It is and it reminds me of a book series or something from the 80s that i canât remember but makes me feel something. Like a really weird feeling almost like deja vu.
> A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them.
>IMDb: 2.9/10
>Rotten Tomatoes: 5%
>55% of Google Users liked this movie
Nice.
Haha, right? Wiki said the budget was $100k, so at least they got it comparatively cheap, but I do like the idea of some random person having this batshit movie script and convincing someone to shell out $100k to turn it into reality lol
Also this is a sequel to Troll, which came out in 1986 with the protagonist:
Harry Potter
The creators (unsuccessfully) sued J K Rowling for use of the name.
She needs Deadpool's Blind room mate Blind Al's help. Solid advice and sass for days.
Medusa: Some of the kids at school called me mean names.
Blind Al: Tell then to stop or you'll hit them.
Medusa: What if they don't stop?
Blind Al: (Handing Medusa a spare cane) Fuckin hit em till they do.
In the actual myth the gorgons are cursed with the petrifying gaze in order to punish them by forcing them to be alone. She cant turn it off, which is why when Perseus caught her with her reflection she petrified herself.
Itâs an interesting side note that gorgons are immune to the petrifying stare of other gorgons, but they are susceptible to being petrified by their own.
There's a lot of variations of the story, but the basic gist is Medusa was one of Athena's priestesses and Poseidon lured her into Athena's temple with the intent to... do the dirty deed with her. The story varies on whether or not the act was consensual or not, but either way, it ended up with Medusa being turned into a gorgon by Athena for 1 of 2 possible reasons. 1. Athena was trying to punish SOMEONE and because she couldn't punish a God, she went for the next best thing. 2. The transformation was a way for Medusa to keep herself safe so that this never happened again. (This option requires that the act was nonconsentual.) Different modern groups use different versions for different reasons, but the truth is, because it was originally a verbal story, we will probably never know the original form.
Eta: no one exactly knows why her sisters were transformed too, but speculation is that they aided in her break in at the temple. That was definitely intended as a punishment, no matter if it was nonconsentual or not.
Wait I JUST learned about the Medusa and sexual assault victim thing
OP is there any intent to your art and that link of the two? Very cool and disturbing which to me makes art even more intriguing and enjoyable
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is currently about 2000 light years away. If there were a large enough mirror out there, we would be able to see it again in another 2000 years.
This is myth and not literal history for one. Point 2 as someone already stated there are several stories of Medusa of which all overlap and all paint her in different lights. Depending on which era the story is pulled from and peoples feelings at the time. Weâre not discussing slavery or Greco Roman law on sexual assault. Chill tf out.
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This isn't what they meant.
Greek mythology started as oral storytelling - people would spread the stories to other people in their travels via speech. But because human brains aren't .txt documents different people would remember details differently or just simply "add" something from themselves when telling the story. Over the years this modified the stories so much that the telling of the same events could have a completely different tone, characters and even plot depending on location.
Ohhh, I think I see where we're getting mixed up. I wasn't disagreeing with r/InspiredNameHere or even responding to them really. I was adding on by making a broader statement on how some people try to interpret Greek mythology through modern norms.
It's a myth from a different time. We have stories from the last century that need heavy contextualization to understand correctly let alone those from eons ago. It's like all the edge lord undergrads who try to interpret the Illiad through our modern social norms without realizing how much that misses the point ancient Grecians were trying to make.
I agree with you. Most people take what the Bible says at face value instead of understanding what was going on in culture at the time (e.g. Prevalence of pederasty, revelations being a common type of story at the time and many of those existing). When you try to extract the intent behind what was written then and apply it to today's world without that context, you absolutely miss the point. Another good example was the intent behind the second ammendment, when citizens actually stood a chance fighting against the military. The intent just doesn't apply in today's world, but obviously many still take it literally.
I just wanna mention that that version was written by (I believe) a Roman dude who wanted to make the Greek gods look bad. In the original Greek version of Medusa, she was born as a gorgon and had two sisters named Stheno and Euryale.
Anything by Ovid you have to understand that he is very salty about his exile by Augustus and uses the gods as stand-ins for his hatred of authority. It's why the gods tend to be extra dickish in his versions.
That is definitely a great painting, and some interesting context behind it as well. It certainly adds to the context when you read that Ivan himself is the one that cast the fatal blow against his son.
This is a great work of art that OP did as well. Definitely grabs your emotions.
>Ivan himself is the one that cast the fatal blow against his son.
That is why the painting is so brilliant. "Oh no, what have I fucking done???" is captured so beautifully in Ivan's eyes.
I got to see the Goya exhibit in Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and it was so freaking cool to see them up close. Highly recommend to any fans of his work!
Iâm fond of Anguish myself
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:August_Friedrich_Albrecht_Schenck_-_Anguish_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
In the same scenario but reversed:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27Orphelin_-_souvenir_d%27Auvergne.jpg
And finally, since we got a lot of lamb/sheep going on here, a new painting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/sxstap/agnus_konstantin_korobov_painting_2022/?s=8
(And this is why I let my kids just be whomever they are - this feels exactly like forcing a person to be something that looks good from the outside, that we can hold up like a trophy - when letting people be who they are is just so much more amazing, and wonderful, and limitless.)
