[TEXT] Three (Cheers for Sweet Revenge)

[pummelgranite]

[ By now the videos of Persephone's spontaneous debut and the party it incited have been making the rounds on social media to deeply polarized reviews, from "listening to her song cleared my sinuses, watered my crops, and touched up my roots, made me a lesbian. life changing 12/10 would lose my shit again." to "Literally a hoax. I went and she wasn't even singing. BULLSHIT IMPORT BRAINWASHING" to rumors that it was all a distraction to cover up a robbery, or start a cult, or ruin the ethics of music journalism.

But it's hard not to be at least a little charmed by a confused crowd losing their minds with delight at a row of dancing skeleton backup dancers. What's more it's hard not to deny that it's a catchy fucking song, fo all that the lyrics are gibberish. The fandom call for more was loud. ]



So, someone gonna book me for a real gig and get a cut, or will I just be charging the adoring public to come get shitfaced in a hole in the woods with me? Either way works for me.

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[pummelgranite]

[ Just kinda. frowns. thinking about that. ]

[abandon_hope]

He had a point. But bringing down the gods would be too much. It'd mean the end of Western civilization.

[pummelgranite]

[ :x ]


Yeah?

[abandon_hope]

Yeah. He almost destroyed New York just trying.

[pummelgranite]

No I mean-



What happens if there's no gods?

[abandon_hope]

[ Nico just looks at her like she's crazy. ]

Gaea comes back. And all her monsters - the old, nasty stuff. Even the Underworld gets overrun. We'd be back to the Dark Ages.

[pummelgranite]

. . . who says?



I mean, do you trust whoever told you that?

[abandon_hope]

[ Another "are you insane" kind of look. ]

I've seen it. I've fought too. The gods aren't great, but the alternative is definitely worse.

[pummelgranite]

[ guess what its time for, its time to glare at the trees and smoke. ]

[abandon_hope]

... What's wrong?

[pummelgranite]

Doesn't matter.

[abandon_hope]

Why not?

[pummelgranite]

Because now I'm here. And nothing matters here.

[abandon_hope]

... I guess that's kinda true. No gods, no Underworld, no monsters...

[pummelgranite]

Uh huh.

[abandon_hope]

Question is what the heck we do with that.

[pummelgranite]

That's not hard. That's easy.



Do whatever the fuck you want.

[abandon_hope]

... I don't know what I want.

[pummelgranite]

. . .



Oh. Well that's kind of a problem then.

[abandon_hope]

[ Nico just. Shrugs. ]

Children of Hades don't live happy lives.

[pummelgranite]

Just because you're not happy doesn't mean you can't want shit.

[abandon_hope]

Like what?

[pummelgranite]

Like anything. Fun, parties, fame, sex...


This place is bullshit, but at least it's bullshit without any fate or destiny fucking everything up!

[abandon_hope]

[ Nico thinks about all of those things very hard. ]

The only thing that sounds good out of that list is "fun."

[pummelgranite]

[ This is a much better topic than ending the world via god murder. she looks him over though. ]


What kind of eighty-year-old teenager are you?