'I'm just a girl' I say as I get knee and elbow deep in stories

[willel]

two-sided coin 🪙

[foolishlyfloatingwraith]

mileven this, byler that

Jane and Will are parallels, Will and Jane are mirrors Jane and Will are twins, Will and Jane were always meant to meet and Mike Wheeler is just the means they were connected through, they are two souls shaped from the same exact material and born at the same time and meant to meet. Will and Jane meant to be siblings and they are both magical, wonderful and deserve happiness and Henry to go die in a ditch leaving them finally alone!

[woosh-floosh-art]

Situation that happened in class this semester that was so funny I immediately sketched it out in my notes

[foolishlyfloatingwraith]

The world is healing

[forgetful-nerd]

Wonderland, Neverland, and the Land of Oz all deserve to be on the same plane of existence, not so they can be all magical together or whatever, but so Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy could have a chance to meet each other.

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[kurzler]

psst. "feminist" retelling writers. yes, i'm talking to you. i have a gift for you: here are some interesting women from greek mythology that you can write about that are NOT medusa, persephone or clytemnestra! there ARE other women, shocking i know!

-medea: she literally killed her brother and her children, i thought "female rage" girlies would be all over her

-danae: her life is so crazy, imagine being imprisoned by you father, getting impregnated by a god, being locked in a box and left to die at sea and then basically becoming a hostage to a king while your son is sent to kill a monster. and she's one of the only ones who, to my knowledge, actually gets a happy ending!

-atalanta: basically the only female hero in greek mythology!! and she was an argonaut!! c'mon now there is so much potential here, why does nobody care for atalanta

-the amazons: penthesilea! hippolyta! literally any of them! you're telling me there is a whole society of female warriors and so called feminist writers aren't jumping at the opportunity??

-hecuba: such a tragic and interesting figure, being the queen of troy, she lost her whole family in the war, i wish more people explored her relationship with her children (especially paris) and apollo

-andromache: i'm shocked andromache isn't more popular with the "tragic female characters" people, she literally lost everything basically because of men

-cassandra: i know cassandra is fairly popular, but i love her so much and i want more people to explore her relationship with her family, every dynamic has the possibility to be SO interesting

-electra: this whole family is a MESS and yet i see people mainly focusing on clytemnestra (with iphigenia), but not exploring the relationship between electra and clytemnestra is such a missed opportunity

-helen: i just want the focus of her story to be shifted from paris to the other people in her life, like her daughter hermione! how did they rebuild their relationship after troy? or her sister clytemnestra! what happened to her bond after the murder of agamemnon? or her brothers, castor and pollux! there is so much untapped potential

-demeter: there is a story about a mother's grief for her daughter, her journey looking for her, her anger, and yet every retelling of the homeric hymn to DEMETER focuses HADES to make him a dark romance mafia boss?? come on

and more!

conclusion: i'm tired of seeing the same stories being retold over and over again when there are so many characters to explore

[thereinart]

I did a Danaé mini comic cause my heart aches for her

Hope you like it :3

[ily-a]

Peter Pan 2003 | dir. P. J. Hogan

[trans-pickles]

you don't need to write a dark deconstruction of Peter Pan where he's willing to kill people and his state of eternal childhood makes him morally ambiguous, JM Barrie already wrote one and it's called Peter Pan

[greykolla-art]

This is such a fun art style to work with!😂

I’ve always liked the friendship between Asterix and Getafix.

Always chilling on the sidelines together while everyone else fight.😜

[coe-olivier]

I love them 🌿

[recklessufodriver]

i drew a cl19/clonelin recently, i imagine him being made of sticks and wood and stuff

[demilypyro]

vampires are so full of shit. "oh the human race is beneath us, you're just livestock to us" I don't think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that's not what a higher being does. that's a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off

[foolishlyfloatingwraith]

It could be argued that humans are like domesticated animals , and the vamps are predators edging around, trying to grab the lazy and dulled humans that are way too used to the comfort that society created.

Still, we are not their livestock

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 8

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the problem with reading your own old posts is why the fuck did you say that

[nottoday125]

I love looking back at old hyperfixations bc it’s like driving home for the weekend and someone left the light on for you when you get back - I loved you. I miss you. Did you miss me too? Thank you for helping me. This was so cringe. This was the best time of my life. I don’t know when I’ll be back but I still care about you. I’ll see you when I can.

[thatonekimgirl]

Parallels from the finale.