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What Is Myth I Don’t Even

You’d think by now I would have accepted that Hollywood just cannot make a movie about Greek mythology that’s at least one-quarter decent.

Looking at IM rants today to/from [info]mythologiced about a movie that is coming out this year, apparently not.

The thing is a lot of changes these movies make are just unnecessary and out of the blue. Look at Immortals: the movie is about Theseus opposing a king of Crete, so why Phaedra and not Ariadne? Why this King Hyperion instead of King Minos? And that’s just barely scratching the surface with this one.

Yeah, I know that Greek myth has many versions of the same story and that the timelines are forever out of sync with what is reasonable. But this isn’t picking one variant of the story – this isn’t even Euripides with his AU fanfics, complete with author’s note at the front explaining how it’s an AU.

Why can’t there be something that isn’t just… utter crap?

NaNo: Day 17

So it’s the 17th of November, aka day 17 of NaNo. I have yet to start writing for today (it’s 10.41am) and currently my total is 21 250.

I’m aware that I am behind on NaNo, but I am not bothered by this at all. Last year I only reached 25 000 words in the entire month, so being nearly there in just over half that time makes me feel really really good about myself. I wrote about 2000 words yesterday, which helped catch up a little.

In other news, I got a $10 discount voucher from MightyApe to use for my birthday. I promptly pre-ordered The Vampire Diaries on DVD. :) I got up to about episode seven, then missed about four and it just became a hassle trying to catch up. With about two months until release at the time, I just decided to wait for the box set and watch it all then. Woo. :D