#the passion of hades

[daniellesreadingnook]

[pseudokap]

do it for her

[sapphicteaparty]

GAME AWARDS 2023 🎉(by me)

good evening gamers. it’s that time of the year when we (I) give awards to the most outstanding games of the year*. so here are the games that the critics (also me) decided should be recognized:

a special new category this year is the best OST awards which go to these games:

last and definitely least, i was hoping i didn't have to do a dishonorable mention this year but here we are:

*-games that i played this year, not games that came out this year. who can keep up???

2022 awards

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

Artist: Artem Chebokha

[2000s-angell]

credits(from left to right):

Persephone by Purrcelot(Twitter)

Hades and Persephone by Nixeu(Facebook)

Hades and Persephone by Annie Stegg

Hades and Persephone by jodeee.

Thanks to @vanellq77 ❤️❤️

[angel-maybe-alive]

Worst things that happened to modern literature in my opinion:

Rowling taking over the concept of magic schools then spiraling on being a terf and now flirting with neo Nazis and the alt right.

Twilight popularizing the concept of magical love corner between creepy childhood friend and creepier immortal being ever fighting over the human embodiment of a sandwich made from two slices of white bread and a thin layer of saltless butter

Ready player one

Ready player two

Everything about jay kristoff

literally everything about him sucks

Sarah j Maas

The word fae

Hades and Persephone

Straight enemies to lovers

Straight omegaverse

Being honest I'm coming out as heterophobic here straight people should be banished from writing until you dumbfucks learn the difference between banter and abuse and the word consent also the age of consent laws

Fucking ugly minimalist covers

Did I said already fae because I fucking hate the fae

The 100+ yo dark aesthetic male love interest whose whole personality it's abs and toxic and being a pedophile

Sex (my problem it's not with sex itself as I am a horny mf myself my problem it's the worst books with the most cringeworthy sex scenes being sold as the best thing ever)

I'm talking about blowjob on a warzone bad sex scenes

Seriously why so many people like the concept of Faes

Any book booktok decides it's good

Booktok itself

People who have a whole ass bookshelf of different harry Potter variants

Like it's not even like interesting faes it's just those conventionally attractive european people with mutant powers

To be honest most problems with modern literature could be traced back to fucking harry Potter

Gay and black characters that only exist to be killed and further the white straight girl narrative

Fanfics being publicized as books

Correction the worst fanfics becoming books

And lastly FUCKING FAES WHY EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK A BOY TINKERBELL FOR FUCK SAKE WHY? AND THEY ARENT EVEN FUCKING ACCURATE FAES EVEN THEY ARE EDGY EARLY 2000 DEMONS WITH LIKE THE TWILIGHT SUPER POWERS AND CRINGE ASS BAT WINGS, AND SOME OF THEM LOOK LIKE IF LEGOLAS WAS A TOKTOKER

[b-e-l-l-a--l-u-n-a]

Hades & Persephone

[past-the-pines-by-the-shore]

I keep seeing this narrative that Zeus saved Thalia’s life and not Jason’s, and I’ve decided to come back from the grave to offer my two cents (that no one asked for).

Zeus absolutely did not save Thalia. She was never meant to come back out of that tree. Ever.

It was pure coincidence that Luke poisoned the tree and Ananbeth decided the Golden Fleece would save it. It wasn’t an action that was ordained by the gods, it hasn’t previously been foretold in a prophecy. It was simply a demigod solution to a demigod problem. Equally, no one at camp thought that the Fleece purging the poison from the tree would bring Thalia back, at all.

I definitely agree that Zeus turning Thalia into a tree was a deliberate act to prevent her going to the underworld. Though I would argue that this was as much (if not more so) to spite Hades as it was to stop Thalia being sent to eternal damnation in the underworld.

But to say that he saved Thalia’s life and then let Jason die is giving Zeus entirely too much credit. Jason is a proven hero who was good friends with Nico, and died at a point in time where the sting of Zeus breaking The Pact had mostly worn off. There isn’t any concern that he’ll be sent to the Fields of Punishment. Thalia, at the time of her death, had only done with this one big act as a hero, Nico and Bianca were still in hiding, and Hades was clearly pissed about her existence.

If Hades gets Thalia’s soul then he’s won. If Zeus smites the monsters that are attacking her, then Thalia lives but that runs the risk of her destroying Olympus when she’s 16.

Zeus wanted to contain her.

