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"Did I ever matter?"
 Above them, the stars had burned and seared throughout the night. Dark shadows streak across his face as he watched, rather ruefully, at the sky.
“What’s wrong?” Holly asks, and he jolts himself to the present, his mind still filled with celestial spheres and broken constellations. She was there, right beside him, their fingers so close to each other that if he dared moved a bit further, their hands would touch.
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Never really been in the snow.  But I’ve always wanted to play in it; I’m down. Â
Never been in the snow? Seriously? Well let's go then!
So... where did you say you moved here from?
M!A List
Anchises: Muse can’t stop bragging about anything and everything for 24 hours.
Anteros: Muse develops a crush on the person of anon’s choice for 3 days.
Aphrodite: Muse flirts with basically anything that moves for 2 hours.
Apollo: Muse is skilled in all sorts of musical instruments for the next 3 hours.
Ares: Muse just wants to fight everyone for 2 days.
Artemis: Muse tries to talk to all animals around the school grounds for 1 hour.
Athena: Muse can’t stop spouting random facts for the next 2 days.
Calliope: Muse speaks only in book quotes for 1 day.
Calypso: Muse is stuck with the person of anon’s choice for the next 5 hours.
Cassandra: Nobody believes anything muse says for 3 hours.
Dionysus: Muse is high for 3 hours.
Echo: Muse can’t speak for 2 days, they can only repeat parts of what people say to them.
Erato: Muse can speak only in lines of poetry for the next 12 hours.
Eris: Everything seems to go wrong around muse for the next 3 days.
Eros: Muse falls madly in love with the first person they talk to for the next 4 hours.
Hades: Muse becomes a complete outcast that everyone hates for 1 hour.
Harmonia: For the next 4 days, muse just wants to be friends with everyone.
Hebe: Muse turns into a toddler for 2 days.
Hecate: Muse is magical for the next 2 hours.
Hedylogos: Muse is turned into the form of the student of anon’s choice for 1 week.
Helen: Muse becomes incredibly self-conscious for 3 hours.
Hephaestus: Muse is incredibly grumpy towards everyone for 1 day.
Hera: Muse is responsible for a child for 1 week.
Hermaphroditus: Muse switches genders for 4 days.
Hermes: Muse cannot stop lying about anything for 1 hour.
Hypnos: Muse keeps falling asleep for 1 hour.
Iris: Muse is obsessed with rainbows for 1 hour.
Megaera: Muse becomes jealous of the person of anon’s choice for 3 days.
Momos: Muse is mean and sarcastic for 24 hours.
Mnemosyne: Muse loses memory of everyone and everything they love for 2 days.
Narcissus: Muse becomes absolutely enamoured with themselves for the next 3 days.
Nemesis: Muse becomes obsessed with justice and exacting revenge for anything for the next day.
Nike: Muse is obsessed with winning everything for the next 3 days.
Orpheus: Muse can speak only in song lyrics for 1 day.
Pan: Muse has absolutely no inhibitions or moral standings for the next 2 days.
Pasiphaë: Muse must do something completely regrettable tonight, and will forget it the next morning.
Persephone: Muse must do everything the student of anon's choice tells them to for the next 3 hours.
Pheme: Muse is obsessed with gossip for 1 day.
Philotes: Muse changes sexuality for 2 hours.
Phobos: Muse becomes obsessed with all things scary for 1 day.
Poseidon: Muse is absolutely obsessed with water for the next 2 days.
Pythia: Muse delusional and sees things that aren't really there for 1 day.
Zeus: For the next 3 days, muse just wants to have sex.
A Lack of Sleep || Thanksgiving Self-Para
"Holly?" In a half-asleep state she felt herself being nudged and poked at by tiny hands. "Hollyyy wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup."Â
"I'm up, I'm up." She mumbled into her pillow.Â
"Holly?" Uly pulled away her blanket. "Aren't you gonna go cook?"
Holly shivered at the loss of her source of warmth and peeked up at the three young faces standing over her bed. "Isn't it a little early to be thinking about dinner?"
"Nope. We're hungry." Indy giggled.
Their older sister yawned and sat up. "Where's mom?"
"She's still in bed.... with Chris." Uly made a face. It was common knowledge that he was the only sibling in the house that didn't absolutely adore their mother's husband.
At the mention of her new stepfather, Holly looked around the room but her baby stepsister was nowhere to be found. "And Cora?"
