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Sketching Liber-Bacchus. I've read that He enjoys flowers, so added flower garland.

«But dainty Bacchus does not blush to sprinkle with perfume his flowing locks, nor in his soft hand to brandish the slender thrysus, when with mincing gait he trails his robe gay with barbaric gold» — Seneca, Hercules Furens

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Dionysus and Ariadne on a rock with a panther.  Terracotta figurine from the Anatolian polis of Myrina, artist unknown; 2nd half of 1st cent. BCE.  Now in the Louvre.  

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LETS GET MISCHIEVOUS AND POLYAMOROUS!!!!

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City Dionysia is in 2 days, and I can't wait oh gods

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the thing about Dionysus is that he will reach down elbow-deep into your heart and pull out things you didn't even realize had been buried there

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died and came back right. there was definitely something wrong with me before? resurrection fixed me i think

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if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

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"The god of ecstasy and terror, of wildness and of the most blessed deliverance— the mad god whose appearance, sends mankind into madness—gives notice already, in his conception and birth, of his mysterious and paradoxical nature."

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Happy international women’s day to all of my beautiful and powerful witches. Cause some chaos today 💚

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You did not survive all the battles you've pushed through just to be brought down by this. You are far stronger than you feel in this moment. You've persevered through hell, you've walked up to the throne and borne the crown; you didn't go through all of that for a cackle of hyenas - mocking and poking you as you are not a dragon in the face of dogs - to ruin you. You cannot be ruined. You are a masterpiece - a work of art that depicts complex scenes of pain, joy, and perseverance. Push on, survivor. Push on like you know you can.

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The "Dionysian fresco,"

Dubbed the "house of Thiasos" by archaeologists, was unearthed from a banquet hall amid excavations to Insula 10 Regio IX in Pompeii.

All images courtesy Parco Archeologico di Pompei

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Good Morning!!

Dionysus digital offering/wallpaper i made (≧▽≦)

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Dionysus and Ariadne, based of their House of the Vettii fresco.

Been procrastinating on this piece bc I’m fasting and therefore always exhausted, so I’ll probably be talking a break till the end of Ramadan :)

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ayy, i'm back :D