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[doveywitch]

a reminder from an Aphrodite devotee ♡

you do not have to be ‘beautiful’ to deserve love.

you do not have to be healed to deserve love.

you do not have to be productive to deserve love.

you do not have to be successful to deserve love.

you do not have to become someone else before you are worthy of love.

you do not have to earn kindness or care.

you are already worthy of those things.

you always have been. ♡

[1nky-quill]

I’m so tired of the demonization of Aphrodite. So often I see people, especially people of non-pagan faiths, claiming that Aphrodite’s defining feature is jealousy and deceitfulness, when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. She is so gentle and kind, only wanting the best for us. She wants us to realize our own beauty, she wants us to see ourselves the way she sees us.

She has made me feel so loved and taken care of, I couldn’t ask for a better goddess of love and war.

έπαινος αφροδίτης🐚🥀

[rose-by-the-sea]

Aphrodite isn't just love and sex and frilly pink bows,

She's passion, the raging fire that burns between the hearts of two friends or lovers when one is under duress,

She's the unbreakable bond of family (found or bio), everlasting, infinite, no matter how close or far they are,

She's the pain of a broken heart, manifest in anger and vindication, the one standing behind you as you confront an abusive partner/friend/family member,

She's salvation for everyone who has ever been or is being hurt,

She is self love for everyone with self esteem issues, looking you in the eye as you stare into the mirror and saying 'You are wonderful just as you are',

She's the comfort when you're in your darkest times, Her hands cradling you as you cry into Her shoulder,

She's the swelling of your heart when you experience new love or when you pick up a child,

She is justice for every queer person of the world just trying to exist peacefully-- transgender/sexual, intersex, aromantic, asexual, non-straight,

And She is the feeling of your smile slowly fading when you didn't realize you were smiling at all.

[venuss-child]

Aphrodite Worship !!!!

Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty, procreation, and pleasure. She also had a war epithet! Here are some ways you can honor Her :) *please note that this is not an exhaustive list!

Devotional Acts: - Research Her and Her myths - Shadow work and self-love - Showering, bathing, and other hygiene and self-care - Stay hydrated - Write/read poetry or hymns - Engage in a hobby you love - Make art of Her or Her sacred plants/animals - Spend time at the beach - Cook or bake a meal to share with her

Offerings: - Flowers, flower imagery, floral scented perfumes/candles, etc (especially roses and myrtle) - Apples, apple imagery, apple scented perfumes/candles, etc - Dove, sparrow, or goose feathers or imagery - Imagery of fish, rabbits, or sea creatures - Seashells and/or pearls - Jewelry and makeup - Poetry - Mirrors - Incense - Honey and honey cakes (link to recipe) - Fresh water - Wine - Candles (PLEASE practice fire safety) - Art, especially art you made

feel free to reblog and add on!

[divinationsanctuary19]

Beloved Aphrodite, goddess who grants to us the greatest of joys, the harshest of sorrows, the sharpest of pleasures, the dearest of pains.

Aphrodite, freshest of Olympos’ flowers, your lightest touch can turn the hearts of men towards love; with voice sweet as honey, sweet as wine, you speak words of persuasion, we hear and heed, rapt in wonder.

O Aphrodite, grace and beauty surround you, where you pass, the roses bloom, with sweetest scent and sharpest thorn: with reckless hands we grasp them.

Aphrodite, born of blood in the cold salt sea, born of the fallen sky, goddess whose kindness can be so brutal, who cruelty we cherish, blessed are your children, blessed those your favor, blessed those who have felt your might, blessed those who dwell in your domain.

Aphrodite, honored one, incomparable one, with each breath I praise you.

[rose-by-the-sea]

Aphrodite loves sex workers and victims of sexual assault and intersex people and people who are insecure about their body/self harm and nonwhite people and queer people and fat people btw. pass it on

[jessmalia]

But love has ways of bringing things back to life…

[festeredhearts]

[strawbewiebaby]

[themooninthestars]

[angell-of-filth]

[vv-itchy]

[sofiabird123]

Rosalie is not the villain!!!

