantasy adventure turned sideways then promptly trampled. Augustine HATES the ‘damsel in distress’ trope, Lysandre just wanted to court normally, Cyrus is forced to third wheel everyone & Diantha is all here for the chaos 👍

-“Cynthia! This is suppose to be a celebration! Where is everyone?????” “Alder is in a coma, Sycamore is being held captive by Legendaries or something, Rainbow Rocket has gone cuckoo & Kanto (& soon the rest of the Southeast Continent) is basically fucked.” “😨” “anymore questions smartass?”

-the Ultrabeasts adopt Lillie + evolved, kinda not human anymore Lillie

-Eggman’s announcement but it’s Arceus (+ Cyrus w/ the Space Police (Ultra Recon Squad or whatever their called)

haha I’m gonna blow up one day :DDDDD

[vostok3-ka]

1943 Tastes of 1949 With a Tinge of Illusion

You’d think that sepia photographs Come to life when you’re the one That lived them, and yet, You eat paper with your eyes The way the Fenris-wolf sank Bloodied teeth into the flesh Of a so-called god; Confess emptiness in temples, On your knees ‘fore your own soul. What is a date on a page Save for shattered memories? You rather think that you’ve slammed Their brittle faces into the earth yourself, And guilt raises its ugly face, Stringy saliva rolling down Your cheeks the way The serpent’s maw weeped white venom Upon Loke eyes, blinding, searing, Just like the way the snow it flashed When you fell from the skies Landing in a bed of harsh cotton and  Blossoming rose. You danced once, You know this in the rhythm of your Heart, the way it perks its little face up at Swinging music, rolling waves of instruments, And you step in the empty  Space of an abandoned workshed, Your eyes fluttering shut, Music tinkling out, spilling into the  Cracks in the walls, in the floor, In your mind, From the little stolen phone on the floor; It is nineteen forty three all over again  And there are budding tremors  Blossoming in your blood. Laugh! Laugh it all away, Spin arms round the empty air, Tyr lost his hand to the Fenris-wolf, You lost yours to the jaws of Snowed behemoths, mountainous. You rather think it a mercy  What they did, Silver shines on left shoulders, And you step into formation; Dance! Dance the night away, It is nineteen forty nine all over again And there is rising confusion spilling Over the gaps in your mind. What is to press fingers to lips, Holding in choking tears climbing up Your throat, merciless, relieving, But to hold a soul back from closure? You rather think if you cried that the horrified Haze you've been living in Will, at long last, become truth.

by Aisha for @catws-anniversary, April 4, for the prompt "1940s"

[poppyseedsorpoppy]

Crows' Feet | Complete

Everything was soft, burning, and Eddie wished that humans had hollow bones because he wanted to be closer. He wanted to pour himself into Steve, live inside him like a mouse in the walls, because no amount of skin could ever be enough. He wanted to devour Steve and be consumed by him, tied together until no one could see where one ended and the other began. Eddie wanted to drink down his tears and chew on his pain until Steve only had sunlight left inside of him, wanted to fill in every gap and patch over the cracks until the dictionary had to create a new definition of whole to describe them.  --- In which Eddie and Steve grow up, find themselves, and discover just how much they mean to each other.

Hello Hello Hi! This project for @steddiebang has taken over my life since last spring, and I'm so excited to finally let you all see what I've been working on! This work is a series of thirteen linked, POV-shifting oneshots which move chronologically from Steve and Eddie as children, through canon, and beyond. Getting the details just right on this one was definitely a labor of love, and I hope you like it as much as I do. Please read the tags! There's a happy ending, but there's also a lot leading up to it.

In addition, I need to send the biggest, warmest support out to @anarmel for creating such beautiful art. I was screaming basically every time I opened discord-- their grasp on mood and detail are glorious, and they were genuinely so kind and supportive throughout this process. Anar's post is linked here, but you should go have a browse through their page more deeply, too! It's a wonderful place to be.

[fic-ive-read]

Link To The Fic

I absolutely love this fic, but just a heads up, the sequel isn't finished and hasn't been updated since 2021.

[sweetstrawberrymilk]

There’s no joy for you.

You are born to this one fate.

You are born with only the myth of choice.

As others before you

Born to swing towards destiny with string cutting palms.

Your glory dawning, your promises void.

[theghostleeapparition]

Hiya, it's been a while!! Have dolphin inspired Poseidon as I (continue) to work on god games!

