A Quick Psa To Anyone Recently Getting Into Greek Mythology And Is A Victim Of Tumblr And/or Tiktok Misconceptions:

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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my bmc au’s that are very, very closely linked to minecraft

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 au’s !

(please note: the endgame for every one of these is meremine, whether romantic or qpr. the other ships i’m 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. they’re all tight-knit, too, since i as an aro person desperately want them to be found family-esque. this ā€œshippyā€ aspect is not up for discussion in any way)

1.

of course, a collection of minecraft au’s wouldn’t be complete without the ever-standard ā€œthey met online through a video gameā€ au. i’ve 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 can’t be helped.

the squip only appears momentarily in this au as a griefer. they’re banned from minecraft forever for their crimes.

the whole squad eventually makes a town together. i forget what i decided the name was but it’s 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 he’s probably in michael’s 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 they’re like hello fellow minecrafters !!!

it’s honestly been a while since i’ve talked about this au, which is a shame, because it’s great fun ! i adore it.

2.

the next au, one of my all-time fave au’s, 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 (rich’s 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 doesn’t 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 (although…. it does have a bit of a split where all the people i don’t 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 i’m 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 has…. 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 village’s lord recently died, so they’re trying to find a replacement while rebelling against a neighboring evil ruler that wants more territory who happens to be michael’s brother (he has two)- squip.

there’s also the whole shadow knights thing, which i don’t feel like getting into right now, and also the thing where jeremy and his associates are literally godly beings.

(whether it be that they’re the latest reincarnation…. or they wiped their memories recently in the hopes of not having to suffer as their closest friends died and reincarnated and died again…. the usual)

4.

this next one is a joyous adventure in learning ! it’s 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 curiosity….. 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.

there’s 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 haven’t 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, they’re down for it.)

5.

this au is also one of my all-time faves !! it’s 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 what’s 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 he’s 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 they’re doing that. and what better way to fight evil magic than to help out its very victims ?

(rich and his brother are the witch’s henchmen, but extremely unwillingly and only to the extent that they carry out her orders while also making it so they’re essentially nonfunctional. the witch is rich’s squip and her brother is the mother gothel to jeremy’s rapunzel- and also jeremy’s squip.)

6.

this one’s 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. it’s pretty simple, but it’s 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. it’s 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 that’s 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 michael…… dresses up as a dolphin. the plan is to seduce jeremy into listening to him. i haven’t actually thought about the showdown, so whether it works….. is up for debate.

to be frank with you, i have no idea how this one works out. it’s weird and i really don’t think about it all too much, but it is fun, too.

so that….. is the summation of my au’s. i tried to not drown you in too much information, ā€˜cause 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 don’t really like building posts about my au’s. it makes me feel a lot more exposed.

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