#wb result

[timethehobo]

Curious to see where the next KTJL ep will take us. Would love to see the dynamic of having to work tgt and if it’s anything like the occasional comic team-up.

[rimeswithpurple]

Inktober Day 3 - Path

"Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery hand in hand

For the world's more full of weeping

than you can understand"

-"The Stolen Child" W.B. Yeats

[rottmnt-residuum]

Hi! It's that one anon that asked about TWs a few days ago! Thank you so much for responding to my last question, it means a lot to me.

I'm sorry to be bugging you about this again and I know this might seem like a silly question, but bear with me.

When you say lobotomy, do you mean, like

full-on irreversible, medically-induced physical brain damage? :'D

(very much enjoyed the last update by the way, tysm for your hard work on this comic)

medically induced is streching it, but yeah

[standfucker]

thanks to tiktok I’m now thinking about Whitebeard being overprotective of his crew in regards to dating, even when it's crewmates dating each other:

Imagine. Reader, WB, and some division commanders are having dinner.

Reader: “Daddy, can you pass the salt?”

Whitebeard and Marco simultaneously reach for the salt. Both men freeze. A hush falls over the table. 

Reader lowers their head into their hands.

Marco meets Whitebeard’s eye, and upon seeing the look on his face, for the first time ever, he’s afraid of his captain.

[keeps-ache]

it's incredible what a whiteboard can do to your brain. astonishing what i'm able to do when given 4 colours and 2 pen sizes (i've been drawing nonstop for 2+ hours)

[sharkface]

Am I the only person that actually read any of the articles about RT shutting down because they said multiple times that they're not just canning projects. RWBY will DEFINITELY be fine, RVB is still coming out, certain other projects in RT's care are being continued, they're just shutting down the parent company. All things considered this was inevitable and the best deal we were ever gonna get.

[thecoolertails]

everyone thinks fred jones is like generic cishet douchebag jock boy. like dude. dude. he wears a fucking ascot and drives around in that fruityass van. what else do i have to say

[latestsarkarijobs]

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[j0them0971]

THE VOTE IS IN

Drumroll please...

Yeah it was belgian wb. But ardennes and embermane were tied again, which is interesting.

Anyway... the Coat Poll will arrive shortly!

[singhallelujahh]

Listen LISTEN I love hozier I love foreigner’s god it’s one of my favorite songs I’m vibing to unreal unearth but MAYBE we should take a moment and unpack this idea of a pre-Christian ““culturally pure”” Ireland?

[199x-furry-archive]

I noticed skunks were much more popular. As someone with a skunksona it warms my heart. I'm wondering if you have any theories on why they were popular around this time?

I get the impression that, if you made a histogram of the most popular furry species, skunks would have been way above the median. Now I get the impression that, in terms of often-anthropomorphized species, they're pretty unpopular. Some species have always been popular, and some have always been unpopular – skunks are neither. So there are two angles to this question: why were skunks so popular, and why are they now not popular?

In the twilight of Usenet, Tiny Toons was a cultural lynchpin among furries online. This might sound strange in our moment, when furries attempt to define themselves as a "fandom without an object," but what is worth noting is that early-90s furries related to the internet completely differently than us—the content they shared across the net was primarily text-based, and visual content was the exception. In general, "content creation" online meant stories and binaries, not bulky bitmaps and gifs. Having a cartoon was useful as a visual anchor for which you could share stories and "fantasize," for lack of a better word.

I would wager that most shows out there had zero prominent Usenet groups. Many had one and some had two, but Tiny Toons was one of the few with three: alt.tv.tiny-toon, alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom, and, of course, alt.tv.tiny-toon.sex. If Tiny Toons was popular, Fifi La Fume was very popular. Fifi La Fume was romantically aggressive, which many of the young adult male viewers of the show could read as an appealing sexual aggressiveness. For the purposes of this post I'm going to sidestep the question of why so many adult furries were attracted to a child skunk-thing.

That being said, there were Babs and Shirley fans, but rabbits and loons were never as popular as skunks, even though they were all in Tiny Toons--"rabbitfucker" didn't catch on like "skunkfucker." Sexualized characters like Animaniacs' Minerva Mink or EWS's Amy the Squirrel were probably as popular as Fifi, but minks and squirrels never really caught on either. As a result I think this is, at best, an incomplete description, but it might help illustrate why so many "fandom pin-up girls" were skunks.

