I'm Free

[philippos42]

Last night it hit me. I don't have to write Wonder Woman(I mean, I know I have no discipline to write narrative, I've been thinking about this idly for over a decade & nothing has come from it or ever will. I knew that. No, something else

Comments

[misterandersen]

I was thinking a little while go that you could reinterpret Wonder Woman using a Captain Marvel/She-Ra model utilising that basic supporting cast set up

[philippos42]

I'm thinking of having godlike beings that are something other than familiar anthropomorphic figures from mythology books. Not tied to one cultural myth-set. More like the Phoenix in Tezuka's stories, perhaps.

[misterandersen]

Moving away from the familiar greco-roman mythology would be a start. However, centering the action around a mythology in a museum does seem to require an actual mythology to hang things off. You could go the route of animism where folks are the avatars of certain concepts and natural forces rather than servants of gods meant to be responsible for them.

blue-skyin' brainstormin'

[philippos42]

Well, I'm wondering just how far I can go off the "Museum of Antiquities" mission & get similar effects. I still want weird archeology, but within a sort of geography/anthropology/archeology mix, which gets the antiquities in there but potentially opens it up to other story hooks. Some of it might be connected more to "natural history" or biogeography.

Maybe there are different departments for various sciences, & they have rotating shows, & not!Diana's duties include looking out for monstrous plants that try to eat the visitors as well as cursed artifacts.

Re: blue-skyin' brainstormin'

[misterandersen]

Have you considered cryptoarchaeology?