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Blog by Cory "Ovid" O'Brien in which he recounts myths and legends from various cultures in his own irreverent vernacular. Also features some multi-part video retellings.The subjects covered on the blog include Classical Mythology, Norse Mythology, The Bible, Arthurian Legend, Fairy Tales, Celtic Mythology, Arabian Nights, Native American Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, Hindu Mythology, Japanese Mythology, the Cthulhu Mythos, the works of William Shakespeare, and more.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A collection of the myths (along with several new ones) has been published as Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology. A second collection, focusing on American history, mythology, and folklore has been published as George Washington is Cash Money: A No-Bullshit Guide to the United Myths of America.The blog itself is found here. His multi-part video retellings can be found on his Youtube channel. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: Apparently The Iliad did the nasty with her. Your dad too. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Billy the Kid has "an Irish mom and an invisible dad." | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: A key element of Ovid's writing style. | |
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Attention Whore | |
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Attention Whore: In the Exodus videos, God makes events unnecessarily protracted to give Himself more chances to show off, because He wants to be "famous~!" | |
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Metaphorgotten: Used from time to time, such as in "Medea Kind of Sucks Also". | |
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Record Needle Scratch | |
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Record Needle Scratch: Inserted into a myth in "It is hard for Set to not be a douchebag". | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: Inevitable and unavoidable with the content of many of the myths, especially ones concerning Zeus. Ovid goes out of his way to laugh only at the ridiculousness of the rapes (as many involve weird myth stuff like turning people into animals) or people reacting to it in blase or irrational ways (such as falling in love with the rapist, or punishing the victim), rather than just laughing at the act of rape in itself. | |
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The All-Solving Hammer | |
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The All-Solving Hammer: In "The Bible Took Out All the Coolest Shit About Solomon," when the title character gets another case to judge. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The sultan in "This Turkish Princess Gets a Little Salty," who orders his daughter executed because she used the wrong simile. | |
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No Punctuation Period | |
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No Punctuation Period: The earlier stories had very little punctuation; with time Ovid shed even what little there was, so that most of his myths are completely unpunctuated (emphasis and pacing is provided instead by line/paragraph breaks and frequent use of ALL CAPS). | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: In "WHOOPS": | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In "The Miller is one Drunk Motherfucker": | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
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Satellite Love Interest: Ovid notes that the princess from Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf is an extreme example of this, considering she does not say or do anything in the entire story. invoked | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: These are myths. They are being retold. | |
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Work Off the Debt | |
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Work Off the Debt: Little Ajax offers to wash Athena's dishes to atone for rape. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The multi-part video myths tend to go this way. For instance, part one of the Genesis series was called "Did somebody say GENESIS?", and subsequent entries continued to speculate on whether or not anybody had indeed said Genesis. | |
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Familial Cannibalism Surprise | |
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Familial Cannibalism Surprise: Referenced in an Overly-Long Gag in "This Turkish Princess Gets a Little Salty," which features a dinnertime revelation that isn't this for once. | |
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Judgment of Solomon | |
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Judgment of Solomon: One of the stories unique to Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes covers the original. Solomon himself is incredulous at the response. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Medea is a "barbarian witch robot dinosaur." | |
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no punctuation is funnier | |
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no punctuation is funnier: The writing uses very Little punctuation, and is written like your average tweet or Tumblr post. | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene: Ovid often goes shirtless in his videos. He lampshades this in part 4 of his Inferno retelling. | |
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A Rare Sentence | |
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A Rare Sentence: In "Robin Hood is for Pussies": | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "ENOUGH with the cows": In George Washington is Cash Money: | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Space Whale Aesop: A natural result of trying to synthesize a moral out of most mythology. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: In "Krishna is a Butterface", Krishna uses the divine effulgence of the many precious gems on his body to help him steal the neighbors' butter. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Several ones. Dwarves sure do love themselves some gold. Like, carnally. Consulting the Oracle at Delphi is a terrible, stupid idea. Ovid keeps sniggering at anything that sounds a little dirty. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: He often shows extensive knowledge of the myths he is retelling, such as pointing out how Beatrice in The Divine Comedy is actually based on a woman that Dante basically stalked in real life. | |
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