Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 175
October 11, 2019
THE BIG NEWS
Receiver of Many and Destroyer of Light are being shopped for a possible TV series or movie!!!
Excited to be working with my new Executive Producer Summer Helene to bring Hades and Persephone to life… #Hollywood here we come!
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
October 10, 2019
onemuseleft:
anarfea:
People keep asking “How can anyone have a problem with AO3 doing...
People keep asking “How can anyone have a problem with AO3 doing fundraising!”
And I’m just like…. Have people not noticed all the virulent anti-AO3 hate on tumblr propagated by the anti shipping community? Antis have a problem with AO3 raising money because they hate the fact that AO3 won’t allow them to censor content they don’t like and doesn’t tolerate bullying. That’s who is putting out these posts like, “how can this nasty site raise so much money?” Read between the lines.
And for all the people who are just like, “If they don’t want AO3 to to raise money why don’t they just not donate?”
Because antis are incapable of saying “this isn’t for me so I won’t support it but I don’t care if other people support it. They have to actively discourage other people from supporting the thing. At the same time, they also won’t stop using AO3 because 1) they’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites who want readership and that’s where the readers are and 2) they’re too lazy to put together their own archive using AO3′s open source code because that would require doing coding and buying servers and doing all the moderating they want, which is hard, and they just want to engage in empty virtue signalling, which is easy
Anyway, my point is, people need to be aware that these people are out there and they hate AO3 and they want it to go away even though they’re actively using the platform. They’ve even said they want AO3 to fail so something “better” (re, something they control) can take its place. Some of them are blatant about it, calling AO3 a cesspit of pedophilia, and some of them are subtle about it, saying more innocuous things like ‘Does AO3 really need 130K a year?” “Shouldn’t you give your money to individual needy people doing gofundmes for stuff that’s more more important?”
But all of these people have the same end goal, which is the destruction of the archive, and the way they’re going about it right now is to try to discourage people from donating.
So instead of asking, “Why do people object to AO3 raising money?” start telling people “Hey there are people out there who hate AO3 and want to destroy it and we have to protect the archive from them.” And donate, if you can, and signal boost, if you can’t.
Anyway, everytime someone on my dash bitches about Ao3 I donate another ten bucks so. Keep it up, antis.
October 9, 2019
ancientorigins:These are the stairs in the Palace of Knossos. It...
These are the stairs in the Palace of Knossos. It was built 4000 years ago, making it the oldest palace in Europe
thoodleoo:
when people create revisionist greek myth retellings to empower the minorities who...
when people create revisionist greek myth retellings to empower the minorities who weren’t treated well in the original myths
when people make up random shit and claim that it was the “””original””” greek myth in order to erase that those terrible things happened in mythology
October 8, 2019
a-gnosis:
Inktober 10: Pomegranate.
but he himselfgave her to...
Inktober 10: Pomegranate.
but he himself
gave her to eat a honey-sweet pomegranate seed,
contriving secretly about her, so that she might not spend
all her days again with dark-robed, revered Demeter.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis.
This incident has traditionally been interpreted as an example of a widespread folk belief that if one eats the food of the dead, one must remain with them. However, since the food chosen for Persephone is not just any netherworld food, but the pomegranate seed, some scholars suggest that there is an additional significance to its appearance here.
Christopher A. Faraone points out in Ancient Greek Love Magic that the scene with Hades and Persephone recalls the wedding ceremony of Athenian epikleroi (heiresses, daughters to men who had no male heirs. They usually had to marry the father’s nearest male relative) who were given a quince to eat before they were led to the bridal chamber.
Charles Penglase, who argues in Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod that The Homeric Hymn to Demeter was influenced by earlier Mesopotamian material, suggests that the pomegranate seed is a love-charm, since love-charms of this type closely parallell similar charms seen in Neo-Assyrian texts. Indeed, according to Faraone, there is a Neo-Assyrian text that advises men who wish to attract a certain woman to give her a pomegranate and have her suck the juices.
And yet others have suggested that the pomegranate seed is a contraceptive that will keep Persephone infertile. Even if this theory is very speculative, the fruit did have some kind of connection to anti-fertility, since medical writers sometimes prescribed the peel to be used as a contraceptive (John M. Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance).
a-gnosis:
Inktober 02: Demeter
Say, ye who dwell upon...
Inktober 02: Demeter
Say, ye who dwell upon Parnassian peaks,
Nymphs of Castalia, did old Chiron e'er
Set before Heracles a cup so brave
In Pholus’ cavern—did as nectarous draughts
Cause that Anapian shepherd, in whose hand
Rocks were as pebbles, Polypheme the strong,
Featly to foot it o'er the cottage lawns:—
As, ladies, ye bid flow that day for us
All by Demeter’s shrine at harvest-home?
Beside whose cornstacks may I oft again
Plant my broad fan: while she stands by and smiles,
Poppies and cornsheaves on each laden arm.
Theocritus, Idyll 7, The Harvest-Home, translated by C.S. Calverley
October 7, 2019
hadrian6:
The Dance of Eros. 2013-14.
Giorgio Dante. Italian...
The Dance of Eros. 2013-14.
Giorgio Dante. Italian b.1982. oil/canvas.
