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[barkinmad]

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.

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[barkinmad]

PRETTY MUCH, BUT JUST WITH GREEK GODS.

[barkinmad]

I LIKED CLONE HIGH.

[cookie_simone]

Probably.

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

[barkinmad]

I know you would XD

[revieloutionne]

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?

[barkinmad]

Class of the Titans kind of looks like it's one of those shows where they have a bunch of normal teens who have Greek legend powers bestowed upon them? Which is pretty far from what I had in mind. My version was just going to be the Gods themselves attending university, flunking out, having one night stands with each other, turning a random townie into a cow. Stuff like that.

[revieloutionne]

Olympus is a frat house.

Granted, I go to Miami University, where there's this grand tradition of naming your house and having signs up, which I honestly thought was just a college thing in general for my first couple years here, so the idea of a named house isn't weird to me.

On the other hand, having named houses (and apartments, if need be) can help scale down the geography. The quest for the golden fleece? Some poor girl probably lost some underwear.

[barkinmad]

I was thinking that all the dorm rooms and apartments could be named like Greek cities, such as Athens and Sparta (jock central). Ares is a quarterback.

And frat houses already have Greek letters, so why change them? Which is mainly the reason I decided to make this college instead of high school in the first place.

[jimmiefearsylar]

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.