#evadne

"Most people only remembered Ovid's tale of a vain young woman who was so proud of her beauty, and especially of her golden hair, that Athena herself punished her by making her a Gorgon. But in fact, Ovid does note that Medousa, a priestess of Athena, was raped by Poseidon, in Athena's temple."

HE NEVER SAID THAT!!! 🤬

Anyway in this atrocity Medusa was a normal human with normal mortal father, mother and 2 brothers who's names I forgot since they died before the start of the story. Her family died at the hands of spartan soldiers during the Krypteia (slave hunting) who later captured her as a slave at 5 years old

The first 5 pages are of Medusa watching her father get killed, her mother being gang r*ped and then killed

Helen, Clytemnestra and Tiresias are here too for some reason

Athena described Medusa as "her daughter" (😐)

She's groped at 11-12 years and molested at 13. That's crucial to make us understand how much she's suffering I guess

Child Helen is annoyed that child slave Medusa, who's also called Chrysanthe, attracts more boys???

There's also the use of modern words like "slut", "whore", "bitch" and "okay" which kinda ruins the ilusion that this is supposed to be Mycenean Greece

We have a slave foreigner becoming a priestess in Athens because Athena said so

"there are lovely bits depicting the love, romance and sexual relationship between Medusa and Cynisca as young mortal women."

Another book where she's a slave dating the daughter of her master

"We are the second coming and last judgement both, salvation born in the belly's blood deep wisdom."

Seek help

This has 24 pages. It costs 30 dollars

So here she has nightmare visions of Perseus sometimes

"Alone is safe. Alone is penance."

Because who cares about her sisters, right? 🙄

"I was heinous. Hideous. Skin that looked sickly, worse than pale. I looked like stone, myself. Pallid and grey."

Make her actually look ugly you lazy hack

"Perhaps Zeus smiled at me on the day Capaneus died. He was cruel, unkind, and arrogant. Threatening to burn an entire city was the slightest of his crimes."

So now we have the tragedy of Capaneus and Evadne ruined for the sake of stupid girlboss Medusa fanfic

"And burning wasn't a permanent enough of a solution for a witch."

Ancient Greece didn't treat witches the same way as Medieval Europe....

"No one wanted to stand for a woman accused of being a Seer."

But being a Seer wasn't considered bad?...

How convenient that everyone is this village is fully blind... 😑

Not sure if that's supposed to be ancient Greece because Viviene Pellissa doesn't sound greek

Two sapphic books about Medusa, where the other woman is blind

@sarafangirlart the way the first book wrote Medusa's early life as almost constant suffering

OKAY UM

cassandra as she actually is and not fanon her she is my girl she is darling she is everything she is barbie she deserves the world okay <333333

EVADNE EVERYONE EVADNE AND APOLLO ARE LITERALLY DISNEY STORY BEFORE WALT DISNEY WAS EVEN A CONCEPT ON THE UNIVERSAL PLAIN. Iamus their son is PEAK Disney protag complete with "I AM OOOON MY WAAAAYYYY I CAN GO THE DISTANCE" energy PLUS. EVADNE'S STEPDAD ISN'T A VILLAIN HE FREAKED OUT ABOUT HER BEING PREGNANT BECAUSE HER BIO DAD POSEIDON LEFT HER TO HIM TO CARE FOR (hey sidenote is this a case of mlm with a baby here. i don't recall evadne having a mom.) AND NOW SHE'S PREGANANT AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO SO HE GOES TO DELPHI (aka his daughter's boyfriend LMAO) AND APOLLO'S LIKE "dw bro it's chill. it's my kid it's fine. we're good." AND SO HE COMES BACK AND IS CALMED DOWN NOW UNTIL OH WHAT'S THIS? WHY IS HIS BABY GRANDSON IN A PATCH OF FLOWERS???? BEING FED BY SNAKES???

because Evadne was scared he'd go off the deep end so she hid Iamus :( so stepdad takes the baby, finds her, and is like "we're good we're chill now, my grandbaby is so cute" (or something abouts that) and BOOM there happy ending <3333333

AND THEN MOVIE PART 2 CAN BE ABOUT IAMUS'S DRAMATIC DISNEY PROTAG STORY LIKE COME ON THIS IS SO SWEEEEEET!!!!

Rhoeo is another one. She gets tossed into a box for daring to be pregnant (god forbid woman have kids without their dad's permission. her dad is a piece of work.) and thrown into the sea but Apollo says fuck that and i think poseidon does him a solid and guides the box to delos where rhoeo gives birth to their son anius who becomes KING of delphi and also rhoeo is wingmanned by apollo and she gets a husband who was an apprentice of apollo and they're all one big chill family :D

Iamus was made of love. Everything about him was surrounded by deep and profound love and like, let's not even talk about his whole Thing of when he came of age and was like "I need to find out what my purpose is" and he literally had a Disney Protagonist moment where he ran out into the wilds and was like "Father!! Grandfather!! Tell me what I'm supposed to doooo!!" and then APOLLO FUCKING ANSWERED AND LED HIM TO ONE HIS TEMPLES ENTIRELY BY TALKING WITH IAMUS AND LETTING HIM FOLLOW HIS VOICE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY LIKE -

young capaeva sketh