#and hector

[velvetexile]

castlevania really out here making men drop dead gorgeous

[lady-selenee]

Me: reading Silence of the Girls thinking it wouldn't absolutely wreck me

The book:

~ And I wanted to live long enough to see Achilles sizzling on his funeral pyre. ~

~ But I cried that night. ~

~ and we knew that Hector, the last and greatest defender of Troy, was dead. ~

~ Because, make no mistake, this was his story— his anger, his grief, his story. I was angry, I was grieving, but somehow that didn’t matter. ~

~ we had to leave the child now, Hector would take care of him in the next world. ~

~ His story. His, not mine. It ends at his grave. ~

~ Once, not so long ago, I tried to walk out of Achilles’s story— and failed. Now, my own story can begin. ~

Me: crying because this book absolutely wrecked me for life

Also me: Let's start Horses of Fire now.

This part of the FIRST chapter:

~ “There’s no one I’d rather fight beside, Harsa Andromache. But I would travel to the Underworld and back so you never have to,” I knew I would be his queen. ~

[kurzler]

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!

[murasaki-cha]

"Astynax (the infant) was quiet and didn't cry when Odysseus was holding him and was even smiling and reaching out for him, because Odysseus was wearing his helmet, so he must have thought it was his father, Hector, picking him up."

Me after reading this take:

[djo]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN 1.03: The Hollow of His Hand

[nothing-impt]

How I imagined Hector reunited with his son.

[wolfythewitch]

But never let me die without a struggle and without acclaim

[inflamedautistic]

The Iliad is probably one of the funniest books I ever read

Like I'll be having a not-so-good day, then remember how Hector had given himself an entire pep talk to fight Achilles. He saw Achilles running full speed towards him and proceeds to just book it.

Or when Menelaus got shot by an arrow in like in an ultimately nonfatal spot, and Agamemnon begins prematurely mourning him while he's standing there like 🧍‍♂️” you're scaring the men.”

Or when Odysseus is walking around the camps with a royal scepter and is just beating people with it if he finds them packing or suggesting to leave.

Or when Hector is brainstorming on how to face Achilles and for a moment goes, “Maybe I could talk with him, we’re both princes, we can both be rational, I could reason with him… that's a horrible fucking idea.”

I have more, but these, in particular, really tickle me.

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I’m just saying if they did make Muppets The Iliad, they couldn’t actually depict Achilles mowing Hector down and spearing him through the throat so instead how this would look is Animal dragging a very much alive Pepe the Prawn around in circles and laughing maniacally while an uncomfortable Kermit looks at the camera and does that face where the hand inside him clenches a little.

[alpaca-clouds]

Let Men Cry

Just a small thing that I adore about Castlevania as a show is that we see a lot of men cry. And with that I mean really ugly cry, rather than having a single tear sexy-cry. I love it.

Let men cry. Men deserve to cry, too.

[deadbaguette]

Dear children of Priam, were you doomed all along?

[ironsilly]

people in here, if you like apocaliptic alien sci-fi shit you can watch The Eternaut on Netflix, an argentinian show based on a comic book from 1957 whose creator (Héctor Germán Oesterheld) and his family were abducted by one of the many military dictatorships in my country

the story happens in Buenos Aires and explores the ideas of community and strenght against the opressors, and also contains lots of Argentina dope amazing references and insults

its motto is "no one survives alone", a really necessary message in our times

you may know its main actor, Ricardo Darin, from The Secret in Their Eyes (Best Foreign Film 2010, winner), Wild Tales (Best Foreign Film 2015, nominated) and Argentina, 1985 (Best Foreign Film 2023, nominated)

The Eternaut comic book is considered as one of the most important latin-american sci-fi works ever, and it's culturally respected because it's the product of a really dark time in our history (the Netflix adaptation is set today tho)

[zipsunz]

kelsey montoya u will always be famous ⛅️

[owenhcrper]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) IMDb Trivia

[spideyswede]

Daredevil: Born Again vs. The Internet (III)

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