#The Queen of the Hives

[toasted-raccoon]

daughter of three queens

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Hollow Knight memes: Hornet edition

Bonus: something I doodled while being stressed about schoolwork

[i-lavabean]

Raj deserved a Hades art style

[askloyaltywings]

Has this been done yet? i went looking for trans Oryx postings and couldn't find it so i MADE IT

And had a lot of fun making it... i wonder if people would like it if i made stickers...

[ninoxwof]

Turtle the Seawing

[Image Description: A digital drawing of the seawing character from wings of fire, Turtle. He's an emerald green seawing dragon. He has a light red neck that transitions into a desaturated green underbelly. Down his neck to his tail, he has a darker greenish blue color, he also has blocky spots on his beak forehead and near his eye of that same color, that resembles markings of that of a turtle's. His bioluminescent scales and coral stalk like horns are a light green offwhite. His fins are kelp and seaweed like, with a blue color and he has a stalk on his head with an esca. Wrapped around his neck is a zippered pouch bag in the shape of a turtle shell. On his left wrist, he has a bracelet that has three skyfires in it, while the rest of the slots on the bracelet hold nothing. On his wings, he has a wave like bioluminescent marking to show he is of seawing royalty. He has worrying blue green eyes with a little bit of yellow in them, and his upper eye lids are showing. He is sitting down looking anxiously with one arm raised slightly off the ground. /.End ID.]

[jorrated]

YIPEE-DEE-DOO.... They should do EXIT but with the chaotix

[janeissx0x]

It girls in leopard print 🐆

[gingermintpepper]

Okay, let's finally talk about EPIC's Apollo

I feel very compelled to say, first of all, that I do not dislike Epic. In fact, I am very fond of Epic and have been following its production and status very eagerly! I attend all the launch streams, I watch all of Herrans' update videos; I am, at the end of the day, a fan and I want it to be known that my words are spoken out of love and passion as much as they are spoken from a place of critique.

So really, what my problem with Epic's Apollo?

In the briefest possible terms; the choice to have Apollo be defined by his musical aspect in God Games is thematically strange. And not in the 'oh well in the Odyssey, Apollo was important to Odysseus and his family so it's weird that that wasn't kept in Epic' strange, strange in the sense that Odysseus' character arc since My Goodbye has been getting more and more obviously Apollonian and so it is positively bizarre that when we get to meet Apollo, the god seems entirely disinterested in him and his affairs. So much so that he is not even defined by any station that would indicate that he has been watching over and protecting Odysseus and his family.

What do I mean by 'Odysseus has been following an Apollonian arc'? I'm so glad you asked!

Remember Them is the last song in which Odysseus explicitly uses his sword until Mutiny where he must use it to defend himself against Eurylochus' blade. He uses it to help enact the plan to conquer Polyphemus and, due to Polites dying in that battle, Polites who wished for Odysseus to put the blade down entirely and embrace a post-war life, Odysseus also retires his sword. This is an action that symbolically separates him from Athena - and the image of Odysseus as a traditional warrior set for him in Horse and Infant - as much as My Goodbye physically separates him from the goddess and her war-ways - from this point onwards, Odysseus will no longer be leaning on Athena's wisdom or methods to solve his problems. Likewise, he will no longer be able to rely on her protection.

Odysseus thusly solves most of his upcoming problems through diplomacy and avoidance. He approaches Aeolus - a strange and ambiguous god (both in gender and in motivation) and appeals to them for help. Circe too, he approaches not with wishes to conquer or for revenge, but for the safe returning of his men and an alternate way forward. In all of these scenarios, there is some Apollonian element which is subtly interweaved alongside the influence of other gods; it is with a bow and arrows that Polyphemus' sheep is slain (and thus it is this Apollonian element which is at the root of Odysseus' spat with Poseidon), it is a vision of Penelope that warns Odysseus that his men are about to open Aeolus' wind-bag, Circe's peace offering to Odysseus is to refer him to a prophet of Apollo who has since died.

