#genericpuff

[cherrytea556]

Lore Rekindled; The Lore Olympus that should have been

To be honest, I checked out the rekindled version before the original one and now having reading the original as well, it's extremely odd. Y'know goodbye volcanic high where the original was a mess but a group of 4chaners made a parody game which turned out to be of better quality than the original? This is like that but replace 4chan with tumblr users, mainly @genericpuff whose series is pinned in their tumblr blog where you can check all of the episodes, especially updated ones. In this post, I will be praising this series of how it fixes the problems of the original

The Pacing

One thing I notice about lore olympus and lore rekindled is the pacing. Not just the flow of the story but where it chooses to focus on. Now in lore olympus, the pacing is kinda a mess and its mainly to do with what it focuses on. An example is the magazine plotpoint; in the original, its basically kinda there in between doses to focus on other stuff like persephone and hades together, persephone's sa (i'll get to that later), eros story, zeus and hera etc...The flow generally isnt that bad per say (except for persephone's sa cuz that was way too quick) but for a story meant to be a romance between hades and persephone, you'd think it idk, it would focus on persephone and hades specifically, not eros which is another example of; its flashbacks. Eros specifically has such a dragged out flashback in episode 12 which we didnt need or at least with that much exposition when it should've naturally expand in the story and that's what rekindled does. The magazine plotline has turned into the first conflict of persephone and hades as we see how it affects their lives and relationships. This works for its pacing better because it doesn't give you too much stuff to jumble with, making the narrative more concise and easier to understand where the story is going. And with the flashbacks, rekindled cuts out the fat in the flashbacks from the original to a perfect balance where it gives exposition of the characters while also leaving mystery for the audience to be intrigued, my favourite one would have to be this (though it more of a nightmare than a flashback specifically speaking);

It's of persephone in a greenhouse her mother placed her in with this red eye thing following her from outside the greenhouse. I have no idea of this lurker if its her metaphorical rage or a danger in her life but either way, i am intrigued by its presentation.

The Characters

When reading lore rekindled and lore olympus, the characters are definetly an odd experience. For lore olympus, the characters arent exactly uh....great per say. I think the main reason for this is how their ultilised, with characters like eros, hera, hectate etc being there to mostly be a matchmaker for hades and persephone even if it was initially seen as wrong like with hera and hectate, be antagonistic as a way to have conflict between hades and persephone like minthe, demeter and recently leuce even if ones had reasons too like minthe with hades emotionally cheating on her and demeter because lets be honest, she had a point. Then there's hades and persephone, whoo boy where to start with them.

Hades starts off as a creep eyeing at persephone during a party, specifically at her body and still lusts persephone even being aware that shes 19 and he's 2000 years old. Also is a shitty boss, father AND contributes to slavery with it while being adressed in some way, doesnt change him which isnt good for a character that's meant to be the main protagonists love interest.

Persephone though, I can get the self insert vibes. From favouritism towards the story, being who most of the men in the story are attracted too, portrayed as a 'cinnamon roll' (they actually said that early on in the story, im not kidding) who cant do no wrong. She acts like a teenager rather than a young adult which makes the scenes where shes sexualised just more uncomfortable (and they already unnecessarily were) along with adding that uncomfortability to the romance

But with rekindled, they expanded on the characters much more than they originally were. Persephone for instance has turned from a 'sexy baby' legal teenager to an actual young relatable adult with agency and allows her to screw up (e.g, getting drunk on her own rather than eros drunking her). Her adult attitude makes the romance between her and hades not only more palpable, but also strays away from the infantilisation/uncomfortable sexualisation of her character which is nice to see. Hades also is written well in the series from how it acknowledges his faults while still making him likable. And thats the same for every character really, their personalities are much more fleshed out and nuanced which makes their characters feel real to life, gaining effectiveness for more emotional scenes with them. An interesting thing too is that they even expanded the magazine guy's character from making fake news for profit into feeling guilt over what they done, standing up for persephone which is a pretty nice change.

No Sa Plotline

Not like you cant have sa in your story ever but if you never planned it from the beginning and only did when people tell you that the scene you drew from your comic was sa then....maybe just not do it. Lore olympus does exactly that where while an attempt was made, it goes on to retcon it into making apollo (the guy who sa'd persephone) into a lesser evil like that would made a difference instead of just cutting it out from the very beginning. Lore rekindled thankfully just made apollo into his pilot version, a shitty bf but more likeable and expanded upon (which should have been his portrayal from day 1). His shittiness doesnt come up in the story, more like self absorbness/egotisticalness although with its recent chapter of the magazine guy offering persephone lunch, it might reveal some cracks or at least further down the story it will be revealed to us which futhers how effective rekindled character writing is in how its expansion of characters would give us the feels. That or portray him as not a good match for persephone, either way much better than the original.

