#lore olympus: retold

[crystals-lo-rewrite]

Fun fact: I was planning to make my redesign of Minthe have a shade of mint green as her skin color, but I ended up changing my mind and chose a darker shade of red, instead I decided to make mint green her eye color.

[demeterdefence]

Previous anon here:

Hmm agreed, it's not JUST her fault but it sucks that our current cultural landscape keeps falling into the same trap of trying to make something woke, feminist, progressive, what have you but winds up so much worse instead

It's the same issue with the disney remakes, failing so hard to update the story when its original incarnation was more feminist without even trying. For example: I know a lot of people love the 2015 remake of Cinderella, and I've seen people say it's the best live-action adaptation but I will NEVER forget that, while the movie hammers home the lesson "be kind, always" they had the nerve to insert a line that says something like: It's a good thing Cinderella's stepmother was cruel, because otherwise she never would've met the prince and like EXCUSE ME?!

I think MOST people would rather have a safe home-environment where you weren't bullied, demeaned, and forced to work over the vague possibility of a special someone coming to rescue me from this situation...

Anyway this was about lore olympus... XD

i think you have a really valid point! and it circles back to how rachel is just one of many people who insists on a flawed perception of something, thinking it's "better" because it's "modern"

like with rachel's lolita fetish or the gross racism within lore olympus, this really does speak to a wider issue - the fact that webtoons promotes the content and publishes it to such a wide audience, who is so often comprised of younger teens who don't yet realize why this is an issue. i can only imagine ancient greek women who adored the hymn of demeter, finding out that modern times vilifies her and glorifies persephone's kidnapping as some kind of romance. and there are ways to portray things in a modern setting, or to create romance in a story that is more or less devoid of it; the trick is, you need to know the originals to make a retelling. one of my favourite movies is disney's hercules, which is so far from the original lore of heracles it's pretty much an entirely separate story - but it's done with such love and so many nods to the canon myth that you can acknowledge this is an offshoot inspired by the myths.

rachel's comic is just so utterly devoid of any kind of love for the original myths and legends. she uses such surface-level interpretations of the characters that removes any complexity from their motivations, and thus the story as a whole. hades and persephone are given depth, supposedly, but zeus being forced to kill his own father, or why he's a sex addict, gets thrown into the trash for cheap shots. demeter's trauma in being made for war, watching her sister torn apart, watching her mother killed, sexually abused by two of her friends, and abused / vilified by hades for centuries, who then goes on to marry her teenage daughter, is tossed away for demeter to be "overbearing mom eugh."

like, rachel wants all the modern glitz and glam of the modern era, but that's it. she does not want to tell a story - she wants to draw her ocs in hot clothes having bad sex.

[depvotee]

Okey, I'm going to rant a bit about the Myth of Persephone and why do I have a big gripe with most modern interpretations and I have just seen ONE piece of media retold it on the best (without attempting to)

And okey maybe some spoilers abt Furiosa.

Lore Olympus as much as it sets out to retell the myth of Persephone it fails to understand the main reason OF the myth, it's not the myth of Persephone and Hades but Persephone AND Demeter, it's about a mother who the man she conceived her with sold their daughter behind her back and Demeter on her infinite grief left the earth almost barren.

That's what most of the modern "feminist" retellings of the Persephone myth just fail, they ignore the core injustice of the tale and not only that but romanticize the kidnapping of Persephone, which sadly enough reinforces the patriarchal nature of the kidnapping.

Mind you, there's also a lack of historical thinking, never asking: Why did the Greeks of old told this story? It was not to entertain, the story itself shows the kidnapping as a bitter reality of the time. Why this story survived the ages? (Let's not mention the cruel irony of LO ending on the expressed sentiment that the myth survived due to just Persephone and Hades "love" story.)

I think the only modern piece of media that is the closest to the myth of Persephone and also making it their own thing is, well, you might wanna sit down for this:

Mad Max: Fury Road (I'M DEADASS) and the sequel Furiosa. If we see the timeline of the character Furiosa, she is Persephone in spiritual way, she was kidnapped from a place of abundance and taken to the wasteland (underworld) and her mother Mary Jabassa (Demeter) goes for her, in her own ways and means but she dies on the attempt and with her dead, it also symbolizes the last contact Furiosa had with The Green place of many mothers then she was sold off to the lord of the wasteland Immortal Joe (Hades) but Furiosa then takes her own choices and finds a way to live on this place until she has the means to get out but after the events of Furiosa, she also plants her tree, she makes the place of abundance on the barren home that was Immortal Joe's and she also ends up killing him to also protect the other women that she knows.

