#Nimona AND dreadnaught by April daniels my beloveds. This is also the appeal of the wicked+ the divine to me | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

magpiesbones · 1 year ago

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the reason why anything that combines superheroes and fairytales is SO good is because these are two HEAVILY related genres that are at their base SO allegorical.

like they’re myths at the heart of it! This is the way you are talking about good and evil and the Political Topic Of Choice. You don’t get Power Structures that are Like That in any other genre because superheroes are effectively a modernization of knights errant. and if you GET this. You get to have FUN with it.

#Nimona AND dreadnaught by April daniels my beloveds. This is also the appeal of the wicked+ the divine to me #It’s late and I’m talking out my ass a little bit I DO want to think about the way that roving Hero Figures applies as a descriptor both to #Spider-Man and the epic of Gilgamesh. The didactism of both marvel and the original beity and the beast #And the ways that b&b has been retold into more of a persephonesque story there’s one I’m thinking of I think called The Tigers Bride #Also Neil gaimans Sleeping Beauty. The NARRATIVE beats of a superhero story ARE there

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