Artstyle

Lore olympus has a pretty good artstyle (at least in s1/the early episodes, s3 is just kinda goofy) but lore rekindled has got a good artstyle which is on top, more consistent too. Here's some examples;

Comedy

It's objectively funnier than lore olympus, no question asked

All in all, if you want to read lore olympus, i recommend you to read the lore rekindled one instead as it's better in every way. Give it a read.

#lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore rekindled #generic puff #genericpuff

[genericpuff]

LORE | REKINDLED EPISODE 26 - LURK

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ah shit here we go again

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Thank you all for reading! Don't mind the early upload, Tumblr's Schedule feature is set to default as 'right this second' and I accidentally double clicked so you get to read it a couple hours early LMAO

#lore rekindled #lore rekindled comic #lore olympus au #lo critical #lore olympus critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus #genericpuff #generic puff

[a-gnosis]

3: Persephone from Lore Rekindled

Lore Rekindled is a webcomic by @genericpuff that is a kind of reinterpretation of Lore Olympus. If you thought that Lore Olympus had some interesting ideas, but didn't like how those ideas were executed, then maybe you'll like Lore Rekindled. I certainly do. Persephone has a personality, Demeter is not portrayed as a villain, all the characters feel more nuanced and the story is a lot more focused on Hades and Persephone (that is, it doesn't try to squeeze in as many plot points and Greek myths as possible).

#genericpuff #lore rekindled #persephone #my scanner sucks at reading pink colors

[april-doodles]

Just a Lil’ Lore Olympus Panel Redraw

[ <- Mine | Original -> ]

So uh. Recently in my downtime I’ve been re-drawing Lore Olympus panels/reformatting the physical copy pages as kind of a practice?? I dunno. I have some (frankly, anti) LO stuff in the recesses of this blog but I’ve been having a resurgence, idk why. Anyways. Might post more antiLO stuff, might not. Who knows !

#my art #anti lore olympus #anti lo #panel redraw #I used the LO Debauchery brushsets that @GenericPuff made #so shoutout to Puff for those! #I!!! I just think the old school backgrounds are neat… #Also there is stuff wrong with mine (do NOT look at the mouth she is not perspectively correct) #BUT!!! idk i think it looks good lol #also when I say practice I mean like… style practice for panel redraws comic practice for page reformats #actually I might post those page edits. idk. we’ll see what the vibes are.

[whatmyface]

LO's latest fastpass

OH MY FUCKIGN GOD THAT WAS HILARIOUS, lol the r/unpopularloreolympus discord is scream at void lo. THEYRE GOING ON A BREAK TO REBUILD BUFFER HAHAHAHA!

#anti lore olympus #lore olympus criticism #lore olympus critical #this is fuckign hilarious #@genericpuff called it!!

[the-official-legacies-blog]

"Why don't you just use Webtoon to publish Legacies?"

Y'all, Webtoon is literally a no-go for me.

I have seen some things about it, and how they treat comic creators.

@/genericpuff has made some pretty good posts about why Webtoon isn't that good for small webcomic creators.

Like these posts, for example:

Genericpuff does a WAY better job at analyzing things compared to me, I HIGHLY suggest checking out their Webtoon critical posts-

#webtoon critical #the official legacies blog #the-official-legacies-blog #crystalsandbubbletea #webcomic #webcomics #Would have tagged genericpuff in this but I don't know if they're busy-

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Sorry, my MinthePhone brain is kicking in.

The original panel is from Lore Rekindled, created by @genericpuff.

#lore rekindled #persephone #minthe #persephone x minthe #minthe x persephone #minthephone #my edits

[moony-2001]

Friendly reminder to both the Lore Olympus Stans and the Antis:

Persephone’s hair growth has nothing to do with her stress

i.e., she can grow it out whenever she likes and it is not tied to her emotions. I think @genericpuff had a post that talked about this but after reading the comments under the most recent episode, I wanted to reiterate.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news 

#anti lore olympus #lo critical #anti lo persephone #unpopular lo #lore olympus #unpopular lore olympus #anti lo #reblog #lore olympus critical #lore olympus hate #lo critique #lo hate #lore olympus criticism #sorry #loreolympiad

[eldritchbonedoll]

Some Lore Rekindled fan art for @genericpuff ! I wanted to draw Persephone for ya! This is kind of how I imagined her design for her queen form, at least the head mostly, the outfit I kinda struggled with but I think it looks nice!

I was trying to go for things that are connected to those she cares about or have some meaning to her (like the jacket and her mom's pin) and also I just loved the idea of a birch tree crown!

[ember-juice]

Been reading lore rekindled, I’m liking how it’s going so far with the story and I wanted to draw one of the panels from ep. 31, fan art in a way I guess

( Lore Rekindled by @genericpuff )

#lore rekindled #lore olympus rewrite #lore rekindled comic #lo critical

[mythsandheather]

So, that latest chapter, right? Apollo of all people is standing on business and pointing out flaws with everyone that are almost word for word what we critics say, yet still include shitty over the top misogyny, and as @genericpuff pointed out, this is likely not unintentional.

