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!
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another one i did :3 brooke would play her so well, and i know what youre thinking. chloe as a regina right? wrong. chloe doesnt do the musical, especially to avoid the typecast, my aware queen.
SnoedripsoRjlezzz not as terrible as I thought it would be
VD&diydgbyt-buh
Can I request Connor and Miguel? ^_^
Of course! Here's your requested drawing! Hope you like it!
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So I was watching some random videos for round 2 of Salazar Sundays (yes I am absolutely down for this shit, I don't care if anyone else is, lol) and this was too silly and adorable to not get its own post. So yeah. Love love love. Woohoo very awkward post :)
Edit: Ok I hadn't finished the video when I posted this, but warning, loud bangs from 9:12 to 9:28, I mean not really bang but I dunno how to describe it, it's a confetti cannon, I dunno, it bothered my autistic ears and I didn't want it to bother anyone else
we can be heroes, just for one day.
yeah, that's the post. i love that song soooooooo much. and like, a lot of david bowie's songs. he is just very utterly iconic and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas love love love love love <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
also i tried to write the post in tags but i crashed the editor and it said your post was too out of this world, seemed appropriate lol
aight, love y'all, stay space-tastic, peace and love :D
Michael and Jeremy Gender Swap holding hands please????
I'm gonna be so real with you Anon I was doing some rather urgent homework when this popped up in my inbox and suddenly nothing was more urgent than further projection onto my comfort characters. They're literally just me in different skins.
Anyway, Michelle and Jenny(? sounds too much like Jenna but eh)
Aw yissssssssssss š„°š„°š„°
for that anon who asked some time ago
a little context to these: i love minecraft fan content. roleplays, fanfics, alternate forms of gameplay, the like. and, of course, bmc is severely lacking minecraft content, so i decided to remedy that just a bit with these seven auās !
(please note: the endgame for every one of these is meremine, whether romantic or qpr. the other ships iām not particularly picky on, but do keep in mind that that is the shipping context on those three. another thing of note is that jenna is aroace, and i tend to lean on making characters aro, just because i want to. theyāre all tight-knit, too, since i as an aro person desperately want them to be found family-esque. this āshippyā aspect is not up for discussion in any way)
1.
of course, a collection of minecraft auās wouldnāt be complete without the ever-standard āthey met online through a video gameā au. iāve got⦠quite a bit latched onto this au, honestly.
michael runs a faction, whereas jeremy plays on factions without one just raiding and doing whatever. jeremy and christine do a lot on creative, roleplaying their hearts out. and i feel the whole trio plays skyblock. i really like skyblock. it canāt be helped.
the squip only appears momentarily in this au as a griefer. theyāre banned from minecraft forever for their crimes.
the whole squad eventually makes a town together. i forget what i decided the name was but itās funky and they have a blast !! towny is⦠a delight.
jake is a server staff member and mr. reyes owns the server ! jake enjoys some creative roleplay and heās probably in michaelās faction.
eventually they do all meet up ! first they meet in their little mini groupings but they also definitely have a big old get-together where theyāre like hello fellow minecrafters !!!
itās honestly been a while since iāve talked about this au, which is a shame, because itās great fun ! i adore it.
2.
the next au, one of my all-time fave auās, is based loosely on the pixel trapped series by ash schmidt.
i call it the earthcraft au, because the premise is that the worlds of minecraft and earth were once one world called earthcraft, but have since split.
jeremy, michael, rich, thomas (richās brother), jenna, and chloe live in minecraft, while christine, dustin, jake, brooke, and madeline live on earth. squip is an evil wizard with an extended lifespan who lives in minecraft, but doesnāt particularly interact with the squad outside of pulling them into different worlds or sending monsters that have been drained of personal magic after them.
eventually, squip gets shoved into the void, earthcraft is reformed (althoughā¦. it does have a bit of a split where all the people i donāt want on earthcraft get to rot on a dying world), and the kids are reunited with their parents- except for jake and the goranskis, whose parents can rot in hell.
3.
this one is based off of the minecraft diaries roleplay series by aphmau ! i was a huge fan in middle school, and iām quite fond of the premise and such. it might have some narrative decisions i disliked, but it was a good story, in my opinion.
so, jeremy wakes up in the middle of the woods, outside a village. he hasā¦. no memory, of anything. in the village, he meets michael and christine, two guards who are glad he wants to join the village and help out.
the villageās lord recently died, so theyāre trying to find a replacement while rebelling against a neighboring evil ruler that wants more territory who happens to be michaelās brother (he has two)- squip.
thereās also the whole shadow knights thing, which i donāt feel like getting into right now, and also the thing where jeremy and his associates are literally godly beings.
