who are your top five ships in greek mythology? :) i love your blog btw!! you were one of the reasons why i started one
thank you so much??? like this blog is all over the fucking place but i love it to fucking pieces and i am so happy that you liked it enough to start your own??? fucking amazing feeling right here man.
and lets see, top 5 ships uhhhhh:
apollo x artemis - i KNOW that she pretty much asked for lifelong virginity and shit but their relationship is so codependent. like fuck yeah man forget the sexual aspect of that relationship, i'm all about their obsessive and possessive love for one another; they just can't stand to not be the other's most important person. my love for codependent siblings is widely known and it will most definitely end me one day but the thing is i don't need apollo and artemis' relationship to be sexual cos their interactions with each other and relationships they have with those that aren't them is glorious and just absolutely perfect. it's like they just don't know how to function/exist if they aren't the center of the other's universe. they're twins; one soul, two bodies. they're it for each other and that's enough for fucking me tbh.
dionysus x ariadne x asterion - ariadne and the minotaur, siblings. they're fucking siblings; he the monster and she the princess that pretty much tore down that labyrinth with thread and her wits and helped destroy her own flesh and blood for the love she had for theseus and was in turn destroyed by that very love. enter the god of madness and wine. he loved her. because she was as mad and wild as he. it's just...i have a lot of feelings for this myth and i can get incoherent and just crazy protective over it.
hades x persephone - so overdone i know but it's just?? there's so many versions of this myth and abduction but i like to go with the whole persephone willingly went with hades (the original story had no mention of a god of the underworld, nah man, there was only a queen. and that, surprise surprise, was persephone. hades was added in later.) but before i just get into the myth and forgo explaining why they're one of my otp's lemme just tell you this. persephone is one of the few goddesses that has a choice anything. she chooses to eat those fucking pomegranate seeds and chooses to remain with hades in the underworld. i mean she agreed to stay after hades agreed to treat her as his equal. her husband never cheats (minthe and leuce were added in by the romans) and respects and seems to genuinely care for her. i mean everyone goes to her if they want hades to change his mind on some shit cos they know he'll listen to her. and to have that in a relationship in mythology - both people being equals - is something rare and i adore them because of this.
apollo x icarus - the literal sun and the boy who loved it so much he let it kill him. enough said i think. seriously thank you amy for introducing me to this ship that is nothing but pain.
achilles x patroclus - these two are just so right for each other almost as much as how wrong for each other they are. they love brutally and fiercely and that translates into this type of nobility their love takes on. they just mess up so beautifully and they achilles continually makes such bad choices. it's like everyone achilles loves will go through some type of hurt and it's just tragic.
so i guess i have a type of otp? [sighs] tragic and brutal and possessive is just something i cannot not like.