#the bar is in the underworld

[enixamyram]

Love how whenever I find a post talking in defence of Ares, it makes the point that he's one of the few God's not to rape. Which is nearly always followed by a footnote or something in brackets along the lines of: "I know, I know, the bar is in the Underworld here but just bare with me".

[marxistgnome]

The greek myth inaccuracies in kaos are actually brilliant if you know how to have fun and can appreciate the impeccable rapunzelxmavis im lesbo meme vibes they have going on. It is about time someone brought the spirit of those 2010s videos where people would edit disney princesses from different films interacting and being friends to a greek mythology adaptation and I for one am glad it resulted in me watching old men have sex

[dovesick]

hexoween 2: gatekeeper of the underworld

[curiouslymyown]

You don’t know how annoying I will be when the Ithaca saga comes out

[someonefantastic]

the implication in Trial by Magic that the Triad paid for Cole to go through law school instead of forging documents and doing some underhanded stuff to make him an assistant DA is frankly hilarious

[tinyattack09]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING IP THAT WAS FUCKING CINEMA JESUS SAVE ME MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

[donttouchhadesbaklava]

Funny image:

All Underworld employees must wash their hands in the River Styx.

As long as it's not the lethe river, lol. No doubt some employees go missing from souls grabbing them into the styx.

[seasicksilver]

well well well...

[keepmovinjunior]

HEADCANON: Meg's feelings on Hades (what they are and why they are complicated).

Meg does not like Hades. This dislike ventures into hate during the course of the film, coming to a head when he utilizes her to hurt Hercules and then further humiliates them both for his own personal pleasure ("isn't she a fabulous little actress?"). Hades had no outward empathy for any of her plights prior to this moment, but this was an unnecessary cruelty from him that she would never forgive.

However, prior to the film events, she had a certain love - to - hate - you relationship with him.

Megara's father, Creon, was, in her experience, much worse to be around than Hades. Creon was volatile, angry, and violent. In contrast, Hades was cooler, funnier (he had at least a sense of humor, which her father did not), and so he was akin to "the devil you know" for Meg ... but better. Hades was also angry and volatile, but not as frequently ━━  and his anger was often short fused and did not accompany physical abuse of Meg (at least not most of the time; he did often get in her space uninvited, however, and made his physical dominance apparent in more underhanded albeit clear to Meg ways).

In this way, Meg often views Hades as a better alternative to living with her biological family. She doesn't like him and she hates her situation while being in his servitude, but it keeps her alive, and is easier for her to deal with than her actual family, as well as being a woman alone in her society. Hades was, to Meg, the lesser of two evils. Being in his presence also often kept her relatively safe from abuse by human men (not so much so from mythological creatures, but at the very least she was usually safe from s*xual abuse of any kind by humans).

He also keeps up with her wit, so they do get some satisfaction from exchanging banter at times.

On a more metaphorical level, I do believe that Hades (being the literal Lord of the Dead) and Meg's constant presence around him and in the Underworld serves as a symbol for Meg's own s*icidal ideations and relationship with Death. Meg's life circumstances leave her with a deep depression that she has a difficult time shaking, and oftentimes, the Underworld and death are tempting alternatives for her. These ideations are familiar to her, and, though they are miserable, they also feel "safe" to keep close in her arsenal should she need to face other things in her life that are worse. The only thing that keeps Meg alive in her adult years after her ex is her hope for love, and a better life; the inspiration she takes from small kindnesses she still experiences, however seldom they may be (Hercules demonstrated a lot of this when she met him). It was so incredibly hard to find this hope for the longest time for her.

In short, Meg loves to hate Hades, and is incredibly thankful to be free of him by the end of the film.

[isforever]

BECAUSE INSIDE!!!!!!!! DEEPLY INSIDE!!! HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE FEARED! HE WANTS TO BE LOVED! BUT!!!!! he never was. he never will be. he were be feared and revered. fuck love. it never was meant for him. and so he rejects it. he scoffs at it. and he sees weakness in vox because he fucking loved alastor. they both paid dearly for his stupid fucking love. he's seen his own weakness in loving those who hurt him. it was long ago, and his deepest held secret. no. love is to die. to be feared is to be eternal.

