alisha polemowski 🕯️

one of the best parts of making up increasingly wild and specific aus with a friend is sending them posts like "this is sooo blorbo in torture chamber au number 15" and they reply back like "YESSS btw have i told you about my latest idea for how to torture them even more" and you get to enjoy a little snack and kick your feet with glee

I feel like people who are dismissive of sports don’t realize that they’re sometimes super condescending. like, okay, you didn’t like gym class and have personal grudges against the jocks from your high school! that doesn’t mean that other people are idiots for enjoying something that, when it’s at its best, can connect you to a broader community of fans and give you a chance to appreciate the athleticism that people are capable of when they spend years honing a specific set of skills. there’s something so valuable and human about sports that gets lost when you reduce it to “sportsball” or whatever

alisha palmowski has stellar vibes

bluh bluh let women be feminine WHATEVER but it kills me that while adaptations of Athena often leave out how genderblurry her presentation of herself and her form is over the course of the odyssey IS, she’s both strongly linked to the world of war and to internal domestic works of clothes and weaving which in the odyssey manifest as directly noted links to storytelling trickery and cunning. So it kills merchant Athena is rarely shown in the many incarnations of gender age and class she takes the form of across the odyssey but it also kills me that while she’s rarely shown with her armor and helm in adaptations she’s …. Also rarely shown in outfits that make manifest her expertise in weaving and clothing as well, which would include things like a lot of fabric, many folds, designs and patterns and layers. Modern adaptations tend to portray Aphrodite as “the goddess of love and beauty” and then relink beauty to a modern idea of “fashion” but I think Athena is far more powerfully linked to what we might consider “fashion” today in terms of the clothes themselves. Let Athena wear couture

like it kills me a lot with the pjo series and the very specific gendering of a lot of middle grade adventure literature where girls could neither be “too girly” but also had to inexplicably take second string as one of a trio no matter their qualifications when like even within the odyssey and even iliads as text, Athena at LEAST as central and active a figure as Poseidon. If not MORE SO! Like let annabeth be weird and cunning and kind of manipulative because that’s what war strategy is but also let her know bad seams and fashion from a mile away and have a room full of weird embroidery and weaving projects and an endless adhd finger knitting project that may or may not be somewhat animate. all this ignored in canon until the far inferior heroes of Olympus series but then she still has the matter of percys shroud. Like I’m not saying she should be into the modern evolutions of cloth and weaving because she’s A Girl but because if Percy gets to have physical magic powers due to his dad why the fuck can’t she.