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If ypu think about it, Wesker is really just Trish if she would've taken the T-Virus (Testosterone):

#resident evil #devil may cry #dmc trish #albert wesker #ramblings

Type of shit Perseus would be sending to Andromeda while she's already crying and having a mental breakdown:

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#greek mythology #perseus #andromeda #perseus and andromeda #greek mythology memes #incorrect greek mythology #Instagram

Baby Perseus be like:

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Autonoe and Agave:

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Medusa retellings part 100

"More than a study of myth, it is an exploration of power, identity, perspective, and the human need to find meaning in stories."

I guess

That's as far as the sample went

So there's now another book where a sculptor goes looking for Medusa

With ai generated image on the cover

"• The priesthood detail that belongs entirely to Rome, not to Athens"

You were so close...

"The story of Medusa as a celibate priestess in Athena's temple is, again, Ovid's contribution, not an inherited Greek tradition. In his version, she serves the virgin goddess under a strict vow,"

It will get dumber

"In Ovid's account, Poseidon assaults the priestess inside Athena's own temple, and the goddess responds not by punishing her brother but by transforming the victim."

It shouldn't be possible, but that's not the only time a book calls Poseidon the brother instead of uncle of Athena

"Long before Perseus struck her down, Medusa was a guardian, a serpent-crowned goddess who turned away evil and watched over thresholds. Patriarchal myth recast her as the monstrous feminine – beautiful, cursed, and vilified for her own rape."

Yeah sure...

The existence of a second book already bothered me, now I discover it's a trilogy 🫩

That's one of the laziest designs of Triton I've ever seen

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I reached the dreaded 3 digits mark 😐

Somehow I feel nothing

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The entire "She was never a monster." Discourse along with the AI-generated covers were already problematic, but the last one made me die of cringe.

Anyway, here's a bunch of Resident Evil Memes I saved on my phone as Greek Mythology Memes because I'm bored:

Ares:

Zeus and Hera:

Caeneus:

Either Phocus or Priasus (Caeneus' sons): Also yes, his sons are trans too (because I said so).

Apollo and Daphne:

Asclepcius:

Dictys and Perseus:

The Argonautica as a whole VS. The Jason and Medea subplot:

Heracles:

Heracles and Omphale:

#greek mythology #greek mythology memes #incorrect greek mythology

Just saw a moot from IG adding a Princess Annika (Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus) × Chris Redfield TikTok Edit to his story with the caption "What is the thought process behind this 😭" Honestly, same.

But hey, at least we're coming up with random ahh ships from completely different fandoms again so at least the world is healing.

#resident evil #chris redfield #princess annika #barbie and the magic of pegasus #ramblings

I'm curious about your opinions on Mother Miranda as an antagonist and as a character? I like your other critiques about 8, and I want to know if your perspective extends to her? Theres like this big divide on her as a character within the community.

I don't like, obviously, when people single her out as the "one thing wrong with 8" because in my mind, she is a symptom not the cause. Some people just don't want to admit that Karl may also be just as poorly written ( in my opinion ). But I do definitely think she has her own unique "quirks" in a sense of what she gets wrong/right, depending on how you like the character.

Maybe I'm a little jaded, but I kindve rolled my eyes when the big reveal was she went evil and crazy because her baby died. I dunno, I felt it already flattened an already rushed concept down into her role as a mother. I grow tired of the constant "maternal role" delegation for Resident Evil women.

Honestly I have mixed feelings about Mother Miranda. On one hand, she is an occult leader just like Saddler back in RE4 and has a lot of imagery and motifs which makes you think of a darker version of Virgin Mary. On the other hand, Saddler was a bussiness man first and a religious leader second (at least in the OG RE4), whereas Miranda was fully into this magic-like, dark pagan religious fascism.

I my opinion her character could've had a lot of potential, but most of the time she got ultimatelly reduced to her desire of bringing back her baby daughter Eva (whose name is likely an allusion to Eve given the religious symbolism so even her wasn't spared of that) at all cost. It always rubs me in a wrong way how a lot of RE female characters' arcs or importance is usually centered around motherhood first and foremost, especially in this game where literally every major female character is a maternal figure in one way or another. Mia went from the status of "Ethan's wife" to "Rose's mother" in this game. Lady Dimitrescu has her three daughters. Donna has her dolls. Meanwhile on the male side the only character from RE8 who gets attributed a paternal role is Ethan, who's very much still an action figure for the most part of this game. Even in the earlier games we had female character like Annette who's only good thing about was being Sherry's mother (and even here it could be argued that she was a neglectful one anyway) or Marguerite Baker who remained known as that crazy terrifying mom from RE7. I despise how maternity is usually given as the only good trait about a morally grey/villainous female character or, even worse, how a mother's extremes are usually demonized, whereas a father's are regarded as admirable or at least understandable.