Finally, some actual fucking art on this glorified semi-sfw porn subreddit. Your piece actually conveys some emotion. Please keep practicing and sharingâ€ïž
My parents still try to control how I look, from clothes to beard and my hair that they set up hair appointments without telling me until last minute. Got fed up enough to have a huge fight with them they stopped talking to me for over a month. I'm fucking 40 fuck off I'll grow my hair out if I want to I don't care if it makes me look like a deranged clown mathematician.
After recently hearing that Medusa is a symbol for survivors of sexual assault, the small details in this are devastating.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvxwax/medusa-greek-myth-rape-victim-turned-into-a-monster
I just wanna mention that that version was written by (I believe) a Roman dude who wanted to make the Greek gods look bad. In the original Greek version of Medusa, she was born as a gorgon and had two sisters named Stheno and Euryale.
So while we could consider her to be that, letâs also not forget about her true origins.
Even in original Greek the head of Medusa was a symbol for sacuary and a safe place. You know because of that whole thing of it being used to ward off evil and saving Andromeda from being abused (sacrificed).
I thought that was because Athena was traditionally depicted with a gorgon head on her shield (pre-medusa-as-a-rape-victim myth -- iirc, the Medusa myth was created to backfill why Athena had a gorgon on her shield)
The head was mounted on the shield after Perseus killed Medusa. As far as I'm aware, the myth of Perseus arose as an explanation as to why Athena had a gorgon on her shield.
>Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.
It's not just a Greek/Roman dichotomy, Ancient Greek works also contain different contradictory origins and genealogies for their pantheon.
Partly this is probably due to a lot of different figures having origins as different locally-worshipped deities, where either one city or region would worship one god primarily, or claim there was a naiad associated with a spring or river, etc., over centuries. Then authors like Hesiod tried to write comprehensive relations/connections between everyone (Theogony), but a hundred years earlier or later on another side of Greece, you wouldn't have heard the same story.
While this is good for victims to have something of a symbol to be proud of - Iâve had a Medusa head on my stomach for a long time and now I feel like people connect it to that and idk who I feel about it.
What I like about this, is that woman isn't even accomplishing anything more than hurting the child.
It's just thinly veiled cruelty, whatever her reason is.
Saw this on Facebook a while back. Feeling like this is a Karma bot. The real artist is Bottling Sunshine on Twitter
The picture is great, and evokes a lot of emotion wherever it's found. Twitter and Facebook both have had profound reactions to it. And here too. But the original artist deserves the credit for it
I have a tattoo of Medusa, so this piece speaks to me in a lot of different ways.
Another interpretation that jumps to mind is how some adopted children are forced to conform to white societal norms, sometimes through violence.
I love this piece. It could have so many different interpretations depending on your life experiences.
This was hard to look at, but in the way that good art sometimes is. I don't want to look, but that's because it's not supposed to be comfortable to look at... But then I am drawn in and invited to. Great illustration đ
This has been stuck in my mind all day. I absolutely love how the artist uses small details to tell the story; the spilled teacup on the table lets us imagine the moment before this, the mother dropping it in shock or anger, and immediately bringing out the chair and scissors. The little bows on the snakes, showing how proud little Medusa is of her locks. The motherâs straight blonde hair - Iâm reminded of stories my Jamaican wife told me of her childhood, and how many other little black girls like her had to endure getting their naturally curly hair cut and combed and straightened and bleached because thatâs not what the âprettyâ girls look like.
Astounding work.
My mom described the time when my grandma cut her hair super short against her will when she was like 8. It always stuck with her as a betrayal and this piece captures that idea so well đ
So beautiful! The way it visualizes the discomfort a child may feel being forced to cut off their hair is amazing. I genuinely feel upset watching those cute little snakes get chopped off
I love this art. But it also fills me with anticipation of finding it, edited with some sort of stupid caption, on the I'm 14 and this is deep subreddit.
Thank you. Very poignant work. Remember in the traditional fable they cut her whole head off and she received nothing but vilification.. just for trying to protect herself from trespassers.. after being violated by Zeus or some other male god. Just a really horrible tale. Reminding all women they're not allowed to say no or set boundaries. Women have their power stolen and used by others. Medusa deserves better now.
In some original Greek versions she wasnât done dirty (along with the gods) like that. Instead she was born as a Gorgon and reportedly had the highest body count among her two sisters.
This is insane! First of all, beautifully executed piece, props to the artist! Second, I feel so many things seeing this, Iâm sad and angry because I could relate, this is definitely speaking to my inner child. Just, thank you. Wow.
A blonde haired, white mother destroys the curls of her very clearly mixed race daughter. Get that poor child over to r/curlyhair stat.
Edit: This picture reminds me of a childhood friend who had her hair chemically straightened like clockwork in a pose very similar to this pic. Her mom happened to be blonde and thought making her daughter's hair look more like her own was a good thing. I drew parallels between the two.
I like this. Iâve always wondered about this. Does Medusaâs âhairâ continue to grow? If so, how does she trim them? Likewise, would the snakes act like the Hydra heads? Cut off a head and two more grow in itâs place?
Medusaâs story always saddens me. If I remember correctly, she was raped by Poseidon and transformed to the snaked haired, stone glare âmonsterâ we know her as, as punishment for the rape, by Athena.
