the thing about "likes do nothing" is that they actually do: they let me know that someone enjoyed, related to, or sympathized with the things I made

the thing about "reblogs cost nothing," "wouldn't you want to show your appreciation by sharing it with your followers?" and so on is that I don't actually share everything I like with the people around me. do you want me to link every youtube video I watch and make a post every time I eat a good chocolate bar, too?

Loving the party city ass armor for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. I wouldn't have expected it to commit to armor styles from the bronze age period in which the poem is set, or even to be faithful to the early period of classical antiquity in which the poem was first recorded in writing, but the complete disregard for even an approximation of reality in favor of halloween costume caliber design is pretty impressive.

They should be wearing linothorax with their penises and balls visible at certain angles too

Bare-throated Tiger Herons (Tigrisoma mexicanum), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, found in Mexico and Central America

Photograph by ben knoot

coyote play time :)

standing goddess, either demeter or persephone | c. 550 - 500 BCE | boeotia, greece, archaic period

in the dallas museum of art collection

ngl for lot of my life i thought parents sitting their kids down and telling them how babies are made was just a thing they made up for comedies on tv so now im curious how common it actually is.

like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."

for an example, "i didn't agree to seeing you wear that shirt" is straightforwardly a fucking insane thing for someone to say, but people regularly make use of this trick to make the (functionally identical) statement "i didn't consent to seeing that"

World's most reductive description of the already extremely reductive 'trickster deity archetype'

Ok so firstly I take issue with the concept of universal mythic archetypes itself (which this notion draws from). It collapses cultural context from these figures and stories and presents them stripped of most of their nuance and background for simplified categorization and digestion (often by western observers), to their complete disservice. It's one thing to say like 'theft of fire is a very common motif' or 'a lot of gods can be described as solar deities and have comparable and contrastible traits' or etc, it's another to take a wide spectrum of folkloric and religious figures and attempt to shove them in a neat yet highly subjective archetype (whose defining traits will often be so broad as to be borderline meaningless).

But like, okay, we can acknowledge that a lot of folkloric figures can fall under the broad umbrella of "clever but might also/instead be foolish + plays tricks + subverts authority + defies conventions + might or might not be a culture hero + might or might not be a tutelary figure". Labeling them as this alone is a disservice, but we can say it fits as A label.

'God of being a wretched little gremlin that causes problems on purpose' describes pretty damn few of these figures, and where it does it's in a reductive as fuck way. These figures almost always have broader purposes and aspects to their character, and when they're Gods to begin with (itself a subjective label, frankly) they're almost never Just 'gods of playing tricks'. Sometimes they teach about morality and taboo, sometimes they're heroic and upend order for the benefit of humankind, sometimes they upend order for their own good, sometimes they're teachers (directly or via their stories), sometimes they're humorous and clownish, sometimes they're sinister, sometimes they're adversarial, sometimes their mischief is meant to be admirable, or despicable, or both.

It's rarely just 'wretched little asshole', and when it is, it usually has layers beyond this that makes this description inane even in the context of this post just being a silly joke. It's silly in a 'not really getting it to begin with' way.