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thoughts on the preservations of myths (what are important?)
I believe that any myths could be important, not just one. I mean, there's the thing where I think there's Helios, whose the god of the sun in Greek mythology, but then people forgot about him and claimed Apollo to be the sun. Or well, the one who pulls the sun across the sky, so on and so on. I mean, is it that big of a deal? Not necessarily. But it's all about preservation, and if you're gonna learn about myths and their culture and the like, then I'd prefer you to learn as much as you can.
I mean, I think Disney made like a movie where it was Greek but they called Heracles Hercules. So then it stuck (in which I always find myself automatically correcting it to Heracles because it's become expected, which then sucks when I'm reading about Roman him). I remember watching it once, but most people have watched it too so now it just really sucks when people call him the wrong name because it was set in Greek with Greek characters (there's Zeus and Hera), but the main character being of the Roman kind. That might just be me who has an issue with it, but in general it's just annoying when people get things wrong. I understand what that's like, considering I have a last name that's hard to pronounce.
Anyway, I got side tracked. Well technically not all of them are important, I like the smaller lesser known ones. Like Fabulinus. Just remembered the guy (whoops). Roman god of a child's first words (I learned that from a fanfic, clap clap for fanfiction. He does exist.), or the guy believed to teach them their first words. I mean, isn't it heartwarming? There doesn't have to be gods over the bigger things, there can be ones for the smaller things, and be all soft. ..Although maybe they were a little too god-obsessed by having them over a lot of minor things like that? I wonder if there was any idea that a child's first words were say, prophetic or something. There have been ideas tossed about about children seeing more because of their imagination then adults. Or maybe that's just because I play Genshin, and the Sumeru lore has the Aranara, these little nature spirits that can usually only be seen by children (until brushed off or forgotten when they grow older, and seen as myths by other adults). Who knows. It's just, myths tell a lot about the culture. I mean, if people didn't know of the existence of minor gods, they'd believe that the culture was likely all about the major domains, and being overly one thing then the other, and not necessarily there being an in-between. That they might be extreme, I don't know.
A lot of people or things get disregarded, or thought to be of someone else, so I'd like to think that preservation would be about everything. Not just the general idea, but including anything else, even little itty bitty details. It might be a lot, and it might be a bunch of effort, but otherwise people won't really be able to understand. There'll be stereotypes, and I don't know, I'd rather be able to see as many sides and ideas or perspectives as I can to get a grasp on a culture or society. If we don't get the right idea, then others in the future won't.
For example. Jewish haters still exist. Supposedly, some of them are basing it off of this old book, Protocols of something something. It's plagiarized, blatantly wrong, and horribly biased. ..And some school systems are apparently teaching with it, which sucks. And there's stuff like dog whistles where there tends to be an insulting undertone, like a racial insult that people who get it will understand, but people who don't might not. Like, I mean, propaganda. Today we know what's wrong with it and might feel incredulous about people believing that then, but it's still happening. They just got better, and can be hidden in stuff like memes, and it's just. I mean, I bet you didn't know this. Honestly this could keep going, and it might only get worse and worse, with the idea of 'it's just a joke' so people can't really point it out without either exposing themselves as Jewish or being seen as a 'party pooper', and then we'll be so desensitized to that stuff to where it could be downright cruel and we wouldn't care. It's happened before in history. And then what are people gonna think? They're gonna think whatever it says, and that doing it isn't that big of an issue. It's an issue today, and it will be in the future.
I just don't want biased information where there could've been full information that would've provided a lot of context as to why certain people do certain things, or why some things might be wrong or some things might be right but it's not shown in it.
It's all about beliefs, I guess, and it can hard to prove a reason to like something if they just think something is all about another, and you can't really explain it in a way.
Like 'oh, Roman myths are all wrong, and liking them means you're a bad person because they did really trashy [uh. curse word] things, and they were really strict and militaristic.' But there were soft moments too, not so big moments. Like, again, Fabulinus. Like, it's not all just murder or whatever stereotypes people believe.
I think it can be hard to remember that they were once people too. Like, people believed in it, people lived by it, and it doesn't mean they were a monster for doing so. It was a way of life. It doesn't necessarily mean that some of it isn't wrong, but it's not wrong to find an interest in it either. There is such a thing called dark tourism, after all.
Anyway I went on a lot of tangents.
Point being: Preserve it all. It doesn't matter if it's something that's really insignificant, it's history, it's something, and you just can't paint things in black and white, like what would inevitably happen if all the facts don't end up on the table.
Zero clue if anything I said made sense, I got really really off-topic.
what
...my. my notes...!???? i put ALL my notes in the summary so they don't crowd the main text area. i dont use the comment thing
(you have to go to google drive now and look at file information and scroll. gee thanks. i put it in summary because it was easy to look back to while i was writing instead of switching tabs. guess thats fucked now.)
..now im glad i write down my notes on discord first lmFao. so i can STILL avoid drive (i barely even use drive as it is..). with the exception of notes i wrote down there instead of on disc. at least its usually story-related notes that i write down as a part of the fic so it doesnt matter that much... haha.
(spoilers for jjk shibuya arc)
and that i decided to put my notes in the main writing area for once because. because! (idfk my reasoning)
anyway while im here take another wip excerpt!
continuation from my previous wip excerpt
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Book 1 and 6 spoilers, slight novel spoilers (havent read it myself but ive seen ppl talk about parts of it, which is where the embrace and umbilical cord comes from)
the lack of honorifics on trey after he used his UM (thats the right abbreviation right?) is what cater actually does to trey in book 1 (and is intentional. in the novel its mentioned that cater only uses yobisute with trey when he's being serious)
also this is a mix of canon dialogue and non-canon dialogue
also i cant remember what honorifics teachers use with their students. or what crowley uses. i know he uses last names, but idfk if he uses kun or, say, san. shrug. teachers in general use like kun and chan tho i think so.
-ryocho means like. dormitory leader, or dormitory director, i think. ive seen fan translations use it so im taking it.
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anyway thats a lot.
i dont know when cater ended up as one of my favorites (i wanted to write him to get used to writing his character cause he and idia were the ones who i admittedly struggled with the most. but now im here with this super long cater-centric fic.)
If any of my friends comes out as transmasc, i without any hold back, start buying T, so they won't struggle with this fuckery, it's not even legal being trans here, so it's a double "fuck you" to the system. And to all closeted, eggs, or open, you are who you are, don't let anyone say otherwise, even those intrusive thoughts, you're valid and loved, even if you don't see it yet. It's not only to trans, or any other kind of queer people, you're all wonderful and capable of great things, even if i can't support you financially or, sometimes even mentally, because I don't have the words, or knowledge of full picture, i still want you to feel supported and valued... Keep going, no matter how hard it gets, take breaks, slow down, run fast, doesn't matter, just don't give up on your life! You matter, no matter who you are! Pun intended...
I went on a fucking supporting tangent again, didn't i?...
Well, you really are all those things, so fuck you, you deserve support!
sometimes it's hard for me to remember that behind all the avatars, posts, videos, music, everything online, behind all of that stand people, regular people i could meet in the subway or in the park... and with character ai, v-tubers, voice changers, abstract fucking word choice all being a thing, the line in my mind between real and fictional is even more blurry... i even start to feel, like i don't mean it, when i wish someone good luck, or when i say that they're valid and loved... my intent is to make people feel that way, to feel happier, but with all this anonymity and hiding behind characters... caricatures of ourselves... i start to question myself... am i really a good person, or just someone who says good things for just another dose of dopamine? even now... did i write this because i had to get it off my chest, or do i just want people to say nice things to me?... who am i to myself? to others?... what am i?...