urulokid:

di-abolis:

quick reminders about Greek mythology:

• Persephone is black/has dark skin
• Haphaestus is disabled and has some mental illness(es)
• Gaia is black/has dark skin
• Hades is disabled
• Zeus is a rapist [ on multiple occasions ]
• Eros is pansexual
• Athena is most likely asexual
• Dionysus is bisexual
• all of the nymphs are nonbinary
• Persephone is the goddess of spring growth
• Thanatos is the god of death, not Hades

whoever made this post knows jack shit about greek mythology and I would like to invite teashoesandhair​ to this party

how is hades disabled??? what mental illnesses does hephaestus have??

where are you getting that persephone or gaea is black? i mean gaea is the actual planet earth so like….I mean I guess soil is black so??? these are greek myths not african. it stands 2 reason that your greek gods are…greek looking. since, you know, they were invented by the people that used them.

artemis is asexual, not athena (hello, diomedes?). taking a vow of chastity is not the same as being asexual in the slightest. her entire shtick is being able to control her sexual urges through intelligence and wisdom which is why she was an archetypical ideal Greek daughter, remaining ~unspoiled~ and loyal to her father, Zeus

eros is pansexual???? im sure Pan is very flattered. nymphs? are all pretty feminine spirits of trees that’s basically their defining feature. (incidentally if you wanted a case for nb/androgynous gods, hermes would be a good bet) (OH!!! AND APOLLO IS ACTUALLY BISEXUAL BY TODAY’S STANDARDS AND I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU LEFT HIM OUT OF THIS POST) and thanatos is a daemonic personification of death, kind of like our Grim Reaper. hades is the god of the underworld, therefore he rules over the dead and is the god associated with the dead.

but we’re all forgetting the most important thing: that the ancient greeks had such different attitudes about sexuality, disability, race, etc that literally none of this would have made any fucking sense to them

congrats you’ve appropriated an entire culture’s religion for social justice points