#New Mythology

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This image depicts another view of the kitchen and galley area of the 'Revenant Princess', at a pivotal moment when Willie comes to understand the difference between smiling for joy, and smiling for charm. In his defense, his life had so little joy for so long, it was easy to forget that there was another reason to smile.

OK, I need another day or two for the free review release. I want to have the preorder ready, in case anyone wants to support me more directly, and Amazon is spinning their wheels a bit. It should be up and for sale on April 1st regardless. If you are interested, sign up for my newsletter and watch your email box. It's an illuminated novella, and it has real impact, but it's a quick read. No one should feel pressed for time.

But that gives me a chance to give another ten bucks to the one social network that doesn't make me want to hide in the woods and eat berries like a squirrel. I'm not sure this will be as popular as Pete and Willie mackin' it, but I think this is a funny image.

[rocknrollbodhisattva]

Day 30/30: Free Choice Day [insp by @oceanwitch]

🔮 'New Mythology' - Charlotte Wessels 🔮

I wonder if the bird That sits there perched Outside my window Carries a part of my soul When it goes away

Btw, thanks @hauntedwhispers for creating this challenge.

[chaossagaproductions]

Writer Problems #1

Me writing a high fantasy/myth-based series: There I won't have to make up myths since every belief is real

Also Me: What do you mean I still need stories for little kids to learn? Ugh fine, here, have one based on Mothman

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Oh look, it’s Chronos in a better world, where his priests didn’t make him eat the children those other priests had scripted for him.

ive been thinking about this tweet for the past 2 days like literally nonstop

[mythsteps]

Headlight on the Hilltop

author’s note: I’m living in outer space.  But so is everyone else. HEADLIGHT ON THE HILLTOP Yeah— what I saw was probably just a car headlight switching from low to bright up there atop the hill. Nonetheless the sight thrilled my heart and hypnotized my eyes. So when the light blinked off a minute or so later I searched the heavens hoping it might reappear. But no— all I saw was a litter…

[mishoru]

It's an old tale

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I've got something cooking, and this soup is hot. If you want to be a early review reader (for free!) of my new illustrated novella, "The Steamboat & The City" you should go ahead and sign up for my newsletter HERE. There will be a special mailing around 3/25/24 for early reviews, and the full launch should be around April 1st on Amazon.

The standard edition is ~15k words, and the extra spicy edition that will only be sold on my new LemonSqueezy store will be about ~18k words. The ebook will include 4 illustrations, the cover art, and a lovely layout map of the steamboat. The LemonSqueezy versions will also include high resolution copies of the art, since I can include separate PNG's with my package there.

[iamnotshazam]

knowledge gifted by a dream, epic heroes of another reality. the heroic pose, like a figure etched on a vase. the soft folds of her skin and fabric, perhaps her fabric she sold in peactime. her braid whipping in motion. the idea she is an ordinary person who is remembered as extraordinary by other ordinary people. loving her memory and hoping if called to arms they can be strong like her, too. did she die in the dream? did she live on, quietly extraordinary in her own ordinary way, in a fabric shop in a peaceful corner of the universe? perhaps it's better the dream did not say

i briefly thought this was portal (videogame) inspired cause of the colors of her outfit? i wonder if it was in their mind under the dream

I had a dream the other week about these people fighting back against an assault from another world. Most of them weren’t experienced fighters, but average people who banded together (although Gimli was there because dreams).

This particular woman’s job was to throw a javelin through a dimensional portal, tethering the two worlds together and allowing the defenders to control where the fight happened. They later built a statue of her. In her day-to-day life, I think she owned a fabric shop.

Prints available through Inprnt!

[Image Description: A digital illustration of a woman preparing to throw a javelin through a portal. She is a fat, dark-skinned South Asian woman with long dark hair in a braid. She wears a navy blue crop top and dark reddish dhoti. We see her from behind, her left arm extended towards the portal while her right arm is reared back, holding a glowing white javelin which trails a tether on the ground behind her. The sky is mostly overcast with dark blue-grey clouds, but an intense sunset orange breaks through closer to the horizon. Through the glowing portal, the blue curve of another planet is visible. /end ID]

[suzie-guru]

Despite the heavy rain in Grand Rapids, I took myself out and about and finally made it to where @hellenhighwater’s breathtaking and deeply moving work for ArtPrize, “Old Stories”, was being displayed.

