#baby persephone

[agentrouka-blog]

I love sansa and even tho I don’t ship jonsa I appreciate the sansa metas you guys write but it sucks bc I also love arya but almost all the arya centered blogs are j/onryas and ugh its just so upsetting bc arya is 11yrs old in canon and they treat everyone who doesn’t think they will happen as stupid and its ruined the very innocent sibling relationship they have for me. Sorry for this little rant its justs super frustrating and something I appreciate abt jonsas is that you guys dont hate arya the way they seem to really hate sansa. You guys r alot more chill

Hey there!

There are some Sansa fans who are very critical of Arya but I would agree that the vitriolic hate is close to non-existent in these circles. Which I, too, appreciate. I wouldn't want to be here if people hated Arya the way some people hate Sansa.

I'm very invested in the future reconciliation between the sisters. I am very invested in seeing Arya's arc reach it's climactic points in TWOW and ADWD, which I anticipate to be absolutely gut-wrenchingly, harrowingly beautiful examinations of how to come out at the other end of grief. Past anger, past despair, past tunnel vision, out into peace and future. Anyone who has ever felt that knows how powerful that experience is, how astonishing.

Arya's arc is one of the key ones in the book series. Thematically absolutely crucial because of how close she comes to darkness and what it is that makes her different from those who succumb. How alive she will be once again, how hungry to feel once again. An arc that is at its heart philosophical and emotional. About the relationship of a human being with a deeply imperfect world. And an arc about the nature and purpose of justice.

It's just not the arc that I think many of her stans expect for her. So in combination with the Sansa hate, there is little common ground to tread.

[ryuuna]

just a wee babyy wip

[coelapso]

Five of Cups for @prophecies-foretold tarot deck

[alabasterpickles]

Here’s a collection of sketches/doodles I’ve been sitting on with my Persephone au 🙏 I have five more that couldn’t fit within the limit so I’ll share them in a separate post later tonight

I’m trying to flesh out what their interactions/dynamic are like and maybe I’ll go back and do some more polished pieces with them later

I’m in so deep, I have like this whole secret plot formulated in my head 🫣

[frogdisco2021]

Percy "immediately starts beef with every god he meets by having no filter" Jackson versus Nico "every god thinks he's neat even though he's been nothing but weird and off-putting" di Angelo

[undeadmagick]

a tip for beginners since it worried me when i first started: its important to note that while there are deities that are heavily connected to each other, you’re not obligated to work with both of them.

many people speak on specifically married deities (ex: hades & persephone, zeus & hera, odin & frigg). a lot of people refer to them as a “package deal” since they are heavily entwined. but it’s important for those just starting out, this does not mean you have to work with both.

as someone who works with hades, some of my offerings to him are related to persephone but i don’t worship her. in fact, when i had the opportunity to meet her and ask, she smiled and said, “you’re not mine”. we both mutually understood that we didn’t have a connection to one another but we have mutual respect and kindness for one another.

the “package deal” part is where i offer my coffee that is too sweet for hades so he said he’ll hand it to persephone instead. which is the cutest fucking thing btw omg

this is all just in an effort to say, please do not worry about having to work with two deities rather than one. don’t get overwhelmed.

[genericpuff]

Now that I think about it, since Persephone was the Barley Mother mascot, shouldn't she have some money? Wouldn't she have gotten royalties from her likeness being used?

so at best this is sort of explained away in S1 when Persephone has her interview with Hades and he asks this exact question, why does she need a job if she's an heiress? And her response is basically that she doesn't want to be reliant on her mother's money, that she and her mother both want her to pursue her own path in life... and also she's an immortal from the Mortal Realm so being an heiress makes no sense because Demeter will logically never have to pass down the role in death which is usually how it works.

