Akira (1988) // Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)

Me: Aw hell yeah! Renata Sorrah, the Brazilian actress has come out as biseuxal at age 76!!

My friends:

Just found out that the sun and the star book came out today…

yet somehow i got it on the 29th... hmmmmmm

You know that thing where you eventually have to explain fanfic to your parents? My parents made me look up ships IN THEIR OWN FANDOMS TO TRY AND SEE WHICH WERE THE MOST POPULAR. 

FIRE

Why do humans hate fire?????? Like seriously, fire is goddam beautiful. Sometimes you see people dancing in it, when your friends are moking smores or toasting something you can see the flame dance in their eyes, the laughter from the others in your group is magically aswell! And it’s even better when the flames are dancing so high, it looks like the souls of the dammed are trying to escape from their eternal torment, and you can see the light disapear in the people’s eyes that are melting right in front of you.

Truly magical

WE REALLY ARE FUCKING BLESSED THAT THESE EVENTS HAPPENED WITHIN 24 HOURS OF EACH OTHER!!!

LIKE, PRIDE MONTH IS REALLY IN OUR FAVOUR IN TERMS OF QUEER SHOWS BEING ANNOUNCED!!!!

Started Blue eyed Samurai, immediately happy with a disabled character being the first to speak and be a really happy person, with a job AND a way to overcome their disability.

help

i can’t use the keyboard  as my dog has hi chin on my wrist. having to use keyboard viewer .

Catherine 🤝 Peter

Incredibly deep Mummy issues.

im still kind of in disbelief that that the internet like...turned on lore olympus. i get the whole "once something is popular people make it their personality to hate something", and the "incredibly online people make age gap discourse about immortal gods bc they need to touch grass," and you're certainly not obligated to like it, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but like. it is a genuinely good comic. its issues are no worse than like, most serialized web comics that have to struggle with the medium, and its art style is engaging and interesting, and has improved a lot over time. i know there was a very t*rf-led movement on here a LONG time ago starting discourse about greek myths to get crypto t*rf shit about femininity across and i know thats where some critiques come from. and it's weird that many criticisms of "modern retellings" get blamed on lore olympus bc it doesnt actually follow them - like, demeter isnt some crazy bitch, she's a character with complexity and depth.

yes the original intent of the story is changed, a story that women in ancient times could relate to about the fears of marriage, but LO actually does what modern retellings of old stories do best - modify a story to serve a similar purpose, but reflecting the modern audience's contemporary issues. in this case, embracing the complexities of love and marriage as a survivor of sexual assault, something many modern women struggle with. persephone's relationship with demeter ALSO reflects a very real struggle many modern young women have, of finding identity and sexual agency as an adult when your entire life has been controlled by a helicopter mother, even with the best intentions, and with her own trauma.

i also find the criticisms of the body types and sexuality often misogynistic and weird - people want things with a distinct, interesting style, they want women with sexual agency to be promoted and not sanitized, and yet LO gets over-criticized. how persephone dresses, how the other gods dress, changes a lot depending on level of confidence, mood, etc, and is a part of the storytelling in an interesting way. you don't have to like it, and i know there's jokes about the LO art style of drawing women, but i have a body like some of those bodies. i know other people who do, or at least similarly. it's not like a lot of comics or manga or anime where everyone is a stick, and they get to be sexy! it's nice!

and when people complain that its the only webcomic people read well then thats a YOU problem. i read a LOT of webcomics. i talk about them to people, i recommend them. romantic and otherwise. do you? do you spend as much time complaining about lore olympus as you do talking up other cool webcomics that deserve attention?