#I'll decide if I'll post more than one Shoutout per week once I

[whump-quotes]

I made a change to the rules - or not really a change, more a clarification!

"Already existing media" now includes your friends stories!

Specifically, I want to start a thing called "Shoutout Saturday"!

So many of the quotes that stayed with me the most I've read right here on tumblr and AO3, and I know I'm not the only one.

So here's what I came up with!

I'll use Saturdays to specifically post submissions from things that gave you whumperflies from 'non-traditional' media be that fanfics, whumblr, etc.

Try to still keep them short-ish!

They should work on their own, without needing the context of the whole story

In your submissions, include which story you got this from, who wrote it, and where we can find it (either a link, or at least tell me the website)

You can submit them all week, I'll just post them on Saturday!

[7grandmel]

Blog Update - 10/07/2023

TL;DR: Seasons have been added to every post along with slightly adjusted formatting. Will soon repost the first 30 posts of Todays SiIvaGunner, which are currently reblogs from @melblur, onto this blog.

I'd like to again apologize for missing yesterday's post on 09/07/2023: I've been on vacation and didn't realize until it was too late that I'd scheduled one post too few for the week. I really want to avoid going off schedule and will always try to post one shoutout per day. Though, that is something I am curious about: Do you believe the blog should always be updated at specific times of day? Please let me know if you have any opinions on this.

Anyway, as for the updates: The results on last update's poll regarding adding a Season-tag were overwhelmingly in favor of their addition, and so I've decided to add them! In that process, I also decided to adjust the formatting a bit: You may have noticed it gets a little scuffed sometimes, but typically the formatting has been aiming to look like the image to the left. From here on, I'll aim for the formatting to the right - splitting up the info of its release and people involved into even groups.

Season-tags are also pretty basic - #season 1, #season 2, #season 3, #season 4 episode 1, #season 4 episode 2, #season 5, #season 6, and #season 7. I decided against using more blog-specific tags to make these easy to remember and type into the tag search, though part of me is considering adding an "sg" to the beginning of each.

In the process of making these formatting changes, I started to get even more bothered by just how restrictive it is to have the first 30 posts on the blog stuck on @melblur (my main blog!). The archive view of all the blog's posts is usually great for navigating to past posts, but those 30 in particular are stuck looking the way they did when they were initially reblogged onto this page - meaning no Read More formatting, no Bandcamp links, no Season tags, and all other formatting changes I may come up with down the line. I want to nip this in the bud as soon as possible, and move all of these posts onto this blog at some point in the future.

There's an obvious catch to this: It's going to make the Archive view a lot less elegant than it once was. I do believe I have a plan to make this work out, but its obviously going to be a bit more of a hassle to navigate to than the simple chronological overview you get currently. Bear with me!

[noctivague]

I doubt this will be of any use to anyone but me but I wanted to make a post about the things I'm going to celebrate in 2022, for future reference (and maybe some of you are just curious idk I know I like reading about other people's practice) so I can go back to it later.

So last year I attempted to start following the Athenian festivals but I got overwhelmed and ended up missing most of them. So my idea was to focus on the deities I'm worshiping and to have a smaller number of them. I settled for 2 per season and I've got a mix of traditional festivals and some inspired by the wheel of the year but they make sense to me and since I'm a follower of Demeter, she's heavily associated with the cycle of the seasons which is why it didn't seem so far off for me.

Side not but I'm currently giving offerings to each of my gods once a week or once every two weeks (these days I slowed down a bit due to motivation) but I wanted to do something more.

Here is a breakdown of each date:

12th Fabruary - Hermes worship anniversary : The only known festival of Hermes is linked to physical activity and games (gymnasium) and is not something I saw myself doing so I decided to make up my own festival and chose this date because according to my old journal, it's when I gave him my first offering. Idk what I will do, probably bake him something and take a look at where I'm currently at in my worship and request a tarot reading from a trusted reader to see where I'm at currently.

20th March - Spring Equinox/Khloia : So back then when I was researching Demeter for my 15 days of devotion, I found mention of a festival celebrating the first sprouts in the early spring. It didn't come with a date and I guess it would fall earlier or later depending on where it is, and also some years it happen earlier than other. So I decided to merge that with Spring Equinox. Also taking that time to celebrate the return of Persephone on the surface. I'm not a follower of her but I honor her at festivals due to her connection to her mother.

6th-7th May - Thargelia: This festival celebrate the birthday of Artemis and Apollo, which I both worship. I have never celebrated it but I really look forward to it. I'm not sure what I'll be doing, I guess I'll do some research and try to have a more recon approach.

21st June - Summer Solstice: This is my favourite time of the year so I really wanted to do something. I though that since it's the longest day of the year, I should incorporate Apollo as a god of the Light. Not sure how I'll do it yet.

2nd July - Aphrodisia: Aphrodite is not a goddess I'm currently worshiping but I really wanted to bring her into my life. So I thought it would be a good idea to include her festival. I might make my introduction to her earlier though.

23rd September - Autumn Equinox : Again, taking that time to honor the cycle of Demeter, giving thanks for the harvest and the blessings I received during the summer, starting the new season with a positive outlook, and honor Persephone as she's about to return to the Underworld.

31st October - Honoring the Dead : I always wanted to do something at this date but I never do. To be fair I'm not sure about this one. I want to take the time to honor my dead even though it's painful to do. Maybe that's why I should do it. I'm contemplating starting to do Noumenia though so it might replace that? Because I think I would rather follow the solar calendar rather than the lunar because it makes more sense to me personally. Either way, I want to include Hekate as well as Chtonic Hermes.

21st December - Winter Solstice : Again the solstice, I would like to focus on Demeter with one of her epithet which is Black and shows one of her more chtonic aspects. This is a time of the year that I really dislike, as a summer child, but it is important and mysterious and I want to honor that.

Shoutout to @ thegrapeandthefig who made a great 2022 Athenian calendar which I used to find the dates :)