Sunshine 2021: Prompt Three

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Prompt 3: Hecate
Otherworldly and mysterious, Hecate is best known for her association with magic, ghosts, and the night. If you hear the baying of hounds in the dark, she's likely near as they were ever at her side. She is traditionally depicted as bearing two torches to light her way or as a triple goddess of the crossroads. In mythology she is known for helping Demeter search for her daughter Persephone, a theme that ties her even more to the Underworld and spirits she is associated with. Today she is often considered a representative of those liminal places where reality bends and all manner of events may unfold...



Bonus Prompt: Sphinx of Thebes


Please feel free to respond in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it thoughts that you share or a work that you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share a novel or podfic that reminds you of the Hecate theme.

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[enemytosleep]

I shared some fanart and video game footage HERE for anyone interested.

icons for anyone who wants them

[eye_of_toad]

all prompts here

[sodium_amytal]

Self-recced some supernatural/spoopy-themed fic of mine here

[olivermoss]

Once again, thematic pics by me! Magic and ghosts are a bit more in a my wheelhouse than the last prompt :)

[lightbird]

Done. A couple of self-recs (fandoms: AtLA/Mulan, Hey Arnold!) and some other recs (fandoms: Station Eleven/The Pacific (TV), original).

[emmatheslayer]

2 more https://emmatheslayer.livejournal.com/688778.html art I colored on coloring apps

[shipperslist]

This was fun!

[kingstoken]

You can see my post here where I rec lots of things related to MCU's Loki.

[shadowhive]

Here’s my one, along with prompt 2

[yarnofariadne]

I write ghost stories for a living so I am all about this one!

[walgesang]

Ghosts and magic reminded me of the annual drabble fest HP Halloween! I posted links to drabbles I had written for the fest from 2020 to 2013.

[sonofgodzilla]

I adore Hecate, I adore the solemness of what she represents, but alas, I have long been in service of another another goddess of the crossroads.

[pauraque]

I shared an old ficlet about a ghostly haunting and some thoughts about the ghosts of myself I see in my old stories.

[smallhobbit]

A bit stuck so I wrote a poem

[silveradept]

Infinite Potential in Infinite Possibilities is ready for visitors, although I don't know how much it will resonate with you if your experiences are different than mine.

[cornerofmadness]

I have an offering to Hecate right here.

[greerwatson]

Posted here. It's a story I wrote for Yuletide back in 2016, "The Father, the Son, and the Unholy Ghost". It's actually about vampires; but it does seem thematically appropriate to Hecate.

[used_songs]

Another foray into the Aztec pantheon here.

[lee_bella]

Talked a bit about my favourite RPG franchise, Megami Tensei.

[seleneheart]

I talk about liminal spaces, 'gothic', fairies, and Shakespeare here: https://seleneheart.dreamwidth.org/1273539.html

[dr_zook]

Alright, so here I'm rambling about French Symbolism (a bit) in order to eventually land in front of Gustave Moreau's Victorious Sphinx. :D

[liriaen]

There's a drabble right here in which Lucifer isn't quite sure yet (where do old god/desses go, rly?), Jeshua is a bit deaf, and Hecate never heard the shot... And there's also a second one, in which a young Cesare Borgia wants to know, about that space in-between.

[bleodswean]

My flash fic response to the prompt -

https://bleodswean.dreamwidth.org/371002.html

[peasina]

I love this prompt :-D

I've recorded a podfic about two wonderfully magical ladies, Arabella Strange and Lady Pole from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I posted about it on my journal here.

[pensnest]

https://pensnest.dreamwidth.org/706933.html

Icons of Rome.