Reiner Being Normal

watched the last attack last night

needless to say i hate attack on titan.

i was trying not to cry all through work today

Hehehe, uhm. Wholesome intimacy between my Babies. (⁠灬⁠º⁠‿⁠º⁠灬)

PLEASE DO NOT USE TIKTOK AS A RESOURCE FOR HELLENIC POLYTHEISM

Tiktok is probably one of THE WORST places to learn about REAL hellenic polytheism because it is rampant with misinformation and most creators are only interested in views and parroting misinformation THEY heard. Yes there are some great and informative creators on there to learn about the hellenic gods but they are far and few in-between.

INSTEAD if you're new to the religion and have no clue where to start researching/learning, here are a few phenomenal creators on here with wonderful and informative posts!

@wisdom-devotee has an amazing guide for starting out in hellenic polytheism

@seasaltdevotion also recently made a fantastic post on resources for starting out

@crazycatsiren has a SUPER long list of resources and research material

@khaire-traveler has possibly the greatest list on subtle deity worship for just about every god

Please actually learn from those of us that truly love and covet this religion and spread information that will truly benefit you.

Bertholdt Hoover

ok so I’ve been seeing once again bertholdt hate. Ok honestly you’re just hating on him because he was always quiet and only with Reiner, calling him useless. But without him, he would’ve have not destroyed the wall, and without him destroying the wall means Eren’s mother would have not died. AND WITHOUT HER DEATH EREN WOULD NOT FEEL SUCH HATRED TOWARDS TITANS!! Bertholdt is an important character. Important to the warriors, important to the plot. He was VERY USEFUL!! Without him, how would Eren become the Attack Titan?? Without Bertholdt no one in the scout regiment wouldn’t meet. Without Bertholdt, Reiner wouldn’t be able to destroy the second wall.

If you call him useless, you did not understand any of the warriors. He was a kid, a kid who was brainwashed to hate the people of Paradis. He was brainwashed to call them devils WITHOUT OUT KNOWING WHO OR HOW THEY TRULY ARE! Propaganda also manipulated him. He just wanted to help his sick father and by doing that he needed to become a warrior.

These bertholdt hate blogs, needs to go study his character and how important he is, HOW IMPACTFUL HE IS TO THE STORY LINE.

Anyways thats all!! I just wanted to talk about this

AOT memes pt. 9

did anyone else during their first watch of aot just automatically assume that reiner and bertholdt were a pre-established couple because of how they were literally always together or was that just me

haha he’s so sleepy so tired so stupid :3

good HEAVENS

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!