not to me, not if it’s you

skylar | 25 | lovecore | digital altar and personal devotion blog | he/they | also worships: Hermes, Dionysus, Persephone, Hades, Hestia, and Hecate | terfs/swerfs/radfems/tradfems fuck off | roleplay/pjo/fandom/godkin blogs please do not interact with my blog or any of my posts | dm for my main

[androaphrodite]

i gained a bunch of followers from my most recent post about hellenic polytheism (thank you!!) so i feel like it’s necessary for me to make a disclaimer post.

i am NOT an expert on hellenic polytheism, or greek mythology in general. i learn new things every day. i’m very loose with my devotion. i pray to gods that i feel are calling to me, i leave offerings that feel right, and i mostly go by intuition and emotion. my experiences with the gods are very personal and your way of worshipping is probably different from mine. and that’s okay! but i don’t want to be cited or seen as a legitimate resource or religious expert. i’m not. i’m just a guy with a blog that loves the gods. if you ask me for advice, i’ll most likely either forward you to someone who knows more about this religion than i do, or encourage you to use your own intuition and do what feels right. so please don’t come for me for giving bad or ahistorical advice, i’m sorry, i’m learning. much love, and may Aphrodite smile down on you. ♥️

[inkpressedpetals]

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[jammerific]

I think this is the first time I've ever been wowed by "this ISN'T a painting"!

[kosmogrl]

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

the "i definitely do NOT have feelings for them in any way shape or form" while obviously crushing on them trope might be cliché to you. it's about being doomed from the start, the desperate denial of the starved self, the tragic inevitably of love to me tho

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

"i'm not in love with them" oh, honey. you are already so ruined. you have been ruined from the moment you met, and you will be ruined long after you part. your attempts to hide are futile. you cannot escape that which is everywhere and everything. love as a punishment, love as a death sentence. love as god.

[mockiatoh]

You can’t deserve a person’s love. You’ll drive yourself crazy thinking like that. They either love you, or they don’t. That doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough for them to love you, because love isn’t something you earn by being good enough. It isn’t something that can be quantified or doled out. Don’t blame yourself for not being loved how you need to, just teach yourself how to look for love where love lives.

[mockiatoh]

This isn’t just about romantic love, or even skewed towards romantic love, although it does apply there too. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to accept is that my mother simply wasn’t someone who was capable of loving me, and there is no version of me that I could have ever been that would have earned that love. But with acceptance came healing. I was able to love myself more instead of resenting myself for not being more than any one person could be.

[mockiatoh]

Are you listening? Even love for yourself isn’t earned. It is a kindness you give yourself.

[sapientes]

THE NAME OF A PERSON YOU LOVE IS MORE THAN LANGUAGE. for mia, meri @ashiqui.

love as defined by children aged 4-8 / c t salazar, headless john the baptist hitchhiking / marina tsvetaeva, poems for blok / afīf al-dīn al-tilimsānī, loving you is a gilded religion / sierra demulder, your love finds its way back / emery allen, soft human / richard siken, saying your names / anaïs mitchell, come home with me from hadestown / greg watson, now / carol ann duffy, name 

[androaphrodite]

true love is real and it’s your best friend reading you a book during a sleepover

[butchniqabi]

i looked at queeringthemap today and had a good cry but these especially touched me

[g1asseyes]

[december-rains]

yeah.

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

[urlocalchangeling]

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

[generic-dumb-bitch]

[tundrakatiebean]

[gingernutsenthusiast]

@filmnoirsbian

[chambaeli]

[chandaniyan]

[chandaniyan]

[machineryangel]

[unaliveish]

giulia agostini

[followt4ebreath]

[moddieeeex]

So we found out Aphrodite Areia yesterday...

[hotniatheron]

i think humanity’s love affair with the sea is perhaps the sexiest thing about us 

[androaphrodite]

sometimes i am sad. then i remember that women exist

[ancientsstudies]

RODARTE SS19 Backstage.

[ancientsstudies]

I like you, your eyes are full of language.