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Is the great leveler a possible book title?

Nope but that would be a pretty damn good short story title if I get around to writing about Tantalus

To Persephone

winestainedpoetry:

Sweet incense fills my nose

As my hands beat the ground

Crying out to You, Goddess.

Sweet Sȏteira,
I feel your presence.

You fill my mind with thoughts of flowers,

And remind me that roses have their thorns,

And that other flowers drip death as their nectar.

Praxidike, thorns and poison are Your gifts,

To Your followers and flowers alike.

You among all understand helplessness,

And what it means to be powerless.

You give me thorns and tell me

The most beautiful things

Are the most dangerous.

ectopicarcher:Aesthetics for the Gods - Persephone...

ectopicarcher:

Aesthetics for the Gods - Persephone Praxidike

Persephone, goddess of spring and Queen of the Underworld. Her epithet, Praxidike relates to justice and vengeance, a fitting title for a queen of the subterranean, and perfectly representing the tenacity of the goddess.

Requested by @nightshadeandroses 

Requests are still open

I really liked the scene where Hermes walked in on Hades and Persephone (the gemstone pool was so beautifully described) I just wish it wasn’t 69ing but idk maybe gods can give and receive pleasure at the same time and smell better than people.

Well, in a book where I have ephemeral fingerfucking, a mile-high-club chariot fuck to the Underworld and a scene where our heroine has six orgasms in a row, anything is possible, right?

Are you familiar with the website Theoi? It's my go-to resource when it comes to the Greek gods.

It’s an excellent database. I’ve used it to cross reference some of the more obscure myths, ngl

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Remember when Tumblr just invented a Greek god

Oh @hyena-bro my sweet summer child, allow me to tell you the story of Mesperyian, the goddess who never was and never will be.

So it all started with this tumblr post, right?

And obviously people mentioned the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone, and the benefits of answering such goddesses as the most beautiful. But then Tumblr user 28weekslaterhater mentioned to answer the goddess Mesperyian (most beloved daughter of Hades) as the most beautiful. According to them, “jealous ho” Aphrodite burnt half of Mesperyian’s face off in a blind rage for being more beautiful than her.

This post began to spread to the fact-check-less masses of Tumblr, and more mythology sprouted up about this so-called “Mesperyian”, how she was the goddess of torture and punishment (even though a goddess of punishment already existed) and had to wear a cool mask because of the aforementioned face burning.

Everyone took it as gospel for years until various Tumblr users pointed out “hey if you happen to just… look up this goddess, the only thing you’ll find is this Tumblr post”. After that, it had been exposed that Mesperyian never fucking existed and that Tumblr user just completely made them up on the fly.

And that’s how Tumblr invented a Greek goddess

that’s religion babe!

The real gods are the ones we made along the way

On the front lines. Oh gods how I fucking hated this chapter of Tumblr history….

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bluenote7:

Narcissus

gejianxin:In The Late Afternoon

gejianxin:

In The Late Afternoon

alessandro-accebbi:Narcissus by Magda Indigo

alessandro-accebbi:

Narcissus by Magda Indigo

Made it through. #bilateralsalpingectomy...

Made it through. #bilateralsalpingectomy

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