Rachel Alexander

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In the Hymn, Demeter demands that the people of Eleusis build her a temple and an altar on the rising hill above the Kallichoron well. Keleos summons the people and make sure that this is done. Demeter then withdraws into the temple. I didn't include that part of the story for two reasons. 1. In my comic Demeter already has a temple and cult in Eleusis. 2. Building a temple takes a very long time. In the Hymn it almost sounds like that all it took was a day's work, but building a temple, at least a big one, normally took several years.

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In the Hymn, when speaking about Demophoon's everlasting honor, Demeter says: ... "the sons of the Eleusinians will join in war and dreadful battle against each other forever" (Athanassakis, 2004). It is thought that this refers to the Ballétys, a local festival involving a mock battle among the young men of Eleusis.

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In The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Demeter herself takes Demophoon from the hearth and places him on the ground when Metaneira interrupts the ritual, which implies that this magic could only be worked in secret. It says nothing about the child dying. However, some scholars argue that the hymn-poet clearly alludes to his approaching death by using the word aspaironta for when he is left gasping on the floor, a word used elsewhere of dying heroes. In other versions of the story, the child is immediately burnt up in the fire when the ritual is interrupted (Apollodorus Bibliotheca 1.5.1 and Orphic frag. 49, 100ff). In Hyginus Fabulae it is the father, here named Eleusinius, who interrupts the ritual. He was killed by the angry goddess, but the child (who here is Triptolemus) was honored by Demeter and was given her chariot with flying serpents to spread the cultivation of grain to rest of humanity.

Blood Stain is back on webtoons!

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

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😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win.

😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool.

😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist.

😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts.

Wooo I wish I did! Thank you so much!!

I was really worried when I put out The Good Counselor because, like, people are showing up for the smut and staying for the plot? but this book was HEAVY on plot and with the major theme being LOSS in all its forms, I thought I really might lose people with this one.

It took a lot out of me for me to write The Good Counselor and there was an oddly superstitious part of me that didn’t want to write a few integral parts of the book while I was pregnant.

After a long battle with PPD that had the side effect of putting a stop to my writing for a couple years, then the busyness that comes with being a parent, I finally was able to finish the manuscript in mid-2021.

Rounds of edits, marketing 🤢 and the like and I got it into people’s hands on the Spring Equinox of 2022, a full six years after I published Destroyer of Light.

It was a hard book to write. Emotionally taxing for reasons I don’t like to discuss too often.

So I have been working on a few non-series projects since then, one of which is The Selkie and Mrs. Cawley, about a 18th century girl who makes a deal with a 900 year old selkie to pose as her husband and save her island from a landowner.

It’s a lot lighter than TGC. Before I dove into the deep with The Ineffable Seeds, which will revolve around the consequences of TGC and Dionysos’s self awakening, and Makaria and Melinoe’s journeys through early adulthood, I needed a palate cleanser.