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I don't normally post photos or talk about the protest actions I participate in, but I was at the Chicago Stand Up For Science rally on behalf of my job recently and this sign took me out at the knees.

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Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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"sugar is poison" sugar is your body's preferred fuel choice and if you stop eating entirely you will die

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So ! I need to say that !

Hades & Persephone's relationship is canonically a loving and quite healthy relationship in the context of Greek mythology which represents a form of balance for the world through the cycle of the seasons. Persephone is not a victim of Hades either... Anyone who has studied Greek mythology can actually explain it to you.

That's a bad vision of the original myth due to a too modern interpretation. It's not the modern era that romanticizes this basic relationship. This was already the case in Greek times...

It even seems to me that Hades and Persephone were often represented on the vases given to newlyweds (pretty crazy, since Hera was literally the goddess of marriage) because they were always described as having a loving, supportive and harmonious marriage.

And if you're looking for a real culprit in the union of Hades & Persephone, there's literally Zeus, who authorized the marriage between the two after Hades came to ask him. Hades didn't kidnap Persephone as soon as he saw her. He first asked to his father, Zeus, for her hand in marriage, as in the Greek traditions of the time.

In some versions of the myth, it even seems to me that Aphrodite is the one who provoked Hades' love for Persephone by sending Eros to plant an arrow in her after being upset by a refusal. But for now, I'm not sure of Aphrodite's real involvement.

But regardless, in the original myth, the one blamed is actually very clearly Zeus. He is the one, once again, having authorized the kidnapping of Persephone, which in Greek traditions translates into an engagement, and who has caused the whole messy situation with poor Demeter.

As for the grenade episode, it doesn't seem to me that we can know the original version. So the whole "Hades forced Persephone to eat the pomegranate" thing is also bullshit.

There doesn't even seem to me to be any indication of Persephone having been mistreated in any way by Hades in the myth. It's again bullshit.

I'm making this post because I've had yet another person explain to me that Persephone is a victim of Hades and that our modern age romanticizes the relationship between the two.

"Yes. Like Persephone gets bastardised. Persephone was Hades's assault victim. People try to "modernize" her by making her want Hades (all while making Demeter to be in the wrong). Mina was Dracula's assault victim. People try to "modernize" her by making her cheat on Jonathan for Dracula."

Except no. Persephone is not a victim of Hades in the context of Greek myth. That's a stinking modern vision. Kind of ironic, when you argue that it's the modern view that stands in for the real version of Persephone being a victim of Hades when... well no. It's the modern era that makes Persephone a victim of abuse at the hands of Hades, (this all reminds me of how people make Rhaenyra a victim of grooming in her relationship with Daemon) while that is not the case in the context of the original myth. As I explained above, this interpretation is modern bullshit. And it is very important to transcribe the myths in their ancient context to understand their various messages, otherwise you will miss the point.

But I won't elaborate further because @cthonisprincess has already explained it very well. I invite you to go and see these reblogs below which detail the whole affair of Hades and Persephone in much more detail :

I even recommend this video :

My god, I can't believe that in 2024, people are still at the stage of demonizing Hades, even though he is one of the rare decents gods, and still claiming that Persephone is an assault victim of Hades... This is a shameful distortion of the original myth and a real bastardization of the goddess Persephone.

Also... we're literally talking about a myth. The goal of a myth is to be reinvented according to the times. So what does it matter that there are adaptations of the myth that differ from the said myth, or rather from the biased vision that some have of making Persephone a poor victim of the evil Hades ?!

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it is so so important to be soft after. massage her, bathe her if she wants a bath, cook for her, run your fingers through her hair as she lays on your chest, kiss the top of her head gently, caress her pretty face. show her that she’s safe with you, and that you care more about her comfort and happiness than anything else

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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try… It’s impossible… Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them...

~ Alan Watts

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12th House Placements:

“How many of us now realize that space is the same thing as mind, or consciousness? That when you look out into infinity you are looking at yourself? That your inside goes with your entire outside as your front with your back? That this galaxy, and all other galaxies, are just as much you as your heart or your brain? That your coming and going, your waking and sleeping, your birth and your death, are exactly the same kind of rhythmic phenomena as the stars and their surrounding darkness? To be afraid of life is to be afraid of yourself.”

— Alan Watts, Whereabouts Unknown

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Quote by Alan Watts

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

-Alan Watts

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Crismaru Art

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lesbian howls moving castle for lesbian visibility week !

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"She was powerful

not because she wasn’t scared

but because

she went on so strongly

despite the fear."

Atticus

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Seven and Chakotay don’t break up after Voyager; with all the post-Voyager drama Chakotay just kind of forgets they were dating in the first place.

Six months later Chakotay’s sitting in Gretchen Janeway’s kitchen while Janeway tries to show Seven how to make scones (surprisingly or not Janeway’s great at baking) and has a mini panic attack as he tries to remember if they broke up or not. By the time the scones are out of the oven he’s decided that they must have because Seven hasn’t said anything.

At Janeway and Chakotay’s wedding Seven makes a cute but awkward toast that ends in her telling him that she thinks they should see other people. Tom will never let him forget this.

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If I had a business that was really a front for a money laundering operation I’d have a small Japanese stationary store. Sadly I doubt very much that there enough people locally who care about pencil boards and pen sets that are 16 months off from being easily available in the US for that to make fiscal sense on it’s own so it shall remain my mob wife embezzlement dream job

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this one’s for all the fat girls who’ve cried in dressing rooms 💗