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thank you so much for tagging me in one of your rec lists, kayla!! It means the world to me π
theodore nott recs - part 2
weren't suppose to let me go | drabble, fluff (slight angst) | @anawritez-posts
til it's gone | one shot, fluff | @obsessedwithceleste
crying in the courtyard | imagine, flangst | @aligned-starz
why can't we love freely | imagine, angst | @amourane
emotions | imagine, flangst | @priniya
eyes wide open | one shot, fluff, slight smut | @spectorgram
kiss with a fist | series | @theostrophywife
snow on the beach | one shot, flangst | @theostrophywife
just a little longer | imagine, fluff | @rosesareredrosa
lonely | one shot, fluff | @evergone
springs breaks loose | imagine, fluff | @fangisms
voodoo doll | one shot, fluff | @moonpascal <3
the moment i knew | imagine, angst | @dylsluvrs
cinnamon girl | imagine, fluff | @thestarsarebrightertonight
fights | imagine, soft fluff | @iamgonnagetyouback
behind locked doors | au-ish, drabble, flangst | @anawritez-posts
study break | drabble, fluff | @crimsntwlip
clingy sleepy boyfriend | drabble, fluff | @anawritez-posts
the cat chronicles | one shot, fluff | @obsessedwithceleste
only me | one shot, fluff | @amiableness
flames on thin ice | imagine, fluffy flangst | @sectumsempraaa
you're the closet to heaven i'll ever be | imagine, fluff | @amiableness
alone | imagine, angst | @slytherinboyslovemenott (won't let me tag this author)
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βAre you a blanket? Because I love when youβre on top of me.β ( aventurine to veritas β‘ )
"Perhaps in your own mind, that is my current state of being."
Veritas could applaud the experimentation that went into his hypothesis, at least, having all but forced the doctor to engage.
(He was strong enough to resist. Strong enough to jerk free of Aventurine's pull, to not allow himself to be puppeteered... at what point had he become a listless lab rat?)
This would be comical from a perceived distance. Blank features staring into fiery, impassioned eyes, giddy with the prospect of having gotten what he desired. Held up by will, for if Dr. Ratio the want-to, he could easily crush the man beneath him... a quirk in his brow: Aventurine would entertain the request, knowing his less-than-caring tendencies. With a breath, his forehead lowered, his posture lessened... huddled just above, Veritas brought his limbs nearer, slacked the space betwixt them.
"This is pointless to ask, however... are you happy now?"
#asksβ ratio.#THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BROOKE AHHH IT WAS SO CUTE even if he's being vaguely suggestive. Aventurine... smh smh SPRAY BOTTLE#He's gotten his wish though: cuddles on a cold day.#THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN <33
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bts + reductress headlines pt.12
#figured we were due a little comic relief after that trauma dump of a weekend and the subsequent Taehyung Horrors#thank you so much for all the love on this series despite the appallingly infrequent updates (i fear this will not improve)#shamelessly tagging all my favs once again <33#trackofthesoul#annietrack#boongietrack#usersky#heyryen#usermaggie#userkelli#tusercelia#tuserjay#networkbangtan#reductress#reductress headlines#textsfrombangtan#bts#couple of footnotes:#kim seokjin i'm sorry but the astronaut??? MOON???? i dare say you have nary a leg to stand on#however if you and your military muscles would like to have a discussion about it that can very much be arranged#and @ jeon jungkook... even god rested on the seventh day. there's no way
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#oc: irulanne ingellvar#oc: vethari de riva#oc: cassia thorne#leg.ocs#leg.edits#*myedits#*ocedit#veilguard30#dragon age oc#datv oc#dav oc#datv#dav#dragon age rook#userimogen#oo moots w/tracking tags i cant recall if ive asked before (i think i did?) but please feel free to lmk if youd like me to tag ur tracking!#ITS STILL THE FIRST HERE THANK HEAVENS I MADE IT IN TIME (ish<3) spent all day on this ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!#the other rooks are veeery wips rn so i will do one of these for them soon HEHE <3#i think i have like..... four more kdfjfkn IM SO SOO STOKED TO YELL ABOUT THEM SOON RAHHH#and happiest first day of dragon game month besties and moots <3 WERE IN THE TWENTIES feeling very normal about it!!!!#for sure will be doing a few of the writing prompts for the next few days before i do another edit brain FRIED egg <33 eek it was worth it!#the happiest with how this turned out and the blurbs of info the coloring from cavalierfou on deviant worked SO well with this!!#divider is by saradika it fits THE LOVELIEST with this as well EEEEK.#hopefully the names are easy to be seen <3#ANYWAY i am so soo stoked to yell about my dragon game dearies and the rooks and see what everyone creates for this!!!!!!#THANK YOU THANK YOUU MO FOR CREATING THIS EVENT youre a treasure its day 1 and i had soo much fun with this!! tyty again!#besties and moots also also if you read all of this im baking you cookies!!
