It is a shame that she turns folks to stone, she has a pretty face and interesting hair. Finding someone to spend life with, has to be pretty rough for the snakegirls.
Blind people are her only option, but there's the open question if picturing her face after feeling with the fingertips triggers the effect. If yes, it's memetic and not her gaze.
Daniel Kish, a man with blindness, uses echolocation to navigate the world and teaches others how to do it. He had done a bit of tv stuff and I think a TED-like talk or two about blindness and perception.
I don't have any direct quotes, but you may find your answer from him.
I remember the late Ben Underwood whom had the same talent. One bit stuck with me comes to mind when Ben was walking the neighborhood with a tv reporter... "What's to my right", reporter asks. "{Click click} It's the side of a house, uh with stuff in front of it.", and Ben replies with more detail, "{click click} ...cans, yup garbage cans."
Well, since the only myths we are given are not from her perspective, but her enemies', we can't say for sure, but consider:
You are a faithful priestess of Athena on a remote island. One day, the literal God of the Sea and Tempestuous Rage decides to walk into Athena's Temple and brutally rape you. Athena, the goddess you have so faithfully served, but who refused to protect her own priestess in her own temple from her own uncle, takes some serious offense at the sacrilege of her priestess being raped in her temple, and the Goddess of Wisdom decides that the only appropriate action is to punish the priestess by cursing you to never be able to be in the company of anyone ever again, and to add insult to injury and betrayal, you've been turned into a monster. Now, you have just been raped, cursed and transformed, and so you run away to an island. Now, when random men start coming to your island to "slay the vile monster", what do YOU do? The last time a man came to your island, he raped you and literally ended your existence as a human being, and the clear and stated intention of these men is to kill you. So yeah, you probably don't feel too bad about some dick-waving "heroes" getting turned to stone.
And when that one guy inevitably comes along with the help of Athena and chops off your head? Turns out that not only were you pregnant the whole time from the rape, but your children are born from the gushing wound from your beheading and are a flying horse and a giant.
Oh yeah, your head? Athena was so proud of herself for all of this shit that she made your severed, tortured death mask her personal symbol and stuck it to her fucking armor to intimidate her enemies.
Absolutely. If nothing else, Haynes shows just how much mortals (particularly women) should despise Athena. Athena is not your friend. The Mousai were chill, and the Moirai didn't fuck around, content to do their duty to the universe, but the big gods, the Olympians? They were pretty much all deeply awful beings, not worthy of respect, only fear. Even if you were "lucky" enough to end up attracting their attention (either because they seduced and/or raped your mother, because they want to seduce you, because they want you to be their champion in some petty chess game, or all three), the best you could hope for was living a life tormented by all of the other gods who didn't choose you to be their special little toy, then dying and regretting all your life choices in the afterlife.
Hot take, I like the old God of War games better. It was a fun power fantasy series where you rampage through all of greek mythology as a man litterally far too angry to die. Yatzee from zero punctuation (now at secomd wind) said something like "Kratos ripped a dudes head off because he needed a torch"
It's not a hot take. Everybody knows the "rebooted" series is crap. Not only I wanted a refund, but I demand they pay me for the trouble of playing their shit.
Ten minutes into the game and I regretted buying it. "I don't fucking know your dead wife. Leave me alone! Rampaging Greek mythology is what I want to do!"
I disagree that it's crap. I think they're very good. But I also think they're not fully comparable outside of the fact that they are different style of games.
People can have preference but sadly if you prefer the originals you'll likely feel as if you've lost the chance of more like them.
I actually think the combat is not that different to original, but just with a different perspective. I think this can be felt especially in Ragnarok and in the free DLC of it that really focuses on on the combat.
Hey, not a problem. All Haynes does is lay out the actual texts we have with dry wit. Yeah, that sounds about right for Athena. Consider Ariadne, who got seduced by Athena's champion into betraying her father, then when she ran away with Theseus, he left her on a fucking island to die. In one version, he's given the excuse that Dionysus wants to marry her, and so he still leaves her without explanation or apology. Every one of Athena's "champions" are dicks. From war-criminal Odysseus to serial abductor and pedophile Theseus, to Mr. "I'm going to go kill some random lady who's bothering nobody on an island" himself, Perseus.
You either are on her bad side, or you're a smug dick who is so awful that you've got Athena's respect, the most dubious honour in the Kosmos.
48 Comments
Kevlar21@piefed.social · 94 pts · 237d
The snake lashes are a nice touch
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 237d
Does that mean she has snake eyebrows? Nose hair? Ear hair? Pubic hair?...
X@piefed.world · 33 pts · 237d
Only one way to find out, and thanks for volunteering!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 237d
Lotta snakes in the Brazilian rainforest.
69420@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
The Brazilian has no bush.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 236d
OMG snake pubes. I wonder if there's a treatment available for that STD?
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 236d
Medusa pulling down her partner's pants. "Aww, there's only one snake?"
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 236d
Hydra Guy: "Cut off a head, and two more will grow."
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Rules 34's about to get spicy
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 237d
Her eyebrows are already an exception and we haven’t left her face. So, I’m guessing no.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 237d
The eyebrow snakes might be coiled together sleeping.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 237d
just wait until she gets older and gets that "upper lip snake"
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 237d
and leg hair
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 237d
For that matter, we all have small hairs all over our body.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 33 pts · 237d
It is a shame that she turns folks to stone, she has a pretty face and interesting hair. Finding someone to spend life with, has to be pretty rough for the snakegirls.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 40 pts · 237d
Blind people are her only option, but there's the open question if picturing her face after feeling with the fingertips triggers the effect. If yes, it's memetic and not her gaze.
RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 237d
Bosht@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 237d
Fucking perfect response, lmao. Got a good chuckle out of me man, thanks!
