#hope You Are Doing Well #sincerely, Fellow Glasses Wearer

A Wolf Among the Roses

so yeah that fire in Lahaina, Maui? That was what indigenous activists were trying to prevent. That is why Land Back movements wants indigenous people to be the stewards of the land that was once theirs. Not kick out white people and settlers. But to prevent shit like that where a bunch of tourists/settlers won't destroy the planet in their ruthless pursuit of productivity and profit. So yeah, think on that.

there’s…so much to unpack here, it’s atrocious.

sorry to break it to them, but Nasrallah was a butcher and a terrorist in the most obvious definition of the word, and Hezbollah is a terrorist organization by every definition of that term, and that would remain true even if they had never fired a single rocket at Israel, because of all the other lives they’ve destroyed and helped to kill. I know these people are so lost in the Jew hatred that up is down and left is right, but I continue to be astounded at how little the other innocent lives of the region - across ethnicities, religions, and nationalities - mean to any of them. the betrayal of Syrians and Iranians is particularly galling here.

“I stand with the axis of resistance.” lady are you for real right now? you stand with the Islamic Republic and its proxies? is this idiocy, extreme white saviorism and Western privilege, what is going on

the Nazi flag on the TOTE BAG, that’s not even a SIGN, it’s a bag that had to be painted (printed? can’t tell) to include that.

the Marilyn Monroe sign is vile in so many ways, and I don’t know if they used her on purpose to take a jab at her conversion, or if they just thought they were being clever juxtaposing her with a serial abuser who grossly stole her name, idolizes and is obsessed with Nazi symbols and propaganda and associates with Neo-Nazis, but whatever the case, it’s repulsive. keep her name out of your mouths and her face off of your hate signs.

the rat is just unambiguous antisemitic imagery

the flag where the Magen David is a swastika but is also crossed out?

always incredible to see ancient medieval blood libel and Protocols of the Elders of Zion propaganda coexisting in the exact same rally. really proves the dedication to the cause to invoke the exact same worn out tropes that got Jews persecuted and slaughtered for centuries.

thanks for providing the illustrative examples yet again, London.

Appreciation for GREEN Fashion in TV & Film: The Ten Commandments (1956) | The Handmaiden (2016) | Showboat (1951) | Sailor Moon (1992) | Artists & Models (1955) | Nope (2022) | Singing in the Rain (1952) | The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) | American Horror Story: Hotel (2015) | Princess of the Nile (1954) | Attack on Titan (2013) | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) | Batman Forever (1995) | The Belle of New York (1952) | Gone with the Wind (1939) | Britney Spears Billboard Awards (2001) | Gossip Girl (2007) | Barbarella (1968) | What a Way to Go (1964) | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) | Devdas (2002) | Down to Earth (1947) | Avatar the Last Airbender (2005) | Hello Frisco, Hello (1943) | Legally Blonde (2001) | Batman & Robin (1997) | The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) | Bring it On (2000) | EMMA. (2020)

im still kind of in disbelief that that the internet like...turned on lore olympus. i get the whole "once something is popular people make it their personality to hate something", and the "incredibly online people make age gap discourse about immortal gods bc they need to touch grass," and you're certainly not obligated to like it, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but like. it is a genuinely good comic. its issues are no worse than like, most serialized web comics that have to struggle with the medium, and its art style is engaging and interesting, and has improved a lot over time. i know there was a very t*rf-led movement on here a LONG time ago starting discourse about greek myths to get crypto t*rf shit about femininity across and i know thats where some critiques come from. and it's weird that many criticisms of "modern retellings" get blamed on lore olympus bc it doesnt actually follow them - like, demeter isnt some crazy bitch, she's a character with complexity and depth.

yes the original intent of the story is changed, a story that women in ancient times could relate to about the fears of marriage, but LO actually does what modern retellings of old stories do best - modify a story to serve a similar purpose, but reflecting the modern audience's contemporary issues. in this case, embracing the complexities of love and marriage as a survivor of sexual assault, something many modern women struggle with. persephone's relationship with demeter ALSO reflects a very real struggle many modern young women have, of finding identity and sexual agency as an adult when your entire life has been controlled by a helicopter mother, even with the best intentions, and with her own trauma.

i also find the criticisms of the body types and sexuality often misogynistic and weird - people want things with a distinct, interesting style, they want women with sexual agency to be promoted and not sanitized, and yet LO gets over-criticized. how persephone dresses, how the other gods dress, changes a lot depending on level of confidence, mood, etc, and is a part of the storytelling in an interesting way. you don't have to like it, and i know there's jokes about the LO art style of drawing women, but i have a body like some of those bodies. i know other people who do, or at least similarly. it's not like a lot of comics or manga or anime where everyone is a stick, and they get to be sexy! it's nice!

and when people complain that its the only webcomic people read well then thats a YOU problem. i read a LOT of webcomics. i talk about them to people, i recommend them. romantic and otherwise. do you? do you spend as much time complaining about lore olympus as you do talking up other cool webcomics that deserve attention?

It feels like we have this conversation every single time someone is murdered by the police, where there are well-intentioned but still very self-centered leftists insisting that photos and videos of the victim's murder and body be spread to "raise awareness" while the victim's actual loved ones and community desperately plead with the world to stop spreading that shit. It's exhausting and I don't understand why it keeps happening, why we need to go over this every single damn time, why we as a society are incapable of not turning someone's last horrific and painful moments into something to gawk at.

Because I like to multi-task, I've finished Scavenger's Reign while drawing my cringe hotd fan art. Beautiful. Delicious. Finally some good fucking creature design.

Also something about the animated body horror is sooo..

Dan Stevens in the 3rd act -