#Probably anyway: and that’s really saying something because Demeter there is hrm nope

[bluewithpurplepolkadots]

Honestly I did use to consume romantic versions of Hades and Persephone in the past. But I think what actually broke it for me was when I purchased a specific comic of it. No it’s not the most popular one out now. It was advertised on tumblr and the art was pretty damn good with decent prose.

Not naming or linking it because that’s mean but like I kind of need to rant about it a bit.

The art was good, and it was typical of such modern adaptations in having a suffocating Demeter: but somehow went further. It had the very stupid and insulting premise where Demeter in fact was just using Persephone and simply didn’t have the powers to bring about the harvest basically. Which was in fact why winter came and Persephone had to leave Hades once a year.

It wasn’t a grieving mother. Wasn’t even a demonstration of her power. She was just weak and a liar and a user according to this comic.

What the actual fuck.

I mean honestly from what I recall it even made Hermes into an idiot or something and tricked him with the Pomegranate as a reason Persephone couldn’t leave. You know. Making shit up to him because it clearly didn’t make sense and Hermes wasn’t the brightest.

Like, dude. Hermes??? The god of trickery?

It also had a very weird line where Persephone said Hades was the only one to ever respect what she wanted. Which was such a weird thing to write in retrospect to the actual hymn.

I think the only god which escaped being weirdly twisted out of shape or made out to be weak was perhaps Cupid and Zeus.