#genesius

[the-lunar-library]

TO THE RAVENS

All of the character portraits together -- all of the major-ish characters. I'm really pleased with how this series came out, and it's so nice seeing them all collected like this.

Akantha / Alexandros / Genesius

Kokkonas / Tanais / Buca

Brixia / Karyai / Pas

Lykedon / Galana

[francisplaysffxiv]

More old scribbles and prompts

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Genesius of Rome

3rd century

Feast Day August 25

Patronage: actors, comedians, dancers, musicians

Saint Genesius of Rome’s life story comes from Christian tradition and is affirmed in “The Acts of the Martyrs.” Genesius wrote and acted in a play mocking Christianity to please the emperor Diocletian. He rehearsed for the role by studying Christianity. During the play, God’s grace overcame him and he had an instantaneous conversion while reciting the act of faith. (the Apostles Creed) So instead of mocking the faith, he gave testimony affirming it. Diocletian was enraged and sent Genesius to be tortured and then beheaded.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[the-gateway-to-madness]

haven't seen wish yet but Griselda Sastrawinata's concept art spawned my own concepts:

we were robbed of starboy. I think I shall call him Genesius (a latin name meaning "birth" or "origin", making it very appropriate for the intended story of Wish).

I shall transcribe the notes I made on him:

Energetic

Quite smart, but uninformed about Earth

Sensitive

Knows all about magic

Compassionate

Black-and-white worldview, or rather he simplifies everything (at first. Seeing nuance in things would be part of his arc)

Surprisingly mature

Emotions very pure and raw

Hair glows brighter with love, anger, jealousy, and happiness, and dims with sorrow, focus, surprise, worry, or boredom.

Perceptive

Quick-witted

Becomes more serious, and kind of an optimistic realist

Falls head-over-freaking-heels for Asha.

I'm just saying. The lyrics of At All Costs make a TON more sense as a love song (as y'all know) and it's like WILDLY more touching. "Leave you here, I don't wanna"- that's starboy telling Asha he doesn't want to leave her on Earth. And then in the demo, the lyrics go "I wanna/ Love you as one does", like he's talking about love as something he's figured out since arriving on Earth. It's supposed to be otherworldly boi sings to earth gorl. It just is. It's beautiful, I love it. And a romance arc would have been both a good homage to older Disney stories (there hasn't been a new, canon Disney romance in a decade) AND a good way to flesh out more emotional impact in the story, if Asha and Starboy had a deeper, more human emotional connection.

Anyway, this could still happen if lil Star were a companion to Genesius, and Genesius comes looking for Star on Earth just as Star, who was visiting, vanishes.

I'd love to see a plot where Genesius tells Asha that he can't make wishes of his own, but that if he could, he'd wish for her to become a star with him- *cough* keep your eye out for star asha design from me

[merrillapologist]

My special princess Cyrus, a Black Sea kraina koldun I’m playing in a Constantinople game 💙

[ID: A half-body digital sketch of Cyrus, a man in his 20s with light brown skin and mid-length curly black hair. He has bright blue eyes and faded scars across his nose and lip. Cyrus wears a blue tunic with a darker cloak atop it, which is patterned with gold diamond shapes. He wears golden jewelry adorned with pearls, and behind him is an abstract background mimicking the sea.]

[viamutationis]

XXI - The World

My contribution to the Gallery Noir discord server’s tarot project!! (up over on @vampemoqueen’s pinned, go take a look at the other cards!)

[ID: A digitally illustrated tarot card. In the foreground is a man with light brown skin and curly black hair. He wears gold jewelry and blue Byzantine-period robes patterned like the ocean. He is controlling a stream of water that flows behind him, and in the background is the ocean on a cloudy night. The card is painted with a blue/gold color palette.]

[raiyine]

Favorite Saint

Do you have a favorite saint? This post is about mine.

Catholics spend the first two days of November each year celebrating the dead. November 1st is All Saints Day (a holy day of obligation), dedicated to the saints of the Church – all those who have attained heaven. November 2nd is All Souls Day, dedicated to those who have died but not yet reached heaven. This morning on Facebook, a friend of mine asked his followers “Who is your favorite saint?”…

[sadclowncentral]

ngl I didn’t think people doing stuff with law could be this funny

this is my favourite ask i have ever gotten thank you king

[twinantithesis]

Little box of Christ

[catholic-saint-tournament]

For the folk saint bracket, i felt it was only fair for a tumblr poll to nominate Saint Genesius of Rome , the patron saint of clowns (and mimes and actors) - according to legends he was a roman actor in plays that mocked christianity and had a sudden conversion ON STAGE during a parody of a baptism.

all i'm saying is that Saint Paul's conversion story also would have been better with clown makeup on

Currently St Genesius and St Paul are tied for folk/traditional saints! They'll both need more votes if you want them in the folk/traditional bracket!

