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So beautiful! 🦇💙🌸

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📖: 𝑨𝒏 𝑶𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏 (𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒔 #3) 👠🛋

✍🏽: 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐧

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hello Az here

anyway, I was overcome with the sudden urge of drawing Az working his dayjob. a bit of spying here, a little torturing there, he's actually pretty mean

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Lore Olympus Hades 🖤 Much as I’m fond of the purple version, I decided it doesn’t totally look finished, so I added a final, more contrasty version in blue (which is still not quite the right hue – it’s green-blue rather than true blue – but I like how it looks with the red side lighting!)

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Ummm byee

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thinking about charlie bowater’s rhysand portrait art rn like u literally cannot top that it’s impossible

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I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.

Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?

And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?

Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?

Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.

So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.

Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)

Here’s a link to another book that talks about Persephone’s rise to power as a result of her willingly eating the pomegranate seeds.

Oh shit!!

Here’s a whole bunch of myths and hymns that talk about her Queen of the Underworld badassery!!

Holy pug tacos Batman!!

Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!

All these fucking books!  What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?

A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?

Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.

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#intelectuals

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i made another thing

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Zuko 🔥

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TOP 5 MALE CHARACTERS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS               ↳ #3 Rhysand

No wings. No weapons. No sign of the warrior. Nothing but the cruel, elegant High Lord the world believed him to be. His hands were in his pockets, his black tunic seeming to gobble up the light. And on his head sat a crown of stars.      No sign of the male who had been drinking on the roof; no sign of the fallen prince kneeling on his bed. The full impact of him threatened to sweep me away.      Here - Here was the most powerful High Lord ever born.      The face of dreams and nightmares.

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Your bitch, my good sir

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Yo SJM

I love you but can we try not to potentially kill feysand in the next book. I really think they need a break 😂

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we seriously need to bring back the concept of “despite its flaws i still enjoy it” instead of ‘cancelling’ every fuckin thing in sight 

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Why did “be critical of your media” turn into “find all its flaws and hate it” why did people become allergic to FUN