The Pros Of Writing: Writing!

tidbit: if you read the left and right lines together, it's hamlet's thoughts when horatio attempts to drink the poisoned liquor and join hamlet in death <3

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the mythic transgender

i promised you 🦋

(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)

A bit of a health rant / vent.

I keep having heart palpitations. They aren’t strong, its more like a fluttering. But tonight they are worse. Ive been awake since 2:10 AM (3:26 rn) They DO go away and have gone away for weeks before. I just hate when they come back.

I think it’s just my way of life that causes these. Im dehydrated and not active, but hopefully that’ll change by the afternoon. I also think stress and strong emotions are contributing to it— I hate having to pay attention and to find triggers for it.

I’m tired- exhausted. I have school in less than three hours and I can’t lay down. I can’t handle my bed currently (Overstim, associated with health issues and oddly making me itchy). So I don’t know if I should just sleep on the floor or just stay up. The proper day hasn’t even started yet and I don’t want it to. I’ll overcome this, I know I will.

ants

De Natura animalium, Cambrai ca. 1270

Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 711, fol. 24r

The only thing holding me together right now is the fact that I'm too tired to fall apart.

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Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue

Truly I am becoming so sick of people treating my religion like a fun quirky irl Percy Jackson. (I've ALWAYS been sick of it but oh my gods)

This is a REAL AND ANCIENT RELIGION. These are GODS. Not your silly best friends that are just constantly chilling around you. The lack of respect towards their divinity and weird mortalization of them I've seen in some spaces (not as much on Tumblr but tiktok and SEVERAL discord servers I'm in) is so uncomfortable and angering.

The prevalence of "deity identification spreads" as if they're trying to figure out their godly parent in PJO, the constant "what god is reaching out to me?" questions I see from beginners who barely even KNOW hellenic polytheism, and the constant treatment of the Theoi as fun friends that just sit around on altars at someone's every beck and call. It's so upsetting? It's so uncomfortable?

Yes, the gods love us. Of course, they care for us. But where is the respect? Where is your kharis? How can they love you when they don't even know you? And how can you claim to love Them when you hardly know Them?

You MUST research in this religion. There are no cutting corners. You must must MUST learn. Because without understanding how sacred the practices are and their significance of them to their time and who these gods truly were, you run DANGEROUSLY close to religious and cultural appropriation.