#perseus

[sarafangirlart]

Kataang and Persomeda are similar in how people interpret them

People say that Aang has Katara as some sort of trophy wife, that their love falls into the trope of "The hero gets the girl"

Some are even so delusional as to say that Aang forced Katara to marry him and that she didn't love him

Does that sound familiar?

Well, anyway, let them bark all they want—Persomeda and Kataang will remain in love, married, and with children

Honestly I don’t get how so many ppl hate the “hero gets the girl” trope then turn around and gobble up any “villain gets the girl” book no matter how shitty it is.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Fateful Head

Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898)

Date: 1885

Medium: Gouache

Collection: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

Description

In order to convince Andromeda of his divine origins and win her hand in marriage, Perseus shows her the head of Medusa, taking care that they look at it in the reflection of a well.

[officialspec]

characters for a comic idea im developing. like mother like daughter

[thereinart]

I did a Danaé mini comic cause my heart aches for her

Hope you like it :3

[without-ado]

Atik, Omicron Persei in Perseus l Lee-Anne Gibbon

[tinymusicalgeek]

Perseus vs Medusa

I don't know if anyone has pointed it out before, but i really like the parallel of Percy holding up Medusa's head the same way statue Perseus does.

Like, the ⭐️symbolism⭐️ of Medusa meeting the same exact fate, despite having her story rewritten and told.

And the foreshadowing of Percy becoming as great of a hero as his namesake.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Perseus Molecular Cloud

[sydney-empire]

Vent comic about female beauty

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Harry Hamlin as Perseus - Clash of the Titans (1981)

[chromyo]

Perseus after receiving his gifts from Athena and Hermes 💅

Srsly look at him with his little handbag

[officialspec]

sketched my girls to test out some new brushes i like

[moon-kissed-corner]

Detail from the painting Danaë (before 1829), by Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[spacewonder19]

NGC 1333 Embryo Nebula in Perseus © Martin Voigt

[britney-rosberg06]

“Sally named Percy Peseus because he lived happily ever after” no FUCK that Sally named him Perseus because Perseus and Danaë fucking suffered. Their lives sucked. They were cast out literally and figuratively left to fend for themselves but despite all of that they fought for every bit they earned and accepted no shit from anybody and when Sally Jackson was handed her precious baby boy she was feeling particularly powerful that day. She was a penniless orphan turned single mother and despite not having a fucking clue about what her and her child’s life would become she decided she wasn’t going to quit. She was drowning in grief and worry just like Danaë, drowning in a sea pitted against her, was and both women decided to brave the fucking storm.

THATS why his name is Perseus. Because both their mothers fought a different kind of battle and won