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I hope that when Neoptolemus died and went to the underworld, Hector was there to greet him with a trillion knuckle sandwiches.

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I remember a retelling where Perseus was called "Fish Boy" as an insult and I found it hilarious because you can clearly tell that the author was american since a) how is that supposed to be an insult in a time period where people had to provide their own food and fishermen were very important, and b) we're talking here about the Balkan Peninsula; many people out there are swearing as much as they're breathing and you really think this could offend anyone? I also remember another one where Andromeda was called "the camel" also as an insult and again: this type of stuff doesn't work here. If anything, even 10yo kids are way more creative when they're trying to offend you.

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Hera with one of her peacock 🦚🦚

Time-lapse 👇

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Adding Chloris and Talos to this list lol

Gun to my head if I was forced to choose someone Hera could cheat with there are 3 candidates:

Iris: she’s an utter simp for Hera and even sleeps under her throne.

Eurymedon: she had Prometheus by him and whether they had a consensual relationship or not Zeus still wanted to punish both Eurymedon and Prometheus.

Argus: Hera genuinely mourned his death and there was no reason for Hermes to kill him, unless perhaps… Zeus was jealous?

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Just remembered the version where Talos (the robot) was Hephaestus’s father which could imply Hera fucked a robot which then reminded me of this lol

There is this video game called Monster Strike and Hera is a character that carries around a Zeus doll that does her bidding and I find that delightful.

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Flora… baby…

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i just realized theres a untapped well of perseus books clash of the titans HAS novelations

w h a t t h e f u c k

have you read the first one

Well that title umm… tells you everything you need to know lol

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I’ve said it many times before but I do not like it when retellings make Hera have sexual affairs to get back at Zeus, it’s not in her nature and it’s not feminist HOWEVER, having an emotional affair? I can buy into that if done well.

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Bon Boullogne - Juno and Flora

Everyone say thank you to Ovid for giving us this story

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wtf are Hera, Medusa and Callisto doing here?

He’s not even gonna mention that story where Hera plays house with the nymph Flora and how it’s lowkey written like an affair? Nor the fact that Iris is high key obsessed with her? Seriously???

The Medusa section is worse bc why are you fussing over the 80s movie and modern interpretations rather than actually looking into how Medusa was depicted in ancient times? Bc yes there is something to say about how she’s sometimes depicted masculine and with a beard.

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Rewatching The Suicide Squad made me realize the ppl yearn for flawed protagonists who go on suicide missions not out of the goodness of their hearts but bc they’re forced to by powerful figures.

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Considering that Perseus was a fisherman, do you think he looked over at the Cetus’s corpse and started calculating in his mind how to chop it up and cook it? Like what kinda knife (or sword lol) he’d use to chop it up, how he would remove the scales, wether he should grill or smoke it, what sections to eat and what sections to sacrifice.

Like he probably wasn’t seriously considering it but he definitely thought about it bc that’s how he grew up.

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classical arts research center calls the monster ketos and i do think its interesting to have a size comparasion but i wanted to ask it kinda looks like a bunny right??

That guy is either Perseus or Heracles.

Cetus actually looks like a dead fish especially with the eyes. Really adds to the fact Perseus was a fisherman and this is the biggest fish he ever “caught”.

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Oh that’s not…

Anthologies

"Was Demeter a forlorn mother who lost her child or the reason for the seasons? Is Ariadne merely the wife of Dionysus or a keeper of labyrinths worthy of a constellation?"

Who's making these types of questions?

"Was Circe truly an evil sorceress or a victim of circumstance?"

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Circe right after she killed her tyrant husband:

She's not the victim, stop with it

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I always had a soft spot for wonder woman since I like comics but man the mythology man. The new 52 was the one that added the rape thing which made people mad, her being the daughter of Zeus, which made people mad. It also sucks cause the new 52 was supposed to be a reboot of the DC comics. You can finally make the Amazons like they were in mythology and they blew it. Also that mentioned possible brother of Diana which is also a you blew it. Like Hippolytos is right there and possibly can help fit with the themes of wonder woman

It’s just missed opportunity after missed opportunity. I have little faith in the movie too

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It is expected when I see white women obsessed with Taylor Swift, but when I see WOC obsessed with her it’s like… gurl stand up.

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Another reason this trope is icky is that not a single hero that Athena loves and assists views her like this, they honor, worship and respect her and can even have a friendly relationship with her but they never have this one sided obsession with her, they’re still allowed to be their own ppl. I think it’s bc the vast majority of those authors grow up Christian so they base their understanding of the relationship between mortals and divinity into Greek myths.

Ngl it feels really icky to me to have Medusa be utterly obsessed and devoted to Athena to make her transformation all the more shocking and tragic, it’s even worse if Medusa is disowned by her family and had no option but to go to Athena, it just robs her of her agency and erases the love her family (specifically her sisters) had for her, when Athena herself never had this deep emotional connection to Medusa to begin with.

It just robs Medusa of the very little agency she already has.