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Some Christmas art for you guys
#Mytho me#drawing#my art#original character#art#artists on tumblr#illustration#oc#oc art#digital art#artwork#Mall#shopping mall#mall au#candy#shopping#oc challenge#ocs#my ocs#oc character#christmas#festive#holidays#holiday season#xmas#merry christmas#artist#christmas tree#christmas lights#christmas decorations
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a few shadow gira sketches
#pokemon#giratina#sketch#eyestrain#little warm ups i guess you could call these. im really not doing super hot on drawing a ton recently#pkmn has been beckoning me again so some giras were in order#poke mythos#<<for it is my pre exile gira
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Can you pretty please draw Telemachus meeting Odysseus 🙏
OF COURSE
After that Ody says: No but really when did you get taller than me mf
everybody is taller than you odysseus
#epic the musical#epic#epic fanart#larita answers#artist on tumblr#greek mythology#greek mythos#artist#my art#telemachus#telemachus epic#odysseus#odysseus epic#the odyssey#they are everything to me#specially telemachus i would die for him
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Yeah nothing Jason does would work in the real world. Good thing he does not live in the real world. He lives in Gotham, which operates on the logic of Hollywood movies from 40 years ago. Oh wait- perhaps that’s integral context for his character!!!
#trying to dunk on Jason and then accidentally critiquing key parts of the Batman mythos#YEAH I bet a setting crafted to justify the existence of a man who turns himself into a fearsome avatar of vengeance#that visits righteous fury upon the scoundrels who pollute the city#is going to be wonky and kinda problematic!!#griping#jason todd#What Jason lacks in adherence to Batman’s narrative rules he makes up for by remaining consistent with the logic of the setting#and having substantive moral symbolism of his own#Jason isn’t the Punisher because a murderous clown did not become ambassador of Iran in any part of Frank’s story do you understand me#Jason is a noble gangster this is an ESTABLISHED American archetype
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I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.
So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.
The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.
But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.
They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.
The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.
So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.
Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.
When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.
That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.
But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.
Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design
#lovecraft#shoggoth#horror#and this isn’t me demanding realism in my cthulhu mythos#but i think it proves that at a certain point grim and gritty storytelling becomes absurdist comedy#the rest of the story is a gritty crime drama about being a sex worker who breasts boobily under the pitiless california sun#and the twist which is supposed to be cosmic horror elevates it into zany cartoonishness
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I may be late to this, but I feel like it says a lot about how analog horror is covered at least on Youtube when Angel Hare, which is one of the most hopeful and wholesome analog "horror" series' I've seen, has videos talking about it that look like this:
Like, yeah it has dark elements, but it's not this horrifying dark show that corrupts children. Jonah wasn't manipulated into becoming a serial killer by Gabby, that's a fandom AU not what actually happens.
I may just be overreacting over something minor, but it annoys me that a genuinely fresh and kind take on the "dark children's show" trope where a guardian angel protects a child from their abusive father and comforts them through a TV show is treated almost exactly the same as Generic Spooky Face Jumpscare Tapes #57. It's all about the dark elements that accompany the story, and not the story itself.
Angel Hare actually tells a coherent and complete story about children's entertainment and escapism, which just so happens to have dark elements to it while still being a comforting series. At least acknowledge the story being told, not just the disturbing elements of it for the love of Angel Gabby.
#angel hare#analog horror#I know most people are aware of this#but it still bugs me#monument mythos#also kind of falls into this#since that series is inherently political#yet all of that is ignored to pay attention to the eldritch horrors#without considering what those horrors represent
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I know he'll change the world...
#epic the musical#the odyssey#odysseus#odysseus of ithaca#greek mythos#epic the musical fanart#artists on tumblr#bambiidraws#attempted study of gigi's painting style :3#cuz it drives me insane
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[Apollo]
Not insanely neat (Im so serious I just hate clean lineart/anatomy at this rate) but yall haven't seen Apollo fully grown in my design so here he is!!
He does grow into the solar flare-ish wisps (that Helios also has!) Because you see in the old piece that he doesn't have any, just curls!!
There's some other easter eggs but I'll let yall find them (or not)
#apollo#greek mythos#greek gods#my design#design concept#I really love design sun gods#I know he's not just a sun god#but my point STANDS#I also prefer him looking more stern#Like he's carefree sometimes but also Apollo genuinely gives me mean girl vibes sometimes#if that makes ANY sense
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More Jason and Cass thoughts (sorry but also not sorry) but if I was magically given full control over DC and could write what I'd want obviously I'd make Cass Batman but I've been thinking of what sort of reaction and role Jason would have in response. I think I'd write his version of "Congrats on the new job!" as a test, involving the Joker and civilians and gangs and Red Hood and a ton of explosives. Bruce failed me, and now he's given up. You're his successor, let's see how you handle this dilemma that freaked him out so badly he threw a batarang into my throat rather than let me avenge my own death in front of him.
