Alrighty, so we've got ourselves some more annoying peeps in Greek mythology! The story of Echo and Narcissus starts with the former: Echo is this gorgeous nymph who absolutely loves to talk. She chatters her days away, and to be honest, I'd probably steer clear of her. Apparently, Hera didn't know that, making the mistake of asking Echo a question about Zeus and some nymphs with whom he was hanging around (the dirty liar; he's supposed to be faithful! After all, aren't all gods faithful? *snorts*). Anyway, Echo talks Hera's ear off, making Hera miss finding out the nymphs who her husband was fooling around with. Uh-oh. Echo should have just run at this point, because pissing off Hera is not a good idea. So, the goddess found Echo, and told her, "Hey, I'm basically taking away your ability to form words, and you have to wait for everyone else to talk before you can, and even then, you can only use other people's words, not your own OKAY PEACE BYE BRO." Then Hera leaves. Bye, Hera!
So, Echo's just walking along in silence, pining for her own voice when she sees Narcissus off in the distant. When she sees him, she thinks, "OMG look at that attractive youth! He's super hot. I wish I could talk to him." So the nymph waits for Narcissus to notice her, and when he does, she just sort of repeats everything that he says to her. I think he was a wee bit creeped out by Echo, and he just kinda told her off before ditching her. (Ouch. Rejecteeeedddd.) Then, THEN, Echo is so ashamed that she literally wastes the rest of her life in the woods away from people and then turns into rocks and stones. Like, WOWOWOWOOWW, I know you're embarrassed, but chill! Yeesh!
Anyway, then the story focusses on Narcissus, who has his own fan club of nymphs. He rejects all of them, though, and one totes cray nymph prays to the gods that Narcissus can feel the pain of rejection. Heh, Aphrodite probably had a lot of fun with coming up with this revenge thing, because she makes him fall in love with his own reflection. HAHAHAHAHAHA anyway. Narcissus spends the rest of his life pining after his reflection before he withers away into a flower. Woohoo.
To remind you that not everyone in the world is like this, I shall tell you about my little friend Tom Hiddleston. He is probably the nicest, most selfless and kind person on the face of the PLANET. He plays, among other things, Loki in the Avengers, and UGH HE IS SO NICE THAT I CAN'T TAKE IT. I mean:
Anyway, you catch my drift. So basically, he is super nice to every single person he encounters, and he acts like a prince and advocates for women's rights and encourages everyone to follow their dreams, and I don't give a flying flip how cliche any of this sounds because he is pretty damn close to perfection OKAY BYE.
Okay, I'll stop with the photo spam of adorableness. All pictures came from my tumblr, so, er, I shan't link them. But here's regular tumblr!
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