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Notes for January 20-26
This week I took it easy over the weekend and put some things on hold to clear my mind from the industry’s chaos. The weather is pretty crappy and I felt like I needed to relax, so(...)
#3dprinting #coding #hades #homelab #networking #nodered #picotracker #tailscale #zed
Happy Winter Solstice!
Today is the day Persephone descends to her realm in the Underworld to be with her husband, Hades.
This pattern depicts the skeletal hand of Hades, gripping a sliced pomegranate, which represents the Queen of the Underworld.
A sketch based on @valentinainat1's illustration of Melinoe. Just a warm-up sketch I did as I haven't done much drawing for a while.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 
It's the last Wednesday before #Halloween, so today I honour Hermes as the guide of souls:
"To Hermes [. . .] are attached traditions from the poems of Homer: that Hermes is the minister of #Zeus and leads the souls of the departed down to #Hades."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.32.4
#Hermes Psychopompos accompanying the souls of the dead, Greek Kylix, 470-460 BCE
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
34th finished book of the year: A Game of Fateby Scarlet St. Clair
3.75 
️ - A duplicate of the first book in the series, but from Hade’s perspective - with just enough new detail to keep things interesting.
I wasn’t sure whether to read this book, the first in the parallel ‘Hades Saga’ that goes alongside the Persephone POV books in this alternate universe fantasy series, because I didn’t really think much could be added that wasn’t already in the first book. I’m also just not a fan, in general, of the idea of releasing the same book again but from a different perspective - if you want to do that, just make it a dual perspective book, eh?
All that said, while at least 50% of the book feels to be just the same scenes from the first book re-written, the other half adds a good amount of new insight into the world being built. Persephone’s experience of the other gods is understandably limited and so getting the snippets of information that Hade’s history provides does add enough extra value here to make the book worth reading. In particularly, I enjoyed the extra Hecate content - a character who is already my favourite!
A word on the spice level of this: if the horniness of the two characters was high in the first book, seeing it through Hade’s eyes makes it exponentially hornier. He very rarely seems to be thinking anything other than touching Persephone and, honestly, as much as I like spice, this felt like almost too much unnecessary smut. I would go as far to say that it felt as if there at least as much pages devoted to that as anything else.
Still, it was enjoyable, even if I did skim over some near identical parts.
The abduction of Persephone by Hades was the subject of Walt Disney's 1934 Silly Symphony cartoon 'The Goddess of Spring,' although the film's interpretation of the god seems to be more influenced by depictions of the Christian Devil than classical mythology. #WyrdWednesday
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33rd finished book of the year: A Touch of Darkness by Scarlet St. Clair
4.25 ️ - Lore Olympus, but significantly more smutty. In a AU where the greek gods descended to the earth and became public figures. This is all that, but so much more too.
Hades and Persephone are HORNY. I was pre-warned of this, but seriously, there’s a lot of lusting going in this book. As a big Lore fan, I had to actively push the characters I’ve come to love there out of my head for a spell to make room for these new depictions and I’m glad I did. While smut forms a fairly sizeable amount of the story here, it’s by no means all there is - the world depicted here, imaging that the gods (with all their flaws and desires) walk among mortals, is rich and interesting.
This book takes place from Persephone’s perspective as we see her shed her helpless and powerless experience and take her rightful place as a the Goddess of Spring. Hades plays a big part of that and through her eyes we see.. well, a lot of lust.. but also her coming to understand that what her mother has told her and what the world believes of him might not be entirely accurate.
I’ve always been fascinated by the greek gods and the Hades here we see is something between the emotionally healthy and kind character in Lore and the more complicated Hadestown character. A powerful and figure, that is not always gentle, but shows a deep care of those in his realm and who can learn and listen. The relationship between him and Persephone, although complicated, shows his genuine love and devotion to her in a very human way.
The cast of chapters are rich, with the gods depicted as just as fallible and capricious as historical lore suggests, but in setting that imagines how they might interact with the world when made a part of it. Hecate in particular is beautifully written and the way the afterlife is described is really sweet.
Overall, a really interesting take on Greek mythology with some satisfying spice.
The only art piece I did for the Izzy Hands Bingo! Ares and Izzy, it'll eventually be a fic
#OFMD #Hades #HADESgame #OurFlagMeansDeath #crossover #fanart
My submission for a bi weekly art thing I've been doing with friends.
The topic this week was any character from Supergiant Games, I picked Artemis.
