>looking For A New Retelling Of Ancient Myth

>looking for a new retelling of ancient myth

>ask the reviewers if the book is classical reception or modern tropification

>they don't understand

>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between what engages with ancient sources and depictions of the story and what relies on reduction of the story to its most marketable aspects

>they laugh and say "it's a good retelling"

>read the book

>its tropification

REMINDER TO CHECK YOUR BALLS

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

*displays textbook symptomatic behavior of my own disorder that I am well educated on* what’s my deal why am I like this

If Suzanne calls her fiance a golden retriever one more time I am going to beat my self with a hot curling iron in front of her kids

yeah