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 236d
Seeing her reflection in a mirror is safe, so I would think the blind would be safe.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 236d
Only a special mirror - medusa gets defeated by a polished shield iirc
Edit: i misremembered
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 237d
Find a blind guy with aphantasia.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 236d
There truly is someone for everyone 🤣
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
Can blind people from birth picture things?
EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Daniel Kish, a man with blindness, uses echolocation to navigate the world and teaches others how to do it. He had done a bit of tv stuff and I think a TED-like talk or two about blindness and perception.
I don't have any direct quotes, but you may find your answer from him.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 236d
I remember the late Ben Underwood whom had the same talent. One bit stuck with me comes to mind when Ben was walking the neighborhood with a tv reporter... "What's to my right", reporter asks. "{Click click} It's the side of a house, uh with stuff in front of it.", and Ben replies with more detail, "{click click} ...cans, yup garbage cans."
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 236d
That would put the fingertips in range of the snakes though.
FishFace@piefed.social · 16 pts · 236d
Canonically she turns people to stone due to being ugly, not specifically due to having snake hair!
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 237d
I saw this joke recently in another comic. Was there a big joke or popular comment that sparked these?
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 237d
Seems to be a bit of a worn-out joke at this point
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 237d
does medusa want to turn people into stone? or is it more a side-effect? maybe she can't control it but doesn't actually want to hurt anyone?
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 237d
Well, since the only myths we are given are not from her perspective, but her enemies', we can't say for sure, but consider:
You are a faithful priestess of Athena on a remote island. One day, the literal God of the Sea and Tempestuous Rage decides to walk into Athena's Temple and brutally rape you. Athena, the goddess you have so faithfully served, but who refused to protect her own priestess in her own temple from her own uncle, takes some serious offense at the sacrilege of her priestess being raped in her temple, and the Goddess of Wisdom decides that the only appropriate action is to punish the priestess by cursing you to never be able to be in the company of anyone ever again, and to add insult to injury and betrayal, you've been turned into a monster. Now, you have just been raped, cursed and transformed, and so you run away to an island. Now, when random men start coming to your island to "slay the vile monster", what do YOU do? The last time a man came to your island, he raped you and literally ended your existence as a human being, and the clear and stated intention of these men is to kill you. So yeah, you probably don't feel too bad about some dick-waving "heroes" getting turned to stone.
And when that one guy inevitably comes along with the help of Athena and chops off your head? Turns out that not only were you pregnant the whole time from the rape, but your children are born from the gushing wound from your beheading and are a flying horse and a giant.
Oh yeah, your head? Athena was so proud of herself for all of this shit that she made your severed, tortured death mask her personal symbol and stuck it to her fucking armor to intimidate her enemies.
pipe01@programming.dev · 39 pts · 237d
Well, when you put it like that...
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 237d
Everyone should read Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes. One of the most eye-opening and comprehensive studies of Greek mythology I've ever encountered.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 237d
I feel like I need to play God of War III again to fuck those gods over.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 237d
Absolutely. If nothing else, Haynes shows just how much mortals (particularly women) should despise Athena. Athena is not your friend. The Mousai were chill, and the Moirai didn't fuck around, content to do their duty to the universe, but the big gods, the Olympians? They were pretty much all deeply awful beings, not worthy of respect, only fear. Even if you were "lucky" enough to end up attracting their attention (either because they seduced and/or raped your mother, because they want to seduce you, because they want you to be their champion in some petty chess game, or all three), the best you could hope for was living a life tormented by all of the other gods who didn't choose you to be their special little toy, then dying and regretting all your life choices in the afterlife.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 11 pts · 237d
Hot take, I like the old God of War games better. It was a fun power fantasy series where you rampage through all of greek mythology as a man litterally far too angry to die. Yatzee from zero punctuation (now at secomd wind) said something like "Kratos ripped a dudes head off because he needed a torch"
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 237d
It's not a hot take. Everybody knows the "rebooted" series is crap. Not only I wanted a refund, but I demand they pay me for the trouble of playing their shit.
Ten minutes into the game and I regretted buying it. "I don't fucking know your dead wife. Leave me alone! Rampaging Greek mythology is what I want to do!"
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 236d
I disagree that it's crap. I think they're very good. But I also think they're not fully comparable outside of the fact that they are different style of games.
People can have preference but sadly if you prefer the originals you'll likely feel as if you've lost the chance of more like them.
I actually think the combat is not that different to original, but just with a different perspective. I think this can be felt especially in Ragnarok and in the free DLC of it that really focuses on on the combat.
BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 236d
You are do fucking off base it is hilarious
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 237d
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 237d
Hey, not a problem. All Haynes does is lay out the actual texts we have with dry wit. Yeah, that sounds about right for Athena. Consider Ariadne, who got seduced by Athena's champion into betraying her father, then when she ran away with Theseus, he left her on a fucking island to die. In one version, he's given the excuse that Dionysus wants to marry her, and so he still leaves her without explanation or apology. Every one of Athena's "champions" are dicks. From war-criminal Odysseus to serial abductor and pedophile Theseus, to Mr. "I'm going to go kill some random lady who's bothering nobody on an island" himself, Perseus.
You either are on her bad side, or you're a smug dick who is so awful that you've got Athena's respect, the most dubious honour in the Kosmos.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 236d
MFW
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 236d
Sounds like she needs some sapphic love in her life
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 237d
Maybe her and Midas should hook up.
FishFace@piefed.social · 3 pts · 236d
I believe it's due to her being so horrifically ugly in the original myths
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 236d
The workaround of autists of looking inbetween the eyes, would that work?
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 236d
I never thought of that, my eyes go to mouths.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 234d
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 237d
The post needs accessibility.
Given the audience here
