#aeetes

I like having my Helios design just be the literal sun and nothing more

Helios: Father of Sorcerers.

• The Ultimate Subversion: A brilliant, agency-driven twist on the classic tragedy that avoids the tired "victim narrative."

The "subversion" is simply that Jason is arrogant, stupid and took credit from Medea the girlboss 🙄

• A Ruthless Anti-Heroine: A morally gray protagonist who wields her dark magic and intellect as weapons of survival.

Jason, Aeetes or just men in general will be described as the worst and dumbest people ever so our Mary Sue- I mean protagonist Medea will look superior

Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, Costanza Casati’s Clytemnestra, and Natalie Haynes’s Stone Blind.

The myth is a lie. The fire is real. Order your copy today.

Judging from the 3 retellings used as reference, you already know how annoying this will be

Since the start of the book we have the protagonist going on a internal monologue on how men are cruel and don't appreciate her work because she's the most special there

"Beneath his palace, before my altar, I was not the girl he had fathered for alliances and lineage. I was the hand that had kept his enemies from his gates."

"You are Hecate's priestess. You are the dark mouth of Colchis. Be that, or be of no use to me."

...

"Human lives, counted with less care than amphorae of oil.

This was the law men made and then dressed in fine words. They built halls for justice over pits of bone. They praised order while slaves raised the walls."

Now I'm supposed to believe that Medea cares about slavery or human life in general? 😑

"They expected fire-breathing bulls, a sleepless serpent, a barbarian king, a witch-princess bred from night and foreign excess. Their poets had likely begun the shape of us before the ship left harbor."

Turn outs these poets were right

I really don't like this character

"There stood a giant, draped in the suffocating pelt of a lion, his unnatural, swollen musculature a mockery of the mortal form."

Weird way to describe Heracles

"A polished emptiness festered behind his golden exterior. His confidence was not born of profound understanding or endured ruin; it was the shallow arrogance of a man who fully believed the kosmos was ordered solely to serve his desires."

That's the description of Achilles, not Jason

"This was the work of Aphrodite. The work of Hera. The cowardly, meddlesome queens of the western sky, looking down from their cold marble peaks, twisting the lives of mortal women to ensure the survival of their breakable, golden heroes."

To my knowledge, that's the ONLY time such event happened. But of course she'll treat it as a universal experience

"If we were ugly, we were witches to be hunted. If we were powerful, we were monsters to be slain. If we were useful, we were cursed into submission, our brilliant minds seized to serve the story of a lesser man's glory."

People weren't hunting witches in ancient Greece

"He believed himself the golden center of the Fates' design. He believed the gods had paved his path with gold."

Let me remind you that Jason has yet to do anything to deserve such negative description

"Down on the beach, Jason tilted his face toward the sudden break in the storm. He smiled, a foolish, confident expression, undoubtedly believing the sudden clearing of the skies was a sign of divine favor."

Not ashamed to say I searched @sarafangirlart account to find this meme

Seriously look at the page. All he did was smile because a storm was over, but Medea talks as if he's a terrible person for that

"Women in his songs had likely softened at the first bend of his knee. I gave him only the dark and the roots under it."

Actually the when he visited the island of Lemnos the women there were holding weapons preparing for battle

"The hall-born hero in him strained to survive the plainness of his own end."

He was raised in a cave by the centaur Chiron, but whatever feeds your ego Medea

Now thinking about this line it would be nice to have Medea learn that just because Jason is a man, doesn't mean he was raised in privilege

But that's not going to happen because Thea Mercer isn't capable to understand such concept

"He did not see Colchis, only a barbarous edge of the world from which a useful woman might be lifted."

This Medea has such a horrible personality she would find insult in a man saying "Good Morning" to her 🙄

She assumes Jason sees her as a barbarian princess, while calling he and his friends "a brutal company" with zero self-awareness

"Marriage, marble, songs—he offered chains polished bright enough to admire."

Being part of a song isn't death sentence, stop!!

"Your marble cities are tombs. Your women are locked behind doors to weave their lives into cloth for men who inherit their breath. You would trade me one prison for another and name the second civilization."

"They are contained. Their names vanish into their husbands houses. Their bodies become fields for sons. Do not dress the bargain in the clothing of romance and expect gratitude."

If you hate life so much, jump off a cliff then. Spare us of the pain of your existence

"He did not like being corrected by a woman, much less a foreign one, but death had made him teachable."

No one likes being corrected, it has nothing to do with you being a woman

"You need only stay alive long enough to claim credit.

A flush crossed his face. Even frightened, he heard the insult."

This book is 300 pages of Medea having terrible attitude towards everyone around her, while still claiming she's the victim and that men should kiss the ground she walks on

And blond Aeëtes

And blonde Circe