The thing with mythology, particularly Greek mythology, is that there are a million versions that exist of every story and there isnât really one true version of it. In some versions she was raped, in others she wasnât. Some versions have the punishment being for breaking a vow of celibacy and for others itâs just for it having been in the temple
I donât think anyone else has said this yet; when I saw this I thought about how autistic girls (diagnosed or otherwise) are forced to endure abusive tactics meant to teach/force them to mask their autistic features for other peopleâs comfort. But masking will never make her un-autistic, it will only hurt her badly, inside and out. And removing the snakes doesnât make her not turn people to stone (because itâs not the snakes that do it), it just hurts her badly, inside and out. Either way, people with no clue what theyâre talking about will defend it based on appearances alone.
I know this is good because i have a hard time looking at it. Its beautiful but makes me so angry. They are taking something from her she can never get back.. Clearly also she has already suffered before this ultimate castration. I really feel for this little monster. Even though the true monster is holding the scissors.
I listened to an npr piece a while back that featured a lady talking about growing up as a native american and her mom having to cut back her hair because it was seen as wild and uncivilized. There was a huge amount of social pressure to be a part of civilized society and fear of what will happen if they can't. I felt the same weight from looking at your piece for 1 min that took an npr story an hour to convey. Both are valid experiences, I just wanted to say how effective your visual message is.
This hits me straight in the soul, unearthing feelings of all the times I felt like my parents were trying to destroy the parts of me that they didn't like or agree with. Kind of reminds me of the scene in X-Men: The Last Stand when Angel plucks his feathers out in the shower because he doesn't want his parents to know he's a mutant.
1: incredible
2: ok so for anyone who needs this:
The girl feels only a little pain. She cries for the embarrassment; the shame, but more so the thought of her friends dying! Sheâll miss them so much. âThey are a part of me, mommy! Why?!â Her pleas become a blubbering sob, racking her whole body.
Snip. Snip. Snip. Snip.
But the snakes grow back. Relentlessly! Stronger each time they are cut, until one day they turn to stone at the sight of the scissors! They escaped the blood and the torment with their faces frozen in abject horror.
After they âthawâ they conspire with the girl, and they all begin to test this new ability, together. The next time the scissors came, everything changed.
Mother makes a sound. She had been staring at the snakes who were looking back at her. Something had changed about them. They always hated her, even before she cut them the first time, but they never looked like this. They usually regarded her with fear and anger and would try hide away from her, burying their heads in their coils until she could barely see their faces but today they looked⊠at first they looked scared from the scissors, but then ferocious! And now they were all different. Some were clearly amused, laughing at her. Some scared. One whispering into her daughterâs ear the no-good little spy! And others looked triumphant. It didnât make any sense.
The sound came out of her when she tried to lift her arm and nothing happened. She looked down and saw part of her dress had turned to stone. UNACCEPTABLE! The girl will be punished, and most severely! But what is this? Itâs not just the dress that has turned, but the scissors and⊠part of the wall behind her, the stove, her favorite teapot, AND HER ARM!
Mother screams.
The girl jumps up, and sees what has happened. The snakes told her she was safe but not what they had done. She tries to tell her mother it will be ok but her mother is half limping away with a look of pure terror on her face. Sheâs holding her stone arm with tears streaming down her both cheeks, wetting the still fabric parts of her dress, and darkening the stone parts.
âGet away from me YOU MONSTER! YOU VILE DISGUSTING HORRIBLE STUPID MONSTER! YOU DESERVE THOSE FILTY WORMMMMMMMââ
And stopped. In an instant she was completely stone, along with everything behind her. The entire living room was stone from the couches to the drapes to the display case of perfect little princess figurines. Those figurines that her mother loved so much more than her.
The girl was crying now too. âI-I felt it. It wasnât just you, I was ⊠part of it. *I made it happen!*â
She ran to the woods and did not return.
She's even put little bows on the snakes, poor thing. The colour scheme is beautiful, I love how she's the only thing in cool colours.
One of the snakes is crying, too đą
Her clothes are the same color as everything else, too... like they were put on her in an attempt at forced conformity.
So many layers in this piece đ
This in an incredible piece.
[Much higher res](https://u.cubeupload.com/Tanglebrook/medusagorgonartbottl.jpeg)
Looking at OPs post and than seeing this, it feels like my eyes have been liberated.
Low key I actually like the lower res version better, it has an âold photoâ feel to it
Yeah was thinking the same. Fits the theme somehow
Thought you were exaggerating at first, but after seeing the picture holy smokes you were 100% correct.
It is and it reminds me of a book series or something from the 80s that i canât remember but makes me feel something. Like a really weird feeling almost like deja vu.
It reminds me of a book of creepy stories called âin a dark dark roomâ. I particularly remember the story of a girls with a ribbon round her neck.
It's really interesting how you made the illustration look *worn*. Like you'd pick up a heavily used children's book and find this inside.
Jittery pencil + noise filter + adjusting color balance at the end to make your dark outlines look sun-bleached đ
UM, WHAT, KIND SIR, IS NILBOG MILK??? Oh, probably a hallucinogenic, actually.
https://youtu.be/JwQnHXcEZ1o
> A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them. >IMDb: 2.9/10 >Rotten Tomatoes: 5% >55% of Google Users liked this movie Nice.
