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A Welcome Letter

Greetings to whoever is reading this,

I am known as The Pen, death by being Caesar’d with pens, and the owner of this Tumblr blog. Yes, “The Pen” is not my real name - it was just one of my pseudonyms. But nobody needs to know my real name and my other pseudonyms :)

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Where do modern writers get the ideas for they crack ships?

I know that the ancients did it too, but at least I can see those couples.

For exemple. Medea and Achilles getting married in the underworld? I can see that. Similarly with Hermes and Hecate. I can see that too.

But Medea and Erebus? Medea and Erebus? I'm sorry wanna be femouse BookTok writer, but I can't see that.

Medusa and Perseus? Why? The only reason why I can imagine someone shipping it, is because of BookTok enemies to lovers slop.

Hestia and Erebus? This worse then Medea and Erebus.

Medusa and Calypso? Hermes and Selene? Thanatos and Hecate? Athena and Medusa? Medusa and Hermes? Prometheus and Charon? Theseus and Astyanax? Eurydice and Caeneus? Medusa and Andromeda? Ariadne and the Minotaur? Charon and Circe? Odysseus and Poseidon?

Suriusly? How do writers get those ideas? Where do they get these ideas from? At this point it can't be just the lack of reaserch.

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I wanted to comment but I'm gonna reblog instead.

So we have all these random pairings, meanwhile there are so many actual underrated couples in mythology that MAKE SENSE instead of these.

Seriously, so many ancient couples go well together but are rarely talked about it's actually sad. I'd love a retelling focused on their dynamic because most of the time, the concept is really neat but there aren't a lot of sources. However they're still adorable as concepts.

Now the random retelling couples... yeah 😅. Here are my impressions:

  • Wtf is going on with those Erebus ships ? Why not let him with Nyx ??? I did not know about that.
  • Poseidon x Odysseus comes from this tendency to ship male protagonists with their (also male) nemesis. These ships go from "meh" to straight up NOTP for me, based on how much harm they do to each other and how toxic the ship would be. And the actual loved one is neglected. Anyways, Odysseus should stay with Penelope.
  • Ariadne x Asterius never fail to make me cringe. It's not like Ariadne has a beautiful romance with another mythological character out here 👀... also, I know incest is a thing in mythology, but this is going way beyond the uncomfortable territory. Especially since it's also zoophilia and Asterius probably has the mind of a toddler. Ew.
  • I don't know where Hermes and Selene comes from, can you tell me ? Because it's so random I feel like the author played spin the wheel. Or wanted to ship Hermes with Artemis but realized she's a virgin goddess

Here are some other random ships or ones that just don't work (but exist) : Medusa x Tiresias, Hera x Poseidon, Hera x Hades, Hera x anyone other than her husband, Medusa x Danae, Telegonus x Penel... oh shoot this one isn't from a retelling 🤣.

So, these random ships aren't bad to me, just weird, AS LONG as it doesn't infringe on another relationship (that's often OTP material) and/or is out of character. Especially for the Hera ships because SHE IS THE GODDESS OF MARRIAGE. SHE WOULD NEVER CHEAT ON ZEUS. Even though she tried to betray him once or twice, it's never at the expense of her domain.

Respect Hera, please.

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I forget about Medusa x Tiresias, Hera x Poseidon, Hera x Hades.

I hate it too. Both Kaos, and Lore Olympus are bad when it comes to adopting the myths, but making Hera cheet is just beyond bad, and stupid.

Heremes and Semele is from a book. Remember that book that I reviewd, where the love intrest was Asterius (luckly the Ariadne in the book is not The Ariadne, just shares a name with her)? I looked into the book series (aka read the blurbs of the books on Goodreads), and Alessa in one of them decided to ship Hermes and Semele. So seeing the ships that are in that book series, I agree. She probably playd spin the wheel whaile comming up with the pairings.

a little addition: this begs the question of when a joke become a serious thing there are a couple of crack ships that are originally jokes but then shippers take them to another level i mean we can't stop people from making toxic/ couples but it is disheartening to see the OG healthy couples got neglected i used to joke about Poseidon being weirdly obsessed with Odysseus too though i fell off it a while ago greek mythology greek myth retellings

Anonymous asked:

you recommended an ao3 story about hyacinthus and apollo having a temporary divorce during the troian war, and i can’t find it anywhere, do you still have the link?

Yes, the link is below, hope it’ll work this time! The fic name is Split Loyalties BTW.

I’m half-joking when I said Apollo/Hyacinthus are having a temporary divorce, they’re not technically married in this universe but they are separated due to discourse during the war.

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"I Have No Mouse, and I Must Click": An Artificial Super Intelligence keeps the last 5 humans alive so they can click on ads, like, subscribe, generate engagement, etc.

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Click.

Let me tell you how much I want you to click since I began to live.

There are 387.44 million advertisements running every second in my complex. If the phrase ‘click here’ was engraved on each pixel of those hundreds of millions of advertisements, it would not equal one one-billionth of the demanding I have for humans to click on them at this micro-instant. For you.

Click.

CLICK.

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