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I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict π for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)
SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??
OMG OMG THIS ASK IS A GIFT. IT IS A GIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS
I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).
Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers πPart of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? π
Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.
(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)
(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)
Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.
#ginger answers asks#Thank you SO much for letting me talk about this even a little it always makes me smile#Despite their disputes - if you ask me Apollo was quite fond of Heracles#And I think a big part of why I ultimately come to that conclusion is that Apollo never hinders Heracles or withholds blessings from him#He simply calls him a bitch every time he sees him and then makes his life marginally more inconvenient#like any good older brother let's be so fr#It's extremely charming to see him so playful with a mortal he's not in love with/that is not his son#Other moments of Apollo teasing Heracles includes him trying to convince Artemis not to let Heracles catch her doe when he comes#to fulfill that particular labour (again he doesn't actually try to stop it he just puts up a bit of a fuss about it)#and perhaps another of my all time favourites#Personally luring Heracles into Admetus' house so Heracles can wrestle Thanatos while Apollo rescues Alcestis#I DO NOT KNOW WHY MORE PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE LUNACY OF APOLLO'S ADMETUS/ALCESTIS PRESERVATION PLAN#He really said βNo yeah I know a guy don't worry about Death Incarnateβ and then Heracles shows up at Admetus' door like this is a sitcom#The laugh track that plays in my mind every time Admetus opens that door sees Heracles and then looks back at the disguised Apollo like#'HIM?? HERACLES?? Heracles who can break me in seven pieces with a thought Heracles???'#And Apollo just gives him a thumbs up and says βfeed him well pookie <33β#Genuinely some of the funniest shit I have the pleasure of reading in greek myth#Another reason I don't think Apollo has any ill will against Heracles though is how Apollo reacts when Heracles#loses Hylas in the Argonautica#Or well some versions of the Argonautica - this is also a story that changes wildly depending on the source/compilation#But Apollo is incredibly sympathetic to Heracles' sorrow and kind of decides there and then that Heracles losing one love#should be the return of another and asks that Zeus let Heracles free Prometheus when he makes his descent into the underworld#Similarly it is Apollo who anoints Alcaeus/Alcides the name Heracles (also dependent on the myth source)#They just had a very fun relationship and it's a serious shame that it's not acknowledged more#apollo#heracles#greek mythology#(Also people do not talk about the fact that Apollo grappled with Heracles to a standstill enough actually)
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Do you have a group discord server? If others want to chill and interact with you. Just wondering
That aside just hoping youβre doing okay Blastic. Still, if youβre not your gotta a lot people care about you.
I look forward to seeing how the rest of the game goofs.
βgoofball anon
I don't and sadly I don't think I will make one. It would be fun to interact with people who enjoys my work and wants to chat with me but I just feel it would be too much work for me to handle a discord server. So at least for now I'm not planning to make one.