Based on this:

(+bonus video)

Six Hundred Strike but Odysseus turns into Elizabeth Schuyler (also posted on YT)

[princess-of-morkva]

Merlin and Arthur as Orpheus and Eurydice

so we all know about how Orpheus's challenge was actually impossible from the start because if you truly love, you always turn back?

now make it merthur

merlin bargains with the sidhe, the keepers of arthur's sleeping soul in avalon, to allow him a chance to get arthur back. and to do that, he has to lead arthur out of the underworld without turning back to look at him (we all know the story).

arthur, having just woken up and absolutely confused about everything that's going on, keeps pestering merlin with questions, and most importantly, why wouldn't he look at him?

at some point, merlin can't take it anymore, overwhelmed with grief and longing as he is, he forgets himself, just for a second, and turns around to tell Arthur off as he's done many times before.

the second their eyes meet, merlin realises his mistake.

the next second, he's standing in front of the sidhe council again. arthur isn't there.

he is then told, that the price for disobeying the rule was for him to be trapped in avalon instead. arthur can still return to the world of the living, but he now has to do it on his own.

they also say that there is still a chance for merlin to leave avalon, but that is only possible if someone comes for him the same way he has come for arthur - through overcoming the boundary between life and death by the force of their love for him.

merlin doesn't even consider that an option, seeing that there is no one left alive to even remember him, let alone love him. he doesn't think it possible someone could love him, really (merlin's s5 incredible low self esteem "he won't even notice i'm gone")

imagine his surprise when arthur comes barging into avalon demanding merlin be handed back to him

[artistxgrotto]

calypso redesign because waiting for jay to post another love in paradise snippet is driving me insane

antinous is next (spelling is hard,,)

[itseghost]

kiss from an angel of death

i really hope 2 finish this painting one day but i just have not been able to get around to it even though i do like how its turning out haha

(yes, i know than's costume should be flipped so what i drew on the right is on the left, i plan on flipping the composition and fixing stuff from there, bc i dont want the wing pauldron covering their faces teehee)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words related to Mythology

to include in your next story/poem

Ambrosia - the food eaten by Greek and Roman gods; a very pleasant food

Chthonic - relating to or living in the underworld (i.e., the place in ancient stories where the spirits of the dead go)

Chimera - in Greek mythology, a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail

Delphi - an ancient Greek sanctuary (i.e., a holy place) on Mount Parnassus, where an oracle (i.e., a female priest) was believed to be able to answer questions with advice from the god Apollo

Fate - what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat

Gorgon - one of three sisters in ancient Greek stories who had snakes on their heads instead of hair, and who turned anyone who looked at them into stone

Harpy - in Greek mythology, a creature with the head of a woman and the body of a bird

Hydra - in ancient Greek stories, a creature with many heads that grew again when cut off; also, a difficult problem that keeps returning

Ichor - in Greek mythology, the liquid that flows in the bodies of the gods instead of blood

Muse - in ancient Greek and Roman stories, one of the nine goddesses who were believed to give encouragement in different areas of literature, art, and music

Nectar - in ancient Greek and Roman stories, the drink of the gods; also, a sweet liquid produced by flowers and collected by bees and other insects

Satyr - a god in Greek literature who is half man and half goat

Siren - in ancient Greek literature, one of the creatures who were half woman and half bird, whose beautiful singing encouraged sailors to sail into dangerous waters where they died

Sphinx - an imaginary creature with a lion's body and a person's or animal's head, usually with wings; in ancient Greek stories, a creature at Thebes with the body of a lion, the head and breasts of a woman, and wings. She asked people who passed by a riddle (i.e., a difficult question) and if they could not answer correctly, she killed them

Underworld - in mythology, a place under the earth where the spirits of the dead go

If any of these words make it into your next poem/story, please tag me. Or leave a link in the replies. I’d love to read them!

More: Word Lists

[strawlessandbraless]

Something about how Dean never had any faith in god because he put it all in Cas

[mcsiggy]

I love the war gods cuz i can do things like this

[khuuxu]

"Time to go home, Prince of Ithaca."

Ver. Without shadow :]

[doodlerose]

I don’t know, just the image of Andromache not being aware that Hector had died right away, along with the image of the tapestry she is weaving is really striking.

[pahatarcarabosse]

Hermes with Holy Moly Nymphs after Wouldnt You Like