The first crack!fic fandom -- Greek mythology.

[gryphonrhi]

No, really.

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[adina_atl]

The Odyssey seems like a hell of a lot of hurt to very little comfort. So it might qualify as OMG!Angst--except that Oedipus Rex makes the Odyssey look like fluff!fic.

[gryphonrhi]

::nodding:: Yeah, it really is. Especially since I seem to remember that Odysseus died by one of his own poison weapons later. Definitely angst there!

But I definitely think it's also the original crack fic, where anything could (and did) happen.

[mzlizzy]

And don't forget that there is no such thing as 'out of character'. Gods behaive however they want to, and to hell with what they've done before.

[gryphonrhi]

::cheerful:: So very true. Worse! There were multiple versions of the same storyline! (Gee, this sounds familiar!)

[sockkpuppett]

Wahhh! You've made me miss my Bulfinch! This is wonderful. :)

[gryphonrhi]

::giggling:: Thank you! There I was, innocently reading Greek myths and going, 'Er, wait, didn't I just read an SGA fic that did that?' And then I thought about it and started laughing and listing crack fic tropes and I couldn't think of *anything* that Greek myth hadn't done. Frequently more than once. It was great fun!

[ann_i_blessing]

Add to homosexuality long before Sappho's poetry merited her name as Muse: Athene and her very BFF Pallas the mortal. Diana and, well, anybody... Of course since it didn't muddle the genealogy, maybe they didn't care.

[gryphonrhi]

Interestingly enough, the Pallas I've run into so far... is a Titan whose hide Athena used as armor while fighting other Titans.

::grinning:: And yeah, Artemis and her huntresses do kinda make you wonder, don't they?

[ann_i_blessing]

Hmm. Haven't heard of Titan Pallas, considering what Pallas means, but that goes with the Aegis, Medusa's head, isn't it? I'll have to go find my copy of Graves' Greek Mythology...

[gryphonrhi]

::nodding:: That does go along with the Aegis, yes. Makes me wonder if one's an alternate version of the other, too.