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I got an urge to reread the Theban plays because Antigone is my fave thing of all time. Thing is, I first read these when I was like sixteen and dumb. Reading it older? It's unintentionally hilarious.
Oedipus Rex has had me laughing more than it probably should given it's a tragedy. Freaking Creon essentially saying, "Bro, I don't want your job or I'd have to do actual work," just made me lose it.
Man, I love these plays even more now.
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My thoughts have been diverted after seeing a post talking about reader-inserts always being romance (nothing wrong with that) and now I'm thinking about a reader insert that focuses on a sibling relationship between the reader and Suguru, who is their brother, inspired by the Greek tragedy Antigone. Like the exchange from that particular translation/writing of it that goes:
"Polynices was a rebel and a traitor and you know it."
"He was my brother."
Obviously it would differ quite a bit. But, the whole theme of restless spirits and the importance of funeral rites being such a literal concern because of Kenjaku's freaky self adds to the tension, imo. And I really love unsanitized greek mythology as inspo.
P.s, I'm still writing sukuna and cannibalism
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HI SERP!
I like Sukuna having a platonic relationship with reader. One of my wips is precisely a parental relationship with him, and there are others that won't be disclosed this year because I can't affor anyone telling me they want that shit and making me want to start them yay
And oh, I went after to read a bit about Antigone because I remember not too much of the greek mythology aside from the ones I was insane about and the funny ones (a lot of them are stupid funny)
Prior to the beginning of the play, the brothers Eteocles and Polynices, leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes and brother of the former Queen Jocasta, has decided that Eteocles will be honored and Polynices will be in public shame. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites and will lie unburied on the battlefield, prey for carrion animals, the harshest punishment at the time. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead Polynices and Eteocles. In the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the palace gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polynices' body, in defiance of Creon's edict, as the Greeks believed that the omission of proper burial rights is an insult to human dignity. Ismene refuses to help her, not believing that it will actually be possible to bury their brother, who is under guard, but she is unable to stop Antigone from going to bury her brother herself.
yeah no definitely wanna do shit with this and Kenjaku's ass desecrating Suguru's body. Also it's greek mythology and Queen fucking Jocasta and Oedipus are there, you know I can insert terrible layers of incest in this to make it even worse, right? With Kenjaku specifically puppeteering Suguru's body. (i'm so sorry serpent I love the horrors)
I'm still here sat down waiting for your papers on my table.
instead of helping me with translation and grammar, my mum would have me memorise the ancient texts, whatever we were studying in school at the time, and as a result i still remember this random verse of creon and whenever i get anxious i recite it to myself to calm down.
Films i watched pt.2
"Now what was left of the ships of the retreating army would be disappearing over the thin line where the sea met the sky; now the smoke of last night's fires was clearing where the still-alive humans below had buried and burnt their dead. They were mostly the female kind. The female kind did the sorting-out afterwards. They worked their way through the rubble and the debris. Hunched and wingless, they wheeled their broken-yoked handcarts along what was left of the roads. It was nothing new. The crow had seen it all before." - Ali Smith, The Story of Antigone
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kreon switching to thee/thou pronouns when haimon defends antigone is so good
this exchange is so silly you'd think it came from tumblr dot com. but no. anne carson's antigone
Oedipus at Colonus
Artist: Fulchran Jean Harriet (French, 1778–1805)
Date: 1798
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Description
The ancient mythical Greek king Oedipus fulfilled his fate by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. He subsequently blinded himself and was exiled. Here, Oedipus reprimands himself, while protecting his daughter Antigone.
Oedipus became popular in France just after the French Revolution, since the subject addressed the return of exiles. The ancient Greek writer Sophocles provided the best-known version of the tragedy, but an interpretation that played in Paris in 1797 inspired Harriet’s work.
