#shellfish demigod

[oleander-neruim]

Big Sun, Tiny Fish

Inktober 2024 Day 9: Sun

Look i love my small mythologies. Look at nerites. He's gonna get shrimped.

Sketch & Base Lining:

[dgalerab]

(silly questions cont.) omg fun!!! love that for him!!! more baudelaire themed questions if you'd like: does he have siblings? does he know how to skip rocks/is he good at it? what kind of books does he read/what subjects does he like reading about/does he have glasses (is there corrective vision in this world)? what foods does he like/what kind of texture does he like or hate in food/what is his feeling on seafood and shellfish? (that's only sunny themed if you squint, lmao)

i mean he's GOTTA be an oldest sibling how will i relate to him if he isn't. sure i want to write outside of my wheelhouse sometimes but an only child? that's not real.

anyway, i do feel like he'd be the sort of person who would look for cool rocks and there's no way he wouldn't know which rocks are skippable but also sometimes your main character's love interest is an eldritch demigod with sea powers and like. how can you not have that guy teach his human lover how to skip rocks, you know?

... unless it's vice versa. oh god. i WILL be thinking about this for the next 3-5 business months

he reads all the books. in this way he is actually klaus baudilaire coded bc he's a librarian and he will read 100% of the books. man has city code memorized. however i did not give him glasses bc making him a librarian with glasses just felt like it was verging on parody.

i think he probably likes simple foods with good herb mixes, very herb pasta-y dishes. i think he'd like seafood for that reason, bc an herb encrusted fish? incredible. as for foods he doesn't like... hm. i'm not sure. all i can think is he'd be either very pro or very anti sweets. no in between.

[malegreekuwus]

could you please do a sheet with all of the characters you use but like a sum up ? bc it can be rlly confusing

Ooooh of course ! sorry if it’s messy i’ll try to do a better summary later !

List of male lovers used

Adonis (Mortal/Immortal lover of Aphrodite and Persephone [In some versions, also Apollo]. Was killed by a boar sent by Ares, Apollo or Artemis)

Branchus (Mortal lover of Apollo, was made a prophet [A very sweet story])

Cyparissus (Mortal lover of Silvanus or Apollo. Mourned after his pet was killed and was transformed into the Cypress tree)

Endymion (Mortal lover of Selene [And Artemis by syncretism]. He was put in an everlasting sleep by Zeus to allow the moon goddess to stare at his beauty forever)

Ganymede (Mortal lover of Zeus. A trojan prince abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle to make him a cupbearer and his lover. In some rationalizations of the myths, he was abducted by Tantalus [Died of an illness, leading to a war and Tantalus’ and Pelops’ exile] or Minos [Killed himself or died of sadness])

Hyacinthus (Demigod/Mortal lover of Apollo and Zephyrus. In the main version, he was struck by a discus who was blown by Zephyrus. Apollo transformed him into the Hyacinth flower. In spartan traditions, he was brought back to life)

Iapyx (Mortal lover of Apollo. Was gifted the talent of healing, and became Aeneas’ healer during the Trojan war.)

Nerites (Immortal lover of Poseidon and Aphrodite, charioteer of Poseidon. Was turned to a shellfish two times: Refusing to join Aphrodite and bragging that he’s faster than Helios.)

Pelops (Mortal lover of Poseidon. He was either eated by his father Tantalus, or taken to Olympus to spend a sweet night with Poseidon. The latter then helped him win a chariot race to marry Hippodamia. Later produced the Atreus family, who birthed Agamemmnon and Menelaus)

Prosymnus (Mortal lover of Dionysus. Showed the entry of the underworld to Dionysus in exhange of a sweet night with him. Prosymnus died of unknown reasons before it could be done, so Dionysus sculpted a wooden d*ck to honor his promise)

( i’m using the versions i know about or the more popular ones, sorry if i ever get something wrong ! ) ( also sorry for my shitty english )

[gronglegrowth]

Drew this yesterday for a friend and forgot to post. Demon shellfish playing demon dice with not-so-demon demigod and definitely-demon elf demigod.

[automatismoateo]

If you're a Christian who asks "I'm transphobic and homophobic, but I'm only doing that because of my religion, does that make me a bad person?" well, I, a bisexual and genderqueer person, have an analogy for you. via /r/atheism

Submitted September 08, 2021 at 07:05PM by Bisexual-Demigod (Via reddit https://ift.tt/3jVDo48) If you're a Christian who asks "I'm transphobic and homophobic, but I'm only doing that because of my religion, does that make me a bad person?" well, I, a bisexual and genderqueer person, have an analogy for you.

I'm part of a religion that's about 2,000 years old. And to be a good member of this religion there are certain practices and rules you have to follow. One of those practices and rules is you have to throw a dildo at any red haired person you see. Yeah, you heard me correctly, you have to throw a dildo at any red head you see. And if it makes a nice boink that's even better. For the record there are only about 7 very short passages in total about this casting of the dildo upon the ginger in my religion's holy book, but the aren't in the top ten and none of them are said by the main character of the book. Now understand there are other practices and rules that members of my religion don't follow anymore due to them being considered antiquated as society has moved forward. One of those things is slavery, we don't approve of slavery anymore and haven't approved of it for over 150 years. There's also some stuff in there about shellfish and circumsiom we don't really do anymore. But for whatever reason my religious leaders today and really insistent we keep up this throwing of dildos at red heads for the foreseeable future.

