It makes sense for people who knew her before such as her mother to call her that but it feels really creepy when Hades calls her Kore because it means maiden or girl. I think he calls her Kore more than Persephone and it's made me uncomfortable since the start of the series.

After all these months, finally, FINALLY chapter 14 is OUT on Ao3 and Quotev!!! I've been excited for this one for quite a bit (can't get into detail about why, you'll have to figure that out on your own 😉) So enjoy, don't be afraid on giving the fic a kudos/like and leave a comment or two!

I thought the idea of Fertility Goddesses and Gods getting their power from the Earth made sense because fertility is about life and Earth hosts all the life around us and the first fertility goddess Gaia was of the Goddess of the Earth. I'm kind of proud of myself for coming up with the whole give and take thing and actually making something halfway decent with what I have from canon lol

Also Aphrodite is the polyamorous queen as come on she's the Goddess of Love it makes sense for her to be polyamorous and I can't to write her relationship with her husbands.

Was curious to see how much they were going for pre-orders since the link dropped today and sheeshhhh 🫠🫠. Limited to 1400 pieces, no other photos/closeups other than the advertisement video (which I did my best to get screenshots of). . . Even the older limited edition statue of Hades and Persephone kissing was under 300, with essentially higher quality, slightly bigger, and way more detailed. Not to mention, individual characters all go for 30 dollars each. I’m not trying to diss on the work of the talented artists at Weta who do paint these figures by hand! Not at all! But this seems like a wee bit of a steep prices for bookends with slightly off model characters, and from what I observed, a bit of a splotchy paint job. I get these are definitely collector items at the end of the day, that people can 100% choose to purchase or not! But with the teasing of bookends to complete the lore Olympus book collection, I was just not expecting such a high price for, once again, bookends. If anyone wanted, diy-ing your own bookends would come down to under a 100 if you purchase the separate Hades and Persephone figures (or others of your choice off the website at 30 each) and stick them on the ends of your collection with stands, mini books, or something else. Would be more worth it imo, esp when these seem to be the same size as the individual ones and have slightly lower quality tbh.
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Actually thought about completing my collection with these.... but I'm just going to buy some sculpting materials and make my own.

Describing the powers of the Fertility Goddesses & Gods in my AU/one shot featuring Persephone X fertility God Hermes(Coming hopefully soon on AO3!) The powers described are from canon ( Except for one I think) but I chose to write them down and describe them for my own benefit because you know they don't describe Fertility Goddesses that well in canon and I think writing them out in describing them will help me out when writing.

I hope my description/list helps you out if you choose to write about Fertility Goddesses yourself!

• Power enhancements - Fertility Gods and Goddess powers are derived from the Earth and in return for the extra power they provide for the Earth by helping things grow or be created. They also may share this power with someone they love like a friend, sibling, parent or lover. Two Fertility Gods or Goddesses enhancing each other's power makes them extremely dangerous. This is one of the reasons why Fertility Gods and Goddesses powers are hidden and raised away from other FGs. They are often told to be careful who they trust as anyone who manages to get close to their heart may be able to use them.
• Healing - Self-explanatory
• Fertility - What type fertility depends on what the God happens to be of. For example Demeter has both fertility of the earth and of the body while Aphrodite has just fertility of the body.
• Fertility form - To take this form the FG must be of maturity and officially forge their connection to the Earth. Their official connection to the Earth allows them to gain power from the core of the Earth to grow into a larger form.
• I'm so sorry if I explained fertility form horribly! I'm also really sorry this is really short because honestly the powers in canon aren't explained at all so. If I missed something or if any suggestions please let me know!

