#it's definitely one of my favourite artistic interpretations of greek mythology.. up there with olympus guardian

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OOH!! before i forget, i just wanted to let y’all guys know about this mythology comic i found on webtoons :) it’s called deities of the ancient by gau meo and it basically just begins with the olympians and how they overthrew cronus. 

the author also has another series which is just titled hades and persephone ficlets, and as the title implies, it’s just a collection of short stories mainly concerning hades and persephone. it has like alternate universes, other stories (like eros and psyche) as interpreted by the author. 

it’s super wholesome, and the art style is really cute and pleasant to read. so yeah, if you’re bored or looking for something to read, you should totally check it out :)

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Interviewing vs. Being Interviewed.

Two weeks ago I was paired up with a fellow student named Daisy Ferreira. I do not mind bonding with people but I was not use to be put groups as I much as I prefer to work independently until I decided to change to my mind at the end of my session.

During my Contextual Studies we were given a task for our new project to do some primary research as we have been put into groups. First we started to learn to interview with each other or interview someone on the internet but I took it the wrong impression as I felt nervous talking to a stranger online; and I spoke to Samantha privately after Contextual Studies until I finally understood her point. Then I decided to team up with Daisy after we had been put into pairs throughout the session as we interviewed each other, privately on zoom.

While me and Daisy interviewed each other in the breakout room on zoom, our conversation was more normal of how people chat to each other, rather than being professionally interviewing or interviewed like a celebrity, requesting to be enrolled to school or university; and requesting a job. I do not know if I remember everything we spoke on zoom but I do remember we had another interview again on Instagram. We discussed of what topics we chose for our Final Major Project, mine was to recreate a book cover from Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Daisy’s FMP was one of the stories from Greek Mythology about Persephone, the goddess of spring and the wife of Hades, ruler of the Underworld. She asked me why I wanted to remake the book cover, then I explained to her that I want to make change like what other artists did for iconic fictional stories of Stephen King’s novels, Harry Potter Franchise; and Noughts and Crosses to due the tv series being brought up. I was very impressed and satisfied when Daisy was doing Greek Mythology for her FMP because we never get to learn proper history from school and I never understood why as I mentioned to Daisy. She agreed the same. I, also told her that no one in reality we are in now and other fictional stories is named Persephone, with the exception of Noughts and Crosses’s main character, Persephone Hadley, “Sephy” for short. I really like the name “Persephone”, because it sounds beautiful. Moving on to presenting my books to Daisy, however from the start of our conversation as I told her about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time she mentioned to me that she has a brother who has autism and interviewed with people who were like him. Including me. I was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum since was around the age of three to four years old. Then she asked me if I wanted to interview with someone who would it be but I was not sure who, all I know that I want to interview with celebrities, mostly actors and maybe artists too. I do not remember if asked Daisy if she wanted to interview with someone like when she asked me.

Meanwhile our breakout room had to end so we can return to Samantha and we told her of our interviews. After the session I spoke to Samantha privately due to the fact I misunderstood about interviewing someone like a stranger, luckily it had to be one of my class peers and I decided accept Daisy as part of our group. But I needed to find a way to keep in touch with her so I went on to my university portal and found the participants which were the students’ profile. I managed find Daisy and asked a request from her as I messaged her. I waited. Hoping if she would get back to me. I asked if she has Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp.

Very soon she got back to me and messaged me she has Instagram instead of Facebook. On Instagram I found her request and accepted her. After I accepted her request she asked on the message let her know of what topic we would like to come up for our interview so we can ask each other some questions. I reminded Daisy about the email Samantha sent us and I decided to stick to the same topic about books we had in the morning. Daisy saw the email, then asked me if we should call or text until I told her that we should text and Daisy agreed. She also mentioned that I can ask her about books too.

