Pandora-allan - PAN-DORA

"I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me."

-Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano-

catch, and release

Hey, what do you think about Medea? I know people portray her as a cruel witch but I think she never had someone besides her than her aunt; Circe. She really deserved to be happy, right?

This is the story of the wicked villain’s daughter who whispers in the hero’s ear and teaches him how to overcome every trial. Through her magic she transmutes the most insurmountable labor into triviality, she foils the villain’s pursuit so that her father cannot catch them in their flight.

(she chops her brother into pieces and casts the pieces to the sea, so that her father’s fleet must be hindered dredging up every bloody portion so that their king might bury his son)

She is wise, and she is good, and she is wonderful, filled with wonders, and the story never thinks to ask:

Why, with all her knowledge and her power, in all the years before the hero came, did she do nothing to curb her father’s wickedness?

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When Medea excoriates Jason for his betrayal, he snaps back in retort:

“You exaggerate your favors,” he sneers. “Should I thank you? Did you act purposefully? Or was it not the shafts of Eros, as Aphrodite willed, that compelled you to save my life?”  

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Medea loves her children dearly, and she kills them, and in that she is beyond compulsion.

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We might ask instead what purpose Jason served in the story, if Medea and the Argonauts accomplished all his feats for him. Did Jason on his own slaughter the six-armed Gegenees? Did he know how to withstand the fiery breath of the Kolkhis Bulls? Did he know the dangers of sowing the dragon’s teeth, how to lull the sleepless dragon into sleep?

Could he have outplayed the sirens, killed the bronze man Talos on his own initiative?

What was the point of him, then?

(the answer is: it was his story)

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When Medea returns to her home of Colchis many years later, after all the unpleasantness with Jason is well and done, she discovers her tyrannical father has been overthrown by his brother Perses, the new king.

Unfortunately for her, this is no happy ending. Perses hopes to purge her father’s bloodline and eliminate all other claimants to the throne.

So, she kills him.

(she is good at that, killing family)

It was said that when the Golden Fleece was removed from Colchis, so too would the king be removed from his throne. Medea returns, years later, and kills her uncle and restores her father to the throne, and the old wrong is finally set right.

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The dead are all still dead, of course.

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After Medea kills her brother, the gods demand she must be cleansed.

The Argo sails through storm and hellish steam and darkness, and finally docks at Circe’s island. Circe slits the throat of a piglet, stains their hands with its blood. The hearth fires blaze bright, and many cakes are brought out to be burnt as offerings to Zeus.

“There,” Circe says afterwards. “All done.”

Medea sits next to her on the polished chairs, looking at the thin dark line of pig’s blood still beneath her fingernails. “I don’t know that I can ever be cleansed of this.”

Her aunt smirks. “Too bad,” she says. “Ceremony’s over. You are.”

“I just -” she says, and looks towards the Argo where Jason is waiting, and feels her throat close up with emotion. “I feel like I’m going insane. I don’t know what I’ve done. I feel like I would do anything for him.” 

“The only morality in the world is love,” Circe says. “Everything else is mere ambition. Falling headlong into someone else’s story, and selfishly living out your own.”

“I helped kill him,” Medea says. “I killed my brother.”

“He was hunting you down. They would have killed you both, if they caught you.” Circe looks meditatively into the fire. “The gods have done worse, for worse reasons. Zeus, the Cleanser of Sins, once tried to devour his own daughter.”

They are silent for a time. The fire crackles cozily, and the burnt fragrance of cake hangs in the air. “I don’t deserve any of this,” Medea says.

“Ah, that’s the cruelty of it.” Circe sighs. “You are part mortal and part divine, a truth unto yourself, consequence unmoored from judgement.” She lays a hand over Medea’s. “You don’t deserve a damn thing.”

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When Medea kills her children, she weeps.

(but she has wept before, and gone on to do more wickedness, and so tears are neither salve nor salvation)

After her children are dead, Helios sends down a golden chariot from the heavens to carry her away, to carry away with her the bodies of her children, so that she might bury them with her own two hands in Hera’s sacred grove, safe from any further indignity or harm.

(as a sign from the gods, this might be taken as approval)

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This is how Medea’s story goes: Time passes and wounds slowly heal. She falls in love again, and has another child. She falls into old habits and once again tries to kill her lover’s son, but this time is unsuccessful. She is forced to flee, and at last returns to her father’s kingdom. She kills her uncle. More kinblood is shed.

