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There's a ton of small insignificant things but recently one that truly made me laugh was when I was planning the Apatouria. The festival was meant to start on nov. 5th in the evening and I usually do my grocery shopping in the weekend. So it was in my plans to buy what I needed for the feast the weekend before, on Sunday. I had chosen to make Moschari Kokkinisto (essentially a type of beef stew). It can be served with anything, but the recipe I had served it with very thick and hollow long pasta, which is known as pastitsio noodles in Greece or ziti in Italy. I live in Finland and since that's a very specific type of pasta I wasn't counting on finding any and had planned to just fall back on regular spaghetti.
Anyway, on the Saturday morning I forced myself to go out to fetch a package that was dropped at my local small shop, which is like a 5 minute walk. I wasn't planning to do groceries, just grab a bottle of milk to make hot chocolate as a treat when I get back home and get the package. So I go to the furthest part of the shop for the milk carton and walk by a random aisle to go pay. It was the pasta aisle. Something catches my eye and I see a bunch of packs of pastitsio pasta. It took me a solid few seconds to fully register what the fuck was happening and almost started laughing in the shop because how?
I'd put it on capitalism if it was just a random find in a big supermarket, but really that shop is not a big supermarket, just a small neighborhood market. But hey, I can't complain since I got exactly what I needed at the most convenient time. In the end, it's just pasta but I'm still dumbfounded at the circumstances around it all.
Why the gods would care so much about pasta is beyond me, though.
APRIL 25TH - MAY 1ST
Frank Sinatra won an academy award for his portrayal of “Maggio” in the movie adaptation of James Jones’s From Here to Eternity
Most people see college!Ellie as a player and stuff but for some reason I’d see her more as an inexperienced awkward nerd.
—𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄—
⌕ 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: Ellie x reader
⌕ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: nsfw in the very last part.
⌕ 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: I ran out of ideas lol but please if you have any send them to me, this is my favourite thing ever. + absolutely not proofread and my English is shit atm lol
Inexperienced/awkward ellie…..
Who’s heart race whenever you laugh at her stupid jokes, staring at your smile with roseate tinted cheeks, stumbling on her own words as your sweet giggle feels her ears.
« They’re so cute. » You said, thumb tracing her cheek « huh, w…who? » « your freckles, stupid. » « oh. hum, thanks. » she simply answered, rubbing her nape in pure embarrassment, still feeling your fingers brushing on her skin, secretly wishing they stayed much longer.
Who invites you over all the time. Playing video games together, watching horrible films — and making fun of the bad acting of the comedians— staring at her ceiling while sharing both of your playlists.
Who completely loses her mind when she sees you wandering around her room with nothing but lace lingerie covering your delicate skin.
Who turns her head away from you and smiles foolishly at herself the first time you hold her hand.
Ellie who desperately attempts to look away when you take a shower and asks her to stay in the bathroom to keep your conversation going.
Who keeps stuttering the first time she tries to explain to you the sentiments she feels about women.
Who stammer even more once you tell her that you feel the exact same.
Ellie and her bright eyes when you asks her if she wants to kiss you, to make sure she loves girls; you know, just to try.
Who kisses you so messily the first time, not knowing what to do, having to listen to your teaching.
Who covers you in hickeys because she doesn’t know how to control herself.
Who’s so so hungry when she eats you out; messily licking, spitting, sucking and groaning into your wet core, eager to try all the things she dreamed to do to you all this time.
« Fuck fuck… you’re so fucking good…. Does it feels okay? I… I never did that before but.. » « shut up Ellie just… fuck, just keep going. » you ordered, pushing her head a bit further down with your hand.
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we spend the night daydreaming about little girls with your eyes and dark hair like mine. the future seems warm and bright, and i am not afraid.
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
— The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (b. 5 December 1934)
So I was thinking about the different Rachel's in the multiverse and I realized something about the Rachel from the Waves Timeline.
She doesn't have the star tattoo on her left wrist like the main!verse Rachel does. I even went back through all the issues she appears in to make sure it wasn't an art mistake. I didn't see her star tattoo once. This despite her very clearly having her dragon tattoo. It was a deliberate choice to not include it on her design. Waves!Rachel never got the star, but main!Rachel did.
My personal headcanon is that the main timelines (as seen in Season 01) are the ones where Chloe wasn't brave enough to pursue a romance with Rachel and asked her to get a star tattoo on her wrist as a symbol of their promise to leave Arcadia Bay. Plus, throughout season 1 Chloe never refers to Rachel as "my girlfriend" or "my ex who I'm still friends with." Rachel is very explicitly referred to as Chloe's friend who she happens to have a crush on.
Additionally, there's Rachel's thrown out letter in the second episode of s1, where she hints to her connection with Jeffershit.
Writing a letter to your girlfriend about meeting a guy who you're interested in isn't exactly something people do, furthering the implications that they had a platonic relationship in the main!verse.
(Four more images showing Waves!Rachel doesn't have a star tattoo).
Waves!verse Rachel doesn't have the tattoo because she was romanced by Chloe, and they sealed their promise to leave the Bay together with the romance only option, the kiss.
Unfortunately, I still think she ended up in the dark room (likely kidnapped and drugged) at some point because of the end credit teaser from BTS. (Considering both she and Chloe have seemingly gone completely sober off of drugs in the Waves timeline I think that's a further hint). Something about her experience just changed and she ended up surviving.
Another thing of note...
