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Lena ([personal profile] barkinmad) wrote2008-12-23 10:40 pm

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So, if I wrote a show or movie or something about the Greek gods living on a college campus or going to high school, would anyone read it?

This all started with my idea of writing "PANDORA" on someone's present, giving it to them, and seeing if they would still open it.

[identity profile] cookie-simone.livejournal.com 2008-12-24 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Probably.

I'd totes open a box that said "Pandora" on it.

[identity profile] revieloutionne.livejournal.com 2008-12-24 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Of course people would read it! It's been done before in quite a few ways. I would definitely look into "Class of the Titans" to make sure you're not too close to that (I haven't seen, but the impression I get is that it's gods-in-HS AS SUPERHEROES as though gods-in-HS wouldn't work on it's own...), and there's a webcomic I used to follow (wish I could remember its name...) that's got some gods-on-campus going on, but there're other things and the myth part's fairly focused on Artemis, Apollo, and the Furies, and even that was drawing most of it's drama from the non-mythical characters back when I read, so you've got plenty of other room to work with without being cramped for finding how to be different.

I mean, look at all the petty interpersonal drama going on with all the gods. They were pretty much in high school already! Why do you have to add anything to the adaptation?

[identity profile] jimmiefearsylar.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Would I read that?! Of course I would. I heartily endorse any and all writings based on mythology. (Well, not any, but yours is not just "any".) This is evidenced by the fact that once I read your post and started to formulate my reply, I decided to exchange my old George Harrison ::rambling:: icon (which I had been wanting to retire since about ten minutes after I uploaded it)for this brand-spanking new Hermes ::rambling:: icon. Or maybe it's a Mercury. Either way, write it! And then I can make fanart for it! I may or may not have an entire folder of mythological drawings that I make in my spare time on my computer. And maybe a bunch of half-written funny poems based on myths. If I was a person who finished things, I'd do something with them.