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I want to tweak my Jesus design a little to have slightly longer hair but doing so would feel like giving in to all the snide comments telling me his hair should be longer

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justr thought id share

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oh i think i miss myself more than anyone else when the winter comes, its not just the earth buried under the snow im there too from all my swimming in the dirt—my little sister always pulls me up though, unaware and uncaring of where i would be without her :)

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thinking about vitamin c

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i think a big difference between athena and ares is athena’s hands smell metallic from the metal of the trophy in her hands, the coins she’s awarded, the blade she clutches. but ares smell metallic from the thick layer of blood, its his, its a friend’s, a brother’s, a mother’s, a daughter’s, a stranger’s, a poet’s, men’s, men, all of them dead beside him; the flesh and meat cooks in the heat of battle, all the survivors leave colder. athena is on the front lines killing her way through a challenge almost stationarly, but ares falls to his knees and looses and regains pride like the tides and is surrounded in all directions by falling bodies and fear—who is his son after all

i love athena but the book soldier’s heart was my first introduction to the details of war so, i have a small bias

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playing with the colors of my crochet ody, tele, and penelope like both penny and tele get this beautiful turquoise but ody gets red bc he hasnt been with em in 20 yrs, he can get his blue green fit when he isnt x nautical miles away from ithaca

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as the night swells so does the impending feeling of sheer loneliness in such a full house.

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as someone who dabbles in witchcraft practices and the like who is in a very religiously grifty family (whatever religion seems most appropriate for the moment will be lightly considered without full understanding of divinity, like praying to god when things go wrong or getting a psychic reading for a divorce or listening to my tarot readings when bad things happen) so in short i was a tad shaken to see that 5below sells white sage and my mother bought some to cleanse the newly renovated basement,

we are not native, white sage is a closed native american practice. while im aware her ignorance and individual private use isnt the main problem, it still shows the ignorance there is of spirituality and i cant get over 5below selling material of a closed practice to the public.

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family members who think theyre being helpful but actually arent suck because i cannot even be maddened since the intention was pure but pls dont put the sock of mine you found on apollos altar 😭

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my epic songs rating (act one) (kinda hard bc i adore them all)

1. keep your friends close (i am a loyal aeolus stan.)

2. remember them (especially the self doxx and the cyclops’ “dont go🥺”)

3. ruthlessness (i rlly like poseidon)

4. open arms (first released song i heard from the musical, 10/10 no notes) (also i am NOT observant chat i can point out two differences from the old ones and the rerecords and its just the stressed t in athena’s enlighten me and the blurry speech before remember them((?)))

5. lucky runs out (bc of the thunder saga’s reprises and also the “i took 600 men to war and not one of em died there 😁” is rlly good to me for some reason and i listen to the whole song just to hear it also “this is the home of the wind god”)

6. full speed ahead (its the “we’re up, we’re off and away we go” thats rlly sells it for me)

7. storm (“and island in the sky 🤩”)

8. wouldn’t you like (i like hermes getting odyssey high enough to beat helios’s witch daughter)

9. polyphemus (i am very fond of sheep and cyclopi, the cyclops lamb chemical is quite literally in my user name)

10. survive (i think my kitten otittyus of titaca was super cool and rad up until the cyclops started slaying literally) (i like him when hes covered in blood and pathetic more tho :3)

11. puppeteer (smth smth je ne sais quoi mais je fait so….its the evolution of circe’s lyrics from motherly and kind to her true intentions while using eury’s to bounce off of for that change. also other stuff i would need an entire novel of oc lore to explain and it would not be worth it)

12. there are other ways (just like say no to this and all of katherine howard and ricky potts and mischa bachinski its always the freaky ones for me idn)

13. no longer you (sing that prophecy twink boy yea fucking spit it🤩 fym red and blood what)

14. done for (its the beginning and the video jay made to simulate their fight with his touys)

15. monster (rawr rawr rawr also the “is the cyclops struck with guilt…and saves more lives with guile” verse that rlly gets me)  

16. my goodbye (i like that it sounds kinda like a break up song)

17. the horse and the infant (the beginning is rlly sick, and the end but thats a different definition of sick)

18. warrior of the mind (well done u lied to me :3 whats ur name?)

