It’s not perhaps to everyone’s taste, but I always found Orestes’ and Electra’s reunion in Electra to be quite sweet and “shippable,” especially placed in the context of Electra’s despair when she is informed of Orestes’ apparent death.

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

I haven’t read Electra! But it sounds quite shippable to me!

Another Greek mythology ship, just what I needed! (*adds to a list of thousands*)

@shipcestuousliteroticaproject

hawke-0f-kirkwall:

Hades and Persephone AU as requested by @reylos-trashcan

took me a while, thanks to the long naps i took today haha. sorry for the blandish background, I’m not very creative .-.

Rey’s dress inspired by one Padme wore on Naboo. Wasn’t really sure what to do with Kylo…so I gave him a…robe..tunic…thing. yep.

merry christmas, guys.

(pls send requests I’ll happily fulfill them!)

Ever get into the old hercules(:the legendary journeys) show. If you only watch Xena, then ares spends his time pining after her. But in Hercules, he spends most of his time being really close to Discord(eris/enyo). The only time they acknowledge their siblinghood is in the young hercules movie(that I can only find on youtube). Strife is her son. And Aphrodite is Ares’ sister in this. Honestly they could all be called flirty with each other

young hercules(movie/pilot) might be worth watching by itself. the show itself doesn’t usually refer to them as siblings, but they do in that movie. It’s funny this spun off into a kids show. Ares and Discord scenes are usually Discord in skimpy clothes leaning in to say something. Ares seductively responding and calling her a sweet term.

Aphrodite is Ares’ sister in Hercules?!!!!

I LOVE Aphrodite/Ares, it’s pretty much my favorite Greek mythology ship (in tight competish with Hades/Persephone, of course). 

I’ve never seen Hercules or Xena, but I’ve often wondered about the gods component. 

Hades/Eris sounds interesting. 

Thanks for the info, Anon!

How about Gaia and her sons Uranus and Pontus in the most well known version. It went well till Uranus shoved his ugly children back down her uterus. There’s room there for people to do whatever they want. Or at least be including in a film about the titanomachy(which should totally exist).

Ever hear of the god/dess agdistis. She was born hermaphroditic. The Gods feared that made her overly powerful and castrated her. Like with the story of uranus, She had one child after her genitalia was cut off, her son Attis. She falls in love with her son. They may have had a relationship. And it really doesn’t end well(for a lot of innocent bystanders especially). She’s also compounded with Cybele, whose consort is Attis(with them all being the same people sometimes).

OmG. 

I love learning more mythology. It’s always so wild.

When Hades decided he loved this girl
he built for her a duplicate of earth,
everything the same, down to the meadow,
but with a bed added.
Everything the same, including sunlight,
because it would be hard on a young girl
to go so quickly from bright light to utter darkness

Gradually, he thought, he’d introduce the night,
first as the shadows of fluttering leaves.
Then moon, then stars. Then no moon, no stars.
Let Persephone get used to it slowly.
In the end, he thought, she’d find it comforting.

A replica of earth
except there was love here.
Doesn’t everyone want love?

He waited many years,
building a world, watching
Persephone in the meadow.
Persephone, a smeller, a taster.
If you have one appetite, he thought,
you have them all.

Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me. And when one turns,
the other turns—

That’s what he felt, the lord of darkness,
looking at the world he had
constructed for Persephone. It never crossed his mind
that there’d be no more smelling here,
certainly no more eating.

Guilt? Terror? The fear of love?
These things he couldn’t imagine;
no lover ever imagines them.

He dreams, he wonders what to call this place.
First he thinks: The New Hell. Then: The Garden.
In the end, he decides to name it
Persephone’s Girlhood.

A soft light rising above the level meadow,
behind the bed. He takes her in his arms.
He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you

but he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
you’re dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.

Louise Glück, ”A Myth of Devotion” (via thenatureofsin)

alittlebirdinwesteros:

Is it me or does this scream Creepyshipping? Yes? Thought so.
Hades and Persephone by AbigailLarson

Hades and Persephone are great but how about Persephone and Adonis. Adonis was given to persephone as a baby to raise. And she didn’t want to give him back. Adonis is forced to spend part of the year with her. While Aphrodite gets the larger part of the year with him(his choice). On top of that, it’s hard not to think of Aphrodite as a mother figure to him too. She’s usually tied to his birth. And took him in, even if she gave him to someone else to raise.

Wow, I hadn’t heard that myth. Apparently Adonis is the middle of a very incestuous web:

Adonis’ mother was the beautiful Myrrha of Smyrna and his father, King Cinyrus of Cyprus, who was actually the father of Myrrha. This strange parentage of Adonis came about because Goddess Aphrodite was jealous of Myrrha’s beauty and caused the girl to unite with her own father.

Interesting that the best-looking man in Greek mythology was the product of father/daughter incest.

Or this version:

It is said that Adonis was born of the illicit union between King Theias of Smyrna and his daughter Myrrha. Urged on by Aphrodite herself, the goddess of beauty, love and sexual desire, who had been offended when King Theias forgot to make a sacrifice for her, Myrrha had made amorous advances towards her father but he was successfully keeping her away. One night, she managed to lure her father out into the open and there under cover of darkness she laid with him.

I’m sure you know more about the myth than what I’ve just read, but it sounded like Aphrodite and Persephone both raised him. So it was definitely a potentially adoptive mother/adoptive son incest times 2. I read a couple of versions of the myth from different sites – it’s interesting how the narratives just sort of slide right from “beautiful baby” to “they were in love with him”. 

Thanks for sharing, Anon! Just when you don’t think there’s more incest left to be discovered in Greek mythology, there is. 

loquaciouslyliterate:

romancingthebookworm:

kata-chthonia:

I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes.
Demeter mourned? Definitely.
Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, […]

You are my hero for ever and ever.

Get fucking WRECKED m8

Are you at all familiar with the Dresden Files? There’s nothing directly relevant (aside from Harry and his half-brother continually being assumed to be a gay couple despite the fact that neither of them swings that way) (though, to be fair, very few people know that they’re half-brothers), but in the most recent book, Harry is hired to foil an attempt to burgle Hades’ vaults, and in his conversation with Hades, it is repeatedly brought up that he and Persephone are happily married.

I am a little bit familiar with the Dresden Files. I’ve never read any of the books (I didn’t know that new ones were still being published), but a friend and I used to watch the ill-fated show. 

That’s so adorable about Hades and Persephone!!!! I am so glad you shared that. That makes me so happy!