But the story is fundamentally attached to the real history, interwoven with it, and it's just generally understood as part of the "lore" of a real life community
-
-
And see you're gonna say Spider-Man is like that and you can, like, point to the Empire State Building and say he swung off of it and I'm saying no you couldn't I'm going to die on the hill that it actually is fundamentally different
2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes -
You can make jokes about crazy nerds who can't tell fiction from reality but the fact is we all know that Spider-Man was a totally made up thing within living memory that was purchased as an entertainment product and judged by its customers on how entertaining it was
2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes -
People actively choose to care about Spider-Man or not to care about Spider-Man, they choose whether they're into DC or Marvel or neither or both They write their own superhero story that gets a niche fandom in online communities They decide what's canon based on their tastes
2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes -
A mythology isn't like that It's something you just inherit, as part of your connection to a real life community As such by its nature it's the kind of thing that's old fashioned and uncool and dying out, and being replaced with fiction, which is not the same
3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes -
And this distinction and transition matters We do not relate to fiction the way we do mythology and someone whose life is heavily affected by the consumption of fiction is different than someone whose life is heavily affected by mythology I'm not saying it's bad, it just is
3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes -
It's worth noting that many specific written works through which we get our knowledge of mythology are not, in and of themselves, "the myth" Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is not in and of itself the myth of Oedipus, it's a play *about* the myth
2 replies 3 retweets 16 likes -
So our discussion of this gets confused Like, no, I don't think Sophocles was doing something fundamentally different when he wrote a play as when someone writes a Batman screenplay
1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes -
The difference is the Sophocles' play was understood as being about a myth while Batman is about pure fiction
1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes -
Sophocles' play is like Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ or Frank Miller's 300.
1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
Or, for that matter, like Hamilton or like Hadestown
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.