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Hades wanted to cross his arms and tell the party to come back to life. But that never worked.
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Some things were beyond her mortal means, but not all things. Let them see what human hands alone could do.
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Giving What is Due In Accordance with Her Nature by fresne for marketchippie
Greek and Roman Mythology
2 May 2013
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Shimmering Helen picked up her bow and her arrows. She set off on the road of night. She came to a crossroads. She acted in accordance with her nature.
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Sometimes there ain't nothing for a walking man to do, but play the sweet Delta Blues.
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- Part 9 of Corner of 1st and Myth
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They say when the last of the great Earth-born architects built the Labyrinth, he built it so that none could escape. Ariadne knows this to be a lie. She travels its twists and turns with her brother every night and returns to her bedchambers every dawn.
That is, she does until Theseus arrives with the third set of tributes.
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go down to the netherworld (plant grapes) by electrumqueen for kmo
Greek and Roman Mythology
24 Dec 2012
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Orpheus needs Persephone's help, but it might be too late for that.
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Ariadne has a brother who is a secret, who is a monster. She does not know he is a monster yet: for that is the secret, and she does not even know he is her brother, for that comes later. She has heard the howls at night, of course, but it is a very long intuitive leap from mysterious noises to Minotaur, so she is to be forgiven for not figuring it out sooner.
What she does know is that her mother cries sometimes, when she thinks Ariadne is asleep.
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He has always been the extremes, all or nothing, while she serves as his fulcrum point, the balance of the aspects between them.
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In those days, Ariadne often ran wild around the palace at Knossos, learning the twists and turns and secret ways of the labyrinth.
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Before the labyrinth, before Minos knew of the Minotaur's parentage, before Daedalus was imprisoned and needed to flee--Ariadne was a young girl with a surplus of siblings, curiosity, and heart. She tries to help her older brother as he confronts the monster within while also confiding her own fears in Icarus, who is her big brother in every way but blood.
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Thirteen Views of a Labyrinth by raspberryhunter for emilyenrose
Greek and Roman Mythology
23 Dec 2012
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They are not so very different, Ariadne and Pasiphaë, Icarus and Daedalus, Ariadne and Icarus.
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Ariadne is the heir to the Taurean fortune, lands, and winery. She has known for years that she will marry Dion, her father's young and brilliant vintner, as soon as she comes of age. Then she meets Theseus and discovers love and fear, and has to make a difficult choice.
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The boy locked in the workshop was the one who told her about the boy locked in the labyrinth.
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Ariadne makes a decision.
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Blame Atropos. (That bitch sees everything.)
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A look at the society of Lemnos on the brink of a major change.
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Crouching In The Trenches With Mortals by BiPagan for izzybeth
20th Century CE RPF, Greek and Roman Mythology
20 Dec 2012
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izzybeth's request of "J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien inventing Elvish while crouching in trenches in France" knocked about in my head and forced out this odd ficlet of mythology and history. I'm so very sorry. I blame the Muses.
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An attempt at a glimpse into the mind of a modern Medea. On an Earth in contact with the stars but recovering from war against itself, a woman must choose what is best for her children when she believes their father to have a greater love of diplomacy and peacemaking than for them.
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The story sounds like a dream, a cheap fiction when she thinks about it too hard. To make it real, she just has to keep moving forward, not looking back.
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Remember this, when Persephone falls: she was earth’s daughter, and the earth swallowed her.
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