[the-lunar-library]

TO THE RAVENS

Genesius, a respected Roman soldier. Born in Carthage with Aithiopian roots, he's come to have many misgivings with his role in the imperial army, but he serves as a chance to gain full citizenship. Analytical, cautious, and agnostic, he knows Alexandros is no prophet. He wishes Akantha weren't caught up in Alexandros' plot – but it's the strength of those feelings that keeps him from stopping her.

Click through to learn more about the conflicted soldier with the nice smile.

Genesius was another character who came along very early in the process, though for the longest time he had no name. I wanted an outsider perspective on Alexandros' cult, and I think he's very important as a narrative counter-point to Alexandros; Genesius is someone who's skeptical without being condescending, who has a lot of humor while still being thoughtful and full of common-sense, who's proven himself fiercely on the field of battle, but who actually retreats from personal confrontation.

I also wanted a character who was somewhat based on Lucian himself, my historical source for the cult that inspired this novel. Now, Genesius isn't a point-by-point stand-in for Lucian – Lucian was Syrian, not Carthaginian-Aithiopian, and Lucian was (possibly) a government official under Rome rather than a soldier in its army. But at times I toyed with making Genesius a traveling rhetorician, as Lucian was. Like Lucian, Genesius was born in a Roman colony, attempted to make a go of things as a sculptor, and was sufficiently educated to have a great deal of Greek and Roman literature, as well as Greek rhetoric, at his fingertips. And, most tellingly, he's a religious skeptic with a strong sense of the absurd, though an agnostic rather than an atheist and altogether humbler about it than Lucian was. Fans of Lucian will also note a few more key similarities to Lucian as the novel progresses.

Genesius is interesting to me because he exists halfway in a number of spaces. As a soldier, he carries some Roman privileges and authority, but isn't yet a citizen. He has no choice but to remain enlisted despite having a debilitating injury to his right arm. His life isn't at all his own, but he has the freedom to come and go throughout the city, having the trust of some influential people without much direct power of his own. He realizes Alexandros is a fraud, but doesn't overtly oppose him, which increasingly becomes a point of conflict in his own heart.

For some reason, naming him was really difficult. I never considered naming him Lucian or any variant of it. I thought about using Nekas (Greek, “a heap of slain”) as a professional nickname for him, an appellation speaking to his fighting ability, but which he personally dislikes, but I decided against it. I liked Celsus as a name; Celsus the Epicurean (not the more famous Celsus) was another skeptic and a correspondent of Lucian's. In English, I hear it with a soft c, which I like, but in Latin it would either be a k or ch sound, which I didn't like so much. One name that hung on for a while in the notes, if not definitely decided upon in my own mind, was Zopyron. Which is a really dorky name. But it means “spark”, combing zoe (“life”) and pyr (“fire”), and I thought that was really neat. But he escaped that clunker of a name.

One day in frustration, I told my mom I was having difficulty naming the third most important character in the book. She has some grounding in Greek and Latin names, and she lightly tossed off “Genesius!” And there it was, the shaft of celestial light, the singing of angels. It fit immediately. It's a good name. There's a lot of syllables, but they bounce rather than clunk. I pronounce it with a soft g, which probably isn't correct, but at this point I don't care. The only difficulty is making sure not to type Genesuis or Genesis.

Anyway, there's Genesius for you. I love him. I think he's a great character, and I always looked forward to his scenes.

[francisplaysffxiv]

Some very-old-not-rly-accurate-now misc doodles of friends and concepty things I drew that never made it here till now, oops

[the-gateway-to-madness]

Glad to be connecting with the corner of the fandom that's drawing starboy out of spite! I named him Genesius (Latin, meaning "birth" or "origin") and did some development of him.

Does Star guy have a name?

[the-gateway-to-madness]

starboy starboy

Full body ref of Genesius :3 his hair should be fluffier but whatever lol

[darquitectura]

Marcel Leborgne. Villa Dirickz (Sint-Genesius-Rode, Bélgica; 1929-1933)

[roleslaying]

My fashion designer high elf bard ✨Genesius✨

Finally doing my own picrew game!!!!

Tagging mutuals but anyone please join in and have fun!! @turkeydinner-jpeg @i-love-hyacinths @chaotic-newt @uncle-chambo @resident-demonic-pagan