#Myth Asks the Fandom

[myth-blossom]

Myth Asks the Fandom

Do you think Hitman characters would love video games (and if yes, what would they play)?

I thought of this question after playing Untitled Goose Game recently. I can’t quite explain it, but something about it just makes me go, “Yep, that is totally perfect for Lucas Grey.” (@lucas-grey and @ellenchain, you’ll have to let me know what you think about that!)

I did have some thoughts about other characters, though not as strongly as Grey and his chaotic goose energy. I think Diana would enjoy strategy-based games, but is more likely to play a goofy mobile game on a burner phone than something on a console. Olivia strikes me as someone who would love to play Sims (and would definitely have her friends included as characters).

47 clearly doesn’t like playing for an audience, or at least when it comes to dancing games like the one in Hokkaido—maybe he would do better with a controller-based dance game? The disco scene in Yakuza Zero comes to mind. Otherwise, I think he would enjoy a gardening-based game, or something calming with gardening included (I hesitate to say Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, but you know what I mean.)

[cosmicourple]

*drops this and runs* Time loop Ody becoming increasingly more demigod and stockpiling experience and power with each loop which catches the gods’ attention because what the heck. Athena looked away for a couple months and now her ex-champion- ex friend?? is a Demi god. The crew and Eurylochus become very worried, and the second in command can’t help but think, ‘Did the gods do this? Did that wind god do this? Was it the bag?’. Guilt racks him every loop he came to that conclusion. Every loop, they noticed how distant Odysseus is, like a dead man playing with toys just to see what happens. Some loops they grow scared of him and Odysseus pushed down the sparks of guilt in favour of mischievous amusement.

Things sort of are consistent depending on the actions Odysseus takes and some are consistent regardless of his actions. It’s gotten to the point where he can safely predict what’s going to happen next and could only experiment until the day he drop dead for real.

Yet during a loop, something changes. It’s subtle at first; haunted looks, headaches from others, things Odysseus sort of shrugged off but then it becomes a pattern spanning across time. Eurylochus sometimes collapses from horror, unable to look at Odysseus in the eyes. Athena rushes in, frantic and panicked like she saw her champion die. Odysseus would have questioned the changes but he’s too apathetic and more curious than anything to see changes he never created, in the end though it wouldn’t matter. Then Poseidon and Zeus happened and both of them have unreadable expressions on their faces.

Slips of the past flicker in, love, hatred manipulation all unveiling slowly, leaving only the gaps for them to peer in. Odysseus is connected to him, he has to be.

Why else would they sense the titan of time’s power in the fallen king?

OH MY GHUHGFBHUYYHBDWWFHHYHYG I LOVE THIS??????????????????????? YHRFRFEREEE😭😭😭

ohoho— Kronos is a very obvious but still great candidate to be involved w/ all this bullshit haha yessss, get Luke P.J.O-ed King of Ithaca >:]]]].

mmmmmm- u hammered in exactly how I view Odysseus’s current mind-state in this A.U hryyjiijnhg God(s), the crew becoming scared / seeing their cap’ all of a sudden (both in personality and in appearance—) alienate from them, Athena’s confusion & horror at her Champion’s whiplash of a gene! transformation, the Sky n Sea Bro’s (im assuming dis is wha ur talking about idk htgfdd-) previous Loop memories slowly dawning on them & the dull dread of Father the Titan of the Harvest being involved in it all, EURY’S HAVING GULIT ABOUT THE SITUATION BC OF LACK OF CONTEXT⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

AUGGGGGG— there’s always so much angst n fucked up character moment potential w/ not only timloop! A.U’s. But w/ this fandom in general QTYIJHDDSNKKIJBGFFFF

ghuuuygf generally, ty SO MUCH 4 the contribution, It means a lot to see ppl wanna interact with my weird A.U! stuff 🥹☺️🫶

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

[imagionationstation]

*Skids into view.* YOU. YOUR THE 2012 TURTLE PERSON. I JUST FINISHED SEASON TWO AND MAY GOD I CANT BELIEVE IT ENDS LIKE THAT. IT WAS SUCH A GOOFY SEASON???? AND THEN LEO GETS WINDOWED OMG

I AM THE 2012 TURTLE PERSON!!