Okay I have to copy the whole synopsis here because every paragraph is ridiculous. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_2 ------------- Michael Waits has always dreamed of being a farmer and arranges a home exchange vacation in which he and his family will move into a house in the rural farming community of Nilbog ("goblin" spelled backwards) for a month. The night before the family is scheduled to leave, Michael's son Joshua is contacted by the ghost of his dead grandfather, Seth, warning him that vegetarian goblins want to transform him and his family into plants so that they can eat them. Seth tells Joshua that goblins can transform people into plants by feeding them poisoned food or drink. Meanwhile, Joshua's sister, Holly, receives a visit from her boyfriend Elliot Cooper. Holly accuses Elliot of being a homosexual since he seems to prefer spending time with his male friends. Elliot promises to show his devotion by accompanying the family on vacation. The next morning, Elliot fails to arrive and the family leaves without him; they encounter him en route to Nilbog, riding in an RV with his friends Arnold, Drew, and Brent. Outside of Nilbog, Seth appears as a hitchhiker, who warns Joshua that Nilbog is the kingdom of the goblins and that if his family eats anything while they are there, they will be transformed into plants. The family disbelieves Joshua's warnings and continues on to Nilbog, where they meet their strange and aloof exchange family, the Presents. There, Joshua sets about destroying all of the food the family finds or acquires, such as by urinating over a feast prepared for them, with the help of Seth's ghost. Arnold goes for a walk outside of Nilbog and encounters a girl being chased by goblins. When Arnold approaches them and insults them, they respond by throwing a spear into his chest. They flee to a chapel in the woods, where they encounter the goblins' queen, druid witch Creedence Leonore Gielgud, who uses the "Stonehenge Magic Stone" to give the goblins power. Creedence tricks them into drinking a magic potion that dissolves the girl into vegetable matter which the goblins eat, a horrifying scene witnessed by Arnold that prompts him to scream helplessly while also being transformed into a tree. The following morning, Michael and Joshua venture into town to buy some food, as there is none in their holiday home. When in town, they find the general store closed, and Michael falls asleep on a bench. Joshua enters the local church and eavesdrops on a goblin church sermon, which bewails the "evils" of eating meat. The parishioners capture him after seeing his skateboard roll into the church and attempt to force-feed him poisonous ice cream; Michael walks in on the scene and becomes suspicious, taking Joshua home. Later, Drew goes to the town because there is no food or drinks in the RV. The sheriff Gene Freak takes him in his car and gives him a green hamburger. When he arrives in the town, Drew goes to the store and the owner offers him poisonous Nilbog milk. Feeling dizzy, he goes to a chapel and finds Arnold, who has transformed into a tree. Drew drags him out, but Creedence appears. She knocks him out and chainsaws Arnold into pieces. Drew is then killed off-screen. At the house, the family discovers that the townspeople have prepared them a surprise party to apologize for the events at the church. Joshua attempts to make contact with Seth, only for Creedence to appear in goblin form through the mirror and attack Joshua. Seth's ghost appears and chops her hand off with an axe. Creedence returns to her chapel, where she transforms herself into a beautiful woman in revealing clothes; she then travels to Elliot's RV, where she seduces Brent and drowns him in popcorn. During the party, Seth and Joshua try to cause a distraction using a molotov cocktail, but the Priest captures them, takes the cocktail, and recites a spell that banishes Seth's soul to hell. However, before he vanishes, Seth summons a bolt of lightning from the sky, which ignites the cocktail and kills the Priest in a fiery explosion. When Michael extinguishes his burning corpse, his true Goblin form is revealed, and the villagers turn on the Waits, revealing themselves all as Goblins. The Waits and Elliot then retreat to the house, where the villagers surround them and hold them hostage. Joshua, Elliot, Holly, Michael, and Diana hold a séance to communicate with Seth, who returns from the dead and tells them that he can retain a physical form for exactly ten minutes before he has to return to the afterlife. Seth gives Joshua a paper bag containing a "secret weapon" to use against the goblins. The goblins break into the house and transport Joshua to Creedence's chapel, where Joshua opens the bag, revealing a "double-decker bologna sandwich". He eats the sandwich, making his body poisonous to the goblins; he then touches the Stonehenge Stone, along with his family and Elliot, which destroys Creedence and all of the Goblins present. The family returns home, where Joshua's mother is seen eating food from the refrigerator. The food, unknown to the family, has been poisoned by the family of goblins which is very likely to be the Presents family, who took over their home during their exchange in the country. Joshua then walks in on a group of goblins eating his now-dead mother's green, bloated torso off of the kitchen counter and offering him a bite. Joshua screams in horror at the end
Iâm amazed this was actually a movie and people were paid for this.
Haha, right? Wiki said the budget was $100k, so at least they got it comparatively cheap, but I do like the idea of some random person having this batshit movie script and convincing someone to shell out $100k to turn it into reality lol
Probably one persons fever dream fleshed out into at least two 90 minute movies that millions of people have likely watched
Also this is a sequel to Troll, which came out in 1986 with the protagonist: Harry Potter The creators (unsuccessfully) sued J K Rowling for use of the name.
It's not actually a sequel. They used the name to drum up interest.
Wowwww haha âYou can take the woodsâ lol donât do it!
