#lo spoilers

[meanya]

I don't think I ever posted about this, but I noticed a long time ago that there's a facial expression that seems to pop up in Lore Olympus a lot.

I can't tell if I just see it everywhere now just because I'm acutely aware of it... I tried to catch it every time I saw it on rereads. I'd taken to calling it "Lore Olympus Face," it's this sort of exaggerated eyeroll + open pog mouth 😅

Am I just looking too deeply at the details? Did anyone else notice this expression everywhere or am I just seeing it now because I'm looking for it?

[the-rouge-robin]

GIANT WOMAN, GIANT WOMAN

OMG GAIA IS SO PRETTY OMG I COULD STARE AT HER FACE FOREVER MMH MH MMMMMHHHHHH RACHEL YOU OUTDID YOURSELF!!

JUST... JUST LOOK AT HEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I love her sm

[justmenoworries]

Okay, no, I'm gonna rant a bit more about this.

It really pisses me off that the myth of Sisyphus was reduced to a mere side gag in LO. Because if there ever was an organic way for this comic to actually show that Persephone can be both the compassionate mortal-loving goddess and the fearsome Queen of the Underworld you shouldn't mess with, it's the goddamn myth of Sisyphus!

In the original myth, it was actually Persephone who let Sisyphus go back to the mortal realm after he pulled his whole "Uwu, my awful wife didn't give me a proper burial, pwease let me go back and sort out my affairs" - spiel. And this was after Sisyphus had chained Thanatos up to avoid getting dragged to the Underworld and caused significant trouble for everybody in the process.

So Persephone's kindness would actually be shown instead of just being a Word of God thing that is continually disproven by the actual story.

And after Sisyphus of course takes advantage of that kindness and returns to his body instead of coming back to the Underworld, that would be the time to show that Persephone isn't the meek village girl who would have taken that kind of disrespect lying down anymore.

She has Hermes re-capture Sisyphus and then she is the one to give him his iconic punishment of pushing a boulder up a hill that will always get away from him at the last possible second and roll back down, to show him the futility of trying to cheat/escape death.

Heck, if you want to make the whole thing even more personal to Persephone, in some versions of the myth it was Hades who got chained up by Sisyphus.

You could show Persephone finally being forced to step up as leader of the Underworld, now that her husband is MIA. Show her connect to her people, reassuring them and working to get them through these uncertain times.

You could even let her have a #Girlboss moment by teaming up with some of the other gods to make Sisyphus' life hell until he releases Hades.

All this potential for an engaging story arc, squandered. Because RS can't write for shit.

[genericpuff]

fp spoilers ahead and a content warning for violence:

hades normally:

hades when he's possessed by his dead dad and threatening to rip his wife's head off:

i rest my case, make murder hobo hades president, rip her head off you beautiful sick fuck-

[maybelacrimosa]

warning spoilers for the finale

the lo ending was honestly worse than I was expecting, it was Persephone just going down a bullet list of resolutions that just didn’t feel satisfying. Ugh it’s one of those epilogues where it’s treated as a happy ending for everyone when really it’s only a happy ending for the main characters and their friend group, honestly makes me want to do a deconstruction fic or something. Like Dio speed runs through his childhood, Semele is back but probably spent years working in the iPhone factory, the tgoem and whatever support network it provided is gone, Metis is free to go be a creep in the mortal realm (she didn’t fix the time line so Metis still slept with someone she met when he was under 19) and I’m sorry I just refuse to believe Hera will be a good queen, LO Hera spent the early seasons being cruel to nymphs and satyrs and treating her daughter as a bartender and mini me. Like I’m glad she divorced Zeus but that’s about it in relation to Hera. And of course she reduces 6 months to 3 months with the added bonus that they can visit each other whenever they want, why make Persades sacrifice something when they can have happily ever after handed to them on a silver platter. Like Gaia even hand waves the whole “Persephone killed everyone” thing away because I guess she can raise the dead now with her fertility powers.

[standardlilith]

This is literally the cutest wedding photo I've ever seen

[elvencantation]

thetis honey you gotta stop doing this

[hotdoghottakes]

*unintelligible happy screaming and a thousand heart emojis*

[zbearhugz]

DUN...

DUNN...

DUNNNN~!

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I know this is very serious™ but I can't unsee this as him dancing 😭

[sword-in-a-hoard]

H-Hello?

...AND THEY WERE ROOMATES!!??

