#Little Medusa

[francoisl-artblog]

I missed drawing her ! So here's a little something.

Cassio's ready to take on on her own adventure, she even have a scarab pet now. What's his use ? Well, she can communicate with him, so he can be used for some task !

Character and Artwork (c) Me

[hermesmoly]

Utterly devastated nobody told me there was a vase painting of Poseidon rushing toward Medusa's decapitated body while one of her sisters looks like she's trying to stop him from seeing the bloody scene... implying he either visits her regularly or she called for him before she died :(

[kairennart]

So you’re not a monster, what are you then?

[rapha-reads]

No but I gotta talk about Medusa for a minute actually.

It's been. A very long time since I read the PJO books so I don't exactly remember how Uncle Rick presents Medusa in the book. But the way the show introduces her myth? Fascinating. For me as a Greek mythology enthusiast, that is.

The show makes Medusa a victim of Athena. Of course, the show is mainly for kids, so they can't exactly say that, hey, kids, Medusa was Athena's priestess and she was raped by Poseidon, YEP, or protagonist's father, IN Athena's temple, nah, that's neither kid-friendly nor does it endears us to Poseidon. Not that Poseidon is very dear to us viewers/readers at this point, our narrator/protagonist can't stand his own dad.

But still what fascinates me is that even though they twisted the myth to ft the narrative they still managed to evoke Athena's curse as being actually a gift, and Medusa not feeling wretched over her condition but blessed.

Which is not a modern reading of the myth, actually. Saying that Athena couldn't punish Poseidon for his transgression and could only punish Medusa, but did so in a way that would give Medusa weapons to defend herself against whoever and whatever would try to harm her again, is a narrative that exists since Antiquity.

My point is that the re-framing of Medusa's myth, departing from the traditional, non-kid-friendly version while still incorporating both classic and modern elements, is a good frame of reference for the series (book and show)' entire approach to mythology. And I guess I'm saying that mostly for the non-book readers who are discovering this world, many of whom might be Greek mythology fans and might have gone "wait, why is Hades AGAIN presented as the bad guy when he's the chillest, most normal, most stable god in this entire pantheon", because that's a conversation the book fandom has been having (over and over again) for more than a decade.

Anyway, yeah. As a long time book fan and a show appreciative, here's my advice to anyone who knows WAY too much about Greek myths and still want to enjoy the ride without going every five minutes "wait, that's not correct": reframe. Contemporary rewritings, modern audiences and Fantasy genre.

[medusaspeach]

Classicstober Day 23: Orpheus 💀

Orpheus journeys down to Hades to bring back his lost love. 💔 Plus a little King and Queen of the Underworld cameo.

@classicstober

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

[liothebiblioklept]

More monster AU!! Need to practice bird wings more rip

No other characters really have assigned mythical creatures so im prolly gonna have to make a lot of stuff up, which means just damianya for now! Sticking to Greek mythology creatures most likely as well

[galadrail]

The pjo serie made me like poseidon but at the same time i hate him for what he did to medusa and other things so I'm just like :

Yeah he pretty good

*two minutes later* I hate him this son of a b****

[solazu1]

For everyone asking how tall Jay is in his angel form, he's 7’4 exactly :]

Also Jessica reveal ^_^

[serenfloras]

i watched 3D2Y and the line of rayleigh saying luffy still had six months of training stuck with me

so

luffy deciding to become a better captain and train his haki with a crew that is full of haki masters

what i am saying is temporary kuja pirate luffy vibing with the girls and learning to see from the perspective of those under him

hancock teaching him some of her fighting moves and how to kick real hard and he teaches the girls how to punch even harder

snakeman as a homage to his besties from amazon lily as he applies all he was taught

boa "strength is beauty" hancock: luffy you are very cute this is not me being down bad its just a fact. lets weaponize it

luffy getting some snake aesthetics. he still has a hoodie with the kuja jolly roger

them hiding luffy from the government right under their nose and holding back from chuckling like schoolgirls anytime a marine complained about "straw hat luffy being nowhere to be found" while the man in question raids the perfume yuda's kitchen for the seventh time now and no one suspects shit

just

kuja pirate luffy!!!

[francoisl-artblog]

Some sketch gathered together, I really miss sharing Little medusa's content. At this point, I've wrote more of my OC than drawing them.

It's like a "Art I show vs Lore I wrote for it", and the gap is growing bigger each month.

And since I'm focusing more on Geraldine and Mona as it's now a main project, I don't know when I'll be able to fully go back on Cassio and her tales. But once I get back to it, for real, I'll happy to share what I got !

In the meantime, enjoy some sketch of this little gorgon !

Little Medusa and Artwork (c) Me

[memoryaqua]

Rankin Bass's "The Daydreamer" (1966)

The blurry caps are mine; the sharper ones are from Google.

[empty-dream]

Rider with Glasses

[sarafangirlart]

Pentheus: I tried to fight against Dionysus and he made my mom and aunts kill me.

Perseus:

[boreniii]

Don't care look at my overwatch oc

[morbidacuteness]

happy mandy monday to those who still celebrate