And honestly, that on its own would have been fine and makes perfect sense for the context of the comic at the time, but then that context changed, and now we have:

1.) Rachel later making Demeter out to be a villain for being a "helicopter parent" and "controlling her daughter", when in reality she was literally supportive of Persephone wanting to go to school from the get-go, she just wasn't certain her daughter should outright move to Olympus, she wanted her to commute, that was it (and was she really wrong to worry about her daughter's safety in Olympus when within her literal first day of living there she was intoxicated by Eros and dumped in Hades' car with the intention of embarrassing her, and then literally the next night was assaulted by Apollo?? Like I don't think Demeter would be all "I told you so" but maybe... maybe there was a reason she was worried and wanted her daughter to commute 💀😭) and;

2.) Persephone going from trying to be independent so she's not reliant on her mother's money... to being completely co-dependent on Hades and his money. How feminist lmao

That said, yes, technically Persephone does have money, and I'd like to think that if she did get royalties, it would be in an account for her and wouldn't just be taken by her mom (though apparently neither of them use banks so ??? where is Demeter keeping all this money LOL) and at the VERY least she's due to inherit what's presumably a massive fortune and company for herself if her mother ever steps down. So the comic does play a very frustrating tug-of-war between Persephone being the "comes from nothing" valley girl who marries into wealth... and a trust fund baby who was always wealthy and became wealthier after marrying into more wealth.

[mysterycitrus]

to the person who keeps asking me if i hate bruce wayne just read this or peruse the bruce wayne tag on this blog cause i feel like ive already answered that q in every way possible

[gingermintpepper]

Obsessed with the way Evadne's relationship with Apollo is described. Obsessed with the way Apollo was especially gentle with her because she was sheltered, hidden away and hadn't had any sort of experience with love prior to Apollo (and due to it being described as her 'first learning Aphrodite's joy' through Apollo', it was probably her first time even being attracted to someone). Obsessed with the way when she runs away, she stops in a violet patch to give birth. Y'know, violets, very famously the flower so strongly associated with Aphrodite that they were used in love potions? Those violets. Obsessed with the way that when Apollo realised his lover was going to have to deliver their child alone, he sent BOTH the goddess of childbirth and ALL THREE OF THE FATES to help and support her. Obsessed with the way that Apollo sends snakes to feed his baby honey straight from their fangs because Evadne abandons their son out of straight primal fear when her stepfather finds her and how the description of that honey is 'sweet venom' [ἰός] of the bees and is DEFINITELY a poetic pair/pun with [ἴον] aka violets and that every single thing about this relationship, conception and birth is a complete and utter fairytale down to Evadne's insanely overprotective stepfather having an immediate change of heart when he learned Evadne's child was an actual, legitimate Son of Apollo and the babe, after being cared for by his dad's honey-fanged snake buddies, was found perfectly healthy five days later swaddled in a blanket of violets (y'know the flowers so strongly associated with Aphrodite that they were used for lo-) and they called him Iamus aka Boy of the Violets which is AAAAAARRRR I AM GNAWING AT MY ENCLOSURE

Iamus was made of love. Everything about him was surrounded by deep and profound love and like, let's not even talk about his whole Thing of when he came of age and was like "I need to find out what my purpose is" and he literally had a Disney Protagonist moment where he ran out into the wilds and was like "Father!! Grandfather!! Tell me what I'm supposed to doooo!!" and then APOLLO FUCKING ANSWERED AND LED HIM TO ONE HIS TEMPLES ENTIRELY BY TALKING WITH IAMUS AND LETTING HIM FOLLOW HIS VOICE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY LIKE -

What do y'all know about the kind of SSS tier romantic escapades Apollo had fr?

[raphael-angele]

If Hades raised Nico and Bianca Part 39 (Feat Lil Duckies)

Based on this Crying-Screaming Post

POV: Hades, Bianca, and Nico are visiting Persephone on Earth cuz she's not due back yet.

Persephone: Alright, piccoli, time to go back now.

Bianca and Nico: Aww :c

Bianca: But we wanna stay

Persephone: I know, little doe, but your papa will be lonely down there.

Bianca: mmm, okay :(

Hades: C'mon, children. *notices* Nico...what is that?

