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Apollo & Hyacinthus

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Come back alive, Patroclus. Iliad. (Grisaille) 2024/25

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the whole thing abt hermaphroditus specifically resting hermaphroditus is that ur supposed to walk around it and think 'oh pretty woman.... wait. PENIS???' which in our day at least dabbling in transmisogyny, if im being gentle. bc in our modern minds, that's a trans womans body. we know there r women who look like this. dare i say most ppl in the world know that there r women who look like this, even if only in theory, even if they dont consider them women.

however that was not the case in ancient times. before hrt and gender affirming surgeries, trans women didnt look like that. to them it was not a trans woman's body, it was an intersex body, and afaik someone being this "visually" intersex is EXTREMELY rare. it was so rare, they never even heard of anyone who looks like this irl. so rare and unexplained, so "unnatural" to the way they see the world, that it might as well be mythological. a figure that exists due to cosmic events, not bc of the inherent diversity of human biology.

its just so crazy to me that to the ppl who worshipped her n painted her n drew her n the original intended audience could only conceptualize her as an otherworldly mythical figure and to most ppl today who r even somewhat involved in popular culture or the trans community shes just like. a normal woman. we look at her and go 'yeah this celebrity/my friend/my girlfriend/i look like this'. isnt it amazing??

anyways i was in palazzo massimo today and they had a resting hermaphroditus properly placed within the space thank GAWD so here she is

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The Victory of Faith  (1891) Saint George Hare 

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okay the whole vase is great but something about Helen sitting on Aphrodite's lap as she wraps one arm around her shoulder and brushes her leg with her hand, staring into her eyes like that... as she is persuading Helen to go with Paris (while Peitho aka persuasion stands behind them) is so incredibly iconic.

and gay. toxic yuri, if you will.

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Story from an essay on the third gender of the Inuit

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Agostino Arrivabene, "Il ratto di ganimede" (The Rape of Ganymede), 1997, tempera all’uovo su tavola. Arrivabene Born in Rivolta d’Adda in 1967, lives and works in Gradella di Pandino (CR).

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The song of Achilles

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the great thing about medieval literature is that it returns us to a time when men were men and women were women, *insert gritty realism gif here*, featuring such important and eternal gendered characteristics such as

(M) Why Would I Learn To Think Critically When I Could Find a Random Damsel In The Woods To Tell Me What To Do

(F) Demands To Be Brought The Heads Of Her Enemies

(M, to F) Be Mean To Me, No, Meaner Than That

(F) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Writing Letters

(M) Crying

(M) More Crying

(M) Even More Crying, While Being Held Tenderly By Brother In Arms

(F) Necromancy

(M) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Mistaking Friend’s Identity, Attacking Him, Then Kissing And Making Up

(F) Expert Medical Practitioner

(M) Self-Care By Episodes Of Madness In The Woods

(F) Owner Of Haunted Castle

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Achilles & Patroclus

from The Iliad by Homer

submitted by anon

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Guinevere Pendragon & Morgan le Fay

from Arthurian Legend

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Cú Chulainn

from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic Mythology

submitted by anon

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could you doodle patrochilles please?

The babys🥺

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Thinking about Charles wanting to teach Edwin how to fight to defend himself and Edwin being so unwilling to learn.

Thinking about Edwin in Hell, running and hiding and always, always being as quiet as possible.

Thinking about how nothing Edwin does can stop the demon from catching him and tearing him apart. So why learn to fight? What good would it do? He is always afraid that he will end up back in Hell, always running from that fate because running is the only way he knows how to survive. Of course he doesn’t want to learn how to fight because fighting is loud and messy and it means standing your ground. Fighting isn’t an option in Hell.

And I’m thinking about Charles fighting for Edwin, fighting to get to him and get him out of Hell, fighting to keep him out of Hell. It’s like Edwin says: he doesn’t need to know how to fight because he knows that Charles will always fight for him. The cricket bat and physical fighting skills help, yeah, but it’s not even about that. It’s about Charles choosing him—that first time in the attic, and over and over again since then. Edwin doesn’t need to defend himself because he met this brilliant boy who stood his ground and made himself into a fortress around his soul.

Fighting isn’t an option in Hell, it’s just a guaranteed way to cause more pain and despair. But Charles fighting for him? That isn’t just desperation or hope, it is something that Edwin can always, always count on.

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Payneland² part two because they wouldn't leave me alone

Part 1 here

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it just now dawned on me that all Those Windows in the mystery shack are not some clever background design choices, or funny haha easter eggs, or visual puns, or chekhov's guns

that is a house Ford in-universe canonically built with his own hands.

he. he made those.

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“I once heard my friend, the Doctor, speak to me of a man he once knew. Called himself the Master. Master of what he would never tell me…”