"She's watching Elmo." Amelia chirped.Â
"So are you gonna make the turkey or not?" Indy frowned, crossing his hands over his chest.
Holly wondered what it would be like not to have to get up right now... to have one day to herself... but only for a moment. Then she got out of bed and ushered her siblings to the kitchen. "Yeah, I am... but not now. Mom's out buying it, remember? Come on, I'll serve you some cereal. "
She wondered what it'd be like to have a day to herself, to be able to go back to her warm bed... instead she poured out Cocoa Puffs and got ready for the long day ahead of her.
But hey, the four smiling faces always made getting out of bed worth it. And that was something to be thankful for, right?
WOMEN OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY:Â HESTIA
Hestia is Zeus sister. She is a virgin goddess. She does not have a distinct personality. She plays no part in myths. She is the Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the house around which a new born child is carried before it is received into the family. Each city had a public hearth sacred to Hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out.Â
“Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on Earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honor: glorious is your portion and your right. For without you mortals hold no banquet, where one does not duly pour sweet wine in offering to Hestia both first and last.” [Homeric Hymn to Hestia]
Both Poseidon and Apollo sought her hand in marriage. Unfortunately for them, Hestia rejected and was even offended. She went to Zeus who understood her, for she had sworn an oath to remain a virgin. Also, she knew this situation was soon to cause a problem between some of the gods. Zeus was grateful that she told him about the rivalry between the two male gods. In fact he was so grateful he made her responsible for the peace in Greece.
Mythological dreamcast || The olympian gods [+1/3] - Evan Rachel Wood as Hestia
Hestia was the virgin goddess of the hearth and the home. As the goddess of the family hearth she also presided over the cooking of bread and the preparation of the family meal. Hestia was also the goddess of the sacrificial flame and received a share of every sacrifice to the gods. The cooking of the communal feast of sacrificial meat was naturally a part of her domain.
In myth Hestia was the first born child of Kronos and Rhea who was swallowed by her father at birth. Zeus later forced the old Titan to disgorge Hestia and her siblings. As the first to be swallowed she was also the last to be disgorged, and so was named as both the eldest and youngest of the six Kronides. When the gods Apollon and Poseidon sought for her hand in marriage, Hestia refused and asked Zeus to let her remain an eternal virgin. He agreed and she took her place at his royal hearth.
Hestia was depicted in Athenian vase painting as a modestly veiled woman sometimes holding a flowered branch. In classical sculpture she was also veiled, with a kettle as her attribute.
 Both, actually. Doesn’t saying those words make you feel a lot better afterwards?
 I’m still practicing for a few upcoming competitions but I’m pretty sure I’ll win it either way.  It’ll be a lot nicer if you watch the meteor shower up close, it’s better to see it from the open fields.Â
That’s a handful. I don’t think I’d be able to survive if I did any of those things.
Hmmmm... nope. They don't fill me with the same fuzzy joy that imagining you as a Muppet does.
I'm sure you'll win too, you're crazy talented. Maybe I'll go and watch you kick some archer butt.
Open fields, huh? I'll try to remember that too. Thanks for the heads-up, Oscar.
It's not that much, really. You get used to it after a while, if you're organized. You do a lot too, you know. It can't be easy balancing school and archery.
Believe in your talent Holly! I do like chocolate. I can help and cook something yummy up for us?
I love plants. I try to grow as many as I can. I even got my own personal indoor garden for my birthday recently. A close…friend…of mind gave it to me.
I love chocolate too! So we'll definitely have something chocolatey after playing in the snow. And I'd love that! Thanks for offering to help.
That's really cool, Phoebe. I always wished I had a green thumb, it seems really fun and relaxing to help plants grow. Do you have any favorites?
Wow... what a generous friend. I'd just about die if anyone ever gave me a garden... or a brand new kitchen.
I just got back from the store and dropped by the school to submit my homework…I have a special arrangement with my educators regarding my schedule.
[looks at the spot on the floor where she’s beckoning him to sit on]
…If I can get you to the rooftop will you stay there instead? I don’t really make it a habit to sit on floors.
A special arrangement? Mmm... I'm jealous. I wish I could stay home and just drop by once in a while to turn in my homework.
Well... if you'd prefer that then I wouldn't object to going up to the rooftop. [ Stands up]Â Lead the way, Mister Black.
