#Orestia

[consilio-cameos]

Still pissed they canceled Kaos because I imagine the potential for the fucked up families in the hypothetical next seasons. The story of Minos and Ariadne was already something, but I want to see their take on the Atreides!! or even Oedipus and his family!!!

[helbrides]

playlist masterlist:

if there is a serpent in our garden - inspired by the fall of x, gillen and werneck’s immortal x-men, and a funk-filled apocalypse

in the form, if not the flesh - inspired by claremont and simonson’s inferno, zeb well’s hellions, and madelyne pryor’s fall and rise

all we have left is threats - inspired by bendis’s uncanny x-men run and scott summer’s mutant freedom fighter era

though not one easily answered - inspired by mystique’s solo run and kieron gillen and lucas werneck’s immortal x-men

she’s someplace cold - inspired by netflix’s daredevil, the solo elektra run, and liu’s black widow: name of the rose

miles morales’ swinging playlist - inspired by itsv, every miles morales run, and growing up afrolatino in nyc

died on the job - inspired by future state: gotham and the under the red hood film

nothing can be done to change it - inspired by stover’s revenge of the sith novelization and the fall of the galactic republic

apathy is death - inspired by kotor i and kotor ii and the tragic nature of revan and the exile

traitor, idiot, count - inspired by cavan scott’s dooku: jedi lost and stover’s revenge of the sith novelization

i’m the only child you’ll ever need. you can kill the others. - inspired by hbo’s succession with an anne carson influence

new york is dead - inspired by hbo and bbc’s industry and the general misery of harper stern

🪆- inspired by netflix’s russian doll

i hope evil takes mastercard - inspired by buffy the vampire slayer and faith lehane’s hypothetical mixtape

casa de mi tia - songs that play in my central american aunts’ apartments

manic black girls rejoice - songs for the black girls that blast azealia banks and look up to octavia st. laurent and monet de haan

we look damn good - a possible heist story, think ocean’s 8, portrait of a thief, etc.

you’re morbid, you’ve taken away my appetite - a possible short story, think anne carson’s elektra, daughters of the dust, black girls and their mothers, etc. (falls under 001 on the pinterest board)

start a war, just for the feeling - a possible vampire story, think pledge, selah and the spades, an all-black buffy the vampire slayer, etc. (falls under 002 on the pinterest board)

sharpening my oyster knife - a possible story of a prophet, think the myth of cassandra, this is how you lose the time war, etc. (falls under 003 on the pinterest board)

and then there was doom - a possible post-apocalypse world were the radio only plays hip-hop

inspired by @fluoresensitive stunning playlists and tag system

aforementioned pinterest that accompanies the playlists can be found here

[oddnub-eye]

I think the ideal Orestia retelling is one where everyone is lying out their ass. Agamemnon is lying, Clytemnestra is lying, Iphigenia is lying, Elektra is lying, Orestes is lying, Chrysothemis is lying.

There is not a single ounce of truth, it's liars all the way down

[1ndivara]

Young Orestes,, Elektra and Iphigenia at Aulis + Klytemnestra ((can you tell i love her))

[adriles]

my sister is a woman driven by grief. as her husband lay down in the bath she threw a net on him while her weird incest boyfriend lay into him with an axe. the house curse now lays on her shoulders. all menelaus and i now have to worry about is our daughter and our nice new drinking cups

[anoritheark]

Time for the Witches: PJ First

Witches are witches and they are great. It's time to follow!

[copycatvagabond]

promise I will stop posting about the Oresteia soon but here is Cassandra

[notacluedo]

Electra ‼️‼️

ref : courage anxiety and despair: watching the battle (James Sant 1850)

[o1iveangel]

“no human is well off or happy to the end; no one was ever born without grief”

- Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

sorry angels y’all have to witness my evilness, doodling my new agamemnon design in the worst possible way

[hjtart]

me when im SOOOOOOOO normal about greek mythology and curses and what not. anyway i like to think orestes a little hesitant abt matricide on the journey. when your cringe god bestows you with some fucking task

[katerinaaqu]

I find it incredibly hilarious that in Aeschylus' "Eumenides" Apollo acts as a witness to Orestes and has the most lawyer energy ever 🤣 😆 like he wants to persuade the audience that Orestes is justified and to achieve that he speaks on how a father is the real parent and not the mother and says that "a father can exist even without a mother" and then uses fucking ATHENA as an example! 🤣🤣🤣 like he says "Zeus gave birth to Athena through his head so the father is the parent"

I just can't help but finding hilarious! 🤣🤣 and I can imagine Hermes in the background snickering at that or trying not to yell "dude what the fuck?!" 🤣🤣🤣

Apollo definitely works as a lawyer here hahaha 😆 😂 🤣 confusing the audience 😂

[masterofthewarcry]

thinking about the curse of house atreides manifesting as madness.

agamemnon starts seeing iphigenia in the corners of rooms after aulis, her dress bloody from where the sacrificial knife went in. all she does is watch him. he starts shrinking in on himself. confusing people. diomedes opposes his talk of abandoning the fight and returning home and agamemnon starts shouting at him except hes calling him achilles. he thinks he sees iphigenia during the sacking of troy, and takes cassandra with him out of the city. his dead daughter sits across from him in the bathtub, and hes so busy looking at her he doesnt see the axe coming down.

menelaus, the longer they spend away from home, becomes more and more prone to explode about the smallest things. he yells at his brother when agamemnon is hesitant to sacrifice his daughter. he throws himself recklessly into the Trojan line day after day. he awards achilles armor to odysseus, knowing that itll upset ajax, wanting ajax to pick a fight. he still argues they should have left ajaxs body to rot after he killed himself. he almost kills helen when he finds her in the sacking, but aphrodite touches his shoulder and clears his mind.

thinking about only one brother making it out.

[girlfromenglishclass]

If I spend too much time thinking about this I'll die.

[cam-stopped-eating-candles]

Iphigenia and baby Orestes doodles don’t touch me

[incorrecthomer]

Iphigenia: Listen it's important for mom to do her own stuff. She's not just our mom, she's a person. Electra: If she's not just mom, then why is her name mom? Iphigenia: It's Clytemnestra. Electra: Sounds weird. Orestes: Yeah, we don't believe you.

[smokey07]

Different type of challenge: In the spirit of "Neoptolemus has blood in his hands" and to the spirit of death how about a scene from his death by the hands of Orestes? Or him dead on the altar or maybe Hermione and/or Andromache staring at his dead body bleeding red?

Oh gosh am I being grim before New Year's? Perhaps but I don't care! Hahaha

IMO your suggestion is always something interesting. I’ll try my best to deliver, and illustration this time

WARNING: BLOOD

“Born an executioner, died an offering”

You waste your life to gain power

You shift the game rules

How does it feel to reach the line that no one ever got to cross?

Does it make you a god now?

Every sin will be forgiven

If you lay down your weapons to the ground

(To Ashes and Blood - Woodkid)

P.S: I combined two of your ask and used the reference (you know which one hehe). I haven’t designed Orestes so I cheated a bit.