good thing about journeys not giving me proper dawn focused episodes is that i can just make stuff like this and say its canon

alright, i just got around to finishing Dungeon Meshi- and damn if it didn't stick the landing!

there's a lot to recommend in this manga. first- it's extraordinarily fucking funny. it does not forget that it's a comic, and consistently has great visual gags even when something deeply fucked up and serious is happening.

and it fires on all other cylinders, too- the character designs are great, the worldbuilding is intricate and believable and does a lot of interesting things with standard fantasy tropes, the main cast is likable and has a great dynamic, the story keeps a lot of plates spinning without getting up its own ass or forgetting the details...

but the thing that really impresses me about Dungeon Meshi- the thing that sticks out as something it does uniquely well- is the theming.

Dungeon Meshi is about hunger and eating. it is about those things, hardcore. just about every plot point and every character dynamic is about that theme, approached from a dazzling array of different angles. it's got plenty to say about like, actual food and cooking, sure- but it also gets into the nature of desire, the cycle of predation, differing personal tastes, taking the other into oneself, satiation vs motivation... it makes sure that every development in the story is grounded in and building on that theme somehow.

Food is not a gimmick- Food is what the story is about, and not as a bit. this isn't a silly food-world full of food-creatures and food-magic- this is a normal, well-developed fantasy setting, in which a story is being told that focuses relentlessly on the relationship of the characters to food and eating. it manages to feel completely natural, even with so much going on that you'd think the food thing would get in the way. it doesn't get in the way. the story was designed around it, down to the smallest detail.

i think it might be a 10/10 manga! it does everything it sets out to do, completely successfully, with a ton of humor and charm. well-paced, well-drawn, well-written, good ending- i can't think of anything to complain about. highly recommended.

You could convince me to watch the *checks notes* loser rangers anime? 👀

SKCNCJSKSK!!!!!!

Were you a Power Rangers kid??? Are you over-saturated and bored by modern superhero media?? Do you long for a fresh take on the “dark side” of Sunday Morning cartoons that ISN’T grimdark and irony poisoned and lame?? Do you like absolutely incompetent cringefail losers and their hot murder girlfriends???!!? Then come on down to…

✨GO! GO! LOSER RANGER!✨

We’ve got it all! :

Protagonist that just fucking sucks at everything

Like. Really REALLY fucking sucks. At everything. Cant even figure out how to eat food. Hates everyone and has no friends. He’s just like me fr.

He’s like if Sasuke was the worst ninja ever like couldn’t even throw a kunai but still thought he was better than everyone else and kept the exact same pretentious attitude. I’m obsessed with him.

A fun, unique twist on the Power Rangers-esque Sunday Morning cartoons of our childhood that pokes fun at the 90s era camp of that genre of media while still feeling genuinely heartfelt and respectful to the spirit of the source material it’s satirizing

If villain bad, why sexy?

Hot Murder Lady

Genuinely just like a fun silly plot that isn’t too serious (yet) and can be enjoyed casually (or not casually if you’re a freak like I am) and really hits different if you were a power rangers kid like I was

Cool animation with a unique style that feels like a lot of love went into it

Did I mention if villain bad, why sexy??

HIBIKI SAKURAMA💅🏻💕💖💖🌸🌸

OOOHHHH YOU WANNA WATCH GO! GO! LOSER RANGER SOOOOO BAD

new paldean winds said Larry has been in the league for 25 years which is A: hilarious B: means he has to at least be 40 if he joined at the absolute youngest age he could at 16 (when most teens get a first job) (I mean he could’ve joined earlier since they seem to let in child prodigies like Poppy but he doesn’t strike me as that type). So I win. My 45+ year old Larry agenda has won today

Every time people call Wei Wuxian stupid or dense for not immediately knowing he has feelings for Lan Wangji or vice versa I feel really sad :( You guys know that a lot of people have difficulty with this, yeah? Especially if you’re not usually one for romance.

Lan Wangji is the only one Wei Wuxian was ever interested in, it’s not surprising that he wouldn’t know right away. He’s not stupid for it, he’s NEW to it. And he hasn’t had the opportunities to come to terms with it due to everything going on in his life.