OMGOSH YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT BEFORE???

I LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE FOR YOU!! IT’S SO GOOD RIGHT??

THEY JUST PULL THE RUG OUT ON US LIKE “hey, btw, this is where things get serious!” NOW WE HAVE A GOOD SEVERAL SEASONS OF TRAUMAS AND HORRORS! ONE OF THE LAST SEASONS WHERE THEY’RE JUST SILLY BILLY TEENS LIVING THEIR GOOFY VIGILANTE LIVES!! SWITCH MORE BODIES! LET THEM PLAY DND! BRING BACK THE DANCING MUSHROOMS!!

LET THEM HAVE THE SILLY HORRORS THAT END AFTER AN EPISODE AND DON’T HAUNT THEM FOR SEVERAL SEASONS

LIKE WHY DOES IT HAVE TO END 🥺🥺

WRITERS WHY COULDN’T YOU LET THEM HAVE THIISSS

[tangents-within-tangents]

I think something that's seriously bothered me about the Gravity Falls fandom is how Ford, which has been depicted as nothing but aro, gets that depiction constantly thrown out the window to ship him with Bill Cipher. The idea that their toxic relationship could only ever be something romantic, and that friendships don't have these kinds of explosive shitty relationships is ludicrous! In my own experience, the worst abusive relationships I've seen had been between friends, not romantic parters. This fandom has been driving me bonkers because everywhere you look people are spreading this misconception that "BILLFORD IS CANON!!!" because they never take off their shipping glasses. Characters do not need romance to make their experiences complex!

Yes like the fandom thing is always "if you don't like it you can just scroll past" or whatever, but there is this point where shipping culture just gets so pervasive and unavoidable!

And it basically inherently devalues/invalidates friendships and any other type of love beside romantic or sexual (which have so much real life and storytelling merit!). Especially when it's treated as if it is the only way to view things, like it's the default, even in cases when there is literally nothing in the text to actually suggest sex/romance!

And like yeah plenty of hc and shipping has nothing to do with what is or isn't in the text. But when aro/ace identities are treated as an empty slate to project whatever on instead of as an identity in itself? When there is so much romance all over the place but you can't let us have our one (like literally one) canon character? When it gets to the point that you can't possibly think of a 'platonic explanation' for things that literally do not have to be romantic in any way? If you can't conceive of a relationship having value and depth, love and complexity without romance/sex? If you can't think of a character/storyline being interesting without it, or of someone's life being meaningful and complete without it? That's just amatonormative (aka aphobic)

And like can you see why maybe that would get frustrating for some of us to constantly see everywhere all the time?

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[necrotic-nephilim]

i recently remembered DickTim Week 2024 is happening very soon and i looked at the prompts again to see if i could get anything out for it and. the Hades & Persephone AU prompt for day 1 has got me really thinking so here's a vague concept i plan to write.

i've been pretty burnt out on modern Hades & Persephone retellings because of how they always seem to fall into the same generic "innocent wide-eyed girl runs from her evil mean mother into the arms of a dark mysterious man because actually she went willingly and chose to marry him" which has gotten repetitive for my tastes. (for clarity i don't care if this retelling is your cup of tea personally, so long as you're not actively trying to rewrite the original myth and claim untrue things about it, if this is your favorite flavor i sincerely hope you enjoy the buffet i just have little interest in it since it feels overdone for me and exhausted of it's supposed commentary atp)

but? but. biblically accurate Hades & Persephone AU has me all kinds of interested. because wait listen so hear me out right. Hades!Dick and Persephone!Tim, obviously. i feel it'd be more loosely inspired by with themes and imagery (though playing with death and nature powers could be interesting, i haven't decided) rather than explicitly making them gods and all. but. something dark and fucked up where Dick and Bruce are especially estranged. maybe to do with Jason's return, maybe to do with them just clashing and having their usual explosive arguments. and Bruce knows the peace needs to be kept, if he and Dick are at odds then everyone starts to pick sides and things just fracture so he needs a peace offering.

and the peace offering is Tim.

