Mistress of all Hallows

Multifandom af. To name a few of my current obsessions: Mr Robot, iZombie, Strike Back, sense8, the musketeers, the 100, Criminal Minds, Turn, Black Sails, Teen Wolf, MMFD, Daredevil,Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, Misfits... do I really need to go on. I also reblog everything that makes me laugh, (I'm really trying to keep this a positive blog)

[theodoredimas]

- Anonymous

[valtsv]

tired: fallen angels grieving about getting kicked out of heaven

inspired: fallen angels making memeing to cope

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[sapphiclightbourne]

when your first child, charlotte ends up a murderer and so does your second child madi so you go for a husband and wife weekend away to the woods to discuss how to do better the third time

[christophernolan]

I was scrolling deep down this blog and this happened

[fen-ha-fuck-you]

Did you lose what won’t return?

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

S’MORES ICE CREAM CAKE

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[gorgonapologist]

julia oldham, why are there no great female werewolves?

[whilereadingandwalking]

I think I’m shifting to soft-cover Moleskine notebooks over hard-cover? I just ordered two 400-page black softcovers. My, how people change! What if I’m an entirely different person now: carefree, bending my notebook covers back, writing on the beach mindless of the sand, only able to reliably journal on days when the moon is new, or when I’m drinking peppermint tea rather than my usual black coffee…

[spillsnchills]

When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no

[kvothbloodless]

all 3 of you are evil but i admire, respect, and fear you

[yourereallyhere]

[deanpinterester]

hashtag animashun

[delphinidin4]

lol turn on the sound

[88missmarauder88]

Harry: *looking with wonder at the Marauder’s Map* Is that really…?

Fred: Dumbledore.

George: In his study.

Fred: Pacing.

George: Does that a lot.

Harry: So… what do the other professors do in their spare time?

Fred: Well, we’ve seen Flitwick’s dot hopping up and down in his office loads of times… figured he had some hidden passion for aerobics, but turns out Peeves just likes to drop his wand onto shelves he can’t quite reach.

George: Then there’s Snape. Creeps about at night quite a bit, which isn’t a surprise, but after we noticed him in the Trophy Room a few times, we went down one night to see what he was up to. He was changing your dad’s name to “Rotter” on all his Quidditch awards. 

Harry: HEY!

Fred: No worries, we set them right whenever he does it.

George: Man’s got to have a hobby.

Fred: Sprout sleepwalks, we reckon. Watched her bumping into the greenhouse wall for 30 minutes one night. Lupin goes for a long jog in the Forbidden Forest once a month, it’s a bit odd. 

Harry: And McGonagall?

George: You know old mum. Standard stuff. Classroom, office, Great Hall one minute… 

Fred: …climbing the drapes, chasing birds, tipping over cups in the kitchens the next.

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.

[johannesviii]

At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.

[lyinginbedmon]

Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.

After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.

[dirtydirtychai]

please someone give me the mockumentary following all these disasters

(and don’t forget the lafitte brothers!!!! and also all the lady pirates who are super done with everyone else’s shit!!!!)

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

There’s also Lording Barry, who besides having a fabulous name was so bad at being a playwright that he decided to just become a pirate instead, and was good enough at that that he was legitimized as a “privateer” in 1627.

[therkalexander]

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU

[oftaggrivated-deactivated201910]

I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…

[luxlustravi-blog]

man the ancient greeks didn’t dare to speak persephone’s name she was that powerful and venerated (they called her Kore, “the maiden”), hades didn’t get that honour

[bunjanecrocker]

Rebagel for those book links, I find the Persephone and Hades stuff on here fascinating and I want to research it more

[secondgenerationimmigrant]

Book links, owning and the sheer badassery that is Persephone.

reblog forever

[honorthegods]

Reblogging for the links until this misapprehension finally ceases.

See also: Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth and Predatory Goddesses, both by classicist Mary Lefkowicz.

EDIT: Finally put together a bibliography of scholarly works about Hades and Persephone with the help of @coloricioso to help refute these old, tired accusations: https://honorthegods.tumblr.com/post/174794576611/honorthegods-hades-and-persephone-side

[eliphya]

every HilalxLeon moment ☾

↳ Leon’s proposal (ep 36)                                                     "Say yes, that would be enough.“

[feministism]

[immovabletype]

“I have a thought about ‘kill your darlings.’ There seems to be a general notion out there in the ether that the phrase means, ‘Hunt down every sentence or image you really love and cut it down like a pernicious weed.’ That, my dears, is bullshit. In my opinion, what it really means is, ‘If you’re rewriting a whole scene just so that a paragraph or conversation you’re in love with will work, and it still kind of doesn’t, maybe it doesn’t really belong in this story and you should print it out and put it in a lovely, decorative folder labelled DARLINGS to read on those days when you hate every sentence you’re writing.’”

— Delia Sherman, American fantasy writer (via sathinfection)