Nico: What?

Hades: What are you hiding in your jacket?

Nico: ...nothing?

Inside Nico's jacket: Quack

Everyone: ...

Nico: *to inside his jacket* Shh, Quacky, be quiet.

Baby Duck: *pops out of Nico's jacket*

Hades, kneeling: Nico, you have to give him back

Nico: B-but, I wanna keep him! He-He's really nice and he follows me around.

Hades: Okay, but Bambino, you can't keep him. You can't take him to the Underworld.

Nico: Why not? :c I can take care of him! I'll give him food, and let him play around the castle, and there's a pond in Mammina's garden so he can take a bath there! *starts to cry*

Hades: *sighs* Nico, he'll be lonely down there.

Nico, crying: No, he wont! He'll have me, and Bia, and Zaggy, and Meli, and you, and- and-

Hades: Nico, he wont have his brothers and sisters there or his mom. And he'll be very sad.

Nico: but-

Hades: Wouldn't you be sad if someone took you away from me and your mammina and Bianca?

Nico: *sobbing before walking over to the pond then lets Wucky out of his jacket*

Quacky: *goes back to the pond*

Nico: *waving* Bye, Quacky.

Quacky: Quack *swims away*

Nico: *cries*

Persephone: *sighs and picks him up* It's okay, Nico. I'll look after him. *hands him over to Hades* Here.

Hades: *takes Nico* Thank you, my love.

Nico: *crying into Hades' shoulder, cling onto him* It's not fair...

Hades: ...I know, Nico.

[theprinceofdarknesssquad]

Hades: Persephone and I are having a baby. Nico: That's gre- Hades, slamming adoption papers on the table: It's you, sign here.

[mothsthorax]

I wanna practice some sort of craft (witchcraft, wicca, Polytheism, anything of the sort) because I don’t think I believe in A god, but I desperately want to (I feel as though I need religion as a guiding force in my life)

But I have such a hard time sticking to it. I’ve worked with gods before (primarily Persephone and Hades, and have had luck reaching them and receiving their signals… but I have such a hard time sticking to it)

At some point my brain registers it as a chore, or I get scared (grew up Roman Catholic) I know there’s nothing evil there (I don’t even believe Satan is evil) but I still feel as though something scarier or darker sits beneath the light hearted love and care from any gods I may want to work with…

Any advice?

[galacticnikki]

A Baby Witch's First Spellbook

Persephone's Plunge

This post was inspired by blackbacchus999's drink series; specifically his drink called Apollo's Delphic Dawn. Make sure to check it out!

Ingredients:

1 oz Pomegranate Liqueur: Pomegranates are symbolic of Persephone's time in the underworld.

1 oz Vodka: Vodka represents the compassion and empathy that Persephone embodies.

½ oz Rose Liqueur: Roses symbolizes the flowers Persephone picked when kidnapped by Hades.

1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice: Lemon represents the brightness and renewal of spring.

2 oz Pomegranate Juice: A nod to the fruit that bound Persephone to the underworld.

½ oz of Grenadine: Adds a deeper red hue, reminiscent of the pomegranate seeds.

Ice

Pomegranate Seeds: For garnish, symbolizing the seeds of the underworld.

Rose Petals: For garnish, symbolizing the flowers Persephone picked before her descent to the underworld.

Instructions:

Chill a cocktail glass or other glass of your choice in the freezer.

Combine the pomegranate liqueur, vodka, rose liqueur, lemon juice, and pomegranate juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake well until the mixture is chilled.

Strain the mixture into the chilled glass.

Add a dash of grenadine for a layered effect, letting it sink to the bottom of the glass.

Garnish with a few pomegranate seeds and rose petals.

Feel free to check out my master post for more information!