What I think further helps is that skunks are pretty "easy" to draw for both amateur and professional artists. Striped skunks are black and white, which makes them particularly readable from just a doodle. Eric Schwartz was able to make (off the top of my head) 4 skunk characters for Sabrina Online that look reasonably distinct, and people grew attached to all of them. An amateur artist with no formal training, nor access to any of the online "how to draw" resources we have now, might find a skunk to be the easiest anthro to draw with the ballpoint pen and #2 pencils they had on hand.

But at some point skunks became less popular. I'm not sure what the decline stems from, but it might be the waning popularity of WB/Disney cartoons in shaping the fandom compared to anime, and the evolution of the world wide web into a technology that centered sharing visual data and holding personal accounts. Furries in this time wanted a holistic internet presence for the more visually-oriented world wide web, instead of just “a character” for text-based MUCKs or RP. As a result I think many of them shied away from skunks, which have a reputation for being pests, and to more unique, visually-distinct designs that could stand on their own without elaborate roleplay or description (which might have led into sparkledogs).

[ewingstan]

reverse unpopular opinion meme: sighs predictably. alec

My reading of Alec has changed pretty significantly over time, not least because of his lawyer's constant vigilance. But then and now I appreciate Alec as an example of someone who has harmed people horribly, but who nevertheless is treated by the text as self-evidently deserving of a happy life and who's death is self-evidently tragic for all the ways it prevents that. And it gets to be tragic not in spite of his actions, but because the text recognizes that a snickering teenager making little jokes for himself and being desperate for a friend is unconditionally deserving of a happy life.

I genuinely appreciate that we get some intense and horrific scenes from him, and then go on to show him being a goofy shitty teen who makes his friend smile. Its important to me that we get those things together, and not in active contrast with each other; it would be easy to reduce his character to a bunch of "evil" traits and show only his harmful actions. It would be easy to write him as having a period of almost fully horrible behavior and then a "redeemed" period of friendliness— all too easy, as that's basically what we got with Rain. That he's still prone to say and do hurtful shit up to the end, that Aisha makes his life better and incidentally changes some of his behavior without "fixing him" in a moral sense, is really important to me. Secondary characters being casually cruel without that being their only trait are all too rare, especially in superhero media but even in more "grounded" genres that supposedly have a more nuanced view of morality.

There's a weirdly prevalent belief that cruelty can only be a result of being a cruel person, that if your a cruel person you can't make other people's lives better, and that if your not a cruel type of person you wont ever horribly hurt people. I think one of the best themes in Worm is its rejection of that worldview, even if WB sometimes falls into it in his later work. And Alec's an important piece of that rejection.

[jinnazah]

Just curious tho is there someone else youwould vote for? Like? A better candidate?

oh idkkkkk wb a third party option? jasmine sherman is a strong candidate for a 3rd, from what i can tell.

i have shared some resources from a blog better educated on the american poli-legal system, the incredible @decolonize-the-left

anyways. for all the bitching and moaning of liberals, its no shock y'all are all talk and no action.

who showed up on the ground to protest the policies of genocide joe? and continue to protest in spite of ms. paw patrol herself, kamala "brat" harris? who had to fight for the rights to bury their own ancestors, and LOST, resulting in the implementation of NAGPRA (which is still not up to the standard it should be imo)? who threw the first brick at stonewall?

liberals are incapable of fighting the status quo, it is in their very political ethos to be as useless as possible. because trying and waiting "another day" to change your political system is just who y'all are. but y'all keep losing your margin. every year, i have watched your stupid ass settler-colony destroy itself a little more and tbh maybe its a good thing. y'all can continue your bickering of semantics as your country falls around you, and i pray that every indigenous american will seize their land back from under your feet, and every african american whose ancestors were enslaved in your colony take the reparations they were owed, and never granted.

the very minorities liberals use as their talking pieces could be burned to death in front of them, and a liberal wouldn't even inconvenience themselves to piss on their heads, much less someone from the global south lmfao.

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

02/13/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Kudoboard; CaseyBloys/David Zaslav Shenanigans; Cast&CrewSightings; Samba Schutte; Con O'Neill; Ruibo Qian; Wendy Andersen; In Person Events; WatchParties; LubeAsACrew; People of Earth; Articles; Netflix WooAsACrew; Love Notes;

== Kudoboard Last Chance ==

Throwing this up top so you don't forget-- anyone who wants to add anything to the Kudoboard please message me tonight so I can get you the password to post. I'll be up for the next two hours so we've still got time.

