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Hi! So, this is a rather old thing (my google docs said the last time I edited it was in august of 2020!!). I made some adjustments because it was a mess. Anyway, I hope you like it and I can always expand on this if you'd like me to (example: adding the warriors 'cause I didn't finish this).

This was written as a catalog of mythological beings where I share the basics of their origins and range of domain. Hope you enjoy it.

AOT characters as gods, a god au!

Erwin Smith

Category: Major god.

Origins: Born from a long line of powerfull gods, but a bloody story. Suffered through many family betrayals and power struggles until he established the pantheon's harmony with the help of other gods.

Domain: He is known as the god of harmony, strategy, distrust and inspiration. He is worshipped by many leaders, either mortal or imortal, creature or deity. Evey leader prays and make offers to Erwin when a major decision is necessary. Even non-leaders pray to him when they need encouragment.

Levi Ackerman

Category: Earth creature.

Origins: Nobody knows, not even him. All Levi knows is that he was born from the earth and left alone to fend for himself. Like most earth creatures, he suffered from a lot of hate and despise from the gods. His life was full of pain and persecution, until he found purpose and protection in Erwin Smith.

Influence: Creatures like him do not have a stablished domain because they aren't gods. But, he is seen as a symbol of loyalty and persistence.

Hange Zoe

Category: Previously a minor deity, now major.

Origins: They were born in a powerfull line of old deities, but Hange was the only one to actually become a god and be worshipped. Not much is known about Hange's life until they found Levi and Erwin and started to lead the pantheon alongside them.

Domain: Hange's influence is mainly directed at curiosity, questioning and guidance. They are the reason the mortals create and solve issues. Most people worshipp them when in need of a solution or path of action. Hange is also currently known as the deity of desolation and anguish and some people pray to them in times of deep internal struggle.

Eren Jaeger

Category: Major god, previously a demigod.

Origins: He was born a demigod, his mother was mortal and his father a minor deity. He never knew about his own godhood until his adolescence, when his abilities were too much to ignore. He fought in many mortal wars, never was satisfied with his growing abilities and decided ask the gods for a challenge. He spent a decade trying to complete all the gods requests until he finally was rewarded with full godhood.

Domain: When he was turned a full god, nobody thought he would actually be worshipped and eventually slowly loose his divinity. Instead He rapidly became a symbol of perseverance, strength and determination. Although he is also known as the messenger and bringer of misfortune.

Mikasa Ackerman

Category: Major goddess.

Origins: Born from a strong line of Gods and Goddesses. She is one of the strongest beings in the pantheon, but not an active ruler like Erwin and Hange. She was more present in times of disharmony, always a major part of wars and hardships. She suffered a lot of losses along her family and friends, specially when Armin isolated and Eren lost his mortality.

Domain: She is worshipped by warriors, specially women, but everyone prays to her in need of balance and advice on conflict or deep emotional despair. She is known as goddess of victory, battles and strength, but also goddess of balance. She is a symbol of hope in wars and hardships, a perfect balance in times of peace. She is the most known god in the pantheon, therefore has many temples around the realm.

Armin Arlert

Category: Ancient deity, previously a major god, now a minor one.

Origins: He is extremely old. He wasn't suddenly born, instead he was slowly formed from the first spark of knowledge. The more deities, mortals and creatures developed, more of a conscious being he became. He is not a part of the main pantheon anymore, which is why he is now considered a minor god. He gave up the major role when the guilt and sorrow of his knowledge used for evil became too much. He is now isolated and only can be reached by praying.

Domain: He is the good of wisdom and knowledge. He doesn't hold all the knowledge of the world, but he has the means and ways of finding out information. Scholars, informants and ordinary people pray to him regularly, rulers also occasionally pray when they need to. Lately he's been associated a lot with bodies of water because many of his altars and temples are built there.

Jean Kirschtien

Category: Half-blooded, major god.

Origins: Born from very mixed ancestry, mostly deities but there are some creatures and monsters in his bloodline. He, alongside Armin and Mikasa, helped the pantheon keep its harmony. He rapidly became a leader just like Erwin and is now an essential god. He is one of the only gods to fight for creatures and monsters rights when the gods try to erradicate them.

Domain: He is the god of beauty, justice and peace. He might seem a soft god, and he can be, but justice is ugly. Many pray for Jean's justice and peace but only a few like what they get.

Sasha Braus

Category: Ancient deity, minor goddess.

Origins: Sasha is a very old goddess, born from earth, but isn't an earth creature. Earth, as a goddess, gave birth to her in order to have someone to care for wildlife and land. Sasha developed many mortals, creatures and monsters population. She is a frequent visitor in the pantheon, specially since she built a friendship with Jean. She likes being seen and talk to her worshippers.

Domain: She is related to the wildlife, crops, summer and life. People don't really pray to her because she doesn't have a temple nor requires any kind of offering. Her worshippers are mainly farmers who want a good crop, hunters that wish to bring a good meal home, kids who want a sunny and warm day to play. She blesses them all without them needing to ask. Altough she cannot control times of famish or droughts, she tries her best.