Whoever posted the Bald in HD thank yewww

OG vs my edit

One thing about Rachel’s new pieces is they are always eating with Persephone’s looks, gold dress was perfect

1. Hymn to Persephone and Demeter - LO inspired fic which is an interpretation of the Abduction of Persephone which doesn't dehumanize Demeter and focuses on female friendships. Pairings are heavily implied Persephone and Hermes and technically Hades and Persephone. Trigger warning for past SA which is not shown but mentioned and non-descriptive child of birth. One of the longer stories in my collection of works. (Special thanks to u/SupermarketBig3906 for providing ideas and pushing me to start writing this!)
2. Open Up Your eyes - A rewrite of the intervention where Demeter is able to get through to Persephone. Pairings are Persephone and Hades but not really and implied Hermes and Persephone. Very short and really sucks so I would recommend skipping this one. Will go back to this one at one day when I'm more comfortable with writing for LO
3. Seven Minutes in Heaven - Fertility God Hermes X Persephone. Goes into the ramifications of being a Fertility God and how it's a dangerous world for them... (Special thanks to AdministrativeRun550 and Ok-Departure-4613 for providing ideas!)
4. Unnamed kinda Mafia Persephone X Hermes - Persephone is sent to Olympus by her mother to learn skills to be the heiress of her company and Hermes is her bodyguard. Hades and Apollo want Persephone for her power and yeah she can fight Hermes is just here for backup! (Special thanks to SupermarketBig3906 again for the idea for this AU)
5. Unnamed Horror Persephone X Hades - Not really because Hades is obsessed with Persephone and she just wants to get away from him. Her friends try to help her escape him. No pairings and I just realized that sounds a lot like Obsession (I heard it's a great movie and I want to watch it soon)
6. Unnamed Fertility Goddesses Hang out (+ Demeter) - They just be chilling. No pairing besides mentions of past relationships.
7. Decay - Takes place after Persephone's powers of spring are corrupted. Persephone is in a really bad shape right now and her friends are taking care of her. Demeter, Athena and Hestia research how to reverse it and they find that she must reverse the deal she made with Erebos thus not making her no longer a Chthonic goddess. Hades takes this as well as you think and Persephone must think hard about what she's going to do. This is another horror one because it's spooky month! The pairings are Persephone and Hades but I'm sure you can tell that I don't like them by now.
8. Video Killed Radio Star - Continuation of the kinda to Mafia AU where Hermes and Persephone duet Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles at a bar while fighting off Hades and Apollo while others such as Artemis help out. Pairings are Persephone and Hermes.
9. Sunset - Selene and Helios centered angst fic focusing on the lives after The Titan War.

If you have any critiques or ideas please let me know!

slowly releasing my re-redesign of the Dread Queen 🙈🤫

(Previous preview you can be found here!)

I really liked writing for Hera! Her depiction here is based on the more motherly and protective version of her saw in the beginning of the comic! Also I just love Hestia and her bond with Demeter. Hopefully I'll be able to focus on them a little more in this story. Some Hestia lore for you is that she was allowed to stay a virgin because of her important role and is the only virgin goddess to be left alone by men.

I also really liked writing for Aphrodite and her husbands! She has probably one of my favorite designs alongside Persephone/Kore! Her being polyamorous to me as a poly person makes a lot of sense as the Goddess of Love. Ares is a fun character to write for. What can I say he loves his wife and is funny.

I'm so glad I got back into the groove of writing this!

Speaking of writing I finished writing the first fic in my Lore Olympus anthology which the story you saw the preview for it's a part of! Here's the link for the story it's pretty short and really rough but it's my first time writing for this fandom on the first one is always the hardest because you're getting yourself familiar with writing the characters and the world they live in.

I'm working on a LO themed anthology on AO3! Here's what you can expect to find so far!

