19 + mostly greek myth + Hera defender

If you see one of my posts copied into other people's inboxes anonymously I didn't put it there

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Celebrity ex-relationship so private there are only there are only 15 16 images of them together on the entire internet

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Twitter discourse has pissed me off and I am once again reminded that Medusa didn't deserve what happened to her despite being born a monster nor would she have been in the wrong if she had successfully killed Perseus after he attacked her to save her own life.

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Claim your ticket guys:D

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get yalls while it lasts, lol

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OMG baby egg Helen and adult Dioscuri

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If my estranged wife tried to visit me in France but I left by the time she got there only for her to get sick and die, I would never want to look our daughter in the eye and explain myself either (but still, screw John for being a deadbeat, I’m so pissed for Frances she deserved better wdym he chose to never meet her but she still named her son after him?! 💔)

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Thomas Jefferson is my #1 opp out of the popular & well respected Presidents but people need stop spreading misinfo about him

He was not an adulterer like I've seen many people claim. He was a rapist, which is much worse. Nothing excuses what he did to Sally & nothing excuses him owning slaves in the first place or at the very least not freeing them. He also raised a particularly vile woman (Martha Jefferson Randolph) who was started to brutally whip people she enslaved (by account of her own daughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph) & herself raised a Confederate (George Wythe Randolph).

But no, Thomas Jefferson he did not keep his children enslaved, he educated them, he gave them a comfortable upbringing (according to his own son with Sally, Madison Hemings), & freed them as soon as they were old enough to live on their own.

You know who did keep their "bastard slave children" enslaved? William Henry Harrison. Obviously unlike Jefferson he did nothing worth celebrating so we don't talk about him, but whereas Jefferson clearly had some affection for the children he produced with Sally, Harrison's evil ass sold his own children because their existence would be a bad look on him as President. Harrison's enslaved daughter was sold off as a bed slave to another white rapist, becoming what her mother was to her father, a fate that Thomas Jefferson at the very least had enough decency to spare his daughter Harriet Hemings from.

Allegedly, Harrison's VP turned Presidential successor, Confederate John Tyler, also produced enslaved offspring that he sold, but there isn't DNA test evidence backing up this claim yet like there is for the other two.

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William Henry Harrison was the OG example of why "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" is a terrible defense for racism.

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Pelops: Hippodamia, I'll be honest. If this baby is ugly, we're throwing it away and making a new one.

Hippodamia: *currently giving birth* PELOPS, NOT NOW!

Pelops: Okay and if it has your attitude, I'm yeeting it out the window as tribute.

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Caligula: *screams* GET YOUR FUCKING SON BITCH

Agrippina: He don't bite

Caligula: YES HE DO!

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Tiberius never seeing Vipsania's face ever again in his life because he cried during the only time he saw her after their mutually unwanted divorce is the most Orpheus coded thing that has ever happened to a real person.

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King Richard II of England and US President Franklin Pierce are proof that you can be an extremely terrible person whose actions led to the violent deaths of multiple innocents

but because you had a sad life and most importantly, you were incredibly beautiful, you will have a horny cult following centuries later of people with an "I can fix him" mindset who blorbofy you

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Isabella "the She-Wolf" of France had the most Clytemnestra coded life (besides the having to watch her child get killed part and also dying peacefully to natural causes instead of getting murdered by her son out of revenge).

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Which underrated Greek deities do you wish more people knew about ?

While they obviously don't have many myths like the major Olympian gods, here's a few I think about not unoften:

Psamathe - A tragic Nereid who shares a more than few parallels with her well known sister Thetis.

Astraea - Most of her lore comes from Rome I think... but it's still pretty cool lore.

Zephyrus - Actually fairly well known, but he's only known as the villain in the Hyacinthus myth when there's way more to him than that.

Nerites - Prettyboy lover of Aphrodite OR Poseidon, I like to merge the 2 myths and consider him the lover of both though. Not that obscure anymore but I particularly like the myth where he & Poseidon have Anteros together.

Mnemosyne - Most underrated immortal lover of Zeus. Doesn't feature in many myths but her daughters are the muses who are all cool, and the story of how her daughters were conceived is a bit funny.

Delphin - Dolphin god. Poseidon's wingman who convinced Amphitrite to marry him.

Thalassa - Primordial Sea Goddess. I consider her Aphrodite's mother... and Delphin's... she's called the mother of fishes idk...

Perses & Asteria - Hekate's parents. I can't think of anything relevant Perses did except father Hekate but the way Hesiod describes his love for Asteria is described is so sweet. Asteria's story of being forced to give up her body to avoid being assaulted by Zeus & Poseidon is tragic, but her resilience is admirable.

The Horae (Dike, Eunomia, & Eirene) - Zeus & Themis's eldest set of triplets. There aren't really myths that feature them and are rather only mentioned in passing, but they're technically Zeus's firstborns out of his several hundreds of kids so I think they're kinda unique for that.

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you know i dont like rhea as well for supporting semele and leto all while ignoring hera? makes me wonder why she hates the girl so much? considering how hera my favorite and stuff

I don't know either tbh. It's especially messed up that she'd still pick Zeus over Hera after he cannibalized Metis, the one who helped save all her children.

Conflicting myths just make the gods look like hypocrites I guess. But everyone preferred Zeus to Hera, especially mortals since they liked to claim descent from him, so it makes sense why Rhea would be written as supporting Zeus over Hera in myths.

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(TW: rape) While NO victim of rape should ever feel pressured or forced to be a parent to the product of their rape... I can't help but find Lancelot's relationship with his son Galahad compelling.

Male rape victims are few and far between in stories, and the ones that do exist don't have any relationship with the child that resulted (justifiably), despite rape victim mothers in these type of tales loving and accepting their child conceived of rape being concerningly common.

Lancelot breaks this mold. He doesn't owe Galahad anything, but he can't bring himself to kill Elaine of Corbenic at the thought of her being pregnant with his child despite justifiably wanting to, so he certainly doesn't hate his son, sometimes he even seems fond of him. It's a such tragic but unique father/son relationship.

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Idk if you know this, but I found out that Angelos (Zeus and Hera’s daughter in that one obscure scholia) is supposedly the same as Hecate!! Wikipedia says: “The story of Angelos is cited by the scholiast in a series of rare myths concerning the birth of Hecate, which makes it possible to think that Angelos was essentially equal to Hecate.”

lowkey love the idea of Hecate as Hera’s daughter. wdyt?

The only parentage of Hecate that I will ever like is the common/“mainstream” one.

Perses and Asteria are cool and I love all the minor details that exist about them. The way Hesiod describes their marriage is cute, Perses’s intelligence is described as being surpassed only by his daughter, and I think Asteria being the goddess of nighttime divination associates perfectly with Hecate being the goddess of magic.

I also just don’t think someone as cool as Hecate should be the same as the girl who betrayed her mother/my Queen Hera in favor of Zeus’s mistress.