Connie Springer

Category: Minor god, half blooded.

Origins: He is a half blood, mix of deity and water creature. He has more creature blood, but still has a powerfull domain as a god. Nobody knows much about him, since water creatures are very secretive, but Sasha claims seeing him growing up from childhood until adulthood. He was severly hunted and despised by other divinities, some even tried to kill him, but Jean took him under his protection.

Domain: He might be a water creature, but his domain as a god has nothing to do with water. He is a trickster, illusionist and ambiguous, some people even see him as the god of lying. Very young beings are usually his worshippers, trying to be blessed with a sucessfull prank or lie. He isn't seen as evil, but most adults usually don't like his influence on younger ones.

Historia Reiss

Category: Ancient deity.

Origins: Nobody knows for sure, Historia had many names and domains and is extremely old. What is known is that she's one of the primordial beings that actually originated Gods and Godesses, monsters and creatures.

Domain: She had many domains, too much to count. All of them are related to ruling and harmony. When the gods are silent and the prayers and blessings don't come, the worshippers go for Historia as a last resort. She gives them the blessing they need and tries to reach the silent god. Lately she's been associated with Armin's domains since his isolation resulted in a few periods of silence. Sometimes, she also takes Hange's domain when they are in deep despair and anguish.

Ymir

Category: Underworld creature.

Origins: She was a mortal that crossed the reality of life and death without actually dying. The ones that enter the underworld alive are cursed to become a creature. She is now an eternal being that will surpass the gods themselves and resist until the end of times.

Influence: She is a wanderer, guide of lost souls and an observer in the final judgment. She also is a bringer of death if seen by living people and associated with misfortune and unluckyness.

Marco Bodt

Category: Air creature, minor god.

Origins: He isn't a half blood. He became a god as a gift for his contributions during the deities' war. He was an avid informant, messenger and diplomat during those times. He saved Jean's life, which made the god of beauty share some of his domain with him.

Domain: He is also known as the god of peace, but as an advisor and right hand to anyone in need. His domain is very attached to Jean, which results in many shared worshippers, temples and offerings. Marco doesn't mind sharing domain as long as he can bless as much people as he can.

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Random things. What happens when you protest in Russia? You are immediately arrested. It’s not a game of chance, it’s a guarantee. All protests are forbidden. We are not allowed to call the war – the war, you’ll be fined at best, arrested at worst if you do. In fact, as of today, if you’re caught at an anti-war protest, you’re considered a member of a radical extremist group and are facing 6 years in jail. People “detained” for protesting are invariably beaten. Concussions, contusions, broken bones. Men more so than women, though women can’t rely on it. You can be asked to strip since they “need” to check your underwear. You’ll be verbally abused and threatened the entire time. And yes, of course, it doesn’t stop there, since they now know you and your family and where you all work and live. In this country, there is nothing truly independent, there never was. If the words “1937” mean nothing to you, you are very, very fortunate. For us, it’s this again, only a thousand times worse because now it’s empowered by technology.

The other day they arrested a bunch of kids. Literally kids, four of them, aged seven to eleven. They, along with their mothers were carrying flowers to the Ukrainian embassy and a small simple poster “No to War”. They were all detained and immediately separated, kept locked up for the night. We don’t know how the kids were treated. Mothers had their possessions confiscated, not allowed to call anyone, stripped, yelled at, threatened. The harshest threat was to be stripped of parental rights on the spot, never see their kids again. The kids were released closer to morning when a lawyer from a group that helps people in these situations arrived. I have no idea how these lawyers are still allowed to function. Small mercies. (Support them here: https://donate.ovdinfo.org/)

But it’s not just the pain of punishment or jail sentence. It’s the utter uselessness of it all. He won’t care if half the population comes out to say “No to War”. He won’t care if it’s all of us.

A few days ago, every school in the country received instructions to hold special classes to explain to kids why “the liberating military operation” was necessary and what happens now. The teachers have been given manuals on what to say and how to answer the kids’ questions. Some of the answers include: “Don’t worry if you hear that some countries don’t want to be friends with us anymore. There are other countries who do, and besides, Russia is a very big country, so we have everything you can possibly need right here.” By “other countries”, my guess is, they mean North Korea. After the class, the kids are supposed to take a test. It’s electronic, entered through a QR code, and the answers are automatically logged in. Questions include: “Explain why the liberating military operation was necessary” and “Expand on what the Russian government is doing to help people of Lugansk and Donetsk.” The results of the test are tallied, and if some kid doesn’t give the right ones, their parents are called in for “a talk”.

We will either end up with a bunch of really smart kids or another generation of completely deluded people. The last time something like this had happened was in 1991, when the Soviet Union was falling, and my classmates and I were asked to make a choice of do we want to pledge allegiance to the communist party or not. I was ten. My class, as I remember, was split roughly in two. The kids who voted “yes” looked at the rest of us with teary eyes and whispered “our parents told us to do it, they are too afraid.” And we got it. We all got it. Nobody hated anybody for the choice, because we all knew that fear and we all knew what it was like, to be hostage of the regime. We who voted “no” knew what we were risking. At ten years old, we were more politically savvy than a lot of full-grown adults across the ocean. It’s not a good thing.

