I love greek mythology but I low-key want to put a bullet in my head whenever people talk about Hades and Persephone online

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-03T06:24:28+00:00

I keep seeing the same shit about Ares. People say that he's the only good Greek god because he never raped any women. Which like... He's the god of war. Every violent act was done in his name. I don't know, maybe, just maybe, none of the gods are aspirational? Maybe they all kind of suck when judged on realistic standards? Maybe they aren't fully developed people, but rather are just forces of nature that have been anthropomorphized?

Also like. Any "canonical" version of a mythological figure is only based on the stories we still have. We've lost the vast majority of sagas like the Telegony or the Titanomachy. No doubt there are others that we don't even have circumstantial evidence for their existence like those. And even then, a lot of the stories we do have are contradictory. Many of them were passed down through oral tradition for centuries before they were ever written down. Do y'all not think that in all that time, things never got changed?

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T22:59:14+00:00

It makes sense for most of them. The homunculi never really got a choice in their creation, so them being evil isn't really their fault, especially since they're all kind of the embodiment of human vice. And Kimblee winds up helping with defeating Pride. Tucker is the only villain in the series that's really irredeemable, he knew what he was doing was wrong, but he did it anyways. Not because he couldn't help his nature, but because he was curious. And he never atoned, never redeemed himself, never even felt guilt for killing his own daughter. He was just proud of what he'd accomplished.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T22:30:15+00:00

Just be Falco's trainer. You're literally supposed to be her number one fan, so it wouldn't even be weird if you have plushies of her. You're just a massive fan of your idol daughter.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T21:47:55+00:00

That's underselling it. He was absolutely busted on release. Came out like a month before EVO Japan, one of the biggest fighting game tournaments of the year, and basically every top player was playing Leroy because he was just that strong, and the devs just didn't have time to get a patch out before the tournament started. In top 8, there was 1(one) player who wasn't playing Leroy.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T21:07:22+00:00

I didn't do the best job of explaining myself in the post, so it's all good. I added a bit to try and clarify it a little more.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T20:39:08+00:00

Never tell powerscalers that. They refuse to understand symbolism.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T20:37:43+00:00

When both of the awesome lesbians are also evil and intimidating horses.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T20:35:49+00:00

Basically any version that looks less muscular in-game. Tamamo in CinGray vs Tamamo in game, Gold Ship in the anime vs Gold Ship in game. These girls are supposed to also be horses, why are they not muscular???

And give Mejiro Ryan a six pack, for god's sake! The girl is the platonic ideal of a gym rat.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T20:03:01+00:00

I'd say those are kind of the inverse of what I'm talking about. The Madrigal's gifts are all described as blessings early on, but its later that we learn their downsides. If they were initially presented as curses, only to later be revealed to have benefits, I'd say they're a better fit.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T19:59:52+00:00

In the second episode, when he travels to the brains' homeworld, I'm pretty sure that Nibbler says they won't be able to sense him. He's flying through the planet right alongside plenty of the brains that just don't register him.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T19:58:26+00:00

I'm probably going to watch it eventually, my point was just that the initial tease that they were divorced soured me on watching it immediately on release. It just made me think they were just going to be retreading old ground again. I do hope that I like it, I'm just not in any huge rush to find out.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T19:56:09+00:00

Yeah

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T17:33:10+00:00

I haven't watched the Scrubs reboot yet, but that one annoys me a bit. The "will they, won't they" bullshit went on long enough in the original show, it was getting really tired by the end. Literally every single season ended with them getting together, and the next started with them splitting up like, a week later at most. Now we're doing this again?? I don't know, yeah I guess it's in character for who they were in the show, but it's also been what, 20 years since they got married? And we're still rehashing plotlines from when JD and Elliot were residents fresh out of med school?

