#the soul is wandering and the spirit is in hades

[massiveladycat]

if you didnt get a coin in your mouth when you died in ancient greece, you weren't able to go to the underworld, and no men at sea got a burial (elpenor was actually very VERY lucky) so technically polites and all the others are just wandering alone and afraid and confused in their death places. polites sits in the cyclops cave, eurylochus and 580?? men are forever at the bottom of the sea, and 6 are still near scylla

[cheese-wizard]

The Interactions between Frinos and the stray spirits are so funny to me in Hades II, Imagine you're some lost soul wandering wherever you are and all of a sudden this angry princess storms in, kills a bunch of monsters and then shows you a frog, telling you there is a safe place for you where you are welcome.

10/10 would absolutely follow any girl if she showed me a cool frog

[astra-ravana]

Celebrating Samhain

Samhain, pronounced "SAH-win", is the eighth Sabbat and final spoke on the Wheel of the Year. With ancient Celtic origins, Samhain was one of the four fire festivals, and falls at the halfway point between the Autumn Equinox ans Winter Solstice. Opposing Beltane on the Wheel, Samhain also similarly features a 'thinning of the Veil', a time when the barrier between our world and that of spirits and other magickal entities is weakened and easier to cross. While Beltane famously is a strong time to interact with the Fae due to the Veil thinning, Samhain is most known for interactions with spiritual entities, the dead, and ancestors.

Samhain is also known as the third and final Harvest Festival (the first being Lughnasadh, and the second Mabon). The frost is coming, and most of the produce has been collected from the fields and stored away. As people prepared for oncoming harsh weather and lack of food/resources, they had to cut back on everything that wasn't crucial to their survival. Thus, this festival was the time of the animal harvest. All creatures who could not be fed through the harsh Winter were harvested during this time, and celebrated for their sacrifice.

Other names for Samhain and similar celebrations include:

• Halloween

• All Hallow's Eve

• The Witch's New Year

• The Third/Final Harvest

• Calan Gaeaf, "The First Day Of Winter"

• Oiche Shamnhna

• All Soul's Day

• All Saint's Day

• Devil's Night

Common Samhain Traditions

• The Dumb Supper is when a meal is hosted and consumed by the living, but the dead and spirits are invited to participate and given seats and places at the table as a sign of respect. Often the windows are all open during a Dumb Supper to invite the spirits into a home. Sometimes specific spirits or ancestors are invited or the invitation is simply left open to any spirits that wish to attend. The living attendants traditionally eat in silence to honor the spirits and hear their messages.

• Carving Jack-O-Lanterns originally came from the myth of "Stringy Jack", which is an Irish folktale about a man who tricked the Devil and now has to wander the world with a lit piece of coal protected inside a carved turnip. This evolved into people carving their own turnips and potatoes and placing them in windows or doorways to scare away Stringy Jack and other tricky or potentially harmful spirits. Once Irish immigrants came to America, the tradition was continued with pumpkins.

• Trick-Or-Treating is also derived from old Samhain traditions. The Celts believed that by dressing up they were disguising themselves from negative spirits who wandered the Earth on Samhain. In the Middle-Ages, "guising" was when children or impoverished people would dress in costumes and go door-to-door begging for food in exchange for songs or prayers. This practice was known as "souling" and the participants called "soulers". In Ireland, the practice of "mumming" involved dressing up in costumes and going door-to-door to sing in exchange for tasty cakes and baked goods.

Samhain Correspondences

Colors:

• Black

• Green

• Orange

• Purple

• Red

• Silver

Crystals:

• Black Obsidian

• Bloodstone

• Amethyst

• Black Tourmaline

• Carnelian

• Jasper

• Jet

• Malachite

• Iolite

• Onyx

• Vivianite

• Ruby

• Smokey Quartz

• Garnet

Herbs/Plants:

• Cedar

• Allspice

• Cinnamon

• Hemlock

• Sage

• Rosemary

• Patchouli

• Hazel

• Dittany of Crete

• Bay

• Clove

• Belladonna

• Dragon's Blood

• Wormwood

• Mandrake

• Mugwort

• Snapdragon

• Gourds

• Nutmeg

• Frankincense

• Ginger

• Pine

• Hyssop

• Marigold

Animals:

• Bats

• Snakes

• Cats

• Spiders

• Scorpions

• Coyotes

• Jackals

• Dogs

• Wolves

• Foxes

• Crows

• Ravens

• Owls

• Rats

• Stags

Food/Drink:

• Pumpkins

• Cider

• Beef

• Chicken

• Pork

• Cranberries

• Turnips

• Potatoes

• Garlic

• Soups/stews

• Pears

• Corn

• Ale

• Apples

• Grain

• Pies

Deities:

• Hekate

• Lucifer

• Anubis

• Loki

• Lilith

• Morrigan

• Nyx

• Hades

• Persephone

• Osiris

• Apollo

• Cerridwen

• Hel

• Freya

• Demeter

• Bast

• Mercury

• Yama

• Dis

• Herne

Magickal Workings:

