I had to do smth quick just to prove i still can draw 🥲 (had an hour and was under a lot of pressure)

I call this “Gaoshun doesn’t get paid enough”

A heartbreaking representation of Gaoshun's daily suffering.

Please send this man some help 🥺

Consequence

Dorian being pathetic >>>>>

Ooooooooo 🤩. The sillies !

(the fact that both of my newest HMC reblogs are JinMao related lmao)

I just really love how happy this piece is lol

Since a lot of my art is more… idk? It doesn’t focus a lot on interaction as a moment in time which is something I really wanted to work on. Since I have more time since school ended it felt like a good time! And of course it’s Dionysos and Ariadne :)

Mettaton May 2024 Day 25 - AU

Atalanta retelling (review)

Since it's divided in multiple parts, I'll divide this review according to those parts.

Here is a prediction bingo I created out of my and my moots' predictions, I'd like to thank @gingermintpepper , @go-rocksquadsfan , @amostcuriousmythicist , @just-1-scorpio , @jejesoso and @margaretkart (in dms) for giving me the ideas.

Note that not all of these predictions are necessarily negative, but pretty obvious for the genre. The free spaces are for "Stuff I should've seen coming"

Since I made it AFTER reading the first part, I'll be nice and only start counting their realization in the next ones. Although I could already be crossing :

Part 1 - Childhood

Okay, here is part 2 !!

So, like I said in my now deleted post (R.I.P), this second part left me with different tastes in my mouth, even more than a few hours ago.

Let's just say that it really sucks to have what could be a good retelling be held back by a few glaring flaws. Btw quick reminder : this is just my opinion and my experience, I'm not a literary critic, don't take my words as the truth. And I won't say anything against the author, just reviewing her book.

Btw, if it was an object, it would be a rollercoaster 🎢. Because there are cool highs but lows that rub me the wrong way.

Here's the bingo, btw. (Green = well handled. Orange = neutral. Red = ugh 😩)

I changed the Ares thing because it's not that interesting (though his lil role in the myth is super neat) and replaced a mistake that @jejesoso pointed out.

Also, there WAS a healing scene but it was setting up the friendship, not romance (also they were kids), and Atalanta was just bitten by a snake. But who knows ? @gingermintpepper could be right and there WILL be a battle before a romantic healing scene later on.

Part 2 - Chiron

Since I'm kinda dumb and wanted to ramble really bad, I forgot to include a summary lmao 😂.

Here's what happened:

Watching Royal Ballet and going "yes that's something Dionysus and Ariadne would wear"

After experiencing the rollercoaster of the Atalanta retelling, this beautiful art is a breath of fresh air !

(lmao Pentheus 😂)

Atalanta retelling (review)

Since it's divided in multiple parts, I'll divide this review according to those parts.

Here is a prediction bingo I created out of my and my moots' predictions, I'd like to thank @gingermintpepper , @go-rocksquadsfan , @amostcuriousmythicist , @just-1-scorpio , @jejesoso and @margaretkart (in dms) for giving me the ideas.

Note that not all of these predictions are necessarily negative, but pretty obvious for the genre. The free spaces are for "Stuff I should've seen coming"

Since I made it AFTER reading the first part, I'll be nice and only start counting their realization in the next ones. Although I could already be crossing :

Part 1 - Childhood

Okay, here is part 2 !!

So, like I said in my now deleted post (R.I.P), this second part left me with different tastes in my mouth, even more than a few hours ago.

Let's just say that it really sucks to have what could be a good retelling be held back by a few glaring flaws. Btw quick reminder : this is just my opinion and my experience, I'm not a literary critic, don't take my words as the truth. And I won't say anything against the author, just reviewing her book.

Btw, if it was an object, it would be a rollercoaster 🎢. Because there are cool highs but lows that rub me the wrong way.

Here's the bingo, btw. (Green = well handled. Orange = neutral. Red = ugh 😩)

I changed the Ares thing because it's not that interesting (though his lil role in the myth is super neat) and replaced a mistake that @jejesoso pointed out.

Also, there WAS a healing scene but it was setting up the friendship, not romance (also they were kids), and Atalanta was just bitten by a snake. But who knows ? @gingermintpepper could be right and there WILL be a battle before a romantic healing scene later on.

Edit : since no one reblogged yet, I can add that the summary is on my next reblog, if you want to have the slightest idea on what's going on. I forgot to include it earlier 😅

Part 2 - Chiron

I'm reading the cure inscriptions of Epidaurus and some of these stories are just so funny.

Asclepius is a very funny man with zero self-restraint and I LOVE it. He heals people, he gets the job done but really in the way he wants, usually not the conventional one.

He involves a bunch of animals, comes to people with the weirdest visions possible and if he's not happy he straight up takes everything back because how dare you.

And here is Asclepius continuing to resurrect the dead again despite the fact that he was killed for it (and the fact that this has more than one source shows how important this story is. Asclepius is a recidivist)

And here's him being sassy

I love how eccentric this guy is.

@gingermintpepper

Reblogging this again because this is how I want adult Asclepius to be characterized in retellings (yes, by that I mean the Atalanta book).