And it's because this belief about throwing false penises at gingers that it's led me and many other follwers of my religion to believe thst we need to also deny them civil rights, marriage rights, and access to healthcare. It's even made us think we should send them to ginger conversion therapy to make them be a nice blonde or brunette, and kick our ginger kids out our house unless they repent their red head ways. There are two hair colors damn it!

In recent years there have been activist groups that have started to pop up and say that followers of my religion who do this red heads are awful people and that we're just a bunch of meanies because red heads are people too and that we need to change our ways. In fact there have even been other followers of my religion who say that these activist groups are right and will even point to passages of my religion's holy book where the main character says we have to "love our neighbor" and "love others as you love yourself." And on top of all this a majority of the population is even agreeing with these people.

When these people come up to me and tell I'm hateful or a bigot or a gingerphobe I just tell them I don't hate red heads and gingers, I actually love them. What I do hate is there sin of being a red head and I just wish they would stop living in sin. And I tell them this is why I have to throw a dildo at any red haired person I see, it's all part of my deeply held religious beliefs. Does that make a bad person? The short answer is yeah, it does. I hope this helps.

[trans-n-enby-stuff]

!!!! We doing LGBT deities? Apollo (greek god of like 6 things, including music, medical arts, the sun, and archery) and Zephyrus (greek god of the west wind) are both bi! In the myth of Hyacinth, they were fighting over the love of this really handsome dude, Hyacinth, who eventually chose Apollo, and since gods are petty assholes, Zephyrus killed him. Apollo, mad with grief, created the hyacinth flower from Hyacinth's blood (and his own tears in some versions). It's a well known story but still

(appolo & zephyrus anon continued) also like, as a rule, nobody is straight in greek mythology. Poseidon rescued Nerites (a minor sea deity) from being turned into a shellfish by Aphrodite after he refused to accompany her up to Olympus, and in some versions of the myth, they loved each other and from their mutual love Anteros was born, who is the personification of reciprocated love. (1/?)(2/?) Zeus (god of not being able to keep it in his pants) kidnapped Ganymede (cupbearer of the gods) and offered him his current job, which Hera (god of marriage and throwing children off Olympus) didn’t like bc he was too handsome and a rival to her husband’s attention (Zeus later made Gany a constellation, which implies she was right, but it’s a hot discourse topic since Ancient Greece)(3/?) Dionysus (god of wine and chasing nymphs when he really shouldn’t) is also notoriously Not Straight, with multiple myths referring to it, but the funniest is probably the myth of Prosymnus, who helped him when he went to rescue his mother Semele from Hades, and since I want to keep this kid friendly you should probably just search it up but I promise you it’s the funniest thing you ever read(4/?) Speaking of Flower Gays, there’s a myth that’s very similar to the Apollo/Zaphyrus/Hyacinth myth that may be a variation upon that, where Crocus, in this version a lover of Hermes (god of thieves and messengers) were playing a game of discus (like Apollo and Hyacinth were doing), when Crocus died. Hermes then made the Crocus flower out of his blood, like Apollo did for Hyacinth. (There’s also another, presumably straighter version of the myth where Crocus had an affair with a nymph)(5/?) And of course, let’s not forget the mortals/demigods in greek mythology: Patroclus and Achilles are famous for the Discourse they caused, Heracles (Hercules) is bi (but unfortunately probably the most famous of his lovers, Iolaus, also happened to be his nephew, which… I mean attitudes of the time and whatever, but still, gross), Agamemnon and Argynnus as told by Athenaeus were lovers, and I could go on and on because greek mythology is GAY(7/?) On the sapphic side, there seems to be less, as I didn’t recall any before I started researching, but there’s still a couple of good stories. Sappho, an actual real life poet who was a sapphic, wrote Ode to Aphrodite, her only fully surviving poem, where the speaker (herself) prays to Aphrodite after being rejected by an unnamed woman. Sappho also named Aphrodite as the goddess of lesbians. Sappho herself is quite interesting and I definitely recommend researching her!(8/?) I personally like the story of Iphis, which, while a bit Problematique by today’s standards, is still pretty okay for a greek mythology thing, if you get what I mean. Iphis was born to a couple that was so poor they could not afford the dowry if their child was a girl, so the husband decided to kill the child if it was a girl. The wife was not down with that, and Isis (an egyptian goddes, strangely enough) visited her at night and assured her that if she had a daughter Isis’d keep her safe(10/10) But lastly, the obligatory disclaimer when talking Greek Mythology is that ancient greece hadn’t realized that pedophelia and incest was wrong, and they rarely adressed rape properly, and this is pretty prevalent in LGBT-flavoured myths, so if you’re planning on researching, take care of yourself. Also, I’m so, so sorry this god so needlessly wrong, greek mythology has been my special interest for so long and this gave me an excuse to research and I went overboard, I’m so so sorry 

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Okay anon, firstly, please do not apologize for your beautiful mythology rambling, I love it. 

ALSO calling Zeus the god of not being able to keep it in his pants is so funny oh my god. I really can’t add anything to this because it’s so wonderful and I’m so happy you decided to share it!!!! 

~ Chris