• Spirit Work

• Ancestral Work

• Banishing

• Cleansing

• Divination

• Baneful Magick

• Shadow Work

• Rebirth/Resurrection

• Transformation

• Creativity

• Defensive Magick

• Preparation

• Ambition

• Purification

• Protection

Bonus: Samhain Incense Recipe

• 2 parts Rosemary

• 1 part Frankincense

• 1 part Cinnamon

• 1 part Cloves

• 1 part Patchouli

• 1/2 part Sage

• 1/4 part Hyssop

• Pinch of Sea Salt

[kiame-sama]

What kind of other monsters exist in the HAE!verse? Any "human-turned-monsters" like vampires, zombies, banshees, etc.? If so, we're they originally humans or born as monsters?

None that were born Human or are still alive. A Human can only be 'ascended' by a Dragon and the death of that dragon kills the 'ascended' Human as well. Humans can become ghosts/phantoms/poltergeists but usually they are wandering spirits that Hades has to put to rest, and he has done a good job so far in finding all the lost Human souls.

Vampire is a phrase attached to the monsters that primarily feed off of blood or that have a blood diet. (Ie. Lilia is a Vampire Bat because he drinks blood as part of his diet)

There is the undead such as the Undying Ursus Minor where they are considered dead yet refused to actually die. Skeletons do occasionally rise up, but they are usually possessed bodies by magic spirits.

But Humans don't turn into anything other than spirits or the few that were considered 'ascended' by a Dragon.

Sirens are a thing, but they are the sea-faring versions of the land-faring Harpies. Puffin Sirens are quite sociable compared to a Dove Harpy.

There was only one recorded instance of a Human gaining magic and changing form without a Dragon, that was a man who sought to rise above his brothers who bargained for power. Who granted him this power has been lost to time, but in the end he was cursed with the form of a large undying bear (the only Undying Ursus Major) and slaughtered his siblings, driven feral by the magic he was never supposed to wield. Only a Human can kill him or his twisted offspring (The Undying Ursus Minors) because only the creature he once was can end his violent torment. (Mor'du)

[tylermileslockett]

The Greek underworld, or House of Hades, is generally described in Homer’s Iliad as a gloomy place of “the mists and the darkness” (Lattimore) where the spirits heroes and villains alike come to rest. Hermes as Psychopomp (Spirit guide), would lead the new spirits down into the land of the dead.  Souls would first drink at the River Acheron (river of sorrow) or sometimes mentioned as the River Styx (to specifically forget their past pains), then they would be ferried across by the boatman Charon for a coin placed within their mouths or upon their eyes. Souls would drink from the River Lethe (river of forgetfulness) to forget all memories of their previous lives, then pass through the gates guarded by Cerberus, the hound of Hades before being presented before Hades, and his wife Persephone. The other two  rivers of the underworld are the River Phlegethon (river of fire) and the River Cocytus (river of wailing) both associated with punishment.

         The Souls would then be judged by three demi gods: Minos (son of Zeus and Europa), Rhadamanthus, (son of Zeus and Europa), and Aeacus, (son of Zeus and Aegina.) and would choose a final place for each soul amongst the following locations:

the Asphodal meadows, (asphodal is a white lily associated with death), is where ordinary souls were forgotten, wandering in monotony amongst misty darkness. The Elysian fields, also known as Elysium, is described as a paradise where the honored heroes go to live in white houses amongst fields of gold, ripe fruit, and temperate weather. Tartarus is a realm residing a vast distance below Hades, and is a place of cruel, eternal punishment that, according to Hesiod, even Zeus feared. Here the defeated Titans were held, imprisoned in chains, as well as mortals who committed crimes against the gods, like Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Ixion. In addition, the Erinyes, (or Furies), the three goddess of blood retribution and punishers of criminals were said to inhabit this dreaded realm.  

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[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, I had thoughts on forming a legit DBD Hadestown AU, and seeing as they kept me up literally all last night, it seemed only fitting that I actually write them down. So:

Charles and Edwin are, obviously, Orpheus and Eurydice respectively. However, rather than having just met and falling into a whirlwind romance, I decided that they're childhood friends who've met again and rediscovered feelings that they'd both been ignoring for a long time. Edwin is dedicated soley to figuring out why the world is dying and if he can help people while he can, and he hasn't really let himself rest, or even feel happy, in years---to the point where he feels that any good thing is too good to be true, even falling in love. Charles, on the other hand, has long since made the decision that someone has to be happy and keep spirits up in the trying times, and it might as well be him... even at the cost of his own health, as he works tirelessly on a song that he knows, despite all logic and understanding, will bring back spring again.