So obviously Cass will overcome the traps and the puzzles. That's the fun part to show how competent both of them are and sprinkle in little character moments as we go. But then we reach the emotional crux of the matter, probably laid out as some sort of saw trap because it's Jason. Here I am, a victim of murder. You say nobody dies tonight but I did, and I want the man who did it dead. Not only did Batman fail to avenge me but he failed to stop the Joker from going on to create even more victims. What right do you have to stop me from getting justice for myself? What right does this man have to life after what he's taken from me and from countless others? I'm not trying to kill a random stranger, I'm specifically demanding justice for my own death that I never got while I was gone.
There are two ways this could go. The straightforward route if I knew my time on this run was limited would probably be a pyrrhic victory like the ones Cass's og series was so fond of. Just like Bruce in utrh, she acts on instinct and saves the Joker (and Jason this time) . A win technically, but she fails the test. Jason is once again vindicated but with nothing to show for it. The story ends with Cass sending the Joker back to jail and going back to the batcave, where the old Robin costume looms judgementally, highlighting her failure. It would be the most fitting end given their character molds, all tragedy and conviction and unstoppable force meets immovable object etc.
However... I think the option I prefer would be a little different. Cass levelling with Jason, a killer talking to a murder victim. She has no right to stop Jason from getting justice, she has no love for the Joker but she knows any death she allows to happen like this would devastate her, just like that death row inmate long ago she tried to break out but ended up letting go once the family of the victim talked to her and demanded justice. I think... In this specific situation, she'd just be honest. Morally she has no right sure. Personally she just really really doesn't want anyone to die. Give her one chance, please. Let her try it her way. Not demanding, not lecturing or insisting, just... Please. Don't do this. Let me try another way.
And then what? Jason asks.
In the end a deal is struck. Cass will take the Joker and lock him up, ensuring he never harms anyone again while also trying to rehabilitate him. But the second she fails and he gets free, Jason kills him and she won't stand in his way. It's the kind of deal that leaves both of them mildly disgusted and dissatisfied with themselves, neither of them naturally creatures of compromise when it comes to this specific topic. But Cass is willing to do anything to avoid death and Jason did not expect the new Bat to be so... Flexible? Kind of? Of course maybe she won't actually hold up her end of the deal and when the Joker gets loose she'll try and stop Jason from killing him and he'll get his miserable vindication, but right now this is something strange and new and he's mildly confused and curious about where it will go. He doesn't believe in her ability to contain the Joker forever but he's willing to let her try because her reaction to that future failure interests him. She's given him a sword of damocles to hang above her head and he didn't ask for it or expect it. It's the type of power he never thought the Bat would just... Hand to him.
The conflict ends with neither of them fully winning or losing. They both don't really know what to feel about this.
The thing is, the second Cass let's Jason kill the Joker she's hanging up the mantle. She's staking the Bat on this, because it's always go big or go home with her when it comes to saving others, even someone like the Joker. In this magical universe where I have unlimited power, Cass would lock the Joker in a secret bunker and have Leslie Thompkins talk to him daily, mostly because I think her pacifism speeches and debates in the comics would make a fun contrast to the Joker's evil sadism. (But what about his rights? Doesn't he deserve a trial and to be held in a regular prison? I'm going to be honest I think Cass would be very comfortable bending the rules on this specific situation. Morally questionable but I'd have fun with it. She's going to let Leslie treat Joker like her personal pet project to save his soul because yes she wants him to change but also she's got a city to save every night so go crazy Leslie, have fun.)
And the Batman series would continue with Cass as the lead, new challenges and new antagonists and every twenty issues or so for the first hundred we'll cut back to the Joker briefly if his chats with Leslie can help highlight some thematic element of the current arc. But bit by bit he'd slowly fade away onto oblivion, maybe getting referenced every hundred issues or so until eventually no one remembers or cares about him because there's so much else going on. Meanwhile Jason's got a good thing going as Red Hood, primarily based in Park Row and a tentative ally on the occasion when their vigilante work aligns. Unlike Joker he's a much more frequent character in the comics, and after say 10 years (this is my magical fantasy universe Cass's batman run is going to last for a very long time alright) when people think of DC characters they think of Red Hood long before they think of the Joker.
Is any of this realistic? Right now of course not. It's why I'd go with the pyrrhic victory if I actually got the chance, because it would be the best way to tell the story in the larger context of the Bat narrative. But it's my fantasy DC editor and writer daydream and I'm going to dream big. They're never going to be normal happy siblings, their personal demons will never fully let them be free and the looming possibility of losing everything they currently have narrative wise if Bruce comes back as Batman will always be there. But it's maybe the closest to peace they'll ever get. Unsatisfying and tame compromise that probably violates several laws and ethical codes but whatever. Cass has never read the Geneva convention and Jason's not going to shed tears over the Joker. Let him die relevancy wise if not physically.
