#lore Olympus Demeter

[nymphsupremacy]

Iasion knows how much Demeter suffered.

[lo-shouldve-been-an-email]

…

We have been waiting literal years for mama Demeter to go apeshit on this asshole,to kick hiss ass and devastate him to the extent that only a single mother hellbent on protecting her only daughter could.

…and THIS is what we get?

[plutoniumpuddle]

Every once in a while my lore Olympus art will make the rounds but I haven’t posted much of it on tumblr so here’s some more!

I have more but these are just the ones I had saved

[itscosmicnerd]

been obsessed with WNSO recently so I made some Hadestown-verse designs for Hestia and Demeter.

[amphitriteswife]

What’s your opinion on lore Olympus?

Hate it. I read it because i wanted more stories about Hades and Persephone. I will state some reasons for why i strongly dislike it.

hades is like over 3000 and Persephone was 19, I get that Persephone was a lot younger than Hades but RS could’ve made her older.

Demeter was shown to be a tragic character herself but is made a villain for absolutely no reason

Hades was mean to Demeter and expects her to be like ‘yo even though your a jackass and a groomer you can still marry my daughter’ like no brotha

Hades cheated on Minthe when they were official.

Persephone is not the only victim in LO and the creator made her a mary sue

Persephone doesn’t have a personality, she used to have one but it was thrown out the window.

Persephone was drawn as a toddler in many panels, yes short women exist, i am one myself, yet her features were also made childlike.

The story tells you that Persephone is this and that instead of showing it, for example, Aphrodite is beauty herself. Yet everyone compares her to Persephone and says she’s better

Persephone uses her status to Threaten others for no reason.

Hera is rude and mean just like minthe but gets praised because Zeus is a cheater and you’re supposed to like Hera and not Minthe although their personality wise the same

Persephone killed innocent people and the story wants you to forgive her because she is the main character. ( Demeter was shown to support Persephone but they still made het the bad guy)

The story Justifies things that shouldn’t be justified. Like grooming, emotional abuse, toxicity, cheating ect

Persephone expects to be an exception for everything because Hades gives in and gives her special treatment.

Those are a few reasons. Also i hate that they made apollo a bad guy because they needed a villain. Hate LO I personally think it’s garbage. Just the story. RS’ art was unique and you could see her passion in it. I mean things like background and color popping. Not characters, because they are almost the same

[minthesupremacy]

Fourth in the Series: Demeter!

More info under the cut

Lore notes:

-Demeter is obviously a fertility goddess. Not in the LO sense, she's just a fertility goddess, is venerated as one, and is one of the figureheads of a cult dating back to to the neolithic age. -She did not fight on the front lines during the titanomachy; she was the supply force of ambrosia and thus did not have to fight much. However, at the tail end of the war, her farm was ransacked by the titans and she was left with a scar crossing her face. Her fields were burnt to a crisp and many nymphs were lost in the process. -Demeter is made of earth, and is a perfect equal to Poseidon, made of the sea. -She raised Persephone in the mortal realm -She lost her bid for queen of the mortal realm, which occurred in the midst of her banishment from Olympus. Hades voted in favor of her, after they secured a deal regarding the volcanoes, but Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon voted against her. -Top center is her true form, only seen in times of great despair. -Everyone on Olympus is waiting for Demeter's inevitable return.

Design notes:

-Demeter is made of fresh earth. She is a stronger, more vibrant green than Persephone because she was designed after tall forest/jungle plants, which have more chlorophyll to tolerate the sun's rays and are thus darker but less colorful (see: Persephone) -Her hair is wheat/cereal stalks, usually tied into a cornucopia style "bun" -Her hair always defies gravity in some way -She wears a lot of furs and natural materials, and her clothes are always some shade of green, brown, or yellow. -In her hair are three flowers: 1. A poppy, her sacred flower 2. A pink lily, modelled after Persephone and 3. An orange lily, modeled after Persephone's act of wrath. -She has a human disguise due to her time with mortals, and later, her refuge at Eleusis. -Demeter has "horns" of some kind whenever she is in a threatened position. The top and bottom middle are her at times of great despair.

[baalzebubuu]

Demeter sucks at flirting

Which is just charming and adorable to Iason

[ickyalli]

demeter loosing her daughter to the underworld 🥀

[0lympian-c0uncil]

I love when people say such bullshit things about all powerful deities. These people obviously don't know anything about Lo Demeter and Greek mythology Demeter.

This boils my blood

[theweirdonesblog]

This. This right here is the face of someone who knows they done fucked up.

[musicbunny13]

LO panel redraw!! I've been sitting on my redesigns for awhile, and I finally got the time to redraw some panels :)

I'm not a fan of Lore Olympus (the way the author fumbled these 2 is insane)

[nymphsupremacy]

Demeter and her lovers.

Iasion- an agricultural hero, demigod and the springtime consort of Demeter in the Samothracian Mysteries. There was a theory before that Demeter will meet Iasion when she got banished after the trial so I'm gonna go with that kind of storyline. He met, assisted and loved her during those 10 years.

Mekon- a beautiful Athenian man and a mortal lover of Demeter but she turned him into poppies for his own preservation. There's not much info about him other than that but I'm making him into a prince and someone that she loved in her earlier years.

Btw, these guys don't know each other cuz they don't live in the same time period but I wanted to edit together.

[lo-shouldve-been-an-email]

If you took the scene where hades and Demeter are arguing because of hades BRIBING DEMETER OUT OF THE QUEEN POSITIOSN(which she deserves btw like she’s literally running everything in the mortal realm and a cereal company on top of it give this woman some credit)and showed it to someone who had no other context,then I’m sure 90% of people would agree that hades is the villain in that situacion.no questions asked.

[booksdogsmagicandmore]

I’m getting really tired of people insisting that lore Olympus is either amazing and beyond criticism or terrible and beyond enjoyment. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Does LO have some problems? Yes. Are you allowed to talk about those problems? Of course. Are you allowed to just not like LO for no specific reason? Absolutely.

But that does not mean that there’s nothing to enjoy in the story. Having problems doesn’t mean that something is inherently bad. Enjoying a problematic work does not make a person problematic. And people are allowed to have different interpretations of the story and characters than you do.

Also, just because you like a work does not mean it’s above criticism. There’s a lot of interesting literary analysis to be done on a work like lore Olympus. And again, people are allowed to have different interpretations of the story and characters than you do.

For example, you are allowed to not like the way Demeter is written or see her as a nuanced character. Other people are allowed to dislike Demeter as a character or enjoy her as a villain. We can all coexist. The same work is going to mean different things to different people.

So can we please stop insulting each other and calling each other out for having “wrong opinions”?

[eye-cri]

I absolutely HATE how Demeter is so often villianized in the story of Hades and Persephone. Especially in this episode of Lore Olympus, like what is the point of re-writing a myth about a girl being kidnapped, held hostage and her mother grieving over her into this!? Like what's the message here....

I get that it's a retelling and doesn't have to be accurate but it still rubbs weirdly when in comparison, if that makes sense?

[amphitriteswife]

I just realized that this actually extremely disrespectful of Hades to say since Aphrodite is technically his aunt in mythology 😭

Like imagine your someone’s aunt and you overhear your nephew bragging about his crush and he has the audacity to say that she’s way more beautiful than you, his aunt!

Rachel smyte actually always wanted persephone and Aphrodite to have a rivalry. I mean look at this

She even made Ares in love with Persephone because plot ig? (It was never relevant and she has a y/n complex)

And the thought that Hades said that to his niece and the daughter of Demeter. Which he hates btw. Is even more disgusting😭