#Ocresia story

[deathlessathanasia]

Are there any versions of myth you know of of Hephaestus explicitly assaulting someone outside the Athena story?

I can't think of any. Generally the sexual unions he engages in aren't described in any detail. Other than the attempted rape of Athena, the only instance I'm aware of is this Roman myth where rape is not explicitly said to have occured but imo the context makes it pretty obvious:

„For the father of Tullius was Vulcan, his mother was the beautiful Ocresia of Corniculum. After performing with her the sacred rites in due form, Tanaquil ordered Ocresia to pour wine on the hearth, which had been adorned. There among the ashes there was, or seemed to be, the shape of the male organ; but rather the shape was really there. Ordered by her mistress, the captive Ocresia sat down at the hearth. She conceived Servius, who thus was begotten of seed from heaven. His begetter gave a token of his paternity when he touched the head of Servius with gleaming fire, and when on the king’s hair there blazed a cap of flame.” (Ovid, Fasti 6.625-634)

[mercerspoems]

Celestial Classics: Vesta

Celestial Classics: Vesta - Find out a little about the second largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, and the Virgin Goddess of Hearth and Home behind it.

Vesta, the space-rock not the Goddess, although given how little she is represented as a woman she could easily be a space-rock. This large asteroid (sometimes designated a ‘minor planet’) is the second largest in the Asteroid Belt. This photo was taken by NASA’s Dawn probe.(Credit: NASA) Vesta.No, not what every self-respecting beige-suit wearer from the 70s passed for exotic food, and not a…

[asleepinawell]

have you ever considered writing a book? or like, an original story? you're so damn talented, i'd read your stuff all day everyday. (i kinda do already.)

hah, yes. i started writing when i was smol and attempted my first novel when i was…hmmm…somewhere between 10-12. it was about a badass princess whose family and friends were shitty to her all the time but she could turn into a dragon and incinerate them (she didn’t but she could have). it was 100% a self-insert character and honestly not a bad childhood coping mechanism. i never came close to finishing it. after that i’ve had a steady stream of novels-i-never-finish and a bunch of short stories i never did anything with. way less in the last few years (since i started writing fics full time), but i did start yet another one shortly before i started stc (it was abandoned).

one of the hurdles i run into is that the more world building i do before i start writing something, the harder i find it to write and the faster i lose interest. which makes no sense, but here we are. i’m not completely sure why, but it’s a steady pattern. it’s harder to start cold on original stuff because, unlike fics, there’s nothing to build off of. even for a complete au fic i’ve still got a grasp of the characters and plot elements from the source material, which is enough to give me something to riff on.

there’s also something uniquely nice about fic writing that doesn’t exist in original writing…the fic fandom audience. i enjoy writing in chapter installments and getting positive feedback after each chapter motivates me to keep writing. also there’s the fandom meta discussions which are great to read and sometimes help give me a new perspective on characters or plot elements. that stuff is just so nice?

and so far i’ve found it impossible to write fics and original stuff simultaneously. partly because time, but mostly because i obsessively focus on stuff when i write and i can only do that for one thing at a time. and at the moment i’m just really enjoying writing shoot fics.

thank you so much for the lovely ask. i’ve been in a Mood about my writing recently (not for any real reason…it’s just a writer’s thing that happens…it’ll go away on its own) so this was a great message to get. and sorry i rambled.