Not to mention everything else that makes it understandable for him to not immediately connect the dots, what with being two men and all, as well as having people constantly tell him Lan Wangji doesn’t like him.

Saw this on Reddit and I couldn’t agree more. There is no rule breaking lore with Sabine using the force. The force has always resided in all living beings. Kanan said it himself you have to unlock it. Have an open mind. This is previously established lore. Midichlorians are literally just ur sensitivity to the force. If you’re more sensitive to it than sensing it, using it, etc will come more naturally.

The jedi need to start being looked at more like a religion rather than a species. Some people are born into it (or taken in at a young age in this instance) and some people have to put in more work into learning the religion and their practices to join it.

people be calling any sapphic women past her mid twenties old women yuri it’s so annoying :|

Babygirl if you ever refer to reading something I write as "consuming content" I will consume your soul

hmhmhmm. if you will allow me a hater moment... it irks me when people put personal-ish text posts in character, ship, show, etc. tags. u dont need to tag your thoughts with every possible thing related to your thoughts... it's okay just to post for you and your followers...

imagine saying bg3 is a bad game when.. most of its problems come from the wider industry crunch time base line. no it isnt perfect, especially with the amount of bugs jn the latter half of the game, but if you think all the characters are boring and ill written then you may just not enjoy this style of writing, which is fine. if you have to save scum to play the game, that is definitely an issue exclusive to you. it is a strategy game, specifically one modeled after the original baldurs gate and 2 which were realeased in 2000. yes the rng is annoying sometimes. but thats also just how dice rolls are. of course the game isnt as fun if your goal is to succeed at every single roll. and using dragon age as an example of how to do it better.. as if dragon age isnt a series of games laden with huge flaws and plotline gaps. baldurs gate is way more character driven than story driven and that is okay. it is okay if it is not your cup of tea but that does not make it a bad game

Jia Information!!!

Ok, so I recently realised I never posted anything about Jia, my OC version of Johnny's mum, and considering how important of a character she is in legit nearly all of my works, I obviously had to remedy that.

So here we go, some info on the one and only Jia Taylor!

(Picrew, Info, and Backstory actually lol)

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Legal Name: Jia Saanvi Taylor ‘nee Sutar

Common Name: Jia Taylor

Nicknames: Ji

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 34 (at death)

Birthday: February 13, 1975

Sexuality: Omnisexual

Gender Identity: Cisgender

Height: 5'7"

Ethnicity: Indian

Languages Spoken: Hindi, English

Diagnosis: Depression, PTSD

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Golden Brown

Scars/Tattoos/Piercings/Markings: Two piercings each ear

Family Members: Bio father (Aarav), Bio Mom (Reeva), Bio older sister (Jahnavi), Bio younger brother (Jahnu), and Bio Child (Johnny)

Habits/Stims: Tapping fingers like playing a piano, humming songs at random

Romantic Partners: Marcus Taylor (husband)

Notes:

worked as a pianist and a music teacher

died due to complications with her Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, just like both her siblings

moved to England when she was 12 years old

was a devout Hindu and a vegetarian

loved cooking since her father was a chef, and taught all the recipes to her husband before she passed

her final words were telling her six year old son she loved him

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Born in Madurai, India as Jia Saanvi Sutar, Jia was the technical second child to her parents. However, her older sister had passed away suddenly as a baby and it was hardly ever talked about in her household. She was quickly flagged and tested positive for Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and began using a cane as a child. Other than that though, early childhood for Jia was largely uneventful.

When she was around seven, she started playing piano and it became very obvious she was a prodigy. She was sent to a private music school so she could hone her skills. The next year was a mixed bag however as she lost her mother and her baby brother was born. Jahnu, her brother, quickly turned into one of the two center points for Jia's world, music being the other, essentially become coping mechanisms when her mother passed away due to complications with his birth.

But again, her life settled into a pretty mundane but steady rhythm for four years, only focusing on her studies and her family. When a job came up for her dad in London, she encouraged him to accept it, leading to the family moving. They all did well with the move and there were little problems on their end of things, the children even planning to get dual-citizenship when they got older.