Her son Medus grows up to take the throne, and he is so renowned in conquest that the Aryans rename themselves the Medes, in his and his mother’s name.

He is her darling son. She loves him dearly.  

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This is a happy ending, perhaps.

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

— Buddha

People do faults. They told things they never meant to say to the ones they love, but regret after they said those things. Life is completely clueless sometimes, and you are just there waiting for miracles and shooting stars. You drink, hoping it will carry down your pain while giving you chills as your nurvous system is getting the feel 'Am FUcKiNg CoOl!'

It is a perfect lie, though. You feel it and you rock it.

But you forget it-that the truth will always find its way back to you.

You feel nostalgic about your life, which was once a blooming flower in wild where it never saw the raw cement and dust on roads you never roamed. You want to have it back, because it is your life, and you began to curse the world which teared you apart from that beautiful life. You lost love, you lost company. You were left in alone. No one is here now. It's just you. And some cyber world actually, but you can't be a part of it.

Because you belong to the life you've lost. And it's your fault.

And even people forgive your cruel words, they aren't going to forget them.

After all, the scars you left behind will remain forever, knowing about your sins, and hunting down your future.

And you're glad you feel the pain you caused in their hearts. You. Deserve. It. For your own good.

The sensitive suffer more; but they love more, and dream more.

— Augusto Cury

I scratch this today at my class because I was so bored. I put some effects on it to make it...look good. BTW hats off to @xstarsarewrong for the fic...I almost cried in front of my class after reading it🤦‍♀️

Alternative Conspiracy Theories:

1. CURVED SPACE

The Earth is flat, but the curvature of spacetime is so extreme as to make it appear rounded. This accounts for many of those niggling little issues that pop up when considering a Flat Earth, such as why ships seem to disappear below the horizon, or why you can see further from up high.

The repercussions of Curved Space are not to be underestimated. Consider: perhaps no stars exist other than the sun, and what we perceive to be stars are in fact the sun’s light traveling out in all directions along the curvature of the universe (which, if it is not uniform, allows for some rays of light to travel further, many hundreds of thousands of light years further than others), finally curving back to reach us again at different intervals as multiple images of the same star at various points in its life.

(Red giants and supernovae are where the light had to travel for so long that it’s older now. Binary stars are two different images of the sun superimposed where space curves in on itself. You can’t catch me napping! I’ve thought this all out!)

2. MANY MOONS

This theory was first conceived in inquiry to why a Flat Earth still appears to cast a rounded shadow across the moon. In fact, what we call the moon is really multiple different celestial objects, one resembling the full moon, one the crescent moon, one the gibbous, and so on. These various bodies orbit the Earth like comets, in long elliptical paths that coincide such that only one of them is near enough to be visible from Earth at any given time.

Uncommon lunar events, such as the blood moon, supermoon, etc., are unique celestial bodies of their own, and it is the Great Work of moonwatchers to compile a comprehensive accounting of all the different moon-like objects that have ever appeared in the sky. While Many Moon believers generally accept the validity the moon landings, they also believe that human beings have only ever successfully landed on moons # 2, 4, and 5.

3. GEOCENTRICISM 2.0

According to the Theory of Relativity all motion is relative, and so it makes just as much sense to model the Earth as a stationary object with the sun and moon revolving around it, and all the other planets in their epicycles around the sun.

Why not? You think our current model of the solar system is valid? Pfft! I bet you still think Mercator maps are what the world really looks like. The sun isn’t even stationary, it’s moving through the universe, and so to keep with your outdated heliocentric model we’d have to imagine all the other planets spiraling after it in helices - how’s a geocentric model any more complicated than that?

It would be more intuitive! We’re the observers here on Earth, we’re stationary, from our perspective the sun and moon move across the sky. C’mon! Ptolemy had it right. Instead of a solar system, we should all be taught about our geo system! It’s all perfectly reasonable, right?

Okay, I guess technically, yes, there is a conspiracy. It does say on the website that the current solar system model is being propagated by a “cabal of postmodernist astronomers” looking to deliberately “devalue the significance of humanity in the cosmos”. But it’s true! They are! Just look at how much sense the geocentric model makes, and we’re yet still stuck revolving around the sun? Open your eyes! What explanation is there other than that?

