#.endymion

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YOU KNEW I HAD TO DO IT TO EM

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May all the stars be on our side. The day we meet in another life (X)

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Blade of the Emperor

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The model Paul posing for Yannis Tsarouchis in France, 1974

Yannis Tsarouchis, Endymion, 1979

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When I think about Gale and Mystra, I'm reminded of the Greek myth of the moon goddess who fell in love with a shepherd and asked Zeus to place him in an enchanted sleep, so that he would never change. So he would be beautiful and hers forever.

There are different versions of the myth, but this is the one I knew as a kid - and it always made me so fucking sad. And now I see why, because Selene loves Endymion - and her love takes his life from him. A god could not love Endymion as a mortal loves a mortal; she wants his presence to gaze on, to soak in, his body to hold. Perhaps he's a balm to her immortal existence; perhaps his beauty is an inspiration to her - but she does not want him, not all of him, not really. She doesn't want his sheep flock, the evenings where his fingers burn from the cold. She doesn't want his voice, or the lines and experience he'll gather as he ages. She doesn't want to live a life alongisde his.

Selene would say she loves Endymion, and perhaps, yes, Mystra would say she loved Gale. But how can a god love a mortal in a way that a mortal can recognise as love? You soak up his company, you laugh with him, you value his mind and his talent and his deftness with words. His presence is a spot of bright difference in your endless existence. But will you change with him? Will you be vulnerable with him? Will you look him in the eye, as an equal? Will you stroke his cat and put a blanket over his shoulder when he falls asleep reading, make soup for him when he's sick? Would you love him as a person, not a treasure? You can't.

Gale wanted to be loved with a devotion to match his own. Mystra wanted him to live in the enchanted sleep of being hers, something to smile at and hold but never, never to live beside. And she knew - she must have known - how unequal their desires were. She kept him anyway, until she didn't. Until he woke up.

A god's love ruins mortals.

[sailor-moon-rei]

by jiji_zizidolce

art republished with artist’s permission

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John Keats, from Selected Poems & Letters of John Keats; "Endymion,"

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POV: your last look at your moon princess girlfriend

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Found some lovely unused art from around the time I was working on my Serenity x Endymion focused erotic Sailor Moon Zine, Eternally Yours!

[ianime0]

Sailor Moon: Cosmos Movie | Part1 | Small Lady, you are the protagonist of this party and night. Welcome, our dear little princess. Thank you very much, Mom, Dad!

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dan making this face as he asks phil if he's gonna dress slutty for halloween is maybe the most terrifying thing to come out of tour this far and that's coming from the guy who was literally begging for a slutty phil halloween costume like two weeks ago

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Artist graphic by annie_0318 美少女战士

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usagi x mamoru in anime and manga