== Casey Bloys ==

Whelp, Casey Bloys stepped in it again by posting an article by The Wrap about how True Detective was the most watched season on max. As you can imagine, a good chunk of the crew started calling BS on that, what with the Parrot Analytics stats from yesterday. Well, some of our favorite hashtags started trending this morning... #OhBloysHeMad and #TheNumbersWereThere

And in case you needed to see some more data that Bloys was full of crap--- Thank you to our dear friend @quirkysubject for pulling in Rotten Tomatoes Average Tomato-meter Ranking in with the Parrot Analytics Data in this awesome chart!

Not terribly long after, apparently the comments on The Wrap article really started to irritate ol Casey boy because he turned off comments on the post.

BUUUUUUT Our dear crewmate @spanishjenkies was kind enough to save a video before hand! So there's evidence of the trolling. Visit their twitter thread here.

Some of the crew has decided to go a bit further with the glorious Passive Aggression and started sending Casey Bloys gifts! @single_cat_mom sent him a Casio Compact Calculator to help him with his future numbers!

Annnnd our crewmate @ofmooshd got a cockroach at the zoo named after ol Casey Bloys!

Truly legendary levels of Polite Menacing today, m'dears! What a day!

In other WB/Max related news:

Did you know there's a petition to get this ... person... fired? If you wanted to sign that, here you go: Only if you wanted to of course.

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

= Samba BTS =

Samba went hog wild today with the BTS, some lovely folks on tumblr posted the videos. (THANK YOU SAMBA!)

Just a couple of highlights, please visit this post to see all the pictures. You can also visit Samba's IG.

BTS Video 1: Cast Reading - ty @fuckyeahworldoftaika,

BTS Video 2: Con & Rhys - @fuckyeahizzyhands

BTS Video 3: Izzy Flipping the Bird - @fuckyeahizzyhands

= Con O' Neill =

As usual, our favourite Unicorn, Con O'Neill is over here supporting the hell out of the saveOFMD effort and sharing the Parrot Analytics results.

= Ruibo Qian =

Our Venerable Pirate Queen Ruibo Qian is back on Instagram with more inspiring words for us.

= Wendy Andresen for #TaikaTuesday =

So I know that normally #TaikaTuesday is a thirst factory (and don't worry it still was) but I just had to make a shoutout to our absolute gem Wendy Andresen (one of our Red Flag crew) for posting a picture of her pup Peanut cosplaying as Taika for #TaikaTuesday.

For those of you unfamiliar with the reference shirt:

She was kind enough to post more too when asked!

I adore how much she supports the #SaveOFMD effort and she is always a delight to chat with. Sending all the love her way! <3

== In-Person Events! ==

Today at the Our Flag Means Death Matelotage Processional several of our crewmates came out in costume with signs and showed support at the WB Gates! Thanks to all the crew who attended! Thank you @aimeekitty for sharing these pictures! Their IG and Twitter

== Watch Parties ==

= Lube As A Crew =

It's baaaaack! Valentine's Day: 4PM PST, 8 PM ET, 12:00 AM GMT S1 Ep 8, 9 10 with @astroglideofficial

If you've bought Astroglide recently please consider doing some reviews! They would love the support. You can @Astroglide and use #ReviewAsACrew

As you can imagine, the memes are back too <3

== Feb 15: Uncle Season 1 ==

This is mainly for UK folks but non-uk folks are welcome to vpn in as well! Here's an article on how to join via vpn!

Thurs 02/15/2024 + Friday 02/15/2024 - GMT - 8 PM, ET - 3 PM, PST - 12pm

WatchParty Hashtags:

#ForTheNewUncle

#SaveOFMD

#AdoptOurCrew

== People Of Earth S1 Ep 5, 6 ==

#PiratesOfEarth has been going great these last couple days! Thank you again to @iamadequate1 for organising it! Next episode 5 and 6 tomorrow the 14th! at 10PM GMT / 5PM EST / 4PM CST / 2 PM PST /

== Netflix #WooAsACrew Video ==

More love for the streaming platforms! 🌹💕🐙 Vocals: @sgtbeatlespotter Video: @giulianaazr on Twitter

== Updated #WooAsACrew Calendar! ==

Looks like tomorrow the goal is to WOO FX! Twitter / Instagram / Tumblr Tomorrow is also a great day to be creative! Make some cakes! Or flowers, or drawings! Anything! Let's see some sweet stuff!

