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Day 11, Ib.
I don’t have much to say about this. I played Ib when i was in middle school, and I was really touched by the story (whereas my eyes were reaaaaaally touched by the graphics).
So yeah, here’s Gary in the Forgotten Portrait route.
0% contained. no rain in the forecast for another six days at least. people and their animals are dead and one of napa’s more famous wineries is gone forever. there’s a black ash stripe on my windshield and our air quality is currently worse than beijing and every day on facebook is a new nightmare of places everyone here has been to destroyed.
meanwhile: america continues to not impeach the racist rotten tangerine who shows no understanding of the climate realities that make shit like this possible, and the biggest aid donation i’ve heard of to date is coming out of a private fucking company (salesforce) while trump’s too busy throwing puerto rico under the bus, ruining healthcare, destabilizing asia and the middle east, and objectively making life harder for every lgbtq+ citizen of this country today.
the greater bay area is one of the most important urban centers in the united states and guess who’s too much of a triggered snowflake to actually get his ass out here to do what a president does?
you guessed it: donald fucking trump.
not that he gives a fuck about california, or, earlier this year, oregon. we didn’t vote for him, so here we are: burning while he concocts new media distractions to paper over all the smoke.
The only think that really helped Oregon besides the tireless efforts of firefighters against impossible odds is that it rained and rained and rained some more.
I ended up in the ER from smoke. We filled filters supposed to last months in days. I now own an N99 mask because it’s pretty much guaranteed to happen next year or the year after.
Fighting fires and dealing with disasters is why we have a fucking government. If they government isn’t doing it’s job, we need a fucking new one.
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Hades: *literally the most loyal of the married gods, and basically forced by his brothers to live in the underworld* i came out to have a good time and i’m honestly feeling so attacked right now
Hades is just like everyone’s cool/nerdy uncle
Hades is just the guy who
does his job and fills in all his paperwork on time. Don’t hate Hades, it’s cruel.
That’s actually only seen in the rendition made by old white guys who romanticized rape (and then was seen as truth). In the legit version of the tale/mythology, Hades got permission to take Persephone as his wife- and an old tradition was to ‘kidnap’ your wife. Also, Persephone would’ve known the fruits of the Underworld would’ve forced her to stay in the underworld- her mother most definately would’ve mentioned it, and she was closely related to plants and harvest. She was given the choice to either be a maiden, without power, or to rule half the kingdom of the Underworld (which, given equal rule in that time would’ve been nearly unheard of). She willingly got married and stayed in the Underworld for power and the fact that Hades loved her without question. Actually, the only question is if she loved him back or if she loved what he could give her.
So no, don’t believe the shitty things about Hades. Drag Zeus instead for him fucking up everything by fucking everything.
There’s a tradition of kidnapping your wife??? Omg i want to know more now.
I don’t know about the greek stuff or the myth, but I do know about Roman weddings.
I think… after the couple was married, there was this symbolic kidnapping of the bride where the husband would take the bride from her mother’s arms over the threshold of her new home.
Spartans did the abduction thing as a symbolic show of power. The fact that the bride was dressed as a dude for the wedding because until that point her husband had only banged dudes… well, that’s another kettle of no-hetero fish.
Regarding misunderstood Gods, I likewise have rage over Anubis being the villain. Anubis. The freaking valet of the Underworld - meets you at the door, takes your soul - who did jack to offend anyone and in the various Egyptian horror-ish sagas, he’s super evil :(
See, my theory for why gods like Hades and Anubis get shafted like this in modern views of mythology, is that a lot of people (wrongly) approach these myths with a Christian-mythos mindset. And in Christian stories, hell is beneath. Hell = the underworld and therefore is bad.
But Hades and Anubis predate the Christian idea of hell by thousands of years. The Egyptians had a rich and expansive view on what happened when one died, and Anubis, the god who guided souls and judged the dead as either worthy or unworthy of the afterlife, was definitely not an evil entity.
Same for Hades. In the original myths, Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon (the three godly sons of Kronos and Rhea) drew lots to decide who would rule what part of the world. The sky went to Zeus, the sea went to Poseidon, and the Underworld went to Hades. Other than that, Hades was a pretty fair god, and definitely caused fewer problems than Zeus…
My point is, remove the Christian-tinted goggles when reading mythology and it will make a lot more sense.
put ur foot in there and you’ll never be seen again
(If people were wondering, this is probably a vernal pond- a temporary body of water that typically forms after heavy rains. They can form in the same place year after year but rarely last more than a month or two)
…says the fairy apologist ¬_¬
I mean, A body of water with a part-time existence that in some places is the only source of fresh water for miles so it attracts every animal in the area, perfectly preserves whatever it swallows until it vanishes and leaves a pile of goo and is named after an equinox is still pretty fucking Fae.
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