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you know some hades and Persephone retelling would work significantly better as Beauty and the beast type ones
#Like- I love hades and persephone#They’re important to the explanation of seasons dynamic and extremely cool to think about#But they have a cultural context that is inherently needed to understand what is going on#If you want a spin on an arranged marriage between someone extremely bright and beautiful countered with a dark partner#Beauty and the beast is right there#All its variants are right there#greek mythology#greek myths#mythology#Folklore#beauty and the beast#hades and persephone#persephone#hades#also one could argue that beauty and the beast is better to use because it isn’t based within a religion#But personally I understand that religion is fun to play around with in storytelling and influential to people#I mean hell there’s a reason I got into Greek mythology and that’s that I wanted to learn about the religion that inspired books I read#But also there should be an inherent respect to the religion it comes from and not result in a large scale misrepresentation
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the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.
#ovids version made me cry#imagine you’re just a nymph watching your friend torn away from you by the literal king of the dead#and despite knowing how powerless you are against him you still choose to stand up to him#to stand up for your friend#imagine being so torn apart by the grief of losing her you weep yourself to death#imagine turning that story into a good girl/bad boy romance#weird#anyway#the story of persephone is personal to me#bc i wish my mother loved me like that#demeter was a good mother#you all suck for portraying her as anything less#idc if you disagree#‘oh myth is open to interpretation and reinterpretation’#okay. well i don’t care.#there’s such thing as bad interpretations#making demeter the villain is a bad one#making hades a misunderstood protagonist is also a bad one
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time to try again.
#hadestown#hadestown fanart#hades hadestown#persephone hadestown#yeah i’m completely abnormal about these two.#i’m not even bothering with pretenses i would walk into hadestown to give them marital counselling and consider it a win#do not come at me with the verses from epic iii or like. second chant. or original chant. or ANYTHING from how long. i will cry.#dude i came back to this musical bc i want to make an oc animatic but#it grabbed me by the NECK#gently places it next to poto in my rotation of lovely musicals i forgot i loved so much#there’s more in there but they’ll come later.#ney’s art#for the record tbe timing of this was ABSOLUTELY intentional. he said he'd wait and he meant it damn it#happy fall/autumn <3<3
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when will my girl persephone get the chance to actually raise her children 🤧
#hades 2#hades 2 spoilers#i've been thinking about that ever since the stream. like i love LOVE this trope#but oh my heart breaks for persephone. losing her children twice#on another note; i hope we get hera this game
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happy three years to @chrysanthemumgames !!!! as always i'm a little biased towards drawing hermes, but i love the entire cast and at least wanted to draw all of them :') and ofc, thank you jess for a game i always love and keep coming back to!!!
#do not be fooled with no speechbubbles in reply to the cast#hermes is yelling hello's and sorry's as he speeds away i promise#asphodelgame#fields of asphodel#foa#my art#hermes#persephone#pyri#alekto#charon#hekate#hades#makaria#have a bunch of doodles and thoughts for foa that i never got around to properly drawing so . perhaps soon!!!!!#also re the new hozier album. first time-hades (i shouldnt have to explain myself it was like it was written FOR him)#who we are- charon and esp with his backstory my knuckles go white with how desperate i am to know more about them#de selby pt1 and 2 for hermes just cause i like the imagery of the songs about descent for the deity that splits his time#unknown is for alekto . lord i love her and again i would like sweet sweet backstory#first light pyri . i enjoy the light-river of fire idea and also its one of the more hopeful songs off the album#and i am struggling with hekate but i do enjoy all things end :)#but particularly 'if there way anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact they didn't do it right'#and ofc 'we didn't it right but love we did our best' and that constant forward motion for a deity that has lived so long#seph/pc gets to someone from a warm climate. the adjustment of being in a new place and the love that can come from that new place#and in the end its as easy . natural as another leg around you in the bed frame. ANYONE ELSE A BIT SICK RN?#other songs on the album (FRANCESCA. ICARIAN. DAMAGE GETSDONE!!!!) can be applied to the entire cast#damage gets done has such SUCH a fun beat that makes me think of hermes but that is like. 90% bias#anyways sorry for the hozier-foa tedtalk in the notes. quite deranged about both lately#and as always sorry to the pagans on this site. best wishes <3
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I have a weakness for the “big grumpy man” and “sunshine incarnate” dynamic
#bro wifed up a golden retriever#also it is VERY cute to me that talia (oc) views bi-han as her Barbie#like in the barbie movie they mention Ken cannot have a great day unless barbie looks at him and it’s the same thing here#talia before they dated: he even asked me for the time! Johnny: no way. talia: yes way! hold on (fist pump)#hades and Persephone core <33 but they’re Eachothers barbie. and Ken’s#talia is so fucking stupid I love her so#canon x oc#bi han#sub zero#mk1#fanart#digital art
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We all know and love zutara's Hades & Persephone parallels. Complimentary opposites constantly being misunderstood as a captor/victim- badboy/goodgirl- edgy/sunshine trope despite significant nuances; being torn between familial and spousal devotion; ruling over their kingdom as equally powerful forces of nature... Good good stuff.
