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June 27, 2017
persephoneandthepomegranates:
@kata-chthonia
I finally decided...
I finally decided to get paper copies and stop reading off of my phone. Plus they smell like new books
June 26, 2017
June 25, 2017
katesrick:
fangirl challenge = 3/10 books ♥ receiver of...
fangirl challenge = 3/10 books ♥ receiver of many
“You want me to rule beside you as an equal, even if it means that you must give up–” “Sweet one, I’m not giving up anything. I have my place and always will. Your place was waiting for you. This realm needs a Queen– needs you as its Queen. And you, Persephone, have started stepping into your role with very little help on my part and in so much less time than it took me to embrace who I was fated to be. You’ve accomplished in less than a month what stubbornly took me aeons”
June 24, 2017
June 23, 2017
enveniya:
Aidoneus Pierced
Happy Valentine’s day! Here’s a piece...
Aidoneus Pierced
Happy Valentine’s day! Here’s a piece I did for The Sixth Equinox book, a short illustrated story of Hades and Persephone’s reunion. Hades is pierced by Eros’s arrow, and it festers in his heart, tempting him to rend the world apart to have Persephone back.
It’s one of my favorite pieces that I’ve done, on illustration board with india ink and gold leaf.
The Sixth Equinox is based off Receiver of Many by Rachel Alexander, so check that book out as well! It’s one of my favorite novels of the Hades/Persephone myth.
June 22, 2017
enveniya:
Thrilled to see Persephone Remembering was accepted...
Thrilled to see Persephone Remembering was accepted into Spectrum 24 this year! I originally did this piece for The Sixth Equinox, an illustrated short story based off Receiver of Many by Rachel Alexander.
Just really honored to be included as part of this collection of great artists I’ve looked up to for a long time.
Prints and book available at my shop!
June 21, 2017
*Opens Mouth* *Screams*
I JUST FINISHED A BOOK AND IT WAS A GOOD BOOK AND NOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF BECAUSE LIFE IS NOW MEANINGLESS.
ANYWAY IF YOU WANT A BOOK RECOMMENDATION THEN MAY I SUGGEST ‘Destroyer of Light’ by Rachel Alexander aka @kata-chthonia. OF COURSE YOU GOTTA READ THE ONE THAT COMES BEFORE AKA ‘Receiver of Many’ by the same author (of course)
ANYWAY YOU SHOULD READ THOSE BOOKS. WHICH I’M GONNA DO. AGAIN. RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU.
June 20, 2017
Many of my followers may wonder what fellow author MM Kin has...
Many of my followers may wonder what fellow author MM Kin has been up to since publishing Seeds in 2013. Early this year she came back with Worthy of Love, Volume 1 of her series Interludes in Myth, and based on this new book, I am very excited to see what the rest of the Interludes will include.
Set in the same universe as Seeds (Hades and Persephone do make a cameo), Worthy of Love tells the story of Hephaistos— not as a two dimensional cuckolded prop for Aphrodite’s affair with Ares— but as a fully realized god.
The prologue tells of his origin and upbringing, and his time on Olympus. While this is where most common mythology about Hephaistos ends, MM Kin delves far further into his legends. Worthy of Love give us Hephaistos’s budding romance with the sea nymph Kabeiro, interspersed with the continuing saga of his family on Olympus. I enjoyed reading a romance that upends the traditional man-chases-woman trope, and loved seeing how Hephaistos grew and changed by the end of the story. My favorite narrative thread was from the perspective of Hera, who is written with the depth and pathos she deserves.
In whole, it is a tale about a man coming to love himself, despite hardship and disability, and about those who come to love and respect him along the way. MM Kin’s writing has matured like a fine wine in the time since she wrote Seeds, and Worthy of Love is a delicious read, and a great portent of things to come as she continues Interludes in Myth.
You can find Worthy of Love on Amazon, Createspace, and Barnes&Noble, and once you’re done reading, leave a review at Goodreads.
