#devote to my queen

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On my knees for you my Queen💚✨️

[whats-the-word-again]

Happy Theogamia! 🦚💍⚡️

To those who celebrate, I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with love! Just as all of Olympus did with King Zeus and Queen Hera’s 300 year wedding!

I couldn’t do much this year, but I did manage to make this quick drawing for the blessed rulers of Olympus and write a little hymn for this divine anniversary <3

Hymn for Theogamia

Rejoice in love of Hera! Rejoice in the love of Zeus! Rejoice in the love that their union created!

Blessed Hera Gamêlia, ruler of marriage, seek joy in your own domain on this day. From Hera Pais, the girl and the maiden; to Hera Nympheuomene, a betrothed bride!

Blessed Zeus Teleios, of marriage rites, know how joyous this celebration is! Blessed Zeus Xenios, of strangers and hospitality, may we all join hands and sing of this wonderful day together, feasting, laughing, and dancing with friends and strangers alike!

Oh, gracious rulers of Olympus, King Zeus who delights in thunder, and ox-eyed Queen Hera; join us mortals in celebrating your eternal union - giving love and plenty to us all!

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May I join?

My Queen requieres me☕️✨️

My love for her is immeasurable.

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[achyutapriya]

सिञ्जनूपुरशोभिपादकमलां मदस्मितोयन्मुखीं कञ्जाक्षीं कुचभारभीरुविलसन्मध्यां कणत्कङ्कणाम् ।

शंभ्वायैः परिसेवितां सुबसनां जाम्बूनदालंकृता- मम्बां तां प्रणतोऽस्मि कृष्णरमणीं लम्बालकां रुक्मिणीम् ।।

I salute that mother Rukmini, the most beloved consort of Lord Krishna, who has hanging forelocks & lotus- like feet that shine with the tinkling anklets. Her face is lit up with a gentle smile. Her eyes are lotus like & her lustrous waist is rather thin (or timid) due to the heaviness of the breasts. Her bangles tinkle in her arms. She is devoutly worshipped by all the gods with Brahma at their head. She is dressed in beautiful (auspicious) clothes & decorated with gold ornaments.

श्रीरुक्मिणीचरणारविन्दार्पणमस्तु

SHUBH RUKMINI ASHTAMI!!!!

Don't forget to wish her today! You could also offer her her favorite Rasgullas. Our beloved queen is said to have a sweet tooth (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶).ᐟ.ᐟ

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

Jia meeting Mothra for the first time is one of my favorite scene in the movie.

I can't wait!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

[ofthesunlight]

I have something to say about Athena that might be a little weird to hear.

Okay. Here we go:

Athena is a WONDERFUL goddess for mental health.

Now BEFORE YOU COME AT ME, hear me out. So many people say, "she's a logical, strategical goddess" and leave it at that. I have a bone to pick with this statement, because while y'all are technically right, she is SO. MUCH. MORE. THAN. THIS. She's a goddess of war, of protecting what you have, of boundaries, of self care and caring for others, of finding healthy ways to cope, of helpful advice. How can I say these things? What do these have to do with her? IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

Here are some of her epithets to help you understand:

Omvrimóthymos: strong of spirit (boundaries, healthy ways to cope)

Ormásteira: she who urges you forward (protecting what you have, self care/caring for others, boundaries again)

Polýllistos: sought with many prayers (healthy ways to cope again, helpful advice)

Polývoulos: of many wise counselings (helpful advice, self care/caring for others, boundaries)

Ima go more in depth about my point.

So in terms of protecting what you have and boundaries, these both have SO MUCH to do with war and strategy. You have to have a strategy when you set boundaries. You can't just be like "this is what I need and if you cant so that screw you." NOPE. Setting boundaries means "I would like you to do y for me, and if you don't, I'll do x". An example of this that I have done is, "I need you to leave me out of the family arguments. If you don't stop talking about it, I'm going to leave the room." I have done this MANY times with Athena's help, and IT WORKS. Boundaries help you protect yourself and what you love. BAM.

