Feeling My Feelings. Might Reread House Of Hades Now

feeling my feelings. might reread house of hades now

You know what?

I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.

I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)

I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.

I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.

I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.

I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.

I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.

I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.

I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.

so i found a translation of Plato’s Symposium because i heard he shipped achilles and patroclus and i was like “nice”.

and the first time i read it i was like “no, plato, Achilles totally was totally in love with Patroclus, what even are you trying to prove” and then i was like “but why can’t they both love each other” and THEN I REALIZED

“plato isn’t talking about love”

“PLATO IS NOT TALKING ABOUT LOVE" 

“that sneaky bastard”

to clarify, i realized that “lover” and “beloved” are not used here as we use them today.

if you’re still confused, replace “love/belove” with f*** and “in love with” with f***ing

Plato is saying that Achilles is the “beloved” in the relationship (wink wink) because he is more beautiful, and unbearded, and younger than Patroclus (note- in Plato’s time, it was common for older men to take younger men as- for lack of a better word- boy toys. This social phenomenon is known as pederasty. in this, the older male is the “erastes” and the younger male is the “eromenos”. Erastes means “lover”, from the verb eran, to be in love with. Eromenos means “beloved” from the same verb. So yeah, Plato’s argument was that Patroclus topped. 

hence the url

(The important thing is that Plato thought Achilles and Patroclus were gay as f*** and Achilles’ love for Patroclus was more the reason for his acceptance into the isles of the blest than his heroic deeds goodbye friends I am gone)

btw ur not an ally if you don’t support neos/xenogenders

btw ur not an ally if you don’t support people who are aromantic but not asexual

btw ur not an ally if you don’t support agender people

btw ur not an ally if you think pedos should be able to be part of the community

btw ur not an ally if you speak over trans people

btw ur not an ally if you actively vote away the lgbt rights

Would you write for the Eric bana version of Bruce Banner from the 2003 film?

I would have to watch that version- still haven’t😅 but i mean to watch it eventually

but definitely I will consider it!

it's so upsetting seeing gen z (the generation that was supposedly more progressive than the others) return to body shaming, slut shaming, ableism, etc. because it's trending or seen as funny. it feels like we're just going backwards constantly.