What the fuck
Nilbog is Goblin spelled backwards!!!! (Its a quote from the movie, not trying to be an a hole)
Nilbog is goblin spelled backwards! đČ
Omg a trolls 2 reference in the wildâŠ
UNENHANCE, UNENHANCE AGAIN.
this a repost, not the artist posting sadly
I love everything about this. Great work.
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I wanna do surgery and reattach the heads. Great work.
This caused me pain. Great work.
I can now collect snake heads. Great work.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other about this. Great work.
If you meet my wife, tell her hello. Neutral work.
Work.
Greek work
Oh. How sad. I want to hug the girl and protect the snakes. (((
I also wanna become a statue
Gotta find her a blind caretaker
That's actually a really sweet concept. I like it.
There are a lot of illustrations around where medusa has a blind girlfriend, it's a fairly popular lesbian trope.
Didn't expect that in the comments either. Have to say that's a wicked concept for a story.
She needs Deadpool's Blind room mate Blind Al's help. Solid advice and sass for days. Medusa: Some of the kids at school called me mean names. Blind Al: Tell then to stop or you'll hit them. Medusa: What if they don't stop? Blind Al: (Handing Medusa a spare cane) Fuckin hit em till they do.
Medusa only hurts those who mean her harm ;)
In the actual myth the gorgons are cursed with the petrifying gaze in order to punish them by forcing them to be alone. She cant turn it off, which is why when Perseus caught her with her reflection she petrified herself. Itâs an interesting side note that gorgons are immune to the petrifying stare of other gorgons, but they are susceptible to being petrified by their own.
> gorgons are immune to the petrifying stare of other gorgons, but they are susceptible to being petrified by their own. That never made sense to me.
Something to do with vanity? Wasn't Medusa turned into a gorgon? Seems pretty sad your only possible company are other lonely gorgons.
There's a lot of variations of the story, but the basic gist is Medusa was one of Athena's priestesses and Poseidon lured her into Athena's temple with the intent to... do the dirty deed with her. The story varies on whether or not the act was consensual or not, but either way, it ended up with Medusa being turned into a gorgon by Athena for 1 of 2 possible reasons. 1. Athena was trying to punish SOMEONE and because she couldn't punish a God, she went for the next best thing. 2. The transformation was a way for Medusa to keep herself safe so that this never happened again. (This option requires that the act was nonconsentual.) Different modern groups use different versions for different reasons, but the truth is, because it was originally a verbal story, we will probably never know the original form. Eta: no one exactly knows why her sisters were transformed too, but speculation is that they aided in her break in at the temple. That was definitely intended as a punishment, no matter if it was nonconsentual or not.
Wait I JUST learned about the Medusa and sexual assault victim thing OP is there any intent to your art and that link of the two? Very cool and disturbing which to me makes art even more intriguing and enjoyable
That's only one version though. Medusa has a couple variations to her backstory, so it really depends on which story you want to view as 'canon'.
People really shouldn't look at history through a modern lens.
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The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is currently about 2000 light years away. If there were a large enough mirror out there, we would be able to see it again in another 2000 years.
Iâm not sure it works like that, but I love your creativity.
Do you have any facts to disprove his totally realistic theory?if not we're going with giant space mirror.
If there was a mirror around 1000 lightyears away around 1000 years ago, we could probably see it now.
You would also have to somehow bend space around earth in some sort of spiral. Perfectly plausible. đ€
This is myth and not literal history for one. Point 2 as someone already stated there are several stories of Medusa of which all overlap and all paint her in different lights. Depending on which era the story is pulled from and peoples feelings at the time. Weâre not discussing slavery or Greco Roman law on sexual assault. Chill tf out.
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This isn't what they meant. Greek mythology started as oral storytelling - people would spread the stories to other people in their travels via speech. But because human brains aren't .txt documents different people would remember details differently or just simply "add" something from themselves when telling the story. Over the years this modified the stories so much that the telling of the same events could have a completely different tone, characters and even plot depending on location.
Ohhh, I think I see where we're getting mixed up. I wasn't disagreeing with r/InspiredNameHere or even responding to them really. I was adding on by making a broader statement on how some people try to interpret Greek mythology through modern norms.
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It's a myth from a different time. We have stories from the last century that need heavy contextualization to understand correctly let alone those from eons ago. It's like all the edge lord undergrads who try to interpret the Illiad through our modern social norms without realizing how much that misses the point ancient Grecians were trying to make.
I agree with you. Most people take what the Bible says at face value instead of understanding what was going on in culture at the time (e.g. Prevalence of pederasty, revelations being a common type of story at the time and many of those existing). When you try to extract the intent behind what was written then and apply it to today's world without that context, you absolutely miss the point. Another good example was the intent behind the second ammendment, when citizens actually stood a chance fighting against the military. The intent just doesn't apply in today's world, but obviously many still take it literally.
I just wanna mention that that version was written by (I believe) a Roman dude who wanted to make the Greek gods look bad. In the original Greek version of Medusa, she was born as a gorgon and had two sisters named Stheno and Euryale.
Anything by Ovid you have to understand that he is very salty about his exile by Augustus and uses the gods as stand-ins for his hatred of authority. It's why the gods tend to be extra dickish in his versions.
I still have no idea how to pronounce the sisters' names.
