The 10th Muse [possible satire]
“We’re a progressive pantheon after all”
Abstract
The Greek Pantheon of ~2022 AD decides it is high time to hire a 10th muse, in charge of the interactive arts. Thus, it hires Arielle (Regina King, e.g.: in Jerry Maguire), an Afro-American woman, who is happy to be among the first Black hires in a whites-dominated Pantheon. (Reference.)
Other planned episodes:
Athena takes a bet with Dionysus that she will remain under control after getting drunk, and loses more than just the bet…
Hera was convinced to seduce Zeus, and they both hate the new situation because it voids all the excitement.
An annual reenactment of The Trojan War, with Achilles getting killed using a bazooka, and the Trojan horse being a Trojan pony shaped like Princess Celestia.
Fanfic: parody, crossover, RPF, self-reference.
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Sources
- Version control repository for the screenplay’s source on GitHub. It is useful for cloning, sending pull requests, and filing bugs/issues in the bug tracker
Sources of Inspiration
“The face that launched a thousand ships”
Rachel Platten’s “1,000 Ships” song - Made me recall the phrase (or possibly become familiar with it in the first place). I also think it is a good song.
Licensing
This work uses some characters and concepts from real life, from other copyrighted works, and from works that are already Public Domain.
All the text in The 10th Muse is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike licence Unported (CC-by-nc-sa) (either version 4.0, or at your option any later version), but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.