just lore stuff

Idk you were the first mutual that popped into my head that i could annoy with this

Hell yeah I love complicated Zeus! Some thoughts that are hopefully on a similar frequency to yours:

- Zeus saying sometimes he wishes he never married Hera. Hera hears "I hate you" but what he meant was "I worry that our marriage has brought you more pain than happiness."

- Kid Zeus wondering what his older siblings will be like once he saves them.

- Zeus having all sorts of complicated feelings about Percy because the last person who was destined to defeat Kronos was himself, and he went on to become king of the gods. So what's Percy gonna do in the future?

- Zeus being glad that Athena and Poseidon are rivals because her brains combined with his power would make him nervous, but at the same time he feels like a real piece of shit for not wanting his daughter to get along with her uncle.

- It's rare that Zeus indulges in it but on occasion he can be a massive troll. There's one story where Apollo challenges Zeus to an archery contest, and Apollo goes first and shoots his arrow to a mountain on the other side of Greece. Zeus walks over there in a single step, picks up the arrow, and says "So what are we shooting at?"

*in my AU the Kronides/big six are 12/13 (Zeus) to 19 (Hestia) at the beginning of the Titanomachy.

Percy: You're-You're good why are you letting your children fight? You're kinder than the others.

Rhea: ....I have to.

Rhea: We couldn't wait for Zeus to be of age.

Thalia: Bullshit! there's so many adult titans that all want to take down Krono—

Rhea: —Don't say his name. Names have power...

Rhea:...

Rhea: *sigh* Look at my children's feet, look at how scarred they are. Hestia has a limp, I don't know if you've seen her walk in your future but gods are not meant to have limps. That is a bad sign, that is a sign that it was only a matter of time before their godly healing stopped healing and they'd be Gone.

Percy: there has to be another way, Themis, Metis, the Hekatonkhieres, you, Prometheus all of you! You could have done it. One of you could have thought of a different way. They're kids!

Rhea: the prophecy said children of His (Kronos) would overthrow him, not us. We had no choice. There is no one else, it has to be them to deal the blow. We can only help. This is the sacrifice we have to make to survive.

Thalia: ...

Percy: ....

Nico: ...it's not fair.

Rhea: It's not. But it's all we can do.

Wyd if you are so used to gods using their kids to fight their battles but meet the one god (titaness) that truly doesn't want to let their kids fight a battle but it's the one time that there truly is no option. We have to send these kids to war but you know what will happen to these kids and their kids?

Wyd when Fate is an unavoidable, unchangeable thing and Time is very much not on your side, so you have to sacrifice your children's childhood for the greater good and survival and there is no way around this as much as you want to.

Wyd if this sacrifice messes them up so they become bad people who mess up their children in a different way and causes their children to attempt to copy their sacrifice.

What if the cycle.

But it didn't have to happen in the future. They could have broken the cycle, except for the fact that it is all any of them have ever known.

Of course Zeus will not blink at children fighting a war for him. He was a child fighting a war for the adults that were supposed to protect him.

Percy: We were child!

Zeus: And so were we!

(Me who hcs the war to start when Zeus was 16 bur also that Zeus was literally groomed for this moment and the war since day one.

[And possibly all the others too- that’s a different hc from a fic tho. But Metis and Leto and all the Satyrs & Nymphs that helped him were also probably heavily groomed too, to follow Zeus’s every move at least unless they gain Rhea’s wrath]

{Also I hc Poseidon to be 17, Hades + Hera to be 19, Demeter to be 20, and Hestia to be ~25}])

honestly this is so real.

I like to think there is a meeting going on between the gods and Demigods.

And Zeus and Percy get into like a fight about you know gods sending their children off to fight at such a young age and Zeus is getting really heated and angry and a siblings are like realizing they're like. Oh shit he's getting pissed. That's not good.

They try to calm him down but Percy is still pushing it and he says.

"We were children!!" And Zeus responded with the "So we're we!!" and everyone was just like.... What do you mean.

And then his siblings take him out of the room and tell everyone the meeting is over.

Zeus & Hera seperated, just like Thetis wanted. In a roundabout way, her gaddang plan actually worked. Well done Hera, you let the outcome of your marriage fall right into the trap of the "stupid little PA," & "some nymph" who wanted you to leave Zeus in the first place. This is coming from someone who was very much hoping Zeus & Hera would reconcile their differences somehow during the comic, but noooooo, RS had to victimize her "strong female protagonists" yet again for the umpteenth time and the result was a needless *:･ﾟgIrLbOsS*:･ﾟ divorce that felt just as contrived as everything else in the finale.

