#oxy.twt

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I can’t get over how unfair it is from a narrative perspective that Katara has to give birth to an “adequate” child—by her husband’s standards— or else an entire race of people goes extinct. And then she has to grin and bear her husband’s shit parenting because “he has trauma” and “has to focus on bringing his culture back”. How unfair is that? Why is the weight of the world on her shoulders (and womb)?

And this is why I can’t accept the claim that Katara’s arc is about how “she was adultified and Aаng reminded her how to be a kid again”. Does this sound like a happy and child-like adulthood?

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rick riordan YEW 🫵🏻 are a theoi user! (derogatory)

in case you don’t know, theoi.com has stated multiple times that demeter and karmanor had an affair that produced two children, chrysothemis and eubuleus. now, eubuleus being demeter’s son is correct, as it was attested by diodorus, but chrysothemis is just karmanor’s child, and she cannot also be demeter’s child because (say it with me now) demeter and karmanor don’t know each other!

this is the problem with “official” websites having incorrect information, it snowballs like this.

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I hate the emphasis that Percy Jackson puts on bloodlines. If you have a godly parent, you get to be a hero. If you don't, tough luck!

And what I find so weird is that Greek mythology is not like this. Sure, you have Heracles, Perseus, and Theseus being sons of big name gods; but you also have Odysseus, Patroclus, Diomedes, Atalanta, Menelaus, Hector, Jason, both Ajaxes, Cadmus, Pelops, and many others who have no gods as parents.

Plus, there's a grey area. Achilles is the Greek hero per excellence, incredibly skilled and agile—and his mother was a sea nymph. He wasn't the son of Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo or any other of the "important" gods, and he was still the greatest of his generation. Orpheus is attested as the son of Apollo in a few sources, but he was mostly regarded as the son of a mortal and the muse Calliope; again, not a big shot god, a minor goddess.

If Greek mythology followed the rules of Percy Jackson, only Heracles, Perseus, maybe Theseus and Bellerophon, depending on which of their parentages you believe, and a few others would be heroes; everyone else would be a footnote. And I ask, why include this weird bioessentialism in a children's series? Why couldn't Annabeth, Grover, Nico, or any of the main supporting cast members just be an extraordinary mortal, like Odysseus and so many others? This is like if in Narnia only children born of magical parents could pass through the closet

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what if you were a WITCH and your husband LEFT YOU for another WOMAN and then he unknowingly KILLS y’alls son and he comes back to you with a MORTAL WOUND but you can’t forgive him so you LET HIM DIE but then you regret your cruelty and KILL YOURSELF out of guilt

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No offense, but I think it’s loser-ish behavior to ship Persephone with Minthe. Persephone has so many female friends!! dozens!

just in the HHTD she has 23 named friends + Hecate at the end. so many options, and you’re imagining her in a relationship with a woman she has no connection to because she slept with her husband?

In this past decade there has been a trend of, mostly teenagers, seeing a love triangle where two women fight over a guy and saying “Let’s erase the guy and have the two girls kiss 😛” which is like. sure. you want a storyline that isn’t male-centered and showcases a positive relationship between two women. but isn’t this “solution” still male-centered after all? you’re pairing up these two women purely because they’re interested in the same man. persephone already has positive relationships with other women, coupling her with minthe only indicates to me that you value hades’ “supporting cast” more than persephone’s.

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“Achilles tried to fight a river and lost 😂 He’s the worst hero ever!”

Perseus needed help from half the pantheon and their mamas to kill a sleeping mortal, Jason couldn’t even get a divorce without having his life and legacy destroyed, Orpheus failed the easiest task in all of greek mythology, Heracles got merked by his wife, Atalanta fucked in a temple, Theseus Kelly owes everything to Ariadne, Bellerophon lost to an insect, and don’t get me started on the other Trojan war ““heroes””

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What I find so funny about all of the posts saying “If you say you’re ‘reclaiming’ a Greek myth you’re no better than the British Museum 😂” is that no one acknowledges the elephant is the room called Gender. Why would women not want to reclaim these stories, which are seen and valued as the cornerstones of Western civilization, that call us whores, less than men, weak, and worthy of rape and femicide?

And I don’t want to hear “Well, it’s still overstepping if you’re an American” because there !! are !! so !! many !! Greek women giving us their beautiful takes on Homer and such, and none of you share or read their books—because you don’t care about righting this wrong, you only care about flaunting your superiority as a true reader of the classics who would never change the original.