GREAT GOOGLY MOOGILY IT'S ALL GONE TO SHIT

@watchanddream Sure! This got a bit lengthier than I intended, but I wanted to try and be thorough.

Put far too simply, xenia is the practice of hospitality, but it's also a ritual and in a sense a contract between guest and host. When a stranger arrives at your doorstep, you're expected to feed them and give them a gift as the host. Typically, you're not even supposed to ask them their name until they've finished their meal. Once you've done this as the host, the guest is now expected to share stories and information about themselves, and not burden you or your household. Typically, people focus on how hosts violate xenia, but guests can also violate xenia.

This is called a guest-friendship, and once it's established, you are expected to offer the same to your host should they ever visit. It's a ritual of hospitality, yes, but it's also used to establish alliances and can be passed down through generations. For example, in the Iliad, when Glaucus and Diomedes discover that their grandparents were guest-friends, they decide not to fight, but rather exchange armor.

Theoxeny is a common story you see in myth where a god (typically Zeus) disguises themselves as a mortal and requests to be hosted by someone. Should the host follow the rules of xenia, they'll be rewarded, but if they fail, they'll be punished or killed.

This is important to the Odyssey, as it comes up multiple times, but in particular, the cyclops, and the suitors. In both these instances, Odysseus arrives disguised and gives a false name, the practices of xenia are failed, and Odysseus reveals himself and punishes the one that failed to follow xenia. The suitors in particular fail xenia, as they both fail as hosts, AND as guests, for burdening Odysseus's household.

standing full body and up close shot of human karkat

yes he's trans your honor happy pride month 🏳️‍⚧️

I HAVE OPENED COMMISSIONS :DDDD

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I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

Beside the infinite ageplay potential via canon typical "i cast: you're 5 years old" behavior, this is the single most gore-compliant character I have ever seen in media. This bitch disintegrated god, putting her in an alternative universe is like releasing an invasive species on a secluded island. She's so done with people and knows the human body by memory; every absurd, physically impossible kink and fetish can be explained and executed via Mercymorn being there. She literally went to an orgy she didn't want to go to, to steal sperm, she gives no fucks about anything and therefore is the perfect "character randomly added to polycule" candidate.

We need to be more insane about this because this is the Fanfiction Situation Character. I'm not saying everybody needs to write over the top Mercymorn fanfiction; I just think adding her would make the situation better or worse, depending on what you want.

hardest thing a boy has to deal with is being chained up all the time or something 🥀

[image: a stock image of a sad bald man (represents Steve) with a plunger stuck to his BALD head.]

Baby’s first fused glass!!

This was purely just fucking around and playing with textures and colors in my kilnworking class. I learned a lot from my own & from my classmates’ pieces! I think the left two are my favorite, the way the pink frit chunks on the upper left sank into the clear sheet we used for our base looks soooo good and blobby.

people keep using my og tags in my other davepeta shitpost so i constantly just see