#nerd rant

Why the fuck were the ancient Greeks so stupid sometimes?? like actually why? their ancient mythology is built like Swiss cheese, bcuz the amount of plot holes makes zero sense

exhibit A: in order to free his godly siblings from Kronos' beer belly, good old Zeus famously feeds him a mix of mustard and WINE. Millenia later, Zeus cheats on his wife for the hundredth time, and has a child named Dionysus, gives birth from his thigh, you get the gist of it. Dionysus then invents this beautiful beverage, made of grapes, essentially uses alcoholism to cope with his friend's death. he invented wine, and Zeus was so impressed he made dionysus his cupbearer. See a problem here??

did Kronos go back and fuck up the timeline or something?

honorable mentions-

orpheus shows up in the underworld after Theseus gets trapped in Dwayne Johnson, yet Theseus is nowhere to be found

persephone's myth is used to describe the origin of the seasons, yet in so many old Greek stories about the titans, the seasons are directly referenced

The wedding of Achilles' parents directly caused the Trojan war, yet just a few years later, Achilles is somehow already a grown man ready to fight??

PTEROSAURS ARE THE BIGGEST LIVING THINGS TO HAVE EVER FLOWN

Estimates are pretty inconsistent with size because we actually have only found tiny bits of these pterosaurs, and it’s debated sometimes whether the Quetzalcoatlus or the Hatzegopteryx are bigger, but the general standpoint is that the Quetzalcoatlus is the biggest.

Pterosaurs when first discovered were thought to be semi aquatic which has since been disproven, but some smaller species are thought to have been able to swoop into water and snatch up some fish, and bigger species like Hatzegopteryxes are known to have eaten Dinosaurs!

They’re quadrupeds, but their back legs are believed to have been relatively useless during take off and that they instead would throw themselves into the air with their front legs alone

nerd rant below

See the thing about stuff like Manifestation/ Law of Attraction/ The Secret is that is these concepts were born out of scientific, philosophical, and occult intellectual developments in the 17th to 19th centuries. And a lot of it had to do with magnets, new discoveries and innovations with electricity, and a new level of intellectual focus on the will, emotions, and human psychology (the things that would eventually give rise to 20th century psychoanalysis). This is the time period where we got stuff like Mesmer and Mesmerism, the New Thought Movement, Spiritualism, and the idea of Animal Magnetism.

So you have his mother or pseudo magical reincarnation b******* mother Wanda who's aesthetics and conceptualization of magic has a lot to do with late 19th to early 21st century occultism with stuff like Wicca, Thelema, and yes Chaos Magic. And then you have his grandfather, Magneto the master of what? Magnetism?!?! (Whom incidentally also displayed in his older appearances telepathic / mind control abilities in addition to his manipulation of metal which obviously can be attributed to neuro electricity nowadays but back in the day the thing that was explicitly evoked to explain his ability to control people was, you guessed it, Animal Magnetism!)

So Wiccan's ability to execute his magic being this sort of combination/ halfway point of his mother's probability manipulation and his grandfather's ability to affect electromagnetism is actually super fucking brilliant and cool and is the kind of clarity and specificity a fictional magic system and acknowledgment of history of real world occultism that you very rarely find in comics overall, and again it was almost certainly unintentional on the writer's part which makes it both more brilliant and more frustrating!!!!