[gemsofthegalaxy]

tbh based on how people were reacting i thought LO 230 was gonna be.... worse than it was?

also. spoilers in this post.

it was Not Great for Demeter fans to be fair, not great at all, but still. And I can see how it would be triggering for some, but it doesn't happen to brush up against anything i'm sensitive about so yknow. not as bad as i thought it was gonna be is all i'm saying !

also Hestia is the only goddess who i even remotely respect because like. i can see why she might be worried about Persephone? and i can see why she would think Perse might benefit from talking to older, more experienced people once in a while, but not wanting to publically shame her (i am predisposed to liking Hestia tho bc she's my dnd character's Goddess lol)

[steponmeslowly-blog]

Me any time I'm reading how Aphrodite and Hephaestus got together

[the-rouge-robin]

POST-CREDIT SCENE TIME

grrrrrrrrrrr there was no Zagreus, damn u rachel, I riotttttttttttttttttttttttttt /j

[justmenoworries]

Lore Olympus Episode 246 Spoilers

Holy shit, I hate this episode.

The first half is just RS making Demeter grovel before her daughter's groomer, who then proceeds to victim blame her.

"It's not my place to speak on [Persephone's] behalf."

-Continues to speak on her behalf and make assumptions about how she might feel about her mother.-

The way Demeter's and Hades' conversation is just Hades going "Yeah, if you had just let your daughter marry me, the guy who groomed her and is infamous for taking advantage of young, vulnerable women through my wealth, then you wouldn't be in this position now."

Goood, I want Demeter to bring a devastating winter so bad. She deserves to go off on these assholes without being villainized for it.

Oh hey, RS remembered Artemis exists. And of course she still doesn't know about Apollo, even though it's basically common knowledge in Persephone's friend-circle now. Tell me you don't give a shit about a character without telling me you don't give a shit about a character.

I don't know what's worse:

Persephone being completely unapologetic about harassing and scaring the shit out of Leuce, who she knows can't retaliate, or Hades going "Oh yeah, my wife abusing her powers to bully a peasant woman is so hot, let's have sex right now."

Like, you have to be a special kind of oblivious to write a scene like this and not realize how horrifying the implications here are.

Persephone's annoyed look when Hades tells her Demeter's message that she loves Persephone and misses her. Fuck right off you spoiled, pink bimbo, you do not get to make that face after everything you put your mom through.

Poor Chiron, she probably had a real busy day and then this entitled Karen just comes crashing into her DMs demanding a therapy session with her mom right then and there.

Persephone, did you ask Demeter for permission before you wrote her up for this? Prolly not, this session is a blatant excuse for even more Demeter-bashing. Hades had his turn, now Persephone gets to have a go.

I hate it here.

[houraiko]

My problem with Lore Olympus (spoilers 235)

So, author seriously convinces me that the first time of same Eros and Psyche was shown on the edge of beauty and sensuality, and the first time of the main fucking characters wasn't any shown at all?

I have re-read the comic several times from the very beginning, and within the first 30-40 chapters what we had? Hades literally after the first day of the familiarity joked about fast bang in his kitchen, Persephone received a terrible intimate experience in the first arcs, the same Eros and Psyche storyline, Aphrodite with a huge hint of quick sex with Zeus, the first chapter literally opens with Minthe wearing the lingeries only. The beginning of the story yells that this could become an excellent title from the category of Stjepan Sejic's comics (except not with such a graphic ero scenes), but Rachel gone to a censorship webtoon and this began to break everything. Author tried to get everything together through the disclosure of not only body, but also soul attachment, and it even worked perfectly... until the trial arc ended, and with it our characters also have ended. I understand the author is trying to show us same Persephone’s final growing up, but 10-year-old timeskip destroyed the entire arc of growing up. If in the first two seasons I saw how Persephone learned to accept and recognize her feelings in front of herself and others, including her over-over-overprotective mother (and this ends with a heartbreaking scene, where Persephone doesn't have time to tell only Hades she loves him), then her sudden transformation in the end into such a 30-year-old horny one looks like a literal character substitution.

And this replaced Persephone, the main character, is enough for me to subconsciously reject any plot twists - as tries to show more of the plot, or closing any plot holes either.

Guys, I'm not LO hater at all and I love and respect the story. But still, I vote for the fact that the entire third season is a bad draft that should be deleted and rewritten.

[persephadees]

Fast pass spoilers/// they were just getting along tf?? 😭