Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 273
February 18, 2019
Ahh, mommy writers, my respects to you ✊ because I not also have one but 2 toddlers running around, and it’s so hard. You try to write when they take a nap, but there’s a million other things to do around the house that can’t be left undone. But I was wo
You fuckin said it woman!!!
I can’t even imagine what having two would be like. And I won’t have to, actually because I’m getting the wires cut next week. LOL not because of the baby, but because I’ve been in the “One and Done (if that)” camp for all my adult life.
Oh… speaking of, and I hate to do this, because I just took a week off due to illness, I’m going to have to take another two weeks after the next update.I will need to recover from having my Fallopian tubes removed (hey… in this fucking country, with the way things are going, it’s the safest option for someone who doesn’t want anymore children). So the update schedule is thus:
February 20: The Zeus / Hera ChapterMarch 6: The Next Update
I drew out a full timeline of all the events leading up the Abduction a long time ago that I’ll have to dig up at some point. It has some oddities and isn’t framed in BCE terms, but I did want to place some overlay on human history. For example, the Titanomachy is ten years long and takes place about 40K years before the events of the main story, which would put it somewhere in the Upper Paleolithic, the end of the last Ice Age.
Persephone was born the day the war ended. About two thousand years later, Athena emerges. Another two thousand years later, Ares and Hermes are born. A couple thousand years pass and Hera births Hephaestus. Then Artemis and Apollo are born around the same time.
The Eleusinian Mysteries start up right before Persephone’s first winter descent, and she is the one who essentially starts them, with Eumolpus. By the time The Good Counselor begins they are in full swing.
I hope that helps and thank you so much for the
Random Receiver of Many Headcannon #3
Persephone goes barefoot everywhere. The only time she wears sandals is in the Underworld, mostly because of the freezing floors in the palace, and even then, she often forgets them, much to Aidon’s constant amusement.
The feud between Thanatos and Hecate is almost as old as Hecate. Thanatos pursued a young Hecate after she became Nyx’s student and before she took the vows to be a perpetual virgin. She rejected him— badly. He didn’t take it well and later ended up sleeping with one of Hecate’s virgin acolytes. When Hecate found out, she put a curse on his virility that she only lifted at the insistence of Nyx. They’ve been on bad terms ever since, and have aeons of tit-for-tat enmity piled up against the other.
When Persephone comes home to Hades in the fall, everyone knows not to knock on the door to their private quarters for at least a week.
Hermes constantly fidgets.
During the war, Hades had a much better relationship with Poseidon than he ever did with Zeus.
What major gods and goddesses have visited the underworld? Or is Hades like no visitors, have a purpose or leave.
There was Athena, when she was assisting Perseus in his quest.
Aidon is also friends with Hephaestus, who often goes to him for the best raw materials and they have a nice little barter system worked out.
Hermes, of course.
Zeus has been to the Underworld, but rarely since the War.
Demeter hasn’t been below since the War.
Anything else would be too spoilery so I’ll leave it at that.
February 17, 2019
Rachel-senpai, in the stories you'll write about Ares and Aphrodite, I kinda want to see your elaboration of their children's characters. I'm sure you know a few, like Eros and Harmonia, because with your fabulous writing, I'm sure it'll be interesting...A
Yes! I definitely do have plans for that, and have plans to write specifically about their children.
Thank you for responding! I very much agree, I just wanted to ask because I work with a Young Adult reviewer's website is all. I wanted to be 100% certain. Thanks again!
Hey you’re welcome! I 100% do not recommend my books to minors. I know that there’s a lot over overlap in YA with adult readers and that YA has become a catch all for a lot of otherwise quite adult issues-themed books, but with all the overlap in the genre with underage readers I would be profoundly uncomfortable having my books appear on a YA reviewer’s site.
Thank you though!!
Does Persephone make plants grow when she orgasms? I got the impression from the asphodel with her first wet dream and how the pomegranate grove seemed to thrive the more sex she and Hades had.
Yes with an if, no with a but.
In the world above, yes definitely.
Persephone creates flowers conscientiously and with strong emotion. (There was also that time where she and Aidon got together after not seeing each other for three months right after she dealt with Sisyphus.)
As far as the pomegranate grove is concerned, the grove matured in step with their relationship maturing and growing closer. It had to exist before Elysion could be created, and Elysion could only be created by way of the hieros gamos. So that was beyond hers and Aidoneus’s particular control.
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