Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 154
December 19, 2019
extemplumdei:If I buy anymore pomegranate shit or incense or say the word dís or chthonic, my mum...
If I buy anymore pomegranate shit or incense or say the word dís or chthonic, my mum will duct tape my mouth shut.
So I asked if Hades was ok & she threw my Krampus jumper at me.
She looked behind her to see him running after her, yelling for...
She looked behind her to see him running after her, yelling for her. The great beast sat in the field behind him, blood red tongues lolling out of its mouths. She ran harder. She was almost to the river. She was going to go home, and be free of this gray waste. Persephone would feel the sun and the wind, see the green fields and her mother again.
December 18, 2019
l2g:
jarchivistsims:
sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they...
l2g:
sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down
this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard
December 17, 2019
ladynorbert:
thepsychicclam:
athenadark:
la-knight:
bettieleetwo:
geekinlibrariansclothing:
tou...
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.
The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
December 16, 2019
Has Hades ever met Aphrodite?
Not yet!!! ;)
therkalexander:
““Why didn’t you tell me?” she whispered. “Tell you what?” “You said your name was...
““Why didn’t you tell me?” she whispered. “Tell you what?” “You said your name was Aidon. You are Hades,” she said aloud, his true name heavy on her tongue. “Why did you lie to me?” He found the will to put distance between them and stood, facing her. “I prefer to be called Aidoneus; Aidon for short. Hades means too many things. It was the name my father gave me. It is the name the mortals give my realm,” he said, kneeling in front of her and lifting her chin to face him. “It’s a name that would have lost you to me.””—
Writing #TheGoodCounselor always pairs best with a #pomegranate...
Writing #TheGoodCounselor always pairs best with a #pomegranate
And yes, those are @coloricioso ‘s chickens
December 15, 2019
heywriters:There truly is a difference between “whispered” and “said...
Who wants to hear my theory that these rules were all codified by dudes who wouldn’t, couldn’t, or didn’t develop the ability to read tone because it is more important to them to just steamroll conversations than it is to listen?There truly is a difference between “whispered” and “said quietly.”
You can even write “said softly” or “in a low tone” and each evokes something slightly different when read. Do not take the No Adverbs advice so hard. So much of dialogue is tonal, so when you need a different word use it. Don’t sacrifice meaning and character in important scenes for the sake of a “rule.”