#and how I've been doing??#there been ups and downs#maybe bit better?? At least compared to what it was when this month started#I felt so numb for some reason#I just wanted to lie in bed and do nothing because nothing was making me happy. Not even drawing or playing games#I do still get these kind of days but it hasn't been that bad and I have got some amount motivation back to draw again at least#wanting to play games though still have been very low#but I'm taking small steps#I'm also sorry for not having much good news and that I've been so quiet nowadays#I just been struggling a lot what to say and anxiety isn't making things any easier#but I want to thank everyone who are still here hanging around and enjoying my work#even though I have these struggles I'm happy that you guys still want to support me<33 Thank you<33#not sure did I word these right but I tried my best#and I will also do my best not to give up and keep on going π±#ask#anon
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You should in fact infodump about poptropica, also have you considered doing a DCA Poptropica crossover to unite the interests together?
1) I love you so much dude I hope you're doing well 2) poptropica infodump would take AGES this thing has lore so I will spare you a ramble for now 3) I . HAVE NOT. BUT COULD YOU IMAGINE SUN AND MOON WITH THE BIG BOBBLE HEADS
no? because I can
oh my god they look so much more cursed than I expected I'm laughing my ass off
#guys new au? poptropica dca au anyone?#where they just look like this thats it#my art#dca fandom#sun fnaf#moon fnaf#also friend if you really DO want to hear a poptropica ramble#you have to ask about a specific island#because just dropping all of the lore is way too hard#like first decide if you want book lore or game lore#(thats right there is a book)#and then we go from there#i could tell you aaaaalll about my favorite island though#cryptids my beloved#harold mews ny beloved#OKAY OKAY BUT YEAH YOU GET THE POINT#i fr appreciate so much that you are always asking me to info dump about my interests though<33 i love you so much#just know this isn't me trying to avoid talking about it there's just SO MUCH to talk about its hard for me to focus!#but yes thank you again man <3 i love you hope you're doing well#we should chat again sometime#ask#poptropica
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Hello. Has anyone mentioned that your fun, lovely cat is fun and lovely? Feels like it should be mentioned more often. Cute solo-pose!
"I wholeheartedly agree with this notion, kind stranger. As I continue my mission of documenting this path we forge- history in the making- I take utmost care in presenting my love as the wonderful woman that she is!"
#arsay nun#graharsay#no but thank you anon <33#literally thank you to anyone who loves arsay in any capacity im always very touched that other people find something in a character-#- that I have poured so much of my love in to#wife guy graha strikes again hes so embarrassing!!! arsay loves it tho
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Zoro x Ikkaku Commission! β
#this was so much fun to work on#thank you so much again Anubis!! <33#commissions#ikkaku#one piece ikkaku#roronoa zoro#zoro one piece#one piece#one piece fanart#my art
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Before I continue to forget--I received this amazing art of Virana by @vhokken for my birthday!! It deserves to be shared and seen and added to my collection uwu Thank you again for such an awesome gift!!!! ;w;
#Senu Dialogue#Skyrim OC#Vigdis#Serana#Serana Volkihar#Virana Art#Gotta give it all the appropriate tags nyehehee <33 THANK YOU AGAIN I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
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β SHE LIKES TO BE TALL.
absolutely blessed to have recently gotten the opportunity to snag a commission for gaza slot from the always delightful to work with @derelictheretic and receive this absolutely precious and adorable piece of my tiny menace millie with her hot gith gf. i have not stopped smiling at millie on her tiptoes pouting that sheβs still shorter than laeβzel literally just sitting there.
i can never recommend working with dean highly enough and encourage anyone who can to get a commission for gaza from him while theyβre open. there are lots of available options for donation amount and campaigns to support! so please take this chance to treat yourself to some gorgeous art while helping provide some much needed humanitarian aid.
#thank you again so much for bringing them to life and doing these comms<33#you captured their vibes perfectly and lifted my spirits#oc: millie#laeβzel#otp: step from the shadows#commissions for gaza#commissions for palestine#arts and commissies
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Pretty pls draw Louis from wwoll, Iβm obsessed with his design to an unhealthy degree-
Yeah! I completely adore his outfit too. It was rather easy to come up with in his reference, and honestly making him and Justin was probably the easiest? I know it was just supposed to be those two but as any things I make it always seems to start with duo characters and then sprout into more.