But may I humbly suggest that we have been woefully neglecting the sheer dramatic potential of taang x Eros & Psyche.
#lonely rich girl reduced to the sum of her physical traits x flighty boy of god-like power c'mon ppl#i feel there is something to be said here#the emphasis on sight and knowing somebody by their soul instead of their face??#turns out there's some animosity between H&P and E&P fans that I was not aware of until today#like yeah there's lots of bad takes on H&P floating around and E&P deserves more attention#but there are literally two cakes ppl#stop pitting two of the only functional marriages in this mythos against eachother!#it's literally mythology there is no 'canon' stop being annoying#zutara#taang#my posts#atla#other thought im chewing on is which mythological love story works for sukka??#Ariadne and Dionysus maybe??#OOOOOr Atalanta and Hippomenes?!?!#was this an excuse to get out my thoughts on greek mythology discourse? maybe#eros and psyche has been my favourite greek myth for nearly the last decade and i need ppl to know#fr context i highly recommend the overly sarcastic productions videos on yt!#zuko x katara#toph x aang#in this house we love Hades & Persephone and Eros & Psyche equally thank you very much
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HADES II
↳ Melinoë — Μηλινοη, "Dark-Minded"
#supergiant hades#hades supergiant#hades 2#hades game#supergiant games#melinoë#melinoe#mygifs#gamingedit#gamingdaily#there is really like Zero information on melinoe aside from that one orphic hymn she's in#so i really REALLY recommend yall go read that its really good and really short#but yeah trying to decide what to include that she has dominion over was hard#OVERALL her main deal is bringing nightmares and madness but she's also seen as kindly by her worshippers#and since she was born on one of the 5 underworld rivers she has a really strong affiliation with the underworld itself#basically in her actual greek canon she's the daughter of zeus who slept with persephone in the dual-form of plouton#(basically him and hades were merged as one being)#so she's often depicted with half her body being black an half her body being white as a show of her dual chthonic and heavenly nature#and i think that's what's up with her skeletal limb which i REALLY love if that's the case#BUT YEAH not much on melinoe honestly ! she's pretty much often thought of as a different title for hecate#or even the erinyes at times#so im really stoked to see what supergiant is gonna do with all the wiggle room they have to play with due to her lack of lore#im still pretty torn on whether or not i should have included the potential ''goddess of the moon'' for one of her domains#cos shes not like. Explicitly a moon goddess (granted neither is hecate but at least there's more backing that up for hecate)#but supergiant is obviously heavily leaning into moon motifs on her design but idk if thats because of melinoe herself#or because shes a student of hecate who HAS actual correlations to the moon/darkness#melinoe and hecate are so easy to conflate cos theres a lot of overlap for what they actually Do#all i know 100% is that melinoe brings madness and nightmares and has an entourage of spirits who wander the world with her
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my bbgirls
#hellsing#seras victoria#pipsera#pip bernadotte#pip vernedead#i havent drawn them anytime yet this is probably the first time i draw them properly#i think pipsera is very cute#alutegra serving the angst type of mortal/immortal mutual pining slowburn old married couple that occasionally bicker#pipsera giving the vibe of highschool sweethearts#difference between goth/goth and sunshine/sunshine#to me i think#alutegra is hades and persephone#pipsera is orpheus and eurydice#one couple have dark and intimidating gods with heavy duties vibe#the other one have carefree mortal love and songbirds vibe#this is like a warm up so i dont have enough time to colour it yet#still got my final exams piling up#i saw ONE official art seras have heterochromia eyes and it changed me forever
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Nico and Jason stargazing atop the Zeus cabin roof. Nico is telling Jason the stories for each constellations - Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hindu, any pantheon where he knows the story behind the stars. His voice is soft.
He speaks with nothing but pure reverence and peace through his explanation on Blackfoot legend of the seven brothers and their young sister who fled to the sky to escape a bear. He recites the story and recalls the god that told it to him. As he reaches out, his fingers trace the constellation softly, as though he were trying to caress the hidden siblings, before returning to splay flat on his chest.