[thaly-does]

oh the way odysseus goes from "I keep thinking of the infant from that night" to "and if I gotta drop another infant from a wall in an instant so we all don't die" in a span of THREE songs???

[chaoschaos1]

went to miku expo yesterday and im on a bit of a vocaloid blast rn so i took a frame of the ghost rule mv and tossed ody into it bc i think hes very ghost-rule-core idk abt you

timelapse below the cut (potential flash warning?? idk just to be safe)

[junespriince]

Flowers floating in the dark void au

Dick, working:

Wally, warping his arms around Dick's neck: my love, it's 2am, please come to bed soon I miss you.

Dick: can't, the grind don't stop.

Wally, sighs, plucked his pen and threw it out the window into the river, grabbed his arms as his flowers in his hair wilt: we sleep, you are too over work and I want cuddles, do I have to tell your father off for you, because I will.

Dick, never had anyone who cares about his well-being for, speechless:

At night, Wally curled up with Dick, flowers in hair closed up.

Dick, to himself: is this what being loved feels like?

[snoelledarts]

Re-aliving?

When I was coming up with my long-fic idea, I originally had a version that STARTED with Jason being resurrected...

(CW for coughing up blood and anti-life matter goop under the cut! Coming back to life is not always pretty.)

Jason’s first breath is a gasp. He immediately rips his hand from Nico’s grasp, reaching to his own throat and grabbing at it desperately as he coughs and gags and spits up a not-insignificant amount of blood. 

Nico, unfortunately now familiar to the affects of re-aliving people, doesn’t react initially. Until the panicked squawk Will makes reminds him he should be concerned. 

“What’s wrong with him?!” Will shouts, wrapping his hands over Jason’s around his neck and glowing lightly as he searches Jason’s body for the issue. He must come up with nothing, because he looks more bewildered than before he connected himself to Jason’s central nervous system. 

“He’s rebooting. It’ll be over in a second,” Nico squats next to where Jason has fallen to his knees, groaning, and rubs his back like Jason’s vomiting from a hangover and not spitting anti-life matter onto the crusty wood floor in the back-rooms of an abandoned underground gay club. The setting feels right. Nico gets the feeling someone has done exactly this in exactly this spot at least once before. 

“I’m just going to--” Will closes his eyes and glows a little brighter, pouring some general healing magic into Jason’s body. It must to do something because Jason’s groaning quiets to a dull hiccup. 

“What--?” Jason croaks out, throat dry and unused. He looks up towards Will’s voice, but he misses the mark just enough that it’s clear he can’t actually see, gaze just left of Will’s face. 

“Jason. Welcome back to being alive,” Nico pats his back, considering throwing up jazz hands but Jason wouldn’t see them so the joke would be lost. “If you ever self-sacrifice again I’ll come down to get you from the Underworld just to kill you myself.” He declares, letting the hurt and anger and fear from the last few weeks seep into his voice. They’re not out of the woods yet, so to speak, so he doesn’t let himself feel Jason being back. But almost. Soon. His threat must land, because even Will shivers at the words.

“I believe you,” Jason wheezes out. “Why… why can’t I see?” 

“How much do you remember about after you died?”

[bookwyrminspiration]

i'm not convinced i'm related to my extended family. five minutes notice they're coming over. dude

[adreamingrevenant]

Unenlightened: The Knight of the Dawn and Princess Leia were both perfect analogues for both Aurora's parents and the Aurora and Prince Philip from the 1959 Sleeping Beauty movie relationship wise.

Enlightened: The Knight of Dawn and Princess Leia had a relationship superficially like the stereotypical fairy tale couple, but actually married/make it seem like their relationship was romantic out of convenience and to spite Henrik so Leah could secure her right to the throne and eventually fell in love along the way/did still have Silver and loved him but didn't love one another like that.

Ascended: The Knight of the Dawn and Princess Leia were in a fake relationship but one was either Ace/also batted for their own team and fake dated mostly so Leah could get suitors off her back, on occasion they were one another's wingman/woman.