For roughly twenty-something years, we lived in the illusion that we were out of that prison. Sure, our democracy was not perfect, but whose is? It was maybe incredibly naïve of us, but can you blame us that we wanted to believe it? That we still desperately want to, which is why there are a lot of really confused people in the country right now who still can’t grasp that their leadership has betrayed them?They will, in fact, believe anything but this. They will sooner believe him and ignore the facts, because a) they’re not getting the facts, and b) the truth is terrifying.

Nothing has changed. We’re still in the USSR. Yesterday, in Nalchik, students of the local university were ordered to go out and express their support for the president. They had no warning. At some point the university staff members entered their classrooms, handed out banners and t-shirts, and ordered them to go outside “to stand in solidarity” with the president. Refusal was not an option on pain of expulsion. Among other statements, they were made to hold up banners saying #wearenotashamed which should tell you everything you need to know about how the Russian people really feel.

I’m not going to talk about the independent media, because the last survivors of this extremely rare breed are being shut down as we speak. Meduza is still holding up by some miracle, but their turn can be any hour. They have been declared “a foreign agent” some years back, which means that they can no longer be properly financed and have to preface every single post and article with a huge all-caps statement that this information was created by a foreign agent, presumably to turn “loyal citizens” away. They have been subsiding on crowd-funding this whole time, can’t imagine how, since all transactions are now traceable and giving them money is not without consequences. (Support them here: https://support.meduza.io/)

The world has turned away from us, and I get it, but they don’t understand what they’re doing. Or maybe they do but don’t care. I don’t mean this on an emotional level, but purely practical. The more they punish the Russian people, the more, unfortunately but sadly naturally, the Russian people will unite in their support of He Who Must Not Be Named. He will feel even more legitimate in his actions and he won’t stop. Not that I can imagine anything that could make him stop now but… It’s not helping. It might make a lot of people out there feel better about themselves, but it’s not helping.

Worst of all, we can’t help Ukraine. So much as saying that we’re fighting a war or that we are losing that war can earn you up to 15 years in prison for “spreading misinformation.” It’s impossible to send over money, and as for supplies we can only gather those for the refugees that are fleeing to Russia. Our economy is on the brink of collapse, and the people that are running from the war and come here will have to share it with us. We’re doing what we can for them. It’s not enough.

And personally… My mornings these days start like this. I wake up. I don’t want to get up. I do eventually. Splash water on my face etc. Take my heart medication. Wait for it to take effect. Then I open Telegram and see if Meduza is still broadcasting. Read the overnight update. Learn that the horror continues in a multitude of fresh new horrifying ways. Remind myself that I have no right to sympathy or feeling sorry for myself or any of that. I was not the one who spent the night in a bomb shelter. I was not the one whose house was destroyed. I wish I was but I’m not. I’m just a useless spectator who’s too chickenshit to even go get beaten up and who rationalizes her cowardice any way she knows how. I want you to know this about me before you decide to continue knowing me. I am unaccountably grateful having known all of you.

I don’t know what else to say except maybe this. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery

“Oh yeah, every time that dad forgets mom is dead, we head to the cemetery so he can see her gravestone.”

WHAT. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some version of this awful story. Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery. Seriously. I cringe every single time someone tells me about their “plan” to remind a loved one that their loved one is dead.

I also hear this a lot: “I keep reminding mom that her sister is dead, and sometimes she recalls it once I’ve said it.” That’s still not a good thing. Why are we trying to force people to remember that their loved ones have passed away?

If your loved one with dementia has lost track of their timeline, and forgotten that a loved one is dead, don’t remind them. What’s the point of reintroducing that kind of pain? Here’s the thing: they will forget again, and they will ask again. You’re never, ever, ever, going to “convince” them of something permanently. 

Instead, do this:

“Dad, where do you think mom is?”

When he tells you the answer, repeat that answer to him and assert that it sounds correct. For example, if he says, “I think mom is at work,” say, “Yes, that sounds right, I think she must be at work.” If he says, “I think she passed away,” say, “Yes, she passed away.” 

People like the answer that they gave you. Also, it takes you off the hook to “come up with something” that satisfies them. Then, twenty minutes later, when they ask where mom is, repeat what they originally told you.

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st. louis of the vieux carré day 5 : hunger | feeding habits

transgender but in a problematic way that cant be sanitized by teens who are trying to reinvent the hayes code

frenchie…my beloved… (youtube)

i want to be reblogging all the sparse ‘the binding’ fanart after absolutely tearing through that book but hey can someone tell me why artists keep making lucian so fucking tall? am i insane? am i losing it? i’m like 98% sure he’s directly stated to be shorter than emmett ?? is this just because you all are reading top energy into lucian that you decided he needs to be tall? did you see skinny and immediately jump to bean pole? i want a short scrawny lord and his beefcake farmer boyfriend as they were meant to be, thank you

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