#ray needed to rant

[ray-of-midnight-storm]

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Also I loved The odyssey and Iliad frfr

Love me some Greek mythology 🫶

Sometimes I’m scared to read the myths especially if there are gods that I like that do bad things

But I always need to remember that myths and religion are different. I’m devoted to Apollo and Aphrodite in the myths they sometimes do not so good things but that’s myths. I (and probably other people) need to learn to understand that the religious figures are different from myth ones !!

Yippee happy learning :]]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[ray-of-midnight-storm]

Sometimes I get sad when I think about that white Americans don’t have culture, like traditional clothes, holidays traditions and so on, but then I remember maybe they don’t deserve havin culture because they stole America from indigenous, did a lot of bad things, then in slaved other cultures and had major problems in the future, how many cultures have die because of greedyness and profits for the “higher class” why did humans create classes in the first place? Why do humans want to destroy one another? What will this internal ego lead the humanity? I love my culture and I love other cultures soo much so colourful and different and wonderful, but Americans made other racial cultures profitable for capitalism and other things and that’s disgusting

REBLOG WITH YOUR CULTURE DIFFERENCES I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YALL IN YOUR TRADITIONAL CLOTHES 💗💗💗💗💗💗

[leavemealoneimfulllll]

i absolutely do 💔

[psychotichicc]

[bellegotd1zzy]

current mood

[acompleteunkn0wn]

me after my mom's pedicurist told me how skinny i look

[ophelia-01]

IM LOCKING IN NOW.

PLEASE SEND ME MEANSP0’S I BEG💀

I’ve been making so many excuses these past few months but today, I’ve had a wake up call.

So there’s this guy I’ve liked for AGES (3 years💀). I don’t really want anything serious with him, so I’ve never confessed.

Anyways, today we had to come to school after-hours to help around, and I saw him looking at this one girl a bit TOO much.

Did I mention that she’s the most angelic looking person?

She’s one of those PINK PILATES PRINCESSES (omg?). She’s got a big thigh gap and is basically my th1nsp0 I swear😭😭

Also like this isn’t the first time I’ve noticed him looking at her. So uh I guess send me @na accounts that have like really m3ansp0s so I can go back to my spiral😭

[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[lexicorp]

"But hey, what can you do? I'm a Touchy Feely Fool."

Some unhinged Starscream shit i was compelled to draw after listening to the thicc friggin playlist I made on loop, and this song by AJR has been a pretty constant mood

[forgot the "could I be unfeeling too" line lol oopsie]

[bouquetstatue]

the way (a good majority) of this fandom hates amrita needs to be studied.

to describe a child/teen with a crush on an older man as a pick-me or "annoying" is so... baffling to me. many young girls crush on older men, crushes are normal for teens. and i really, REALLY don't get the pick-me part??? she has a bit of an attitude?? and a crush??? and she's a pick-me then?? like no, she's still a good or at least, decent friend to deviya.

i'm not even going to humor the "she gets in the way of radha's and raj's relationship" the LAW gets in the way of their relationship!! that age gap is jaw dropping!! and it's not like amrita is enjoying the engagement, anyway. raj is being awful to her, avoiding and giving her the cold shoulder... while being in love with the woman that's like 10 years younger than him... that he got pregnant. she's not in the way because raj does not care enough to show affection or at least, pretend to care about her.

she's DEFINITELY going to have some sort of a moment where she "was the wolf in the sheep's clothing all along." and good for her! she can betray us, all she wants because I would want to kill everyone too if I was surrounded by misery, every passing second.

[z0mba3-g4l]

It's barely been half an hour since I told my boyfriend goodnight and I already wanna send him the dirtiest, filthiest texts known to man :(((

[leavemealoneimfulllll]

summersp0 💐🎀

[moldy-flowers]

OoooOo you want to look at my Modern T-masc Sasuke Sooooo badd

Technically this isn't done but I got tiredd so take this!!!!

ASK ME ABOUT HIM PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEBPLEASEPLEASEPLWLALSSMNSMSNS

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

Just started deadloch last night and I am OBSESSED everyone go watch this show right fucking now

[rockettequeen]

can’t wait to change my name and lose his number as soon as i move out <33

[raylaismad]

‘i love women’ but it’s only ever sexually. ‘women are the best’ but if they slightly annoy you they are a villain. ‘i love women’ but if they aren’t attractive you hate them. ‘i love women’ but every female leader is either annoying and bossy or the ‘mother’. ‘i love women’ but you only ship gay ships and sapphic ships are always secondary. ‘i love women’ but when they act like a human being and not a perfect ‘sexy goddess’ they are weird or annoying. ‘i love women’ but when they are flawed they are disgusting trash. ‘i love women’ but when they act like victims when they ARE VICTIMS you say they are dramatic. ‘i love women’ but when they have body hair its unattractive. ‘i love women’ but when you draw them they are always the same body type. ‘i love women’ but when you’re writing them you have to mention how sexually appealing she is every. five. seconds.

‘i love women’ but you only love the version of a woman that you would sleep with.