#myth thoughts

[charlieneedstherapy]

I discovered Cuphead's true identity....

HE'S A SHRIMP!!!

Or he's just a artist/j

[lesbianyujiitadori]

Algol and Myth of the machine

oo so uh leaving this here for everyone cuz it felt important

The Map leads to “the assembly of algol” and somehow connects to the vanquishing of the blot like perseus and medusa idk im just typing shit

the dimming and brightening nature probably is important symbolically and literally like they need that Map within whatever time and symbolically because of hope maybe idk

they have to assemble it because their world is currently in pieces reminds me of bugs and dyle and all the toons that have been “built” or “rebuilt” makes me think of the sonic gang too thisbis really incoherent just trust me guys

someone smarter and more energized than me come make a connection im sleepy😿

[boohoo-31]

Why I think Cuphead made the deal with the devil. 

Context: 

During the flash back from Mugman within the first chapter (October 5 for the date). We can see their childhood home in complete disarray because no one is there to help. When we look deeper into the background, we can see draft paper with Elder Kettles signature and behind that is the new paper calling him a ‘war hero’ using the info we have now that was most likely from the first war and this new draft paper was for the second war as shown in image 1. When trying to put together a timeline for how long the twins have been alone, we can look at the home, and the pet fish is starting to decompose. It takes around 2-3 weeks for a fish of that size to decompose meaning around a month has passed. We can guess they have started to ration food and what other supplies they have.  

With the context out of the way, here’s what we know we they are young maybe round 9-10 with the only graduation they know gone possible killed in the line of battle. Not only that, but we can see have no other means of support outside of Elder Kettle.

 I think it be within reason for Cuphead to feel responsible for his bother not only because he is the older twin (by around three mins), but because he would know what life had out for them being. I say this because while Mugman was at school, Cuphead had the whole day to himself. He was hardly home during that time, so I can see Cuphead being exposed to more adult topics and a rougher side of life that he wasn’t ready for. I can see Cuphead feeling responsible and helpless at the same time. Cuphead is going out to try and find a way to support his brother and make things better and stumbling across the Devil’s casino with the idea of getting some form of cash doesn’t seem unreasonable for a young child. From here I think the deal followed the same pattern just for a different reason.

[fortheloveofdeepspace]

I don't have King of Darknight so I'm excluding him from this conversation - FOR NOW (we'll get him on the rerun, we will.) sorry Xavier. Some thoughts:

Zayne and Rafayel's hair are my favourite, no contest.

Zayne's outfit is also my favourite, but Caleb is a close second - love the shoulder piece and I do like the details on the front of Sylus' outfit.

Rafayel's form is obviously on a whole other level and deserves all the praise. I mean, LOOK AT HIM. Seeing him for the first time in the preview trailer is something I will never ever forget.

All and all, I'm very pleased with their third myths. They did well.

Now I would like a break from myths. Please and thank you. 🥲 (I'm waiting on Xavier reruns, which hopefully will be kinder me. They had better be.... 🤪)

[flaviafulvia]

I love thinking about Achilles and Patroclus being teenage boys at the start of the war and all that entails. They sleep a lot and eat even more. Achilles has a growth spurt or two in him. At their camp there is a smell. They keep trying to grow beards and the results are risible. They are disgusting, living in a Bronze Age-frat house.

[littlesparklight]

I'm the type of person who really can't stand the sort of "magic goes away" plot, which I think is one part of why I just hate "gods dying" type things (in general, but in particular for Greek myth since I'm more invested), especially but particularly if it's of the "lack of faith/belief makes them lose powers and fade/eventually die" thing.

No doubt there's other reasons for my dislike, but also, to me, the "lack of faith" just doesn't make sense.

If whatever pantheon is treated, in-story, as the pantheon that has always existed and did so before humanity, then why would they then start losing powers/die off with a lack of belief when the group of humans who worshipped them stop doing so?

Or, if the given pantheon is just one among many, but still not having come into existence right along when the particular believers started to worship them, why, again, would then a lack of belief later down the line affect them? Because, even if we take away all the myths connecting to the creation of humanity and such, a lot of the time the myths themselves will have to have happened before the current/main believers existed. Especially so if the myths take place on actual Earth, having effects on the humans living when the myths are supposed to take place, but also just because they usually ARE conceived of as happening "in the past".

And, if gods only exist for as long as they're believed in... that's straight up body/mind horror, because, given how a culture's myths might/do develop over time, the god/s would be subjected to changes they have no control over. For example, take Greek myth, and go back to the Bronze Age; some of the gods the later ancient Greeks believed in did exist back then (for example, Zeus and Hera), but we don't know shit about their domains, or the myths attached to them. Undoubtedly some seeds of myths we now have existed back then, but certainly not in the forms we have now...

So, if belief is what fuels gods, in a case like this - are they saddled with an ever-changing circumstances of what's supposed to have happened in the past, changing relationships to the deities around them? Do they KNOW this is happening, and just have to try to live in changed myths like you have to do with new clothes? Do they not know? Does deities not having been swept up in any changing belief remember the old version, technically have their old relationships, except the other party doesn't remember it, or doesn't remember it as they do?

And so on.

Unpleasant.

[charlieneedstherapy]

Me looking at the scene where Bendy says he's dying to make Dandy stop talking about something he likes, i didnt find it wrong, now i know why the hell i didn't feel exaclty loved on my past relationship bro wtfKKKKKKKKK

[charlieneedstherapy]

I think i read 12 comics already...? Idk, i just think that PEOPLE SHOULD START PUTTING A "START HERE" BOTTOM I SPENDED 4 MINUTES JUST SCROOLING DOWN BRO