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pearl AU - no stealing or reposting

I can't draw backgrounds and it shows

i agree poppy can have flaws and branch wasn't so nice either that's why i love the first movie they both find themselves within each other and it was cute and i liked the ship

UNTIL they made the other movies and shows the new movies and shows were good sure but they just completely ruin her character id continue on but that's just to much to write for me, poppy has her good moments but other than that i hate her character

and yeah Shes supposed to be in the wrong but it really doesn't feel like that every movie is the same poppy makes a decision branch doesn't like and he tells her this could go bad poppy doesn't listen and then things go bad branch gets upset with poppy and poppy gets upset Aswell she then goes to him apologizing realizing Shes wrong and that she'll do better BUT SHE NEVER DOES ALL HER CHARACTER DEVELOPEMT JUST DISAPPERS AND SHES BACK TO WHERE SHE BEGAN

i actually hate this ship so much

sure poppy was like the only nice troll to branch and helped him find his color but shes such a bitch later on???

with every new hyperfixtion comes a new ship

based off a conversation with my friend (who plays skrimbleshanks)

crazier then you

redraw

Cabaret Au -don’t steal or repost

dialogue might not be very accurate I don't Rember the script that well

marks are what money is called in Germany

More big mouth

just so yall know there are shower curtains made for your phone to be put in

hold on hold on wait a minute

isnt katelyn like.... canonically bisexual..????

pride stuff FOR MEE

this is the fridge of this old women

THANK YOU!!! i may be a fan of lore Olympus but i can totally see where you're coming from and I'm so tired of people hating this comic and just saying "the art is bad" you actually go in DEPTH about what was wrong

The real-world impact of Lore Olympus

i.e. do your research Rachel

Trigger warning: racism, fetishization, appropriation, mentions of SA

Long post ahead

A while ago, someone told me that Lore Olympus was just a silly little comic written out of boredom. That it was made to be "funny". They told me that "[I] can't hope [for] an extremely [well-written] story when it was just made with the intention to make something goofy" and that if Rachel actually wanted to make something serious like I had, she would write a book and not a comic.

At the time of this exchange, it was past 1 a.m. and I was exhausted. I did not want to argue with this person and it simply wasn't worth my time or energy in the moment.

But looking back at that (mostly one-sided) interaction, I can't help but think that there is so much wrong with that point of view. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion about Lore Olympus, whether good or bad. But Lore Olympus isn't just some silly little nothing comic about nothing important. It is a comic that actively appropriates and erases Greek Culture. It is a comic that has no respect for the actual stories that have been passed down over thousands of years whether by word of mouth or written text. It is a comic that perpetuates a false narrative and harmful stereotypes about characters or certain groups of people. So, no, it's not just a silly little comic.

Incorrect information

Here’s an example of what I mean:

When I was doing research for my post about the 10 year time skip, I looked up Leuce to reconfirm the little information I knew about her. Wanna guess the first thing that popped up about her?

A Lore Olympus Wiki article.

Okay. How about Minthe? Hundreds of pictures of her from Lore Olympus and a LO Wiki article as one of the top 3 results. Both character are horribly represented in LO and unfortunately there isn’t really any documented stories or records that can refute how LO paints them. Because of this, other characters in Greek Mythology like Leuce and Minthe, whose stories have little to no documentation, stand to suffer the most harm from deliberate misrepresentation on Rachel’s part.

Of course well-known and better documented figures in Greek mythology face slander as well. What about Thetis or Leto? How about Apollo? All of their portrayals in LO are HORRIBLE. I have seen people online absolutely drag them to filth not because they're upset about how the character is portrayed compared to their mythological counterpart, but because they have no knowledge of how they are actually portrayed outside of LO. They just assume that's how the characters are. Similarly, people who have either very little or no prior knowledge of Greek Mythology and Culture would look at the comic and go "Yep, sounds legit. It must be true." and go about thinking that what is portrayed in LO is accurate to what was transcribed thousands of years ago.

Creative interpretations and racism/fetishization within LO

Don’t get me wrong. Creative interpretations and artistic liberties can be great. When they’re done tastefully. I personally think if done correctly, a Greek myth spun in a modern way has the potential be very good. But that's not what we were given.

Characters like Minthe, Leuce, and Thetis (all nymphs btw) are portrayed as trashy tramps who put out and are used as a foil sabotage Persephone and/or her relationship with Hades. Compare that to Greek Mythology where in the Iliad, Thetis is very well-respected by the gods, particularly Hera. Unfortunately, other similar characters like satrys (and basically any character that isn’t a god) are usually portrayed as a low-class POC that can be easily exploited, manipulated, or used as a temporary villain/lover/pawn to “get back” at Persephone, our white-coded protagonist who can do no wrong.

Additionally, there is a clear race/class bias against characters like nymphs in LO. We see many cases scattered throughout the comic of gods like Hera or Aphrodite referring to nymphs as "trash" or "low class" or the idea that nymphs do not belong with gods being heavily implied if not outright said. I cannot tell you how often I've seen Minthe be called some variant of "cheap" by the readers of LO. Even Persephone (who created the flower nymphs) treats them with such disrespect. She frequently calls them some variant of "stupid" or "simple" like saying how they're not the sharpest crayons in the box even though she's the one WHO MADE THEM. However, it's so odd not really to note that nymphs like Echo, Amphitrite, or Psyche (who was previously disguised as a nymph) are not discriminated against. This is because they are liked or trusted by the gods they are around and ergo are often portrayed as the "good ones", which is a disgusting mindset to have.

