That was Jessterday

Hey, Jess here! Quite a while ago already, I wrote about Hou Yi. In this story I mentioned the name Chang'e a few times, because she is Hou Yi's wife. Then it so happened that I were to play Chang'e in a match of Assault in Smite, so now it's time to talk about her. Just like her husband, Chang'e is from the Chinese mythology. She is a beautiful woman who now lives on the moon.  This makes her the moon goddess. But she wasn't always that. There are at least two versions of her story and some details have even more variations. Version 1 Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e#/ media/File:Chang%27e_flies_to_the_moon_-_Project_ Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg When Chang'e still was a young, but already beautiful girl, she actually carried the name Heng'e. At that time she worked in the Jade Emperor's palace which was in heaven. In this palace resided the immortals, good people and also fairies. But one day, Heng'e broke a very

Hey, Jess here! I kind of neglected it, but I own a few guitars. Whoa, newsbreak, I know! But really I used to play the guitar and I still have my little precious ones. So I wanted to tell you all about them, why I started playing the guitar and also why I stopped. So, I think I was twelve years old (but maybe a little younger) when I decided that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar. After saving and a little help from my parents, I  could buy my first acoustic guitar and a few books to learn how to read music and play simple tunes. At first I really loved doing that and I got the hang of it quite easily. But it didn't take too long for me to get bored of it. And I don't think that's reall weird, because no one would like doing the same thing over and over again. My first electric guitar So that's why I decided that I wanted to have an electric guitar. I'm not sure where the money came from, but for just 100 euros I had my own electric guitar with a

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hey, Jess here! Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni #/media/File:Agni_god_of_fire.jpg It's been a while since I've wrote something new, but I have a reason for it. I spent almost the whole week with my boyfriend and wanted every moment to count. We won't be able to see each other much anymore, because he's starting a new job. It will only be part time for now, but I have my own job too. Besides, travelling has also become a lot more expensive. To be honest, I feel really bad about it all and I already miss him a lot. But maybe I can try to write a little more just to get my mind of off things. So for today I wanted to discuss Agni. Agni is a god of the Hinduism. He is depicted with either two or three heads and two to four arms. He usually has a beard and a halo of flames leaping upward, but always has a red skin. Agni often rides a wagon pulled by horses or rides a ram. He mainly is a fire god and is also one of the

Hey, Jess here! This time, my random god selector (a.k.a. a match of Assault in Smite) came up with Chronos. So let's do it. Chronos is the god of time, measurable time to be exact. He was originated from the first god Chaos. Another Greek word for time is Kairos, but this roughly means 'the indeterminate moment that is right for something to occur' and is more associated with the feeling of not knowing how much (measurable) time has passed. Source:  https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos Chronos is usually portrayed as an old and very wise man who has a long, grey beard. This is similar to Father Time. This name also came from something else. Chronos is often confused with Cronus, the Titan (though some think he is consciously identified with him) because of the similar names. Also, the Greeks believed that the name Cronus was an allegorical name for Chronos. It wasn't only the name, but also the story of how Cronus ate his children (the Olympians) was

Hey, Jess here! I thought it would be a good idea to go through a series instead of going between different books from different series. And because I did an Assassins Creed book last time, I will do this series first. So Assassin's Creed; Renaissance is also written by Oliver Bowden and it was released in 2009. This was the first Assassins Creed novel Bowden has written. The story follows Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the protagonist of the videogame the novel is based on. It mostly follows the story well and so it is basically an retelling of the videogame. This also means that in this novel there is no 'different way' of telling the story (as I have explained for Assassin's Creed; The Secret Crusade ). But there are also some differences between the game and the novel. The most important difference is the lack of present day scenes. Those who have played the game know this, but for those who haven't: in the game there are present day scenes. In these sce

Hey, Jess here! I am not sure if I have mentioned it before, but I'm a huge fan of Assassins Creed. In fact it's my all time favorite games series and I don't think that will ever change. But ther has to be a moment when I started playing it right? Of course there is and I wanted to tell you about it. When I was 15 or 16 years old when I finally got some real friends (like, people who actually cared for me and didn't just use me) and so I also met my best friend. I don't know if he would like me to say his name, so just to be sure I won't. But at that point I had barely ever played games before. I did have a Nintendo DS, which is now a very old version, but I only had it for Nintendogs (oops). Later I started playing other things on it, but that's a story for a different time. My best friend and another friend were real gamers, haha. They came together just to play games and since I was their friend now, I also came. But at first I was only watching

