Ok, I’ve cleared out my drafts. There are still some 30+ reblogged posts in my queue which is set to post once a day. Let’s see what’s happening in the next month and if this future tumblr is still a platform I’m interested in.
I want to back up my blog but so far I’ve had no luck, neither with tumblr’s built in backup function nor with exporting to WordPress. I’ll try TumbleThree:
The program description sounds really good. Lots of options for backing up, e.g. only original content.
I’ve donated to pillowfort and received an invite. No matter if it will be the tumblr replacement everybody’s hoping for or not, the idea behind it is worth supporting. In any case it will take time (lots) until a new platform can compete with tumblr which has millions of users.
I finally got around to reading Receiver of Many a few weeks ago – a Hades/Persephone story by Kata Chthonia – and I was so addicted I finished the whole thing in two days. I loved it so much I had to paint it. Please take a look at the closeups! Persephone’s smile doesn’t show up very well on the full piece, and I’m fairly proud of the shadows on Aidoneus’ arm, haha.
I tried to keep elements that stood out to me, and the little things that made this story unique – Persephone twirls a lock of his hair, she wears a burgundy chiton, her sigil is the fires of Tartarus, while Aidon’s sigil is the darkness of the underworld. I wanted to play a little with the word “intertwined”, which was something I got a lot from the story; how both their destinies circled and converged to this point through choice and fate. You have her fire weaving through the tendrils of his darkness, and his hair curled around her finger.
Kata has a Kickstarter going on now to publish this story into book form, so please take a look! It’s one of the best Hades/Persephone stories that I’ve ever read.
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