We also see the fetishization of nymphs in the comic that is disturbingly similar to the fetishization of women who are Black, Asian, or Latina. It is a known fact that Hades has a flower nymph fetish. Not only is this implied in the comic, but Rachel stated it outright in an old Patreon post. Nymphs are also generally treated as sex-symbols, disposable, and as a lesser-than. Zeus frequently displays this behavior by abandoning nymphs he knocked up in the mortal realm.

For example, when Persephone finds out Apollo is dating Daphne, she isn't upset he's dating her friend. She's upset he's dating a flower nymph, beings that are generally considered to be "rare", "dumb", and objects of sexual desire. Ew.

Even on the Lore Olympus website (loreolympians.com) nymphs are regarded as "beautiful", "desirable", and "very exotic". And when they're not described in a sexual manner they're say it with me now regarded as "low class" or "workers" for some kind of god/goddess.

Final thoughts

So not only is the characterization of characters like Minthe or Thetis harmful to Greek culture and the stories that are so ingrained in their society, but it is also perpetuating harmful stereotypes about people of color and women who are confident in their sexuality.

Of course, the characters within Greek Mythology had their own issues. Zeus was a serial rapist, many of the goddesses deemed to be "feminist" by today's standards were actually horribly misogynistic looking at you Athena. But 1. that's just how things were back then (but that does not make it right) and 2. all of the good, the bad, and the ugly is still there in Greek Mythology. They're not denying how fucked up it is, but they're also not changing their history to better fit their own narrative or the narrative of the modern world. It exists, it happened, but now it is studied and called out by historians.

Rachel, on the other hand, is doing exactly that. She is actively changing the Greek's cultural history to better fit her fic's narrative. She is constantly sweeping things under the rug or going "No this is how it ACTUALLY happened". Lore Olympus is marketed as a "feminist retelling" yet somehow, it takes allllll the ugly parts from Greek Mythology (rape, incest, problematic age gaps, dubious consent, etc.), mixes it with a majority of the issues we have in the modern world (white feminism, rape-apologists/rape culture, grooming, fetishization of certain minority groups, etc.) and then amplifies the concoction to 20. Lore Olympus cannot be a "progressive, feminist, retelling" and also have characters that are morally apprehensive/come straight from the ancient myths. It does not work. In fact, IMO it makes all the problems from both eras worse.

News flash: actual cultures that are still thriving today are not your toys. They are not "made up". They matter. Do better.

It’s not even that bad y’all act like Rachael committed a war crime for making this

I also hate peoples who make fun of art bcs they don’t like the creator or the art isn’t “perfect” yeah Rachel’s art isn’t perfect but it’s not horrible if a younger artist who saw this art and thought it was good could hear how people hate it could make them feel more insecure about they’re art since they can’t do something like that.

Also its not supposed to be completely the same as mythology this is Racheal's own take its not supposed to be the perfect representation of Greek mythology so stop bringing it in the argument

I love both minthe and hades so much glad they’re in a better place

They literally get therapy bcs they want there relationship to be mended bcs they love each other

If you ship this your a proshiper sorry I don’t make the rules 

I love you all I will not judge on your ethnicity it’s not your fault what’s happening

btw when I say this I don't support them the same right now I'm focused on the Palestinians bcs the Israels are pretty fucking fine(minus the hostages) so I'm not worried about them but Palestinians have lost so many people(not saying the people who died on the 7th are less important) and there STILL losing people if you fully support isreal while there all fine and dandy and safe right now than wtf are you doing

Google Play search for E-Play free music software

nu uh

hdfhbshvshfvhsvf your art is so yummy looking!!!!

My Thor and Loki digital paintings from earlier this year. I was super captivated by the Norse mythology book with illustrations by Sara Richard at the time (and still am tbh). Modern interpretation of myth is so fun to me

Odin needs to leave Loki alone 😭

Y’all know who gave him the flowers

 loki is struggling

Loki has an undercut fr

Mobius thinking about Loki

Loki as soon as he finds a way to visit Mobius

mobius after capturing loki

Loki and mobius

needed to be said

people who make AUS of them being happy just cant wrap there head around the fact men can be abused TOO. If stella was being absued people wouldnt make post saying “stolas had so much potential viv ruined his character!!” No they would immediately hate stolas 💀, Stella never had potential she was abusive from the start we saw her in the pilot for 2 seconds and she was just sipping tea what potential are you talking about💀😭?? The pilots not even canon anymore either

@gluedwithgold

i cant reply but people who say, "its an AU it doesn't matter then!!" is the same thing people use to ship pedophile and incest so maybe you wanna rethink that

human art of phen 228 and locust

phen-228 has the amputee flag and locust has the non-binary flag

i actually hate this ship so much

sure poppy was like the only nice troll to branch and helped him find his color but shes such a bitch later on???

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art for moth with a blog

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