#miss medusa

[sarafangirlart]

Medusa’s facial expression in ancient art vs in modern art

[hermesmoly]

once again this is all ovid's fault

[lisamar1exo]

mercymaker doodles 🥹💓🫶

[tripleaxeldiaz]

i don’t understand people complaining about the percy jackson show. yes things are different again, i know we’re all scarred from the movies. yes there are things that got cut. it’s a 400 page book condensed into 8ish hours of tv — things move quicker because we’re not in the characters heads anymore, and watching minutes and minutes of them puzzling through things would frankly be boring to watch. the things they HAVE changed, with medusa and hephaestus and all the nods to the gods being truly complex and terrible beings, is SO rich and fresh and exciting for people who have read the books 27 times over

just because it’s not a page for page adaptation doesn’t make it bad. you want the book story? read the book

[hanitje]

Penny, The Rescuers

So I was a bit pissed off when some dude bros (and some nasty women) complaint on social media about Penny; saying things like how boring her character was and she wasn’t like any of those “strong” princesses. 

First of all, she was a CHILD. She was around five to six years old in the movie, and also an orphan. She didn’t have any friends except for an old cat named Rufus at the orphanage.

And then she was KIDNAPPED by a nasty woman named Madame Medusa, an antique dealer who brought her to a river boat. She was forced to get into a small bucket and thrown into a hole to find a freaking diamond while sometimes sea water almost drown her.

She was also being verbally abused by Medusa that she was so ugly, nobody wanted her. Medusa even threatened to “kill” her teddy bear if she didn’t do what the lady said. I dare y’all not to cry to see this little girl holding everything to herself while hearing Medusa just sweetly called her useless. 

On top of all that, she was calm and collected, and even brave enough to sent a message in a bottle where The Rescuers found it. She never wailed while crying, although she deserved a good cry. When she found out that her rescuers were a bunch of mice, she was disappointed at first, but both Bernard and Ms. Bianca were good to her, and encouraged her to take some action.

She realized she needed to rescue herself, grabbed the diamond, and ran off the boat (after the swamp creatures wrecked some havoc to Medusa and her boat) on her own, driving away with the speed boat. She went home to New York orphanage, got adopted, and gave the diamond to a museum. She became famous and being called a hero. But she didn’t care with any of that; she found a loving parents, and the scene where her adoptive parents kissed her and hugged her, it was so beautiful. And she found friends in a form of small mice, and she thanked them.

Despite her youth, Penny breaks the traditional mold of the "damsel in distress" prototype by repeatedly making an effort to rescue herself, rather than wait passively to be found and rescued. She was only five years old and very shy, but the fact that she was defiant against Medusa and her crony (I forgot his name) and didn’t give up makes her a very interesting character. Everyday she tried to escape but always failed, however she kept trying.

She should become a role model for children. People calling her boring and weak especially from dude bros is a testament that they didn’t watch the movie because I don’t think they’d be able to handle a kidnapping situation where they’d have to face huge crocodiles, dangerous swamp, a trigger happy nasty crazy woman, a water hole, and death threats - and she was only FIVE/SIX YEARS OLD. How dare they called her boring and weak! 

Just because she didn’t have magic powers, a fairy godmother, gods, spirits, a prince, or even a weapon (but her small critter friends) didn’t make her boring and weak. Her character development was good; from an insecure first grader to this brave little girl who would not give up and rescued herself. She was a strong good character. 

Respect Penny!

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Medusa (c. 1618) by Peter Paul Rubens

[mysterydarling]

I miss her so much ;_; snek wife

[brevoorthistoryofcomics]

BHOC: THE SUPERHERO WOMEN

Back at Christmas 1978, I was working my way through the fourth and latest release in the ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS line of Trade Paperbacks from Simon & Schuster: THE SUPERHERO WOMEN. This book was a bit more of a mixed bag than the earlier ones and relied more on material that was more contemporary–the first issue of MS. MARVEL, which is reprinted here, was less than a year old. But that was a…

[616witch]

you're so stiff and formal--everyone fears you! but i'm not afraid--because i know you're as harmless as a baby--my big baby!

[iedolon]

pspspspspsps my fox lady at you all

[sarafangirlart]

NOT ANDROMEDA’S FUCKING CONSTELLATION AT THE BACK 😭😭😭😭

[imsparky2002]

DC & Marvel AU: Teachers

DC

Caline Bustier: Hugo Strange

Olga Mendeliev: Chief (The One in the Wheelchair)

Alonzo Grotke: Black Lightning

Dahlia Winters: Crazy Quilt

Principal Denis Damocles: Warden Sharp

Marvel

Caline Bustier: Medusa

Olga Mendeliev: Hank Pym

Alonzo Grotke: Blade

Dahlia Winters: Chameleon

Principal Denis Damocles: Thunderbolt Ross

Lemme know what you think in reblogs and comments. Names will come soon. @artzychic27 @msweebyness @nerd-chocolate

[alittlewoozyhere]

Eye of the beholder

[heteromerous-rhyming]

usually i don't look at writers of specific episode, but can we take a moment to appreciate that episode three, medusa's episode, had a female writer of color? Monica Owusu-Breen really went i'm going to speak directly to the discourse surrounding medusa and ATE, and Jessica Kennedy took the script and ran

[newnamesamecharlotte]

What if Medusa, a queen and the only mortal among her and her two sisters (all three gorgons), always had a head full of lovely snakes and just had sweet consensual sex with the dark-haired Poseidon in a soft meadow amid spring flowers? [1]

What if Poseidon was just into sexy snake-haired gorgon cuties?

And what if Perseus just cut off her head to show off or for fame?

What if Athena had nothing to do with all of this?

What then??

[hermesmoly]

Poseidon would be a hardcore Symbrock shipper honestly