Hey, Jess here! At the moment I'm reading the second book of a series. So before I finish (and review) it, I wanted to do a review on the first book of the series. I did have to refresh my memory a bit, because I've read the first book over a year ago, but I think it will be fine. Also: once again I don't want to go to much into the story itself to prevent any spoilers. If a spoiler does occur, I will mention it beforehand. So let's begin. "Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard; The Sword of Summer" So this series is one of the many Rick Riordan has written. I think most people don't know his name, but when I mention Percy Jackson, I'm pretty sure it rings a bell. The series of Magnus Chase is the fourth series I'm reading and I have love all of it. If anyone is interested in reviews of the other series, I'm more than glad to do it. So as many of you might expect, the series is about gods, the Norse gods to be exact. And also not very un

Hey, Jesse here! My boyfriend and I share almost everything we have. Everything I own is also his and everything he owns is also mine. Of course this has its boundaries, we don't use the same toothbrush for example. But everything like books, games, and all those kind of things, we share. That's why I am able to borrow games from him every now and then so I don't have to buy them. I am currently borrowing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon; Gates of Infinity. At first I wanted to play another game of the Mystery Dungeon series, but that one was newer, so I decided to play it after this one. But because of this, I thought it would be nice to talk about how I started playing Pokémon in general. It actually started out in a way that makes you think there's no connection at all. But bear with me and it will all make sense at the end. So I was an animal lover for as long as I can remember and as a child I always wanted a pet. (I still do, by the way.) But my parents didn't want

Hey, Jess here! Back with another god research. I do like doing random gods, so I keep on doing it. But if there are any requests, feel free to ask me. I'd really like that! For now, I'll be discussing Kukulkan. Unfortunately there isn't much known about Kukulkan, but I'll try to do it with what I could find. Kukulkan is a Mayan god who is also known as Quetzalcoatl in the Aztec culture. His name literary translated to "Feathered Serpent" as "kuk" means "feather" and with the adjectival suffix "-ul" ("kukul") it means "feathered". Then, "can" means "snake" and combined it becomes "feathered snake". https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons /d/d9/YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg The origins of Kukulkan are among the Maya of the Classic Period which is from 200 AD to 1000. At this time he was known as Waxaklahun Ubah Kan which means the War Serpent. Later he became the V

Hey, Jess here! Yes, that title was a reference to one of The All American Rejects' songs! But there is a reason for it. (As if I'd ever do anything without a reason, pfff.) The last few days I was a my boyfriend's place. And of course we spent a lot of time outside walking and all that. But the weather was really annoying; it was quite warm, but also very moist. It really was like walking in a tropical climmate and that's very hard on me unfortunately. That's part of the reason we decided to stay a little more inside and work on some pepakura (a.k.a. papercraft) projects. One of the templates This is really awesome to do! But what do you do? Well, maybe the name suggested it, but you work with paper. Maybe origami or something like that comes to mind, but it's a little different. There are gradations in difficulty, but you're always working with templates. Some people are awesome (and skilled) enough to create those templates. But I don't thin

Hey, Jess here! At first I wanted to say that I decided that I won't be posting everyday anymore. Don't get me wrong, I really like doing this, but I'm not satisfied with what I post. It became more important to post daily than to post something good. I can't say how often I will be posting. I just want to write things and be able to like the result myself. I just think quality is more important than quantity.  In quite a lot of my articles, I have mentioned my boyfriend. I've chosen not to reveal his name, because I don't know if he would be fine with that, so I'll just keep calling him 'my boyfriend (which he is, so I don't see the problem). Right now I am 22 years old and so is he, for now. He is half a year older than me, so he'll be23 years old before me, haha. Pretty soon we will celebrate that we've been together for two and a half years. Woohoo! So this means we started dating when I was almost 20 years old (A little less

Hey, Jess here! So for this one I've used the same technique to decide which god to discus; to play a match of Assault to give me a random god. This time I ended up with the infamous Athena, also known as Pallas Athena which roughly translates to "She who wields the Lance". Marble statue of Athena Athena is the goddess of many things, but most important are war and wisdom. She was a goddess who was worshipped everywhere the Greek had settled. While her brother Ares is all about bloody war, Athena is all about strategic war. But while she is a goddess of war, she prefers wisdom over fighting. This means that she preferred to use wisdom to settle predicaments and only approved fighting for a just cause. Athena was also known as the patron and helper of many Greek heroes. Among the these were the well known Odysseus, Jason, and Heracles. There are multiple stories of how Athena was born. One story tells about how she was born from water. Since everything and e