== Articles ==

Have we seen this one? I can't remember anymore, some more Parrot Analytics from January. Ty to @drcfxtina on discord for sharing!

== Uk Crew Updates ==

Thank you to @queerly-autistic for capturing this! Guess who's front and center on the top recommendations? You guessed it! OFMD!

== Love Notes ==

Hey there lovelies!! Guess what time it is? I've had too much caffeine and I've taken my adhd meds on time so I'm Here, Queer, and ready to Cheer!

Look at everything you all did today! Do you see this list? And that's just a minuscule coverage of the pure polite chaos that ensued! I literally cannot add any more pictures because just so much has happened. We are 36 days in the Gravy Basket and you all are just ramping things up!

The tenacity, and creativity of this crew never ceases to amaze me!

There are more fundraisers in the works... (I'll post more when I know more) there's a slew of events, watch parties, and pure camaraderie everywhere! Everyone's making amazing memes, and artwork and fics! Seriously, you all should be proud of yourselves!

Not to mention, some of the most important things of all-- I am seeing SO MUCH SELF CARE. You are reaching out to the crew for support, you're taking days off, you're having fun and being creative for you... getting back to pet projects and doing things you enjoy!

You all are doing SO WELL. You are kicking ass, don't forget that! We'll have our down days, but no matter what you are making waves all over the place, bringing positive things to this world! As a side note, I wanted to mention, I know tomorrow can be a tough day for a lot of people. It can be lonely, or bring up good or bad memories. Please be sure to reach out to your crew for love if you're struggling. We love you, and even if it's a platonic love, it's overflowing here for you. You are wonderful, and we want to send you all the love we can.

That being said, I'm gonna end tonight with another note from @thelatestkate that I needed to hear a lot recently so I'm gonna share it with you too <3

You got this! Sending so much love m'dears!

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

These were the two gifs that murdered me today so I hope you enjoy. These goofy buggers always make my day.

Rhys Src: @bizarrelittlemew Taika Src: @ofmd-ann

[wookofwallst]

(Article) SAG-AFTRA union members overwhelmingly agree to strike.

With the WGA strike wrapping up today after 148 days of stoppage and strong protections being negotiated. It looks like another strike is gearing up and getting ready to go.

SAG-AFTRA claims that 98% of those who were asked if they would participate in a strike agreed to do so. 35 thousand members have agreed to walk out and strike if nessicary.

Several attempts at negotiations since October of 2022 have failed with the following game companies:

Activision Productions Inc

Blindlight LLC

Disney Character Voices Inc.

Electronic Arts Productions Inc.

Formosa Interactive LLC

Insomniac Games Inc.

Epic Games

Take 2 Productions Inc.

VoiceWorks Productions Inc.

WB Games Inc.

These companies have refused to offer acceptable terms on a number of issues, including wage increases, protections against artificial intelligence, and safety precautions. Without the hardworking labour of these companies employees they wouldn't be able to publish the games they do. Without the immense pressure put on the employees, they can come out with a game that actually works and is created. Companies, especially video game companies, have been seeing record profits and record profits should mean record wages.

President of SAG-AFTRA Fran Drescher says that:

“It’s time for the video game companies to stop playing games and get serious about reaching an agreement on this contract, The result of this vote shows our membership understands the existential nature of these negotiations, and that the time is now for these companies — which are making billions of dollars and paying their CEOs lavishly — to give our performers an agreement that keeps performing in video games as a viable career."

The biggest concern of union members is the unfettered use of artificial intelligence. AI has already been used in several key places like posters and in-game art. SAG-AFTRA wants to ensure that its voice actors and actresses, writers, and anyone else who is a memeber are not being exploited for their labor.

Looking at the WGA strike that just ended, several consessions were made in favor of the workers. They will receive a 12% pay increase, 5% on ratification, and 3.5% over the next 2 years following the agreement. They also relieved a 76% increase in streaming residuals. Depending on the size of the next project, laborers will receive a garuenteed 10-20 weeks of work.

I'd expect something similar to take place with the new SAG-AFTRA strike. It will be interesting to watch, I stand with all those in a union to create better working conditions and a more sustainable future for themselves!

