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Diana:

“This will not go unpunished,” she said to herself.
“Although we may be unhonored, it will not be said
We are unavenged.”

Literally no one is saying that, Diana

Tagged: #asdfjk;adsk there's a guy who prays to apollo to guide his blow against diana's beast and apollo even tries to answer #diana is just FUCK THAT and breaks the iron off his spear #it's terrible but i kind of love her anyway

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Grand Illusion (Styx)

I’m back to Ovid and reading about Niobe, and it’s like … okay, Apollo and Diana’s vengeance is really, literally, overkill, but also, Niobe was stupid as shit.

Tagged: #haha latona only has two kids who are OLYMPIAN GODS which is practically like not having any kids amirite #latona is like: -and then she said i'm chILDLESS and how am i being INSULTED THIS WAY and- #apollo: mom. it's okay. we'll kill a bunch of people and it'll make you feel better #diana: yeah. what he said. #latona: oh okay then

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Dark (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)

I’m currently 25 pgs into the Metamorphoses, and the gods have managed to be even worse assholes than I expected!

I guess Apollo has some excuse in being struck by Cupid’s arrow, but literally the first thing Jupiter says to Io is:

“Virgin worthy of Jove, clearly destined to make
Some man or other happy in your bed,
You should find some shade over there in the woods”

>_<

Tagged: #yes yes values dissonance but also: the fuck? #also i'm not sure it is /that/ much values dissonance; the introduction argues that the gods are deliberately written as capricious tyrants #in any case jupiter is so relentlessly terrible that it is all the more satisfying that ovid explicitly compares augustus to him

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)

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