Kastalani

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[creatingblackcharacters]

And just in case you're new here, saw that Odysseus post, and haven't been along for the Saga that has been me fighting the racism of the Greek Classics space, I just want to clarify that no, I don't "think that Odysseus was Black". I have a design for him as Black, but that's just for fun. That was just one point made of a larger argument about what was wrong with Epic's casting.

My arguments have never been "these people were all Black". My argument has been "you cannot tell me that it is inaccurate that any one of these people could be Black, when Ancient Greece was on the Mediterranean and literally everyone knew what boats were and could travel. There were Black people present in your Ancient Greece."

So if you saw that post and thought "but Ice why-" I said what I said. If being horrible people as characters has never stopped white fans from loving white characters, that standard should hold the same when those characters are Black 🤷🏾‍♀️

[istilldontlikemyusername]

Hold on, give me a sec to open up my laptop and give you a list of characters from Ethiopia, Libya and Egypt in Greek myth:

Aconteus (from the myth of Medusa)

Emathion (from the same myth)

Andromeda and her children

Cassiopeia and Cepheus (Andromeda’s parents)

Eurydice (not that Eurydice, one of the 50 Danaïdes)

Anateus (who is also in Berber mythology)

A literal character named Aegyptus and his kids

Amphithemis (a demigod) and his kids

Antiope

Bursitis

Belus and his kids

Celadon

All of the Danaïdes, Danaus’ kids

Danaus (who LITERALLY FOUNDED ARGOS, THIS IS THE GUY WHO IS THE REASON FOR THE EPITHET ΔΑΝΑΟΙ)

Epaphus (another demigod)

Lamia (I don’t think she has anything to do with the place)

The lotus eaters (those lotus eaters)

Lycus of Libya (another demigod)

A LITERAL CHARACTER NAMED LIBYA (princess of Egypt)

Medusa (that Medusa)

Memnon, the king of Ethiopia who fought on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War

Memnon’s soldiers: Alyconeus, Nychius, Clydon and Alexippus

Nilus (the god of the Nile)

Nilus’ kids

Nycteus

Sufax (who is also a hero in Berber mythology)

Peleus (Theonoe’s dad)

Polydamna

Pygmaeus

Theonoe (who I fucking adore)

Her brother Theoklymenus (who I do not adore)

Tinjis (also in Berber myth)

Triton (not that Triton, a namesake that married Libya, a different Libya from the one mentioned above)

All of this from Wikipedia btw. I think if a conservative were to look at this list they’d have an anaphylactic shock

(not even conservatives actually, if I showed this list to some of the Greek Crowd™️ on here they’d just die. but then again how not conservative are they really?)

Also I think I should lwk post this list in Greek lol

[yoursecretsomeone]

The best way I can think to describe fanon annabeth vs. canon annabeth is that fanon annabeth is a medium iced latte while canon annabeth is a pile of empty red bull cans

[antflights]

Couldn't tell you if i like this or not but whatever,

🌈 Iris concept

[annabeth-chase-enjoyer]

bro get OUT of there 😭😭😭🙏 can never catch a break smh

[pussyhoundspock]

joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[nonevahed]

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

[zarohk]

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

[unsettling-mantis]

Hiding knowledge from kids will not benefit them but only render them helpless when faced with the unknown

[0v9]

A truthberry might make you tell the truth... But a lieberry? A lieberry will loan you books

[ririwithrice]

Thank you lieberry

[girlgrimer]

How are my sweetie pees

[girlgrimer]

I Said How The Fuck Are My Fucking Sweetie Pees

[masao-micchi]

just made some bullshitttt this time rocky trying out a human body avatar style HAHAHA

he can only do expressions subconsciously lmao he probably has the meanest stink eye

My other PHM art

[masao-micchi]

still shit at figuring out human expressions LMFAO

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

no one is too young to write fanfics and no one is too old to write fanfics!!!!!!!

anybody can create, make art and have fun. age is irrelevant when it comes to making art and having fun

[robotrocky]

Rocky Said How The Fuck Is My Fucking Sweetie Pee

[habken]

carl and grace doodles

[victusinveritas]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

How to Make a Complete Set of Miao Silver Headdress by 山白

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[labelleizzy]

Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

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[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[energyprison]

hey its me your immune system. looks like we caught somethin here. try sneezing real fast see if that gets rid of it. yeah no dice, huh... alright lemme try filling your lungs with fluid. no yeah i do it all the time dont worry works like a charm. hmmm... still no good... alright well just hold tight here for a minute maybe it just needs time to start working. in the mean time ill go fire up the ol' neuron cooker n see if that helps

[energyprison]

HEY its me again. false alarm turns out it was just like pollen or somethin haha sorry i can be a little jumpy is all. ...hey man youre not lookin so good are you okay?

[valtsv]

i don't play about corpse rights it's extremely important and serious to me

[valtsv]

while i don't believe in an afterlife or souls and do accept that a corpse is an empty space where something once was, i also think that if we give a body which cannot advocate for itself that meaning and personhood, then we cannot simply disregard it as it suits the living to do so without any consideration for the consequences of that, especially when we will all one day be in the same position regardless of our consent in the matter. unlike abortion, where you're advocating for a hypothetical person that doesn't exist yet, a corpse is what remains of someone who did and had a material impact on the world. the dead aren't due any more dignity or respect than the living, but they also aren't due any less for the same reasons, and how much someone values the lives of others among them inevitably reflects how they treat their dead.

[valtsv]

perhaps it'd clarify my position to say that, yes, a corpse is an object and an empty space which cannot feel or react, but a body is how we connect and interact with each other and the world, and a corpse is also, unavoidably, a body, however vacant, and you cannot treat a body as you would an object if you want to claim to uphold human rights, because that's a dangerous road with a steep drop