#lo adapte

[qaanngi]

Medibang Pro on ipad, brush, and colouring style experiment with my beautiful goblin daughter.

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes (2006, Spain)

Based on the series of novels (Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

[sincericida]

[z-eusie]

I read Lore Olympus. A mistake 😭 Its one of those "feminist" retellings of the Persephone and Hades myth that, in an effort of trying to sanitize some stuff, make everything worse somehow.

Like, Persephone is a 19 year old college girl and Hades is a 40(000) year old bussiness man and they met in a party where Persephone ended up black out drunk in his car.

Also, is full of Demeter slander. Soooo much Demeter slander.

I do NOT recommend it at all. Any retelling with Demeter slander is a Big No-No for me at least 😤

yeah, everything i've ever heard about it sounds absolutely appalling to me. i tried to read the first little bit just to see what some people were raving about, and yeah. the guy who took you to his house to take care of you after you were too intoxicated to function is not your friend, sweetie. even if he did nothing, it's so icky.

i've heard horrible things about the way she writes zeus and apollo which pisses me off lol. i also discovered a bit about the way they talk about cronus and the six's backstory and just KNEW that it would do nothing but infuriate me. AND i heard hades/hera was a bit of a thing, which makes me gag so no thank you. not to mention what i've heard about the author herself.

LO feels like the poster child for what not to do with myth retellings (if you can even CALL hers that). the way that story bends over backwards to make sure we all know that hades n persephone can do NOTHING WRONG and that everyone else are the problem is... ew. no thank you.

[vertigoartgore]

1982's Marvel Super Special #22 cover by Jim Steranko (featuring the adaptation of the movie by none other than Al Williamson).

[blankerthought]

the goblin emperor liveblog:

*screams into hands for half an hour straight*

[demeterdefence]

my favourite thing about this panel in episode 63

is that rachel did not move athena for twenty three panels

^ this is at the beginning of episode 63. rachel literally kept athena and the background the exact same, blurred it slightly, and put hestia and artemis in the forefront. you can tell she's still got the vacant smile even blurred out. rachel's been doing the png thing for a while

[genericpuff]

Genuinely curious as to if you asked permission to use Rachel’s characters and she said yes or if you just decided Lore Olympus is popular enough to make a fan comic of and are hoping you don’t receive a cease and desist? Can anyone create a remake comic of original content and just change what you don’t like about it and it’s considered legal if you say the characters belong to the original creator? There is plenty of disappointing media out there that could be remade. I understand you cannot use their characters for profit so is just posting it ok?

Yes, anyone can, because it's called fanfiction lmao Obviously in my case the term "fan" is being used loosely here as at this point it's more like "foe"fiction LMAO but the same principles apply. Unless I try to claim LO is my own creation or make a profit off Rekindled, I should be in the clear. If legal action was taken against me then it would set a precedent against all forms of fanfiction, rewrite, redraw, etc. content around LO which are all essentially doing the same thing Rekindled is doing. I think people tend to view Rekindled as somewhat of an "exception" that's vulnerable to legal action because it's an actual weekly comic put into practice in the same playing field as LO (though they're on massively different bases obviously LOL), but there's not much more separating it from the LO redraw accounts or even the genuine fan accounts that have learned how to draw in Rachel's style (and use it to make their own LO self-inserts and whatnot). I had the time and resources and experience to do what I do through Rekindled, but every redraw, rewrite, fanfiction, etc. account are making the exact same statement I am, whether intentionally or not - "I do/don't like the canon, but/so here's what I think it would be like if it went like this".

There is definitely plenty of media out there that could be remade, and a lot of them are by the fanfiction writers out there who are filling that niche within their respective fandoms. LO is the one I want to do because it's the one that interests me and compels me the most to rewrite.

Not to mention, it's already a bold statement in and of itself to say that I'm "using Rachel's characters", a statement that likely wouldn't hold up in court LMAO Her "characters" are literally just stylized self-insert versions of public domain figures. She did not write The Hymn to Demeter. She did not create Hades, or Persephone, or Hecate, or any of the other characters she writes about. She does not own an entire religion or its deities. The only thing that she really "owns" is the licensing rights to the name "Lore Olympus", and while the style of LO is very unique and identifiable, you can't trademark/copyright a style because that uproots the entire foundation of what art is (ironically no one has had an original idea SINCE the Greeks, we all just learn and adapt our styles based on other artists that we get inspired by and learn from).

