#AAAA BELOVEDS

[bxnnie-bxwl]

my favourite character is coming back!!!!!

[dynachan]

I don't know who needs to hear this... But Toya and Shoto are the same height.

I am NOT okay.

[xylo-art]

I just read @dooblebugss latest chapter for their fic The Lost Kingdom of Hallownest and I just HAD to draw this...

[enjoliquej]

The heavens declare the glory of God,

and the sky shows His handiwork.

Day to day they speak,

night to night they reveal knowledge.

There is no speech, no words,

where their voice goes unheard.

Their voice has gone out to all the earth

and their words to the end of the world.

•Psalm 19•

-2024 Solar Eclipse-

∆2022 Lunar Eclipse∆

☀️Solar Eclipse Print🌑

[thatmooncake]

Hello

I just wanted to draw your Moonshoe crab again but I got a little carried away👉👈

I'm just gonna leave this in front of your threshold

*Quickly crawls back into the dark abyss*

ARTHROPOD AMIGOS LET’S GOOOOO

[thisisntseriousbusiness]

Bagginshieldtober - Day 4, 8, and 10

Prompts - Culture, Courting, and Music

I really enjoyed the process of this one, esp because I saw this photo on pinterest and immediately thought of them :3 <3

[leripink]

♡ To this day, I wonder what Minhyeok saw in the MC, because to this day I can't find any logic why being in love with a person for so long is impossible for me and knowing that the MC is kind of stupid... if I could, I would sit next to him and ask him why? Among so many good people, he chose MC.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

OKAY WHAT IF I CRIED .

[forystr]

what was Emyr like when he was younger?

Looks longingly at docktown……

[yumenari]

They can have all the flowers they want 🫂💐✨ Request for @linefelcei ! 💜

Just the sketch (no text) below :>

Also, the flowers are supposed to be (September) asters! From what I’ve read they symbolize love, affection, and wisdom, and in Greek “aster” means “star”, so I think they fit Asra hehe 💜 I think he’d enjoy picking up flowers with the apprentice and making their own flower crowns 🌼

[diamondsheep]

Ram I don't even know Luffy very well but now everytime I see him I think "my friend Luffy" the same feeling that Miku gives me, how does he do that?

Luffy 🤝 Miku 🤝 Goku > being everyone's friends

HIII CONEJOOOOS 🐰💜💜💜✨thank you for the ask !!

YESSS !! I understand that feeling !! i guess it is because they have been around for a long time and they are like everyone's childhood friends ?

Also in my opinion they are like the anime conventions kings and queen ! There is no convention without at least one cosplayer of each of these characters

they also have a really recognizable and friendly design so i think that makes them really special

our beloved friends Luffy Miku and Goku ❤💙🧡

[munemaker]

mido design ponderings.... i should make ones for mikoto and john too

[gingermintpepper]

As usual I read your tags always and so you said Apollo did not ask for resurrection of Asclepius and Hyacinthus so i just wanted to share this. About Asclepius death I read it on theoi.com, that earlier authors don't make him resurrect as a god but that's a later development mentioned only by Roman authors like Cicero, Hyginus and Ovid. But still Apollo has a role in Ovid's version

Ovid, Fasti 6. 735 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : Clymenus [Haides] and Clotho resent the threads of life respun and death's royal rights diminished. Jove [Zeus] feared the precedent and aimed his thunderbolt at the man who employed excessive art. Phoebus [Apollon], you whined. He is a god; smile at your father, who, for your sake, undoes his prohibitions [i.e. when he obtains immortality for Asklepios].

So here it is actually because of Apollo the decision was taken to resurrect him as god. And with Hyacinthus, I don't think I've read about Artemis playing the primary role. I know in Sparta there was a picture of Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite carrying Hyacinthus and his sister to heaven.

This is not on theoi.com but I saw on Tumblr it's from Dionysiaca by Nonnus

Second, my lord Oiagros wove a winding lay, as the father of Orpheus who has the Muse his boon companion. Only a couple of verses he sang, a ditty of Phoibos, clearspoken in few words after some Amyclaian style: Apollo brought to life again his longhaired Hyacinthos: Staphylos will be made to live for aye by Dionysos.

So since he is singing inspired by amyclean stories it probably means in that place it was believed Apollo was the one to bring back his lover to life.

Apollo as god of order was very important so i think it shows how special these people (and admetus too) were to him that he decided to go against the order for them 🥺

ANON!! Shakes you like a bottle of ramune!! BELOVED ANON!!!!! I'm littering your face with kisses, I'm anointing you with olive oil and honey - you absolutely made my night with this because, not only did I get the pure serotonin shot of having someone interact with my tags (yippee, wahoo!!) I also got to have that wonderful feeling of "oh wow, have I misunderstood something that was integral to my understanding of this myth/figure this whole time or is this a case of interpretational differences?" which is imo vital for my aims and interests as someone who enjoys mythological content and literature.