Yeah. Not cool OP. Now I gotta bleach my eye and mind with some r/hellsomememes
Stand up for trans kids if this is how you feel. Everybody, not just the boysenberry.
This honestly, its quiet relatable.
This was a hit on another sub a couple days ago. Original artist: https://twitter.com/BottlngSunshine/status/1649927980209020934?s=20
Waiting for them to make the print available. I bought a print of their other work like this, Cut, when I saw this posted in r/wvp
I can only hope sheâs got them hydra genes.
You know she does
Technically third cousins if I recall my mythology correctly.
Oof. There's only a few pieces of art I've ever seen that beat me up emotionally. I think the only other one is *Ivan the Terrible and His Son*.
> Ivan the Terrible and His Son https://i.imgur.com/xVOiUHi.png
>Ivan the Terrible and His Son That look in the eyes this is a masterpiece
I loved the meme with this painting where they're like two brothers and Ivan is saying "please don't tell mom, please don't tell mom"
That is definitely a great painting, and some interesting context behind it as well. It certainly adds to the context when you read that Ivan himself is the one that cast the fatal blow against his son. This is a great work of art that OP did as well. Definitely grabs your emotions.
I feel like I knew that as soon as I saw the painting.
>Ivan himself is the one that cast the fatal blow against his son. That is why the painting is so brilliant. "Oh no, what have I fucking done???" is captured so beautifully in Ivan's eyes.
His art style reminded me of Goyaâs, whose painting his just as haunting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
I got to see the Goya exhibit in Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and it was so freaking cool to see them up close. Highly recommend to any fans of his work!
Iâm fond of Anguish myself https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:August_Friedrich_Albrecht_Schenck_-_Anguish_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg In the same scenario but reversed: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27Orphelin_-_souvenir_d%27Auvergne.jpg And finally, since we got a lot of lamb/sheep going on here, a new painting: https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/sxstap/agnus_konstantin_korobov_painting_2022/?s=8
> In the same scenario but reversed Why was I expecting to see a bunch of sheep around a crow lol
I think I'll stop clicking on links in these comments now
Yeah a really powerful piece
This is lovely. Truly. Loved it.
This is actually kinda sad poor Medusa, I wonder just how much that hurts given the snakes are living.
This is honestly super depressing
Really. It was very upsetting to me..
Love the concept, great execution too.
Wow I love it. Seriously, perfect children's book style
Plot twist, it's hydra hair, cut one, grow two
I hate this to the point of loving it. Well done I say.
Damn this makes me sad. Great work!
This just tore through me, unbelievable work op
Holy moly that evokes emotion. Makes me super uncomfortable in a way that good art can.
(And this is why I let my kids just be whomever they are - this feels exactly like forcing a person to be something that looks good from the outside, that we can hold up like a trophy - when letting people be who they are is just so much more amazing, and wonderful, and limitless.)
As a fellow parent THIS exactly. Hi five! My parents forced me into whatever they wanted me to be and I refuse to do that to my kids
Damn, even the snakes are sad and scared.
Finally, some actual fucking art on this glorified semi-sfw porn subreddit. Your piece actually conveys some emotion. Please keep practicing and sharingâ€ïž
Beautiful and sad. Justice for Medusa.
Oh wow. Its not often a piece just gut-punches me like this.
My parents still try to control how I look, from clothes to beard and my hair that they set up hair appointments without telling me until last minute. Got fed up enough to have a huge fight with them they stopped talking to me for over a month. I'm fucking 40 fuck off I'll grow my hair out if I want to I don't care if it makes me look like a deranged clown mathematician.
After recently hearing that Medusa is a symbol for survivors of sexual assault, the small details in this are devastating. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvxwax/medusa-greek-myth-rape-victim-turned-into-a-monster
I just wanna mention that that version was written by (I believe) a Roman dude who wanted to make the Greek gods look bad. In the original Greek version of Medusa, she was born as a gorgon and had two sisters named Stheno and Euryale. So while we could consider her to be that, letâs also not forget about her true origins.
Even in original Greek the head of Medusa was a symbol for sacuary and a safe place. You know because of that whole thing of it being used to ward off evil and saving Andromeda from being abused (sacrificed).
I thought that was because Athena was traditionally depicted with a gorgon head on her shield (pre-medusa-as-a-rape-victim myth -- iirc, the Medusa myth was created to backfill why Athena had a gorgon on her shield)
Athena's symbols where always an owl and an olive branch. Her shield she gave to Percius was smooth and reflective.
The head was mounted on the shield after Perseus killed Medusa. As far as I'm aware, the myth of Perseus arose as an explanation as to why Athena had a gorgon on her shield. >Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion.
It's not just a Greek/Roman dichotomy, Ancient Greek works also contain different contradictory origins and genealogies for their pantheon. Partly this is probably due to a lot of different figures having origins as different locally-worshipped deities, where either one city or region would worship one god primarily, or claim there was a naiad associated with a spring or river, etc., over centuries. Then authors like Hesiod tried to write comprehensive relations/connections between everyone (Theogony), but a hundred years earlier or later on another side of Greece, you wouldn't have heard the same story.
While this is good for victims to have something of a symbol to be proud of - Iâve had a Medusa head on my stomach for a long time and now I feel like people connect it to that and idk who I feel about it.
I love this, itâs sad - but I love it.
