feotakahari | (no subject)

I like lamias, because if you trace the myth back far enough, they're not so much girls who are serpents as girls who have serpents, if you catch my drift. In the really old mythology, lamias are treated as horrifying and disgusting, and their genitals are their most disgusting part of all. Then later you have the lamias who are beautiful but evil, and in contemporary fiction, you have lamias who are cute and friendly. They're moving towards acceptance at the same time those of us with a less-than-conventional relationship with gender are moving towards acceptance.