I also despise how we're talking here about a character who got firstly introduced back in 2021 (when this franchise was already 25 years old), was operating primarly in Romania and spent most of her life trying to bring her daughter back is now suddently the Big Bad Guy who started everything and should be blamed for all of the shit we see throughout the games, whereas Spencer, the eugenistic billionaire who has been around since '96 and founded the Umbrella Corporation ended up regretting everything he did and even developed this anti-viral too, therefore we should no longer be harsh on him, especially now that we know he only got inspired by Miranda's research. 😔

#resident evil #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #mother miranda #ramblings #ask

#ask

The idea of Leon initially having a dog (and a Bloodhound too) in the concept art only for it to get eventually cut off should be considered a crime against humanity.

#resident evil #leon kennedy #ramblings

sarafangirlart

So about that Dramione Nazi romance book, 5 original sentences left I know I’m thinking about the oppressor x oppressed genre a lot lately (also there’s other Nazi romance novels and movies so this book isn’t particularly unique in its tone deafness) and I realize that it’s usually with a male oppressor who’s physically and/or socially powerful and the oppressed is usually an innocent civilian (and usually a woman) who has to ‘fix’ this bigot who fell in love with them and the oppressor would’ve never chosen to redeem themselves if it weren’t for their attraction to the oppressed.

And it got me thinking about Finn, the Stormtrooper for Force Awakens and his fanon ships with Rey and Poe that should’ve been canon.

Basically, it’s no secret that Stormtroopers are based on Nazis, but what makes Finn sympathetic, his redemption arc and his ship with characters that his side were oppressing believable is a few key details:

1. The stormtroopers are groomed from a young age and stripped of all individuality that they don’t even have real names. That makes them more tragic than real fascists.

2. Finn is incredibly young and on what seems to be his very first mission (where he and his squad are ordered to kill innocent villagers) and he’s horrified by what happened and makes a heel turn, we don’t know if he did any war crimes before that mission (idc if the books say he did I’m talking about the movies) so he didn’t do anything irredeemably evil so it’s easier to root for him.

3. He makes a defects bc it’s the right thing to do, NOT bc he was in love with Poe. That’s a key difference, Poe helps Finn do what’s right but he’s not the reason for it, so his reason for changing isn’t lust.

4. Rey and Poe don’t hold Finn’s hand the whole time to teach him what’s good and bad not do they try to fix him, Finn is smart and empathetic enough to figure it out on his own, he understands that the empire is bad and would have come to that conclusion even without meeting Poe.

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Your post literally reminded me of this reel I just saw yesterday:

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I think the issue is basically a mix between two major factors:

a) The "commodification" of nazism or fascism in general to the point where you have people who live in a dystopian country still believing that calling Trump's administration fascist is ridiculous or un-founded due to the lack of education and media literacy AND the neo-nazis, conservatives, right-wingers in general etc. who are easily falling for WW2 nazi propaganda and would rather believe that "It's the Jews!" or "We own Hitler an apology." because of how effective and persistent it got durimg the last decades. The situation is so bad to the point where you're literally having sub-communities of the Booktok or Bookstagram communities reading nazi books who are then defending themselves of any accusations by claiming that they're just part of history or that assuming they're neo-nazis just because they read them is just "woke bs" (they would never apply the same logic to people who are reading Karl Marx or any socialist authors though...).

b) The romanticization of abusive relationships between a dominant possessive powerful man and a vulnerable woman who most of the time ends up losing her bodily autonomy or free will, and by extension cannot consent to said relationship. Not only that most of the time these type of books are romanticizing violence and abuse agaisnt women and are basically Tradwife Prolaganda, but they also include lots of heteronormative and racial tones as well. The opressed character is oftently a woman and in some cases a poc as well (or at least part of an ethnicity that is marginalized or scritinized), whereas the opressor is typically a white powerful man with bigoted beliefs, which is basically linked in the idea that even the most heinous pieces of shit to ever exist who are usually sexist, racist etc. cannot in fact be "that bigoted" or can change themselves if they're willing to have intercourse with a woman of colour, when in reality this type of men do not even view white women as equal to them, and by extension sleeping with a woc (which again, is without her consent) doesn't contradict their beliefs because they view both women AND poc as inferior in general, and to them penetration in general is also a way of asserting their power over someone. And yet exactly this type of characters are usually sanitized and written from a sympathetic light, and are oftently turned into full heroic figures by the end of the story. And the way this genre of books is also highly commercialized and mediatized might be a way of socializing people even more into being comfortable with this type of beliefs, even on an unconcious level. And what form of entertainment is much more essential to pollute other than literature (who is also generally accepted as an intellectual activity), knowing very goddamn well what an impact reading has over people's critical thinking and perpectives, and how one can easily shape it once you're going for the books many people from your society are going to consume as well?

