#her song ‘persephone’

[nymphoutofwater]

losing my mind over this. god she’s going to be incredible

[averlym]

"you're lost, little girl"

[bunnygibson]

here's what it takes

[aidoneusmusic]

since i won’t be able to record vocals for a little while (im moving rly far and have to ship all my recording stuff!) maybe i’ll share some of the instrumental demos i’ve got done : ))))

in the meantime, though, here’s a lyrical excerpt from Kore with some context to give you an idea of the vibe!

Sunlight, how my love for you came easily

If I go, will you still know to look for me?

My heart breaks, but it aches more

For what I’ve never seen

And maybe it’s naivety,

But I’ve grown tired of green

Fatal curiosity

Beckons me

In the version I’m writing, she gets to know Hades in secret and falls for him, but is still cautious when he asks her to go home with him since he hasn’t revealed much about what “home” is. All she plans to do is visit for a while and then return to the surface. While in Hades, she meets the shades and sees the only living thing — a pomegranate tree — which he says allows him to pass between Hades and the surface world safely, and in secret. This is partially true, but out of selfish desperation and loneliness, he doesn’t mention that eating anything from the underworld binds souls to Hades eternally.

So when they catch wind that Demeter is coming to rescue her daughter, he tells her to eat the seeds so that she may come back — so she does. And so on and so forth, the rest is history. She discovers the truth almost immediately following, the deal is struck, and she has no choice but to leave/return every 6 months.

[cherrywine-sunnydiety]

Me: okay so persephone’s playlist is next, Im gonna add unknown by hozier that would go great in there. Any requests ma’am?

Persephone: mama by my chemical romance

Me:…what?

Persephone: you heard me

[onehopefuldreamer]

So I think I just figured out the optimal order of events for Stray Gods Act II for me.

Thanks to some very kind people on the Stray Gods Discord I was made aware that if you don't immediately go to Aphrodite's party but visit the Reliquary and Medusa's lair first you get completely different information from Aphrodite and Eros than if you'd first gone there. By some stroke of luck I had just done The Ritual (because I'm pretty much always replaying this game...) so I went back and redid things. And my gosh, am I never going to do The Ritual first again!

It's not only the information Grace receives that is much better, but also the flow of events actually feels much more natural this way. Especially if you romance Persephone because this gives her extra time to get to know Grace a little before you trigger You and I and it just feels so right. This also gives Grace a chance to tell Apollo she's worried about the way her investigation is going when he checks in with her instead of lying and saying she's fine. I love that! But also - you get a slightly different conversation with Pan after visiting Medusa which I liked heaps better personally.

What I ended up loving the most was that if you'd been naughty like me and flirted with everyone but Apollo when you talk with him about suspecting Pan after The Ritual he actually tells Grace to give Pan the benefit of the doubt and is very supportive of her which is completely adorable. Then, because I had been flirting with Pan, Persephone made Grace choose between her and him which was also a really nice touch and had me giggling and kicking my feet. I had no idea I needed to hear Persephone say "And what of Pan? Is he also 'incredible'?" but it gave me so much joy, you have no idea. I also ended up testing the option where you choose Pan over Persephone and she was very understanding and supportive while also shutting down any flirting from that point onwards. The only thing that disappointed me was that Persepone didn't seem to care that my Grace was also flirting with Freddie. That wasn't mentioned at all.

And now I need to do yet another replay after I finish this one and go for Pan because man, the dude has charm in spades and I love him and I wish I could romance Persephone, Freddie and him all at once. I might even like him more than Freddie which probably makes me a bad lesbian but it is what it is. His song is my favourite romance song right after You and I too, it's so catchy and joyful. Damn, I really need to romance him soon, don't I?

Fun fact: because I stopped my replay right before doing The Ritual after going to the Reliquary and visiting Medusa last night I ended up dreaming of an alternate version of Persephone and Grace's talk leading to You and I which had Persephone more open and forthcoming about Calliope and Grace very supportive and understanding. Then I'm pretty sure I dreamed a whole alternate version of You and I where Grace and Persephone actually sang together. I'm pretty pissed I don't remember any details because damn... I wish that were real. And I wish I could have recorded it. It was so good.