Jia seemed to thrive in her new school and started playing gigs not long after the move. She was offered scholarships while still in school and it was pretty obvious that she had a good career ahead of her in the music industry. On the side, Jia became vocal in lots of local movements for equality and justice, even leading them at times. Her family were extremely proud of this and even helped her prepare for them, her brother making signs, and her dad packing food to hand out. Within two years, things were definitely looking up.

However, Jahnu also tested positive for Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy soon after, with his progressing scarily faster than his sister. he had to be hospitalized at eight, Jia and her dad moving across town so they could stay near his bedside. And while that was a harsh adjustment period, life continued as usual for the trio for a few years. It was during this chaos that Jia and her family also were finally given dual-citizenship, a small up not to their year.

Jahnu passed away after four years, spending his final moments with his sister and father. Jia was heartbroken, having lost her remaining sibling and the boy she had raised at the same time. Her father Aarav seemed to feel the same, as not long after, he passed away too, seemingly of a broken heart. This left Jia, by that time a music major in university, without any family or support system. This caused her to spiral a bit and throw herself into her work as a coping mechanism, though her mental health took a huge toll.

Somehow, she managed to scrape by for a year and a half on her own before running into a boy two years her senior at a protest she was organizing. After punching his older brother in the face for being an absolute arse to her, the boy apologized for the whole scenario for several hours, even helping her with the event as a way to make it up to her. By the end of the day, she agreed to meet him again the next day in the same spot, and eventually started dating the man, who's name was Marcus.

Jia and Marcus got on like wildfire, and spent nearly all their free time together, both glad they finally had someone that they could rely on to be there for them. She encouraged him to pursue his passion of being a mechanic and he encouraged her to write her own songs for her own album. They spent a lot of time together going to protests and fundraiser events, as well as work and school, with most of their dates just being them doing their daily routines together. Marcus moved in with her around a year into the relationship as well, though that was largely due to his disownment.

Jia graduated a year later with a master's degree in music and quickly began working as a music teacher for young kids and a piano tutor on the side. Money was tight for the couple, even after Marcus found a job as a mechanic. But surprisingly, not counting the usual couple spats, the two barely fought, and ended up getting married after a few years at Jia's temple. And the couple only seemed to keep doing well from there, with both of them very happy about life and looking forward to the future.

Jia ended up having her only child when she was 28 years old, a son she named Johnathan Demarcus Taylor, with nods to her siblings and parents being prevalent in both his English and Hindi names. The one original part of his Hindi name (aka the only bit not after a family member) was Jiyaan, meaning near heart, which was Jia's way of telling her son she would always be with him, despite her condition worsening.

Jia continued her life as usual after her son was born, still a leading figure in a lot of social movements as well as a music teacher. Her LGMD had progressed to the point where she was wheelchair bound but she claimed to her husband that it did not bother her much, and in fact, made bringing Johnny out a bit easier. However, neither of them actually believed it much. She started dealing with a lot more chronic pain than she had before and began working furiously again, feeling like she had to take advantage of every moment she could.

Jia was 33 was when her health really started deteriorating rapidly however. She collapsed at work, leading to her being rushed to the hospital. She was kept there for several days, before being told that with her current progression, she likely wouldn't live much longer. Jia insisted on returning home, saying that if she was going to die, she wouldn't spend her final months just sitting around waiting for it. The doctors were not fans of this but allowed it and released her into family care.

Jia waited a month and a half before taking medical leave for work, and dedicating her time to taking care of Johnny even more, teaching him as much as she could about their shared interest, music, hoping that that piece of her would be able to bring him comfort when she passed. When he was in school, Jia spent all of her time writing music and letters for her family to open in the future when she wouldn't be there, so at least a part of her would be.

Marcus also started taking more and more time off to spend with them. He had learned most of Jia's favourite recipes by heart years ago when cooking began to get hard for her and now the three spent time together teaching them to Johnny as well. Her son was too young to really understand what was going on and serval times tried to make his mum better with bandaids and kisses, something that Jia always played along with, even though it broke her heart to do so.