Rosalie Hale is one of the most misunderstood characters in Twilight, largely because Bella is the protagonist and narrator in twilight and Edward is the narrator in Midnight Sun. We never really get an unbiased view of Rosalie. Through Bella's perspective, she often comes across as cold, shallow, or even cruel, but there's a lot more going on beneath the surface.

At first, Rosalie's dislike of Bella stems from two main things. The first is jealousy though not in the way people usually think. Rosalie was used to being admired for her beauty. As a human, her appearance was treated as her greatest asset because she grew up in a time when her parents viewed her beauty as a means to improve the family's social and economic status through marriage. Over time, Rosalie internalized the belief that her beauty made her valuable. So when Edward showed absolutely no romantic interest in her, despite showing interest in Bella, she took it as an insult to something she had always been taught defined her worth. It wasn't because she wanted Edward; it was because she couldn't understand why he didn't want her.

The second reason is much more practical: Bella genuinely posed a risk to the Cullens. She was a human who knew their secret, which endangered the entire family. If anything had happened to Bella or if one of them had lost control they would have been forced to leave. Rosalie's concerns weren't entirely unfounded. The Cullens eventually did have to leave because of Bella's involvement in their lives.

Then Bella decides she wants to become a vampire, which is where Rosalie's resentment deepens. For Rosalie, this is almost incomprehensible. She would give anything to be human again. Bella has the opportunity to grow old, change, experience new stages of life, have children, and build a future. Rosalie lost all of that the moment she became a vampire. So when Bella willingly throws that future away, Rosalie sees it as a tragic mistake. To her, Bella is a teenager making an irreversible decision without understanding what she might want in five years let alone five hundred.

Another criticism Rosalie receives is her behavior during Bella's pregnancy. Many people argue that Rosalie only cared about the baby and not Bella's wellbeing. But that's exactly why Bella turned to her in the first place. Bella knew Rosalie would prioritize the baby above everything else, even Bella's own safety. Bella wasn't shocked by that, nor did she feel betrayed by it. She specifically chose Rosalie because she knew where Rosalie's loyalties would lie. Rosalie gave Bella exactly what Bella wanted someone who would fight for the baby's survival no matter what.

Honestly, Rosalie is a deeply tragic character. A lot of her actions make more sense when you view them through the lens of someone who lost the life she desperately wanted and has spent decades mourning it. You don't have to agree with her choices, but reducing her to "the mean blonde vampire" misses a lot of what makes her interesting.

And while we're at it, I can't help noticing that Stephanie Meyer seemed to have a habit of making her blonde female characters the antagonistic or "mean girl" types.

[simpfordemetri]

Bella depression after Edward leaves is one of the most important parts of the saga (for me) because it explains how a mate bonds actually work in Twilight.

The mere belief that she had been abandoned by Edward and separated from him causes her entire life to come to a standstill. She isn’t just sad over a breakup. She literally stops living.

That is crucial to understand other characters like Marcus, he is not only depressed. LIKE BRO if Bella breaks that much after only a few months without Edward, how must Marcus feel after centuries without Didyme? Especially when we know he only remains with the Volturi because Chelsea manipulates the bonds tying him to them. Without her gift, he likely would have 💀 a very long time ago.

Also the obsession the Romanians have for the Volturi. The Volturi didn’t just take away their kingdom and coven, they also killed their mates, it is only fair that they want revenge now.

New Moon is not about a breakup, it’s about what happens when a bond that was meant to last forever is torn apart. Bella experiences a temporary version of what other vampires have been enduring for centuries.

Also vampires feel even more intensely than humans so if she as a human experiences that level of devastation after being separated from her mate, how unbearable must it be for a vampire?

Marcus deserves the world😩

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[mariapedia]

It’s wild to me that in Breaking Dawn, when Bella is thought to be dead, Jacob thinks that the best thing he can do is disrespect her wishes one last time. She wanted the child so bad that she was willing to die in order to give birth to it, and Jacob’s first thought is to murder the child she loved so much to die for. To make it so that actually, she died for nothing.

I don’t think Jacob would’ve succeeded even if Jacob didn’t imprint (Rosalie totally would’ve killed him), but imagine he did succeed. Imagine if Bella woke up to find out that Jacob had killed the child she went through hell to bring into the world. And then has to live with that grief for the rest of eternity.

[herbluefire]

i fucking hate jacob from twilight