Nothing like a broken heart to bleed ink

I love the myth about Hades and Persephone as much as the next girl, but am I the only one who would like for people to focus more on Dionysus and Ariadne? From a narrative and creative standpoint, I mean.

Despite my love for it, I'm no mythology expert, but you can't deny the appeal behind a story about a woman who was abandoned/forgotten by her first love, for whom she gave everything up, meeting and falling in love with a god who loved her genuinely, never mistreated her, and went as far as making her immortal so they could be together.

Can you imagine the potential this story has for modern retellings and tropes? Fake Relationship to Make Your Ex Jealous that Becomes Real, Ladykiller in Love, Cant' Act Perverted Towards a Love Interest, Single Woman Seeks Good Man...

Or for the sake of Pride Month, given Dionysus' love for crossdressing, the fact that Ariadne didn't seem to mind about most, if not any, of his affairs with others, and the undeniable fact that practically no one in Ancient Greece was straight, it also opens up the possibility of playing with queer characters and relationships beyond the nuclear family archetype. An actual modern retelling could even feature a transmac or nonbinary Dionysus in a committed yet open or even polyamourous relationship with Ariadne.

There's also what happens after they end up together, like exploring Ariadne's possible insecurities over being a mortal married to a god and the possible power imbalance. Or her getting used to Olympus or even struggling to move on from Theseus. Oh, and from Dionysus' side, the exploration of finally meeting someone who is immune to his godly charms and chooses to be by his side because she genuinely likes him!

You can't tell me this myth doesn't have the makings of a great source of content.

We all had at least one TV show centered around a school or teens going to school where the last thing they actually did was studying.

Except for one episode whose plot was about a huge test or someone cheating on an exam. The rest of the series? Nah.

Watching a long-running series where time passes more slowly, if at all, is wild because you start watching the show when you're younger or the same age as the characters and look up to or relate to them, and by the time it ends you're older than them and have adopted them all as your children. Like, wtf.

Watching a long-running series where time passes more slowly, if at all, is wild because you start watching the show when you're younger or the same age as the characters and look up to or relate to them, and by the time it ends you're older than them and have adopted them all as your children. Like, wtf.

Getting in fandoms from before you were born or just a child is crazy because you're crying like: "They're my babies!! ...Even though they would technically be older than me!!!!"

This is me now with Danny Phantom

When it was still airing I was 3 to 6 years old, the first time I got in the mood to rewatch the series I was Dani's age, and the last two I was already of age.

"Women in media shouldn't be limited to talking about romance" and "strong, independent women shouldn't have to abandon love altogether in order to achieve their dreams" are two arguments that can and should coexist.

The kids that grow up with Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney +, etc. and have all episodes available in order will never get to experience the feeling of remembering a show solely from the five episodes the channel kept re-running. Or believing the first episode you ever watched was the first episode of the series as well, only to discover years later that it was actually the 14th episode of the second season. Or being convinced that the entire series was a whole season because the channel always ever announced it as "new episodes" or you never even new a season was a thing.

One of my favourite tropes is when the heroes and villains can actually be civil and chill around each other. We all heard that one, right? I mean, it's classic Doofenshmirtz/Perry the Platypus dynamics.

But consider, women helping women between a villainess and the heroine.

Villainess: I have come to VANQUISH you, Generic Heroine—! Wait a minute. Where are you?

Heroine: *is being bothered by a creep who won't take no for an answer*

Villainess, stepping between the two: You will leave this girl alone, OR FACE MY WRATH!!!!!

*The creep leaves*

Heroine: Phew! Thanks, Villainess. That guy just wouldn't leave me alone.

Villainess: Hey, no problem. Women helping women, am I right?

Heroine: Damn right. What are you doing here anyway?

Villainess: Oh, you know. Just trying to kill you.

Heroine: Oh, right. Hehe. Figures.

*EPIC BATTLE ENSUES*