Jan 28
"my parents sold me to one direction" shut up and sit down
my father sold me without my mother's knowledge and as an unconsenting child bride to my uncle who violently kidnapped me from my mother and tumblr has the audacity to heavily romanticize it while ignoring the suffering, the lack of consent, the age gap, the incest, and the actual purpose of the myth being about a mother's grief that is so strong that she denies life itself and stops all natural growth while her daughter is away, forcing the gods to relent somewhat so the humans that worship them don't die off and her daughter can come home for half the year, thereby acting as an origin myth explaining the seasons
#itsreallystupid#greek myth#greek mythos#greek mythology#classics#classicist#persephone#demeter#hades#zeus (derogatory)#persephades (derogatory)#seriously pisses me off actually#there is no version in existence where she ever consented or wanted to stay#get your romanticized modern bullshit out of classic mythos#that's her UNCLE#she was KIDNAPPED#none of this is charming or cute#we're not talking about twee tumblr blorbos from your show#we're talking about ancient religious figures that real people actually prayed to#stop giving persephone stockholm syndrome#make original characters if you want it so bad
