So after 10+ years on tumblr, I’m finally changing my icon to recommend another French-language comic, “Médée,” written by Blandine Le Callet and illustrated by Nancy Peña.
If you like Medea and Greek mythology retellings, I can’t recommend it enough. It doesn’t make any drastic changes to the original myth, but the writing is very touching and the illustrations are, obviously, gorgeous.
Description: An illustration of the battle weary sailor scouts, in varying states of disarray, sitting, slumping, and lying on a bench and each other. Except for Moon, who has chosen the ground in the back.
“This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it was written by a preteen, and most of such things posted publicly are fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it has a focus on character and relationships, like the style of a lot of modern fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it keeps referencing people and events with the assumption that the audience is already familiar with them, like how fanfic doesn’t need to rehash the source material)”
Some further suggestions from the notes:
“This reads like fanfiction (it’s a love story for the ages as long as you can overlook that the author keeps misspelling ‘you're’)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (you can tell the author was having a blast writing this and now so do you reading it)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the author is clearly info-dumping about a very niche hobby of theirs that they’re passionate about)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the characters keep getting put in increasingly weirder situations which you’d normally only find in fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the author felt the need to rehash the characters from when they were first introduced instead of after several years’ worth of character growth)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it had no editor)”
get out there and prove love. create and build and fill the void with pieces of yourself that ONLY YOU can bring into this timeline and watch as they illuminate the darkness. you are infinitely rare so they have no choice but to sparkle and crackle and glow
