#if you think of her parallels with King it kind of reinforces it bc king is as bitter and violent as he is bc he was betrayed and abandoned

[the-acid-pear]

These two lines really make me feel like Susie is only a bully for, let's say, survival reasons. But that's as coherent as i can get so i'm going to ramble the rest of my thoughts on the tags.

[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

1. RS doesn't understand the meaning of I'm misunderstood and you're the only one who sees true me trope. Just like the definition, it means their bad public image is false. The bad rumors surrounding them are false. Hades being actual slave owner. Persephone being actual murderer. Both did it with their free will and were not forced. Those are not being misunderstood. They're actually bad guys. Both should get punished. He being king and her having uncontrollable dark side don't excuse the crimes.

2. LO kinda shames Hera too? If we are to believe the Hera/Persephone parallels, then Rachel is basically shaming Hera for the sin of not marrying Hades and marrying Zeus instead. Like it clearly sympathizes with Hera, but at the same time because of how she frames HxP, it's almost as if she's like "See what you're missing, Hera? If only you picked him instead of Zeus! Then you wouldn't suffer like this!" while Persephone instead gets everything she could want bc of Hades. It rubs me the wrong way.

3. wouldnt it be a show of his sweet inner character if it turned out hades adopted kids (maybe a shade(s)? surely there are a lot of kids who died young in those times) and he was more sympathetic as a working single father who is just trying his best, because lo hades wanting kids now seems purely out of him wanting another trophy/reinforcing what is "expected" of a heterosexual man to have and not remotely parental at all. tbh he seems rather annoyed by kids? it could be handled so much better.

4. (Fp spoilers) am I over thinking this, but did the recent chapter feel like Persephone questions was some plan of sorts to overthrow hades? Like I swear if she eats the pomegranate or something behind hades back and overthrow hades, that would be a evil twist I wish would happen, but will never because Rachel need the uwu love couple to be a thing sadly.

5. (1 of 4?) Sorry this is so long- I wanted to get in everything that had to be said about this topic. It may be easier to splice these all together rather than post all of them individually. Also your choice to post or not as the content is a more sensitive side of an already sensitive topic of sexual abuse. I’m re-reading LO after some therapy and work on sexual trauma healing.

(2 of 4?) It’s something I used to enjoy when I was in a bad spot sexually and very very much believe the story is trauma reenactment. After four years working with a specialist in sexual trauma, I can identify some traits of a sexual abuse history in others. I would be extremely surprised if the author doesn’t 1have a sexual assault history. She fetishizes age differences, a lack of bodily autonomy, being a sexual object for someone, and is drawn to unhealthy (frankly kinda creepy) men.

(3 of 6?) I see an internal struggle between wanting someone safe but also being attracted to someone with inappropriate lust with a weird power dynamic. I’ve struggled with the same kind of trauma reenactment and know from experience. Which is why I was drawn to the story while I was more sexually unwell. I think this also explains the stories in the Twilight and 50 shades series and why they’re so popular among a society filled with sexual victims.

(4 of 6?) I’m not saying this to hate of victims of sexual assault by any means. Trauma reenactment is harsh reality and a horrible, upsetting, and crazy making effect from sexual assault. It’s one of the hardest pieces for victims to accept sometimes as the idea is so disgusting that things mimicking the attack could be sexualized in our brains and, for myself at least, the concept didn’t get tackled until a couple years in as I became strong enough to face my personal experiences of it.

(5 of 6?) I hope to not upset anyone if they’re realizing their own experiences with this but I think this is a major piece that has to be talked about with LO and other damaging romance stories like it. I feel for the author and sincerely hope that she gets the healing she needs. I wonder what that would look like if she ever does and chooses to speak out about the story she made and why.

(6 of 6) For now though, the story being so public and getting a netflix adaptation soon is frightening as it’s a dangerous portrayal of relationships and sexuality to show impressionable minds.