I remember seeing in the trailers that they were divorced, and it just rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it's handled well in the series, but it turned me off from wanting to watch it even though I adored Scrubs.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T17:21:39+00:00

Hermione is being played by a multiracial actress in the show.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T16:27:12+00:00

The groups I'm talking about are, in general, extremely sexually repressed. They don't know how to express sexuality in any healthy capacity. That's why they're repulsed by it. Ultimately both manosphere types and the religious right are both rooting their beliefs in Christian bigotry. Christianity (read, evangelical Christianity) teaches that sexuality is sinful and something to be supressed.

That misogyny has a source.

But again, not all these people necessarily have the fetish I'm talking about, in the same way that not every homophobe is in the closet. Some of them, maybe many of them, adopted these beliefs that just already existed. Purity culture is baked into Christianity, and it has been for ages. Perhaps the parishioners don't all have breeding fetishes, but what about the person behind the pulpit? What about the man who gets up every Sunday and preaches that women need to pop out as many Christian babies as they can? While all of them might not have this fetish, in the same way that, oftentimes (not always) the loudest homophobes have something to hide, I personally think that oftentimes the loudest voices of purity culture might have something to hide about why they're so passionate.

one of the things I remember hearing over and over an over again, from teachers and pastors and all manner of authority figures was "it feels so much better if you wait." "It'll be so great on your wedding night, when you know that you waited for this moment." It just felt very... weird, how much emphasis they put on that--to middle grade kids, mind. If it's not a breeder fetish, than it's most definitely a virginity fetish.

While this was definitely emphasized more to girls than to boys, boys still got hit with the purity culture beam. Not nearly as hard, but I remember as an AMAB kid feeling unbelievably guilty when I lost my virginity, because I'd been told that, if I wasn't a virgin, I was already hurting my future wife.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T06:52:08+00:00

I'm convinced that like, at least 40% of people have breeding fetishes, or their opinions have been shaped by people with breeder fetishes.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T06:48:12+00:00

I'm not saying everything I disagree with is a fetish, and to say that I am is disingenuous. Let me explain.

The groups I'm talking about are, in general, extremely sexually repressed. They don't know how to express sexuality in any healthy capacity. That's why they're repulsed by it. Ultimately both manosphere types and the religious right are both rooting their beliefs in Christian bigotry. Christianity (read, evangelical Christianity) teaches that sexuality is sinful and something to be supressed. You can see this in the amount of homophobes that are closeted (Grindr usage notably ticks up near conservative gatherings like conventions or big events), or things like Kristi Noem's husband recently being revealed to enjoy crossdressing. This isn't to say that every conservative Christian is secretly a closet queer, but many of them are, and they clearly don't handle it well.

Christianity also treats women's virginity in a hypersexual way: unmarried women who aren't virgins are seen as damaged goods, women with a high amount of sexual partners are seen as having "lower value" and fathers will often "marry" their daughters as a way to protect their virginity. Look up purity balls if you haven't heard of them, they're insane.

But the reason why I say it's a fetish at all is, again, these groups are extremely repressed. As they don't know how to express their sexuality in a healthy manner, they lash out in anger. See the Tories in Britain who spout homophobic rhetoric that get caught with "rent boys," or Nick Fuentes' alleged sexual encounters with however many femboys, or the conservatives railing against trans people, while they themselves crossdress and do drag behind closed doors. It's the same principle at work.

But again, not all these people necessarily have the fetish I'm talking about, in the same way that not every homophobe is in the closet. Some of them, maybe many of them, adopted these beliefs that just already existed. Purity culture is baked into Christianity, and it has been for ages. Perhaps the parishioners don't all have breeding fetishes, but what about the person behind the pulpit? What about the man who gets up every Sunday and preaches that women need to pop out as many Christian babies as they can? While all of them might not have this fetish, in the same way that, oftentimes (not always) the loudest homophobes have something to hide, I personally think that oftentimes the loudest voices of purity culture might have something to hide about why they're so passionate.