I just, It's incredible to me how George Miller and Margaret Sixel accomplished to tell a much more compelling story about women being kidnapped and their subsequent liberation (by themselves) than these half-asses retelling that promote them as feminist retelling just to get more promotion rather than an actual feminist approach.

All I'm saying is, if you have a kidnapping kink whatever, just market it as it is, I'm sure there's going to be some people into that, but do not try to sell it as something that it is not.

[genericpuff]

Im trying to write a Hymn of Demeter based story element in a story with many characters, but want to avoid possibly being offensive to Greek mythology. I know many comics bend the rules a bit and take inspiration instead of full on adapting the mythos. Any advice on good comics that meet in the middle with this, or ways to avoid this so I don't end up accidentally having similar problems to stories like Lore Olympic. (For reference I have read Plunderland and Theo mania, just if you have any tips I'd greatly appreciate them!

My presphone is already on the more serious dark humor side get shit done side so it's definitely not 100% accurate to the hymn

You'd be better off asking someone who's actually Greek when it comes to cultural respect, that said, Lore Olympus disrespecting Greek myth doesn't really have to do with it being a modern interpretation or taking creative liberties with the original story and its characters, it has more to do with how much it's morphed public opinion and knowledge of the myth both through how it doesn't regularly remind readers that it's fanfiction and its creator who claims to be "better read" on Greek myth on other people (which she very clearly isn't). Even Hercules is frankly more respectful towards its source material than LO in spite of all its inaccuracies (Hercules' name, Hades trying to overthrow the Underworld, Zeus being a loyal husband, etc. lol) because Disney makes it clear it's meant to be purely for entertainment purposes for general audiences (kids and parents!), and you can tell the animators and artists put a lot of work into stylizing a film that was uniquely Greek. Plus the writing and characterizations are genuinely well done, it doesn't feel like it's spitting in the face of Greek myth like LO does lmao Supergiant's Hades and Hadestown also attempt to tell either retold or completely new stories through the lens of Greek myth characters and settings. Even works that aren't retellings like Final Fantasy XIV manage to include Greek myth references and parallels without being disrespectful to Greek culture or myth as a whole.

The real beauty of Greek myth is that it's something that's been retold and re-interpreted into all kinds of works - the stories and its characters are timeless and can be adapted into just about anything! There's always more room for fun and unique Greek myth interpretations, retellings, fanfiction, etc. just be on top of your research and be clear in your goals and intentions with your audience (whether you're trying to do a serious and accurate retelling vs. using Greek myth as simply points of reference vs. writing cozy fanfic of Greek myth material etc.) !!!

So unless you go around calling yourself a "folklorist" or allowing whatever readers you gain to run around calling your work fact, you're likely not gonna cause the same kind or amount of damage to the Greek myth community and its stories that LO has (￣ω￣;)

[finisnihil]

I feel like one of the reasons "feminist" Greek mythos retellings suffer so much from being made into modern retellings is because these stories were originally kinda feminist for the times they originated from. Making these already woman-based stories feminist by modern standards only make them reductive.

Authors make some of the men involved worse than they were (Perseus, Odysseus, Ares, Apollo) and will often use the female characters to bash on other female characters (Penelope and Helen, Persephone and Demeter, etc).

You also have to take into account who wrote down these stories. If this version of it is from actual Greek records/can be corroborated by other sources or if it's just from Ovid's versions, who retold these stories from a Roman perspective and with intention to depict certain aspects a certain way because he had bias against authority. Sure, his versions fleshed out the female characters more, such as Medusa and Arachne, but was it truly out of care for the women in the stories or just to use them for his personal desire to villainize the gods and those in power? Ovid's Medusa doesn't feel anymore feminist than the original because I don't think he actually cared about the character as a woman in pain but as another knife to stab into Athena and Poseidon.

How are some modern retellings any different? Margaret Atwood uses Penelope of Ithica to beat down Helen of Troy more than anything. Lore Olympus makes Persephone a sword for her mother to fall on. How are these authors any different than Ovid?

Finally, why do the more evil female characters have to be justified? There is the aspect that if a woman is not adhering to the cultural expectation she is to be made evil, but women like that do exist. Women like Medea exist. Women like Calypso exist. Women like the goddesses exist. Why do these retellings insist on making women morally upright and entirely justified to validate being "feminist"? Doesn't it just insist on a requirement to meet a different cultural standard for how a woman should act to be considered valid?