Bruce (the stand-in for Zeus) offers up Tim. agrees to have Tim move to Bludhaven and be Dick's... whatever Dick wants him to be. knowing that with the implication comes the likelihood of Dick grooming Tim. and Tim has no real say and is hesitant to put up a real fight. he doesn't want this, he knows what this is going to imply Dick will do to him, but he also knows if he says no things have the possibility to just... fall apart. so he's the unwilling bride, dragged off to the metaphorical underworld (Bludhaven) with Dick, away from his family, his friends, the life he built.

and on the flip side, i think weirdly enough, your best pick for the Demeter stand-in is *Jason*. just, hear me out on that. not necessarily on the side of it being motherly, but on Jason being just estranged enough from the Batfamily to be the one willing to call it out for being bad and wrong and raising bloody hell to get Tim back. maybe it's because Jason wants Tim for himself, maybe it's truly out of a concern for Tim to have autonomy, i'm toying with the idea of it primarily being Tim's POV and him genuinely not knowing which of these is true. (and the truth possibly ends up being a complicated middle ground) and because i like Helena, i think you can use her as the Hekate stand in, the one who strikes a tentative alliance with Jason and tries to go find Tim and bring him back. Tim stuck with Dick, getting groomed and hyperaware of it, possibly even getting fucked the whole time as well, knowing he can't go back without causing massive issues for Dick and Bruce because well, Bruce did promise him to Dick. so he has to adjust his whole life, try to figure out being a vigilante in this new city with Dick breathing down his neck the whole time.

and then much like the ending of the myth, a sort of compromise is struck that's a shaky deal for everyone involved. Tim is put on an essential timeshare, going back and forth between Gotham, where he has friends and family and a support system, then getting dragged right back to Bludhaven with Dick in this brutal cycle that he slowly gets used to and stockholm'd into even liking it. Dick isn't so bad, once he gets used to the quirks of their unbalanced 'relationship'. the sex is even something he can adjust to as well. not quite a happy ending but one that sits in this realistic grey area that becomes Tim's life.

i will write this, eventually, but i don't know if i'll get to it before DickTim Week ends so by posting the idea i'm essentially putting it out into the world so the peer pressure holds me accountable. i just. really like the potential of making Hades/Persephone AUs as fucked up as they can be simply by adhering to the source material and making it a raw story of being stolen away and forced to like this new home you didn't ask for.

also a less fleshed-out aspect of this idea i have ties into Persephone becoming the Queen of the Underworld when she's taken and how the transition from Kore to Persephone could be reflected in Tim. how he makes the best of the worst situation and becomes something far more dangerous and dark when he's in Bludhaven, possibly takes on a new vigilante name/identity and leans into the worst quirks of his personality he tries to tamper because there's no point in not going full tilt Obsessively Weird if he has no choice anyway and it being one small way he takes back his autonomy, and that inevitably making Dick *more* into him, because he gets to see Tim finally just. let loose.

[beastsovrevelation]

I recently found out people ship Cassandra with Apollo.

My initial reaction was...

Just tan their hides. You know what happened to her because the the bastard, don't you?..

Then, I was overwhelmed by morbid curiosity, and checked AO3. People are writing rape fics about them. ...Why?..

Could I ever see Cassandra x Apollo?.. I don't know, maybe. But, definitely not the nonsense I mentioned. Dubcon at most. I guess, he might somehow coerce her into sleeping with him, and later rescue her from the fall of Troy, because she's pregnant with his child, or something (Zeus would be pissed, I'm fine with that).

Sounds like an intriguing story, with a lot of morally questionable elements. I can imagine Apollo confiding in Artemis, wondering why his wife is so upset. She'd just go "are you serious rn?.. -_-".

...What, you're surprised I'm among those I wish to hide with a broom? Don't be. It happens quite often, actually.

[myth-blossom]

Myth Asks the Fandom

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted one of these! Might as well use the polls function for it 😊

[i-swear-to-merlin]

old and new bbc merlin drawing to kick off my first ever Tumblr blog!

I first listened to BBC Merlin around the years it aired but I was young and I "forgot" about it. Then I discovered the series was trending again and I thought, OMG here's the time to draw all of the fanart you never made!!!!!