#dc#cassandra cain#batfam#dc rambles#Jason Todd#In terms of the larger meta narrative ultimately whether the Joker dies or gets locked up is irrelevant#But Cass will never be willing to just let someone die without trying to the very end to make her case for their life#And I think it's entirely possible Jason would reject her proposal and we're back to square one#But I think the two main reasons to me that he'd accept is one. Cass betting her career on this. She doesn't need to do that.#She could save the Joker and fail Jason's personal test and that would be that. Her actually reaching out#Being willing to risk something precious just to try and compromise with Jason. It would be more than he expected#From a family that he understandably believes he does not matter enough to#And secondly is the long term consequence of the Joker fading into irrelevancy while Jason maintains his prominence as a character#A reverse of his death where he was turned into nothing but a footnote and a memorial for Batman angst#While the Joker went on to gain even more narrative power as Batman's Greatest Enemy#Now he is nothing. And Jason is alive and a solid part of the mythos#It would take time obviously but ultimately from a Doylist sense to me it's the most satisfying resolution#Maybe after like 10 years Cass can die again briefly the Joker gets out and Jason gets to kill him to give Maps some fun Robin angst#But ultimately it's very important to me that if Cass becomes batman the Joker must become irrelevant#He's just not useful enough thematically to be worth his current narrative weight when she's running the show
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You came into this world together, and you go out of it together.
Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher and Mary McDonnell as Madeline Usher in THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)
#what is this biblical valonqar shit!!!#still doesn't rank high among the flanaganverse for me and it lacked the heart i liked in the others but it had THIS#maybe the codependent yet mutually destructive siblings trope still has me in a chokehold. and they were TWINS.#who wrapped themselves up in mythos and messianic arrogance!!#the fall of the house of usher#mike flanagan#horrorgifs#horroredit#tvedit#tvgifs#television#dailynetflix#userstream#cinematv#filmandtv#filmtv#dailyflicks#bbqueue
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thank you so much (ash is her name) glad to receive this. Have a happy thanksgiving
Fanart for @potatothemouse because Ash’s(I think that’s the name?) design is super cool :3
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book 1: page 3
#oc art#my art#original character#oc#art#artwork#illustration#artists on tumblr#digital art#drawing#comic#comic art#comics#comic books#original comic#web comic#comic strip#webcomic#indie comics#comic artist#Mytho me#oc character#ocs#my ocs#mythology#greek mythology#mythology and folklore#myths#artists#artist
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cast shadow
#more of this. the inevitability of it all#i was intending to do comm work today but was struck flat by some of the most debilitating lower back pain i think ive ever had#wanted to get something drawn anyways so heres a rough shot at a visual that was haunting me#poke mythos#baby gira#pokemon#giratina#arceus#sketch
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Ok I understand why sparkling ocs are so popular designing one is addicting
Alt forms/ adult designs under the cut
So when he's littler he can be a Nissan atla, they're pretty cute, but reaching adulthood he'd be a Nissan big thumb, and getting a mod to have a trailer too.
Optimus only has a flat bed so Im doing the old reliable transformer design of putting stuff u don't know how to fit into the back. If he diddnt have a trailer, the bed sides could just be a part of his legs but he modded to have wings so he can get used to the weight distribution easier.
Big thumbs are 12 feet tall, G1 Optimus is a Freightliner making him also 12 feet, and G1 Ratchet is a Nissan cherry vanette, which are almost 6 feet (5"10 to be exact)
I thought that the big thumb would be a bit smaller then Optimus but damn, Ratchet is gonna have to deal with 2 giant trucks.
#sorry nothing silly today boys i have a project due for my robotics class funnily enough#me drawing ratchet constantly challenge: IMPOSSIBLE#its the horns I love them but my god am i not good at drawing them#i was thinking about when starscream gets revealed in accidental war criminal acquisition Ratchet goes to Optimus and is like “hey#want a way to guarentee a sparkling isnt a decepticon stuck as one? Get me pregnant.“#I can name the kid something latin and from the Greek mythos or i can name him wretch#uhh Cygnus Aux??#I just googled latin word for healing and chose a constellation close to orion#the third drawing is really rough#i wanted to keep oc stuff in one post haha#im not really an oc creating guy#transformers#ratchet#optimus prime#optiratch#optimus x ratchet#tf fanart#transformer oc#tf sparkling#implied mechpreg#transformers g1
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apollo dad era.
#apollo deity#apollo god#apollo#greek myth#greek mythos#ive been sick for 5 days straight apollo help me
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nobody in the doctor who fandom talking about billie piper and michelle greenidge in the new show 'kaos' together, aka rose tyler and carla sunday
#rose tyler#doctor who#carla sunday#kaos#billie piper#michelle greenidge#this is me telling you to go support kaos so that we get more billie in the future if possible#it's a modern retelling of greek mythos#i like episode one but idk ho people who are much more informed about greek mythology than me would do
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