Hero's Journey 5 The Bride: Coming of the Conqueror and 6 The Return: Bitter is the End

The hero reaps the traditional reward for her successful thesis defense/dragon slaying, then returns home from her journey to wrestle with the implication of her otherworldly experience in her everyday life.

Hero's Journey--In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains?  By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life?  How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?  

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 24

Chapter twenty-four--Everything has come down to this, the day of Alice's Sacrifice. Will Rachel win or lose her bet with Elissa? Will she win or loose her bid to regain Alice's friendship? What other surprises lie in store at this event she has invested so much time and effort in preparing?

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Hero's Journey 3. Meeting with the Goddess: Teeth of Defiance and 4. Guardian of the Threshold: Forging of Warrior

3.  Meeting with the Goddess: Teeth of Defiance and 4. Guardian of the Threshold: Forging of Warrior--The hero buys a yoni egg and defends her thesis, causing two staple figures of the hero's journey, in the form of PantsFish and the Yoni Goddess, to appear and challenge the hero in her quest to get out of Jormun, finally calling to the surface the full fury she feels over a lifetime of limitation and loss.

Hero's Journey--In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains?  By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life?  How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?  

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 23

Chapter twenty-three--Preparations for Alice's Sacrifice continue to go forward as her popularity keeps growing and growing. Everything is going better than Rachel could have possibly imagined, everything that is except her friendship with Alice...and that's not even taking into account Elissa's latest act of malice.

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Hero's Journey 2. The Belly of the Whale: What Hell may Come

2. The Belly of the Whale: What Hell may Come--Cast into darkness and isolation at the very moment when victory seemed certain, the hero tries to cope with her new existence of routine loneliness as everything that once felt secure or that gave her any kind of feeling of control or accomplishment is swept away and the rest of the world offers a narrative of events that only make things exponentially worse.

 

Hero's Journey--In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains?  By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life?  How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?  

 

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 22

Chapter twenty-two--Preparations for Alice's Sacrifice continue to go forward as her popularity keeps growing and growing. Everything is going better than Rachel could have possibly imagined, everything that is except her friendship with Alice...and that's not even taking into account Elissa's latest act of malice.

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Hero's Journey 1. The Call to Adventure: Tale of Blood and Might

1. The Call to Adventure: Tale of Blood and Might--Crushed under the struggle to make ends meet as an adjunct writing instructor, while simultaneously attempting to earn a PhD, one individual tries to keep going and give life meaning amidst the dull banality of modern life by mapping their efforts onto an inner world of courage and adventure, filled with mounting despair and rage at the way even this is view askance by others.

 

Hero's Journey--In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains?  By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life?  How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?  

 

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