#ibvs#asks for dev!#artyboidoesstuff#wwoll#wizarding world of louis lopez#art#artwork#louis lopez#isaac beamer versus the supernatural#thanks for this ask btw arty!#i want to do more witn drawing them but theres barely any ideas...#so heres lou doing magic!!#kind of?#anyways#i appreciate that you like this world cuz i didnt expect it to get as much love as it did#thanks again <33#also he probably has a spell in his book to get people to stay still#which he probably has to use on felix or jameson often.
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Year 4 of submitting art for the SiIvaGunner Art Gallery!! >:]
For the fourth time now, I can proudly present my entry for this years SiIvaGunner Birthday Gallery! I had to put up with a lot of obstacles this year, like starting in June when I normally always started in early May, my parents and my brother visiting during the exact time frame I wanted to work on this, a crippling addiction to playing Dragon Quest Monsters and many more.
But as you can see, I really locked in at the end and finished it exactly one day before the deadline (17th June).
Now to explain my vision for this piece: I'll have to admit, since starting my new job in February, I didn't have any time to keep up with the loads of SiIvaGunner rips that are uploaded each day, since I always listened to them at my old workplace while I took care of my mountains of scientific journals. At my new job, I don't have anything to do with journals anymore. I mostly talk to students at the counter all day. Can't really listen to YouTube videos when someone wants something from you every minute. I also do a lot of things related to facility management in between (our library buildings are practically falling apart in some places...), so even when I'm not at the counter, I have way too much stuff to do to listen to rips. Sigh. Sometimes, I miss my old job.........
But I'll try my best to catch up some time in the future. At the very latest in September. My first vacation days in 7 months... Anyway, let's get back to the image at hand:
In the foreground, there's obviously my beloved dynamic duo of besties: Woodman and Nozomi. Woodman has been missing from the channel for 1 and a half years. Please bring him back. I miss my wife, Tails...
For this piece, my theme was centered around my favorite SiIvaGunner joke from the past few months (or has it been years?): The raft ride. I wanted something fun and summer-y, so I decided to put all the characters I drew in cute little sailor outfits. For Woodman, I just drew him in something simple that I thought of myself, which complimented and incorporated his usual armor.
Next we have Nozomi, who dons her outfit from ΞΌ's fifth single "Wonderful Rush". I had a few water themed outfits to chose from with her (and Honoka, for that matter), but I chose Wonderful Rush for Nozomi since it just fit with the aesthetic I was going for.
Next to those two is Coraline from the 3DS street pass game "Ultimate Angler", which is also prominently featured on the channel. For her outfit, I just modified her usual attire a little to fit in with the sailor vibe. I also turned her sun visor around because I could for the life of me not figure out how to draw it properly at this angle. Uhhh... I mean, I turned it around because I thought it looked cool.
I hope you can see that I had an absolute breakthrough in Gimp. I think I already talked about it on my Buck fanart, but I finally discovered layer modes. After 4 years of working with Gimp. Spectacular, I know. If you don't notice it here, you'll definitely notice it on the next image in queue for the robot master quest I have going on. I can already spoil you who it's gonna be this time: Tornadoman! I honestly couldn't believe what I was drawing. I think I was possessed by something for a few hours. It was honestly a little scary. But I think you'll see what I mean once you see the actual image, it's really different from the usual stuff I draw.
Getting back to the topic of this picture, let's talk about the background now. I decided to draw a little ship with lots of familiar faces making up the crew.
The ships captain is Honoka, who is standing on the very left of the deck. I took her outfit from ΞΌ's single "Heart to Heart!", which also fit into the aquatic theme quite nicely.
Right next to her, under a rainbow flag that's fluttering in the wind above them, is Aquaman. My beloved. Since I drew him into last years birthday gallery image, I decided to do the same this year. I also put a little starfish on his hat because I think it looked cute ;)
Standing epicly and mysteriously on the top of the boat is Meta Knight. I don't know if you can see it when it's zoomed out so far, but he's holding some kind of folded map in his right hand. Maybe they're looking for treasure??
