Please will you give us more Zeus feels?

winebrightruby:

@bayoread someone has requested Zeus feels and I’m like a hundred percent sure this is your fault

okay so Zeus is the thunderstorm, he’s the downpour and the deluge and the floodwaters and the ink-black sky and the glorious flash of revelation

seeing him as he truly is, in the fullness of his glory, immolates a person – he is a thunderbolt, a consuming fire, an infinite radiance

Zeus is the dad who spoils his kids, who promises his little girl he’ll happily buck the entire social order – of which he is the head – because that’s what she wants for her life. And then gives her an enormous pile of presents.

Zeus is the host who brings you in and takes your coat and shoves a beer and a plate that contains like three times as much food as you can eat in your hands and puts the TV to your favorite show to watch while you warm up.

Zeus is the soldier and the general and the veteran, aching for every lost brother or soldier under his command or fallen comrade. He’s the lawgiver banging on his colleagues’ doors to beleaguer them into passing the 9/11 First Responder bill because how dare you! not! take care! of first responders!!

He’s the businessman cutting a shrewd deal and rolling those savings into lowering his employees’ health insurance premiums, because the King of Olympus takes care of his own.

He’s the unabashed admirer of beauty moved to tears by a letter from his son, by his daughter’s first cello recital, by a photograph of his little boy cuddling their patient cat. He is so comfortable, confident, and secure in himself that he expresses his feelings with no inhibitions – the thought that love might make him appear weak never even crosses his mind.

And he’s the hell-raiser who teaches Apollon how to get a girl’s number and Dionysos how to hold his liquor and Hermes how to skirt through back alleys and jump fences to get away from the cops. And he’s the cops. And he’s the god of fences. 

Zeus is infinitely complex and multifaceted, just as much as any of his more popular children, and in his embrace is power in every form.