Heather Veley
6 min readMay 31, 2020

Before I became a cringy anime weeaboo, my first official nerdy love was Greek mythology. I loved the tales about gods, superhumans, and even regular people running around and getting into all kinds of shenanigans. It was also cool to see how an ancient culture expressed itself; communicating what they admired and valued through story telling. Yeah some of the stories haven’t aged well in our modern world with our modern sensibilities but, that’s mythology for you. Now, just because I’ve grown up and moved on…