Crystal is Hermes, but she is also Hecate---she is the goddess of the in-between, magic, trickery, the crossroads, and restless souls... and that last part refers not only to the dead that she guides to Hadestown, but to anyone who chooses a life of wandering the road, from the honest messenger to the thieving highwayman. And yet, since the world has begun to die, she's been slowly slipping away from her role, choosing to spend her time among the mortals. This decision, of course, is helped by the fact that not only is Crystal one of the few gods who thinks there's more to the world dying than it just being "a reflection of mortal hubris," but that she's managed to make a friend in Charles. She's seen the way that music can change the world, after all, and knowing that there's at least one mortal who still has hope means that she can still believe.

Niko is a combination of Aphrodite and Dionysus---she's the goddess of love, revelries, happiness, and abundance, yes, but she's also the goddess of the mania that comes when all of those things are taken too far, and she's been dipping more and more into that side of herself as the world gets worse and worse. She wants to forget all the pain and suffering, and she gives herself and others the means to do so, even if it's all temporary. And while Niko does care for the mortals, and wishes that things could get better... deep down, she's lost a lot of her old hope, and even she can't disguise the fact that she's living with a broken heart.

Monty is Persephone, but he's also Apollo---he's the god of rebirth, prophecies, the stars and the earth, and new beginnings... and for what should be half of the year, he rules over the dead. He used to find just as much joy in watching over the souls as he did creating spring with Niko and charting the stars to bring prophecies to the mortals, but as Hadestown gets more punishing, more people die up above, and the world just gets worse, Monty grows even more bitter and closed off. He's unable to even properly enjoy his time on the surface, knowing full well that he won't stay for six months like he should... and the man he loves is wearing his patience thin.

The Cat King is Hades---and yes, somebody did make a very compelling argument for him being the Fates, but it works for the story, so just hang on. Once upon a time, he was happy just ruling over souls and managing the afterlife, and he cherished the time he spent with Monty as much as he could. But over time, wealth became added to his already vast domain, and his fascination for making and collecting things became an obsession... in no small part due to the fact that those six months spent away from Monty started to weigh incredibly heavy on him, and he eventually loses himself in his effort to replicate everything his husband loves about the upper world as it dies along with the way they used to feel about each other. Not to mention, his old empathy and compassion for the souls has hardened into cold indifference at best and a sick enjoyment of their suffering at worst. And all this change is making one person in particular very happy...

Esther is the Fates, but she's also a version of Demeter---the goddess of nature and all of its love and cruelties, and the one who spins everyone's path on her loom, punishing those who dare to stray from what she has determined for them. She's despised the Cat King for years, ever since he whisked Monty away to Hadestown, and she wholeheartedly believes that the reason the world is dying is only because he's been keeping Monty down there for too long, not because they've begun to fall out of love. So, when Esther spins a tale of a pair of lovers who are destined to end tragically, she sees it as an opportunity to finally push the Cat King and Monty to the breaking point---to save her son and the world, she tells herself, but mostly for revenge.

[whereserpentswalk]

There was, in the days of generations now passed into the gates of hades, a spirit that guarded a road. He was a kind spirit; he had been in the place for as long as anyone can remember. They say he looked like a tall man in shining green armor, with the wings and arms of a mantis. Nobody ever saw the face below his helmet. He was a kind spirit in those days, a protector of the travelers and the wanders. Those lost in the night he would show the way. He would walk with those who needed protection. The shops on the side of the road would put out warm milk and meat pies for him, and he would award them with money and customers. And any church that preached that he was an unclean thing would find themselves restored by termites and rats without his dear protection.

They say one day, as he walked alongside a young woman as she made her way home through a cold winter's night, a man came up to her and tried to take her away at the point of a knife. The spirit was enraged, and melted the attacker's eyes from his skull, and closed the holes in his face under his body died from lack of air. It was a brutal fate, though a fair one for a soul who would have done worse to one more innocent. And from that day forth the spirit spoke that anyone who walked along that road would be protected by the spirit's magic, and anyone or anything, human or beast, spirit or cryptid, who tried to bring those who walked his road to harm, would suffer a horrifying fate.

Though the people were protected, the road changed. First slowly. Automobiles began to appear, fueled by the fossils of the dead, and soon stoplights to tell when people were permitted to walk. Soon what was once the edges of the road was sidewalk. The road was paved again and again. And soon there weren't trains and weren't trollies. And store after store closed down, for new stores to be opened, giant boxes owned by corporations, with massive parking lots outside of them, that would never think to leave out milk and meat pies. And then one day there was no stoplight, and no sidewalk, because any place where human feet could be permitted to walk had been removed. They called the road a highway than, and the humans' leaders were proud of it. It was too noisy for even the wyverns to fly over, and too barren for even werewolves to hunt. But the spirit was still there.

And then the spirit took up a new banner. When the last safe place to walk was gone, and the first human was struck and killed trying to cross the highway, he had dropped the banner of the seelie court and taken up unseelie way. Not out of vengeance but out of duty.