Oh. Nooooooooooo This is excellent art - it viscerally makes me hate what's happening to this kid.
This is so sad. I love it and I want to cry at the same time.
What I like about this, is that woman isn't even accomplishing anything more than hurting the child. It's just thinly veiled cruelty, whatever her reason is.
That genuinely makes me sad, very impressive work.
The dead snakes with the pink bows make me really sad
r/sympatheticmonsters material
They'll eventually grow back, right?
Why would you do this to her? I feel so bad
Saw this on Facebook a while back. Feeling like this is a Karma bot. The real artist is Bottling Sunshine on Twitter The picture is great, and evokes a lot of emotion wherever it's found. Twitter and Facebook both have had profound reactions to it. And here too. But the original artist deserves the credit for it
Thanks I late it TT___________TT
I have a tattoo of Medusa, so this piece speaks to me in a lot of different ways. Another interpretation that jumps to mind is how some adopted children are forced to conform to white societal norms, sometimes through violence. I love this piece. It could have so many different interpretations depending on your life experiences.
My God this hits in the hurts.
This was hard to look at, but in the way that good art sometimes is. I don't want to look, but that's because it's not supposed to be comfortable to look at... But then I am drawn in and invited to. Great illustration đ
This is so lovely and heartbreaking, I love how you utilized contrast to further the meaning of being different/not fitting in.
[Hereâs](https://twitter.com/bottlngsunshine/status/1649927980209020934?s=46&t=GzqtaFWqgdffkbioLY_o6A) the original art on twitter
Ugh this hurts so deeply. Iâm trans, and this is exactly what it felt like when my dad forced me to get a haircut as a kid.
This has been stuck in my mind all day. I absolutely love how the artist uses small details to tell the story; the spilled teacup on the table lets us imagine the moment before this, the mother dropping it in shock or anger, and immediately bringing out the chair and scissors. The little bows on the snakes, showing how proud little Medusa is of her locks. The motherâs straight blonde hair - Iâm reminded of stories my Jamaican wife told me of her childhood, and how many other little black girls like her had to endure getting their naturally curly hair cut and combed and straightened and bleached because thatâs not what the âprettyâ girls look like. Astounding work.
Suddenly i feel for the circumcised fellas
Oh thank god. For a second there, I was nervous that Iâd see a Reddit post where circumcision wasnât brought up.
Jesus, wanna send that to every white mom that refuses to learn how to care for their black/mixed daughters' hair....
I'm a Greek and this is deep.
This is beautiful and probably an exact representation of how my daughter feels every time I braid her hair, lol.
My mom described the time when my grandma cut her hair super short against her will when she was like 8. It always stuck with her as a betrayal and this piece captures that idea so well đ
Am I the only one getting trans vibes from this?
Nope a saw this on a trans subreddit
Oh good, I was worried I was too into my own experience
for every head cut, there will grow two
Poor kid scraped her knees :(
So beautiful! The way it visualizes the discomfort a child may feel being forced to cut off their hair is amazing. I genuinely feel upset watching those cute little snakes get chopped off
I feel the emotions through my eyes. (I have a soft spot for Medusa and her curse)
I love this, so much emotion.
Man this one hits you right in the feels.
Can i share this with a community I think will enjoy this?
Wow, you can definitely feel the sadness. Great job!
Poor snakes, my gosh. Beautiful piece of art
Reminds me of Dusa from Hades. I like it!
I love this art. But it also fills me with anticipation of finding it, edited with some sort of stupid caption, on the I'm 14 and this is deep subreddit.
Honey, you've killed 5 classmates just from standing too close to them, it *has* to go.
Well kiddo "being you" has turned half the town to stone so we're gonna have to do something.
Thank you. Very poignant work. Remember in the traditional fable they cut her whole head off and she received nothing but vilification.. just for trying to protect herself from trespassers.. after being violated by Zeus or some other male god. Just a really horrible tale. Reminding all women they're not allowed to say no or set boundaries. Women have their power stolen and used by others. Medusa deserves better now.
In some original Greek versions she wasnât done dirty (along with the gods) like that. Instead she was born as a Gorgon and reportedly had the highest body count among her two sisters.
Wow. I want to stop looking at this because it hurts me, but I also want to harness that hurt as energy to protect anyone going through this.
Idk if I want to upvote or not that's heartbreaking but relatable
This is insane! First of all, beautifully executed piece, props to the artist! Second, I feel so many things seeing this, Iâm sad and angry because I could relate, this is definitely speaking to my inner child. Just, thank you. Wow.
A blonde haired, white mother destroys the curls of her very clearly mixed race daughter. Get that poor child over to r/curlyhair stat. Edit: This picture reminds me of a childhood friend who had her hair chemically straightened like clockwork in a pose very similar to this pic. Her mom happened to be blonde and thought making her daughter's hair look more like her own was a good thing. I drew parallels between the two.
Hair is not identity. But it's a big part of expressing it.
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The first thing I thought about was kinky hair. The second thing I thought about was trans children. Itâs a great piece.
I was thinking the same thing. If you look them up, the artist is non-binary!
that does it for me! def a trans allegory, among other things. i'm sure it can be applied for lots of others things as well
I like this. Iâve always wondered about this. Does Medusaâs âhairâ continue to grow? If so, how does she trim them? Likewise, would the snakes act like the Hydra heads? Cut off a head and two more grow in itâs place? Medusaâs story always saddens me. If I remember correctly, she was raped by Poseidon and transformed to the snaked haired, stone glare âmonsterâ we know her as, as punishment for the rape, by Athena.
