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Guys, I’m so sorry for not posting, finals have been killing me 😭😭😭💔💔💔

Have this drawing I made of the Sphinx to represent my apology

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APHRODITE IN DTI!!!

DRESS TO IMPRESS HAS BLESSED ME AGAIINNNN

This update was so incredible, and I made Aphrodite to celebrate!

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I'm sorry, guys, there wasn't enough space for Dionysus 😭

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To Hecate 🔮🪻🐺🌙

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Poll:

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To Artemis! 🌙🏹🐺🌲

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An offering to Persephone 🥀🌷🍅

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To Dionysus! 🍇🌿🐆🍷

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For Aphrodite 🕊️🐚🌊💞

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When you claim that a certain mythological character is complex and multifaceted, I feel like you should explain why and bring examples, not just expect the users to take that as face value. Otherwise, it feels like you're spiting out empty facts and that you don't personality agree with that.

Yeah, I get that. Just saying a character is "complex" without examples makes it feel like an empty statement. So allow me to provide some examples then:

⚡Zeus

He’s the king of the gods, but he’s not just a tyrant sitting on a throne. He’s a protector, a lawmaker, and sometimes even a trickster. He can be wise and just (like when he punishes those who defy divine law) but also impulsive and reckless (his relationships alone show that). He deeply values fate and cosmic order, yet he constantly tries to bend or manipulate it.

☀️Apollo

People see him as the golden boy—god of light, music, and prophecy—but he’s got a much darker side. He can be vengeful (like when he cursed Cassandra or sent the plague to the Greeks in the Iliad), yet also deeply compassionate (guiding souls to the afterlife as a psychopomp). His connection to both healing and destruction makes him fascinatingly contradictory.

🍇Dionysus

The ultimate god of contradictions. He’s a bringer of joy and madness, civilization and chaos. He can be incredibly gentle, helping out mortals like King Midas and even granting Pentheus a chance to accept him, but he also shows no mercy when disrespected, as seen when he drives Pentheus to his brutal end. He constantly shifts between benevolence and ruthless vengeance.

🦚Hera

People reduce her to the “jealous wife” trope, but she’s so much more. She’s fiercely protective of marriage and family, but she’s also strategic, ruling alongside Zeus as an active political force. In the Iliad, she manipulates both gods and mortals to shape the war’s outcome. She’s also one of the only Olympians who truly challenges Zeus, showing she’s not just a passive consort but an independent and calculating force.

In general all characters like everyday humans have a good and dark side and when it comes to greek mythology characters, there's many layers one must do a proper research before jumping to conclusions about their personality

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I got this result on a quiz entirely unrelated to Circe, and immediately when I did, Hozier’s cover of ‘Do I Want To Know’ started playing, and I swear I teared up a little bit. I feel seen :)

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An offering to Circe 🏛️🐖🌿

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It came to me in a vision

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a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

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What's your favorite horror story? Oh I don't know, probably this entire book

This book both broke me and changed me as a person💔

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