#idk it doesnt feel accurate to the narrative and the sort of story that is told with them....

[matrose]

i will say it again...the appeal of legolas and gimli is not that they bicker the appeal is that they love eachother‼️ its not about enemies to lovers its about overcoming thousands of years of animosity through love‼️ they were barely ever enemies they worked together from the start and they bond in the first book and spend the next two books obsesssed with eachother pleaseeeeee !!

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

1. LO also completely fell off the amazon lists so?? idk i was under the impression with all the exclusive merch and how hard they were pushing it for literal months surely it would have gotten farther. maybe most of the readers didnt want to buy one copy and then ANOTHER copy for another cover and just knew it wasnt worth it when they could just read it for free anyway? like its basically a collector item and i think they overshot not realizing the fans arent book collectors.

2. im no publisher but i think the webtoons team kinda fucked up on this book. they split it between hardback and paperback, so that automatically splits sales, but they also made a B&N exclusive cover, so that splits sales again, but then they kept adding pins and signed nameplates (???) that people ended up cancelling preorders and maybe forgot to reorder so no wonder it sort of tumbled?? plus its a niche product anyway that most would rather read on their phones for free. What a mess.

3. tbh lo persephone just ... isnt a character. shes the best at everything, everyone loves her, the narrative always excuses her, she has no flaws and every problem she causes it just hand-waved or blamed on someone else. every other character only exists to love her, excuse her, or be punished for not kissing her feet. she has no goals or ambitions or hobbies, much less a real place in the story, she just exists.

4. Maybe I'm too simplistic, but I do think it's possible to write HxP where Persephone can love Hades AND Demeter. I'm just sad LO is following that same trend of making their relationship cruel and abusive with Persephone wanting nothing to do with her and revolving her world solely around Hades. Though this time it comes with Hades also being just as cruel to Demeter off his weird Kingly entitlement Rachel seems to think is charming over off-putting.

5. lets be frank here. persephone didnt start suddenly looking more mature, rachel just made all the woman now all just look as young as persephone to give the fake allusion shes actually not a baby faced teenager. she still looks and acts like a child.  shes actually gotten worse in both regards since s2 started.

6. Ik this is stupid but I find ir funny how Hestia, Athena and Artemis in the trial arc are dressed si ugly they look like they're going to church instead of an "important event" like judging a goddess for conspiracy and mass murder

7. i know LO doesnt really try to be remotely accurate but the "queen" look for persephone is just insultingly removed from greek elements. an aureole effect would be a nice touch, but instead its just some generic pink pouty woman with red eyes that blend into her skin and shes just in a cheep looking stick tiara and a boring black dress that of course has to show off her breasts. its supposed to be this regal look to the dread queen but it just looks like a rushed halloween costume instead.

8. Lo popularity made me so... Disappointed? I thought we are living in a world where feminists achieved more than that. Come on story about a barely adult naive girl getting together with an old capitalist douche with a big power imbalance would never be progressive nor feminist no matter how you write it. Up to this day I can't understand how people can like this narrative and how can they not see all the obvious issues! Just because it's labeled as feminist it doesn't mean it is, open your eyes

9. I have the feeling as if LO in more concerned of the aesthetics than actual plot. I'm not sure how to word it better. I mean its something New. It can also be good like doing visual metaphores to Show something when dialogue isn't good enough.

But LO doesn't seem to be able to do anything else

I just wanted to put that out there since i've been thinking about this for a long time and i don't feel like anypne has brought it up yet.

10. pt.1 I immediately want to apologize for the mistakes, I don't know English well, because I'm from Russia. I really love reading your blog and I agree with many opinions. I would like to share my opinion about Mint and Hades. Hades just kept her by his side because no one wanted to be with him and reveled in his own insignificance. As soon as Persephone appeared on the horizon, he refused Mint as easily as the nymph who worked with him ... 

pt2. (the episode in which Mint came to Hades to sort out the office about the cap). I understand that they had an unhealthy relationship, but damn, it could have been played out differently. Many fans of LO repeat about the truthfulness of myths, but only in the case in which Mint will be humiliated and crushed.

pt3. And what about the wonderful baby Megara? Didn't Hades realize that she was in love with him? What prevented him from trying to start a relationship with her? Not everyone is attracted to their future partner right away, they could gradually develop their relationship and learn a lot from them.

[gldengod-a2]

u dont have to stress out about making ur portrayal/headcanons fit the canon. sometimes things that are canon.. are worse. ofc ur free to do whatever you want, but seems to me ur more focused on trying to match canon than just using canon as a place to build off of (which also seems to be causing u to have high expectations for the canon which really backfires when something doesnt happen the way u had hoped). if ur not satisfied w what the canon is providing, u can always go canon divergent

I know. It’s really stupid of me to be upset over canon when canon divergence is very much an option. But, I’ve always been a writer who sticks close to the source material? And well, I can’t even say writing Dennis as gender non-conforming at the very least was a headcanon? When it was blatantly written into the canon of the show. He canonically wears makeup. He wears dresses. And ladies thongs. I mean, the list goes on. I’m just so hurt over his writing this season? Especially because he was robbed of something that was so CLEARLY his moment in this episode. Don’t get me wrong, I love Charlie. And honestly? They could have easily given us Charlie’s arc and Dennis having accurate characterization, as well. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Yes, Dennis is a bad man. But he’s also dorky and passionate and sensitive in his own, very special, Dennis way. He cares about the Gang to the best of his ability. Dennis has some redeeming qualities, it’s what makes him an enjoyable and lovable character. But, this season, he’s become someone he’s not. It’s so painful to watch my favorite character; a character that means so so so so much to me be ruthlessly bastardized by inferior writing. Dennis isn’t a good person, yet, that doesn’t mean his story should be diced and thrown away. There’s so much more to him than what’s on the surface and I wanna see it all. I wanna know what’s hiding behind his mask. I feel like maybe he’s acting this way because of some traumatic event that happened in North Dakota? But idk, I’ve sorta lost hope for any sort of narrative involving Den’s ooc behavior this season. Thanks for sending this though, I appreciate it