All who seek to harm those who wish the walk the road are caused by his law, and those new powerful machines called automobiles are no different. Cars that drive through the great spirit's road find themselves crashing into each other, or spinning randomly and flying around the road, or breaking down and never moving around. Mechanics can't figure out why, can't explain why there are always flies and worms and snakes and scorpions in every car that passes through that road. Even the drivers aren't safe, nobody who would drive such a lethal machine through the spirit's road is safe, they find their bodies bleeding, and skin dashed with cuts as if from an insect's claws, and minds filled with eldritch madness. And they say there are many cars that seem to lose their drivers, with only bugs or toads in their place.

Some still see the spirit's body in the dark of the night. He's changed now, his armor has turned night black, and its shape twisted from what looked like a knight's suit, to an insect's strange shell, his once slender body stretched to an inhumanly elongated and spindly build. His claws are now like great blades, and where his face was once only in shadows, now two glowing eyes can be seen from below his helm, like a dark pervasion of headlights. But he is still the same creature he always was, this is only another side of the same being. And those animals and jaywalkers who cross the highway, will never be hit under his gaze, even if a thousand cars burst into flames to keep them safe.

[happyk44]

The first time they meet, Hermes quickly recognizes in Hades a kindred spirit. Like Hades is not a physically fidgety person, but he does require constant stimulation (fun consequence of being stuck in a stomach for his formative years, boredom feels like being trapped and dying 👍). Hermes is always in motion because he needs to be doing things, needs the stimulation. It's why he has the jobs he has - active and demanding.

He sees Hades' workaholic behaviour for what it is. Granted, it annoys him because the man refuses to sleep, you know? Like at least Hermes will rest for a couple of hours. But it's nice.

His family doesn't really get it. They all have specific jobs. Even Apollo with his massive list of hobbies. They're things he's representative of. Not really what he is, what he does. He dabbles more than anything.

But Hermes needs more than dabbling. Needs to be active in all that he is and even in more than what he is. He flits from town to town, collecting the dead, healing the living. It's not his area. Not really. Apollo whines. But what else is he supposed to do? Doctors travel. They heal. They work.

He likes working.

He steals, he heals. He picks people up, puts them down, drops off packages, sells wares, runs, runs, runs. Comes home to the underworld and sees Hades doing the same. He doesn't have to run. His legs are long, his stride large. But he's moving. He's doing.

He gets locked out of his office and he teaches himself to play the lyre, sings lullabies to the kids, cooks breakfast, lunch, dinner. Wanders up and out. Town to town. Listens to stories. Walks the dogs.

Comes home and tackles his office door with his whole weight until it breaks.

Then back at his desk, working, working, working.

Hermes likes leisure, but he sees how his way of relaxing is not relaxing. Not calm, not settled. It's active. It's motion.

Hades is the same. It's easy then, when he figures it out, when it clicks, to get Hades to stop working for a few hours. Ask him to tag along. To help. It takes convincing, always does, but it's easier than asking him to lay down and close his eyes. Easier than asking him to stop.

He doesn't want to stop. Can't stop. People die. They wander, they call out to him. They want to go home, but they can't find it. They call and call, an endless cacophony. They come home and they need to be sorted. Sentences double checked. Revised. Assessed. Tartarus is unwelcoming, even to those born from the depths of Nyx and Erebus deep below, but it bends to him, pliable to his checkups. Elysium must constantly be updated, perfected, prettied. Adjusting with the times, with the needs of its residents.

There is always something to do. Rest is pointless.

Hermes gets that. There will always be things to steals, souls to collect, people to heal, items to sell, places to go, people to meet, jokes to tell, messages to deliver.

So the others complain and Hermes ducks his head into the office, sees papers plastered everywhere. Skin marked in ink, hands moving at speed. His body is stiff, eyes focused, but Hades shifts when Hermes calls him. Asks him to come, to help out. He asks for what and Hermes mutters whatever comes first to mind. Is she dying, can I fix it, how do you fight with fists, teach me to play the lyre, walk the dogs with me.

He holds out his hand and Hade accepts. His skin is ghostly cool. He comes with little pull. It's nice to have him at his side. He's blunt but gentle. Yes, she's dying, no, it cannot be changed, but here's how you can make her comfortable. Shift your stance, tighten your fists. Put your fingers here. Don't let them run too far.

Come with me, Hermes says.

Hades leans back, eyes tired, but content. Why?

I want to go for a walk, he says. I want you to hold my hand, he says. I want to look at the trees and name them.

There's no second to wait through. Just Hades rolling his eyes but standing up and taking Hermes' hand. Fine, he says. And they're moving, they're active, in motion, doing. Walking steady under leaves and dappled sunlight, hands entwined, calloused and well fitting.

[thesilliestofgals]

Soooooooo what are your thoughts on the entire Blood Soaked Canines series?

GODDD (spoilers below)

All I can really say is that it's just so... Tragic. Like, in my humble opinion, I don't think any of the characters in the story got closure.

Raven is now doomed to wander Hades, trying to find her lost love, and this will likely result in her either becoming one of the shades, or perhaps even a mania (a spirit personifying madness/crazed frenzy).