1. Hymn to Persephone and Demeter - LO inspired fic which is an interpretation of the Abduction of Persephone which doesn't dehumanize Demeter and focuses on female friendships. Pairings are heavily implied Persephone and Hermes. It's currently about a thousand words in my draft and maybe the longest thing I've ever written! (Special thanks to u/SupermarketBig3906 for providing ideas and pushing me to start writing this!)
2. Open Up Your eyes - A rewrite of the intervention where Demeter is able to get through to Persephone. Pairings are Persephone and Hades but not really
3. Seven Minutes in Heaven - Fertility God Hermes X Persephone. Goes into the ramifications of being a Fertility God and how it's a dangerous world for them... (Special thanks to u/AdministrativeRun550 and u/Ok-Departure-4613 for providing ideas!)
4. Unnamed kinda Mafia Persephone X Hermes - Persephone is sent to Olympus by her mother to learn skills to be the heiress of her company and Hermes is her bodyguard. Hades and Apollo want Persephone for her power and yeah she can fight Hermes is just here for backup! (Special thanks to SupermarketBig3906 again for the idea for this AU)
5. Unnamed Horror Persephone X Hades - Not really because Hades is obsessed with Persephone and she just wants to get away from him. Her friends try to help her escape him. No pairings and I just realized that sounds a lot like Obsession (I heard it's a great movie and I want to watch it soon)6. Unnamed Fertility Goddesses Hang out (+ Demeter) - They just be chilling. No pairing besides mentions of past relationships.
6. Decay - Takes place after Persephone's powers of spring are corrupted. Persephone is in a really bad shape right now and her friends arentake care of her. Demeter, Athena and Hestia research how to reverse it and they find that she must reverse the deal she made with Erebos thus not making her no longer a Chthonic goddess. Hades takes this as well as you think and Persephone must think hard about what she's going to do. This is another horror one because it's spooky month! The pairings are Persephone and Hades but I'm sure you can tell that I don't like them by now.
7. Video Killed Radio Star - Continuation of the kinda to Mafia AU where Hermes and Persephone duet Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles at a bar while fighting off Hades and Apollo while others such as Artemis help out

Hopefully I should be done with all these by the end of the month but the first one is taking up to a lot of time because it's so long. The rewrite of the intervention and Seven Minutes in Heaven are also in my drafts and I'm working on it alongside the first one. I really hope I can write all these! You can find this on my AO3 and I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew!

In real life there are Fertility Gods such as Dionysus,Eros and Hermes so I'm wondering what would change in the story of LO if they had Fertility Gods. Would they have the same powers and special abilities as Fertility Goddesses and have different powers then them?

(I may write a fan fiction about this topic once I'm done with my other two ones)

(If you want to see a full list of fertility gods and goddesses check it out right here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fertility_deities#Greek)

After a week of waiting to get my little hands on volume 11 I have it now and I read it last night and as you expect I have thoughts!

• Demophoon's existence is confusing and unnecessary. He isn't even relevant later in the volume
• I hated how they brought all the Fertility Goddesses back cuz it's just so damn cheesy and stupid (#justiceforDemeterAphroditeandHermes who are irl fertility gods)
• I will never shut up about how it should have been Demeter because it actually makes a lot more sense than Hera
• I'm very ashamed to admit this but I actually got emotional with the reunion of Rhea and Hades. It was very sweet and while it was weird that she didn't say anything of how much her son's bride looks so much like her the reunion was extremely sweet
• I'm happy Selene showed up because in one of my preview for my LO inspired story I just assumed that she wasn't in it for some reason. I wish she did more because she has a really cool design! I just remember now that she did show up I think in another episode just briefly but I have a really bad memory so that's my bad.
• Ouranos and Helios being brothers in LO isn't myth accurate but it makes sense
• Ouranos showing up felt a little too much because we already beat a big boss
• Also Persephone being in the in Underworld for 9 months makes no sense because winter is not that long and I'm pretty sure she's in Mortal Realm longer because of spring, summer and probably fall
• Overall I did enjoy LO and I don't regret the money I wasted getting the physical volumes because they're pretty looking on my shelf and I just love collecting. It also sparked me to write something I'm really looking forward to posting and it may be one of my longest ones in my collection! I also met you guys and I really enjoy critiquing and talking about the myths!