19. the underworld (ÞŒŁÏŤĮĖẞ NOOØǑŒÓǑØO😭😭😭😭)

20. just a man (I LIKE IT I LIKE IT I SWEAR I JUST ALWAYS FORGET HOW IT GOES AND ITS NEVER BEEN A BRAINWORM FOR ME BUT I LIKE IT AND I LIKE ALL THE CALLBACKS TO IT K PROMISE I PROMISE)

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crocheted ody :333

i did him in an afternoon and his clothes in a morning!! this is my first full project with circles and spheres and such!! so so proud :33

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wormysseus longs for the dirt…

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something i dislike about the people i have to be around almost daily, is how tightly they clutch to grudges and the like, not that i have any notes on that, but i myself do not care

i could not care less. something (good or bad) happened to someone who i dont like for personal petty reasons? couldn’t care less. i hope theyre as happy as i am.

even the people in my personal life who have hurt me i dont really care the slightest bit about. i have things to focus on, i have things that bring me joy to think of, why would i fester.

this carries over to concepts and media and other things too. the power of being able to simply not care for something is quite lovely

that being said i cannot say there isnt a hater in me, which can be helpfully exercised for things like rapists and the texture of meat and lore olympus

xoxo, <3

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this so many times, this an infinite amount

Another reminder that Greek mythology is always somehow symbolic, metaphorical, allegorical, since we are dealing with anthropomorphic personifications and other embodiments of cosmic powers.

For example: Demeter has sex with both Zeus and Poseidon. Something-something about the relationship of the Earth with the Sky and the Sea (or the celestial and chthonian powers). ESPECIALLY since these relationships are said to happen at the beginning of the world, in the primordial times during which the world settled itself for what it is now.

Herakles' wedding with Hebe, the personification of youth, checks in with when he becomes an immortal god (aka, an eternally young entity). What better way to symbolize a hero escaping the clutches of death than by him becoming the husband of the spirit of eternal youth?

Why is Hestia never leaving Olympus? Something-something about her being the literal personification of the hearth, which is at the center of the house/community and does not move.

Why is Ares getting his ass kicked by Athena? Because Athena is civilization, and Ares savagery, and in the Ancient Greek mindset intelligence, wisdom and craft will always be above brutality, bloodlust and random cruelty.

Do I need to spell it out that the myth of Persephone-Hades-Demeter is about the cycle of the seasons, and how the earth renews itself and brings back life after a time of death?

And I wonder why Ares' companions during his mass-slaughters are called Phobos, Deimos and Eris - Fear, Panic and Discord... Why would the goddess that breaks harmony and sows feuds and chaos be depicted as the close sister of the god of the ravages of war and of the brutality of conflicts, what a strange mystery!

And I can go on, and on, and on. Remember, the Greek gods aren't just super-heroes or wizards (that's more in line with more "humanized" mythologies, like the Irish or Nordic ones). They are embodiments of concepts and ideas, personifications of natural forces and cosmic powers, they are living allegories and fleshed metaphors. Zeus wields the lightning because he IS the lightning and thunder. Dionysos is both the bringer of joy and madness because he IS alcohol. Hades is both the name of the god of the dead, and of the realm of the dead. Hestia's name is literaly "hearth" in Greek, Hebe "youth", Nyx "night", Gaia "earth", Eros "desire". You can write "Eris met Helios at Okeanos' palace" or you can write "Strife encountered the Sun at the palace of Ocean" and that is the EXACT SAME THING!

[Mind you to limit the gods to being JUST allegories is also a mistake not to make. Greek deities are much more than just X concept or X idea... But one part of the myths will always be, down the line, some weather metaphor or some natural cycle motif]

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listening party for the thunder saga is over. i am not well. what?? what????? that was. im gonna be sick.

the vocals, the motifs, the lyrics, the music itself, the artistry

jay i adore you wtfff ahhhhgwkebeidbdbj

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goodbye, sweet june, may july be as soft

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listening to epic on shuffle, went from the underworld to open arms,,,hmm,,,,