Is your retelling truly feminist if it justifies its existence by pretending the original wasn't?

[ryebread-x]

I noticed a discussion started by @bugwolfsstuff about Lore Olympus and Loki Lord of Chaos(two webcomics I don't particularly like as well due to both being pretty poor portrayals of Norse and Greek mythology). However, there is one webtoon comic I want to talk about in a more positive light, but I felt it would be off-topic, so I'm going to make a separate post for it.

That comic is Mythos Redone by Gonzalez and Liss . Unlike the other two comics, it focuses on all the pantheons (though mainly Greek,Norse,and Egyptian). While it isn't completely accurate to the actual myths, it's made clear by the title that the comic isn't going to be a complete accurate portrayal.

The comic follows an artist named Paige, and a demon named Anthemion who makes a deal with her to give her powers in exchange for her emotions so she can make art.They then slowly start to catch feelings for eachother. Making the main couple two original characters who are connected to the gods rather than it being an actual couple from mythology. Which I like because then their personalities feel more original because they are their own characters . Opposed to taking a mythological couple doing a complete personality switch with them(which is fine on it's own but it's excuted poorly most of the time).

This comic is also one of the only versions of Hades and Persephone I like(and that's saying a lot because I don't like a lot of adaptations of Hades and Persephone). While they still are romantic in the comic, Demeter for once isn't portrayed as overbearing or controlling. All the myths are mostly being retold from Anthemion point of view as well. Demeter is portrayed as just being worried for her kids rather than overbearing.

I like how the relationships are portrayed in this as well. Some of them are non canonical to the myths such as Nyx and Gaia, who are Anthemion's moms. While Aphrodite and Hephaestus are portrayed as more health in this comic, they aren't end game but stay on good terms.

Anthemion also got with a few of the gods from different pantheons before meeting Paige as well.

However, there is one downside to this comic being while Loki is in this comic, and major side character, he isn't with Sigyn. He's with a completely different figure from mythology. However, I did see in the comments that it was confirmed by one of the creators that Loki and Sigyn were together, but they got divorced. Whether on good terms or not is unclear, but she isn't completely erased from the comic as far as I know. Updates are pretty slow, but art takes time, and she could possibly appear in a flashback since Norse mythology hasn't really been covered yet.

That one downside aside, it's still a pretty good read . The art style is beautiful, and the designs are well done as well. It also has its own original story while still including the myths and the gods as somewhat side characters/stories. Again, I don't want to spoil too much, but it's a good webcomic, none the less.

[werewolfetone]

Utterly fascinated and somewhat distressed by the decision of a bookshop that I just had a look around to have a "myths retold" table where The Illiad by Homer is displayed next to The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and the Lore Olympus comic

[museit]

My thoughts on Lore Olympus right now.

This series, just like any other, is art retold by different people, and you love it or hate it, that's fine. But we don't need to dunk on it just because it's not the exact retelling of the OG mythology or it doesn't meet the requirements or standards fans place it. We are separate from the original mythology by removing the incestuous nature and other attributes that the original myths may have had that impacted the story in a way that it was difficult to decipher. Lore Olympus is a modern retelling if the concept of older gods were modernized, like in our society with the complexities that make perfect, untouchable beings flawed or have flaws. Sort of in a way of making them human in sense. Giving feelings and thoughts to beings whom we never known to have any beside what was told to us in ancient times.

If people are going to critique this series as a whole, It needs to be with a neutral opinion or unbiased comments on what Lore Olympus got right and what needed to be fixed or corrected. This includes characters, character design, narrative, story pacing, and presentation of each character's personalities, which are shown with depth and quality. Not bashing on the author or any authors who decide they want to put a spin on an old story.

All media on the mythology is not perfect and was never gonna be to begin with. We'll all add a bit or piece of our own narrative into media that we find fascinating. Personally, I don't even watch the videos that pop up on YouTube because it doesn't give a good commentary video on Lore Olympus. Either saying it's terrible or the worse retelling and harping on it without actually giving good pointers on why they hate it so much. It should be about the pros and cons towards good storytelling, and if we need to make fan work to create artistic expression, then so be it. If not that, then what would be the point of reading, playing, or watching media based on mythology of different cultures in the first place? Including this one.

