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Revision as of 19:58, 30 January 2014
Blog by "The Great Ovid" in which he recounts myths and legends from various cultures in his own irreverent vernacular. Also features some multi-part video retellings.
The mythologies covered on the blog include Classical Mythology, Norse Mythology, The Bible, Arthurian Mythology, Fairy Tales, Celtic Mythology, Arabian Nights, Native American Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, Hindu Mythology, Japanese Mythology, The Cthulhu Mythos, the works of William Shakespeare, and more.
A dead-tree edition is in the works.
Found here.
This blog contains examples of:
- All Lowercase Letters
- Boring Invincible Hero: Ovid sees Sir Galahad as this.
- Cargo Ship: Dwarves take their love of gold a touch too far.
- Cluster F-Bomb
- Edutainment: Sort of.
- Evil Laugh: In "WHOOPS":
and then he's like goodnight girls |
- Exactly What It Says On the Tin: These are myths. They are being retold.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The multi-part video myths tend to go this way. For instance, part one of the Genesis series was called "Did somebody say GENESIS?", and subsequent entries continued to speculate on whether or not anybody had indeed said Genesis.
- Metaphorgotten: Used from time to time, such as in "Medea Kind of Sucks Also".
so medea has effectively killed 2 birds with one stone |
- No Punctuation Period: The earlier stories had very little punctuation; with time Ovid shed even what little there was, so that most of his myths are completely unpunctuated (emphasis and pacing is provided instead by line/paragraph breaks and frequent use of ALL CAPS).
- A Rare Sentence: In "Robin Hood is for Pussies":
so the next morning the thief shows up at the count's place |
- Record Needle Scratch: Inserted into a myth in "It is hard for Set to not be a douchebag".
- Running Gag: Dwarves sure do love themselves some gold. Like, carnally.
- Also, consulting the Oracle at Delphi is a terrible, stupid idea.
- Ovid sniggering at anything that sounds a little dirty.
but the place where daphne finally gets tired |
- Sophisticated As Hell: A key element of Ovid's writing style.
one of my favorite things about having this blog |
- Space Whale Aesop: A natural result of trying to synthesize a moral out of most mythology.
so the moral of the story |
- Spoof Aesop: Each story ends with this kind of moral, generally a Space Whale Aesop (see above), or a Warped Aesop (see below).
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "ENOUGH with the cows":
and the gods go and bring it to fenrir |
- Warped Aesop: The other natural result of trying to synthesize morals out of mythology.
moral of the story |
- Your Mom: Apparently The Iliad did the nasty with her. Your dad too.