Daisy asked me of what was my favourite book and why. Honestly I do not know I just like any types of genre it depends on how the story can be good, instead of telling her that I mentioned one of Stephen King’s novels, Carrie which was one of them I liked. It is meant to be a horror story but It requires bullying and vengeance. Rumours say Carrie is the villain due to developing telekinesis who tormented her but are wrong. In the story Carrie was being abused by her strict-religious mother and was bullied at school until she developed powers, telekinesis to make things move in her mind. Somewhere near the story attended prom, then instantly developed a romantic relationship with a young boy who treated her with kindness. Until one of the bullies decided to do a trick on her by pouring pig’s blood after she was crowned queen of the prom. Humiliated and laughed at. Suddenly Carrie began to snap and killed everyone in school. Also her mother believed her daughter was a witch after revealing her powers by standing up to her. The mother attempted to kill her own daughter. Carrie had no choice but to kill her mother in self defense. Daisy was like, “Wow! Sounds like a very intense book.” Then asked me: “ Do you think any of the killings were justified?” I did not quite understand that until she explained to me, “Like do you think for example, she had a good reason to kill the boy who covered her in pig’s blood? Or was it plain wrong?” Now I figured of she meant but she misunderstood about the boy. I told Daisy it wasn’t the boy and he had nothing to do with it. It was his ex-girlfriend’s formers friends who were responsible for the cause. The boy got killed by them, not Carrie. After they pour pig’s blood on her they dropped the bucket on the boy’s head without noticing and was killed. Finally I answered Daisy’s question, truthfully I do not know if they deserved kill or not but I know they all deserved punishment for what they did to her. Carrie did kill them but it wasn’t her fault. She snapped. She suffered abuse her entire life. Carrie had nobody to help her. No one to protect her and guide her. However there were other characters who showed compassion in her was: the boy who took her to prom, the ex-girlfriend who formerly bullied her, then felt guilty and made her ex to take her to prom as an apology. Also there was the gym teacher who noticed Carrie’s harassment from the very beginning and helped her. Carrie is not a monster or villain of what they say due to murdering the students and teachers from school. She doesn’t need punishment, she needs help. Daisy replied: “I can definitely see what you mean It’s not fair for anyone to go through abuse.” I agree the same. Daisy asked me another question: “Do you wonder what might have happened to her after the book? How she lived life after all these people died?” I told her in the end of the novel she dies from shock, whereas in films she dies inside her house getting crumbled down. It was after she killed her mother. Daisy said it so sad by leaving an emoji sign next to her text until she questioned: “Does the reading you do inspire your artwork?” I said: “Yes, it does.” And I told her all the facts of what Stephen King does for writing horror stories which includes elements of: “Bullying, vengeance, secrets, murder, domestic abuse, friendship, love, survival, sex, rape and incest.” Daisy replied: “Looks like Stephen King cover lots of different areas.” Then asked: “What do you think of books turned into films? Many Stephen King books have film versions.” I said that the classics were much better than the modern ones of the presence we are in now, except for Doctor Sleep. Overall, they are very creepy and make me want to cringe.

Finally I asked her: “What books have you read? And what kind of books are you into?” Daisy mentioned that she tried to read many different genres. Usually she chooses contemporary fiction because she finds it easier to read and she also loves comics and art books. I like comics too. Although I do not read them but I do some research on the internet of iconic pop culture form stories, fictional characters and celebrities which is part of my hobby. As well of course my habit of referencing pop culture. Daisy agreed as she mentioned comics having a connection with pop culture. “Marvel in particular is linked a lot.” I asked her about D.C. Before she could answer my question she said enjoys Webtoons which were made to be viewed on phone and tablet screen. I like “WEBTOONS!” Then she answered my question that she doesn’t know too much of D.C. but she did say Batman is prominent too. Also she replied my messenge, “Yes, Webtoons!” I replied back: “I was going to tell you about that. Since you told me that you were going to use Greek Mythology for your FMP about Persephone. On the Webtoons they made a comic. Webcomic of Lore Olympus. Which requires a mixed element of fantasy and modern time in Greek mythology. An alternative version between Hades and Persephone. I read and saw some of the story.” Daisy left a smiley emoji after texting me she is a fan of Lore Olympus, then telling me she has not caught up in a while but is on season 2. Eventually she drew some fan art based on the events of the comics. So I added five smiley-laughter emojis as a response of my expression, Daisy sent back an emoji who cried with laughter as it included heart shapes. She also loved the way they portrayed Hades as a nice person out of the other gods, despite of him being the God of the Underworld. I asked her if it was part of her inspiration for her FMP. “Yeah, partially. I like how the artist/author interpreted the original greek myths, and isn’t afraid to stir away from the original”, Daisy replied. I agreed with her. “Also the illustrations are expressive and the colour language is used effectively!” Daisy explained. As for me: “I love them too.” She was like: “Yup”, with a happy emoji next to her text and said about the designer being a quite an inspiration. Very soon our conversation ended, I asked Daisy of when we could chat again so she mentioned that we can talk on Wednesday after Printmaking and Bookbinding session at 4pm and reminded me if we ever need more questions for our project. Unless it is enough to write on Tumblr.

Later the week after on Wednesday I spoke to Daisy around 4pm as we agreed on. However there was not much to do after from the other week we had. Our interview was long enough. All we ever did was chat normally mentioning about our plans for the holidays; and sharing our interests until she asked if I was group chat with the others on Instagram and I said no. She helped me by adding me on the group chat with our class peers; Da MDX Illustration gang.

Overall I was so happy of having a conversation with Daisy and being put into group chat on Instagram. Since I mentioned that I do not mind bonding with people but not being used to put into groups the only way to bond with them is to interact more and be put into social groups.