Dahlia

The bumblebees really like our Japanese barberry.

Two recent studies of Persephone, the larger portrait is 12 x 16 and the small, full bodied one is 8 x 10, both on canvas boards.

They tell me that I'm crazy, but I'll never let 'em change me/'Til they cover me in daisies, daisies, daisies.

-Daisies, Katy Perry

Hades with cornucopia 💀🍊

"A luz mudou:

a afinação do dó está mais escura.

E as canções da manhã parecem ensaiadas demais.

Essa é a luz do outono, não a luz da primavera.

A luz do outono: não serás poupada.

As canções mudaram; invadiu-as

o indizível.

Essa é a luz do outono, não a luz que declara

renasci.

Não a aurora da primavera: penei, sofri. fui libertada.

Este é o presente, uma alegoria do desperdício.

Tanta coisa mudou. E no entanto você tem sorte:

o ideal arde em você como uma febre.

Ou não como uma febre, como um segundo coração.”

"The light has changed:

the tuning of C is darker.

And the morning songs seem too rehearsed.

This is the light of autumn, not the light of spring.

The light of autumn: you will not be spared.

The songs have changed; the unspeakable

has invaded them.

This is the light of autumn, not the light that declares

I was reborn.

Not the dawn of spring: I suffered, I endured, I was freed.

This is the present, an allegory of waste.

So much has changed. And yet you are lucky:

the ideal burns in you like a fever.

Or not like a fever, like a second heart."

Outubro, Averno - Louise Glück

“Now the world is mine alone”

-The Frost, Mitski

Khaîre, King Hades! I love you so much!

💀👑💎💀👑💎💀👑💎💀👑💎💀👑💎

(All images found on Pinterest)

Sources to learn about Hades

I’ve meaning to make this post for a while- the truth is that there aren’t a lot of books written exclusively about Hades so you either have you search for articles or read a book about all the chthonic gods to find information about Him. I’ve compiled all of the sources that I’ve found useful and I’ll keep adding more

“Hades: Cornucopia, fertility and death” by Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington)

“Worshipping Hades: Myth and Cult in Elis and Triphylla” by Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington)

“The Bride of Hades” by H. J. Rose (The University of Chicago Press)

please reply if you have a favorite book/article/documentary about Hades and I’ll keep updating this 🎉

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

Sylvia Rivera marching with members of STAR at an NYU Gay Activist Alliance protest | 1970

Persephone and Hades tending the soil after a harvest in order to ensure the bounty of the following year's harvest, maintaining the cycle of death and rebirth.