When it comes to healthy coping, self care, and caring for others: during war, you HAVE to be caring to yourself and your comrades. You have to be a team, otherwise things go to shit. You have to communicate. You're already going to be traumatized; caring for yourself helps so much. While most of us aren't fighting in literal war, mental health is a war in itself. Athena can and will help you care about yourself during your battles!!!!! Along with this, you need to use coping skills, especially when needing to ground. What do you need when you're grounding? LOGIC. You can't be in la la land and be grounded. What do you also need? Coping skills! Coping skills ARE your ways of being logical!!!!!

Now, the advice thing. She is literally OF MANY WISE COUNSELINGS. People went to her when they needed help. Advice. SO SHE WILL GIVE YOU ADVICE OVER YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WHEN YOU NEED IT.

Okay I think that's all I have to say. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

[nineteenhappyhungrydarkdragons]

A queen and her devotee

More people should read hooky end of essay.

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

The Water Bearer, watercolor ink and gouache. Royally screwed up the hand and pitcher the first time, so I taped some spare paper over the mistake and redid it. Not the most elegant solution but I wanted a piece I was happy with.

Indigo veiled Dame

Snakes, around your moon-pale arms entwine

Starlight, gleams in your eyes

Exalted, you stand above the well

In deepest darkness and highest heavens to dwell

[parlerenfleurs]

I think what needs to happen for female characters and f/f ships is the female characters need to be more emotionally constipated. They MUST have some hard edge in there of resistance to produce the vitamin of Compelling.

It's fun if they're more unhinged, sure, but it's not just unhinged characters that are interesting and loveable. Kind characters, weird quiet characters, dignified characters, cold characters, gruff ones, it's good to have variety.

But what makes a character compelling a lot of the time? When they take a weird stance on something. A place of stubborn. An integrity of attitude. A mask they're wearing, an emotion they're sublimating. They're holding something back, they have a measure of composure, they are, in a word, emotionally constipated. Not necessarily too much! Just enough so that they have some depth! That the hidden part of two characters can collide and spark some damn chemistry!

It's the same rule as for eroticism, it is created by the juxtaposition of the hidden and the revealed.

Why do we love villains and toxic ships? They're not bland. They have that rule of erotic thing going on, emotionally. Now it's possible to not be bland at all without villainery or toxicity, but for some reason when it comes to female characters, it trips back into blandness a lot of the time. Gruffness or coldness becomes plain harshness. Vulnerability becomes boring weakness. Put two such women together and the bland collides into the bland and only brave souls with very active imaginations manage to salvage some Compelling from this. I'm afraid it's often entirely absent from the source material, though.

[amemoryofwot]

Omg this idk what you call it marriage/consort scene??? Hello???? Although the two things I know about this book is 1) she gets a brain injury and 2) she fucks everyone over so my sense of glee is matched only by my sense of trepidation

[quortknee]

some more portrait doodles of my tavs (i have a few too many)

[previous tav art post]

[theironqueenofhell]

Persephone Reclines

On a fallen tree trunk you recline,

hair unbound and sun shining on your face.

A smile graces your lips,

which are covered in pomegranate juice.

You hold the fruit in your right hand,

your left cradling the back of your head

all casual and calm.

The nectar of the pomegranate drips

from your mouth as you munch,

having bitten through the skin in a savage way.

With a red blotched face and damp hands,

the manner that you indulge would be considered

reckless and unkempt in the eyes of mortals.

You rip through the flesh of the fruit greedily,

spitting out what can’t be eaten.

Greedy behavior to some,

but you have just returned from a land

barren of natures gifts-

you have the right to be as greedy as you please,

smiling through crimson stained teeth.

Welcome back, Mother Persephone. We’ve missed You :)

[moe-broey]

Alfonse King of Minding His Own Business. Kiran Monarch of I WANNA BE A FURRY I WANNA BE A FURRY I WANNA BE A FURRY SOOOOOOOOOO FUCKING BAAAAAADDDDDD

Kiran drop your fursona NOW‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

— J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

[moghedien]

actually Minthara and the durge I just made could potentially have the weirdest dynamic ever because it’s like

Minthara: served Lolth -> converted to the absolute -> became an atheist trying to get me to serve Bhaal

My durge: served Bhaal -> created the absolute -> became a Lolth worshipper

Honestly it almost makes me wish I was gonna romance her with this character