*SOBS*

Everything in the penultimate episodes regarding Zeus & esp Hera made me realize that out of all the poorly written plotlines in LO, theirs eats at me the most. They both have major potential to be very complex, morally gray characters, and there have been so freaking many opportunities for RS to have them redeem themselves. BUT that should only come after they wholly acknowledge their faults and make genuine, lasting changes in their behaviors.

This may sound silly, but I LOVED reading the handful of scenes in the comic when Zeus & Hera were amiable and affectionate with each other. So them having not even somewhat of a happy ending together makes me extremely sad, and I'll never forget what they took from us. ୧((#Φ益Φ#))୨

This is exactly why I decided to create a short spin-off of my LO rewrite comic dedicated to Zeus & Hera's relationship after some rather interesting concepts for a rewrite came (and continue to come) to me out of the blue.

Though it wouldn't be edgy or dark ('cuz I ain't cool, that's a certain genericpuff's job lol), the main focus would be the emotional rawness (Emphasis on rawness o(〒﹏〒)o) of Zeus & Hera coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, they genuinely love each other, all the while striving to right their wrongs and stop the world from crumbling around them (As per the major events in LO).

It obv isn't quite myth-accurate, but as I've said before, my rewrite overall is a reconstruction of all the characters & events in LO rather than the myths. Meaning a lot (but not all, ofc) of the og traits & such found in LO will remain in my comic, but ofc with the narrative portraying wrong as wrong & right as right and leaving room for actual genuine growth & change, unlike the og comic.

Now to actually start putting all this crap together fr, well...

I'm...

I'm getting to that...

Are there any other focs like lore asgard that are anti lore olympus? I know abt lore rekindled but idk about any others

Oh yeah, definitely!

There's The Goddess of Youth - A Lore Olympus Fix-it Fic , A fic that's centered around Hebe and her mission to save Olympus from Apollo, it takes place some time after Hades and Persephone's wedding (1/? Chapters, 1.3k words)

Illicit Affairs, where after finding out that Hades is cheating on her with Hera, Persephone starts an affair with Zeus...and shit goes down. (21/21 Chapters, Series, 41.2k words)

On The Long Way Down, where after being broken up with by Hades, Minthe takes Persephone and gives her a tour around the realms to show her what she would truly be signing up for...also it's gay/pos (5/6 Chapters, 18.6k words)

Lore Miclan, where Persephone decides to run away and join the Norse Pantheon. She however, after following an intriguing dog, ends up in the Aztec Pantheon. Meanwhile, Demeter and Hades go look for her and reopen some old wounds in the process. (1/10 Chapters, Updates every Friday, 1.3k words)

Why do people write this?

Typically advice for depressed people is written by people who aren't depressed. That does make sense since depression makes it so much more difficult to do things. Things that are done are most often done by people that find it easy to do things.

For the author, a making a cup of tea or sitting outside for a few minutes are examples of something that is a "free action". You might here someone express the belief that "willpower is infinite".

I used to think I could walk forever up until I did so for 9 hours. What is going on when someone writes this is that they never had to come up to these limits before. That leads to advice that isn't helpful to the people that need it most.

This is also a problem with physical exercise. Most people think of running or lifting weights as typical starting points. But what does someone who can't stand for long do?

The same principles apply, you stretch the muscles, they break, they repair. It's just that when you are starting from scratch, lifting the leg and standing or what have you is enough to do that.

So I am depressed and can't get out of bed. What do I do?

Just like with exercise we start small.

Think about breathing manually. This is impossible to fail. You don't have to do anything besides think of breathing. And yet, as you do it it is proof you have some control still.

Wiggle your fingers. Open and close your hand.

Move your arm. Lift it up. It can be just at the elbow to start

Put your hand in a position to push you to the side. It's okay if this just gets you to your side. That is progress

Get the legs involved. You can start with the toes, then ankles, then up to your knees

With more limbs involved we can shift over to the edge of the bed

Get some legs off

Sitting position

Now stand up

Reading this you may find that it doesn't take that many steps. That's great. You may find that it takes more and that you have to recover from each one. That's fine too. The important part is that you gained some progress each time. Even if you fall back, it gets easier and easier to do the same thing, just like building muscle.

At the end of the day, no one is going to know how many steps you used to get out of bed. The trick is that when something seems insurmountable you break it down into small enough steps that the next one is doable to you personally.

and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”

To Olympus:

For all the centuries I've been, I never thought I'd see the day when I could really be free. Free from everything.

It took time, more than it should have, but finally I’ve seen this as the way.

We all know the story of how this kingdom got to be. But, as absurd as it seems, no one really knows me. And it hurts. It hurts because everyone thinks that if nothing is heard, there is nothing to say. That couldn't be farther from the truth.