We don't even KNOW what happened to Cerise. We know Dexter saw them, but that's really it. Cupid had to keep her mouth shut because of The Rules, unfortunately, so we'll never know if Cerise got reincarnated, become one of the lost souls, or went to some EAH equivalent of heaven.

Cupid I feel really bad for, just because she tried so, so hard to help Raven, and it just... blew up in her face. Poor girl, with so much love to give, yet few return it.

Ramona was finally starting to get better at the end, but then Mystery Person (who I am still quite curious about) got Cerise's number and blocked her, effectively destroying all of Ramona's progress towards healing.

Carmine, I'll be honest, will probably pass on of a broken heart, or perhaps she'll lean on Ramona more. :(

Apple and Darling... I.... guess they have more potential for healing? I mean, they got Raven's letter, so...? ?????

As for the more minor characters, like Ramona's parents... closure is more of a mixed bag. Again, in my opinion, I feel like Ramona's parents were really not coping well, and as a result, Ramona's coping was becoming unhealthy too.

OH I ALMOST FORGOT DARING!! The fact that he chose reincarnation before even fully crossing the Styx because he wasn't done hunting the beast is so sad to me. Even in death, he couldn't realize the beast was him all along ☹️

And Dexter ☹️ I feel awful for him, he was one of the most innocent characters in this story, the fact that he could've been saved if Darling had spoken to Raven about trying to make another cure... aauuughhh

All in all, great fic, loved it! It was just... beautifully tragic. I wish they could've had a more happier ending :(

[fandonnavyce]

Fic Masterpost

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Ectoberhaunt 2023

Crossover Danuary 2024

DPxDC Ship Week2024 & Ship Week: After Dark 2024

Dannymay 2024 (WIP)

Patrol Partners 2024

Invisiobang 2024

Ghouls and Gangs 2024

Ecto-Implosion 2024

Fandom Trumps Hate 2024 (upcoming)

DPxDC, Dead on Main Series/AUs

My Love I Devour

and it's wider universe sequel series, The Wild Hunt

Cinderella Wonderland

Ghouls and Gangs 2024 - Hades and Persephone AU

Everything is posted on AO3, not everything is cross-posted on Tumblr

Ectoberhaunt 2023 AO3 Link

Day 2 - White Crow. Danny's a college student with some corvid friends. Dead on Main

My Love I Devour Series (In Timeline Chronology)

Day 4 - Zombies. Another Danny fixes Jason’s Pit Madness/Sick Ghost Core Fic, feat. the inherent homoeroticism of impromptu soul surgery. Rating: Mature. First in the My Love I Devour

Day 10: Occultism, Day 11: Dread vs Calm, Day 12: Obsession vs Repression, Day 13: Horror Flick - Sequel to Day 4

Day 17: Flesh, Day 18: Unravel vs Intertwine. Jason and Danny get down hot and heavy at a nightclub in the ghost zone. AO3 Series Link

Wild Hunt Series (Occurs post MLID)

Day 5 - Hunt. Ghost King Danny cordially invites you to the Wild Hunt, winner gets Constantine's entire soul - Danny's First Draft. DpxDc. First in the Wild Hunt Series

Day 19 - Claws. Danny needs Jason's brains (to write a royal invite) Sequel to Wild Hunt Part I.

Day 23: Magic, Day 26: Cults - The Ghost King summoning ritual is active for the first time in aeons. Constantine and Zatanna try it out and get more than they bargained for. AO3 Series Link

Crossover Danuary 2024 AO3 Link

Day 1 - Ben 10 Xover Tucker escapes Space Prison with the help of his two best friends

Day 1 - Another Ben 10 xover, the soft prequel. Ben meets an non-alien ET in a haunted forest

Day 2 - Atla Xover Hey, remember when Sokka got kidnapped into the Spirit World?

Day 4 - Cinderella Wonderland. A Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland Fandom Fusion but make it dpxdc, Dead on Main

Day 5 - The Owl House xover where The Collector becomes fast friends with a certain white haired girl on a day at the beach (Word of God part of the Cinderella Wonderland AU) AO3 Collection Link

DPxDC Ship Week and Ship Week: After Dark 2024

A continuation of Ectoberhaunt's Day17&18; it is the completion of part 3 of the MLID series. Can be read stand-alone more or less.

Part 1: Pleasures of the Flesh Ch 3

Part 2: Sweet Endings aka The Epilogue AO3 Fic Link

Part 3: Hunger. Smut. Jason has a sexual fantasy about Danny Written for Day 9 Dannymay2024 AO3 Link

Dannymay2024 AO3 Link

Day 2: Wish. Dead on Main Moodboard. Prayers are like wishes (you never know who's listening) so be careful for what you wish for.

Day 4: Wander. Dani Phantom Postcard. I'll wander far and long to where I wish to roam. But I won't forget to go and wander home Love, Dani

Day 9: Hunger. Dead on Main Smut.

Day 13: DnD AU. A Cleric casts Speak with Dead. The corpse's response is unusual. Pre-Everlasting Trio

Day 15: Field Trip. Everlasting Trio Field Trip through the Ghost Zone, ala Little Einsteins.

