#seriously ginger

[bearnakedbaker]

Look at yourself

[lookninjas]

So yesterday was Spotify Wrapped, and that’s pretty cool.  You know what else is pretty cool?

That’s right!  Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, the day that Bandcamp waives its revenue share to put even more money directly into the pockets of your favorite artists.  When you buy music from Bandcamp on Bandcamp Fridays, 93% of the money you spend goes to the artist/label (on average).  This means that tomorrow is a really great day to look at your Spotify Wrapped top 100 playlist and ask yourself if there’s any artists there you need to throw a little cash to.  Me personally, I’m thinking of getting into some more Ginger Root.  But whoever your faves are, whatever your genre personality, whichever -core suits you the best, remember:

Because as useful as Spotify is for us as the listeners, the fact remains that artists don’t get shit.

[ingravinoveritas]

Sweet Jesus and the demons angels wept...

[gingermintpepper]

Obsessed with the way Evadne's relationship with Apollo is described. Obsessed with the way Apollo was especially gentle with her because she was sheltered, hidden away and hadn't had any sort of experience with love prior to Apollo (and due to it being described as her 'first learning Aphrodite's joy' through Apollo', it was probably her first time even being attracted to someone). Obsessed with the way when she runs away, she stops in a violet patch to give birth. Y'know, violets, very famously the flower so strongly associated with Aphrodite that they were used in love potions? Those violets. Obsessed with the way that when Apollo realised his lover was going to have to deliver their child alone, he sent BOTH the goddess of childbirth and ALL THREE OF THE FATES to help and support her. Obsessed with the way that Apollo sends snakes to feed his baby honey straight from their fangs because Evadne abandons their son out of straight primal fear when her stepfather finds her and how the description of that honey is 'sweet venom' [ἰός] of the bees and is DEFINITELY a poetic pair/pun with [ἴον] aka violets and that every single thing about this relationship, conception and birth is a complete and utter fairytale down to Evadne's insanely overprotective stepfather having an immediate change of heart when he learned Evadne's child was an actual, legitimate Son of Apollo and the babe, after being cared for by his dad's honey-fanged snake buddies, was found perfectly healthy five days later swaddled in a blanket of violets (y'know the flowers so strongly associated with Aphrodite that they were used for lo-) and they called him Iamus aka Boy of the Violets which is AAAAAARRRR I AM GNAWING AT MY ENCLOSURE

Iamus was made of love. Everything about him was surrounded by deep and profound love and like, let's not even talk about his whole Thing of when he came of age and was like "I need to find out what my purpose is" and he literally had a Disney Protagonist moment where he ran out into the wilds and was like "Father!! Grandfather!! Tell me what I'm supposed to doooo!!" and then APOLLO FUCKING ANSWERED AND LED HIM TO ONE HIS TEMPLES ENTIRELY BY TALKING WITH IAMUS AND LETTING HIM FOLLOW HIS VOICE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY LIKE -

What do y'all know about the kind of SSS tier romantic escapades Apollo had fr?

[lotus-pear]

it actually makes me laugh when people say chuuya is straight. the only thing hetero about that man his heterochromatic eyes

[spn2006]

i love the side of the spn fandom ive stumbled into thats actually just a gateway to the ethel cain/richard siken/true detective/flowers in the attic/ginger snaps/the carnivorous lamb cinematic universe

[linavender]

My interpretation of Cameron’s friendship with Pitts (or any poet tbh):

Pitts: I made you a bracelet.

Cameron: You know, I’m not a jewelry person.

Pitts: Well, you don’t have to wear it.

Cameron: No, I’m gonna wear it forever. Back off.

[kimberbohwrites]

I’ve gotta request something sooo self indulgent…. Halsin x tav where tav has tummy hurty and halsin makes it better. how is up to you! xx

(My inner Druid is going to come out on this one)

Halsin Versus Tummyache

>Halsin realizes they aren’t feeling well before his heart is even awake. He hears them groaning in their sleep and sees the light sheen of sweat on their brow.

>He’s up and down to the river for fresh water, picking at wildflowers that remind him of Tav on the way. Reaching the outside of your shared cabin he stops to pick some of the white flowers with big yellow centers that you grow in large quantities. Chamomile flowers.

>Once inside he can hear Tav’s grumbles of stomach trouble. His chest strained at the misery in their voice. They’re calling for him.

>He sets the water to boil on the hearth and he checks in on them. Giving them forehead kisses and opening their window to provide them fresh air.

>Back in the kitchen he sets to a remedy for his dear heart, most of the chamomile flowers are made into a tea— to which he adds grated fresh ginger, and some of the fresh mint that grows in the window box you’d planted together.

>He brings them the wildflowers (mixed with the unused chamomile flowers) in a bouquet on a tray with the tea. Kissing their sweaty brow until they wake he presents them the tray.

>”Drink up my heart, you’ll feel better soon” He says, the kindness and warmth radiating from his honey color eyes.

>He sits with them as they drink their tea, running soothing circles on their back as the upset stomach starts to pass. They drift back off to sleep, a quality sleep this time, soon after the mug is drained. They sleep well in the arms of a rather large elf, who loves them so.

[lyn-ne]

ah fuck I haven’t posted anything for Akitos birthday um here

*runs away*

[lylahammar]

why the fuck is it so socially acceptable to say hateful stuff about people with red hair

[sighed-the-snake]

I thought I was feeding one orange stray cat for the past few weeks.

Last night, three identical orange cats were eating at the kibble dish.

Tonight, there are four.

Will there be five orange cats tomorrow?

What if the orange cats don't stop coming?

Am I cursed?

Do I need a priest?

I didn't know pspspsps was a demonic summoning

[athenasplan]

HEAR ME OUT

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[tivea]

Happy Birthday Fuuta!

[nordiccowboy]

jessica chastain as molly

[asteria7fics]

Earlier I really felt like I needed to cry, so I spent some time tormenting Kyle and you know what? I didn't shed a single tear but I feel so much better.

Anyway, the next EWILY Extra will be out soon!