Great Work As Always @genericpuff

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Hey man can u not do that

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Cool, I LOVE how the idea is the Mario bros being in the 1930s

Life Story

Belle Concept art three

"Belle"- collection of concept art from "The Man Who Leapt Through Film" - part 2

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in my opinion, many modern greek retellings/stories inspired by greek mythology don't fail because they're inaccurate. they fail because they have nothing new to say.

i don't mind changes to the original myths, as long as they make sense and they have a narrative purpose! i understand that making changes is sometimes necessary to convey a certain narrative, especially to modern audiences.

is epic the musical mythologically accurate? hell no! but the changes serve to tell a specific story and to convey a certain message. also, epic the musical is self aware about its "inaccuracies". and the music just bangs.

is hadestown accurate? no! does it make the change that I always dread, removing the kidnapping from the hades/persephone myth? yeah. but hadestown is barely about them, and it uses greek mythology as a "narrative frame" to tell a certain story. it has a point. it has a message.

what are stories like lore olympus trying to say? what is the messagge of the hundredth persephone/hades retelling? what are we supposed to take from them? "don't listen to your mother she's a bitch"? "mothers are irrational and you should forsake her for a man"? very feminist.

why are we still doing the medusa "feminist" retellings? it's BEEN done. too many times. and they're ALL the same. it's a worse crime than being bad: they are boring.

i'm tired of retellings that are just "what if this very famous story was THE OPPOSITE and the protagonist was an ASSHOLE the whole time and the villain was MISUNDERSTOOD and the real VICTIM" okay but why. why would that be the case. what's the point of the story you want to tell. or do you just want to use shock value.

of course, i dislike retellings that are so different from the myth that they go AGAINST the spirit/message of the original, because in that case what's even the point of retelling the myth? just tell an original story. but i would take stabbed poseidon and capitalist hades any day over the same basic story of medusa being a girlboss or demeter being bad because of... reasons?

tl;dr: stop being unoriginal and tell a good story. or at least an entertaining one. i beg you

Watercolor Flower

I wanted to try something different from my usually palette of Melancholic blues.

This is my favorite comic

I kept thinking about how Moon was programmed...

I'm was reminded of little nightmares when I saw this

Where have you buried all the children?

I love their dynamic.

The pig in princess clothing 

Once upon a time there was a pig who was shunned by all. Not wanting to face the truth she made a fantasy world where she was a princess who had everything their heart desired. 

Her parents who neglected all of this only encouraged her thinking that this would help their reputation.

They whispered pretty lies coated with sickening sweet honey dripping on every sentence, they used her delusions to fuel their writing.

The only one who cared about her was the Pig princess's handmaiden…but she soon disappeared

For the Pig's envy did more harm than good. 

Wanting to save their own skin they sent the princess packing to a school far away

Now facing the truth of her situation the Pig had no choice but to pay for her misdeeds

She still has her delusions sometimes. But they're not as strong as they used to be.