marvika ceo

eternally in my greek mythology phase (eng/spa)

[anniflamma]

The recent crackship ask got me wondering, could you do Zeus/Hera? Despite all the issues I love them, and your design for both is great.

Zeus likes to give Hera smooches despite her dismay.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[rynquestionmark]

—- ‘ shhhhh ‘

[iktend]

Are my enemies to laugh at me?

Am I to let them go unpunished?

[rext1884]

wip

[blantheia]

I went to the Hungarian State Opera and saw them !!

The fresco on the ceiling is incredible (here's a closer look)

Our guide said the artist did a self portrait in Zeus' face 😁

[tio-trile]

Hades 2 playthrough thoughts #2: Toula, my best girl, my MVP

[ms-divi]

i'm so late but here it is

some sisters

[kndartz]

More of my take on Cassandra + the references i used !

[faer1etale]

Artemis be so fr right now... Did we learn NOTHING from the Iliad💔Hera grabbed a cloud and turned it into a shield, and then after Artemis emptied all of her arrows trying to hit her, Hera then proceed to make a snowball and LAUNCH it at her, while also hitting her in the titty...

[sarafangirlart]

The Deception of Zeus

My contribution to the Sing Oh Muse Zine.

[kexytimes]

Happy mother's day to my girl Andromache

[littlesparklight]

It is PROPER and CORRECT to blame Zeus and only Zeus for the Trojan war.

BUT NOT because he presumably refused to judge between the goddesses himself because he didn't dare to/wanted to be impartial/etc because the participants were who they were.

BUT BECAUSE HE PLANNED THAT SHIT to end the heroic age/to punish humanity for being impious/too many and burdening Gaia/give kleos to Helen.

PLEASE blame Zeus more for the Trojan war for any of those reasons. He worked hard for it!

[agapidraws]

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

12. Hephaestus/ Ήφαιστος

[theoptia]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit and Three Other Plays; “The Flies"

Text ID: ELECTRA: Everybody here is sick with fear. Everyone except me. And I— / ORESTES: Yes? And you? ELECTRA: [...] I'm sick with—hatred.

[sapocipo]

Cassiopeia was punished by Poseidon because of Hubris. Bellerophon was punished by Zeus because of Hubris. Niobe was punished by Apollo and Artemis because of Hubris....

But when Aphrodite punishes a mortal for boasting that they are prettier then her then it is because she is jealous and can't deal with competition? Yeah no... ofc.. cuz what is Aphrodite if not a vain petty bitch, right?

[ephemeral-roses]

I've talked about this before, but every time I've seen people talking about a myth where a goddess punishes someone for saying "I'm better at this than [goddess' name]", they label as jealousy. No matter which goddess it is. Meanwhile, when it comes to gods and punishing someone for saying "I'm better at this than [god' name]", they label it as hubris every time. It's so painfully clearly sexist.

Also, I don't get how they actually think someone isn't expected to be upset when there's someone going around boasting that they are prettier than them. If someone was doing that to me, I'd be pissed off because like, "Woah, I was just out here living my life and suddenly I'm being dragged into a competition and this person is saying stuff about me, what the fuck? What did I do?". If you go around claiming you are better than someone else, don't act surprised when that person gets upset.

[ilions-end]

"By delicately manipulating these shared elements of maternal devotion and loss [in The Trojan Women], Euripides succeeds in sealing the encounter within a frame of death and burial. The conversation between Hekabe and Andromache begins with news of Polyxene's sacrifice, and it leads eventually to the announcement of Astyanax's imminent death. The first child has been slain before the scene begins, and the second is to be slain after the scene ends. Furthermore, Euripides exploits this frame of burial to intensify the interaction between the two mothers by contriving an exchange of maternal duties for the dead children. In the absence of Andromache, Hekabe will later perform the burial rites for Astyanax. Andromache, in turn, in the absence of Hekabe has already performed the last rites for Polyxene: 'I saw her myself, and descending from this carriage, I hid her in robes and mourned over the corpse.' Each mother buries the child of the other."

—Michael J. Anderson, The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (1997)