[lumpofbird]

fluffy jelly beans

[alabasterpickles]

Persephone: “meets Pain and Panic for the first time and goes up to Hades holding them like babies” Hades we’re parents now..~

Hades: “doesn’t wanna tell Persephone he basically is Pain and Panic’s as he raised them since they were babies” um ok~…

Pain and Panic: “just lost as they just said hi to the boss’s wife and she instantly scoops them up and adopts them as her and Hade’s kids” eh?!?

Everyone is automatically her kid

[demeterdefence]

been thinking a lot about how lore olympus really just could not fathom the concept of found family, it absolutely HAD to have a traditional blood-related family for the ending which is just ... so rachel honestly lmao we really should have known.

there were a lot of instances in the series where it almost seemed like rachel went out of her way to paint biological families as inherently dysfunctional, or at least not all they're cracked up to be - aphrodite is disdained by ares' family, zeus and hera are constantly arguing / zeus is constantly unfaithful, rhea and ouranos are an abusive marriage that begets three wildly traumatized sons, etc and so forth. that's not to say all families were bad or flawed (whether that was a choice or rachel spent so little time on them it just didn't come up) but the end result is that there were a lot of broken biological families in the series.

i think rachel wanted to demonstrate that you do not have to stick with an abusive family if they hurt you - that blood is not the defining aspect of family and bonds, that you can make your own and build your own family. i think rachel thought she was writing that, with how hades hates his dad and how persephone distances herself from demeter (who did nothing wrong but anyways.) the problem is, she absolutely does not follow through with it. at the end of the day, rachel is going to prioritize blood bonds and biological children over found family, because to her, that's the only family that counts.

like, hades raised thanatos from childhood and abuses the fuck out of him, completely traumatizes the god of death to the point thanatos is genuinely afraid of hades. thanatos is mocked, derided, scorned, and scoffed at by hades, constantly. thanatos did not have a CHOICE in who raised him, his mother abandoned him into hades' care. and hades does not for a single moment let up on how resentful he is about it. when thanatos finally admits that he only had hades as a parental figure (or ANY kind of family, tbh), hades turns it into how that affects him, how it makes him feel. after, we get two jokes about how hades is thanatos' dad now, and the last scene we ever get of thanatos is that "sometimes hades talks to him." thanatos never shows up in hades' daydreams of a family, he never shows up as a person who is important to hades. for centuries, hades was in charge of raising thanatos, not once does he ever appear in any of hades' dreams or wants regarding family. not biological family, so fuck off.

more to the point, the narrative makes it explicit to us that hades can't have children - it's brought up three times specifically, to drive the point home that hades wants children, he's definitely tried to have children, and it just won't happen. melinoe was seen as a way around that, and i won't lie, compared to rachel's usual hamfisted approaches, it wasn't the worst idea to have. but by the end of the series, it's shown that oh, nope, hades can have children (only with persephone though) and also they look like him, because biological bonds are everything. you know who doesn't count? dionysus, who was kidnapped from his dad and raised as a pet project for persephone. the kid helps her conquer winter or whatever the fuck that plot point was, but because he's not their biological child, hades and persephone ditch him after the final battle and throw him his old mom back to get rid of him.

biological children aren't a bad thing and it's not a bad thing to want or have them, but it's so fucking telling that hades and persephone have multiple people in their lives who should be considered family, and are picked up and discarded summarily once their use is over. dionysus was their proxy kid, and we literally do not see hades interact with him except maybe twice. thanatos gets absolutely trounced and i'll never not be angry about that. i don't even know what's going on with persephone's half brother, but he shows up for a single panel in the finale and then disappears.

wouldn't it have been so powerful if hades, an abuse victim, decided to be the father thanatos deserved? wouldn't it have been more in line with the supposed message of the story if hades and persephone opened their homes to people who once felt like them, abandoned and unwanted? at the very least, couldn't they have shown love to the people in their lives who sacrificed so much and put up with so much from them? what exactly is the measure of a family in lore olympus? we can't control who births us, but we can control the hurt we ourselves give, and the love we share, and that would have been an infinitely better ending for the two most selfish characters to show their growth. another disappointing pin in an already massively disappointing ending.