[camcorderrevival]

(let's kill hitler, steven moffat & the girl who tore the universe apart, nikita gill)

it's like they've both got this mother wound and they're prepared to do anything to fill it, even at the detriment of the person they're aching for. dragging her mother through a door between worlds, trying to make a child behave as her mother. a romantic maternal ideal that cannot be fulfilled.

[braisedhoney]

some tragic love stories be like: if i could bottle the galaxy, i would pour it into a cup so it would be easier for you to drink. do you want them? do you want the stars? or do they suit you better as adornments for your eyes than glitter on your lips?

but they don’t want the stars. they don’t want the galaxy. but how can they not? is that not enough? (it’s too much, that’s the problem. it’s too much.)

[hrrystylesbookclub]

i have such a dumb question 🫣

in the hadestown world, is hadestown/the underworld legitimately death or is it industrialized and contract based as a replacement of death?

because i guess i always interpreted as the contracts being a metaphor for death, but recently ive been rethinking it

[asthedeathoflight]

Ajax thewarriors very sexy actually. Love it when women are crazy and love violence. You guys should listen to this musical.

[your-fave-is-a-crane-wives-song]

Persephone from Hadestown is Show Your Fangs by The Crane Wives!

requested by @richie-shitlips

[gazpacho-deluxe]

the fates are my favorite characters in hadestown. they’re so irredeemably nasty and they do so much narrative heavy lifting.

[jaggedwolf]

I've generally thought the songs unfortunately weak in Stray Gods, but the kickass options in the Aphrodite song make it super baller, love the chorus singing the "Everybody"s

[abreathsecho]

Hey, I saw you changed your username! I just wanted to say I thought it was a lovely sounding name! /gen

Sorry for the late reply, but thank you! Very much so!!

Honestly, I expected to change my username and drop that post for anyone to see and it to be just another drop in an ocean, completely and entirely ignored. Especially since I so very rarely have posted anything myself on here, on my blog, and have gotten no attention before.

But it's pretty nice to see a few people like the post, even reply back about it. So thank you for sending a message! It's very much appreciated.

As for the username, I've just never fully felt alright with Vexchief. I liked the concept I was going for then (a mixture of Vixen and Mischief smashed together, but because I didn't like the look of Vixchief, I changed the first i to an e) but I never liked how it seemed that anger defined me via Vex. Mischief and Anger. I didn't like that.

And in real life, I've just- *A very long sigh...* A long terrible story, but my life has not been great. A hell not of mine own making that I've been stuck in my whole life, and have been trying to get myself out of no matter what. But when I try, it's never seemed enough. Not anything close to enough. And especially these last few years since Covid happened (didn't get it, just life stuff that happened around the same time), I've just been like a boat lost at sea, adrift. And if I tried to move, to leave my situation, it's only felt like I've gone in a circle, like I'm just chasing my own tail, going nowhere.

("All things that lose their way can find it again. There is no inertia in the ocean.")

Sailsunfurled is I suppose my own declaration to myself. I feel like things are truly different this time around. (Maybe? Or maybe not and I'm just delusional. But I have to think that everything before, every attempt has helped me get to this point.) So it's me saying I am letting down the sails, and I am going to journey forth, once and for all. This is it, this the attempt. I will make it work. I will get out. And I will live. And I will be okay. (Okay, it's certainly a bit delusional. But I feel like at this point I'm just a bit desperate for it to work.)

Anyway, long story short, Adrift has been stuck in my head, haunting me ever since I first heard it. And lately I've had some little obsession of a thought of a boat, a sail. (I might have delved a little into some sea shanties the other day lmao.)

[jdsmineralwater]

if we started writing alto songs in the actual alto range and not in the it-needs-to-be-low-to-keep-the-altos-happy-but-high-enough-that-a-soprano-could-sing-it-if-they-wanted-to range the sopranos would not be able to deal

so like what if we started doing that

[neimiismycoolgirlname]

Fuck my expectations for Senior Year are so high I know it won't be as good as I wish it was