In September of that year, when Jia was just 34 years old, she collapsed again when Marcus was out of the apartment for only a second, leading 6 year old Johnny to make a desperate phone call to emergency services when she wouldn't wake up. Marcus returned right after and did CPR until the paramedics arrived and took over, taking Jia back to the hospital.

She remained there this time, too weak to move much on her own. Marcus brought Johnny to see her every single day, right after school and Jia made sure to at least pretend that everything was ok when he was there, singing and humming with him like usual, though at that point she knew she wouldn't be returning home.

Jia died mid-October, with Marcus and Johnny beside her. Her final words were telling her son how much she loved him and always would, no matter what. She has a memorial plaque at a cemetery not far from her old temple in London, besides her father's and brother's, which her husband and son visit every opportunity they have.

Jia was a huge impact on her family's lives but also the lives of others as well. She was a leading advocate for disabled, women's, and queer rights, touching the hearts and minds of dozens. She was also well loved by her colleagues, students, neighbors, and fellow temple goers. Jia was commonly described as loving, dedicated, and a spit-fire, never backing down from what she believed in. She also had a sarcastic streak a kilometer wide and a tendency to be a bit of a jokester with close friends and family.

once you become aware of the misconceptions of what CPR is and does it is sooo distracting to see it come up in fiction in ways that are just fully not connected to reality

Some more or less common Greek mythology misconceptions that I am particularly annoyed by/tired of seeing (not including misconceptions concerning the personalities of the major gods or else I’d be here all day typing this):

1. Chaos is male

- Chaos is not personified in the way Gaia, Ouranos, Nyx or other so-called primordials are, so in this sense we can hardly call it either male or female. In fact, the word is neuter in gender, though considering that Chaos seems to sort of “conceive” (with or without a partner) and “give birth”, it behaves more like a female deity. Nonnos does seem to refer to it as a male though, so it’s not entirely baseless.

2. Chaos is some kind of all-powerful being, the creator of everything and akin to the Christian god

- Uhm, not at all? In Hesiod’s Theogony Chaos is the first being to come into existence, that much is true, but the only deities that emerge from it are Erebos and Nyx. The passage in Hesiod describing the cosmogony is often interpreted in a way that makes it look like the other actually self-generated beings (Gaia, Tartaros, Eros)  were born from Chaos rather than simply after it and with no connection to it, but the text definitely doesn’t say this. Look at any translation of the Theogony and compare the way Gaia and Nyx are described as coming into existence. In the more or less parodic cosmogony from Aristophanes’ Birds, all that chaos “creates”, not alone but mating with Eros, is the race of the birds. In the different Orphic cosmogonies and the cosmogony of Pherekydes, the first being in existence is called Chronos (Time), or Nyx (Night) sometimes even Hydros (Water), with Chaos being usually simply one of the offspring of Chronos and the actual creator deity being Phanes/Protogonos. Differing genealogies aside, there is absolutely no evidence of Chaos being a particularly powerful, revered or feared deity, let alone omnipotent or the like.

3. The Titans are a different species than the gods

- The Titans are a subcategory of gods: all Titans are gods, but not all gods are called Titans, just like all Olympians are gods but not all gods are called Olympian. The Titans are often referred to as “Titan gods” and those of them who receive worship are worshiped just like any other god. That said, if we restrict the word god to only actual religious figures, then indeed quite a few Titans aren't gods, since they don't receive any worship and are just literary characters.

4. Kronos is the god of time

- Kronos the king of the Titans was identified/confused with Chronos (Time) in later ancient texts, especially in the context of philosophy, but Kronos has nothing to do with time in either myth or cult and Chronos was generally acknowledged as a different being, the god (sometimes described as a three-headed serpent) who generated the great cosmic egg.

