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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

Some of us had Xena: Warrior Princess and access to a public library.

Or just the public library. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and Bulfinch’s Mythology were gateway drugs enough for me. 😄

Some of us were just ancient culture freaks...

It remains a deeply fucked up idea that there is something wrong with kids who discovered ancient mythology through some other method than recent novels. Greek mythology remains a thing to teach to kids too young for Percy Jackson. There are lots of books about mythology for small children. Many people discovered Greek mythology as children before PJ came out. Not everybody has to have discovered it the same way you did. There is nothing wrong with that. You're just uninformed and self-centered.

My dad read me junior great books as bedtime stories and some of it was mythology

Edith Hamilton’s Mythology was my gateway drug and seeing the woodblock print in the book of Hades dragging Persephone to the underworld when I was 12 did… permanent things to my brain

the "if Nile hurts you, you lose your immortality" is truly the dumbest part of this whole movie. I truly wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but oh my god

They also forget that like the rest of the companions, Halsin has a truckload of his own traumas. His comes in the form of being captured by Drow and turned into a toy. Yes, he says he's over it, but you can't tell me the second he saw Drow in there with the goblins, he didn't just go "Nope. Not again". and stay a bear. Added to that is his guilt complex. Halsin feels a lot of guilt for shit he has no control of. He went into this with some adventures. Some got away, but there are people still captured in there. He was forced to leave people behind when the shadow curse fell. Never again. These adventures might not be his people but he's not going to just poof into a rat and leave them behind to endure the Gods only know what. No. He is staying. As a bear. For his own safety and so he can learn plans AND so he can learn where they took the other prisoners so he can save them.

Regarding the idea that having the Betrayer Gods walking among mortals again is fine, because we can just kill them before they become a problem (which isn't just an idea in fandom, Opal and Dorian have this as a plan re: Lolth), my issues are twofold. The first is that it begs the question of exactly HOW one would determine whether or not some random person is a Betrayer God before killing them, and every option of traits available to even attempt to determine this is rife with opportunity for false positives (meaning you've just killed some random normal person), not to mention the HORRIFIC real world implications and historical precedent for: "This person is X/has X trait, which makes them Bad, so it is okay to kill them." The second is that, hunting people down and killing them for the way they were born is what all the fans claiming we can just do this to Betrayer Gods were hand-wringing about the gods/Vasselheim doing to Ruidusborn, and using this as evidence that the gods simply must be killed. Why is hunting people down and killing them for something they can't control fine when it's an incarnated Betrayer, but when it's a Ruidusborn, even the hypothetical idea is a crime worthy of death?