It was thrilling to see all of this in person after watching their progression on @hellenhighwater’s tumblr. I kept wanting to grab others and go “Make sure to follow their tumblr! It’s a treasure trove!”

The pieces that moved me the most are incontestably the ones featuring the Minotaur - after Medusa, his story is the most tragic of the Greek Myths to me and these pieces made me ache for him even more. I fell in love with these statues through watching the progression of their creation, but seeing them in person? All I could think of is how badly he deserved to be rescued, saved from his imprisonment, his loneliness. It hit me like a gut punch.

Which is why I loved the third and final piece for his story so much. The original ending will always be told, but on the other end of the labyrinth, there’s a more hopeful, gentler ending where the walls crack and crumble, and Asterion steps out and away from his prison, gets to see the stars and feel the sun…

The piece I didn’t expect to move me so deeply was Narcissus.

As it says on the artist’s statement for the piece, in a mythos full of capricious gods, ravaging heroes, and half-human monsters, Narcissus’ only crime was being beautiful and solitary. How many girls have had to deal with the same persistence and accusations of coldness? Can’t he have the same protectiveness we give them? I never would have thought such things, but this work opened my mind. Thank you for that, @hellenhighwater.

Please, if you’re able to do so, come to Grand Rapids and see all of the works in person, especially @hellenhighwater’s! And vote for them!!!

Now, I’m off to write that story about Ariadne and Asterion being siblings that I always wanted to get around to…

[sarnai4]

Au. Before the Trojan war when Ares and Ody are asked to try to get along.

(Ares and Ody are sitting awkwardly across from each other.)

Ody: So, Athena asked us to try finding what we have in common.

Ares: We both want this to end. Done. (Stands up)

Ody: Yeah, but I don't think that's what she meant....uh, I love Penelope and you love Aphrodite.

Ares: That's true. (Sits back down) Aphrodite's amazing.

Ody (with a goofy grin): Penelope just has the brightest laugh.

Ares (head in hand): Aphrodite's so smart and pretty.

(Hours later, they're kicking their feet in the air while on their stomachs)

Ody (gleefully): And then this one time, Penelope made this little snort sound!

Ares (gasping): You're kidding! Aphrodite does that too! It's adorable!

Ody: I know right!

(Penelope and Aphrodite are about to enter the room. Athena stops them.)

Athena: Don't do in there. You'll be a distraction.

Penelope (confused): There's so much giggling in that room. We wanted to see what was going on.

Athena:...bonding.

Aphrodite: Between who?

Athena (directing them both away from the room): You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

[2dreamingdragons]

The Looped False Story

Dreaming a New Space. Zee is embarking on a journey to Mt. Washington and she promises to share her experiences with us when she returns next week. Meanwhile, I’ll keep you entertained, smirks Blu. In Our Hands Order Zee and I contemplate the concept of spaces, particularly, creating an energetic space made real. You also may have noticed, we contemplate stories, and even embedded stories in…

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This comic also points out one of the worst plot holes in the conventional solution to the Labyrinth; how exactly did Theseus get out after he slew the Minotaur? It’s inconceivable that he could somehow breach the door of that temple of blood and darkness and take the palace above all by himself! So… there must have been a back door. But if that were so, why would Asterius have not simply left? What part of his nature kept him chained to that place, if he could have just made a run for it?

Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

[xixovart]

all i need in life is for odysseus to reunite with telemachus and immediately say, “you’re taller”

[miroana]

Percy Jackson will do your quests

[mythsteps]

The Original Wound

author’s note: Though Eden is lost its loveliness remains in the heart and the imagination -- Mary Oliver THE ORIGINAL WOUND According to this myth: our problems first began when the first human being felt confused because it sensed it was more than one. Unable to resolve that tension the human then split in half and one half went East while the other half went West. Perhaps you’ve already…

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You must imagine that Goldilocks and the three bears have found peace with each other

Art by Kerry Darlington