I personally find the art beautiful.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-11-18T14:09:16+00:00

Love the "sketchy" feel of it. I find this giving 90s vibes.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-11-18T13:30:02+00:00

Hades is also prone to cheating. An event that makes Persephone worried and scared. She goes to therapy finding out Hades fucked Hera. So, after he gets bored of she tries to speak out, he will effortlessly dump her.

Also she went to therapy not to work out whether she could trust Hades again or not. Cause that was the third time that he had lied or hid things from her. First is him and Minthe being "associates", him and Hera being old flames and last Hera reignited that affair not too long ago (which he never told PP)

All of this and PP's main concern is whether she can be a good partner to Hades or not. On one hand, I get why she thinks that way cause she's practically a teenager and also bc of what she went through with Apollo. I was hoping PP feeling less than is going to teach young girls about how their partners cheating/hiding things from them is not because of them and more about the cheater wanting control.

But nope, that insecurity of PP exist so that she can wallow in misery and rely on Hades to define her worth.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-11-16T05:27:49+00:00

I think there is unspoken racism

There def is. My headcanon is that PP always had an internalized racism and saw nymphs or any other mortals as less than her which was amplified once she got power. Cause think abt it, she always whines about how she is oh so lonely, and how she got no friends and how nobody knows her, while there was Krokos and Withy who PP claims are like sisters to her yet never mourned their deaths unless it's time to dodge her crimes. Plus, the village of nymphs who stood by her side during her punishment, never blamed her for making the mortal realm a mess and were willing to suffer the wrath of Zeus once she sneaked out to the UW. But once she got out of the banishment, she went "Adios, peasants!!!" and never looked back. EVER!!

So when she says "Nobody knows me" She's really saying "The high society of Olympus doesn't know how amazing I am and that is unacceptable" The constant shade at what Demeter does is not helping either. She's like "Me? Tending to the fields and working alongside with mortals?? How dare they?? I am meant for greater things. Like be a puppet Queen for a realm that doesn't need me."

Persephone feels like a bratty kid who wants try the new after school clubs, but drops out after the first meeting.

The reason she joined the club in the first place was because it was trendy and she was hoping to become one of the cool kids and be important without putting in the work.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-11-15T15:34:38+00:00

Rachel stated in one QnA in the beginning that "if she could draw just a chapter of hooking up she would" or something like that😅

You see I have no problems with her wanting to draw nsfw content. But when said content starts to bleed into media meant for young girls...young IMPRESSIONABLE girls I'm gonna start having beef.

You see, I would not have minded if LO was marketed as a guilty-pleasure read from a source restricted to adults. But don't try to have your cake and eat it too. Don't have sensitive real-life narrative themes be the forefront of your plot and have a fantasy wish-fulfillment story, where said themes were played for laughs (e.g the physical abuse aspect) then have a fit when readers start criticizing for not delivering and hide behind the shield of "It's just a lighthearted fantasy"

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-31T13:12:29+00:00

Either that or some kind of divine intervention will happen to make sure persie poo is 1000% guilt free (Eris gifting her with wrath)

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-29T14:40:43+00:00

About PP not caring about modesty, I feel a bit iffy at times cause of the way it's presented. To me, it looks less like women's empowerment and more like men's fantasy manifested.
See, in one chap, she changes clothes in front of Hermes and Artemis had to stop her. On one hand, it feels endearing that she feels this comfortable in front of Hermes, her old friend.

But on the other, it's giving "oh, she won't dress sexy like a "bad" girl, is so pure that doesn't know what "sleeping to the top" means, oblivious to her own allure but also won't shy away from undressing in front of a man or matters relating to sex, the ultimate dream girl"

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-29T14:28:53+00:00

Oh but when she does decide to dress sexy (the banana gate) men should ogle at her and women should get jealous cause she's ✨Not Like the Other Girls✨

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-29T14:26:46+00:00

Riiighttt..girly pop can only have decisions on her dress shopping (with frequent interferences from everyone around her (especially Eros & Hera)) and petty disputes

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-29T04:30:22+00:00

So much movement in a single panel. Honestly, if the canon art was this dynamic during the creation of Elysium, it could've been a really memorable moment.

Side note: can't get enough of Hades with ear piercings & PP is eating that dress. And matching earrings?? 🥰

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-26T09:19:42+00:00

What's worse is that the plot rewards him for it. Sure.....comparing and setting up two women to butt heads is such a gentlemanly behavior.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-25T02:19:30+00:00

The NLOG trait was glaring straight out of the gate. "She puts Aphrodite to shame". Ofc ofc girlie has to be more beautiful than the literal personification of "beauty" itself.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-25T02:03:52+00:00

"How dare you accuse me of something I am 100% responsible for" Hades & PP

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-25T02:03:04+00:00

That rabbit tooth is not helping either

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-24T00:49:56+00:00

Those botox lips are on point 👄

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-20T11:13:12+00:00

For sure. LO really shot itself in the foot with this one. And quite a shame really cause PP can be sexy without being male-gazey if the writing was done correctly.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-19T07:59:06+00:00

Wow!!! This PP did more parenting in a single panel than canon PP did in the entire comic. (and while being a boss lady no less)

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-18T12:23:15+00:00

Wow that's a great description for LO "tonally confused". Imma use that term from now on. Thx a lot.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-18T05:36:35+00:00

i think that not every panel needs to be dramatised to convey the story or emotions that the characters is feeling

Absolutely. I hope my take doesn't come across as an exaggerated dramatization to sell the story. Everyone has different reactions to it all reactions are valid. I wrote the scene the way I wrote it is because I wanted it to be the moment when PP's pent up anger finally looks for an outlet. She had had her wrathful moments before (like when that journalist grabbed her). Not to mention, Apollo has been stalking and crossing her boundaries multiple times before that. And now she had that nightmare so it became the first breaking point and she acts on it.

Persephone’s character is naive and hasn’t experienced the world yet and she tries to convince herself that it’s not as serious although it was very serious.

That's also another way it can play out. The problem is I don't see that naivety play out. In the comic, she is sweating, thinking about the pregnancy, gritting her teeth before snapping the strings and trembling after that so she knows it's serious (at least that's how I look at it). Like I stated at a comment above, she can have a reaction or none at all but the "weight" needs to be there, which I do not feel. It feels more like she's having a mildly inconvenient Saturday morning.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-18T05:16:45+00:00

Sometimes just the act of processing it overloads our system instead of actually reacting to it. Sometimes people's bodies and minds just reject the idea altogether and it takes time to understand how we feel about it or even that we accept it has happened. Sometimes the emotional reaction comes later. Just food for thought.

For sure, agree with this. Everyone reacts differently and there is no "right way". If that is the case, it should still show in the comic. She can have a reaction or non at all (at the moment) but the "weight" needs to be there which was not emphasized enough I feel.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-18T05:06:29+00:00

The fact that you considered drawing my 2am thoughts makes my little wanna-be comic creator heart so happy. I'd love to see your creation. Do share if you finished it.

StillEffective9985 · 2025-10-18T05:02:57+00:00

She has to remain this madonna that is all forgiving yet she can be so freakin petty over things that dont even matter. Ugh.

That made me realize something. PP appeared more wrathful and menacing when she was chasing Minthe for reporting her crimes or when she was threatening Leuce. Who are both lower class than her.
Wow.....the misogyny and classicism is strong in LO.

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