5. Only the sons of Kronos fought in the Titanomachia, his daughters sat idly by and cheered from the sidelines... or something

- It is true that, unlike their brothers, Hestia, Demeter and Hera are never said to receive any weapons or magical items from the Kyklopes. However, Hesiod clearly mentions both males and females among the combatants: “So he said: and the gods, givers of good things, applauded when they heard his word, and their spirit longed for war even more than before, and they all, both male and female, stirred up hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that were born of Cronos together with those dread, mighty ones of overwhelming strength whom Zeus brought up to the light from Erebus beneath the earth.” and Nonnos has Hera claim that she “took strong part in the war against Kronos her father and helped Zeus in his fight.”

6. As the oldest son Of Kronos, Hades should have been the rightful king of the gods

- primogeniture is not a thing among the Greek gods. Ouranos was not the eldest primordial, and Kronos was explicitly the youngest Titan god.

7. Zeus became the king of the gods unfairly and/or he cheated during the division of the cosmos

- in all the accounts we have regarding the Titanomachia and the events immediately preceding and following it, Zeus has by the far the most numerous and important contributions. He, among other things, freed his siblings from Kronos, found allies among the older gods and their children, liberated the Hekatoncheires and the Kyklopes and thus gained vital assistance from them in the war, and even personally fought Kronos for the throne (Pausanias 5. 7. 10). According to Hesiod he became king at the urging of the other gods and with the support of Gaia, and Kallimachos says on the subject that “Lots did not make you (Zeus) king of the gods, but the works of your hands, your strength and power, which you  have set by your throne.). As for the casting of lots which Homer and other authors mention, there is no indication that it was rigged in Zeus’s favour..

8. Poseidon is more powerful than Zeus

- Poseidon doesn’t seem to agree, judging by what he tells Hera in Book VIII of the Iliad: “‘Wild words, Hera, ever reckless in your speech! I’d wish none of us to quarrel with Zeus, the son of Cronos, mightiest of us by far.’”.

9. Hera never wanted to marry Zeus, she had to be tricked into it or she only married him out of shame after he raped her

- in the one account in which Hera refuses to marry Zeus, she is persuaded by a son of Gaia and there is not the slightest suggestion of rape or trickery or anything of the sort; in the one account where  Hera refuses to have sex with Zeus because of their mother, he promises to make her his wife in response and there is no indication that she keeps refusing him after this, though there is no mention of her accepting either, and the one account that seems to involve assault makes no mention of marriage.

10. Hera takes issue with and persecutes all or most of Zeus’s side pieces and children

- Nowhere near close to that. Leto, Io, Semele and Kallisto are the only women she is consistently shown to punish in varying accounts. As for children, she is angry at the birth of Athena in several sources, in multiple accounts tries to prevent the birth of Apollon, and famously persecuted Dionysos and Herakles from their birth onward. Needless to say that Zeus had sex with far more women and fathered far more children than these

11. Hera persecuted Leto even though Zeus’s relationship with her took place before he married Hera

- there is precisely one single source in which Zeus’s relationship with Leto precedes that with Hera, and it so happens that this particular source says nothing about any persecution of Leto at Hera’s hand. In Apollon’s Homeric Hymn, the oldest detailed account of his birth, Hera is not only already involved with Zeus at the time of Leto’s pregnancy, but she also has at least one child with him, Eileithyia, whom she uses against Leto causing her to suffer the pains of labour for nine days and nine nights. In Kallimachos Hymn to Delos, again a very detailed account of Leto’s pregnancy, Hera is quite clearly Zeus’s wife and Leto his mistress. In this account, too, Hera already has at least one child with Zeus, Ares, and she uses him (and Iris) to harass and make life difficult for the pregnant Leto. In fact, in this source, Hera is upset by Leto's pregnancy precisely because she is about to bear a son who will be dearer to Zeus than the son he already has by Hera.

