#mood stone

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[jonsawilldanceanon]

Lack of Morals ~ Lack of Vows

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

I'm glad to see that this dynamic hasn't changed. The way he just effortlessly ripped it off, too?

[upmala]

delicate angels of solemnity, 2023

[virtuallyinsane]

Passo delle Streghe - Witch Pass in San Marino by Joshua Kettle

[eversweetflowerpot]

mm. mount me?

[clownsuu]

Still feelin like dookie from yesterday but thankfully I’m a bit better now smhh, so take a human robbieeb

Obligatory robbieeb and colt smhhhh @thelone-copper

[bookwormbardbear]

have some shameless mcdanno touch shit.

i love that steve touches danny without thinking.

sometimes, it really feels like he does it because he realizes danny is there and he can, so why not?

danny has never shied from it. he seeks it himself.

my favourite example, though?

that damn couples trip. the dinner, with the ladies across from them and steve opts not to sit next to lynn, but next to danny.

where he proceeds to just hold his neck and pet under his ear.

while they talk to their partners.

and no one makes a thing of it, because this is the man who cuddles with danny to watch movies, and who can't have one conversation without ending it with an i love you.

sure. it's not that deep and a beautiful example of nontoxic masculinity.

but it is deep. because it's exactly that.

love.

he loves danny and danny loves him.

we know, because danny openly tells steve that.

even though it means something when he says it.

[ghostinghome]

someone has probably done this before

[silverfoxphil]

dip and pip

[blushedfemmes]

… :/

[chemical-tlas]

//smoking on the second pic

Original images:

he lives in my head rent free.....(12/20/23)

[hellish-cruelty]

Who are you callin' busted, buster?

Blade Runner 2049 (2017), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Hereditary (2018), The Darjeeling limited (2007), Chinatown (1974), Breaking Bad (2008 - 2013), Titane (2001), After Hours (2020), L.A. Confidential (1997), Brick (2005)

[royboyfanpage]

Shoutout to the page ever

[screechingfromthevoid]

Chetney: we both fell in love with royalty, orym

Orym, nat 2 deception check: chet what are you talking about? I'm not-

Chetney: we're going to be royalty, orym

Orym, getting redder by the minute: I'm really not-

Chetney: think of the wood in the feywild, the winds on the silken squall orym

[silverjirachi]

that scene in the second sonic movie where agent stone sadly stands in the coffee shop making eggman’s old coffee order while “dont know why” by norah jones plays in the background lives in my head rent free and did more for gay representation than anything else ever