His smile is beautiful, and the words just spill from Jason's lips without thought. "I'm in love with you."
Nico exhales, his brows furrowing. He turns gently, then twists fully on his side. His smile softs as he gazes deep into Jason's eyes.
Then he immediately shoves him off the roof.
#jason grace#nico di angelo#jasico#nico was overwhelmed lmao#dont worry he reciprocates but like father like son he panicked and shoved his crush#(i do in fact headcanon that when Persephone told Hades she loved him he shoved her into a lake and then ran off whole she chased him)#(this is basically that 😂)#happy talks pjo#jasonnico
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I finished the sketch!
#my art#hadestown#i like it but i got a bit demotivated half-way#got a bit of cringy for drawing kiddos to the otps for no reason xD#but I finished it with some light#and i love how kimkev look here#kevyn morrow#kimberly marable#hadestown tour#hadestown fanart#hades#persephone
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Part 1
Steve visits Eddie often. He loves being around the other man, loves how kind Eddie is, how funny he is for someone who rules the dead. He seems to love making Steve laugh and is always cracking jokes that send the goddess into giggles.
Honestly, Steve spends more time than he should in the Underworld, but Eddie has so many duties to tend to, it makes more sense for Steve to come to him than the other way around.
It’s nearly a year since he met Eddie that his joy is brought to an end. Steve is summoned to Olympus, is told that his visits are sending the world into chaos.
He didn’t know that traveling to the Underworld would cut the human world off from his magic, that the plants that bloomed with his presence would die off when the connection is severed.
Zeus bans him from visiting Hades, and Steve ignores the smug look on Ares’ face, the pitying looks from Hera and Aphrodite. Not all of the gods are here to witness his humiliation, but there are enough to make him flush with shame, to have him leaving as soon as he's able to.
Aphrodite catches him before he gets too far, her hair and robes both immaculate even as tears stream down her face. “Ares told them where you were going. I tried to stop him, but he’s… bitter. Jealous.”
She takes his hand, holds it between her own. “I can tell that your feelings are true, and that Hades feels the same for you. I wish I could help you, Persephone. You both deserve happiness.”
And like a stroke of lightning, Steve knows what must be done.
He thanks her and leaves Olympus, finds the nearest gate and descends into the Underworld. Cerberus is given three loving pets as Steve passes by, heading to the garden behind Eddie’s home.
The plants have been thriving thanks to Steve’s frequent visits, the flowers are in full bloom and the plants that can fruit are full and heavy with produce. He plucks a pomegranate from its branch, and stares at it as he remembers.
The goddess had found Eddie eating one on his third or fourth visit, and the older had stopped him when he’d gone to grab a few of the seeds for himself.
“You can’t eat anything grown in this realm. You’ll be stuck here if you do.”
Eddie had looked almost sad as he’d said it, and Steve had tipped his head to the side.
“Are you saying you don’t want me around?”
“No! I mean, I would-” Eddie stopped himself, took a breath. “You don’t belong down here. This place is far too dark, too bleak. It doesn’t deserve you.”
And Steve could read between the lines, could hear what Eddie wasn’t saying. He had ignored it at the time, let Eddie be right, but now? Now Steve knows that Eddie is the only one who deserves him.
Call him selfish, but no one has ever treated Steve the way Eddie does, has cared for him so, and he wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his days in the Underworld, side by side with the man he loves.
He tears open the pomegranate as a voice comes from the house.
“Steve? I didn’t realize you were here.”
Steve turns to face him, and Eddie’s eyes drop to Steve’s hands, dripping with red as he holds the fruit in his hands. His face pales and his eyes jump back to Steve’s.
“What are you doing?” he asks, taking a cautious step forward.
“Do you love me?” Steve asks in return. Just seeing Eddie has firmed his decision, and he stands, unwavering as he watches the other man pause at the question.
“I do. More than anything.” Eddie seems nervous, but his voice is steady, and Steve knows he's telling the truth.
“If I asked it, would you let me stay? Let me stand by your side for the rest of time itself?”
Eddie steps closer, now in arms reach. “I would. I would not turn you away, even if it meant my life.”
Steve’s eyes don’t waver from Eddie’s as he scrapes a handful of seeds from the fruit and shoves them in his mouth.
The juice is tart at first, but is followed by a delicious sweetness, something that reminds Steve of Eddie himself, and as he swallows, Steve can feel the shift within him.
Hands grab his face and the fruit falls to the ground as Steve grabs Eddie in return, both meeting in a desperate kiss. Magic flows between them, invisible threads tying them together in a bond so concrete, even the Fates themselves could not cut them.