12. Hera doesn’t hate Athena because she was the product of a previous marriage of Zeus, so before Hera became his wife

- Be wary of any generalisations of this sort, as they are usually seriously reductive takes on complex and often contradictory traditions, not to mention that, in this instance, such an idea is not actually supported by any source. Indeed Hera doesn’t seem to hate Athena, but there is no evidence that she hates most of the other children of Zeus, either. The idea that Athena is somehow an exception to Hera’s universal hatred for everything sired by Zeus is born from misconception #10. As a matter of fact, the birth of Athena makes Hera exceptionally angry in those literary sources in which her reaction is mentioned, regardless of whether Metis is said to be Athena’s mother or not. Like in the case of Leto, there is precisely one source where Zeus’s relationship with Metis precedes his marriage to Hera, not that it has any relevance, since even in that account Hera is absolutely furious and quarrels with Zeus after he “gives birth” to Athena, and she has Hephaistos on her own. In the Homeric Hymn to Apollon her anger is made even more explicit than in Hesiod’s Theogony -- she outright states her offense at Zeus giving birth to Athena by himself, after which she plans to have a child on her own; not Hephaistos this time, as in this account he already exists when Athena is born and was rejected by Hera who compares him unfavourably to Zeus’s new daughter. Not only does she have a child on her own like in Hesiod’s Theogony, but she actually leaves Olympos, specifically prays for a child stronger than Zeus and stays away from the other gods for an entire year during which “never at all she came to the bed of great Zeus of the counsels, never at all she took the elaborate throne where aforetimes she had been seated, devising for him grave counsels of prudence;”. This is the most extreme reaction she ever had to the birth of any child of Zeus. Speaking of complex and contradictory, in the Bibliotheke of Apollodoros Zeus is already married to Hera when he has sex with Metis, yet Hera is not mentioned here to give a damn about Athena’s birth. Meanwhile in a fragment attributed to Hesiod, a quarrel between Zeus and Hera is the catalyst for the engendering of both Hephaistos and Athena: “Out of this strife she [Hera] bore a glorious son by her devices, without Zeus who holds the aegis, Hephaestus, who excelled all the sons of Heaven with his skilled hands. But he [Zeus] lay with the daughter of Ocean and beautiful-haired Tethys, apart from fair-cheeked Hera, deceiving Metis, shrewd though she was.”. In short, Hera sometimes is angered by Athena’s birth, sometimes she doesn’t seem to care, in one tradition (attested in art rather than in literature) she apparently rejoiced as if Athena were her daughter too. Whether Zeus’s relationship with Metis takes place before or after his marriage to Hera, or even whether or not Athena is said to have a mother at all, has no bearing on Hera’s anger.

13. Hera threw Hephaistos from Olympos because he was ugly

- Both Hera (Homeric Hymn 3) and Hephaistos (the Iliad) make it clear that Hera wanted to get rid of this son of hers because he was disabled.

14. In another version, it was Zeus who tossed Hephaistos off the mountain, not Hera

- yes, but in the version where Hera is responsible for this deed, Hephaistos is a baby rejected because of his deformity, while in the accounts where Zeus is responsible for his fall, Hephaistos is grown and incurs Zeus’s anger by trying to interfere with Hera’s punishment. There is no version in which Zeus tosses Hephaistos from Olympos as a baby, or in which he is motivated in doing it by his deformity or by the fact that he is only Hera’s child.

15. Poseidon raped Medusa in Athena’s temple and the goddess transformed her into a gorgon in punishment

- this is the Roman poet Ovid’s reimagining of Medusa and it has no basis in ancient Greek sources. In the Greek texts Medusa is born a gorgon, albeit a mortal one and has sex with Poseidon “in a soft meadow and among spring flowers”, according to Hesiod.

16. Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon in order to protect her

- absolutely baseless and revisionistic idea, which also conveniently ignores the fact that Athena helped Perseus Kill Medusa.

17. Hera cursed Echo

- Again, Ovid’s tale. I have never found any ancient Greek source that connects Echo with Hera in any way. Instead, the one responsible for Echo’s predicament is Pan, whose sexual advances she refused and in revenge she was torn into pieces.

18. In some versions, Persephone went willingly with Hades

- This is an old one and people just adore it, but no one has yet managed to find any actual evidence supporting this idea.

19. In the original version of the myth

- Just no.

20. Hekate is Hades’ friend and/or underling

- Nope. Hekate is associated with Demeter and Persephone, not with Hades. She helps Demeter in the search for her daughter and becomes Persephone’s companion in the underworld.

