'Why Were Gods Portrayed With Behaviors Similar To Humans?'

'Why were gods portrayed with behaviors similar to humans?'

To make them more human, probably? Giving them sentience, making them feel more human so people can understand. To care, and worship. Otherwise, it's just a still image. Just an idea, or words on a page. It wouldn't have been as important. I mean, tell me of any books out there where the main character is otherworldly and felt on a different plane compared to humans. Like, being sociopathic basically, or "shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others". There's probably something out there, but it's not generally seen often. People wouldn't really like bad characters, y'know? Sociopaths have a negative stigma attached to it, and that'll follow it regardless of who it is half the time. Or, like, they might be too ruthless, in which the reader wouldn't like that character. If they had feelings though, if they felt and they cared and all that, and weren't all entirely perfect, then people might care about them.

Or like, think Monika from DDLC. She gained sentience, was basically the huge big bad that led to all her friends' death, but people don't think about that usually. Yeah, there's 'just Monika', but people also think about the end. Where you heard a female voice, which you assume is Monika. Where you hear her have emotion, where she sings Your Reality, and you feel sympathy for her.

You didn't before though. If you look at her sprites (or basically those still images of a character's appearance in visual novels), there's literally no emotion attached. It's all just so still that you don't find yourself caring about her that much.

If you look at Yuri's, however, you can see there's a lot more. There's poses that give you a little insight to the character, and you can find yourself caring about her and her shy personality.

It's only when Monika shows her less-than-perfect self that the player feels more care towards her. When there's a human voice that can be attached to it, it ends off on a good note, rather than a huge 'hate Monika' campaign, y'know? The song is cute, however a bittersweet goodbye from Monika to the player, but it makes her a lot more likable.

talking - fic exchange

i joined my first fic exchange a few months ago

im kind of excited? im in a discord server for it, someones explained it as exchanges always kinda getting you out of your comfort zone even if just a little. and it makes sense? it was a bit of a challenge writing so many, and writing more slice of life-ish, but it was fun too even if it was a bit stressful. :D

its a pjo exchange, i might make a post when it gets revealed

See the Line where the Sky meets the Sea | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

When Jon is a child he looks into the infinite abyss of space. The Vast looks back into him.

I AM IN LOVE. i have a new fixation. kind of, the lonely will always have my heart but ahh the vast. the descriptions are so fucking pretty. PLEASE give it a chance im begging you its basically. technically an 'avatar swap'. kind of? the summary is self-explanatory but if you don't get it. jon becomes an avatar of the vast.

ahhh ive always liked stars.

DP x WC fics are underrated (imo)

I don't know about you, but I feel like we're severely lacking in Danny Phantom x White Collar stuff. I mean, I haven't seen either myself but I've read an abundance of fics to where I get the general idea. And I've already devoured all the DP x WC fics out there and they're cool, and we're missing out. Like. There is the existence of a Danny Brooks being one of Neal's aliases. Well it's more his name in WITSEC (in which I think the explanation was that they gave you new identities to protect you. because its.. well, witness protection) Which could so easily become his real name, or the potential that Neal was put for, well, adoption (it could've also just been foster care, dont ask why, but his mom died and while the fentons weren't immediately up for adopting, jazz was stubborn and adored him. or maybe he just ran away and jazz found him and convinced the fentons to take him in? there is a variety of backstories that could happen, and it could even just be that neal does not exist and its just a cover name, for whatever reason. whether hiding from the GiWs or not, who knows. and that logically Danny values freedom so he'd never let himself get caught, unless he did, and technically can travel with like the ring thing as, oOooO, ghoST KiNG. idfk. ) regardless. honestly this just started because i found this cool fic where neals a danny clone (in which i really kind of just want them, like the agents to notice the weird behavior, being super sus, fucking vlad, yknow, brr. but itd probably be shit for me to write it cause i am not a danny phantom watcher ahaha? i was sucked into the world of DP x DC against my will and then found i actually enjoyed it, which is the case for most new fandoms i discover...?) although i understand its kind of just.. weird to bring in this superpower thing into universes, but i mean i adore crossovers. ..unless its like a huge amount in which 'how the fuck am i meant to read that' so im just talking about like.. just two fandoms. not counting like the other fandom tags like.. cause theres multiple tags for the different book series for pjo. like.. PJO, HoO, TOA, despite the fact that they're in the same universe. That'd technically count as the same fandom, also considering theres usually a tag thats like 'PJO - all media types' anyway. um. yeah. have a fun day.

The Percy Jackson Autumn Equinox 2023 Gift Exchange is officially over! The fics can be found here, and I highly encourage you all to read, kudos, and comment.

The fic exchange would not have been possible without the writers, and I'd like to give them all a huge shout-out:

anna_was_here, BtsBestMoments, @celestialepiphany, @cephalad, dehydrated_thot, duender, hazardoustorm, @holythemis, @immortalsimulacrum, ironsides, kaufmann, Luz_clause, momochai, @mrthology, PlutoMilo, PossiblyKale, @punkflame, purplepinkskiess, @rationalelderberry, rubiesnightingale, rubyredketchup, @sappho-of-space, @skywalking-through-life, southslates, TheReadingWriter, tobytikka, trash_for_peter_parker, UTMVNightLight, Word_addict. @caffeinated-croissant

I hope you all had a great time and enjoyed your gifts!

for an outsider with divine wings, the underworld suits you (PJO x HP)

The fourth entry to my angel of death series (aka non-connected one shots where Harry is the Angel of Death. ..or basically Death-adjacent.)

But so thus, the Angel of Death was literally just going to be how demigods were for the gods. Which, fair, he’d chosen to do this, and to be claimed as one of Death’s children, however not literally, would be an honour. The other kids however wouldn’t have had a choice in that, having just been born that way, so it sucked for them. Man, the gods could at least be more grateful towards their children. He supposed though, with the small lifespan of a human, that it would do nothing but hurt to get close to them. But then what would even be the point of creating them? Well, probably because otherwise they didn’t have any believers and would fade, but man, no thanks for continuously defeating their enemies. That sucked. (he tried not to think about the parallels) Despite that, and many of his very pissed off thoughts, he was temporarily being lent over to Hades to get his children for him and bring them to the Underworld. And they also weren’t at camp. Yay. --- OR, Harry, basically Death (Thanatos)'s adopted kid, gets lent out to Hades for a task. To get his kids. ..And he may or may not run into a certain pair on a quest.

basically following the plot of The Lightning Thief, sorta.