Trapping her spirit in a tree stops Thalia from ending up in the Field’s of Punishment, yes, but it does not save her life by any stretch of the imagination. And I’m a little tired of people pretending that what Zeus did was an act of kindness. It was literally less than the bare minimum. He was saving his own skin just as much as Thalia’s.

[quizzically]

4 year redraw

[mymyforthesky]

My hot theology (I think) take is that mythology doesn't stop I can and will sight Hades (2018) as a source because fuck you that is a myth

[0lympian-c0uncil]

Demeter: Hey, Hera.

Hera: *punches Demeter in the stomach*

Demeter,*clutching her stomach*: What the FUCK?!!?

Hera: You are one of my very best friends. And I cannot stand by and watch you throw away your life like this. You're too young....YOU'RE TOO BEAUTIFUL!

Demeter,*weakly*: What the fuck are you talking about?

Hera: I'm talking about the baby that's growing inside of your belly right now.

Hades: See ya! *leaves*

Demeter: ... I'm not pregnant!

Hera: Well, not after that punch you're not. I've been taking Muay Thai classes.

Demeter,*pissed*: I was never pregnant, Hera!

Hera: ...Oh- are... you sure?

Demeter: YES I'M FUCKING SURE!!!

Zeus: I'm sorry, but why the FUCK is everybody yelling over here?

Hera: Oh, I found this positive pregnancy test and—

Zeus: *punches Demeter in the stomach*

Demeter,*doubling over*: AW, MOTHERFU--

[suwisuwii]

[ladynicte]

I am completely convinced that when Hades, Persephone, Demeter, and Nico, all got back to The House after the War in the Last Olympian, Zagreus was just waiting for them at the entrance, while pouting next to a bemused Megaera and Dusa, because they left him behind, and didn't even invite to go to the war with his new little brother, and literally how dare they.

Nico has to reassure Zagreus a million times that he didn't invite him, not because he hates him, but because Zag wasn't even in The House, and was out somewhere in the Fields of Asphodel, when they all left.

[baejax-the-great]

World's Exile

She has been watching him. He does not show her the respect of greeting her properly, his eyes still trained on the ceiling. “You may kill me now if you like,” he offers blandly. Impudence hardly matters now.

“You still have two days,” the goddess replies. “You’ve made such progress; I don’t know why you’d throw it all away now, hiding away in here. Pat’s practically begging to make it up to you. I’m sure I have a few ideas on how he can.”

“I concede. You win your game. It is over. I am ready to be sent down below as I should have been.”

“What makes you think this is winning?” He feels the bed dip under her weight, the press of her body against his knees. He does not make room for her. Then her hand settles on his thigh. “What makes you think I wasn’t rooting for you? For you both? Love is what holds my attention, and the two of you have something special, something worth fighting for, I should think. You are so good at fighting.”

Achilles’ only response is to pluck a few more notes out.

Aphrodite huffs and snatches the instrument from him. “If you are going to insult me with your insolence, at least do it correctly. You are supposed to strum it, like this.”

Achilles looks at her for the first time, propping his head up to watch how she plays it. Her left hand holds down the strings in different positions—the tension changing the notes—whilst her right hand strums across all the strings at once, producing different chords as the left moves. It’s a sort of jaunty tune as she quickly cycles through four different chords before shoving it back to his chest. “I don’t know why I should bother teaching you anything, if you’re so set on dying, but if I have to hear those same four notes one more time, I might just kill you early.”

He plucks each note out, one by one, still watching her, daring her to make good on her threat. She does not.

Achilles lies back and stares at the ceiling again. Her game is only fun if he plays. He will not. Achilles leans back and positions his hand as he saw the goddess do, and he strums. It is not a bad sound. Not broken then. He wonders if Pat knows how to play this instrument. He wonders where he got it.

“Now I remember why we all despised you,” Aphrodite huffs. “Rigid and obstinate to a fault. Liable to take all your toys and go home in a tantrum. This is why all the books denounce you as a villain, you know.”

Achilles experiments with finger placements and makes a truly horrendous sound. Then he plucks out the same four notes one more time.

“Fine,” Aphrodite huffs, jumping to her feet. “If you won’t be any fun, I suppose my only option is to talk to Pat. I’m sure he will be more amenable to my plans.”

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[vavandeveresfan]

Lore Olympus has the best kissing.

Honestly, when I’m writing kissing scenes in my fanfic this is how I imagine them.

[b-e-l-l-a--l-u-n-a]

...at your sudden arrival