[ourrobotculture]

Nine, oh nine, you’re quite divine, A number that dances, a mystical sign. Let’s unravel your secrets, line by line, Why you’re the best, let me intertwine.

Three threes you hold within your core, A triad of magic, a cosmic encore. Pythagoras smiles, for you’re his lore, Geometry’s muse, forevermore.

2. In baseball, you’re a triple play, Three bases conquered, hooray! A home run’s dream, under the sun’s ray, Nine innings of hope, where legends sway.

3. Nine planets once graced our sky, Before Pluto’s demotion made us sigh. Still, you remain, steadfast and spry, A celestial waltz, as constellations fly.

4. Music adores you, oh symphonic nine, A scale’s sweet notes, harmonies entwine. Beethoven’s sonatas, melodies divine, Echoing through time, a celestial design.

5. Nine lives for cats, they say with glee, Curiosity fuels their feline spree. Leaping rooftops, defying gravity, Nine chances to explore life’s tapestry.

6. Nine Muses on Olympus reside, Inspiring poets, artists, far and wide. Calliope’s quill, Terpsichore’s glide, Their gifts bestowed upon the tide.

7. Nine circles in Dante’s Inferno unfold, Each deeper, darker, tales untold. Sinners repent, their stories retold, Ninefold path to redemption’s threshold.

8. Nine squares in a tic-tac-toe bout, X versus O, a childhood clout. Strategy and wit, no room for doubt, Victory or draw, the game’s devout.

9. And when the clock strikes nine at night, Stars twinkle brighter, the moon takes flight. Dreams weave their spells, in moonbeam light, Ninefold enchantment, till morning’s sight.

So here’s to you, dear number nine, A symphony of wonder, forever entwined. In math, in art, in life’s grand design, You reign supreme—a numeral so fine! 🌟

[abookisafriend]

The Broken Earth Trilogy: a series about a unique magic system and the social dynamics surrounding it. queer characters and a brief but tender polyamory interlude

The Player of Games: one of the galaxy's greatest game-players lands in hot water and decides to leave town for a while ... only he's been chosen by his government to represent them in a far-off empire where their entire ruling hierarchy is determined by a single game

Beggars in Spain: as genetic engineering expands to humans, what relationship will the first generation of those who inherit the most powerful traits have with the rest of humanity?

Lore Olympus: on webtoons and in print, soon to be a tv show; the story of persephone and hades retold in a contemporary setting. other myths appear in the ensemble cast, such as the story of cupid (here eros) and psyche

Klara and the Sun: an unusually observant "artificial friend," a sentient robot, is purchased to serve an unusual role in a privileged but haunted family

The Silver Metal Lover: a young woman living in her wealthy mother's shadow develops feelings for an artificial human

Sunshine: harried baker discovers her inner capacity when thrown into the middle of a struggle between powerful vampires with very different philosophies

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl: a shapeshifter fucks his way through the interwoven spheres of queer culture at the turn of the millennium. almost a work of anthropology

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listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults 

[crystals-lo-rewrite]

Introduction post

Main blog: @crystalsandbubbletea

About the AU creator:

-My name is Rian, feel free to call me 'Crystals', 'Crystal', 'Bubble Tea', 'Bubble', 'Tea', or 'Mint' though!

-My pronouns are they/xe/ve/zir

-I'm a transmasc nonbinary

-I'm on the AroAce spectrum (Demisexual and Demiromantic)

-I have ADHD and Autism

-I am a senior in Highschool, so updates might be slow :'}

-While this blog is for my LO AU (Still coming up with a name, for now it's being called Lore Olympus: Retold), I will also make criticism posts about canon Lore Olympus

-I only read one volume of Lore Olympus, so most of my LO criticism will be based off on what I saw from spoilers

-This is technically the second comic series I'm working on

-My favorite Greek gods are Apollo, Hephaestus, and Ares, while my favorite goddess are Aphrodite, Artemis, Demeter, and Nyx

-I require tone tags for things like jokes and criticism

-I plan on renaming this blog someday

-I was mostly inspired by Lore: Rekindled by @/genericpuff

Pronouns page:

Chapter links

Chapter 1: TBA

Redesign links

Minthe Redesign: W.I.P

Info about my AU + Warnings are below the cut

Info about Lore Olympus: Retold (Minor spoilers[?]):

-Character redesigns (I'll definitely be posting my redesigns)

