Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 188
August 16, 2019
Hi, there! I love your story "Receiver of Many" and I do like HadesxPersephone; so I want to ask you a question. Since I've read your post regarding the "Why I don't ship Hades and Persepone", I would like to know this, what are the negatives to you in the
All right. I think that a complex question deserves a complex answer, so I decided to break this down into three sections. Issues I have with the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, issues I have with Metamorphoses by Ovid, and issues I have with modern interpretations…
Trigger Warnings: Rape, Abduction, Emotional Abuse
therkalexander:
“I don’t care what power or wealth they had in...
“I don’t care what power or wealth they had in life. They can’t take it with them, though many think they can. They think it will sway me, somehow. Mortals and immortals alike say many things about me in the world above. But my reputation for being inexorable is well earned,” Hades said.
Persephone smiled wryly. Draped down the front of her clothes were more jewels than the oldest, richest dynasty could hope to acquire in all its generations, much less a single mortal in a short lifetime. Any one of the rubies in her hair could ransom a princess.
— from Destroyer of Light (sequel to Receiver of Many)
August 15, 2019
imfemalewarrior:
maaarine:
Emily Wilson: On Gender and Being the...
Emily Wilson: On Gender and Being the First Woman to Translate Homer’s Odyssey into English
I have her version of the translation, I still just need to read it haha
…after the library books I got since those are on a deadline.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
foxspur-deactivated20150809:
a preserved human heart in a...
a preserved human heart in a leaden case, discovered in the medieval crypt of a church in Cork, Ireland and collected by General Pitt Rivers in the 1860s
August 14, 2019
Any suggestions on how to cope till ‘The good councillor is published’. Like. Send help.
Lol you find one you let me know
August 13, 2019
salemwitchtrials:
[ID: excerpt from ‘Eurydice,’ a poem by...
[ID: excerpt from ‘Eurydice,’ a poem by Margaret Atwood
“You would rather have gone on feeling nothing,
emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace
of the deepest sea, which is easier
than the noise and flesh of the surface.”]