Patrol Partners 2024 AO3 Link

Need A Lift? A co-authored DPxDC Tim/Danny (Not Jason/Danny for once lol) fanfic. Aka the Brain Dead Meet Cute where where Tim and Danny are Trapped in An Elevator during a Rogue Attack.

Invisobang 2024 AO3 Link

Supernova Series A DPxDC Bang where The Fentons manage to create an interdimensional portal. But it wasn't to the Ghost Zone. At 14 years old, one teenage boy dies in a portal to Hueco Mundo.

The fic series where Danny Fenton is the freak accident to Kurosaki Ichigo's lab experiment, who's been living under the radar in Soul Society. At least until the Plot(TM) kicks off. Crossover Fusion with Bleach, that starts pre-Bleach Canon.

Ghouls and Gangs 2024 AO3 Link

In Death's Sweet Embrace: a Dead on Main, Hades and Persphone AU featuring non-traditional takes on A/B/O and the Sentinel&Guide AU

EctoImplosion 2024 AO3 Link

Forget-me-nots: Post-AGIT, Vlad has the niggling suspicion that he's forgotten something. Dan dismisses his concerns.

"If you forgot, I doubt it was something important." "Yeah, you're probably right," Vlad agrees.

Vlad only remembers what he forgot when Dani forcibly reminds him of her existence by crashing through his rooftop and into his and Dante's breakfast.

Tumblr Link

[fangdokja]

Light in the Abyss: A Jesus Journey

“Even in shadows, there’s light.”

Discover the sacred flame of hope amid the darkness. Light in the Abyss offers a sanctuary for those wandering through twisted paths, a space to reflect and heal. This masterlist fuses faith and comfort with the raw reality of human struggles, serving as an oasis of warmth for weary souls. Step into a journey where light pierces even the darkest corners.

What You'll Find

🌟 Comfort Content: Reblogs and reflections to soothe the soul. 🎨 Jesus Art: Stunning visuals that blend divinity with raw emotion. 🎵 Song Recommendations: Worship tracks and hymns to uplift your spirit. 📖 Bible Verses: Handpicked scriptures to guide and inspire. 🛐 Thoughtful Devotionals: Musings on grace, love, and faith. 📹 TikTok Gems: Jesus-centered videos, from thought-provoking to joy-filled. 💭 Light Thoughts: Short, heartwarming reminders of hope and strength.

Why You’ll Love It: When the weight of dead dove or psychological twists gets heavy, this is your divine reprieve. Let Jesus’ love illuminate your path, offering comfort and strength for the road ahead. Whether you need a break or a spark of hope, this masterlist stands as a reminder: The light is never truly gone.

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Table of Contents

⭐ : Author's Personal Favorites

Art Appreciation

Jesus in Hades video game art style

Memes

"Did you just post a meme on Shabbatt?"

"God will you make your life peaceful and give you everything you want."

TikTok Videos

Can you feel my heart?

Edit: Skyfall Song (Jesus owns this song)

"Faith isn't my problem, I think I was a mistake."

"I am the law of Moses."

I diagnose you with letma. Letma? Letma people go!

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[sunnylucy31]

From my notes for The Tomb of Time, a Percy Jackson crossover AU

I jot down a lot of random things in my planning docs, and I thought my readers might find some of them interesting. I’ll be queuing up a few different posts for these. Be warned that some are much more relevant (and coherent) than others, lol.

Next, me having fun with cryptic nonsense in the style of Stormlight Archive.

Snippets of Doomsaying (From the notebook of Harrowhark Nonagesimus, daughter of Hades)

Received the words “The blood of eons opens the Locked Tomb, and the end swiftly follows.” Obviously prophetic in nature. The words stick in my mind; cannot ignore this. Haven’t the slightest inkling of what it could mean; no myth I know of refers to “the blood of eons,” or “the Locked Tomb.” Need to look elsewhere for answers.

Such a cataclysmic portent should invariably be associated with a Great Prophecy. The Oracle has given none since the Prophecy of Seven two decades ago, but signs were gleaned of that specific prophecy well before its ordaining; it led our forebears to design the plans for the Argo II. Perhaps the same may be true of this prediction.

I must make contact with prophetic spirits, be they old Oracles or common soothsayers, whoever I can find. It will be difficult and taxing; my spirit summoning is not nearly up to Nico’s standard. This may be an opportune time to test a few of those Titanic sigils from my necronomicon. Will record the spirits’ words once I get the circle working.

Update: As it turns out, much of what a millenia-dead Oracle has to say is utter nonsense. Am recording everything in another notebook, will filter out the coherent snippets and collect them here.

“I see the sun bleeding in an ash-choked sky. I see great monoliths shattered, buried in hills of gray. I see a broken girl wandering the ruins, screaming a lament for none to hear.”

“The tyrant becomes his father. Kinship cast aside for ancient grudges, he rings the death knell of all beneath him.”