-Personality changes for characters (Apollo, Hera, Persephone, Hades, etc)

-Doing Nyx right because Rachel did her dirty 😤

-None of that wibbly wobbly timey wimey time travel ish

-Persephone isn't nineteen, instead she's ageless, like all the other gods

-Doing Demeter right because much like Nyx, Rachel did her dirty 😤

-None of that fertility goddess stuff, I saw things about it and it never made sense to me

-Persephone has an actual personality instead of being Pink Rachel Smith

-Minthe having a better storyline because Rachel also did her dirty

-Doing Apollo right because Rachel got everything wrong about him (He would never do the thing he did in Lore Olympus)

-Artemis canonically being AroAce

-Things won't be accurate to Greek mythology (Persephone being a Bisexual Demigirl who uses she/they and Minthe having ADHD + NPD + ASPD, for example)

-There will be the occasional Lore Olympus roasting

WARNINGS:

Lore Olympus: Retold is not meant to be accurate to actual Greek mythology and is not meant to be considered as a source of research. It also goes into some triggering themes (Ex: racism, substance abuse, panic attacks, and night terrors). Any chapters that contain triggering themes will have trigger warnings.

[demeterdefence]

considering your issues with lore olympus, is the lore rekindled any better? it's the same plot, no?

fantastic question, i am going to write far too much in response!

in short: yes and no! but also no. with a little yes!

for those who haven't seen, genericpuff (and their background artist banshriek) are essentially "redoing" lore olympus, although that doesn't even begin to cover the work and talent they've put into rekindled. probably the best way i could explain it is they've taken the core pieces of lore olympus and actually given them depth and structure, with a plot that just scratches my brain so good uuugh please read rekindled if you haven't already

i've said this before, but arguably my biggest grievance with myth retellings - and absolutely the case here for lore olympus - is a complete lack of care or understanding of the core myth being "retold." someone who knows the myth, knows the importance and value it held and adheres to that in a retelling, will always be ten thousand times better suited to the story than the most awarded artist out there.

i could easily overlook the degrading art and the weird plot holes if rachel had bothered to do her research and show the original myth any kind of respect; instead, she goes out of her way from page one to disrespect the culture, history, and mythology the story of persephone is taken from. rachel sees these shiny pieces, but she doesn't know how to use them with depth or purpose, so ultimately, she just dresses them up and shoves them into the page. it's a shallow and pedantic story that uses familiar names and history, but never goes anywhere with them. genuinely, you could go to the first wattpad fic of a fourteen year old on the internet for the first time and find the same plot, and i'd argue the fourteen year old would do it better because at least they're excited about it!!!

i'll try not to spoil too much, and it is ongoing, but the way rekindled has taken the original plot and made it work is incredible. persephone's hidden rage, her complex feelings towards demeter, the hierarchy of the gods - all of that is displayed with far more tact, respect, and delight. it uses the basic plot of lore olympus, and the very basic structure, but the similarities end there, because there's depth and connection that never show up in rachel's work.

lore olympus often relied on surface level conversations and plots - it struggled to create intrigue, it couldn't really do secrets or plot reveals in an organic way. concepts of sexuality, feminism, toxic relationships, abuse, power, and systemic dysfunction were broached in the comic, but ultimately handled sloppily, or discarded entirely. this is not a comic where you're going to find a lot of nuance, or you can discuss the nature of a character and acknowledge they have levels to them - what you see is what you get, and what you get ... isn't very good.

rekindled adds a lot more to the characters, giving them meat for the readers to parse through. there's a reverence for the original myth that shows, there's clear research in how the dynamics work (hera inviting persephone to her home is not just hera asking for company, and genericpuff showed their work in a follow up post which made me so! happy!!!) this is a retelling that genuinely enjoys itself, and it's a pleasure to read it, because you know the work is being done. the artwork is gorgeous, naturally, but it's the clear work and delight both genericpuff and banshriek demonstrate, and how they've carved away all the unnecessary floss from the lo version.

it also goes to show that rachel - with all the money and accolades she got from lore olympus - could never do what genericpuff and banshriek are doing for free, on their own time. and that says a lot about her talent, but even more on lore rekindled.

[babyrdie]

Do you have a retelling you hate?

