don't stop moving to the funky funky beat

"ooouuugh the masculine urge to die poignantly on a medieval battlefield" You Are Getting Cholera On The March And Shitting Yourself To Death

Greek myth retellings have this weird conflict of like. Trying to 1. Adjust them to modern progressive values, when they were written in the sociocultural context of an ancient society that simply Wasn't a Liberal Utopia. Which leads into 2. The marketable urge to make everything an escapist fantasy, especially for women & queer people, when a lot of these stories are like. Sexually violent and it's kind of the point and you lose a lot when you make it Not be about sexual violence. Consent Persephone comes to mind but this keeps happening

And what really makes Me crazy is that Bad Things Happening doesn't preclude a story from being #empowering & I dare say it would be more meaningful from that angle. But whatever. Persephone Consensuaia is something of a modern folk figure representing kind of nothing

From the queerness angle, I understand finding comfort in the knowledge we have always been here, that's a lot of what drew me to greek myths as a teenager, However . We can have some nuance here. Like, pederasty is maybe Not It. A lot of greco-roman homoeroticism is tinted through the lens of a misogynistic social context. Etc etc. I'm not #cancelling greek mythology I just think we can Think about it harder. Sanitizing it to fit our own modern sociocultural context feels .... WEIRD? Also you end up stumbling ass backwards into More Misogyny a lot when you do this (i.e. what a lot of you are doing to Demeter when you make Persephone into a disney princess. If she's to be Feministly rescued by a man, she must need a wicked mother, no?)

You FAILED! [You stole fizzy lifting drinks] Your feminist Persephone retelling follows the disney princess formula! You LOSE

Everyone needs three hobbies: one to give you carpel tunnel, one to leave you sore and bruised, and one for your distant relatives to insist you monetize

I’ve faced a lot of nasty art blocks over my years as an artist but none so detrimental as Going To Work

and the PROBLEM IS. the PROBLEM is that with other art blocks I can tell myself. oh it’s hard now but time will pass and I will heal from whatever mental or emotional block that’s causing this eventually. but WORK? A Forever Problem. There is no waiting-out Job. Having Job is eternal. Time does not heal Being At Work. Sand is always in our eyes forever