#perseus post

[photosyn]

Local autistic nerd gets chance to ramble about special interest. Little brother is not amused. More at 7.

[demigods-posts]

i lowkey forget that percy's full name is perseus. and like. that name goes so hard. because it just sounds like this mf could kick your ass. like imagine you're a junior in high school and your teacher introduces a new student by the name of 'perseus jackson'. and before you even raise your head to look at the guy. you just know this mf could clock you.

[dasloddl]

I think now would be a great time for that

[yeonslayjun]

Annabeth: Now does anybody have a plan?

Percy: *raises hand*

Annabeth: That doesn't include sacrificing yourself?

Percy: *lowers hand*

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

i love how different percabeth is from different male lead narrated american middle school romances from the romantic point of view. usually, the male lead has a crush on the cold and kind of mean female protagonist cause she's pretty and not like the other girls.....she's pretty and not like the other girls....thats it oops. but annabeth and percy. annabeth fell first. even though she's cold and sassy too, she believed in percy. she saw the good in him and loved him for it. then percy fell. he didnt have to worry about whether annabeth would like a loser like him. yeah, he doubted why annabeth liked him once in a while, but it was a never a question of 'does she?' its healthy. and thats what makes rick riordan one of the best middle school authors ever thank you bye

[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

[rui-drawsbox]

once again. @blank-house answering the real questions [og link]

[lowerpercent]

.........................yeah. yknow, nya

[photosyn]

Insert hugging emoji

guys please the Yusuke and Akira to my Ryuji. The Mitsuri and Muichiro to my Tanjiro. The Percy and Annabeth to my Grover.. Please.pleaem guys. please ahemem. GUYS PLEASE AHEEM. AHEEM. SOBSOB. SOB. AHEEM.AHEEEEEM.SNIFFLES.

[doverstar]

the amount of affection you get for percy jackson, the character, from reading those books (no matter how long ago it was), is insane. if riordan did nothing else right, he made percy so real, wrote him so well, that readers feel like they know him and they read it for percy. we watch the show and we love walker easier because we loved percy. it lasts. that's good characterization.

[untamed-and-unfiltered]

hey blank housers 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

I didnt have time to steam him yet so he's crinkled.. 😔

[photosyn]

When bro sends you tiktoks you've already seen so you just don't respond to that video

[demigods-posts]

Do you think Zeus ever gets salty about the fact that Sally named Poseidon’s kid after HIS kid

I think to think Zeus isn't salty about Sally naming her son Perseus as well, but that her Perseus is just doing all the same things his Perseus did before he's even a fully grown man. Like, this boy is just putting his namesake to shame

[jasper-the-menace]

There are a lot of things I don't like about "modern retellings" of (usually Greek) myths - a fundamental misunderstanding of mythology, having little to actually do with the mythological figures and gods, using it as an excuse to shit on pagans like me, et cetera - but one of the most frustrating ones is that none of them are actually modern. Instead, they take the Walmart TERF approach to feminism and go "#girlboss!" without actually looking into the history of women during the time of those myths or understanding what it's supposed to do at all. They also don't even take place in the modern day - they're set in some sort of pseudo-Ancient Greece.

Like, okay, here. Let me outline what I'd consider a modern retelling of a myth, using the Perseus myth as an example.

Perseus is a college-aged young man still living with his mom, Danae, in the "big city" (fuck it, let's say Springfield, MO) and trying to make ends meet because they're both working two part-time jobs because none of the jobs actually want to pay for insurance or retirement or whatever. Danae sometimes meets with her best friend and coworker Clymene and Clymene's husband Dictys, who live out in the country and go fishing and hunting during various times of year. Dictys has a brother named Polydectes who is the grown-man version of a Silicon Valley tech bro who's, I don't know, into crypto and shit.

While Polydectes is living on Dictys's couch and ranting about how he's totally gonna be a rich Wall Street executive some day, he sees Danae talking with Clymene while they gut fish and is like "hot chick, gonna stalk her" and is all creepy about it. Perseus is not about that shit, so he starts trying to find a way to get Dictys to back off.

At this point, any number of things could happen. If you want a girlboss Medusa story, she could be, I don't know, a deep web or black market assassin-for-hire and Perseus scrounges up money for it. If you want something more lighthearted and silly, maybe this is taking place in what is essentially a Yugioh-style world where the fate of things lands on card games and Perseus uses a Medusa-esque card to kick Dictys's ass. Medusa could even just be a coworker of Danae and Clymene and overhear them bitching at work about Dictys so she goes to Perseus like "Dude, do you want me to help take care of that guy messing with your mom?" Literally anything could happen at this point.

You don't even have to erase Andromeda! She could be anything from a classmate of Perseus's that he helps out to his coworker that he protects from creeps to...well, again, literally anything! It's a modern world, she's got all kinds of possibilities!

See? A modern retelling would actually be cool as shit if people paid attention to the "modern" part!

[blank-house]

How would you describe the lis in 3 words? How would they describe themselves?

First is how I’d describe them, second is probably what they’d think of themself!

Percy

Silly, adorkable, trouble(d)

He’d probably say he’s cool, charming, and cringe (good for him for recognizing that about himself)

Elio

Sweet, sensitive , wild

Determined, hopeful, friendly

Jamie

Valid, a menace (a counts as a word right? If not then I’ll slide “unexpected” in there)

Self-sufficient, great, funny

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

imagine this. it's pjo7 or pjo8. percy and annabeth are questing as usual. but then as they're in a hurry again, they bump into somebody. and it's somebody from one of their old schools. it's a friend who only knows the old them from school. a friend, who after some conversations, would not believe that they have changed so much. a friend who had known them as an insecure little lonely kid and now were faced by two confident and loved warriors. imagine seeing from percy or annabeth's side. and the struggle. should they reconnect with their past? or risk another mortal getting sucked into their dangerous world? and in the end imagine them saying goodbye and walking away with the knowledge that things can always get better, because they did.