21. Ares and Eris (or Enyo) are twins

- There is no evidence for this. Eris is called the sister of Ares in the Iliad, Enyo is called his sister in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ The Fall of Troy, but there is no indication whatsoever that either of them is his twin.

22. Hera, Poseidon, Athena and Apollon attempted and failed to overthrow Zeus. Hera, Poseidon and Apollon were punished for it (she by being suspended in chains from her wrists, the other two by being “made into mortals” and being forced to build the walls of Troy), but Athena received no punishment because of parental favoritism

- The only primary Greek source that mentions this event in some detail and names the participants is Homer’s Iliad, where Apollon is not mentioned alongside the other three and where no punishment is talked about for any of them in the context of this rebellion. We hear in Book XV of Hera’s infamous punishment at Zeus’s hand, but the reason for it is her persecution of Herakles, not her participation in any coup against her husband. Later we learn of Poseidon and Apollon building the walls of Troy (or Poseidon building the walls and Apollon herding Laomedon’s cattle) at Zeus’s command, but Homer never gives a reason for this. In the Bibliotheke of Apollodoros, Hera’s hanging is likewise attributed to Zeus’s anger for her persecution of Herakles, and Poseidon and Apollon are said to have built the walls of Troy in order to test Laomedon. Some scholiasts, it is true, have added Apollon to the list of rebel gods mentioned in the Iliad and have attributed punishments to them. However, since Homer says nothing about them being punished for that particular reason, the scholiasts had to take the punishments of gods mentioned in the Iliad and 1) in the case of Hera, entirely change the motivation for her punishment; 2) in the case of Poseidon and Apollon, attribute a reason for their service for Laomedon; 3) in the case of Athena, leave her without a punishment because, loyal to her father as she is in all but this particular story of rebellion with Hera and Poseidon, there were no instances of her being punished to use here.

23. Goddesses are shamed for having sex

- It is true that goddesses seem to be far more restricted than the gods in this sense, but nowhere near as restricted as mortal women. Aphrodite, Demeter and Eos all have sexual relationships with multiple people and are not judged (Hephaistos making a public scandal over Aphrodite and Ares and Aphrodite punishing Eos for sleeping with her lover are exceptions based on the relationships between the characters) or considered lesser for it, nor do they suffer any personal consequences, though their mortal partners might.

24. Ares is so often portrayed negatively because he was the patron god of Sparta. The Athenians weren't on good terms with the Spartans and since most myths come from Athens, Ares is the victim of Athenian propaganda and this is why Athena is always portrayed as being superior to him.

- First of all, the negative portrayal of Ares as compared to Athena precedes the conflicts between ancient Sparta and Athens. Moreover, other gods were actually more important for the Spartans than Ares and the Athenians respected and worshipped those gods all the same. And funnily enough, that story that people like to bring up when arguing about how Ares is actually a better person than other gods, the one about him killing the man who assaulted his daughter and being put on trial as a result, is an Athenian myth.

25. Makaria, the daughter of Hades, is married to Thanatos

- Good luck finding any legitimate sources claiming this.

(ripping my hair out by the handful) Sol Is Not Trapped In The Time Loop Sol Is There Because They Choose To Be

I could talk about the things that felt so wrong and off to me in the tsc universe but then honestly I might never shut up-

Because there's SO MUCH

Both Barbara's deaths, Christopher's death, everything Cat said about the lost herondales, Emma's parents' deaths, Jonathan Morgenstern as a whole, Kit’s childhood and all his behaviors in tda, Charles' change of heart in chot, the reaction to the rumors Alastair repeated at the academy(no bc why were they so obsessed with that one thing? it literally affected no one else but matthew and tom), Jesse's death, Henry actively ignoring Matthew his whole life but adoring Kit, Elias' death, why Alastair didn't inherit Cortana, can Herondales actually see ghosts or was it just Lucie(cause Will could only see Jessamine and James couldn't see any from what I remember), etc etc

I DONT WANT YOU TO SHUT UP CAUSE YOURE RIGHT

Inbox is always open i want to here you ramble about any of these pls therws just so much that doesnt make sense