The excuse that "there isn't any source where he has a personality" isn't valid purely because these inscriptions exist. If he's a main character in a retelling, the author's research should 100% have reached those.

Yeah he's nice, he heals people, he's friendly and that's also an important part that shouldn't be ignored. However he isn't a shy softie. He often uses kinda funky weird methods, demands the minimum of recognition from this patients otherwise he just makes everything go back to the starting point and is annoyed when subordinate doctors mess up an operation (tbf the patient ended up killed by their mistake).

And again, he still resurrects the dead even after the whole debacle. The nerve this man has ! Incredible

And his enemies ? According to that one Apollodorus source, he has already used the poisonous side of the gorgon blood to "take care" of them 🤣

CANNOT BELIEVE I DIDN'T RESPOND TO THIS EARLIER but yeah, dude, the Epidarus inscriptions are literally some of the funniest shit imaginable. Especially because it completely kills the concept of Asclepius being this paragon of goodness just because he is a good man.

He's goofy and charismatic, cheeky and eccentric. He has good humour but gets irritated easily by people who doubt and people who complain. The same features that make him a good doctor are probably what make him a good father too!

Just, ahhhh, he's so rich with personality and foibles and it makes him such a perfect character to adapt!! So many traits to choose from!!!

Well, from the few things I saw of him in part 1, he's shown as a brat who looks like a cutie pie (aka mini Apollo), which COULD be a good thing if as an adult, he matures into the kind of man he is in the inscriptions. Also, at this time, Chiron still teaches him ethics and raises him, so there's quite a chance he won't stay as grumpy.

I also kinda hope that if he's mischaracterized (which isn't impossible unfortunately), it's at least in an interesting way so I'll get to laugh and complain a lot 🤣🤣.

If he ends up being the "generic broody love interest with daddy issues", it's a terrible approach, I hate it, but it's some fuel for lots of rambling material.

But yeah, Asclepius in the Epidaurian inscriptions is an absolute icon and I bless whoever engraved them 🙏. In the myths he's super cool in general but now we have more silly anecdotes to accompany the compelling myth and give us insight on how he was perceived in the culture.

(and you bet that if I write that one story of him I have in my head, I'll 100000% pull inspiration from those inscriptions)

I'm reading the cure inscriptions of Epidaurus and some of these stories are just so funny.

Asclepius is a very funny man with zero self-restraint and I LOVE it. He heals people, he gets the job done but really in the way he wants, usually not the conventional one.

He involves a bunch of animals, comes to people with the weirdest visions possible and if he's not happy he straight up takes everything back because how dare you.

And here is Asclepius continuing to resurrect the dead again despite the fact that he was killed for it (and the fact that this has more than one source shows how important this story is. Asclepius is a recidivist)

And here's him being sassy

I love how eccentric this guy is.

@gingermintpepper

Reblogging this again because this is how I want adult Asclepius to be characterized in retellings (yes, by that I mean the Atalanta book).

The excuse that "there isn't any source where he has a personality" isn't valid purely because these inscriptions exist. If he's a main character in a retelling, the author's research should 100% have reached those.

Yeah he's nice, he heals people, he's friendly and that's also an important part that shouldn't be ignored. However he isn't a shy softie. He often uses kinda funky weird methods, demands the minimum of recognition from this patients otherwise he just makes everything go back to the starting point and is annoyed when subordinate doctors mess up an operation (tbf the patient ended up killed by their mistake).

And again, he still resurrects the dead even after the whole debacle. The nerve this man has ! Incredible

And his enemies ? According to that one Apollodorus source, he has already used the poisonous side of the gorgon blood to "take care" of them 🤣

Atalanta retelling (review)

Since it's divided in multiple parts, I'll divide this review according to those parts.

Here is a prediction bingo I created out of my and my moots' predictions, I'd like to thank @gingermintpepper , @go-rocksquadsfan , @amostcuriousmythicist , @just-1-scorpio , @jejesoso and @margaretkart (in dms) for giving me the ideas.

Note that not all of these predictions are necessarily negative, but pretty obvious for the genre. The free spaces are for "Stuff I should've seen coming"

Since I made it AFTER reading the first part, I'll be nice and only start counting their realization in the next ones. Although I could already be crossing :

Part 1 - Childhood

In response to the tags in Ginger's reblog :

Ikrrrrr.

Like I was digging for big flaws before realizing: "wait, it's ok ? Atalanta is cute and decent (although not very complex but it's ok since it's the beginning) ? The plot is 'plot-ing' ? There are actual neat connections to the myths ?"

Though I fear that how Asclepius will be handled can completely ruin any good will the decent beginning made me want to show 🤣.

Seriously, if the author removed 3-4 plot points and wrote this part in isolation, it would have been pretty neat and I would've apologized.

Unfortunately, I'm only at 1/10th of the book so I may change my mind later on 💀

Yes, my comment is yet another distraction so you don't have to end Alcestis.

Also, your point with Artemis is very relevant (I forgot about poor Hippolytus !!) and makes the "fond of the Amazons" thingy go in the positive section from now on 😁. It's this kind of slight "liberty" with actual basis that I should really appreciate more, because it's interesting to follow on, instead of crackships (like the future main pairing) or demonizing gods.