#minaim-blog

[eerna]

So as someone who has only seen most of season 1 of stranger things, what was the queer bait? 👀

There was none! Will was gay and in love with Mike, but Mike was in love with Eleven for the entirety of the series, and the shippers are now angry and claiming they got queerbaited. As a wise person once said, "you didn't get queerbaited, your ship just didn't become canon"

[metvmorqhoses]

If this blog is still active, first off hello! I love your stuff with Artemis and Apollo. Second, where have you gotten your interpretation of them from? You said in older posts that you’ve done research on them. What have you read and where have you read it?

Oh, hello back! Let me start by saying that I truly appreciate your support and interest! This has always been (and with "always" I sadly mean literally, since classical times) mostly a niche topic, but so dear to my heart I'm always delighted to see people falling, well, prey to it (figuratively or less figuratively lol).

This said, I'm afraid your question has no simple, definite answer. As uncomplicated as it might sound, I'm afraid my interpretation is simply my own, formed over almost a lifetime. I've studied the Classics (especially ancient mythologies, in both official and unofficial settings) all my life. I actually still do - and daily. I'm mostly kept together by ancient terrors and obscure palpitating riddles, so, I admit, I might know a thing or two about topics not many other scholars find it fashionable to rave about.

So, disappointing as I'm sure I'm about to sound, there exists no actual text solely focused on the topic of the Divine Twins and their relationship seen under the lenses I usually talk about. I've actually always been tempted to write one myself for this precise reason.

The best advice I can give you is to actually start studying Greek Mythology for yourself (and compare it with other ancient religions, this part is crucial) and try to connect the dots for yourself.

Those are some great volumes to start: Gods and Heroes of the Greeks, Karl Kerényi / The Greek Myths, Robert Graves (Graves was a genius, but he gave more gravity to his own interpretations than to supported facts, so always read him with a grain of salt) / The Greeks and the Irrational, Dodds / The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas.

[inexplicably-spookified]

Hey not to be rude or press you, but did you get my second message for Omori? I was worried it may have been censored due to choice of words. It’s fine if you weren’t interested, I just wanted to hear your opinion on my thoughts. ♥️

.......i saw both the ones you sent and completely forgot to respond to either of them sorry LOL

copy-pasting the ask (and my response) in question under the readmore for the sake of keeping this all in one post (obligatory tw for suicide and omori spoilers):

minaim-blog

1d ago

minaim-blog asked:

You know what really sucks about the spoiler in Omori you gave me is? The entire plot point of the main character in Omori killing his sister could have easily worked with just like one change:

Instead of having the MC go, “Oh! I push my sister down the stairs and I covered it up with a fellow fuck boy by pretending she committed suicide! Lmao!”

They could have instead just had him “push her to suicide” I have that in quotes as the idea I have is that the two siblings get into a heated argument (it can about something dumb, hell, the dumber and more insignificant the better. They’re all teenagers anyway) and the brother ends the fight with something along the lines of, “Why don’t you just kill yourself!” And he’s surprised by how much this affects/shuts-up his sister.

Fast forward a bit later and we find out the sister took it to heart and killed herself. This catches everyone off guard, especially her brother, who is super fucked up by this. Cause, “she was so happy!” “She was so friendly!” “You never would have guessed she had problems”

Which would allow the main character to FEEL like he killed his sister, but then the moral of the story is getting over grief, caring about others, and self-forgiveness/being careful with your words.

That’s my two cents waking up at 900 am the next day about this shit writing, which I (think I) fixed in like five minutes. Thoughts? Am I a thot? 🤔

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tbh i think that's also a little too edgy but like, it is an improvement, although i think any 'rewrite' of the game that removes the whole 'sunny and basil staged mari's suicide' is automatically better

[eerna]

When did you get students? Are you officially a teacher? If so congratulations! 🥳

YES I got a stable job in September, and now I am officially a teacher!! Thanks~

[eerna]

Why do the dragons in TDP transform into elves now!!!???

Cause the writers are too cowardly to make Claudia bang a proper dragon next question

[eerna]

In light of your recent post, besides what’s in the tags, what do like the most about the Roman republic?

What interests me about Rome is how their religion was synchronized (not right word) with the Greek religion. And it makes me wonder how those gods changed after the merge.

Diana vs Artemis is my favorite 🌙

Oh man so first off there's the architecture, which is so functional and technological that it is bonkers while also being aesthetically pleasing to me personally (I just like muddy wall paint ok). The way they replaced nature's gifts with their own, highly engineered inventions in creating their cities is so impressive and nasty and again impressive. The journey that took them from a kingdom, into a republic, into an empire, it is such a Cycle. Your mention of the religion as well, the way they assimilated the people they conquered under their banner in a way that was both hectic and successful. As a kid I used to be very annoyed because of how big and abstract the religion was, since the rules were much more complicated than my beloved Greek pantheon, but now I appreciate it. The idea of a republic that "belongs to the people" while it, in all actuality, belongs to only a handful of people, all the while bragging about how the People are the Most Important Thing. Its existence is such a large shadow cast upon the world and it is fascinating to learn and think about.

[eerna]

If Roman architecture interests you I suggest you look into Mezo-America like the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. Cause they had similar stuff like roads, aqueducts and massive complexes but did it all by hand without wheels or even beasts of burden. Pretty lit 😎

Oh I know, they are really cool!

[eerna]

I was browsing through your TDP art and I was reminded of a time when we all thought the show was going to be good 😭

Look the second half of the 10s was a Time for me ok...... But it was a beautiful time, filled with hope and wonder