4. IMPOSTOR SUN

Theories as to what happened to the original sun:

still there, light drowned out by impostor

chemicals in food / water led to buildup in retinal cells that filter out natural sunlight

glitch in simulation

Earth drifted slowly out of orbit, replacement was deployed

hidden from us behind the moon in perpetual eclipse

needs further blood sacrifices to be restored in strength

replaced “sometime during the night”

5. ACCELERATING EARTH

The Earth is held in the gravitational orbit of the sun. Gravity is acceleration—this is basic physics. Let something drop and it’ll keep going faster until it hits the ground or hits terminal velocity. Air resistance. There is no air resistance in space. The Earth is, has been, in constant acceleration. Freefall. It’s going faster now than it’s ever been before. 

You feel it, don’t you? In the pit of your stomach? Earth is going faster. It’s fucking up the atmosphere, the climate. We’re going so fast that we must be blazing like a meteor now. No, you can’t tell how long a year is anymore. You can’t trust the seasons. Seasons are based on axial tilt, not orbit. We’re askew. The calendar is lying to us. You can’t count the days. The days are getting longer - seriously. Moon’s leaching momentum from the Earth’s rotation. You can look this up, scientists will tell you. A billion years ago, days used to go by fast.

The Earth is going faster, but no one is admitting it. We’re still going by the calendar while Earth is plummeting perpetually off the edge in freefall. How many years have we lived through since January, how many circles ‘round the sun? Earth’s accelerating, and there’s nothing that can stop it. You can feel it, can’t you? This is the fastest it’s ever been.

YESSS!

Loki Laufeyson Falling In Love Headcanons

We all know Loki is deeply a good person and he’s just missunderstood

I feel like he’d fall for a caring person

Someone who doesn’t appear to be soft as they come out cold at first

But deep down they’re very kind and protective over their loved ones

When falling for you he’d show quite some opposite lovey signs instead of the typical ones

As being quite sarcastic towards you

Or acting as if he was ignoring you

But not because he means to be mean, it’s just your presence that makes him anxious

And his best defense against vulnerability has always been his wit

But, even if sometimes they got to you, you hid it pretty well and kept being respectful towards him

When approching you, his mood would definitely change

He’d listen intensely at what you had to say, admired you when doing the simplest things and even asking for your opinion above the others’

He’d love to have deep conversations about his favourite books with you and discussing its aspects, without feeling rejected for something he loved doing

He’d start to become really protective over time

Like if he saw another member looking at you longer than usual

Or someone whose hand lingers on your waist for too many seconds

So he’ll use some of his powers to avoid them getting too close to you

And he’ll deny it when his brother asks him if he likes you

“Brother, are you and lady Y/N good friends?” “Yeah you could say that,…why?” “I am just happy to see you connecting with someone in such positive ways” “Oh, great then-” “Are you going to tell her that you love her?” “What”

Also he’d be such a sHOW OFF infront of you

At any chance he gets, he’ll try to impress you with his tricks

And will get angry if anyone tries to take you away from him

You’re probably one the only persons that sees the good in him and who gave him the love he doesn’t think he deserves

He’s not letting go of you that easily (most likely never will)

Once he confesses, he’ll probably don’t know how to act in a relationship

But won’t hesitate to show his dominance in front of others by kissing you

You’ll be his number one priority, so feel lucky cause he won’t be able to betray you even if his life depends on it

Unless it’s your life that’s in danger

He’d do anything to keep you safe

When in fights, you’ll always be on his mind cause thinking of you gives him strengh

If you’re also in the fight, he’ll make sure you’re aroud him and not let you out of his sight

He wouldn’t really care about the fight to be honest, he’d be more like a guardian keeping enemies away from you

Which makes me think that you’re probably the only one who’s seen him have a break down

Not that it happens often, but on those rare occasions you’d be his get away, the one who’d help him forget about all his worries

Like telling you about his mother and how much he truly missed her

Or like,when Asgard got destroyed

You were the first one he visited

You found him in your room, sitting on the edge of your bed going through one of the books he had gifted you

When he heard you calling his name, he lifted his teary eyes and rapidly crawled into your embrace

He told you about everything that had happened, and you reassured him it wasn’t his fault and stayed awake until you were sure that he had fallen asleep

And Loki loves sleeping next to you

He wasn’t too keen on physical affection at first, but once he discovered how touch-starved he was he began craving to feel you close at all times

Which means that you get to sleep with your head on his chest and his arm around you

I’m getting too carried away with this

I just want a Loki man

#Giselle

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