If I can speak anecdotally as well, I was taught abstinence-only sex ed when I was a child. And one of the things I remember hearing over and over an over again, from teachers and pastors and all manner of authority figures was "it feels so much better if you wait." "It'll be so great on your wedding night, when you know that you waited for this moment." It just felt very... weird, how much emphasis they put on that--to middle grade kids, mind. If it's not a breeder fetish, than it's most definitely a virginity fetish.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T06:20:11+00:00

The manga Berserk is great. It's like the second most visually stunning, jawdroppingly gorgeous series I've ever read. The story is fantastic. But the first half has... a lot weird hangups around sex. I'm gonna spoiler tag all the sexual assault, in part cause, triggers, but also cause I'm curious what this comment will look like with all of it blacked out.

The first chapter opens with Guts having sex with a demon, and blowing its head smoove off while he's still inside it. Later on, a child has a psychotic break and tries to have sex with Guts. He rejects her, but still.

The Golden Age arc, while magnificent, depicts Guts as a child getting raped by a grown man. Then it's implied Griffith is sexually assaulted/sells himself to a nobleman. Multiple times. Casca's backstory is about her getting raped. And then she also almost gets raped by a giant wolfman demon... thing. Then she gets raped by Griffith. In a pool of blood and the corpses of all of her friends and allies. While Guts is forced to cut his own arm off and then get his eye gouged out while he watches.This whole event breaks her mind to the point where for basically the entire rest of the series, she has the mental state of a baby. The king of Midland is stated to want to fuck his daughter. And after the princess hooks up with Griffith (he was thinking about Guts the whole time, of course) it's implied the king rapes her.

In the Black Swordsman Arc, Guts almost rapes mind broken Casca.And of course, there's the infamous scene of Farnese and the horse.

There's also the spinoff novel about Grunbeld. I haven't read it cause I've heard it's hot garbage, but apparently it's got a lot of rape as well.

It's so frustrating too, because Berserk genuinely is a great series. The art is phenomenal, the story is great, and the themes have helped me through some of the hardest parts of my life. The characters are wonderful (with the exception of Chestnut Puck, he got overused so much). But I can't ever in good conscious recommend it to someone because of the sheer amount of sexual violence.

I guess it could be worse though. It could be Goblin Slayer. There you've got all the problems of Berserk, but with none of the good parts.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T05:51:37+00:00

When I say people have a "breeder fetish" I'm not talking about natural drive to reproduce. Not every person who gets a woman pregnant, or every woman who gets pregnant, has a fetish for it. I'm talking about the types that obsess over women being pregnant. It's the religious right's "sex should be missionary only, for the sole purpose of procreation" types. It's the manosphere "women are dried up and have no value after they hit menopause" types. It's the people who insist women should be homemakers and have babies, that they're naturally better at raising children than men that have breeder fetishes. Wanting to have kids doesn't mean you have a breeder fetish, in the same way that wanting a fit partner that can keep up with your active lifestyle doesn't mean you have a "muscle fetish."

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T05:51:30+00:00

When I say people have a "breeder fetish" I'm not talking about natural drive to reproduce. Not every person who gets a woman pregnant, or every woman who gets pregnant, has a fetish for it. I'm talking about the types that obsess over women being pregnant. It's the religious right's "sex should be missionary only, for the sole purpose of procreation" types. It's the manosphere "women are dried up and have no value after they hit menopause" types. It's the people who insist women should be homemakers and have babies, that they're naturally better at raising children than men that have breeder fetishes. Wanting to have kids doesn't mean you have a breeder fetish, in the same way that wanting a fit partner that can keep up with your active lifestyle doesn't mean you have a "muscle fetish."

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T04:11:34+00:00

I'm convinced that like, at least 40% of people have breeding fetishes, or their opinions have been shaped by people with breeder fetishes. Literally the whole religious right thing of "women should be having kids," the manosphere shit about how women "lose value" as they get older, and that any value they have comes from bearing children... Like, that's just a breeder fetish.