In this way, Apollo is walking alongside Odysseus for all of his journey after Athena departs - even in the Underworld, he is guiding him. It is Tiresias' proclamation that is the last straw for Odysseus, it is by the power of a mouthpiece of Apollo that Odysseus decides to embrace his ruthlessness. It is with the bow and arrow that Odysseus subdues the siren who sought to trick him, likewise, Odysseus does not attempt to undermine or escape the fate of paying Scylla's passage price - he knows of the doom about to befall the six men and quite unlike the rest of the journey until this point, he does not fight against it. This all comes to a head on Thrinacia where it is a blade which sacrifices the sun god's cow and brings destruction upon the crew once more.

My point with all of this is that when I heard the teasers for God Games years ago, it made perfect sense to me that Apollo would be Round One - he is not Odysseus' adversary and has no reason to oppose Athena's wish to free him. From other teasers about what will happen in the climax of Epic, Apollo will still be walking alongside Odysseus - it is Apollo's bow that Penelope will give the suitors to string. Likewise, it is Apollo's bow that will prove Odysseus' legitimacy and identity. That bow will be the power by which Odysseus hunts his adversaries and cleans out his palace - it is Apollo who is the avatar of Odysseus' ruthlessness, not Athena.

So tell me, truly, what was the point of having Apollo raise a non-argument in God Games? Why have him appear unconcerned, aloof and slightly oblivious? Why have him appear in his capacity as the Lord of Music at all?? And if the intention was never to make Apollo an active player in Odysseus' life like he was in the Odyssey, why keep Odysseus as a primary archer?

The answer of course is that Apollo is inextricable from the fabric of the Odyssey - his influence and favour exudes from Odysseus just as much as Athena's. In Athena's ten year sulk, it would have been Apollo who kept Telemachus and Penelope safe. It would have been Apollo protecting Odysseus from Poseidon's gaze as he travelled the seas (according to the Odyssey anyway)

Forgive me for not being excited about something that I thought was being purposefully set up. I was extremely ecstatic about all of the little Apollonian details that litter the sagas because I know where this story ends up (loosely) but all God Games did was reveal that maybe those Apollonian details were not intentional at all, but merely the ghost of the Apollo who persistently haunts those he favours, even if he cannot explicitly come to their aide in an adaptation.

[bucksboobs]

The 118 when an apiarist tells them the easiest way to control where a bee swarm goes:

[gaurdibuja]

The witch queen campaign was absolutely amazing, don't you think? I wanted more about savathûn, but well things didn't end up well between us :/

Hope you at least enjoy this drawing I made! Thank you so much for your support!

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[sun-singer]

Inktober day 22: bargain, featuring Oryx, Savathûn, Xivu Arath, and the worms.

“Take into your bodies our children, our newborn larvae. From them you shall obtain eternal life. From them you shall gain power over your own fragile flesh: the power to make of it as you will. And should you find an imperfection in the world, an injustice or an inconvenience — you will have the power to repair it. Let no mere law bind you.”

[lavenderarts]

Every step taken, every bullet fired, every thought whispered... I keep and count them all.

[i-lavabean]

Beauty and the Bees

[nynehells]

The Endling

Had a lot of feels about Savathun & Riven during the Season of the Wish, a queen pulling strings while working with the (formerly) last ahamkara.

[ninoxwof]

Moonwatcher the Nightwing

[Image Description: A digital full body of a Nightwing dragon from Wings of Fire named Moonwatcher. She is a deep forest green with a minty colored underbelly. She has a dorsal stripe and mask marking that extends all the way from her head through her wings and body to her tail that's colored a lighter green than her base color. The starry white spots on her body are like the phases of the moon, and she has a crescent moon marking both on her forehead and her chest. She has two sets of tear drop markings under her eyes to signify her mindreading and foresight powers. The webbing on her wings are a gradient green night sky during the very early hours of morning. Her white horns also curve downwards like a ram in the shape of a crescent. She has a white bat like nose, crescent eyebrows and claws, and dark tired upper eyelids. She is standing with a worried apprehensive expression. /.End ID]

[kaiserouo]

Every hunter loves Cayde.

By "every hunter" I mean literally every single hunter.