Sucker For Anime

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

So according to Wikipedia, Melinoë was born at the mouth of the river Cocytus, where Hermes is stationed as a psychopomp just on the border of the living world and the underworld, which is just a hilarious image of a heavily pregnant Persephone taking a break over by the river when she heads into labor. None of the House of Hades is going to get there in time, thus leaving poor Hermes to play midwife in between bouts of trying to get literally anyone else to help

So according to Wikipedia, Melinoë was born at the mouth of the river Cocytus, where Hermes is stationed as a psychopomp just on the border of the living world and the underworld, which is just a hilarious image of a heavily pregnant Persephone taking a break over by the river when she heads into labor. None of the House of Hades is going to get there in time, thus leaving poor Hermes to play midwife in between bouts of trying to get literally anyone else to help

Hades game was about breaking free from the cycle of generational trauma. With Kronos being the big bad in Hades 2, it would appear the game is about grabbing the cycle of generational trauma and breaking the whole thing over your knee, as a treat

melinoe is half zagreus’ height when she’s sent to witch boarding school, but comes back almost more than a foot taller than him

is melinoe gonna get pants when the game is released orrrrr

remember when percy jackson met carter kane and called him a half-blood + asked who his parents were and carter almost killed him because he thought this random jackass in the middle of the river was throwing racial slurs at him and trying to figure out his ethnic background