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in my opinion, many modern greek retellings/stories inspired by greek mythology don't fail because they're inaccurate. they fail because they have nothing new to say.
i don't mind changes to the original myths, as long as they make sense and they have a narrative purpose! i understand that making changes is sometimes necessary to convey a certain narrative, especially to modern audiences.
is epic the musical mythologically accurate? hell no! but the changes serve to tell a specific story and to convey a certain message. also, epic the musical is self aware about its "inaccuracies". and the music just bangs.
is hadestown accurate? no! does it make the change that I always dread, removing the kidnapping from the hades/persephone myth? yeah. but hadestown is barely about them, and it uses greek mythology as a "narrative frame" to tell a certain story. it has a point. it has a message.
what are stories like lore olympus trying to say? what is the messagge of the hundredth persephone/hades retelling? what are we supposed to take from them? "don't listen to your mother she's a bitch"? "mothers are irrational and you should forsake her for a man"? very feminist.
why are we still doing the medusa "feminist" retellings? it's BEEN done. too many times. and they're ALL the same. it's a worse crime than being bad: they are boring.
i'm tired of retellings that are just "what if this very famous story was THE OPPOSITE and the protagonist was an ASSHOLE the whole time and the villain was MISUNDERSTOOD and the real VICTIM" okay but why. why would that be the case. what's the point of the story you want to tell. or do you just want to use shock value.
of course, i dislike retellings that are so different from the myth that they go AGAINST the spirit/message of the original, because in that case what's even the point of retelling the myth? just tell an original story. but i would take stabbed poseidon and capitalist hades any day over the same basic story of medusa being a girlboss or demeter being bad because of... reasons?
tl;dr: stop being unoriginal and tell a good story. or at least an entertaining one. i beg you
Before I got into this AU I thought it was funny more or less, I can't wait to read more though 😁
... I couldn't resist doing more self-insert stuff whoops
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I tried the thin line art for a comic I'm doing, I sort of regretted it I probably should have used a thicker brush. But on the flip side I gotten better of using the erase lasso when doing thin lines. Anyway this is probably my favorite art study of @genericpuff's journey in mastering Lore Olympus art style but if you ask me I like where Lore Rekindled is and I love how it's art style looks, you can see Genericpuff's art style mixes in and impacts the story even to it's most tiny details.
I also love how she makes the butterflies and wild flowers glow.
doing more style studies, here's LR persephone with the stylization of pilot era LO , with some of the effects I use in LR (but adjustments made to the lineart style because looking back a lot of the pilot era LO pieces that I loved had really thin lineart, which i've always been really bad at doing sksksksk)
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I think I might do an art study for later
Sailor Moon Skylines
Agreed
So the only reason Gabriel made Marinette break up with Adrien is bc he knew he’d get good akuma bait. Ok fuck you. Thanks for the Marichat but still.
Fuck.
You.
The amount of ass Gabriel was to Adrien in this episode is just-
-Beating the ever loving shit out of him without an ounce of remorse
-No sympathy whatsoever after finding out he’s CN
-Uses his loving relationship to target his girlfriend (the amount of awful in this action specifically is just-I can’t even begin to-)
THEY WERE HAPPY GODDAMNIT
AND GORILLA NEEDS TO CALL CPS BC I KNOW NATALIE SURE AS HELL WON’T
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