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“Let ppl enjoy things” so let me criticize it. So women are just “enjoying things” when they read/write something that romanticizes misogyny and abuse but I’M the bad guy and real sexist for calling out their terrible taste?

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“Blood of Hercules” mentions Medusa several times and it’s implied she’ll be important in later books. I’m absolutely terrified of what Jasmine Mas will do to Perseus.

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AND really cute married couple!! They're tender to each other and yes, Heph makes metal roses for Aglaia.

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Bellerophon watching Perseus and Heracles steal Pegasus from him in modern adaptations:

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Something I thought about a few days ago: when some authors try to write Perseus and Danae as having a kinda bad bond they're just doing Theseus and Aethra.

Theseus was the one who started doing incredible things but let the fame get too much into his head which led to his downfall.

Perseus did everything to save his mother, step-father and wife. Theseus barely interacted with his mother and didn't cared that much about his wives.

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POST SCPIRT also btw the version of 1000 nights I read was the Husain Haddawy translation which based on the og manuscript found in Syria and included the original unbowdlerized text . It excluded Aladdin on the account of it later origins but the Syrian storyteller is real guy his name Hanna Diyab a translator and christian monk who traveled with Antoine galland Here’s British Syrian thousand nights expert,scholar,translator yasmine seale discussing it two articles

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/02/aladdin-story-forged-in-aleppo-and-versailles.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/04/the-travels-of-a-master-storyteller/.

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Oh that’s pretty interesting!

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Hey,there is like 1 or 2 paintings depicting the Nereids being the ones that chained Andromeda, this gives the paintings an interesting feel... the nymphs in Coypel's version look quite angry at Perseus' arrival, which is funny! And in the Chasseriau one the Princess looks really angry and has a Gorgon-like expression... I'd like to know, is there any ancient source telling that Andromeda was given to the Nereids, then chained by them, or were her parents' priests/soldiers the ones who did it?

By the way, how do you visualize Nereids? Some artists give them mermaid-like form, others represent them in full human form, which one would you prefer?

Is there any ancient Greek art that represent them in mermaid-like form? I just remember some vases erre they are riding dolphins astride and the human-like headless statues of the Nereids monument at the British Museum... Thanks

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I LOVE the way you defend Perseus, by the way.

There isn’t any ancient source (as far as I’m aware) where it was the nereids who chain up Andromeda, tho it’s still a perfectly plausible interpretation. I kinda imagine them having fish characteristics, some have mermaid tails while others don’t.

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oh god not Aladdin .sexy jafar non con bsdm bleghhhhh. Somewhat related I have been reading thousand nights and tbh most adaptations have very little to do with the text and stories other then shahrazad frame tale occasionally being included or the occasional “adaptation“ of Aladdin,sinbad,Alibaba (in quotes because it not usually very faithful adaptations of the source stories ) as for the quality most of them are in my honest opinion as person from a MENA adjacent country . Most these “adaptations “ are orientalist dreck with white actors as Arabs mispronouncing their own names . That being said some of these adaptations are fun in spite of the above problems Disney Aladdin is one the films I deem as fun in spite of the poorly aged orientalist elements. So seeing a horny brain rot Aladdin retelling written by white woman gives me bad vibes .

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Aladdin itself might have started out as an orientalist tale rather than an authentic folktale, since its earliest attestation was written by a Frenchman who claims he got it from a Syrian story teller (it’s a whole thing) so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Aladdin is one of the most popular “Arabian” tales in the west, it was written by a westerner.

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This is one of my favorite paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, it’s like I (and many others) have pointed out before, Perseus didn’t just save Andromeda physically, he saved her metaphorically.

Eros is the manifestation of Perseus’s love for Andromeda and he’s not only burning away her literal chains, but also gave her freedom. You can see the relief and joy in her eyes.

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Athena and Artemis

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The card no one knew was in the game: Perseus didn’t dress up like Andromeda to get eaten by Cetus and kill it from the inside just so that y’all can ship his woman with that same Cetus.

Andromeda didn’t bear Perseus 9 children for y’all to ship her man with Medusa.

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How do they manage to make kinks boring, repetitive and cringy???

Bc these grown ass adults haven’t grown out of their teenage view of sex and sexuality.

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Girl, you're certainly keeping our daily dose of cringe up with all these cringey romance books 😭

Sorry I’m just too curious sometimes and instead of keeping the cringe to myself I share it. Sorrows shared are sorrows halved and all that.

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Why not just make an original story at this point like the only reason they claim they’re “rewriting” these Disney movies is for shock value, not bc they’re actually interested in these stories.

Honestly I’m thankful everyday that these incest lovers haven’t found Greek mythology, bc even Katee Robert’s was too cowardly to let Hades and Persephone be uncle and niece.

So the writer who made that Medusa x Calypso book also made a Disney’s Aladdin retelling shipping Jasmine and Jafar, it’s just different enough from the movie that Disney wouldn’t hunt her from sport (unfortunately) and it’s just… so gross.

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So the writer who made that Medusa x Calypso book also made a Disney’s Aladdin retelling shipping Jasmine and Jafar, it’s just different enough from the movie that Disney wouldn’t hunt her from sport (unfortunately) and it’s just… so gross.

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“Hermes is the only god Medusa can trust”

Hermes when Perseus was killing Medusa:

“Hermes, one of the few friends she still has and the only deity she trusts” lol, lmao even.

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