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This week a friend showed me the webcomic Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe and what can I say except that I am a HUGE fan of this serie now! I really like everything in it, it is just perfect! Here's a fanart of my new waifu ♥️ Nyx ♥️

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Nyx

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LO EDIT/REDESIGN

Decided to hop on into the trend and redesign Persephone's titan form when "fighting" Cronus, there's nothing wrong with the original design it does kinda gives off that girl boss vibes y'know, but it just doesn't feel that different from the original Persephone, like it's just Persephone with her blood red eyes and a black dress with a crown and earrings like that's it, so I decided to add a few things to further emphasize the dreadful aspect of Persephone.

About the design

Let's start with the snakes: I gave her snakes because in some versions the furies were daughters of both Hades and Persephone, and one of the main characteristics of the furies was the snakes in their hair, so I gave her snakes to reference that in my Design.

The hair: Persephone had two symbols, a stack of wheat and a torch, specifically a four-headed torch (pretty badass if you ask me 😎), so I tried my best to make it fire-like.

The face: you've probably noticed that her face looks darker in the edit than in the original, well there's a good reason for that, I wanted to make Persephone a little terrifying so I gave her a mask (I'm gonna call it a mask for simplicity) as a little emphasis on the dreadful aspects of her character.

Here's a closer look at the mask:

And here's how she looks without it:

I gave her dark blue makeup bc there's a version where it described Persephone as "dark-eyed Persephone" so I wanted to reference that, and also bc why not? I also gave her a more serious and prepared expression to make the scene more serious bc in the original she looked like your little sibling after they got you in trouble.

Her outfit: I wanted Persephone to have an ancient greek inspired dress because I thought it'll look powerful if a character who is based on an ancient story/figure wore an outfit that is inspired by the ancient culture they're based on.

Here's a closer look at the dress:

I made the dress blend in with her skin because 1) it's inspired by Persephone's dress in the later episodes 2) I wanted to give this unusual vibe and make her look like an actual powerful non-human being rather than someone who got an entire bucket of paint spilled all over them.

So yeah, that's my LO edit/redesign, what do you guys think? Unlike some people, I'm open to criticism and looking forward to improving my skills in the future

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tried my hand at redrawing this panel to look more like LO S1 🫶 (credits to usedbandaid for og)

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I don’t think leuce is lying about these messages

And Persephone doesn’t want to see them? Like people are calling this growth for her not being jealous but I can’t help but think it’s just cutting corners so we can be done with the plot point

Persephone bullying and threatening people isn’t hot or cool

It’s just edgy middleschool bully fantasy and it’s so unattractive

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I wanted to tackle this panel from episode 207. I noticed the characters were lacking so I redrawn the panel to give the goddesses some signature characteristics.

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Wanted to do a revamp portrait of Thetis I did back in 2018.

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Decided to give back her 5 eyes and original hairstyle! (This is from episode 217).

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Did a redraw on my fav Nyx panel.

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I made an Instagram! User is Hermerahunnie. 

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The Baffling Case of LO's Onomatopoeia

I will admit, I never really used Tumblr much prior to this past year, only on and off, but I do know what people are talking about when they reference "Tumblr humor".

So is this something that's a symptom of Rachel's extremely dated 2012-era Tumblr humor? Is it something she genuinely thinks translates well into a legitimate professionally-made webcomic? Or is it an actual error where she's writing these literal sound effects and actor cues in the roughs/scripts and then her assistants put them in there without realizing it's supposed to be implied and not said aloud? Because it definitely feels like amateur actors reading the non-spoken things aloud off the cue card.

Maybe it's a combination of all three?

Either way, y'all know what time it is. I asked a bunch of my ULO pals to put together some of their favorite examples of 'literal' sound effects and actor cues so I could replace them (or outright remove them) to help the panels flow better and not break the immersion. Here are a few of them.

(didn't even spell 'groan' right in that last panel omg lol she's just saying the word 'Grown' for no reason >.>)

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The season 3 of LO is poorly written and probably has been a bit from the last season as well.

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Gatekeep, gaslight, and girlboss.

✨  M A T E R I A L  G W O R L  ✨ 

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Nyx my lady, you have 6 six eyes now...!

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Lore Olympus x Love Nikki. 👗

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Persephone’s Fur Coat Rant

It’s unusually for me to rant on here but if you wanna read it, it’s down below:

With the recent LO episodes, I wished there was some more context with Persephone’s fur coat. After all she went through (fighting Kronos), I wished there was some interaction between Hestia and Persephone. What was the point of the fur coat if it lost some significance after the episode 26? The fur coat was a gift Persephone cherished for a short period of time because it associates with Hades and she had feelings for him. Eros noticing how the buttons were actual diamonds. How it kept her warm when she met Hades for the second time. It was fluffy for crying out load. Persephone's relationship with Hestia was strain after Hestia confiscated her coat. The interactions clearly showed her discomfort in not being able to confront towards Hestia in episode 91. 

 I’m sure Rachel might bring up the fur coat at some point but she could’ve added that in recent episodes where Persephone was with the other Goddesses. With the way she narratives her comics, she can’t cram in all the details. 

In the long run, Hestia owes Persephone some sort of apology with the way she acted towards Persephone (given how Apollo was the reason that nudged her in the direction acting angry with Persephone). 

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She’s had quite the journey 💕🥀