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this is my brain rn to Ganymede. Help.

hey guys have you ever heard of THE CHARACTER. i’m thinking about THE CHARACTER. honestly can’t even get shit done because i’m thinking about THE CHARACTER. i’m listening to a song and imagining THE CHARACTER. all i know and love is THE CHARACTER

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Sorry for the angst but it's necessary for gany's plot REMEMBER: 1) This is fiction; 2) This is my AU - Cloudysseus AU; 3) Ganymede is a young adult (here he should have 21 years) although he looks very young HE'S NOT A CHILD; The gods are not my designs but @neal-illustrator ! love ya xoxoxo

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I am in the same boat. Not only did I make a version of his mythological counterpart, I made AN OC of his namesake, which I’m playing as in dnd with a similar backstory but instead of Greek gods, it’s a 19th century steampunk setting 🗿- autism be damned

No one will ever understand my obsession with Ganymede

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Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur; France, 15th century; Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 49v

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The thing is... if you think the pursuit of glory is stupid and immature and kind of worthless, this should probably make Achilles a more compelling Greek hero to you because his entire character arc is coming to the same fucking conclusion.

At the Embassy, Achilles spells it out--he has come to realize he values his life more than he values glory, more than he values the riches Agamemnon has promised him. He had a few days to think about it, and it turns out dying in a war that has nothing to do with him for men who don't respect him just doesn't seem that great a deal to him anymore. He wants to go home. There is the complication that all the other Greeks will die without Achilles' participation in the war, and so it is Phoenix, his mentor, and Ajax, his friend, who convince him not to leave then and there. He decides to stay and see what happens.

When Patroclus dies, Achilles realizes there was something he valued more than his own life--his friend. Without him, his life has lost that value he only just found, so he might as well pursue revenge or the empty glory and riches he no longer cares about. That's his tragedy.

By the end of the Iliad, Achilles is very much of the opinion that glory and riches weren't worth it, and when we see him again in the Odyssey, he says he would have rather been a long-lived humble shepherd or something rather than briefly a king of men.

So I guess my point is if your beef with Achilles is that glory is stupid, well, he agrees with you. Congrats on having the greatest of the greeks on your side. I've heard he's great in a fight.

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Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

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a fated pair of star-crossed bunnies 🩷🐇

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when your blorbo from the myths comes from a reaaaallll fucked up myth and you just dont know how to feel and yes this is about Ganymede

oh well, greek myths are fucked up, just gotta live with it

[transcript bc my handwriting was really messy in this: me drawing my favorite myth boy "funky little dude, haha tiny man". me remembering the myth the boy is from and it being mega fucked up and no one talks about how fucked up it is and how 90% of art portrays it positively and just auuughhhh,,,,]

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Her favourite plant

Zeus being helpful as always I was doing this illustration and then i placed some baloons for the funzies, hope you enjoy. This is the illustration without baloons!

It's funny because looking at them i think that literally everyone would think: "Ehy, those are CLEARLY Zeus, Hades and Poseidon hanging out." not very good in disguise yourself bois

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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

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@kdpartworks

@bigidiotenergytm

I saw you drawing Zeus in this and couldn't get past it.

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I need a mythology nerd to help me!

According to wikipedia, besides Gamynide, Zeus had another male lover which is Aetos, who's a childhood friend of his. Later on, Hera cursed him to be a golden eagle, and he becomes the golden eagle that carries around Zeus' thunderbolts

But i cannot find a source for it, heeeeelp

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Pyrrhus and Hermione hours (they are yapping about growing up during the war)

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how writers feel knowing that they will never be able to read their own work for enjoyment (they wrote it with the intent of making something they haven’t seen before)

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I feel this in my bones. Any engagement is good engagement but with such horribly low self esteem, it’s extremely demoralizing

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