032624 by rororo [Twitter/X]
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hey. what if she isn't doomed by the narrative . what if she is doomed by herself
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Medea, 1873
Anselm Feuerbach
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I will never stop being obsessed with the Argonautica stating that Achilles and Medea marry in the afterlife. Absolutely Wild could not have thought of a more unhinged match. Apollonius you were so based for that
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John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
"Jason and Medea" (1907)
Oil on canvas
Pre-Raphaelite
Currently in a private collection
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I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.
Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.
And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.
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By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:
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Classicstober Day 6: Medea 🩸
Based on Euripides Medea.
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the daughters of pelias were like we can rebuild him. we have the technology
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Medea’s Reasons by Salma Deera
This is probably my favorite poem, and a couple of years back, I illustrated it through a series of portraits featuring women from biblical stories, folklore, and mythology. I wanted to revisit the poem and create something that was more simple and focused on the titular heroine.
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