 I take it you have younger siblings? From the sounds of it, it’s tough. I mean, little kids generally are a handful.Â
It’s like, they can read your attitude. Sort of like how a dog can sense you’re scared. Then again, if you’re too soft, they’ll know and take advantage of that. The Quiet Game…sounds like my kinda game.
I do. Two brothers and two sisters, all of them younger than me. One of them is just learning to crawl, so you can imagine how exhausting that is. Some nights I'm just about ready to die from how tired I am. But I do love the little troublemakers.
Oh, definitely. You have to find this balance between soft and becoming a pushover or else they'll read you like a book and take advantage of it. The Quiet Game is glorious, everyone has to be silent and whoever can be quiet the longest wins. As you can guess, it's my favorite game.
So, do you have siblings? Or is it just you?
For Cupcakes’ Sake | Holly & Oakley
He didn’t have a car like most of the seniors he knew, but a motorcycle is still very convenient, especially weaving through traffic to get to places in no time. While he enjoyed going about Portland on foot, he only did that during weekends when he wasn’t concerned about taking his time; for school days required him to follow a schedule and unnecessary delays had to be avoided.
So it was logical that he could take Holly out to fetch baking ingredients that she deemed essential, even ditching the rest of the school periods in order to do it and make it in time for peer tutoring. And Oakley’s involvement? He had made an impulsive decision to skip his last class only because he has never done it for so long that when the opportunity presented itself, he was quick to take it.
He stopped in front of the shop that Holly specified, letting the engine run idly as he steadied the bike so the girl can hop off. “Go on ahead,” he told her, voice a little muffled because of his headgear.
Holly never broke the rules. That was rule number one and ironically, she'd just broken it. Even as she was hanging on to Oakley as he drove his motorcycle, she wasn't sure if her heart was pounding because of the fear of riding one for the very fist time, or the fear of getting caught skipping school. She bit her bottom lip and held on tighter to Oakley.
Oakley. She did wonder why he'd helped her. Sure, they'd known each other for a long time, but only in the sense that they'd had a few classes together and would occasionally nod at one another in the hallway, but they'd never been close friends. The growing unease of owing someone something was beginning to grow in the Holly's chest. She absolutely hated being indebted to a person and she didn't think Oakley was really doing this for the cupcakes. Maybe he was just a nice person, but Holly still had to figure out a way to pay him back for this favor.
When they finally stopped in front of the store Holly hoped off, glad to be on her own two feet once more, and somewhere where she had the upper hand for once. Baking. That was something Holly did know about, and could teach to Oakley, this way it would be a lesson in exchange for a lesson. A batch of cupcakes in exchange for a quick getaway. Hopefully she'd found a way to pay him back.
"Aren't you coming in?" Holly asked and tilted her head towards the store entrance. "You have to pick out what you want me to bake for you, as a thank you. Batman isn't a mind-reader, you know." She thought about it for a minute before adding. "Actually, I'm not sure if he is. I've never seen the movies. So maybe he's a mind-reader, but I most certainly am not."
olympians dreamcast ✦ jamie chung as hestia
"for without you mortals hold no banquet-- where one does not duly pour sweet wine in offering to hestia both first and last."
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Salted Nut Squares
Salted Nut Squares
Prep Time:Â 25 minutes
Yield:Â about 30 bars
Ingredients
3 cups salted peanuts (no skins), divided
2 & 1/2 tablespoons butter
2 cups peanut butter chips
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
2 cups miniature marshmallows
kosher salt or sea salt, optional
Instructions
Place 1 & 1/2 cups peanuts in the bottom of an ungreased 11″x 7″ pan.
Melt butter and peanut butter chips in a large saucepan over low heat. Stir until smooth.
Remove from heat. Stir in condensed milk and marshmallows. Continue stirring until smooth and well-blended.
Pour peanut butter mixture over peanuts in pan. Sprinkle remaining 1 & 1/2 cups peanuts over top of peanut butter mixture. If saltier bars are desired, sprinkle lightly with salt.
Cover and refrigerate until chilled. Then, cut into bars. Bars can be served chilled or at room temperature.
Thank you to Bake or Break for this delicious recipe!!
"Hestia and Hermes are the epichthonian gods, the gods of the dwelled soil. They are everywhere where people make fire, trace limits, build walls and a roof over their heads. Together, they are the gods of orientation and of the tracing of limits."
 Jean Roberts (via raedusoleil)
