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screambirdscreaming · 11 months ago

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so finding things on the internet is hell these days but can anyone help me find that one actually good interpretation of the myth of persephone I've ever seen?

the one with "i am married / i am buried / i am mourned" and "to marry a girl you need only her father's permission / not her mother's / not even the bride's."

it's a black and white comic/poem, posted here on tumblr..... years ago now.

#i could quote probably the whole thing honestly but I want to reblog the original #and since it's text in images and also search is hell. knowing the whole text is not finding it.#anyway it's literally the only version of the myth I've seen that actually *hits*#emotionally #and I'm so so sick of ~modern reinterpretations~ that worse than miss the entire point #there is some kind of trend about making stories about women's suffering ''modern'' and ''empowering'' by retelling them while pretending #that the women involved had agency #the whole point! of the story! is that the woman did not have agency! that's why it's a fucking tragedy!!#if you retell the same story with the same plot beats but pretend it's a romcom #i am chewing you to shreds.#anyway I was getting real mad again about a local adaptation of the taming of the shrew #and then also the many many versions of persephone that make me want to spit fire #and then i remembered that there is at least one good fucking version of persephone out there.#does anyone else remember this?

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