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redraw of old minotaur drawing

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Some say half-woman Attis went mad shouting for lovely Cybebe in the mountains. Some drink the babbling water of bay-bearing Phoebus by the slopes of Claros and go mad and shout. I want to have my fill of Lyaeus and perfume and my girl and to go mad, I want to go mad.

Ps.Anacreon, Anacreontea 12, trans. David A. Campbell

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sure I could become a slut. but you see, I'm scared

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Jan Frans De Boever (1872–1949) - Phalène, 1915

watercolour, gouache, pencil and oil on paper

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Volker Hermes (German, 1972) - Hidden Couwenbergh (2020)

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descriptions of dionysos in the bakkhai (tr. anne carson) that make me lose my mind a little

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Leopard style

I honestly wish it was easier to get across in my art that I imagine Dionysos having very big cat like movements, but you can only do so much working with a still image. I hope art school helps me progress in that regard. But yes. Leopard in a tree. I even drew him with an actual leopard pelt instead of my weird panther one that looks like a mistake but actually isn’t this time haha

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By Ludo. In Paris, FranceV. AFRICA

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“Three Crow Girls Plot the Destruction of the World”

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i'm loving the whole "interrogate your disgust response" thing but i do think it bears saying that disgust isn't necessarily anathema to enjoyment of something and overcoming it isn't a necessary condition to being able to partake. sometimes the disgust is part of the fun.

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sorry for being indecisive, I haven’t had any prophetic dreams to guide me in a while

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There’s no actual evidence that Aphrodite was forced to marry Hephaestus, the whole “contest for Aphrodite’s hand in order to free Hera” thing is a weak modern theory that got popular for whatever reason. It’s actually was more narratively interesting that Aphrodite and Hephaestus agreed on an arranged marriage but it didn’t work out.

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Wine has been deified through history.

And by god is there a reason.

It smells of the death and rotting of the fruit of our labours yet feels of the most divine creation man can hope to take part of. The creation of life.

It tastes of madness and freedom. It fills your senses with not a desire for lust, but for intimacy. And that alone is beautiful. The broken are beautiful. The drunken are beautiful. The mad are the divine. Go on, children, and slaughter the fruits you have so carefully cultivated in your yards. Make into something to aid the cycle. Turn it into something that will bring you that much closer to your gods. Wine and honey is the recipe for ambrosia, dear children.

To be wine drunk is to be holy and by Dionysus’ name my body and mind are as divine as the earth herself tonight.

Amen, and may the mad be forever holy.