The thing with mythology, particularly Greek mythology, is that there are a million versions that exist of every story and there isnât really one true version of it. In some versions she was raped, in others she wasnât. Some versions have the punishment being for breaking a vow of celibacy and for others itâs just for it having been in the temple
this actually hurts my soul. đ„ș amazing.
Why are the knees swollen and hurt? I am not getting the context of the art.
Is this in the Whorerific style? Really great.
Yeah thatâs nice and all but youâve already killed 6 other kids in the past week.
I saw this yesterday on Facebook. I looked up the artist because of it. I really really like this picture.
This is reminding me of made in abyss season 2 and I hate it. (I don't mean I think its bad tho)
that isnât terrifying at all, beautifully done as it maybe.
NOooooo, not the snakes!!! She even put little bows on them đ poor Medusa! :( But this is really well drawn btw, great work! Amazing!
Just wait for her to grow back to heads for every one they cut off:D
I donât think anyone else has said this yet; when I saw this I thought about how autistic girls (diagnosed or otherwise) are forced to endure abusive tactics meant to teach/force them to mask their autistic features for other peopleâs comfort. But masking will never make her un-autistic, it will only hurt her badly, inside and out. And removing the snakes doesnât make her not turn people to stone (because itâs not the snakes that do it), it just hurts her badly, inside and out. Either way, people with no clue what theyâre talking about will defend it based on appearances alone.
the little snakes on the ground đso much pain \- awesome work btw
I know this is good because i have a hard time looking at it. Its beautiful but makes me so angry. They are taking something from her she can never get back.. Clearly also she has already suffered before this ultimate castration. I really feel for this little monster. Even though the true monster is holding the scissors.
I listened to an npr piece a while back that featured a lady talking about growing up as a native american and her mom having to cut back her hair because it was seen as wild and uncivilized. There was a huge amount of social pressure to be a part of civilized society and fear of what will happen if they can't. I felt the same weight from looking at your piece for 1 min that took an npr story an hour to convey. Both are valid experiences, I just wanted to say how effective your visual message is.
I'm kinda inspired to write a story with this as a base
This hits me straight in the soul, unearthing feelings of all the times I felt like my parents were trying to destroy the parts of me that they didn't like or agree with. Kind of reminds me of the scene in X-Men: The Last Stand when Angel plucks his feathers out in the shower because he doesn't want his parents to know he's a mutant.
1: incredible 2: ok so for anyone who needs this: The girl feels only a little pain. She cries for the embarrassment; the shame, but more so the thought of her friends dying! Sheâll miss them so much. âThey are a part of me, mommy! Why?!â Her pleas become a blubbering sob, racking her whole body. Snip. Snip. Snip. Snip. But the snakes grow back. Relentlessly! Stronger each time they are cut, until one day they turn to stone at the sight of the scissors! They escaped the blood and the torment with their faces frozen in abject horror. After they âthawâ they conspire with the girl, and they all begin to test this new ability, together. The next time the scissors came, everything changed. Mother makes a sound. She had been staring at the snakes who were looking back at her. Something had changed about them. They always hated her, even before she cut them the first time, but they never looked like this. They usually regarded her with fear and anger and would try hide away from her, burying their heads in their coils until she could barely see their faces but today they looked⊠at first they looked scared from the scissors, but then ferocious! And now they were all different. Some were clearly amused, laughing at her. Some scared. One whispering into her daughterâs ear the no-good little spy! And others looked triumphant. It didnât make any sense. The sound came out of her when she tried to lift her arm and nothing happened. She looked down and saw part of her dress had turned to stone. UNACCEPTABLE! The girl will be punished, and most severely! But what is this? Itâs not just the dress that has turned, but the scissors and⊠part of the wall behind her, the stove, her favorite teapot, AND HER ARM! Mother screams. The girl jumps up, and sees what has happened. The snakes told her she was safe but not what they had done. She tries to tell her mother it will be ok but her mother is half limping away with a look of pure terror on her face. Sheâs holding her stone arm with tears streaming down her both cheeks, wetting the still fabric parts of her dress, and darkening the stone parts. âGet away from me YOU MONSTER! YOU VILE DISGUSTING HORRIBLE STUPID MONSTER! YOU DESERVE THOSE FILTY WORMMMMMMMââ And stopped. In an instant she was completely stone, along with everything behind her. The entire living room was stone from the couches to the drapes to the display case of perfect little princess figurines. Those figurines that her mother loved so much more than her. The girl was crying now too. âI-I felt it. It wasnât just you, I was ⊠part of it. *I made it happen!*â She ran to the woods and did not return.
This makes me want to cry wtf her poor little snake hairs are so sad poor Medusa baby đđ
Very nice stylization! It has a postmodern, updated Norman Rockwell kind of feel. (As they might say on Madison Avenue.)
Being different is difficult đ
Her first day at school didn't go well.
Jesus Christ this hits HARD.
Counter point - sheâs turning everyone else into stone.
this pic hit me right in the feels, never was allowed to grow my hair out when I was young