tinydetectivestudent
157 posts
Latest Posts by tinydetectivestudent
how do y'all not let the things you like consume your entire being
i love being in smaller/dead fandoms like. a total of five people will see my posts and thats totally alright. because we are a teeny tiny community filled with peoples passion for things filling the void of millions
we are a TINY and POWERFUL army
yea .
no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed
Kaoru birthday comic (pretend it's on time and not super late)
I once read you in school ! May I ask what you're studying and what you want to become?
I’m studying art 🎨
I want to become free, but I have to have a job. So we’ll see what life throws at me 🥲😩
You keep saying Alastor is "Aro" and having him do all sort of romantic shit, including but not limited to kiss Lucifer like six times. No, that's not Aro. Not wanting a label or a committed relationship is not the same as being Aro, and it's weird you keep doing that because clearly you ship them romantically. If you didn't comment on the aro "nature" of your comic, nobody would have even notice because that's how much NOT ARO is. You just want to have the cake and it eat.
I really disagree. I’m making a sincere effort to depict a specific shade of aromanticism in a shipping context. A lot of it is based on my own experience. How someone views something as romantic vs platonic is not based on some concrete formula, so I think it’s unfair of you to make the assertion that the actions I depicted can ONLY be viewed as romantic. I’m trying to represent a complex experience, so I’m sure there are going to be folks who interpret something I make as romantic when I don’t intend for it to be motivated by romantic attraction.
And if you don’t believe me, that’s your prerogative but pls leave me alone.
I’ve also received feedback from aro folks who have relayed to me that they feel represented by the comics I’m making or that it’s helped them investigate what their boundaries are, which is really cool to me.
Also I’ll leave this here; https://www.aromanticism.org/en/faq
A timelapse (my process is really chaotic! I usually try to rush drawings out from my head and then rewrite and re-format later) ✍🏽
This comic took about 18hrs give or take
ALSO I just gotta say that I LOVE the concept of God Games taking place in a coliseum with a bunch of gods and different creatures watching. Massive kudos to whoever had this idea, whether it was Jay or any of the artists that animated this song.
Not sure if I'll ever make God Games but I just had to doodle this concept that I love so much
from left to right the gods are
Dionysus, Hades, Artemis, Aeolus, and Hermes
YEAAAAAAH!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! FINALLY I CAN DIE!!!!
Ares and Aphrodite <3
this is my first time drawing Piper is it obvious
behold my favorite silly ship: stabby solangelo
Marcus (described as looking like Nico) x Octavian (legacy of Apollo). it's like Solangelo but they're both evil. and stabby. and dead.
This is the same fucking person
me, staring down ao3: ok i’m desperate for fic about this pairing but like… how desperate
The Underworld is one emotional trainwreck after another
lestercore
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS
Finale :)
Thank you Tommy for your character and story, it’s been fun!!
Apollo's apology letter
legendary
my favorite dynamic is toa is probably just apollo and his emotional support gremlin, emotional support arrow, emotional support instrument, emotional support twin sister, emotional support little half brother, emotional su—
the man needed so much emotional support throughout the series and honestly good for him. go get that character development one cry at a time, you funky little music man
15 DAYS LEFT UNTIL WISDOM SAGA!!! MOTHER IS COMING BACK! aka ATHENA, GODDESS OF WISDOM, MASTER OF WAR. Our boy Telemachus is coming!!
does everybody imagine like a animatic thing playing in their head when they listen to a song or is that just me
Ahhhhhhhhhh this is so amazing!!!!
"What happened between book 4 and 5?" lots of shenanigans that's what ‼️
In the past I've shared other people's musings about the different interpretations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Namely, why Orpheus looks back at Eurydice, even though he knows it means he'll lose her forever. So many people seem to think they've found the one true explanation of the myth. But to me, the beauty of myths is that they have many possible meanings.
So I thought I would share a list of every interpretation I know, from every serious adaptation of the story and every analysis I've ever heard or read, of why Orpheus looks back.
One interpretation – advocated by Monteverdi's opera, for example – is that the backward glance represents excessive passion and a fatal lack of self-control. Orpheus loves Eurydice to such excess that he tries to defy the laws of nature by bringing her back from the dead, yet that very same passion dooms his quest fo fail, because he can't resist the temptation to look back at her.
He can also be seen as succumbing to that classic "tragic flaw" of hubris, excessive pride. Because his music and his love conquer the Underworld, it might be that he makes the mistake of thinking he's entirely above divine law, and fatally allows himself to break the one rule that Hades and Persephone set for him.
Then there are the versions where his flaw is his lack of faith, because he looks back out of doubt that Eurydice is really there. I think there are three possible interpretations of this scenario, which can each work alone or else co-exist with each other. From what I've read about Hadestown, it sounds as if it combines all three.
In one interpretation, he doubts Hades and Persephone's promise. Will they really give Eurydice back to him, or is it all a cruel trick? In this case, the message seems to be a warning to trust in the gods; if you doubt their blessings, you might lose them.
