#persephone

obsessed with just. the entire phrasing and performance of this random tiktok. the uncapitalized 'i's implying the youth of the author. "I think my mom wants me home soon too" SHUT UPPPPPP. only good modern depiction of hades and persephone literally ever. god.

𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯

face hugs with mama

2nd century B.C.E. — 1st century C.E.

Not enough variations focus on the story of Demeter and Perseophone as one of loss. When everything dies around grief and how pomegranates resemble blood. How she died because a man loved her too much. No god can justify that to a mother

"What if i took this story about how young girls in greek are often times sold by their fathers into marriages without an considerations to how they or the mother feels or even the knowledge of the mother, and the small victory one mother achieved by at least still getting to see her daughter forbhalf the year. What if i tookball that, and changed it instead to where the daughter actually wanted to marry the man her father sold her to, and the mother is just a nagging bitch who can't understand that her daughter has her own wants? #feminism"

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