Need People To Stop "uwu Baby Boy"-ing Polites

need people to stop "uwu baby boy"-ing Polites

that man killed people

Homer writing Trojan Gods: Boo-hoo! Can't save their followers, can't win their fights, can't even protect themselves from mortals! Except Apollo, who's awesome (please don't hit me with a plague🙏)

Homer writing Greek Gods: My gods 🦉🦚 are awesome! 🤩🥰 So strong💪✊ and cool 😍😻 and clever 🤓😈. Only Zeus ⚡🌩 as King 👑🤴 is stronger 💢💥 but even he 🦅⛈ can't stop them! 🥳🎊🎉

AAAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH :)

#The voice of Diomedes comes from the anime Vinland Saga and the character Snake

#The voice of Odysseus comes from the game, The wolf among us, and the character Bigby Wolf

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# the voices of Odysseus and Diomedes

Medea (1969) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

demeter protecting persephone sketch

Not to be a hater (again) but I’ve just realized that a lot of tropes used to make Medusa a tragic feminist figure accidentally circle back to being misogynistic, for example:

- Medusa being a priestess of Athena not only was this never stated by any Ancient Greek literature or even by Ovid (it’s a modernish invention) but Ovid straight up contradicts it, he says that she had many suitors meaning she was eligible to be married and was never a virgin priestess. It low key falls into the trap of making a victim of sexual violence as pure, innocent and unsexual as possible, which having suitors just wouldn’t allow, so she is made into a priestess.

- Athena was actually helping her bc girl power yeah… no. Women don’t always support women, trying whitewash what Minerva/Athena did isn’t feminist, especially if you turn around and villainize Perseus when Athena literally helped him kill Medusa.

- Medusa’s design being beautiful I’ve talked about this before but it’s really gross how a lot of Medusa designs that use her tragic backstory also really sexualize and prettify her, which goes against the whole point of challenging your audience to sympathize with a monster, bc you won’t challenge your audience if you ask them to sympathize with a pretty lady with snake makeup and hair at all. It’s also pretty unfair how a male monsters in mythology are allowed to stay monstrous and ugly while Medusa needs to remain beautiful even after Athena “cursed” her.

- Medusa being isolated which is especially frustrating to me bc she has her sisters who loved her deeply and mourned her death, but it also overshadows Danae’s story, who was actually forcibly isolated by those in power (even if you go with the version where she was locked up with her nurse she still couldn’t interact with her friends and family) and victim blamed and used by powerful men. Adding unnecessary tragedy and sexual assault to an already tragic story is something writers still do now unfortunately.

Btw you can still make sympathetic portrayals of Medusa, just don’t fall into any of these pls