I'll preface my response with this: Hyacinthus is by far the hardest of these to get accounts for because his revival itself, as you very astutely point out, is generally accounted for in painting/ritual format which muddies the waters on who interceded for what. I wasn't actually familiar with that passage from the Argonautica - and certainly didn't remember it so thank you very much for bringing it to my attention!

That said, what I've come to understand, both about Hyacinthus and about Asclepius is that in the accounts of their deaths, Apollo's position is startlingly clear.

For Hyacinthus, it is established time and again that Apollo would have sacrificed everything for him - his status, his power, his very own immortality and divinity. Ovid writes that Apollo would have installed him as a god if only he had the time:

(Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book X. trans. Johnston)

Many other writers too speak of how Apollo abandoned his lyre and his seat at Delphi to spend his days with Hyacinthus, but they also all agree that when it came to his death - he was powerless. Ovid gives that graphic account of Apollo's desperation as he tries all his healing arts to save him to no avail:

(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book X. Apollo me boy, methinks him dead. trans Johnston)

Bion, in one of his fragments, writes that Apollo was "dumb" upon seeing Hyacinthus' agony:

(Bion, The Bucolic Poets. Fragment XI. trans Edmonds)

Even Nonnus in the Dionysiaca speaks constantly of Apollo's helplessness in the face of Hyacinthus' fate where he writes that the god still shivers if a westward wind blows upon an iris:

and when Zephyros breathed through the flowery garden, Apollo turned a quick eye upon his young darling, his yearning never satisfied; if he saw the plant beaten by the breezes, he remembered the quoit, and trembled for fear the wind, so jealous once about the boy, might hate him even in a leaf...

(Nonnus, Dionysiaca, Book 3. trans Rouse)

And the point here is just that - Apollo, at least as far as I've read, cannot avert someone's death. He simply can't. Once they're already dead - once Fate has cut their string - all Apollo's power is gone and he can do nothing no matter how much he wants to. And this is, as far as I know, supported with the accounts of Asclepius as well!

Since you specifically brought up Ovid's account, I'll also stick only to Ovid's account but in Metamorphoses when we get Ovid's version of Coronis' demise, he writes that Apollo intensely and immediately regrets slaughtering Coronis. He regrets it so intensely that he, like he does with Hyacinthus, does his best to resuscitate her:

(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo's regret)

And like Hyacinthus, when it becomes clear that what has happened cannot be undone, Apollo wails:

(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo wept.)

Unlike his mother, Asclepius in her womb had not yet died and so, with the last of Apollo's strength, he does manage, at least, to save him.

(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo puts the 'tearing out' in Asclepius.)

But it goes further than even that because Ocyrhoe, Chiron's daughter, a prophetess who unduly gained the ability to directly proclaim the secrets of the Fates, upon seeing the baby Asclepius, immediately prophesies his glory, his inevitable death and then his fated ascension:

(Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book Two. Ocyrhoe's prophecy. trans Johnston)

Before she too succumbs to her hubris and is transformed by the Fates into a horse so she can no longer speak secrets that aren't hers to share.

These things ultimately are important because it establishes two very important things: 1) Apollo can't do anything in the face of the ultimate Fate of mortals, which is, of course, death and 2) even when Apollo is Actively Devastated, regretful, yearning, mournful, guilty or some unholy combination of all of the above, when someone is dead, he accepts that they are gone. Even if he is devastated by it, even if he'll cry all the rest of his days about it - if they're dead? Apollo lets them go. In Fasti, when Zeus brings Asclepius back, he does not say Apollo asked him to - Zeus, or well, in this case Jove, brings Asclepius back because he wants Apollo to stop being mad at him.

(Ovid, Fasti VI. Apollo please come home your father misses you. trans. A.S Kline)

Even Boyle's translation which you used above in your findings hints that Zeus made Asclepius a god because he wanted Apollo to stop grieving. (i.e 'smile at your father', 'for your sake [he] undoes his prohibitions')

And like, Apollo was deeply upset by Asclepius' death - apart from killing the Cyclops in anger, in book 4 of the Argonautica, Apollonius writes that the Celts believe the stream of Eridanus to be the tears Apollo shed over the death of Asclepius when he left for Hyperborea after being chastised by Zeus for killing his Cyclops:

But the Celts have attached this story to them, that these are the tears of Leto's son, Apollo, that are borne along by the eddies, the countless tears that he shed aforetime when he came to the sacred race of the Hyperboreans and left shining heaven at the chiding of his father, being in wrath concerning his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia at the mouth of Amyrus.

It all paints a very clear picture to me. Apollo did not ask for either of them to be brought back. Though bringing them back certainly pleased and delighted him, they are actions of other gods who are moved by Apollo's grief and mourning and seek to mollify him. Him not asking doesn't mean he didn't want them back which I think is a very important distinction by the by, but it simply means that Apollo knows the natural order of things and, even if it hurts, he isn't going to press his luck about it.