Another perspective is that he doubts Eurydice. Does she love him enough to follow him? In this case, the warning is that romantic love can't survive unless the lovers trust each other. I'm thinking of Moulin Rouge!, which is ostensibly based on the Orpheus myth, and which uses Christian's jealousy as its equivalent of Orpheus's fatal doubt and explicitly states "Where there is no trust, there is no love."
The third variation is that he doubts himself. Could his music really have the power to sway the Underworld? The message in this version would be that self-doubt can sabotage all our best efforts.
But all of the above interpretations revolve around the concept that Orpheus looks back because of a tragic flaw, which wasn't necessarily the view of Virgil, the earliest known recorder of the myth. Virgil wrote that Orpheus's backward glance was "A pardonable offense, if the spirits knew how to pardon."
In some versions, when the upper world comes into Orpheus's view, he thinks his journey is over. In this moment, he's so ecstatic and so eager to finally see Eurydice that he unthinkingly turns around an instant too soon, either just before he reaches the threshold or when he's already crossed it but Eurydice is still a few steps behind him. In this scenario, it isn't a personal flaw that makes him look back, but just a moment of passion-fueled carelessness, and the fact that it costs him Eurydice shows the pitilessness of the Underworld.
In other versions, concern for Eurydice makes him look back. Sometimes he looks back because the upward path is steep and rocky, and Eurydice is still limping from her snakebite, so he knows she must be struggling, in some versions he even hears her stumble, and he finally can't resist turning around to help her. Or more cruelly, in other versions – for example, in Gluck's opera – Eurydice doesn't know that Orpheus is forbidden to look back at her, and Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her. So she's distraught that her husband seems to be coldly ignoring her and begs him to look at her until he can't bear her anguish anymore.
These versions highlight the harshness of the Underworld's law, and Orpheus's failure to comply with it seems natural and even inevitable. The message here seems to be that death is pitiless and irreversible: a demigod hero might come close to conquering it, but through little or no fault of his own, he's bound to fail in the end.
Another interpretation I've read is that Orpheus's backward glance represents the nature of grief. We can't help but look back on our memories of our dead loved ones, even though it means feeling the pain of loss all over again.
Then there's the interpretation that Orpheus chooses his memory of Eurydice, represented by the backward glance, rather than a future with a living Eurydice. "The poet's choice," as Portrait of a Lady on Fire puts it. In this reading, Orpheus looks back because he realizes he would rather preserve his memory of their youthful, blissful love, just as it was when she died, than face a future of growing older, the difficulties of married life, and the possibility that their love will fade. That's the slightly more sympathetic version. In the version that makes Orpheus more egotistical, he prefers the idealized memory to the real woman because the memory is entirely his possession, in a way that a living wife with her own will could never be, and will never distract him from his music, but can only inspire it.
Then there are the modern feminist interpretations, also alluded to in Portrait of a Lady on Fire but seen in several female-authored adaptations of the myth too, where Eurydice provokes Orpheus into looking back because she wants to stay in the Underworld. The viewpoint kinder to Orpheus is that Eurydice also wants to preserve their love just as it was, youthful, passionate, and blissful, rather than subject it to the ravages of time and the hardships of life. The variation less sympathetic to Orpheus is that Euyridice was at peace in death, in some versions she drank from the river Lethe and doesn't even remember Orpheus, his attempt to take her back is selfish, and she prefers to be her own free woman than be bound to him forever and literally only live for his sake.
With that interpretation in mind, I'm surprised I've never read yet another variation. I can imagine a version where, as Orpheus walks up the path toward the living world, he realizes he's being selfish: Eurydice was happy and at peace in the Elysian Fields, she doesn't even remember him because she drank from Lethe, and she's only following him now because Hades and Persephone have forced her to do so. So he finally looks back out of selfless love, to let her go. Maybe I should write this retelling myself.
Are any of these interpretations – or any others – the "true" or "definitive" reason why Orpheus looks back? I don't think so at all. The fact that they all exist and can all ring true says something valuable about the nature of mythology.
THIS SO FUCKING COOL!!!
I turn to Ares.
Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK
⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon
Finally something with this guy! I LOVE IT!!!
Alabaster in a dumb little dog onesie… maybe? If I ask very nicely? Pretty please?
Since you asked nicely 😌
The magic boy ✨✨🪄🪄 THE MAGIC SON✨✨✨
Sock lore🧦: This guy has owned like only three pairs of socks his entire life. He claims he doesn’t need any since he can just repair them with magic if they get worn out. These specific ones he stole from Ethan (who had enough of it and had thrown Al’s socks away).
Ahhhhhhhh i can't wait for it!!!
HOW IS JAY RELEASING NEW SAGAS SO FAST????
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M GOING TO HEAR APOLLO'S PART IN GOD GAMES IN 3 WEEKS?????
WHAT IS HAPPENING?????
HELLO??????
Here,
