Koichi: God, give me patience.

MinusGoji: I think you mean 'give me strength'.

Koichi: If God gave me strength, you'd be dead.

JESSS ITS GONNA HAPPEN SOOOOON

I'M VIBRATING WITH EXCITEMENT FOR YOU TWO!!! ONE OF MY IRL OTPS 🥺🥺🥰🥰

SEB MY LOVE!!! 🥰🧡🧡🧡 (this is about to be sappy as hell, I apologize in advance <3) but I am wishing you the happiest birthday, you amazing, wonderful, beautiful, talented human being!!!! I’m so grateful to know you and to get to call you my friend 🥹 it’s truly been the biggest pleasure to get to know you and see your journey (in both your amazing writing and in your life) over this past year and a bit, and I’m excited to watch you continue to grow and thrive! :) Thank you for always being the kindest, most fun, wonderful soul and the best bestie <3 and for sharing your fantastic stories and all your delicious thots with us, you are truly such a bright light in this community and one of the biggest highlights of my time on this hellsite 🥹🥹 like seriously you’re my favorite person on here and I just adore you!! 🫶🏼 Sending you so many hugs and forehead smooches, I hope your day is as amazing and lovely as you are, and that you get all the love and birthday hugs and treats you deserve, my dear 🥹 I love you so muuuch!!! Happy birthday! 😘🥰💐🎉❤️💕💗

- @sugarcoated-lame 🥰💜💗💜

oh my goodness! KRICKET MY LOVE?! 🥹💗💗💗

my love, my angel, my darling! i just woke up and this was the first thing i read, and lemme tell you how much it made me tear up, good god! 🥺🥹

i cannot say this enough, but thank you so, so, so soooooo much for this incredibly sweet message and well wishes my love! this means so much to me, and i’m so incredibly grateful to have the pleasure to have met you, been able to read your incredible works and watch you grow, and get to call you my best bestie, you wonderful soul, you 🥹 we love sappy in this household! 💗

i’m just giggling and kicking my feet in bed rn getting so giddy over this! 🥹🤭 i just ADORE you my love and i’m sending you so, so many hugs, forehead smooches and love! i hope you have a wonderful day as amazing as you are, and i just love you so much kricket, my love! mwah! 🥹🥰💗💓💕💝🫶🏻

alhaitham alhaitham alhaitham alhaitham

love this annoying man so much

he's so 🤩😎🥰😍☺️💋

never been more grateful for losing a 50/50

lvl 20 feeble scholar will be traveling with me everywhere u cannot run away sir

we're scouring the desert for those stupid eel pupae together

sorry abt the sand in your shoes mr scribe you'll have to deal with it

gah so excited

he’s so 😞😞😞

We're getting an OVA and a new season for SK8?!?! OMG My weekend is complete!!!

stomping and hollering and screaming at all the yanfei birthday art. she's so everything !!!!!!

hey guys, will Bill be trusted around the babies?

"It would be rather interesting~ it could always lessen the boredom and dullness~"

"No, absolutely not. We are not trusting Bill with the twins. I trust Ghirahim more than him!"

“Ow..!”

There was that pain again…and it seemed worse. They didn’t want to alarm Alastor, but God, the pain…

“My love?”

“…’m fine, Al, I—…”

“Don’t lie to me: I know your pain tolerance…what’s wrong?”

They looked at him…it was a knowing look. A pained, knowing look, almost terrified of the realization with the tightness and cramping in their abdomen, and the pressure near their crotch. There wasn’t a rush of water, but there was still enough for everything to be set in stone.

“…Double Trouble?”

Now he’s terrified.

“…my water just broke.”

And his smile dropped completely.

Guess who’s starting SWIMMING LESSONS next week?!?!?!?!?!?!! 

I'M LOOKING. I'M LOOKING

Pretty💕💕💕

WEEEEEEEEE SPINS AROUND!!!!!

competetive minecraft events to me feel like

post2021: SQUEEEEEEEEE OMG that event is SO CUTE and i HATE that annoying scuffed moment

pre2021: ok technoblade now hit the second tower

Some more mythology geekery

Or: Let me talk Pan. (Or the other god I know a lot about.)

Folks found the stuff about old mythology and Persephone interesting... so let me do Pan. So, as I said: Persephone is a very old goddess who might well be one of the first in the Greek pantheon. But... She is not as old as Pan. Because within Europe Pan might in fact be the oldest god that we know about. In fact he very probably predates the ancient Greek religion and was just so popular, that the Greeks just decided to keep him in the pantheon.

How do we know that?

This is the moment, where this geeky twink squeals with excitement, because he gets to talk about proto-indo-european stuff. So, allow me for a moment: SQUEEEEEEEEE! 🥳

Okay. That needed out.

So, what you need to understand is that most mythologies from Europe, Asia and Northern Africa you know about are actually decendents of the same mythology. Talked about this in regards of the Roman Gods not being the Greek Gods. But... yeah. So, there was once this culture, who we call the Proto-Indo-Europeans and they had the great idea of putting wheels on things and the things behind horses and then got around a lot. And wherever they went, they brought their language and mythology with them, which is why the Indo-European language family is so fucking giant.

We can see some of their stuff shimmer through in common themes in mythology. Like, almost all the mythologies in Europe and Asia have a "sky daddy", aka a godly father figure who is associated with the sky. He is not always the big guy of the pantheon, but he is important in all the cases.

And while when we talk Greek, Egyptian, Roman or even Chinese and Hindu mythology we have a surprising amount of writing going on that dates back at times more than 3000 years... the earlier we go, the less writing there is.

Now, with Pan we have some stuff in Mycenean art and what not, that hints that he was around at least as early as 1700 BC, though - obviously - we do not really have written sources going back to this time.

But there is also the fact that... One of the earliest mythologies to split from the Proto-Indo-European one is the Hindu mythology. An the Hindu mythology has Pushan, who is not only associated with the same stuff (pasture, roads, travel, the wild and so on), but also has some goat imagery in older versions. Just like Pan. And if you look at the names P(ush)an you can see there is a parallel. Which makes those geeks who study stuff like that for a living fairly certain that those two once were the same god. A god they call *Péh₂usōn. And no, I will not go into Proto-Indo-European language right now.

The word "pasture" in English comes from the same Proto-Indo-European word, by the way.

Current theory goes, that Pan was actually worshiped by the pastoral people living in Greece before the advanced Greek civilization spread. And given that Pan was associated with so many aspects the folks were not giving him up. So, as it goes with pantheons... He just got integrated into the pantheon as was........ though he got split into two pieces. But... Gotta talk about his other piece tomorrow.

Maybe due to the age of Pan, but maybe due to him turning into mostly a god of wilderness, he tends to be a much more openly manecing deity compared to other gods. While most polytheistic cultures absolutely feature an aspect of: "Our thing is that we bribe gods into being nice with us, because those gods are so freaking dangerous," most of the pantheon gods are actually mostly cultured. Even if they are horndogs like Zeus.

Pan meanwhile is a god of the wild. He has this animal imagery (that probably all early gods had) still very present, he gets associated with all sort of wild behavior in humans, and of course the word "panic" comes from Pan. Because it is said that his scream could create panic in the humans.

Enough geekery, lets get back to Stray Gods. Because other than with Persephone's situation I am fairly certain that at least some of this was known to the creators, given the role Pan plays as someone who is not quite inside of the Chorus and acts more as an outsider to it.

Squeeeeeeeee !!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

(All credit to original artist)