Drawing Art For My Own Fic To Motivate Myself To Write The Bloody Thing... College Au.......

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

I think the reason I like writing Faith fanfic over any other fandom is just because of how open ended the game can be. Every single choice can play a factor in how John is characterized. From the successful ability to save everyone vs the inability to even save yourself to even the simplest choices like Lisa or Garcia can affect who John is as a person. So yes, the exhausted pathetic wet dog of a man in "In Astaroth's Name, Amen", the sniveling coward feeling sorry for himself and completely helpless to his own misery in "Father Ward, Curse His Soul" and the snarky father trying his absolute goddamn best not to murder his husband in "Nuclear Family" are all the same John Ward. All because of a few slightly different choices

POV you’re watching Jayce and Viktor give their science presentation but one of them clearly pulled an all nighter

So I was informed that someone is making +18 edits of work by mine and another Epic animator BrittPowwPixel, passing it off as if the original artist created it. The whole first minute of the animatic plays normally, but the ending is edited.

That’s… very weird. I mean, yeah, people on the internet will always be freaks, but why make it seem like the original artist did it??? Look, I have nothing against nsfw art, my problem is people doing that without consent and respect. A basic, "hey can I do this?" would be fucking nice to hear sometimes. But then make an edit and then make it like I or BrittPowwPixel did it.... Yhea that is messed up. Esepcially BrittPowwPixel case cuz their edit was on their Hold Them Down animatic. That is even more fucked up.

I found out about this because some Epic fans and religious ppl on TikTok saying I made an NSFW animatic of Odysseus and Circe. This explains a lot about why I sometimes get anons in my inbox yelling at me for making Odysseus sleep with Circe in my animatic. And I was just sitting here like, "What the fuck are you talking about???"

It even explains why I get sometimes youtube comments about (then I didnt know) refereing to that edit. I was so confused on how someone could watch my There Are Other Ways animatic and think they had sex and liked it????

Also, for those who haven't got it yet, I haven’t posted anything on that Rule 34 site. All my art was reuploaded there without my permission and even tagged it on my name. I never asked someone to make my name a tag on there. And now, with people making edits and passing them off as originals, all I can say to the one who made it, fuck off.

I like how Slay the Princess can either be the most beautiful story about betrayal and forgiveness, a literal horror game, or just a fu@king anime called “God Slayer” or something

It’s got them all, a jack of all trades

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