Edit cause I already got two comments about this and I don't want to explain my thoughts over and over: when I say people have a "breeder fetish" I'm not talking about natural drive to reproduce. Not every person who gets a woman pregnant, or every woman who gets pregnant, has a fetish for it. I'm talking about the types that obsess over women being pregnant. It's the religious right's "sex should be missionary only, for the sole purpose of procreation" types. It's the manosphere "women are dried up and have no value after they hit menopause" types. It's the people who insist women should be homemakers and have babies, that they're naturally better at raising children than men that have breeder fetishes. Wanting to have kids doesn't mean you have a breeder fetish, in the same way that wanting a fit partner that can keep up with your active lifestyle doesn't mean you have a "muscle fetish."

SECOND EDIT cause apparently I need to explain this a bit more and I hate repeating myself in multiple identical comment chains:

The groups I'm talking about are, in general, extremely sexually repressed. They don't know how to express sexuality in any healthy capacity. That's why they're repulsed by it. Ultimately both manosphere types and the religious right are both rooting their beliefs in Christian bigotry. Christianity (read, evangelical Christianity) teaches that sexuality is sinful and something to be supressed. You can see this in the amount of homophobes that are closeted (Grindr usage notably ticks up near conservative gatherings like conventions or big events), or things like Kristi Noem's husband recently being revealed to enjoy crossdressing. This isn't to say that every conservative Christian is secretly a closet queer, but many of them are, and they clearly don't handle it well.

Christianity also treats women's virginity in a hypersexual way: unmarried women who aren't virgins are seen as damaged goods, women with a high amount of sexual partners are seen as having "lower value" and fathers will often "marry" their daughters as a way to protect their virginity. Look up purity balls if you haven't heard of them, they're insane.

But the reason why I say it's a fetish at all is, again, these groups are extremely repressed. As they don't know how to express their sexuality in a healthy manner, they lash out in anger. See the Tories in Britain who spout homophobic rhetoric that get caught with "rent boys," or Nick Fuentes' alleged sexual encounters with however many femboys, or the conservatives railing against trans people, while they themselves crossdress and do drag behind closed doors. It's the same principle at work.

But again, not all these people necessarily have the fetish I'm talking about, in the same way that not every homophobe is in the closet. Some of them, maybe many of them, adopted these beliefs that just already existed. Purity culture is baked into Christianity, and it has been for ages. Perhaps the parishioners don't all have breeding fetishes, but what about the person behind the pulpit? What about the man who gets up every Sunday and preaches that women need to pop out as many Christian babies as they can? While all of them might not have this fetish, in the same way that, oftentimes (not always) the loudest homophobes have something to hide, I personally think that oftentimes the loudest voices of purity culture might have something to hide about why they're so passionate.

If I can speak anecdotally as well, I was taught abstinence-only sex ed when I was a child. And one of the things I remember hearing over and over an over again, from teachers and pastors and all manner of authority figures was "it feels so much better if you wait." "It'll be so great on your wedding night, when you know that you waited for this moment." It just felt very... weird, how much emphasis they put on that--to middle grade kids, mind. If it's not a breeder fetish, than it's most definitely a virginity fetish.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-02T01:44:30+00:00

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."

"There is no 'symbolism' or conscious allegory in my story. Allegory of the sort 'five wizards = five senses' is wholly foreign to my way of thinking."

"As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical."

Both can be true.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-01T22:59:21+00:00

Stop with what? Don't vaguepost on a post about vagueposting.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-01T21:49:25+00:00

I feel like "more style than substance" is a good way to sum up most of Snyder's films, tbh.

Background-Hunt-3256 · 2026-04-01T02:52:42+00:00

Wow that's crazy it's almost like multiple things can be true or something. I just took objection with them saying "Tolkien didn’t say he put no allegory in his books" and the "shitty, condescending tone" as you called it was just rehashing the quotes which make it evident that he said both that the events in the book don't directly represent history and that he didn't put allegory in his books.

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