Feel free to send any ask and I'll see if I feel like drawing them, basically any Merlin characters it can be portraits or comic strip, I'm always open to try anything!

Im here because this is the Once and Future Fandom, we're not going anywhere!

[cosmicourple]

Honestly I can see Ody and Zeus having a competition on who can top the other the most. Poseidon helps sometimes because he finds it really hilarious to take his brother down a peg but when Ody gets a bit too cheeky he tops him himself in front of Zeus or if he’s feeling generous, helps Zeus which Ody would gasp dramatically at the audacity.

Neither Zeus nor Odysseus win this competition, that honour goes to Penelope who Zeus can’t really touch because Hera would strike down on them and I honestly see them as having a surprising platonic relationship (shocking I know) and Odysseus… Look the man is a very big wife lover even when in relations with literal gods he would absolutely bend over for his wife if asked.

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hheeeha oh the sexy image of Poseidon smiling, sitting on the bed watching as Odysseus rides the fuck out of Zeus, as said god starts panting, cracking under the determination n force of this sturdy little king ohoho- vghhhhhgggff I make myself a bit red in the face thinking about it 🙃👉👈

[mutedeclipse]

omgomg … have you ever thought about incorporating robotic stuff to shirobon or mighty’s design since classic bomberman is a robot? :0 i would love to see your take

I might sound real pretentious here bear with me

Honestly since theyre organic and thats like MAJOR to the themes and plot of jetters i dont think i would personally, i treat jetters- basically all media i draw and love with an intense reverence and work within the boundaries set by a media! unless i deem creative decisions kinda dumb, arbitrary or shallow... Jetters being Not dumb, arbitrary or shallow and actually meaningful and well thought out in virtually every deviation from classic bomberman makes me hesitant to do so. No shame to anyone who does! I just have an incredibly strict sense of the things i make for myself, i could fathom an interpretation like that either happening if i was payed to do so or if i got a really cool meaningful idea.

If anything how i draw non jetters bombermen as a result of jetters look more organic nowadays.. drew these fuckers MUCH more robotic before watching and honestly to anyone who remembers back then ive improved.

[neuxue]

May I have a WWX for the Blorbo Bleebus sheet?

you most certainly may!

The divorce is jiang cheng. neither of them is doing well about it.

The thing about Wei Wuxian is that he's absolutely the protagonist of this story as it's told, and the narrative itself plays with that concept... but if you zoom out a bit, he is also very much Just Some Guy who was chosen due to a combination of his own choices and external factors as a convenient target for society's ire. And you can see the way even that shifts with the times, and the way while he ends up tangled up in so many other people's stories, those stories are not so much centred around him as observed by him or colliding with him, depending. All of which is to say: he is the protagonist of this story only, because he is the one whose eyes we see it through.

whether he's inventing new and creative ways to torture you into insanity and death (in that order) or teaching you Talismans 101 just because he can really depends on his mood and when in his life you're meeting him. I might have been a little unfair on this one and perhaps he should be further over to the right, but I feel like I'm trying to compensate for the fact that the crueller parts of him often get sanded down in fandom.

enemy of god (in his first life); at peace with life (in his second, eventually)

oh, the hot takes. He's not the only character to inspire them, and he's not really even the worst, but yikes.

He deserves healing and peace and nice things! I'm glad he has them! But I am who I am and I like him best when he's bleeding and bitter and furious and losing his tenuous grip on who he is or who he once wanted to be.

In this case The Realisation and consequences pair nicely: the moment where it all falls apart at Qiongqidao in particular is absolutely choice. More of Wei Wuxian realising far too late that there are consequences for his actions that are no longer within his control, that moment of frozen horror right before it spirals but after the point of no return. That's the good shit.

[emperornero]

tagamemnon tag adventures number 2. this time nothing dangerous but if i had to speak to someone like this for more than 2 minutes i would die. and after and only reading this bio i can already tell you that 99% of their original posts are unfunny incorrect quotes assigned to greek gods at random. these "greek mythology fandom" people are copies of each other i swear to god

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

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Queen Aanya from TDP lol

But also, not fandom-related, Quetzalcoatl because I'm a HUGE mythology nerd and he's cool...

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