this is not a chick flick / by bookesque (PG-15)

Title: this is not a chick flick
Author: bookesque
Fandom: Mythology
Pairing: Persephone/Hades
Genre: Parody
Length:  Short

Summary:
This is not a romantic story, despite what the bards may croon about Persephone's delicate beauty and pale bosom or Hades' flashing grey eyes. When a doting wife mistily reminiscences about how her husband swept her off her feet, that statement should not be followed by "and into the very gates of the Underworld itself, where he forced me to languish for nearly a year until my mother threatened to annihilate the whole world into a nuclear winter if I didn't make it home by curfew." Do not bother seeking out the muses for the truth, as they will sing of a tragedy so heartbreaking that it will undoubtedly leave their audience in tears, all composed out of falsehoods and lies. As so often happens, the reality of the lives of Hades and Persephone cannot possibly compare to the epic saga that our imaginations have concocted.

This is not a romantic story. But it is a story of love, nonetheless.

Review:
So well-written, interesting, and with complete characters rather than distant and largely unknowable gods of typical mythology, this is a great read but mostly I like how it comments on fiction and our beliefs about it.  So this is a thinking story - and that's why it's tagged as a parody, not because its more funny than an average story and in fact it borders on abrasive at times as all parodies do when they don't quite match up with your own beliefs at every turn.  But this is a good fic in its own right, and also really thoughtful and I like that a lot.

this is not a chick flick (on Yuletide)