Somewhere in the woods

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I know Caine had a great ephiany but I like to think his feelings are super complicated about the Blue AI, eating essientally what is your brother is CRAZY but being replaced must of felt just as bad to Caine and right before dude was boxed for god knows how long while they worked on blue.

Quick doodle of Caine having a mugshot taken after shoplifiting from the latest chapter of @crimes-wears-goggles fic Small gods because HOW could I not.

I feel like people get so distracted by the tragedy and the love stories (typical allos 😝) that they don’t see there was deliberately a hopeful result of Orpheus’ trip to Hadestown. This is something not part of the original myth, an intentional expansion of the story for this adaptation.

True, Orpheus failed in his central goal, which was to bring Eurydice back from the dead. But by just TRYING to do that, there were unintended positive consequences. The workers started to wake up and question the justice of the system they were working for. And Hades and Persephone seem to start to come to a new understanding, a possible mending of their relationship.

Of course we don’t know the full ramifications. Maybe the workers rise up, maybe not. Maybe Hades stops coming early for Persephone, maybe not. But the potential is there, and in that potential I see a central hopeful message in the story.

Most of the critical complaints have been about the tone; in a review from 2005, Professor Victoria of Spagonia University said, "The constant self-aggrandizement undercuts the idea that its subject ought to be taken seriously. Also, wasn't the 'feminist' line from the Sonic Heroes manual a mistranslation of 'womanizer'?"

The Riker Manuever in "The Last Frontier"