#Instagram

"Hades was a faithful husband unlike his stupid brothers and never cheated on Persephone."

Literally the first and last time when he cheated on her with someone:

#greek mythology #greek gods #hades #persephone #minthe #ramblings #Youtube

theodysseyofhomer

someone should study the phenomenon of homer fandom enthusiasts treating every non-homeric mythological source or tradition not only as "non-canonical," but as an actual affront to the story they know, regardless of whether the narratives are in competition. but not me because i'm too easy to ragebait.

#It's even worse when this people claim that X's account cannot be considered valid or canon because they wrote it for political reasons.#As if all ancient poets and authors haven't adapted innovated and actively engaged themselves with the local stories while writing #and the reason why Homer and Hesiod are considered these titans of Greek Mythology #is simply because there haven't been found any older surviving ancient text yet.#Because if we continue to invalidate different authors from different centuries as “not canon” then where will we stop drawing the line?

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An excuse I’ve often seen for Phineus being portrayed as a good guy in the book is that “grooming was normal in those times and portraying it doesn’t mean it condones it” but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny bc Andromeda constantly monologues about how much women struggle and how much men are controlling and abusive and how Phineus of all ppl is the exception, her view of Phineus is never put into doubt and is actually further emphasized with Achiroe who’s also this woke girlboss who favors Phineus over Cepheus bc he’s a “good” man who’d treat Andromeda right so it’s ok if he’s grooming her.

If the book was just going to portray grooming neutrally then why are we always reminded of how great Phineus is? It would’ve been one thing if he was portrayed as complex (and even another grooming victim) but this book portrays him as “one of the good ones” that the men either look up to and respect or envy. How are you gonna make a feminist retelling then portray the groomer as the exemplary masculinity?

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Also it rubs me in a wrong way how there is actually one key detail you have all right to criticize Euripides' Andromeda by modern standards for (as far as we can tell since only a few fragments survived), and that is the fact that Andromeda and Phineus are uncle and niece. At that time this kinship didn't have the exact same meaning it has nowdays, especially considering the fact that marriages between uncles and nieces or cousins (or both because multiple incest) were not uncommon within noble families. This is why Phineus is usually referred to as Cepheus' brother or Andromeda's betrothed but never her uncle, and this topic likely wouldn't have been touched even by Euripides in his plays because he was, at the end of the day, very much a product of his times and saw this type of incestuous relationships as normal by default. The reason why Phineus is treated as the bad guy isn't because he was her uncle (and by extension there was a significant age gap between these two) or because he likely groomed her given the historical context, but because he was a coward who didn't lift a finger in order to save her when she was about to get sacrificed to a sea monster.

This is the criticism one should make based on the play, and yet instead of actually adressing this topic people prefer to create a completely different, much simpler case scenario where the misogynistic issues are easier and more convenient to detect and analyze, because this isn't in fact about prioritizing Andromeda's bodily autonomy or choices as much as it is an excuse for creating a completely different story where only the names of the characters remain the same and then slap the #Greek Mythology and #Feminist tags above in order to make sure people will buy and read your book.

"Ada only wants to fuck Leon." Okay, and? You're literally reading and writing Leon × OC/Self-Insert Fics that go from the classical "Dominant Top Possessive Daddy" Trope to straight-up stalking, grooming, manipulation, rape and other fucked up shit. (Also most of these are highly mischaracterizing and ridiculous too since Lore Accurate Leon has the seduction skills of an unwashed carrot.) You are drawing or saving NSFW Fanart of him and Thirst Traps, or are going for the shirtless/nude modes where we have Zaddy Leon with his dick out while playing Requiem. And yet the moment a female character within the exact same universe wants to sleep with him (the exact same thing 70% of the Fandom wants to do regardless of gender or sexuality) then it's suddently unacceptable.