The above Rachel, who is from a third timeline where she survived (because Jeffershit got fired for stealing before he and Nathan could hurt her) and goes to school with Chloe and Max, has her inner left wrist conviently not shown in her brief appearance. She also doesn't seem to have her bracelet. (She has a bracelet but not the bracelet).
I think this is a Rachel who either got a star tattoo for Chloe and later gave her bracelet to Frank, or a Rachel who gave Chloe her bracelet. In the latter case, I think this is the timeline where Chloe gave the bracelet to Sera, and she and Rachel got to meet. Thus Sera's influence may have gave Rachel enough know-how on men to realize Jeffershit was a creep. (I know you can have them meet without the bracelet but it's significantly harder, especially due to a glitch in the game's counter).
Whether or not this Rachel was still groomed by Frank is unclear. She mentions meeting him briefly, but it could just be for weed.
Tldr: Here are the possible timelines
Main!verse Rachel isn't romanced -> she agrees to get a tattoo as a sign of the promise -> either the truth or lie ending is chosen for bts -> Rachel starts seeing Frank/is groomed by Frank -> Jeffershit gets hired -> doesn't see the warning signs and is groomed by him -> is killed by Jeffershit and Nathan -> is found by Chloe and Max -> either the Sacrifice Chloe or the Sacrifice Bay ending is picked -> Lis 2 -> True Colors
Dust!verse: Same as the above but Sacrifice Arcadia Bay is definitely picked. (Also the universe where Steph's mom, Joyce, Warren, Frank and Pompedou dies, but Victoria, David, and Alyssa are confirmed to live) -> Lis 2 (Sacrifice Bay variant) -> True Colors (Sacrifice Bay variant)
Waves!verse: Rachel is romanced -> kisses Chloe to seal the promise -> either the truth or the lie ending from bts can happen -> she likely doesn't get groomed by Frank because she's committed to Chloe -> possibly ends up in the dark room but lives somehow -> She and Chloe make it to LA -> a possibly unseen variation of Lis 2 happens -> a possibly unseen variation of True Colors happens
4th!verse: Rachel isn't romanced -> gives Chloe her bracelet to seal the promise -> Chloe gives Sera the bracelet -> truth ending for bts + she meets Sera -> might have been groomed by Frank (unclear) -> ends up meeting her world's max -> was able to pick up on Jeffershit's bad vibes and managed to avoid the Dark Room all together -> Jeffershit is fired for stealing supplies -> jeffershit is arrested for sleeping with a student -> ??
this is so old but its so funny im still gonna do this
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“A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books – the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go. Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together—just the two of you. A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people—people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
—
E.B. White
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Please follow my portuguese hellenic Blog / Sigam meu blog Helênico em português -> @hermeneutas Now a list of my original posts, may you find some of them useful and whatnot.
On Divination
- Gods and Divination
- Prayer to Apollon for Divination
- About divination and oracles in Hellenic Polytheism
- Hellenic Divination: Ornithomancy
Nymph cult info
- How to connect with nymphai and nature spirits (PT and EN)
- Honouring the Nymphai, the Maidens of Nature
Monthly observances and household worship (Based on Hesiod’s Works and Days, and other sources)
- Noumenia: The New Moon festival
- The Agathos Daimon
- Yet another Agathos Daimon post
- Honouring Athene (and Ares) on Tritogeneia
- Honouring Hermes on Ermou Tetras
- Making an Herma for Hermes
- The 5th lunar day, to the Eumenides/Kindly Ones
- The 6th and 7th lunar day, to Artemis and Apollon
- Devotional act suggestion for Artemis
- Honouring and approaching Apollon
- You don’t always need to do big rituals (a post for Apollon)
- Dikhomenia, the Full Moon festival to Selene
- Prayer to Selene, Artemis and Hekate on Dikhomenia
- Deipnon, the Dark Moon festival to Hekate
- Mesomedes of Crete’s “Hymn to the Sun”
General worship tips, suggestions for rituals and personal experiences.
- Basic greek for worship
- General tips and where to go to after initial research
- Suggestions for Haloa
- Suggestions for Olympeia
“Song of Mounykhia” to Artemis
- Honouring the demigods before exercises
- On the nature of blessings
- Quote: Pillars to Apollon
- Hermes, the Ram-Bearer
- Ares, a warrior
- The time Hera helped me
- Quote: Circe and Cheese
- Quote: Ares, a God of Women
When I was robbed and thanked Hermes
- Honouring Apollon, Artemis and Leto
- A personal rant about Apollon and Helios
That time when Hermes made me come out of the polytheist closet
Posts from @hermeneutas in English, originally in Portuguese.
Blog introduction
Differentiating Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism and some other stuff
Why you shouldn’t just mix folklore and polytheism
Regarding deceased pets
Altars and cult spaces
How do I know if my offering has been accepted or denied?
Worshipping Tips - The Delphic Maxims
About divination on Hellenic Polytheism
The monthly cycle of the household cult
What should I do with the offering after it spoils on my altar?
The afterlife and the Underworld
Regarding the matter of Magic in Hellenic Polytheism
Do you think all gods are just different manifestations of the same energy?
Gods and their epithets series
Gods and their epithets - Hestia
Gods and their epithets - Hephaestus
Gods and their epithets - Hermes
Gods and their epithets - Zeus
Gods and their epithets - Hera
Devotional art and poetry
Devotional texts
Poems
Art in general
Hymns
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