#a special little girl

[dapper-lil-arts]

Forgotten Friendship is the best piece of MLP media no substitutes. It's a gift that keeps on giving

[jkvjimin]

born to be a princess 🎀✨👸

happy birthday, seokjin! (december 4th, 1992)

[froggerland]

Virgin cringe fail terror lieuts vs

Chad cunt serving erebus lieuts

for @terroryuriweek day 1 (uniform) (yes i am participating i was just artblocked and am still busy so expect whatever i will contribute to be very late lmao)

[bigcitymac]

mac "every sexual fantasty i've ever had coming true rn" mcdonald

[cutiepieautistic]

Derpy hooves merchandise!

[beetledrink]

I KNOW WWHAT HAPPENED AT THE FUCKING SALEM WITCH TRIALS!!!!!!! I WAS MAKING AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS THE GODDAMN PUNCHLINE!!!!!!!!

[the-other-puppet]

Tasque manager whoa (temporal Berdly spot)

Spamton's superior, and his direct boss..

A firm, controlling and bossy woman with an obsession with both symmetry & order (all good traits), enough to want to work on The Admin's side and get everything in order once she enters on their equivalent to cyber world

fun fact; the little snake tail thinks on it's own (and knows a lot of gossip from work)

[yashley]

[twilight-spargle]

hiiii sunset doodle as i find time to draw again

[dapper-lil-arts]

Once again Forgotten Friendship continues to be peak

[canislupusangelus]

THEY DID THE THING!!!!!!!!!! The gingersnaps(and jennifers body) hallway thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[palecryptid]

(p5 spinoff week day six: home)

“i think he was close enough to make it home, so he wanted to go see akane… let’s leave the two of them be for tonight.” 💙

[sonicplushiee]

stupid turtles eating my brain everyday nomnomnom

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

[puppppppppy]

Childhood

[rapha-reads]

No but I gotta talk about Medusa for a minute actually.

It's been. A very long time since I read the PJO books so I don't exactly remember how Uncle Rick presents Medusa in the book. But the way the show introduces her myth? Fascinating. For me as a Greek mythology enthusiast, that is.

The show makes Medusa a victim of Athena. Of course, the show is mainly for kids, so they can't exactly say that, hey, kids, Medusa was Athena's priestess and she was raped by Poseidon, YEP, or protagonist's father, IN Athena's temple, nah, that's neither kid-friendly nor does it endears us to Poseidon. Not that Poseidon is very dear to us viewers/readers at this point, our narrator/protagonist can't stand his own dad.

But still what fascinates me is that even though they twisted the myth to ft the narrative they still managed to evoke Athena's curse as being actually a gift, and Medusa not feeling wretched over her condition but blessed.

Which is not a modern reading of the myth, actually. Saying that Athena couldn't punish Poseidon for his transgression and could only punish Medusa, but did so in a way that would give Medusa weapons to defend herself against whoever and whatever would try to harm her again, is a narrative that exists since Antiquity.

My point is that the re-framing of Medusa's myth, departing from the traditional, non-kid-friendly version while still incorporating both classic and modern elements, is a good frame of reference for the series (book and show)' entire approach to mythology. And I guess I'm saying that mostly for the non-book readers who are discovering this world, many of whom might be Greek mythology fans and might have gone "wait, why is Hades AGAIN presented as the bad guy when he's the chillest, most normal, most stable god in this entire pantheon", because that's a conversation the book fandom has been having (over and over again) for more than a decade.

Anyway, yeah. As a long time book fan and a show appreciative, here's my advice to anyone who knows WAY too much about Greek myths and still want to enjoy the ride without going every five minutes "wait, that's not correct": reframe. Contemporary rewritings, modern audiences and Fantasy genre.