sunny

19 • they • ND new to helpol ♡

[xhadestownx]

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ꕤ ) my name's sunny. i'm 19 and i go mostly by they/them, but he/him is fine too. i'm queer, non-binary and autistic.

ꕤ ) i'm extremely new to helpol. i don't know anyone else in my life who's a hellenic polytheist so i made this blog in hopes to find helpol friends and gain a sense of community. also i'm an ex-christian. so far i mostly worship apollon, athena and hermes.

ꕤ ) i am a literature & linguistics major and a teacher. i wanna specialize in literature and film studies and also i love writing and screenwriting.

ꕤ ) music: florence & the machine, noah kahan, ethel cain, the cure, the cranberries, boygenius (and their solo projects), mcr and artms

ꕤ ) likes: reading, some anime (mostly dungeon meshi & trigun), writing, translation, psychology, some musicals (hadestown, anastasia...), pokémon

DNI -> terfs, racist, queerphobic anti-pagan

[xhadestownx]

digital offering for hestia vasilea, goddess of the hearth and first and last of the kids of kronos and rhea ♡

[xhadestownx]

digital offering for hestia vasilea, goddess of the hearth and first and last of the kids of kronos and rhea ♡

[xhadestownx]

sometimes your body needs you to skip class and sleep 9 hours and that is okay

[starrygardenofvenus]

don’t post hellenic polytheistic “educational” content if you’re a beginner bc as someone who did. trust me you will be embarrassed seeing how misinformed you were. this isn’t me trying to be mean btw. it’s just not worth the effort and you will come to regret it. spend more time learning and less time trying to “teach”

[ombrokharis]

This isn't to say that beginners shouldn't share their progress but teaching should not be the goal if you've only just started.

People will be downright nasty to you if they see you getting things wrong, regardless of your intentions. Other beginners will take your advice and run with it, with no regard for the fact that you only just started yourself. On social media, there is an added risk of going viral and garnering a following that will hang on your every word regardless of if you are wrong.

Another thing that people don't consider is that when you become a Helpol educator, a lot of your time and energy goes into researching and teaching, and that can take away from your IRL practice.

For your safety and the sake of your worship, do not teach if you are a beginner.

[gayeilgeoir]

Xenia means you help your neighbours escape immigration police

Xenia means you feed, house, and respect the homeless, regardless of what got them there

Xenia means you do the work to unlearn racism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism and transphobia

Xenia means (with obvious exceptions) you treat criminals and felons as human beings worthy of dignity and respect

Xenia means you make your environments less overstimulating if you know you’ll be with an autistic person

Xenia means Fuck the police

Xenia means you talk to the elderly neighbour who’s living on their own, and has nobody in their life

Xenia means respecting your trans friends identity even when they’re not present

[xhadestownx]

BLESSED BE ARTEMIS

[xhadestownx]

coming to terms with the fact that next year i'll be living abroad and that i cannot pack my altars. i hadn’t realized how much i like having them with me, specially now that i got a shelf and i see them constantly. i hadn’t realized how safe they make me feel and how much they've improved my mood in the short space i have had them. i will obviously be taking the travel hermes altar but i think everyone else's i will have to build a small one there... and that is if my roommate is cool with that though i will probably need to keep them hidden and ahhh... also no idea if candles are even allowed in the student house i'll be staying at.

[xhadestownx]

yesterday i couldnt sleep and i decided to pray to lord hypnos and i fell asleep right after and it happened everytime i woke up at night and tried to pray again, which i find funny because through my whole life my mother has told me to pray to jesus to help me fall asleep and it has never worked

[xhadestownx]

i wanted to ask for advice in regards to worshipping lady hestia.

so, i wanna worship her more, but as a victim of abuse, i have a very bad relationship with my house, my household, my family, etc. i fear that having such negative feelings towards her domain will make her dislike me or make me a bad worshipper and im having trouble convincing myself otherwise :[ has anyone been on a similar situation or have any words of advice?

[goldenjuniper]

assorted zagreus doodles from the past few months

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by @BottlngSunshine

[wardenmcpherson]

Is it about butchering black girls’ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just too… “different” to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?

[lemondoddle]

[I.D. digital art of a young girl medusa sitting in a chair in a kitchen, crying as a woman cuts the heads off of medusa’s snakes. the woman’s head is out of frame, but her blonde hair is visible as she pulls three snakes taught, beginning to chop them with scissors as blood spurts. four snakes have been cut already, their remains lying dead on the floor as the rest of the snakes, all sporting pink bows around their necks, cower in fear. the majority of the illustration has been colored in black and deep saturated yellows and oranges, while medusa’s skin and hair are green. her pinafore has the same color palette as the background. her knees are also scuffed, bruised with orange and one of them bandaged. her cut strands of snake hair are not bandaged and continue to bleed. end I.D.]

[david-box]

There’s a sequel!

“Becoming Me.” by BottlingSunshine

Image ID: A digital illustration of a young Medusa woman braiding her green snakes in front of a mirror and while her eyes are covered with a sleep mask. The mirror is centered in the drawing and surrounded by the orange-pink background. She is wearing a white sleep mask with “closed eyes” on it and a black top with white lacey ruffles at the collar and cuffs. Two snake heads are seen in the mirror while the rest are out of view. The front of the vanity holding the mirror is littered with various dolls and stuffed animals with their eyes crossed out, candy, an image of eyes in a round frame that are also crossed out, nail polish in pink and black, ribbons, and a friendship bracelet plus polaroids. The wall above the vanity is pink and near-white striped and covered in small polaroids or photos taped on the wall and various portraits in yellow frames. The yellow frames show the woman as a young girl holding her arms anxiously with her head cut off from view, covering her face, or simply have dark static backgrounds. There is a sharpie on the lower shelf of the vanity. End iD

[naamahdarling]

From the artist, re: the second image.

With all the times you’ve been put down it may be hard to look at yourself, but I hope one day you can. You’re amazing.

Happy to do a little follow up to my most recent illustration. I got a lot of comments hoping that she was gonna be okay and she will be. Healing takes time.

[artisanscribbles]

I think one of my favorite things on Tumblr is when we see Art of a Sad character we all immediately want them to be OK, to get better, to be happy.

And if the artist won’t do it, we’ll step in and do it ourselves.

[fuckyeahbiguys]

[fuckyeahbiguys]

We’ve waited a year to reblog this. Happy Bread Anniversary!

Because it’s important to celebrate the little victories in life. 

[vinceaddams]

12 days left until the breadiversary, we’d better make sure we have the ingredients on hand!

[purrpleberrie]

It’s today!

[vinceaddams]

It’s today!!

[xhadestownx]

updated lord apollon altar!!

got a new shelf and was finally able to move his altar from the drawers (right by the cds!!)

[xhadestownx]

the other day i got a really bad tummy ache so i prayed to lord apollon for help and stuff and i find it hilarious because it faded within minutes but now i have the worst cold ever

[homey-worshiper]

for lady hestia

[xhadestownx]

is there any experienced worshipper of lady athena that can tell me she wont be disappointed just because i do poorly in one project for uni? i see her as very perfectionist and harsh about failure because of most media reinterpretations of her and because of my own problems and stuff and im really struggling with this