Which, of course, brings us to Admetus. And I'm really not going to overcomplicate this, Admetus is different because, very vitally, Admetus is not dead. Apollo can't do a thing once Fate has been carried out and Death has claimed a mortal but you know what he absolutely can do? Bargain like hell with the Fates before that point of inevitability. And that's what he does, ultimately for Admetus and Alcestis. He sought to prolong Admetus' life, not revive him from death or absolve him from death altogether and even after getting the Fates drunk, he's still only able to organise a sacrifice - a life for a life - something completely contingent on whether some other mortal would be willing to die in Admetus' place and not at all controllable by Apollo's own power.

All of these things, I think come back to that point you made - that Apollo's place as a god of order is very important and therefore these people are very special to him if it means he's willing to go against that order but, I also wish to challenge that opinion if you'd let me. Apollo's place as a god of order is very important and therefore, I would argue, that it is even more important that it is shown that he does not break the divine order, especially for the people that mean the most to him. The original context of my comments which started this conversation were on this lovely, lovely post by @hyacinthusmemorial which contemplated upon Asclepius from the perspective of an Emergency Medical personnel and included, in their tags, the very poignant lines "there's something about Apollo letting go when Asclepius couldn't that eats my heart away" and "you do what you can, you do your best, but you don't ever reach too far" and I think that's perfectly embodied with the Apollo-Asclepius dichotomy. Apollo grieves. He wails, he cries, he does his best each and every time to save that which is precious to him but he does not curse their nature, he does not resent that they are human and ultimately, he accepts that that which is mortal must inevitably die. There is nothing that so saliently proves that those who uphold rules are also their most staunch followers - if Apollo wants to delight in his place as Fate's mouthpiece, he cannot undo Fate. And, if even the god of healing and order himself cannot undo death, what right does Asclepius, mortal as he is, talented as he is, have to disrespect it?

The beauty of these stories isn't that Apollo loved them enough to bring them back. The beauty is that Apollo loved them enough to let them go.

[duckieduccss]

Summer Goji🍹☀️

Hey guess what, i colored in one of my sketches again :D

Half way through making the decision, i suddenly had the idea of trying to do watercolor again (problem is i havent painted in watercolor IN SO LONG & kinda just lost the practice). I searched thru my collection of brushes to find the one i remember enjoy using back when i did somewhat of watercolor in the past. Maybe with a bit more of practice, i can definitely get more the hang of it. Either way, i think i did good. What do you guys think?? ^^:

Also Goji really being ready to slay this summer with that fabulous look✨💜

[Have a great rest of your kaiju summer!!]

[merakiui]

Can I just say I love the way you portray Floyd. I feel like 90% of writers make him out to be this abusive monster (yandere or otherwise) and it upsets me since he's among my favorite charcters.

But you make him out to be so cute and loveable. Like yes he has a long history of violence and mood swings, but you don't use that as a way to say he's awful. You portray him as "yes when he's having an off day he might hurt you". But you don't add what a lot of yandere writers I see seem to add which is "even when he's in a better mood, he'll still blame you and berate you". No you portray him as someone who in a bad mood MIGHT hurt his shrimpy, but the moment he's back to normal he's gonna feel awful about it and want to make up for it.

He doesn't come across like a monster (most of the time) but instead like a giant puppy in love who doesn't recognize his own strength, and just loves his little shrimpy with all his heart and wants to express that in the best way he knows how. Like he genuinly wants to make his darling happy, and wants them to love him. Like Jade might find the idea of his darling faking their feelings to be amusing. But Floyd wants them to be real, he wants them to love him as much as he loves them. He doesn't want them to pretend just to avoid his wrath, he wants his shrimpy to feel happy and safe and loved in his presence. And that makes me SO happy to see.

Please keep up the great work

Omg thank you so much!!!! I'm really happy you can enjoy my portrayal of yan!Floyd. I think he's such a fascinating character, especially when put in a yandere context, and I love writing for him and exploring the many facets to his personality. There's so much more to him than just "scary eel with dangerous mood swings" and I think most of the time he would be as you described: "a giant puppy in love who doesn't recognize his own strength." He has so much depth and doesn't hide much from you unless it's intentional or something he doesn't want you to know.

Floyd is so painfully honest that it can be blunt at times and he isn't one for dragging things out like Jade often does, which is why he's not one for overly complex mind games. Floyd just wants to love you without any strings attached and he wants you to reciprocate (genuinely. I think being genuine matters a lot to him). I like to imagine Floyd has all of these emotions and he feels so much, but sometimes he struggles with showing these emotions. So perhaps it results in them being translated/shown in his mood swings or things like his cuteness aggression towards you.

I could ramble forever, but I agree that he wants Shrimpy to feel safe and happy and loved with him. <3 he's the cutest. Such a sweet eel. >w<