*_* thank you so much for linking this to me, I really enjoyed it, tremendously.
I think my favorite part was how Hades… shapeshifts the entire time? that part where he was like a monster-looking dude at first, but before he stepped into the shaft of light where she could see him, he looked thoughtful and turned into a man? And he kept looking different the more he spent in her presence? falling in love with a lonely big monster man with a handsome voice, THAT’S THE STUFF
I love how its take on the myth, that it’s really Demeter who needs to accept the change, and everybody is trying to get her to accept it. Zeus and Hermes are hilarious. Hades throwing shade about Zeus not understanding love. The costumes are gorgeous. I’m so happy….
Mercedes Lackey: While her inclusion of gay characters was and still is important to me, now that I’m an adult it does seem more than a little fetishy especially because there are lot’s of beautiful gay men~ but only one lesbian couple in the whole Valdemar series, and they’re side characters anyway. In her newer works the gay representation also seems to have disappeared other than being mentioned off-hand (and it being set in the past is no excuse.) She does a lot better than the vast majority of fantasy authors but it hasn’t evolved enough over time to be acceptable to me.
Mythical creatures: I’m not really sure if this is controversial or just weird but if you have a dragon character they should not be able to drink alcohol in my opinion (even in human form) b/c dragons are reptiles -> cold blooded -> alcohol lowers your body temperature. That’s how I write them, at least!
I don’t know very much about the stuff you follow so I’m gonna go with Dragon Prince and do a minorly controversial opinion: why is everyone so interested in drawing the one elf dude? He has like no personality. All he does is be an ass and then get imprisoned. He says like 15 lines in the whole show. I’m not that into it anyway but there are better characters to draw.
Sidapa was a death god who’d found the seven moons to be really pretty (as with all other gods who were fighting for their attention). When courting them, it was Bulan who had taken notice and reciprocated!
now, the goddess Bakunawa had also taken a fancy for the moons in her own weird way, and turned into a giant snake to eat them (the mythos’ explanation for eclipses). Bulan fled to the mountain where Sidapa was, to hide, then the two of them fell in love and eventually got married.
in most versions, only Bulan was left behind amongst the seven siblings
(apparently composed of Bulan, Haliya, Mayari, Balinig, Banolor, Libulan, Subang), but I’ve read a version where Bulan married Sidapa, Haliya fought the Bakunawa (remaining as the only visible moon on the sky), Mayari went under the sea and ended up marrying a disgraced man who had also hidden in there, and Libulan hid himself in the darkness of the cosmos :0
(Bakunawa, being a Nasty, was punished to stay a huge watersnake for all eternity)
the Aswang Project made an article covering the mythos’ possible origins and its implications on precolonial Philippine culture and our history with cultural exchanges~ they also graciously used my picture which was very kilig hehe
men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly.
narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.
Narcissus wrote this
I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.
i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me
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