[beesmygod]

who fills the pot holes in “lore olympus”?

the thing about criticism is this: you can absolutely think “too hard” about something intended to be light fare and the delicate balancing act of art criticism is about threading various needles to avoid as many retorts as possible accusing you of opening discussions in bad faith. one of the many ways to obliterate trust in your critical audience is to become so derisively nitpicky that your attempts to draw attention to the pre-existing holes in the setting or the structure of the story will look like petty sabotage. i recognize this is the risk im taking when i get set off by the existence of sports luxury vehicles within a fictional universe created entirely to cater to a specific sexual appetite. indeed, there is no type of pedantry more obnoxious than the sexual pedant.

BUT.

the work doesnt exist in a vacuum. if we’re going to be honest about the work’s intent (or, how the work’s intent explicitly reads to the audience), part of the fantasy is to be completely taken care of. i mean, who among us hasn’t dreamed of this, at least briefly. it’s one of the most fundamental of all human desires. but to be taken care of, in settings which are founded in capitalist societies (everyone groans at my shit), begs the obvious question: where is the money coming from?

author’s note so everyone knows im not insane (hahahaha): i’m not here to argue the virtues of communism over capitalism or imply that depicting capitalism favorably in your comic is a moral failing. it is not capitalism itself that i have a problem with (...in artistic depictions), it is the way that it is invoked within this comic specifically that bothers me; it demonstrates a terminal thread of thoughtlessness that threatens to unravel the entire setting, premise and moral ambiguity of what is being presented as a desirable fantasy. this element is the catalyst that sparks the degradation of the taboo into the unconscionable. 

look i’ll be up front: my primary motivation is that this comic sucks and im a hater. the anti-feminist overtones are their own kettle of fish but the runner up contender for most concerning (oooueerrrg, everyone is groaning again) element is the complete lack of class consciousness. look, i mean concerning in the sense of “why has none of this gone recognized by, like, anyone?” every time i show someone a real LO panel they react like i’m went out of my way to fuck with them in an ultra specific way. it has completely recreated the feeling of being the only person in my friend group watching riverdale, if riverdale were the crown jewel of the WB.

to strip the pretension from the phrase “class consciousness” and put it in plain text: the insertion of modern capitalism into the comic has necessitated the creation of an underclass to serve the gods (the focus of the comic). as a result, the comic has repeatedly needed to justify the abuse, exploitation and acts of dominance over the subjugated class in order for the main cast to remain sympathetic. the author is incapable of envisioning a world that does not operate on disparity, in spite of the immutable fact that the gods are the sole arbiters of seemingly infinite creation.

and i’m capable of comprehending that there are times when a work has grotesquely unlikable asshole protagonists on purpose. it could be argued that the fickle behaviors of the gods is SUPPOSED to be detestable and there are obviously times where that is the intended audience read. but this is not “succession” and the entirety of the work does not indicate that it is trying to create quiet commentary by inviting the audience to draw their own conclusions on the characters by simply presenting them with the truth of their actions and deeds. additionally, if the romantic hero also engages in that behavior and it’s unremarked on or encouraged by the author or the heroine, what is the intended audience read?

regardless, all this to say: i do not want to alter the content of the comic, but to verbalize how it reads to me as an audience member. the purpose of criticism is to demonstrate and encourage reflection and to help refine one’s own perceptions.

okay. right. the cars.

this is minthe. i could write 100000 more words about the treatment of her by the comic and, by extension, the author. her introduction is about as subtle as a brick: she serves as the evil whore foil to persephone’s virgin perfection. her introduction as hades’ randomly abusive, hyper-sexual, and cruel younger girlfriend is contrasted with persephone’s naivete, chastity, and sweetness. shes literally smoking a cigar and wearing lingerie. somehow she is not the hero.

like i said, there’s a lot to unpack with her but i need to stay on target. minthe is a nymph, one of many “beast races” (for lack of a better term) that populate olympus and fulfill menial tasks and jobs. for example, this guy runs a modeling agency.

a modeling agency that include car shows. or...dealerships. its not really clear. anyway: she is introduced to hades in a flashback through his brother zeus who sexually harasses her during her shift.

lol uh. or comes as close as he can without becoming objectively villainous instead of “rakish”. as a result, what plays out is all VERY schoolyard behavior.

he executes a 0/10 prank that still kills for some reason.

and then it happens. “it” isn’t a singular event limited to just the example im about to give. “it” is the complete undercutting of the dramatic and logical tension within the story and “it” happens with alarming frequency as the comic introduces more and more modern elements. each additional luxury vehicle or department story or cell phone comes with the artist being forced to depict the people (or in this case, beast races) providing those services. the author cannot imagine a world where luxury is not predicted on service or a product, even or especially when the existence of the service or product does not make sense.