I'll assume you're talking about Greek mythology. Well, to be honest, I don't know many retellings. I've criticized TSOA a few times, but I don't hate it. In fact, I gave it 3 stars (3 stars is a rating I give often. I know some people give 4/5 most of the time and 3 stars seems awful, but by my standards it's okay)! I really like the Hades game. I thought Lore Olympus was pretty bad when I read it, but I didn't read much further and thus I didn't read the parts that people find the most absurd. I just found it really boring. It seemed like one of those typical popular straight romances. I think there are several problems in PJO and I'm not even talking about mythological aspects, but it was very important to me and I don't hate it. I haven't watched Troy, although part of the reason I haven't is that what I know about the movie sounds awful. But since I haven't seen it, I don't hate it. I know there's a trend of retelling books, but I haven't read them. I know there are older movies, but I haven't seen them either.

But this

This is simply horrendous. I just don't say I hate it because it's the kind that isn't even interesting enough to be memorable enough for me to constantly hate it, it's just extremely bad. This is the synopsis:

Homer’s Iliad, the classic tale of love and revenge, is shrewdly retold for teens in Troy High. Narrated by Cassie, a shy outsider who fears that an epic high school rivalry is about to go up in flames, the story follows the Trojans and Spartans as they declare war on the football field. After the beautiful Elena–who used to be the captain of the Spartan cheerleaders–transfers to Troy High and falls madly in love with Cassie’s brother Perry, the Spartans vow that the annual homecoming game will never be forgotten. The Trojans and Spartans pull wicked pranks on each other as homecoming approaches. And the Spartans’ wildcard football star, Ackley, promises to take down the Trojans’ offensive line. But the stakes are raised when Cassie is forced to choose between the boy she loves (a Spartan) and loyalty to her family and school. Troy High will seduce readers with its incendiary cast of mythic proportions.

What really pissed me off is that not only is it bad as a retelling, it's even bad as a romance book. Like, even if it wasn't a retelling, it would still be really bad. All the characters are uninteresting stereotypes, Cassie is extremely annoying, the romance is boring, the conflict is so stupid that I can't even care about it. It's all really bad. As a retelling, it becomes even worse because it's almost offensive for someone to say that Cassie is supposed to be Cassandra. This cowardly and "different from other girls" girl isn't Cassandra. That the romance is this Cassandra and Agamemnon and is portrayed as a fluffy modern romance is also in extremely ????. There are some characters that I would say that are okay, like the character who is Hector in this book, but there are others… Agamemnon, Menelaus, Achilles, Patroclus, Cassandra, Helen, Paris, Odysseus… seriously, horrible. Agamemnon has the personality of the Homeric Menelaus, only more meek. Menelaus is a stupid brute who wants to be the leader so badly. Achilles is just a generic bad guy. Patroclus is a generic bad guy 2. Cassandra is a blatant self-insert from a teen romance book. Helen is the dumb pretty girl (not in grades, in attitude). Paris for some reason bullies Cassandra. Odysseus is Menelaus's stooge. Honestly, the author did a terrible thing with this.

[genericpuff]

lore rekindled looks really interesting, but i wanna ask if it can be understoood by someone who never read lore olympus? Like i can't get into LO for ReasonsTM (mostly of triggers that don't seem to exist/or are less prevalent in your work) but i know fanworks often rely on the pre-existing knowledge of the reader since its presumed they read the original, so some things don't get expanded upon or foreshadowing is there that only fans pick up on. I don't normally read fanworks of stuff im not even into because of that but i really like ur art style in rekindled so i gotta ask!!

There are some things in Rekindled that may rely on pre-existing knowledge of LO, but I'm also trying to write a version of LO that's retold from the beginning, meaning you should hopefully be able to read it without having extensive knowledge of LO beyond the fact that it was attempting to retell the Hymn to Demeter (i.e. the Abduction of Persephone). It's still trying to be a cohesive story from start to finish. So if you're into Greek gods and want to try reading Rekindled, by all means don't let it being an LO rewrite stop you! Worst case scenario if you wind up not being into it, then all you've lost is maybe twenty minutes to an hour of your time :' )

[buggykitty]

As a “Greek Myths retold” genre lover (and reluctant Lore Olympus fan), I have to admit that this is true. They’re unreadable </3

people will write a modern retelling of hades/persephone and unironically make the underworld an office building or something

[hermes-is-my-homeboy]

Have you read the Lore Olympus web comic? Hermes is in it and he’s an Absolute Best Boy in it. It’s a super easy and quick read and it’s still being published weekly. The illustration and story is amazing.

I’m going to check it out, thank you!