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
got inspired to draw my current rotisserie chicken by @dekariosgale! thank u for giving me motivation to draw again 🙏 it was sorely needed LMAO. anyway. bonus "one with the weave" gale under the cut!
:party in the frathouse au:
sabito, excitedly holding a beer: hey giyuu- you wanna shotgun with me?
giyuu: (thinks he's got another beer with him) sure
sabito: [chugs beer then kisses him with tongue]
The most infuriating form of sanism is this idea that mentally ill people/people with mental disorders are just too stupid or too unenlightened to know how to be a proper, well-adjusted person
So many therapists have ignored signs of my unwellness simply because they assumed I was just... being stupid, and I just needed educating about why I'm acting disordered (apparently, mental disorders stop disordering you once you are condescendingly told why you're just disordered and dumb, who knew (sarcasm)).
Like, I could tell them that I knew my behaviour wasn't "rational," wasn't "reasonable" to do or believe and I'd still be treated like I was so dumb I needed hand-holding and scolding about why I'm acting disordered.
I truly wish that people would be able to take the idea of guidance and stop twisting it into "I am superior and enlightened and the people I am trying to help are stupid and wrong and beneath me!"
max went THROUGH IT during all his stream until the end
struggling so fucking much to get into the federation offices with baghera. the code flying over them. used his illegal drill. getting jumpscared by cucurucho. not knowing the others have been there before. died suffocated. waking up in aypierre's room with the sex song playing. the others found out, lost their shit and watched the clip lots of times and made fun of him. getting upset about it and watched the sunset with richas. cucurucho interrupting and qsmp killing him. waking up in aypierres room again. being tp'd to a fucking prison and locking eyes with cucurucho. like.