back to “it”...hades poofs away:

if gods can poof and fly (as its been implied some or all of them can), what in the hell is the purpose of the luxury vehicle on olympus? the beast races are sure as shit not buying them as they are explicitly the working class in every single one of their appearances. what does it run on? who pumps the gas? who services the cars? the streets of olympus have been paved so that cars can be driven so this would suggest the city’s infrastructure was centered around the use of vehicles. does he hire someone to drive him around in it, despite the fact that he can teleport? he and persephone clearly use it to get around even though she can fly. these cars are so successful despite having an extremely limited number of buyers, they make enough money to hire booth babes all day explicitly so they can be sexually harassed by the men (of a superior magic immortal race) buying the cars.

why does an entire seemingly unnecessary industry exist within the confines of the universe?

all of the above questions are overthinking a basic logistical problem with the setting for anyone with a moral center: in order to be served, one must have servants. the entirety of the universe in LO is constructed around not a modern re-imagining of the ancient myth, but instead a lazy and depressing hodge-podge of various products and physical items the author places great value on as status items in the real world. and, sadly, this is not as a bit within the universe. this isn’t setting up any message other than the central one of the comic: love and worth can be quantified with a dollar amount.

hades’ department store (staffed entirely by beast races who are delighted and eager to serve their master) offers a purse that two beast race women drool over, only to be informed:

this scene has a direct and obvious purpose: through it, we establish that hades’ store caters to the ultra-ultra-rich. this is a level of rich that is unobtainable to anyone except the pantheon of gods, whose unique abilities maintain the fabric of reality and thus set the terms for the world they unilaterally control. at best, minthe, a nymph, experiences a fraction of this wealth when sugaring for hades. on the other hand, persephone is the heiress to a cereal empire (who is eating the....?.........you know what dont even get me started on that whole thing) so she is all but assured to be independently wealthy even if she was temporarily without funds during certain events of the comic.

back to the purse: hades and persephone arrive at his own department store so that she can have a restorative shopping montage. she learns a heart-warming lesson about how its okay to be rich in what i think is one of the most gratuitous and absolute dog-brained moments of the entire fucking comic, thus far, including the part where persephone gets big and accidentally steps on (real, human, ancient greek) people and has to go on the lam. her accidental manslaughters evidently require a tribunal and a trial of her peers, which is odd when contrasted with the justice meted out on the beast races indiscriminately and unilaterally by individual gods who act as judge, jury, and executioner.

granted these are not the nice gods (i can think of an event with demeter, persephone’s confusingly controlling mother, specifically, as seen above), but there’s an echo of this behavior when hades bullies two beast race women into divulging information about persephone. in one example, a woman purchases a hair comb from a pawn shop, ignorant that it was a gift from hades and persephone is the one who pawned it for emergency funds. when hades shakes her down and demands where she stole the comb from, she directs him to the pawn shop and he just...takes it. to give it to persephone again. whether or not she was made whole or is even okay with this is completely inconsequential to the author but left me, the reader, in a total lurch. the complete disregard for addressing this within the narrative is less shocking when taken into total account with everything else ive been talking about.

the sequence in which hades takes her on a shopping spree to both improve her mood and express his love was too grotesque for me on every conceivable level. it is not just the shockingly antiquated “women b shoppin!” stereotype presented as a healing process, but the open and shameless conflation of money and love, net worth and self-worth. what possible message could come from this except to reinforce that within the fictional universe of LO, it is the place of the lesser to fawn over what persephone is ultimately entitled to. it is her birthright as the protagonist/self insert and as a literal goddess who determines the creation of food...and nymphs. the underclass. the gods are responsible for the creation of their servants.

the industries exist because they are 1:1 representations of or conductive to what the author considers to be a desirable luxurious fantasy. i do not think there is a more complex reason than that, as that is the reason why the entire comic exists: as a personal love letter to the author’s tastes and desires. and frankly, that’s the point of comics. ALL comic artists should succumb to this desire. what continues to vex and haunt me however is the complete lack of reflection occurring despite the author putting these elements together and presenting them for an audience who then lapped it up without questioning what, specifically, was appealing about this and why. it is by sheer accident that these elements combine together to paint an unflattering picture of a culture that has created artificial disparity for no apparent reason than personal gratification.

my question, is this:

who fills the pot holes on the roads built exclusively so that the gods can drive their luxury cars? why do they do it? to get hades some pussy????