Cyrus

Puqi Shrine, is what I mean.

Well, then again, none of the larger temples have much in the way of mirrors beyond oxidised bronze discs at most, though not without reason, of course.

It's not that we can't afford those strange new windows of silver and magic, crafted so expertly into one delicate piece I can scarcely comprehend the skill behind it, and it's not as though San Lang hasn't wanted to decorate the temples with them, either.

It's just... Well...

I'm glad Puqi Shrine doesn't even have so much as a bronze disc.

There are days where I wonder, catch myself wondering and wondering despite needing to do anything but, despite wishing I would just stop wondering, what-if, what-thens--there are days, too many days still where I wonder. How has the year changed me? How has the clinging, relentless claws of winter left their marks upon my skin? How has the clinging, relentless solitude reshaped my body the way it has undoubtedly my heart?

Has it at all?

...Will it ever?

It's spring today. The river is warm enough now to bathe without trembling like a fawn from the cold, serene enough that even a lonesome flower ripples its surface like a great tremor.

For a brief moment, I met myself in the reflection of the river. A staring contest with a man I have never met; I do not recognise, neither one of us could bear to look away. For a brief moment, I saw a hauntedness in his eyes that none other than I should ever have to bear witness to.

For a brief moment, I saw god.

I did not recognise him.

Perhaps I ought to. Perhaps it is wrong not to. Perhaps perhaps perhaps

Perhaps the river should be avoided at all costs throughout the spring, until the tumultuous winds return to ripple the river's surface, rendering it rocky and unreflective. Perhaps the gleaming silver vambraces should be left to tarnish, until the warring conflict in my heart can find in it an unfamiliar shape, one which does not gleam so beautifully or sound so kind.

Perhaps there should be hundreds of mirrors in Puqi Shrine, hung up on every surface waiting for your return, so that no matter how brief it may be, there will be hundreds of versions of you to salvage from, even if it's just the one, even if it's just the one glimpse at the shape of your reflection. Even just the one.

Yes, Puqi Shrine must change, it's a simple conclusion. I will hang up the mirrors to wait. What use is a shrine without both its gods to worship, anyway? The mirrors will lie in wait, take over my seat, my side of the bed, my favourite dishes in the kitchen.

Saw this, looks fun!

Link to the quiz is here

… yeah, that tracks.

Soft tagging @blockcat-safari, @jackdraw-spwrite, @cityofangeisislying, @audioeidolon, @venusplantt, @bardicc-inspo and @voidindite in case they would like to play along :)

yeowch...I do want a hug im ngl

Awww

YES MY FAVOURITE

My third dead dove (I get dead dove every time)

Kinda fitting, but i prefer when this is followed by a "[character] gets a hug" so that i can sleep in peace and joy🙂‍↕️

Love this cuz im swearing at my screen + wishing them utter joy

Hmmmmm. I need a second opinion..

Also

Please be someone that's normal. Please be someone that's normal. Please be someone that's normal for once!😬

Will shoot am lucky than

@sleep-never-heard-of-her @kingkimdokja @red-garden @a-leafy-pattern @rue-x3 @aleona2156 @kairou-osamu @meowoongi @meru90 @thesecretsharkmafia @m3-kk

I dare you all to have better than this luck

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For those of you new to this, Dionysus is one of the main 12 gods of Olympus and the god of wine and parties in the woods. I imagine if he were to exist in modern times, he would be the eternally high homeless guy who manages to enrage a Karen every day. Like:

* Once he promised a mortal to have intercourse with him when that was asked of him in return for a favour. (He needed to cross the river Styx to bring his mom back from the dead) Imagine the grape boy’s shock when he learned that by the time he came back from his adventure, the guy had already died. Instead of just saying ‘Welp! This holy booty is hard to come by anyway!’, Dionysus proved he was a man of his word… By carving a wood phallus (if you know what that means, you’re either a perv or just well read—welcome to the club) and using that (you also know how, you filthy scholar) on top of the guy’s grave. Wow.

* His mom actually died when Dionysus was in the womb. To save the child, Zeus sewed the unborn child into his thighs. (I KNEW sewing was handy!)(or leggy-)

*u can ignore the brackets if you want surface level info only, it just doesn't sit right with me to swallow em kids- erm- words

It aallll starts with a love(there was none) story. The primordial deities of sky, Uranus, (father) and earth, Gaia, (mother) did the deed even before birds and bees were invented, and the first generation of immortals were born. Primordial deities as in, they were the physical sky and earth, just with character. Now let me go through a name change real quick and be frank, the kids were monstrous. With many many hands and many many eyes and the strength of typhoons and earthquakes, they represented natural calamities.