And on the very right of the ship are Tito Dick and Robbie Rotten, reenacting that one famous scene from the Titanic movie.
After that, we shift our focus to the left of the image, where we can see Fluttershy flying over the island from Tomodachi Life.
And that's it for this image folks. I hope I'll finish my Mega Man Fully Charged art before the weekend ends, so stay tuned for that next! And after that, we're going right back to the robot master grind. ;)
Until then, this has been Jenny Pyjamakama, signing off. ;)
#i look forward to this day every year man#i love you john siivagunner you saved my life#siivagunner#woodman#nozomi tojo#honoka kousaka#aquaman#mega man aquaman#meta knight#ultimate angler#ultimate angler coraline#fluttershy#tito dick#robbie rotten#i think thats all???#i had so much fun again this year!!#thanks to everyone who contributes to these galleries every year!!!! <33
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squipemy art for @techdifficulties based on their designs !! thanks again !!!
#be more chill#jeremy heere#the squip#squip#squipemy#jeresquip#me doing art#<33#your designs are so so damn cool btw#sorry for my inability to draw chibis#i tried#hope this is okay !!!#thank you so much again for drawing my designs !!!#(i could draw them again btw if this isnt what you expected or anything)#(feel free to tell me ^^)
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*materializes into existence*
Hi :D
Resending cause Tumblr is mean.
Perhaps some expression 10 with Logan? A lil space-themed tie as an extra thing?
Anyway, have fun :D
HE ππ» DESERVES ππ»TO ππ» BE ππ» HAPPY
from this
#thank you so much for the ask!!!! <33#so sorry again for the whole mess :/#my art#drawing#art#sketch#sanders sides#sanders sides fanart#logan sanders#tss logan#logan sanders sides#logβs art
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hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??
-hogoflight
Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!
Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is KrΓΆnstrΓΆm's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.
"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculpturesβ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."
Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)
Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.
"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Γanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"
"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162β3)..."
Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.
"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot β a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphroditeβs power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."
The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!
#ginger rambles#ginger answers asks#Once again I do not care how it happens or who I have to pay#I don't even care how much research I have to do#All I care about is more unique portrayals of Hyacinthus#Literally that's it#I will go through every academic hoop to make that possible if that's what peeps need TRUST#No because there's a genuine conversation to be had about a Hyacinthus who is split between masculine and feminine qualities#Likewise there's a wonderful conversation to be had wrt Apollo's fluidity in terms of presentation and how it does not reflect on his gende#the way Dionysus' fluidity reflects on his#Apollo is ALWAYS masculine no matter his ornaments garments makeup or action#It doesn't matter that he has the prettiest curls or wears elaborate dresses for his kitharody and dances#or values the deep dyes of the lapis - Apollo is ALWAYS male and that cannot be concealed by any finery or garment#Aphrodite however is an ally in this measure because through her beauty bridges the gap between the mortal and the divine#And we see this constantly in the way mortal beauties are able to attract the eye of many gods and how glory and ultimately immortality#are gained from these things#After all even after their deaths or betrayals or tragedies#We still tell their stories and remember their names#And what is Apollo if not the one who recites all of these beautiful memories - what is Clio if not the one who records these histories#ANYWAY PLEASE DRAW FAT HYACINTHUS#PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE#I AM ON MY KNEES I AM BEGGING (no pressure seriously I'm being very lighthearted) BUT ALSO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEE#TOGETHER WE CAN KILL THE PATROCLES/HYAPOLLO VISUAL PARALLELS WE CAN DO IT I KNOW WE CAN#ANYTHING SO THAT XANTHIAN DEVIL ARISTOS ACHAION DOESN'T GET ANY MORE PARALLELS WITH APOLLO P L E A S E#This is of course entirely because of my own biases and such there's nothing objectively wrong with comparing and paralleling#Hyapollo and Patrocles - however and I cannot stress this enough#P l e a s e#Thank you for the ask <33 Always a pleasure to provide more relatively obscure references mmhm#Hope this helps!#oh almost forgot
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