What a bizarre choice to use your r*pist character as the mouthpiece “gotcha” moment for the thousands of people who want you to make your comic less abusive, racist, classist, sexist, homophobic and all round harmful. And at your big age, Rachel, of 37.

You sure showed us.

#antiloreolympus #lo critical #lore olympus critical #lo criticism #anti lore olympus #lore olympus criticism #anti lo #tw: assault

[persiesposts]

Something I love about Lore Rekindled..

So by now everyone knows about the lovely @genericpuff and their LO rewrite (if you don't you have to check it out!!!) and I've been re-reading it alongside LO just for the sake of comparative analysis and I noticed something within the first few eps that was so amazing.

Persephone noticed and approached Hades first in Rekindled.

It seems like such a small change at first but looking at it in comparison to the original it's a HUGE shift and immediately sets the tone for who Persephone is as a character in Rekindled vs LO.

In LO based on first impressions of Persephone we see a young woman who is hopelessly out of place and severely in the "damsel mindset." The first time Hades ever sees her is when she's in distress after being knocked over. We see her through his POV and don't see the situation through her eyes at all.

In Rekindled the focus is on Persephone and her POV, she sees Hades at the bar and through her we see this immediate connection (though not instantly a positive one, i.e. "he's terrifying"). It leaves the audience immediately interested by what she means by "terrifying". Despite that initial impression she chooses to still approach him which shows remarkable agency and boldness on her part in comparison to her OG counterpart.

She also approaches with a decent amount of social awkwardness, she's more forward than most who were raised on Olympus, handily securing her "small fish in a big pond" characterization without making her seem like a ditz. It makes her showing up in his car later (another change there that I could write a whole other post on) less weird and creepy since they've at least had a conversation before that moment.

TLDR: I love Lore Rekindled and the shifts that were made to make these characters feel more realistic and less flat.

#anti lore olympus #lore rekindled #anti lo persephone #lo critical #lore olympus critical

[genericpuff]

Real life transparency shit time. Tattooing has been rough lately. Between the ongoing economic crisis that makes it difficult for people to even have their basic needs met let alone get tattooed (we're apparently seeing a 10% increase in grocery costs... conveniently right as minimum wage was about to go up by 30 cents 😒) and the oversaturation of the tattooing market itself (so many scratchers who "taught themselves" how to tattoo because they heard it was "good money" are now ironically making it not good money by oversaturating the market, good for them /s) I'm struggling to see how I can make a consistent living again without having to go back into retail. Maybe that's way too big of an ask at this point but if I'm barely making a living now with my tattooing as it is then going into retail just means I'll be working more for less pay.

SO all that said, I'm totally gonna combat this problem by offering another luxury service that isn't a need at all LMAO I have a Toyhou.se page now! (thanks to an IRL artist pal who's currently in their famous era and is amazing at helping the rest of us get our shit together lol)

I'll be offering adoptables as well as possibly tattoo flash (meaning flash designs you can buy and take to an artist who's willing to do them) for people to purchase and use to their heart's delight <3 Note that I'll still be enforcing a soft rule of the "no LO stuff" over this page because I don't want to be profiting directly of Rekindled or LO's assets, however I'll still be offering character design sets with loads of colorful Rekindled-like designs, so you might just find something you like that scratches that itch! And then once you buy it, it's yours to use!

So yeah, if you have a Toyhouse, please consider subscribing to my page so you'll be notified of any designs that drop! You'll almost definitely catch me streaming the making of some of these designs as well <3 I have a lot brewing around in my head now that just needs to escape owo so I hope you all enjoy what's to come!

#toyhouse #toyhou.se #adoptables #original work #original art #art for sale #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything #announcement post #self post #genericpuff #lore rekindled #please reblog #best way you can help out is to share around!!!

[mintymelty]

Lore Olympus Panel Redraw/Tweak

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about this specific panel from S3, mainly about perse’s anatomy.

Here are the general changes I made:

Expanded the back of her head

Made her eyes and lips more proportional to her face overall

redrew her eyelashes

And in the redraw I…:

Took inspiration from S1’s color palette

Gave perse a more dramatic expression

Thinned her eyebrows a bit at the end

gave perse’s eyes a gold ring (og idea from @genericpuff i think)

went a lil crazy with the rendering… oops

Time taken:

Quick fix: 7 mins

Partial Redraw: 30 mins

Full Redraw: 1h 30 mins

#digital art #unpopular lo #unpopular lore olympus #lore olympus critical #not taging in main tags cuz its kinda crit #lo critical #anti lore olympus #anti lo #webtoon

[duxwriter]

IT IS DONE!!!!

I gift this to @genericpuff

Thank you for making Lore Rekindled, it's a wonderful comic and I can't wait to see it finished one day! Hecate has my favorite slight redesign so far!

#lore olympus redesign #lore olympus #lore olympus hecate #hecate #gift art

[catvampire]

i have succumbed to the brainrot pfp by @genericpuff from the latest LR ep-

#if my profile banner becomes a background from that too don't @ me-