“The weave narrows, the end inescapable. Merciful Fates, must this be our doom? Can none escape your wills?”

“One has three, the other has two. They wield power not even immortals can fully grasp. They will doom us. They may save us.”

“Blood loosens the seals, shards that must never be. The king’s weapons, wayward and broken. The dead lord’s hubris, slumbering and joyful.”

“Do you hear the heart, hammering beyond the bulwark? It whispers lies in mighty ears, bends forlorn minds. It finds freedom through the twisted door.”

“Condemned innocence, desperate sin. She who seeks to sunder the heavens. I know why you do what you do, and I cannot hate you for it. Your salvation lies on the other side of destruction.”

“The throne of souls falls to the heir’s alliance. A chance to reconcile, to survive the coming fire. Stand united, for the final end comes…”

“I forsake my duty for the good of all. I turn on the one who trusted me. My hands are no longer my own, and with them I lay gods low. Forgive me, my love, as I tarnish your kind soul.”

Addendum: Not enough here to make any conclusions, beyond some disaster being predicted. Some of the phrasing strikes me as odd; could “the dead lord” be interpreted as “lord of the dead?” Must look at revising my translation theorems before my next attempt at this.

[theimperiumchronicles]

Happy STS! (Shh, I'm a day behind.) And because of that, today's a free space! Use it to ramble as you please! ♥️

I am a week and a day behind, but I'm still going to ramble...and tell you about yet another new WIP that is coming up.

Mysts Of Time

Lemures in Roman mythology are spirits who were not given proper burials and are pissed off/vengeful.

In my story, if someone dies in such a way that their body cannot be found, Pluto (Roman God of Death = Greek Hades) offers them the chance to become a Lemure Agent. Lemure Agents can see wandering souls whose bodies have not been found and can help find them, and help the police find who killed them if they were murdered. There is always a Lemure Agent in big city police dept in the Homicide Unit.

Set in St. Louis, MO, Renata died in 1897 when she fell into the Mississippi River after a party at Lemp Mansion celebrating a wedding. Offered the deal of becoming a Lemure Agent by Pluto, she was trained by Dante and Traverius over the coming years. She and Dante are VERY close, and there are hints that something could be developing between them in the present. It took a full century for her to get over her husband and children. She couldn't let them go and watched from a distance and in the shadows as they aged and died, even doing so to her grandchildren before finally letting go completely.

Enzo is the boss of all of the Lemure Agents and believed to have been the original one, although no one is sure or brave enough to ask. For some reason, he has never met Renata, something that is unusual. He normally is the one to do their training and offering of the deal. No one knows why Renata was different. Now he has been sent to St. Louis to help with a child that they are having problems finding the body, and no one wants the poor kid to become a shade (what happens if the body is not found and they can't/won't become a Lemure) . When he first meets Renata, he is stunned because she is the exact doppelganger in all ways to his wife who died in the Great Fire of Rome. BOOM!

Why that is...well...Pluto has a HUGE hand in that...and it becomes complicated as the story goes on.

So now, Renata and Dante, who also happens to be Enzo's best friend, may have something developing while Enzo is facing the mirror image of the only woman to ever have his heart. Traverius is observing from outside the situation, and sees the disaster that everyone is heading for and wonders if there is more at play than just Plato's meddling with time and heartstrings.

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[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X HADES WRITING PROMPT

(The only reason this prompt exists is because I'm obsessed with both Danny Phantom and Hades (Video Game) at the moment. I also looked on AO3 and there are zero crossovers involving these two fandoms. Let's try and change that. My brain absolutely demands this itch be scratched.)

(#) = Notes at the end of post

(*) = Just me building off of other ideas

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Below the Green Depths

Danny gets blasted into the deepest parts of Ghost Zone after a fight with one of his more powerful rouges (1) and winds up stranded in the middle of Tartarus. Not really knowing what to do, he wanders around until he runs into trouble in the form of the more violent spirits who roam the Underworld.

Not for lack of trying to avoid it, he becomes seriously injured(2) in trying to find a way back home and is extremely exhausted to the point of collapsing in the first chamber he comes across that has zero enemies popping out to carve him to pieces. This being one of the chambers that Chiron uses to sell his wares to Zagreus on his way through.

Not really knowing what to do with the strange, unconscious boy, he calls out to Thanatos. As soon as Thanatos shows up and sees Danny, unconscious and heavily bleeding from multiple wounds, he recognizes the strange boy. The one soul he wasn't allowed to reap because of the circumstances of his soul being perfectly stranded between the realms of the living and the dead. Not only that, but he recognizes Danny's potential claim to the throne of the Ghost King.

A little frantic, he gathers the wounded boy gently into his arms and makes the hasty decision to bring him to the House of Hades for healing. It gets a little hectic from there.

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Notes:

(1) Which rouge was he fighting? Skulker? Vlad? One of the more volatile Ancients? Who knows.

(2) Does Danny get weaker in Tartarus or is it just the unending hoards of shades attacking him while he's out of his depth that allows him to get so injured?

