#greek drag

[kaliarda]

Σιρίνες / Sirens 🫧🐚🪸 Parakatyanova and Sergay Parakatyanov shot by Tony Theodorakis

[ochiody]

i think than would be claustrophobic

[silvsarts]

Throws this out, and then disappears

[brother-emperors]

WHAT DOOM FOR YOU?

back again with my Please Read The Thebaid Agenda! I adapted the ending of Book VII into a comic because oh boy. thoughts thoughts thoughts.

There is a horror in having yourself altered to such a degree where you are unrecognizable in your own self, to know that it is happening, to know that you should be dead and yet you are not. You have already seen the moment of your death!!!! (Stat. Theb. 3.537 – 47) There's a horror in knowing, and in it being treated as an act of love when it's really more like a violation. Amphiaraus is spared Creon's decree, but by falling into the underworld, it makes things worse on a cosmic scale.

Statius' Thebaid Book VII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War, Charles McNelis

The Perils of Prophecy: Statius' Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents, E. Fantham

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[sophiejanefostersilver]

"sing, o goddess, about the rage of achilles"

are we talking about the beginning or the ending?

[echo-stimmingrose]

*Dionysus walking into Olympus for the very first time, Hermes by his side*

Dionysus: *spots Ares and Aphrodite* *initiates bisexual panic*

Hermes: Oh no-!

Dionysus: What?

Hermes: I know that look! Absolutely not!

Dionysus: Dude, look at them.

Hermes: Trust me, Dio, you don't want to touch that mess.

Dionysus: Nooooo I'm fairly certain I do...

Hermes: No absolutely not- come on. I'm keeping you in my sight.

[necrotic-nephilim]

i recently remembered DickTim Week 2024 is happening very soon and i looked at the prompts again to see if i could get anything out for it and. the Hades & Persephone AU prompt for day 1 has got me really thinking so here's a vague concept i plan to write.

i've been pretty burnt out on modern Hades & Persephone retellings because of how they always seem to fall into the same generic "innocent wide-eyed girl runs from her evil mean mother into the arms of a dark mysterious man because actually she went willingly and chose to marry him" which has gotten repetitive for my tastes. (for clarity i don't care if this retelling is your cup of tea personally, so long as you're not actively trying to rewrite the original myth and claim untrue things about it, if this is your favorite flavor i sincerely hope you enjoy the buffet i just have little interest in it since it feels overdone for me and exhausted of it's supposed commentary atp)

but? but. biblically accurate Hades & Persephone AU has me all kinds of interested. because wait listen so hear me out right. Hades!Dick and Persephone!Tim, obviously. i feel it'd be more loosely inspired by with themes and imagery (though playing with death and nature powers could be interesting, i haven't decided) rather than explicitly making them gods and all. but. something dark and fucked up where Dick and Bruce are especially estranged. maybe to do with Jason's return, maybe to do with them just clashing and having their usual explosive arguments. and Bruce knows the peace needs to be kept, if he and Dick are at odds then everyone starts to pick sides and things just fracture so he needs a peace offering.

and the peace offering is Tim.

Bruce (the stand-in for Zeus) offers up Tim. agrees to have Tim move to Bludhaven and be Dick's... whatever Dick wants him to be. knowing that with the implication comes the likelihood of Dick grooming Tim. and Tim has no real say and is hesitant to put up a real fight. he doesn't want this, he knows what this is going to imply Dick will do to him, but he also knows if he says no things have the possibility to just... fall apart. so he's the unwilling bride, dragged off to the metaphorical underworld (Bludhaven) with Dick, away from his family, his friends, the life he built.

and on the flip side, i think weirdly enough, your best pick for the Demeter stand-in is *Jason*. just, hear me out on that. not necessarily on the side of it being motherly, but on Jason being just estranged enough from the Batfamily to be the one willing to call it out for being bad and wrong and raising bloody hell to get Tim back. maybe it's because Jason wants Tim for himself, maybe it's truly out of a concern for Tim to have autonomy, i'm toying with the idea of it primarily being Tim's POV and him genuinely not knowing which of these is true. (and the truth possibly ends up being a complicated middle ground) and because i like Helena, i think you can use her as the Hekate stand in, the one who strikes a tentative alliance with Jason and tries to go find Tim and bring him back. Tim stuck with Dick, getting groomed and hyperaware of it, possibly even getting fucked the whole time as well, knowing he can't go back without causing massive issues for Dick and Bruce because well, Bruce did promise him to Dick. so he has to adjust his whole life, try to figure out being a vigilante in this new city with Dick breathing down his neck the whole time.

and then much like the ending of the myth, a sort of compromise is struck that's a shaky deal for everyone involved. Tim is put on an essential timeshare, going back and forth between Gotham, where he has friends and family and a support system, then getting dragged right back to Bludhaven with Dick in this brutal cycle that he slowly gets used to and stockholm'd into even liking it. Dick isn't so bad, once he gets used to the quirks of their unbalanced 'relationship'. the sex is even something he can adjust to as well. not quite a happy ending but one that sits in this realistic grey area that becomes Tim's life.