(whether it be that theyāre the latest reincarnationā¦. or they wiped their memories recently in the hopes of not having to suffer as their closest friends died and reincarnated and died againā¦. the usual)
4.
this next one is a joyous adventure in learning ! itās based on the wonder quest series by stampylongnose, just the first season, really.
jeremy and christine are an adventuring duo on the search for cake ! just when they manage to find some, though, they fall into the world of wonderburg- a wonderful (hehe) town full of curiosityā¦.. usually.
however, their sense of wonder has been stolen by a heinous wizard named squip, who desperately wants to be found funny ! his brother, another wizard named michael, has summoned the pair to help him track down the pieces of the wonder cube- a magical gem that provides wonderberg with its everlasting wonder- that squip broke.
thereās many shenanigans, as squip tries to send his henchmen rich and jake after them- but they mostly just mess around,- and lots of learning ! it all comes to a close with squip realizing they can just subject themself to physical pain for laughs⦠which is, at the end of the day, all they really wanted.
(i feel i should clarify: the reason they havenāt found another way to be funny is because they literally do not understand jokes. they just want people to laugh at their jokes. they do not care what it takes to get those laughs. if getting blasted with fireballs repeatedly gets laughs, theyāre down for it.)
5.
this au is also one of my all-time faves !! itās based on the fairytale fallout roleplay series by bbpaws and dangthatsalongname !!
(tw for: implications of/references to abuse, mentions of cannibalism, kidnapping, all particularly with children as the victims)
so, christine and michael are two friends that are trying to play some minigames in the multiverse of minecraft worlds, but when they try to jump through the portal into the lobby, they instead wind up in the world of misthaven. while trying to figure where they are and whatās going on, the duo stumbles across a tower in the middle of the woods.
this tower is home to none other than jeremy heere, a kid with a really, really long scarf that he knit as a replacement for the lengthy hair heās chopped off. he sends michael and christine on a quest for enough dyes to change his scarf to rainbow, and in return he gives them a painting and joins them on their adventure.
as it turns out, misthaven has been cursed by a witch (note the pattern) so that all the fairytale characters who live there no longer have their happy endings. the town has also been left in ruin.
however, michael and christine were prophesied to arrive and save the land with the aid of jeremy so⦠now theyāre doing that. and what better way to fight evil magic than to help out its very victims ?
(rich and his brother are the witchās henchmen, but extremely unwillingly and only to the extent that they carry out her orders while also making it so theyāre essentially nonfunctional. the witch is richās squip and her brother is the mother gothel to jeremyās rapunzel- and also jeremyās squip.)
6.
this oneās a skyblock au ! i love them funky islands in the sky. basically, the whole squad lives in a skyblock version of the minecraft worlds, in a hub of islands. itās pretty simple, but itās nice. jeremy, michael, and christine are on a set of islands that are right next to each other, so they coordinate island expansion.
7.
this last one is a crack au. itās based off this one post by @/rockflavors, i believe, where minecraft diamonds are declared to have the taste of mountain dew baja blast. please, just⦠go with it.
naturally, i decided this meant jeremy could and would eat a minecraft diamond as an alternative to drinking mountain dew, given the chance. so, in this universe, minecraft is extra popular ! rock candy for minecraft diamonds thatās made with mountain dew baja blast exists.
squip is activated Extra Chillā¢, fully decked out in vacation gear and a minecraft diamond shovel ! upgrade probably features jeremy eating a second diamond to upgrade the shovel into a sword.
the most important parts of this au are the kickoff and the party: the halloween party where everyone dresses up as minecraft mobs. and michaelā¦ā¦ dresses up as a dolphin. the plan is to seduce jeremy into listening to him. i havenāt actually thought about the showdown, so whether it worksā¦.. is up for debate.
to be frank with you, i have no idea how this one works out. itās weird and i really donāt think about it all too much, but it is fun, too.
so thatā¦.. is the summation of my auās. i tried to not drown you in too much information, ācause god knows i could. if you want to hear more about a specific one (not the crack au, though, since that one is mostly a throwaway i had fun brainstorming the basis of and not much more), you could hit me up in dms ? or send an ask. though, keep in mind, i prefer dms because i donāt really like building posts about my auās. it makes me feel a lot more exposed.
Kitty | she/her | I love musicals, art and animals | Peace and love!
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