Color palette based on old panels

Behold, the Warrior Krater, which is a totally legit and not at all stylized representation of what ancient people looked like (and also not at all proof that Skeeter Valentine was a time traveler, shh)

I’m like speechless. I know the style has changed and everything but like…

OG panel is volume 11 extra strip with my attempt at making him look a little menacing for two men that tried to kidnap his pregnant wife

Edit: post quality is shit sorry

"Aph... they're staring...." -Artemis.

"So? Can't they be allowed to see how much I love you?" -Aphrodite.

(Enjoy the meme)

So this is actually an informal rant so apologies if it's jumbled. As we all know Volume 11's bonus chapter for a lack of better words is fundamentally useless and doesn't give us any new information but that's about par for the course with these bonus chapters. However, I couldn't help but notice how indicative it is of the poor worldbuilding of The Underworld.

Lore Olympus's main setting is The Underworld - the domain of Hades, and the home of the deceased. It is also home to other deities and monsters, and because of this, it is known in Greek mythology as a perilous place that many Greek (and Roman) heroes have to endure on their journey. Dionysus, Heracles, Orpheus, Psyche, etc. are all known to have journeyed through the Underworld for various reasons in their own respective narratives. Bonus Chapter 11 introduces to a lesser known one (to the general public at least), the second kidnapping of Persephone. Well, attempted.

After kidnapping Helen (yes, that Helen), Theseus and Pirithous set off to the Underworld to kidnap Persephone. However, in doing so the two get stuck to rocks when taking a rest as punishment for their hubris. This happens as they see the Furies appear in front of them, so it can be assumed that this is a punishment enacted by the Furies themselves. Theseus is the only one who is freed (later, by Heracles) and Pirithous's punishment is to be devoured by Cerberus or is sometimes left ambiguous, assumingly stuck to the chair for eternity. Regardless, in the bonus chapter the two are punished directly by Hades and that's where it ends.

However, I couldn't help but feel that this chapter (amongst other things) reveals and is the epitome of everything wrong with the Underworld's depiction in Lore Olympus: it's empty. The two characters we see the most are obviously the King and Queen of the realm, but the Underworld would not be as terrifying as it is if it were not for the fact that it is inhabited by deities that embody death itself and the final judgement before you pass on. And it's not like Lore Olympus forgot to introduce some of these deities to us - Thanatos, The Furies, The Fates, Cerberus, etc. are established characters in the world of Lore Olympus.

Yet, we never see these individuals do anything of substance that would convince me that the Underworld is as thriving and terrifying as Rachels sets it up to be. The overfocus on Hades and Persephone's Girlboss Y/N x Scary CEO Daddy dynamic completely overshadows the deities that make the Underworld as daunting as it's supposed to be. They end up being supporting characters in the worst way possible (as in, they literally enable the worst behaviors in the aforementioned main characters ) and it ends up making the world feel more empty than it should. There is no real reason given in universe as to why the Underworld is as well off as it is. And the complete absence or inaction of significant figures like Charon, Styx, the Cocytus river (of which Minthe is a daughter of in mythology), and even lesser known rivers/bodies of water that contribute to shades' lack of autonomy (Lethe and Mnemosyne), etc. contribute to this empty feeling in the webcomic.

So when Theseus and Pirithous arrive in the Underworld in this bonus chapter, there is a clear lack of struggle or evidence of a struggle to have even reached Persephone. It truly does feel like in Lore Olympus, anyone can indeed just walk into the Underworld with very little problem. There's no pushback towards trespassers unless you assumingly set off Persephone, who can simply call on Daddy Hades to deal with her problems for her. Because not even the literal Queen of the Underworld can be set up as a terrifying presence in a comic about her (unless you are lower class, of course). Fundamentally, the Underworld functions as a status symbol for Hades and Persephone's "divine right" as King and Queen, and less of an afterlife for mortals or place of punishment for those who transgress the Gods. Elysium has been talked to death here so I'll spare making this rant any longer than it needs to be but it's very clear that the Underworld in Lore Olympus is about as useless as this chapter was.