i will write this, eventually, but i don't know if i'll get to it before DickTim Week ends so by posting the idea i'm essentially putting it out into the world so the peer pressure holds me accountable. i just. really like the potential of making Hades/Persephone AUs as fucked up as they can be simply by adhering to the source material and making it a raw story of being stolen away and forced to like this new home you didn't ask for.

also a less fleshed-out aspect of this idea i have ties into Persephone becoming the Queen of the Underworld when she's taken and how the transition from Kore to Persephone could be reflected in Tim. how he makes the best of the worst situation and becomes something far more dangerous and dark when he's in Bludhaven, possibly takes on a new vigilante name/identity and leans into the worst quirks of his personality he tries to tamper because there's no point in not going full tilt Obsessively Weird if he has no choice anyway and it being one small way he takes back his autonomy, and that inevitably making Dick *more* into him, because he gets to see Tim finally just. let loose.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres • mythological horror

this horror genre is rooted in the mythos of a culture. these films are based on the legends we heard growing up that scared us. this sub-genre is closely associated with folk horror.

[realbeefman]

EVERYBODY IS SAYING TUA S4 IS LIKE 9/11 FOR THE FANDOM but i’ve been doomsday prepping for how dogshit this season will be since it was renewed in 2022 oh im so excited im rubbing my little cricket legs together and screetching with joy. the fact that i have to wait MULTIPLE days to watch this is killing me. i hope ben hargreeves hangs dong onscreen and its just a giant tentacle. i hope allison and luther fuck heavy hard and explicit and most of all i HOPE the color palette is PISS YELLOW again. it was so beautiful last time. im going to have the time of my LIFE

[lilly-townshend]

[bugwolfsstuff]

I saw another post on tiktok demonizing Perseus (also Lady Athena) and talking about Medusa being a 'victim' and oh my gods someone might get murdered if someone doesnt hold me back

1. The Medusa was raped by Posiedon and cursed (or gifted, i see that one too) by Athena was a Roman myth written by Ovid (i think?). So itd be Neptune NOT Poseidon and Minerva NOT Athena, if you talk about this myth to me and refer to them by their Greek counterparts or call it Greek mythology I will bite you.

Medusa in Greek myth was a gorgon, she was a monster by birth and had two sisters whose names i cant remember right now. She had two children from Poseidon that sprung from her neck after Perseus beheaded her, the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor who is often depicted as a young man.

2. Speaking of the hero, PERSEUS ISNT THIS WOMAN HATING MONSTER GOOD LORDS AND LADIES AND HERMAPHRODITUS, I HATE THIS TAKE SO MUCH

Infact my mans drank his respect women juice. The reason why he went after medusa was because a king that wanted him dead and to (forcibly) marry his mommy, Danae. The king trying to get Percy killed told him to go get the gorgons head. Afterwhich when Percy succeeded he turned the king into stone with the Medusa head and became king

Sometime during the bringing of the head to the king, Percy came across this princess, Andromeda, chained to a rock to be a sacrifice and he saved her.

So again not a monster.

So summary:

SA victim Medusa = Roman myth

Monster/gorgon Medusa = Greek myth

Perseus = mama's boy.

[kaliarda]

Dimitrios Antonitsis, Family Matters!, Case study #1 c, 1998.

[johnconstantinesdick]

I’m thinking about my Big Three kid swap au (Nico is the prophecy child, Percy is a willow tree, and Thalia is caught in the Lotus Casino) again and specifically Percy is so funny to me. Turns into a tree when he has a found family daughter and almost-boyfriend and wakes up as a a single mother divorcee.

Percy is consistently bringing unhinged domestic spat energy to every confrontation. It’s a full on soap opera. The gods love it. Luke’s troops keep losing respect for him.

Percy kept aging while he was a tree (since we can’t have him join the Hunt) and everyone agrees he’s not the Prophecy Child because he’s fully twenty-something already. So he has no other obligations except conspiring with Annabeth to drag Luke kicking and screaming back home.

Percy keeps referring obliquely to “the divorce” which is very funny but confuses everyone around him. Multiple times he distracts monsters or Titan army demigods by complaining about his “failing marriage” and how “taking care of a kid alone is so hard, you know? I’m not even getting child support!”. Everyone comes out of the conversation sympathetic to the poor guy. Every once in a while Percy adds new lore to see the way Luke’s eye twitches. Luke is not coping well with the judgmental looks, side-eyes, and earnest advice about how to save a marriage. Annabeth keeps getting kidnapped by Luke’s cronies because they very earnestly believe she should get to spend some more time with her other dad.

Every Saturday there’s a truce where all three of them tensely eat cookies in Sally Jackson’s living room. No one has the guts to tell her they’re on opposite sides of a war. Luke tries to turn the tables one (1) time and ask her how she would feel about Percy getting married. Sally’s answer is so heartfelt and genuinely happy that Luke cries alone in his golden sarcophagus later and he never brings it up again. Percy’s smug look goes entirely unnoticed except by Annabeth.

[silvsarts]

this is how that went right

[velvet-jellyfish]

Rethinking my Ancient Greek drag king costume idea

[sugarcoatednightshade]

EVERYONE! IF YOU HAVENT SEEN KAOS (netflix 2024) I STRONGLY RECCOMEND YOU DO SO NOW!!! I REALLY THINK TUMBLR WOULD LOVE THIS ONE!