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Ozymandias • 24 he/him trauma system

[hottopicgay]

REALIZED I NEVER POSTED THIS

[tempetejovienne]

Aphantasia was working full time while reading this book, i don’t think they look like themselves quite yet (also I did really minimal research on historically accurate clothing/hair/armor…….)

[hedonistbyheart]

Some random reviewer on goodreads implied that making Teiresias nonbinary in the hymn to Dionysus is pandering.

I feel like you haven't looked up the mythological Teiresias, buddy.

The specifics of Teiresias' gender is canonically "yes".

Natasha genuinely couldn't really use either binary pronoun, because she doesn't follow a canonical timeline, which means she couldn't settle on either he or she for Teiresias. They've been both.

[bakugeorge]

FINALLY reading hymn to dionysus and taking critical damage at phaidros describing his union with helios btw. Arranged marriages which those battlefield unions are sound like they should be straightforward ours never was. Saying i loved him didn't matter his position was that i only thought i did. He looked at me like he'd been expecting a child and found a man he didn't know. HELLO??!?!?!!!!!

[spittinwatches]

six ships meme

(cui/wen belong to @river-gale)

[hedonistbyheart]

Honestly if you have to make a Greek mythology reimagining, in a sea of Greek mythology reimaginings, the best approach definitely is "give Dionysus a husband"

[livinqstone]

"I thought you'd not come," he said, and this time, his voice had pyre smoke in it. I waited to go up in flames. I'd never known that you can be overjoyed and terrified at the same time, but you can. Something in his expression turned urgent, and he caught my arms as I sank onto my knees. I hadn't meant to. All my strength vanished. He knelt down with me too. I stared at him, uncomprehending, and still not on fire. "This is very unusual," he said, with something between cheer and rue. "Knights don't usually swoon at the sight of me."

— Natasha Pulley, The Hymn to Dionysus

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

pulleyverse and love

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) | The Bedlam Stacks (2017) | The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (2020) | The Kingdoms (2021) | The Half Life of Valery K (2022) | The Mars House (2024) | The Hymn to Dionysus (2025)

[yourstrulyanndy]

100 Natasha Pulley characters VS. Having self esteem

[tempetejovienne]

If you ever thought « wouldn’t it be nice if the knight who only tell the truth and the one who only tell lies were to kiss » you should read the hymn to Dionysus by Natasha pulley

[practicefortheheart]

More sketches! Phaidros and his battle braid shouting something obscene at Jason, no doubt. Phaidros and The Nothing. Dionysus with his hair up in the green cloth.

[hatsbuckets]

everyone please go read The Hymn to Dionysus so we can talk about the PTSD having, suicidal but in the looking for ways to get killed way, child soldier grown into single and depressed man who has only ever known one way of life and can't imagine living any other way... until his chaos and life loving and plant growing beautiful husband comes along and yeah.

I'm not even finished with it but I am 😭

I'm sorry actually no I'm not sorry. hotties I literally cannot shut up I am having such a good time reading this book. It is so much fun, Phaidros is such an entertaining character I just wanna scoop him up and cry with him and Dionysus is so so so fucking interesting and fun. Ough. Sobbing.

[fifteen-ducks]

the mars house: it’s freezing here and there’s no water

the hymn to dionysus: it’s boiling here and there’s no food

ah yes. balance.

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Excerpts from The Hymn to Dionysus!!!

[violets4lesbians]

“but now here was the fire again, and I was softening and changing and finding I didn’t have to be that cold shape forever, and the wax was turning warm and bright again. He’d burn me away altogether before long, but it was worth it.”

— The Hymn to Dionysus

[spittinwatches]

protagonist lineup of the pulleyverse

[eedweiz]

I'm reading The Hymn to Dionysus and it's so great, love it even if I'm only half way