#cadmus sympathist: *heart-wrenching comic about his banishment and ultimate death never seeing his daughters again*
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unabashedly being a dionysian on main so if there's one ancient play i think everyone should read it is the Bacchae.
#the imagery#the gentle joy#the feral rage#the sadistic satisfaction#the gut-twisting knowledge of what is to come#the way pentheus is there to be pitied and scorned at once. pathetic man.#the sheer power and calm anger radiating off dionysos#if pentheus was invented today he'd be a tumblr pathetic sexyman#people would be frothing#dionysos/maenad apologists vs pentheus apologists CAN YOU IMAGINE#it would be fucking intolerable I'd THRIVE#cadmus & teiresias stans would be in the corner just drawing the grandpas in their deer skins#meanwhile a maenad lesbian fighting for her life against the pentheus apologists in the notes of her sexy blood-soaked agaue drawing#maenad lesbian: *sexy drawing of blood-soaked agaue after tearing pentheus to pieces*#someone else: *heart-wrenching comic of agaue realising she's just torn her son to pieces*#pentheus apologist: *heart-wrenching comic about pentheus realising his own mother is about to kill him*#cadmus sympathist: *heart-wrenching comic about his banishment and ultimate death never seeing his daughters again*
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