They pull back after a moment, and Steve’s eyes drop to the red smear across Eddie’s mouth, something that is surely mirrored across his own.
“My wonderful little goddess,” Eddie mutters, awestruck as he places another kiss to Steve’s lips, more tender than the last.
“You're stuck with me now,” the goddess responds, sending them both into giggles, and yeah. It feels good to be selfish.
(Later, Steve will cut a deal with the rest of the gods. He will come back for half a year at a time and tend to his duties, leaving his beloved twin Demeter in charge while he’s gone, in exchange for Zeus’ blessing to have children. Zeus will have no choice but to agree.)
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Tagging @stardustonpages because they respectfully asked for more <3
#Im not specifying other gods but i did have characters in mind while writing them#The only thing ill confirm is that Robin is Demeter#Dustin is Zagreus and Max is Melinoe#I’m not joking when I say I think they grow them in the garden in the Underworld#They just grow two babies like plants and they’re fucking cherished#They come into the world screaming and covered in dirt#and Hades and Persephone experience love at first sight all over again but different#hades and persephone au#steddie fic#steve harrington#eddie munson#steddie#steve x eddie#stranger things#joey writes#listen i know i posted the first part yesterday#but yall#the muses have me tight in their grip#ficlet
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"Back on Earth, Persephone, goddess of spring, was busy bringing the spring season to Greece. At the moment, she was on a hillside planting flowers and melting any leftover snow from the winter."
🌸 Artwork here. 🌷
A moodboard for @persephoneflowerpetals (aka @princessrainbowpastel) !
Happy birthday, Ana! 🩷 🌈 🎂 🎁
#(persephone is such a sweet character!)#(and i love how pretty this looks!)#(her aesthetic like her is so beautiful!)#disney#hercules#disney hercules#persephone#goddess of spring#disney oc#persephone oc#disney's hercules#hercules 1997#persephades#persephone x hades#hades x persephone#animation#animated#animated movie#animated movies#edit#edits#queen of the underworld#hades disney#disney hades#moodboard#moodboards
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Persephone: *exists*
Hades:
#legit he turns into such a bumbling idiot when it comes to Persephone lol#I just love this scene so much like I love how he goes from being laidback and casual to nervous and clumsy lol#it’s so cute!#if I had a nickel for every time Hades turned into a clumsy nervous lovesick moron over a woman that isn’t interested in him#I’d have 2 nickels#which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice#disney#disney’s hercules#hercules the animated series#hercules movie & series au#hades#persephone#persephone oc#hercules oc#disney oc#self insert oc#hades x persephone#persephone x hades#persephades
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I don’t play Hades Game so idk how accurate the characterization and storyline is to Greek mythology but the designs?? To die for
the Erinyes (Furies) I don’t know much about them but?? Wow.
Aphrodite looks stunning and otherworldly. Athena looks absolutely regal and I LOVE how wild Artemis looks
Nyx (my beloved), I love how they went for the winter aspect of Demeter. Persephone doesn’t really look like the queen of the underworld but I THINK that’s the point? Anyway she’s perfect.
#hades game#the furies#the erinyes#alecto#megaera#tisiphone#aphrodite#athena#artemis#i really love her design#nyx#ugh i love her#demeter#looking like queen#persephone#greek goddess#greek goddesses#greek mythology#video games
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okay in my third playthrough of stray gods now and i only just got to the dialogue options with persephone where she explains her relationship with hades, how he doted on her to control her and how she convinced herself her kidnapping was a good thing, and how apollo didnt help her when she was trying to get to her mother and like. fuckin holy shit dude.
this game in general is just a punch to the gut. the lore is as dark and gross as the original myths were, while many other adaptions file down the claws of the original myths. but stray gods doesn't even follow the original myths much, focusing much more on the life of the idols in the last two or so centuries. it's so creative how they adapt these characters to be so unlike our expectations of what they would be like but maintain the dark themes present in their myths. the greek gods in this game are so different to all other interpretations, yet they feel so genuine.
i LOVE playing a game that doesn't soften any blows, it's incredible.
#i love seeing an adaption that doesnt make the greek gods heroes or villains or distant all powerful presences#theyre just people!!! who went through some fucked up shit!!!#except for hades and ares FUCK those guys#i would kill for aphrodite and persephone they deserved so much more#also learnt about what happened to clio in my conversation with persephone and like#what the FUCK dude#that shit sounds horrifying#she was kept in a cage like a pet until her eidolon withered away and when she was no longer useful to her captor he killed her???#i just stared after hearing that like. i couldnt do anything.#awesome awesome game#stray gods#stray gods spoilers#stray gods persephone
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