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16 January 2006 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larryhammerI used to claim I could imagine slashing everyone in Greek mythology* except Hades -- he's just too ... stolid. Saturnine. Persephone's a bit of a stretch -- I can conceive of slashing her with Psyche, but it'd be too dark and twisted for me to do it justice. In fact, I couldn't really see Hades and Persephone with anyone but each other. Used to. Then this weekend, a plot bunny came scratching at the door: Hades as the jealous older husband, Persephone as the bored young wife, Hermes as the delivery man. <cue '70s porn soundtrack>
If I understand fandom correctly, I think this means Hades+Persephone is no longer my mythology OTP. That, in fact, I don't have one.**
What's your OTP of mythology? (Greek or otherwise.)
* Which is, more or less, what I'm doing with with the series of sex farces.
** Don't talk to me about Eros+Psyche -- she's totally getting it on with Aphrodite, I'm telling ya. Or rather, had been -- that's why Aphrodite's so jealous. Creepy psychosexual dymanics, those three.
---L.
If I understand fandom correctly, I think this means Hades+Persephone is no longer my mythology OTP. That, in fact, I don't have one.**
What's your OTP of mythology? (Greek or otherwise.)
* Which is, more or less, what I'm doing with with the series of sex farces.
** Don't talk to me about Eros+Psyche -- she's totally getting it on with Aphrodite, I'm telling ya. Or rather, had been -- that's why Aphrodite's so jealous. Creepy psychosexual dymanics, those three.
---L.
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Date: 16 January 2006 04:33 pm (UTC)Otherwise, Baucis/Philemon.
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Date: 16 January 2006 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 16 January 2006 04:50 pm (UTC)Odysseus/Polyphemus.
Pentheus/Maenads (it got bloody wild out there).
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Date: 16 January 2006 06:00 pm (UTC)Have you read Lois Tilton's Dionysus/Maenads/Pentheus story? She read it at this last WFC.
---L.
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Date: 16 January 2006 05:27 pm (UTC)Until just now, I've never heard of OTP, which is actually a kind of cool concept. But my mind goes in other directions, as in using it in world building.
I keep telling people I'm boring. *g*
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Date: 16 January 2006 06:02 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 16 January 2006 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 16 January 2006 11:38 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 17 January 2006 01:32 pm (UTC)I'm going to have to dig up those books now and reread them.
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Date: 17 January 2006 02:18 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 19 February 2006 05:49 pm (UTC)OTP!
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Date: 18 January 2006 05:24 am (UTC)Darkness/light! Black horse of the soul/White horse of the soul! Panther skins! Silver arrows!
I am all about teh Plato/Nietzsche.
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Date: 18 January 2006 03:02 pm (UTC)(Wait, Artemis had the silver arrows -- Apollo's were gold, usually.)
---L.
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Date: 18 January 2006 03:39 pm (UTC)And who could not love a pome that rhymes falcons with Balkans?
Golden arrows, yes, sorry! In my OTP Olympian romance novel, there would be one of those manly scenes like the one in "Women in Love" (film): Apollo and Dionysios wrestle on the hearth, noble and nude and antique, as Swinburne has it (and he oughtta know). Apollo tosses aside the golden arrows to fight with his hands ... somehow Doinysios's panther-skin comes untied...
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Date: 18 January 2006 04:02 pm (UTC)"And nerves that steeled themselves to slaughter / Are shot to pieces by the shorter / Poems of Donne."
---L.
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Date: 19 January 2006 03:35 am (UTC)Nice!
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Date: 19 January 2006 03:46 pm (UTC)We were also chuffed that our stories were cited as two of the three good ones of the issue.
---L.
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Date: 1 February 2006 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 February 2006 08:23 pm (UTC)---L.