#not greek

[kammieceleek]

Just a little note for everyone that I feel needs to be said, Medusa's story in PJO follows one of the Ovid variations in which she was transformed after banging Poseidon in one of Athena's temples. That's why Medusa hesitates to go after Percy: he looks like his dad. It's stated BY ANNABETH that Medusa appears to have a soft spot for him. We will likely be seeing this in the show.

The ORIGINAL GREEK has her as a monster from birth to death, and I feel like this is incredibly important to remember that Greek mythology isn't a monolith, it's a scattered collection of stories that we only have a small percentage of because of linguistic drift and the inevitable loss of knowledge that came with time.

Edited to add: with the way they have Medusa set up so far, I think she may make Percy question his mom's thing about monsters not looking like monsters. The Medusa we got previews of doesn't look like a monster. She looks like a gorgeous woman, the kind of princess a hero might 'rescue'.

Just... food for thought.

[mtolympusmemes]

Advice:

Bestie and I have plans for NYE. It involves takeout, drinking, watching dumb videos, and chilling with dogs. So nothing special but we haven’t seen each other since thanksgiving and A LOT has happened that we need to catch up on.

She just texted me asking if one of her friends can join us and no pressure to say no. I’ve never met this friend but she says she thinks we would get along great.

What should I do?? Should I say sorry but I was looking forward to just hanging with you or should I be more open to meeting this friend and as the saying goes the more the merrier???

[useless-greek]

εύέλφορος, -ον, easy to pronounce, Filod.

[gozlerimdekiparilti]

Köyüm de köyüm

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[plutoarttv]

prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back

[albinobirb]

I heard we doing Miku as our culture👀 may I present Greek miku

[cherriielle]

daphne's blessing 🌿

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[amajorsystem]

[mtolympusmemes]

It’s my birthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[im-an-apollogist]

Calypso I hate you but I love you but I hate you but I love you but I hate you but i love you but I hate you but I love you but I hate you

[quinnduck]

Odysseus: *gently hands Athena baby Telemachus*

Athena: …you were PREGNANT AND YOU DIDNT TELL ME?!

Odysseus: what?- no-

Athena: DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS?! I WAS TRAINING YOU!

Odysseus: no I wasn’t the one-

Athena: THAT POOR BOY WAS PROBABLY SO SQUISHED IN YOUR HELMET! LOOK AT HOW SMALL HE IS!!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.