Busy day

[valarltd]

Watched Reanimator
Went to conference
Went to vid store, post office, grocery, library
Watched Boondock Saints
Made dinner
Planted garden
Got cover for "Master Bear"
De-skeeved myth of Persephone and Hades as much as possible.
Wrote about 800 words on "Chainmale"
Off to bed. Long day tomorrow too.

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

icon LOVE!

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I made it. You're welcome to it.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I shall snag it then :-)

[reannon.livejournal.com]

How does one de-skeeve Persephone and Hades?

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

By ignoring the fact he's her uncle.
By letting him court her after he's carried her off to Hades.
By making the pomegranate her knowing choice.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think you have to strip out so much of this story that it's pretty much unredeemable. I assume you're also making the age difference disappear, because an adult man - even if he's not her uncle - courting a little girl is also skeevy. Then it's just captive-falls-in-love-with-captor, which is still skeevy (though a staple of '80s romance). It's the story of a child kidnapping, then and now, which is (mythologically) why the earth grows cold and still for half the year in mourning.

But hey, if you can, more power to you...

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

She's not a little girl, but a goddess of marriageable age (although young), so that's not so much a problem.

And yes, that's exactly how we presented it: here's why we have winter. Because Persephone was in love, ate some seeds and can spend part of every year with her husband instead of her mom.

I made her more active. And bride-abduction was commonplace up until the end of the 19th century.

I just couldn't face writing up another myth that was all about the boys and if there was a goddess anywhere, she was decorative.

This will give you a giggle

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

There's obligatory TV in the lobby across from my reception desk. Fortunately, the sound is turned off, and the last time that the signal cut off, I got them to tune it to the Weather Channel rather than Fox or CNN when they turned it back on. However, there's still some stupid-ass garbage on there from time to time.

I just saw a teaser for their upcoming EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS WEEK!!!!!!, which will probably be 20% science, 30% puff, 20% meaningless pictures and 30% alarmist nonsense. At any rate, the teaser's headline was "Is Memphis on Shaky Ground?"

My immediate thought was "Memphis? Which one?" Snerk.

Re: This will give you a giggle

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Why do we need such a week? We KNOW what causes earthquakes.

Immodestly dressed women.

True...

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder what the standards for immodesty were in ancient Memphis were, though? Total nudity? Tomb paintings leave the impression that summertime wear was a tad...casual by our standards.