These kids were trapped in greek hell equivalent by daddy cus they didn't meet the beauty standard. In hell. Deep inside the EARTH. The children given birth to by the mother were thus forced inside.the children were imprisoned inside her body. This was obviously heartbreaking, and physically, painful for her. This is an important turning point of the couple's relationship.

[These were the immortal cyclopes (mix up happens since there's two kinds of cyclopes and thus I clarified) and hecatoncheires(don't even try) who had a 100 hands and 50 heads and SO many eyes(think about what would happen if they needed glasses). Then there were three cyclopes named Argos/Arges (bright) (you know ashur? The guy that does Argos and Mr plant series? Yea) ,Brontes(thunder) and Steropes(lightning). The cyclops were adept at craftsmanship. They were the ones to make hades' (god of underworld) invisibility helm, Zues'(king of gods and thunder and heaven and stuff) thunderbolts, and Poseidon's (sea god) trident. These guys (both cyclops and het-whatchamacallit) had immense strength, also due to their sheer size. But their dad didn't like em, cus he also became frank and decided they were too ugly to be up to any good and threw them in tartarus(Greek hell for the rotten cream of the crop, the worst of the worst which is inescapable and the worst punsihment usually)]

Then the couple had the second set of kids: The Titans. By this time mama had had enough. By their 12fth kid, she gathered her tiny army of conventionally beautiful children and asked them to fight against their father. Only the youngest, Cronus, was brave enough. Ambushing his father, he castrated him.This was the very first coup, and now the king is Cronus.

[There were 12 Titans. 6 males and 6 females(talk about equality!) Each titan represented a particular domain of the cosmos. (No particular order)(also, sometimes, Titans are added, some are reduced so...)(these are the usual set)

1. Helios- The physical embodiment of the sun. Usually people say Apollo is the god of the sun, but not rly... I don't know where that came from

2. Oceanus- you know what it is

3. Coeus- intellect

4. Hyperion- the heavenly light, light. Some say he is the father of helios, selene(moon) and eos(dawn). Here, husband of theia(light)

5. Iapetus- mortality(don't ask), violent death(ironically, he's the dad of prometheus)(the guy that was subjected to having his livers eaten by vultures everyday only for it to grow back and repeat for all of eternity), craftsmanship, etc

6. Cronus- time, harvest(the weapon he was given to fight Uranus with was a sickle)

7.Rhea- fertility, motherhood, wife of Cronus, mother of the gods

8. Mnemosyne- memory, artistic inspiration (her and zues' children are the 9 muses who were singers, poets, painters, everything art) (nemosinee)

9. Theia- heavenly light, sight, bright blue sky, shining of gold and silver (mother of sun, moon, dawn) (in science the theory for moon to be born is that a mars shaped object hit the earth, causing a chunk to be blown off forming the moon. The mars sized object was named..... Theia. THEIA!!! MOTHER OF MOON!!!!!!!!!)(NASA notice me)

10. Themis- judgement, divine law and order (all the legalities), oracles, right hand of zues and advisor (the blindfolded lady in courtrooms. She had a sword and scale only at first, then during the renaissance, to show impartiality, they stopped showing us her eyes)

11. Pheobe- light(srsly?) Nah, radiance, wife of coeus, her children were Leto and Asteria. (Asteria was pursued by Zeus but managed to escape into the island Delos and when her sis was raped by the same fing guy, and pursued to be killed by hera(his wife), she gave her shelter. Leto then birthed Appollo and Artemis (you'll know em in a sec) here. But in the end, Hera didn't hurt Asteria cus she was impressed by her dignity and unwillingness to interfere in her and zues' relationship.)

12. Tethys- freshwater, wife of oceanus, mother of water nymphs and stuff]

But that ain't the point here- the Roman equivalent (ofc they have knock offs) (no offense) (I'm sry) (*folded under no pressure)- .. Ahem! The Roman equivalent of Aries is Mars. The same bloody red Mars with it's two moons. Wanna guess their names? Yup. Deimos, and Phobos.( ・∇・)

Fan comics of the eridian welcoming committtee by @justcakethanks - they are a work of art. The committee understands that fire is unsafe for humans, so the hosuewarming was done outside the biodome for Grace to watch. In the second one, they misinterpreted the statement 'we love you to death'. Likely inspired by Valentines day cards.

Usually eyes

BUT, can we please talk about how this particular video had been out for quite a while now, and it was mainly men who found that disrespectful shit so goddam funny? A vast majority were on board with this shit...

...UNTIL the 370rs asshole turned up.

Women spoke up about that and suddenly all the men had so much to say about cadaver girl. The SAME DUDES who were laughing about it were all in different comment sections writing essays about medical ethics.

I'm sorry, but I'm tired of seeing our men whine about double standards when THEY ARE ACTIVELY CAUSING IT. Seriously.

They will laugh about male rape victims and then show up under female victims' posts w "what about male victims? 🥺"