Also mind you, Ada is not the only character out there with a couple of ex-es or love interests. Claire was pretty popular and had a few boyfriends back in college, and none of these were serious relationships. In the OG RE2 the reason why Leon was late on his first day was because he got wasted after breaking up with his girlfriend. Jill and Chris were both in their mid-20's back in '98, you cannot tell me any of them were still virgins (let aside that they weren't experimenting at one point too) during the Spencer Mansion fiasco. And yet the moment Ada does the exact same thing then it's suddently a problem. "Oh, but she's lying and manipu-" That's literally part of her goddamn job! Do you really think Leon is some poor little stupid meow meow uwu babygirl who's unaware of what she's capable of? Of fricking course he isn't, but he's still playing along anyway because he still has a soft spot for her deep inside, because human feelings and relationships in general can be mixed and complicated instead of just black or white.

#resident evil #ada wong #leon kennedy #ramblings

Agave and Echion:

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#greek mythology #agave #spartoi #greek mythology memes #incorrect greek mythology

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What it's like criticizing the fact that Jill, Rebecca and Claire haven't made any appearence in any of the linear games for more than a decade only for people to start talking about how overrated Ada is (she has only appeared in the Remakes too and the last main game featuring her got released thirteen years ago):

But sure gurl, keep fighting misogyny with even more misogyny, everybody knows how good and effective this is! Woohoo!

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See, this is exactly what I'm talking about:

Not only that Jill Valentine is a protagonist/main playable character both in Resident Evil and Resident Evil 3 (which was the very first RE game featuring an individual playable character instead of two), but she has also appeared in RE5 and Revelations. Furthermore, I never see these "Jill Fans" complaining about how oversexualized Jill got past RE5 and how perverted and disgusting the developers have to be to include unnecessary tentacle porn in the RE3 Remake that didn't even exist in the OG game in the first place probably because they're still gooning to a rape allegory, or how they recycled the exact same character design from the remake and used it for that Death Island stupid film (that doesn't change nor adds anything relevant to the franchise, to be honest), and then came up with the "Wesker's experiments on her de-aged her." dumb explanation instead of simply recognizing that they're afraid to have a middle-aged female character that doesn't look like she's still in her 20's unless she's supposed to be dislikeable, or how Jill went through hell and back and survived both the Spencer Mansion incident and the Raccoon City Outbreak just to get kidnapped and have her bodily autonomy stolen by Wesker, or how we literally got this year a new RE game where one of the OG protagonists had to turn back to Raccoon City and fight both a Wesker and a Nemesis imitation, and somehow that protagonist turned out to be Leon instead of her.

Speaking about Leon: name one single RE game where Ada isn't there in order to support Leon's journey, since she's always released from the Capcom basement only when she's supposed to serve the exact same blonde yt guy's walkthrough. Also, the only games where she's actually a playable character are the Separate Ways DLC and RE6, which became the scapegoat of the Resident Evil games back when it was firstly released and to this day is still one of the most overhated RE games, and she ended up being the one ultimately blamed for its massive flop instead of Capcom or the gamers who have a hard time keeping up with a game where you have to memorize more than seven characters. Also also she was initially supposed to appear in RE8 but the idea got abandoned because this time she would've no longer served as the male protagonist's love interest.

Turning back to Jill because it's pretty clear that most of her (male) fans have a hard time appreciating her character outside of her looks or being an action girl/strong female character in a convenient, attractive way. One of the few good changes about the RE3R was having her taking pills or having anger issues and mental breakdowns because of her PTSD (something that gets barely touched in the OG games), yet people instantly called her an "angry feminist" because of this instead of actually engaging themselves with her new characterization in order to count her pros and cons (as a base of comparison I too have my own complaints when it comes to this but I have to admit when the developers were actually cooking with something). Not to mention the entire criticism over her being given more practical clothing, whereas her OG RE1 and RE3 costume modes weren't as thight as the previous ones, or the entire Reddit-based discourse over her being able to hold a giant-ass railgun as if anything about these games is supposed to be realistic or something. These guys' main criteria is basically "waifu material", and the fact that Jill got whitewashed overtime and was never written in a blatantly orientalistic way despite of being originally wasian (people either forget or don't know that she was supposed to be half-japanese) along with the fact that she's generally more likeable and makes much less morally ambiguous or controversial decisions make her a much easier target to project their fantasies onto, compared to Ada who a) is clearly a poc, and b) has hurt a guy's feelings 28 years ago and is constantly lying as if this isn't literally part of her job.

Of coursly, Ada is very much a target of fetishization and hypersexualization in her own right within this Fandom, but characters like Jill or Claire are usually ending up becoming victims of this racist, white-based criteria. Also, putting two female protagonists who haven't even met against each other and then calling it a day as if supporting or defending your favourite female character is treated more like a chore and has to come at the expense of downgrading another female character is doing a great disservice to both of them, because fighting the developers' misogyny and sexism with even more misogyny and sexism is NOT FUCKING WORKING.

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