(*) Considering Danny's status in the ghost zone, i.e. -halfa and potential successor to the Ghost King's throne, does this make him related to the Chthonic Gods? Is this another "Danny becomes a god" kind of fic? Probably. Would Danny basically be Hypnos and Thanatos' many many many times removed cousin? Or like, a relative through marriage sort of deal? How would Zagreus react to a half-human/half-ghost roaming the halls of his home? What about Hades himself? Nyx? Persephone?

(*) What would be the hierarchy between the Greek Gods of the Underworld and the Ghost King be?

[tylermileslockett]

Chthonic Descent (#4 in my Orpheus and Eurydice series)

The Roman poet Virgil, in his poem “Georgics”, gives a lush description of Orpheus descent into Hades;

“…entering the grove gloomy with black horror, he approached the Manes (dead spirits), and the tremendous king, and the hearts that know not how to relent at human prayers. But the thin shades being stirred up by his song from the lowest mansions of Erebus moved along, and the Ghosts deprived of light… mothers and husbands, and the departed bodies of magnanimous heroes, boys and unmarried girls, and youths laid on funeral pyres before the faces of their parents, whom the black mud and squalid reeds of Cocytus, and the lake hateful with stagnant water encloses around, and styx nine times interfused restrains.”  (-translation from the Latin by John Martyn.)

         The word Chthonic in my title is an adjective describing something belonging to the underworld. This would be an apt time to discuss the structure and details of the ancient Greek underworld; the realm of Hades. Our oldest literary source in Homer’s “Odyssey” (700 B.C.) portrays the realm as dark, gloomy, and frightening. A place where all souls go, and lacking skin and bone; have no physical form. The shades (spirits) wander mindless, and without memory.

         In Virgil’s “Aeneid” (25 B.C.) we get a much more detailed account of the geography. Our hero Aeneas pays the boatman Charon to ferry him across the river styx, and after passing the three headed guard-hound Cerberus, they eventually come to a crossroad leading to two important realms; Tartarus (an invincible fortress guarded by one of the Furies, where sinners are punished) and Elysium (a sunny paradise where pure souls pursue leisure activities).

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[naluwalker]

RinFemBachi x Greek Underworld AU:

I think these two actually fit the characters of Greek mythology quite well, although putting Rin as the eldest of the brothers definitely hurts me.

So, Rin as Hades and Meguru as Kore, who will later be recognized as Persephone, so here we go:

Rin is the solitary and antisocial King of the Underworld, lord of the dead and guardian who watches over the door to Tartarus where the remains of the titans rest, who has spent the last millennia isolated in the Underworld due to a strong fight with his younger brother Sae, the Lord of the Skies and King of Olympus, after which he swore to himself never to leave the underground again.

He's generally demanding and perfectionist about his work (to the point of being a bit exploitative), so the Underworld runs like a perfectly oiled machine and that keeps him satisfied, but his care for his servants and the ghosts that inhabit the underground, along with his desire to allow them a good stay in the place before they are reincarnated, makes him push himself so hard that his workload only increases instead of decreasing.

His servants and advisors in general also worry greatly about his health and have even urged him to find a queen or consort to share the workload with, as his younger siblings did, maybe someone who will warm up the Underworld a bit and make it less sterile, but Rin flatly refuses.

Or so it does, until the literal spring crashes through the front door.

Enter Meguru, whose title is Kore, goddess of spring and daughter of Demeter, who convinced Cerberus to let her pass by buying him off with honey buns she brought as a snack.

Meguru lives with her stifling and overprotective mother, Yū, who practically locks her in her garden and prevents her from doing anything. Meguru, on the other hand, is fiercely independent and resents the lack of freedom she lives with. So she escapes by tricking her mother's nymphs and hides in a dark crevice she found.

After lulling the giant guard dog with honey cakes and a somewhat off-key lullaby, Meguru finds herself wandering the frozen, deserted land. When she encounters wandering souls and spirits, she realizes she's in the underworld, but, following her great curiosity, she simply keeps exploring, even going so far as to bribe the banker with her favorite golden hairpin.

She somehow ends up in the Asphodel Meadows and at the request of a child, causes a small blackberry bush to grow from which some of them can pick fruit before it dies.

Deeply outraged and frustrated that her power was relatively short-lived in the Underworld and guilt-ridden that many were left without food, Meguru unleashes a wave of energy that causes edible plants and flowers to sprout in the Asphodel Meadows, eventually causing her to faint from exhaustion, just as the King arrives to witness the disaster caused by the young goddess.

When Meguru wakes up in the King's castle, the King gives her a withering look and an irritated growl followed by a very long lecture, and at that moment, Meguru falls hopelessly in love.

From that moment on, Meguru dedicates herself body and soul to seducing the King of the Underworld, Rin, who to his dismay, has been betrayed by most of his servants, who fully support the annoying goddess. While on the other side, crops begin to die as a grieving mother desperately searches for her missing daughter.