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Remembering that one time when I got bored a few weeks ago and I made this video for fun.

Theogony | Anime Opening

Reminds me of a conversation I had a long time ago with someone on this topic. For more context, I said that I do not personally consider Medusa a victim and showed to him a list with all the characters who were raped in Greek Mythology (some of them going through worse than her) who deserve to be made symbols of SA/Rape Survivors as well.

I’m kinda tired of Medusa fans defending how Ovid depicts her and saying it’s just as valid as Ancient Greek sources that say she was born a monster, it’s one thing to say that you like an idea or story beat from a Roman or even medieval source and even use it in your interpretation (I do that with Kronos and Hera), it’s another thing entirely to say it’s equally valid as Ancient Greek sources, when all these stories come from different cultures and time periods. I’d probably be more forgiving of this kind of thing if “Medusa was pretty then turned into a monster” was at least implied in ancient sources but it’s not.