Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 274
February 17, 2019
kiaranator:
sheriff-haught-sauce:
Greek dude: But…but I brought you a bouquet of olives to win...
Greek dude: But…but I brought you a bouquet of olives to win over your heart!
Sappho, lounging on a couch with her girlfriend on her lap, popping grapes into her mouth: Oh muse, singeth to us Despacito.
i let my little sapphic hands do all the work
lierdumoa:
pippin-took-my-shoe:
Reblog if you’re part of the ‘I read a lot of fan fiction and now I...
Reblog if you’re part of the ‘I read a lot of fan fiction and now I have a bizarrely accurate judgement of how long it takes me to read a particular number of words’ squad
People: This book is 500 pages long.
Me: I have no idea what that means. What’s the wordcount?
About 125,000.
Reblog if you’re an author who turned a fic into a novel and had to be very cognizant of page counts vs gutter margins.
February 16, 2019
artofelaineho:
And all my Receiver of Many fanart culminates in...
And all my Receiver of Many fanart culminates in part 3, in which Rachel so generously allowed me to create a short illustrated book based off her work. Here are a few pieces that were inside!
It’s called The Sixth Equinox, and it’s a short story of Persephone and Aidoneus’ longing for each other as they’re forced to stay apart. During this time both threaten to upend the fragile peace they made with the gods of Olympus just to be together again, and the story illustrates their temptations.
I wanted the words to link the texts and images together, where Aidon ends his part of the poem, Persephone begins hers. It was my way of showing that even though they are physically apart, they’re still together.
(doomed love and mutual pining is 100% my thing gah I love RoM so much)
Honestly I loved the process of making this book. It was this project that planted the seed in my approach to art. I wanted to express the psychology of their pain in a visual form, and that persists in my work today.
Persephone Remembering (the landscape piece you see up there) got selected for Spectrum 24, and I was lucky to have fans who found my work through here and stayed with me even when I started doing other work.
All of which wouldn’t have been possible if not for Receiver of Many and @therkalexander. I’m grateful to have you all.
also you can find The Sixth Equinox on Amazon thx so much ilu byeeee
pri0r:
Fake show poster for Receiver of Many by...
Fake show poster for Receiver of Many by kata-chthonia
Hecate and Thanatos posters accompanying this one, and a few more to come.
Proof that I think about this waaaaay too much…
Meyers Briggs Personality Types for the main characters in Receiver of Many:
Hades: INTJ
Persephone: INFJ
Demeter: ISFJ
Hecate: ENFJ
Thanatos: ESTP
Fan Art
Hi,
I’m trying to make a compendium on my blog of all the fan art you have so wonderfully and sweetly made for Receiver of Many. I’m in the process of trying to find all art, playlists, photosets, gif sets, etc. that I’ve posted here.
I have a lot of it tagged, but even with a mass post editor it’s hard to find them all. If you at any point created fan art for RoM and I didn’t yet include it in the page it is my EVERY intention to get it recognized. So if you have time to do so, please send me links to where it’s been posted on your blog so I can either reblog it or tag what I’ve already reblogged.
Thank you!
therkalexander:
Fan Art for Receiver of Many
Kore by the very...
This is probably a very stupid question but which modern era do you think Aidon and Persephone prefer? I mean do they swing the 30’s or rock the 60’s? And I think Thanatos will feel free on Halloween nights. I wish you good work and thank you for the previ
Hoh boy it’s headcanon time!
I think that the 1930s and the 1960s were actually rough on both of them.
Aidon saw thousands reach his gates from starvation, and it probably made him feel a little like when Demeter starved the earth to regain his wife. A pit in his stomach formed every subsequent year when Persephone would bring home news. Greece was locked in civil strife. The first time he heard names like ‘Metaxas’ and then ‘Mussolini’ he dismissed it. Then as each year wore on and things grew worse in Europe, he knew that he was about to face a deluge of bodies the likes of which his realm had never seen. Before the war broke out, he took Ares aside. Hades told him, given the god’s propensity for switching uniforms to whichever side was glorifying him more in battle, that if he ever, ever found out Ares had put on a German uniform he would send his wife and the Keres to hound him every day and night for the rest of his immortal life.
The 30s was a time of crisis for Aidon and Persephone.
The 60s however were about as interesting a decade for them as they’d ever seen.
Persephone, who had unleashed so much profanity and anger each year at what had started in the New Mexico desert, had horrified them at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, continued at the Bikini Atoll, in the Nevada desert, and Semipalatinsk came back genuinely shaking with fear as she descended to be with Hades in the fall of 1962.
With bated breath, they watched the Cuban Missile Crisis play out, and both spent long nights wondering if they were about to welcome all of humanity back to Chthonia at once, with no hope of the souls ever being reborn again to the world above. Demeter herself came below, weeping and fretting and both Persephone and Hades tried to calm and console her, but with no surety that they would be right or that anyone would be left to plant grain the next year. On October 28, they all sighed in relief.
And things changed. Upheavals, progress, regression, triumph, tragedy. They watched humanity take two steps forward, a step back. Hades hated the stink of napalm almost as much as he hated the stench of gunpowder. Persephone told him to meet her in San Francisco in the summer of 1967, and he was gobsmacked by the changes that had taken place in the culture. It was as if Anthesteria had returned for an entire season. He tried to balance the idea of an aggressor nation protesting its own aggression, clenched his teeth at the whiff of base self interest but saw the push for peace as a nudge in the right direction.
His pessimism was proven right little more than a year later, but Persephone told him about the Moon… about how humankind had, in part, glimpsed the good earth as her husband and she had all those thousands of years ago during their hieros gamos, as a beacon of blue in the enveloping black, as one single, fragile world. And after that, Hades knew— despite his overwhelming doubts— that civilization would eventually overcome its adolescence and figure it out.
