Dec 15, 2024
thinking about kyane. how she must have known there was no way she would be powerful enough to stop hades but she stood up to him anyway. how even though she wept until she’d lost her mouth her hands and become nothing but water itself she still found a way to warn demeter something terrible had happened. how she’s never remembered in the retellings because she’d ruin their obsession with stripping demeter and persephone’s story of its meaning. how even though she was just a naiad she stood up to the king of the dead and told him he couldn’t take her friend.
#idk i think maybe#if the people making these retellings READ the original stories#they yap about so much#they’d understand why people think it’s fucking weird#bc it’s one thing to make hades/persephone romantic#which i don’t rlly like but i can mark as whatever#it’s another to insist upon either degrading or removing entirely every other woman from the original narrative#idk#im just really tired of retellings that aren’t retellings#you’re not even pretending to interact w the original myth#this is a ‘vaguely inspired by mostly on an aesthetic level’#at best#and ‘feminist’ is slapped on bc it’s being treated as a buzzword#it’s just there to get more sales#none of it ever fucking interacts w feminist concepts#except on the most surface level#baby’s first ass feminism#anyway. yeah.#there’s not many sources on kyane#or. cyane depending on your persuasion#kyane#demeter#anti hades#persephone#hades stinks#STINKY !!!