Shit, there are series completely unrelated to LO that get harassed or otherwise warned that they could cross into "legal territory" with LO just because they're Greek myth comics. Punderworld, Theia Mania, H x P Ficlets, all of these are comics that also tackle the H x P myth, and while they aren't attempting to do the same thing as Rekindled (as they exist on their own terms) it's really disappointing when I see people talk about these comics purely through the scope of Lore Olympus as if LO invented Greek myth. If WT/Rachel tried to pull rank over the story's "characters", they'd be picking a fight with every other Greek myth comic, book, movie, etc. and they oughta know that's not a fight they're gonna win lol

So everything beyond LO's branding is, in and of itself, fanfiction. Rekindled is just another level deeper by being fanfiction of a fanfiction. As long as I'm not profiting off Lore Olympus' namesake or distributing my work with the misconception that I created LO, it's legally fine. Morally, I'm sure it doesn't exactly make me a saint to do it, it definitely took a lot of hubris for me to say "yeah I don't like how you wrote your story enough that I felt the need to rewrite it completely" and I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking doing so is icky. There are certain lines I won't cross - I don't use the general LO hashtags because my content is very critical and my work isn't really for the fans, I don't encourage anyone to "show Rachel" what I do here because none of what I do here is obligated to be seen by her (and I know it wouldn't be in her best interest to see it anyways, she's literally said that she doesn't like criticism so why tf would I wanna show her a comic that exists to criticize her work lol), and I'm not planning on posting it to Webtoons because that's Rachel's territory. I don't want to overstep both in the legal sense and in the moral one. I think it's more than enough for me to just post my stuff here for the people who are seeking it, and not profit off it or directly affiliate it with LO/Rachel beyond crediting.

All that said, in a moral and legal sense, what I'm doing is literally the basis of fanfiction, and I wouldn't be going to such lengths and spending this much time every week putting out episodes every week if I never cared about LO and how it made us all feel, even if some of us don't love it as much as we used to.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Restriction, LM 1.1.11 (Los Miserables 1971)

The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at the house of one of his most notable colleagues: “What beautiful clocks! What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly in my ears: ‘There are people who are hungry! There are people who are cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!’” Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one’s own person a little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D—— thought.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[charlesoberonn]

Seen first promo images for Fallout from Amazon?

https://twitter.com/falloutonprime/status/1729546503637684519?t=NfmcxMB3w6bPg9E99GcSPQ&s=19

Is that Megaton?

If so, that's a bad sign.

[chiokedmachi]

Chioke Dmachi: “that sounds like a restaurant in New York !”

What If ? Dining at Chioke DMachi in New York It all started with Jay Leno’s offhand comment: “Chioke DMachi—sounds like a restaurant in New York.” Little did I know, it would spark a dream so vivid I just had to make it happen. Fast forward to me, a young traveler with a penchant for adventure, stepping through the grand, gold-accented doors of Chioke DMachi, the ultra-exclusive dining…

[thirtheenprimes]

Is anyone interested in my dozens of Murderbot stories inspired by Netflix's Lost in Space? I've always loved Lost in Space, always loved aliens, and always loved robots. Alien robots, even better. Alien Robots in Lost in Space? Yes please.

This is a trick question, I have so many iterations of this that I will be flooding my AO3 updates with Murderbot characters in LOS scenarios. On my break rn but when I get home, it's over.

[athenianblessings]

Saintia shou has a manga?? I only saw the anime on a pirating site and I thought it was fake 😭😭💀

It does!

Only 16 volumes but its got a very Lost Canvas esque artstyle so its not drawn by Kurumada-sensei nor is it in his artstyle which I think is a REALLY good call cause Lost Canvas and Saintia Sho work best with their flowy beautiful styles rather than Kurumada-sensei's style

Which is why the anime was SO disappointing because they for some reason used the OG Saint Seiya anime style and it did NOT look good. It was also a 2018 anime that didnt have a good budget and was cancelled after one season. I assume they did that to make it similar to the OG since both take place canonically at the same time but I personally think they should've just done the same thing they did with Lost Canvas because the Saintia Sho manga is so beautiful. It actually inspired how I color hair/armor cause I love how it looks so much

Anyways Saintia Sho manga is amazing and its only 16 volumes go read it now!!!!

[owlperson-reviews]

One of my favorite authors is Malinda Lo. Luckily my local library has a few of her books. I've read Ash, Huntress, Adaptation( they don't have the sequel "Inheritance") and Last Night At The Telegraphic Club. And I own A Scatter of Light though I am considering unhauling it because it is my least favorite only a 5 out of 10.

[mollysails]

GUESS WHO WENT TO SEE THE PRODUCERS TODAY

IT WAS SOOO GOOD OMG

this was also the first time I’ve ever gone to the theater by myself so I was very excited