MAY 2024 PROMPTS
Have fun! Take liberties! Be weird!
Playlist Inspo
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Deity Inspo
Zeus
Power, Oak tree, unfaithful
"Statistically, you've got better chances being struck by lightning"
Hera
Marriage, revenge, peacock
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
Poseidon
Ocean, earthquakes, horses
"stormy eyes"
Demeter
Wheat fields, middle child, poppy
"...moods that changed like the weather"
Apollo
Harp, medicine, prophesy
"...like they were the sun"
Artemis
Wilderness, moon, archery
"lets go lesbians, lets go!"
Ares
War, strength, hated
"Don't be a boar"
Athena
Wisdom, strategy, owl
"You're giving me a headache"
Hephaestus
Inventive, disability, overlooked
"...Like a volcano about to erupt"
Aphrodite
Pearls, swan, passion
"You know ___ is an aphrodisiac"
Hermes
Guide, messages, travel
"That's just an eloquent way of saying, 'fuck you.'"
Hestia
Home comforts, Eldest Daughter problems, gentle
"Sometimes a family is (insert found family here)"
Dionysus
Wine, celebration, mania
"I heard it though the grapevine..."
Nyx
Mysterious, rest, starlight
"Goodnight, My Love"
Hades
Rich, death, responsibility
"who's a good puppy?"
Quotes
"You wish to be considered righteous, but not to act with justice." (Eumenides)
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." (The Bacchae)
"Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?" (The Bacchae)
"I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature" (Antigone)
“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.” (Antigone)
“Have you ever been struck by a sudden desire for - soup?” (The Frogs)
Dionysus [doing everything wrong], "Like that?" (The Frogs)
“If you try to cure evil with evil, you will add more pain to your fate.” (Ajax)
“Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends, or a share in their grief?” (Ajax)
“I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.” (Electra)
"Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers” (Prometheus Bound)
“In childbirth grief begins.” (Medea)
"I'll take care of you."
"it's rotten work."
"Not to me. Not if it's you." (Euripides)
“Love, stealing with grace into the heart you wish to destroy, love, turning us blind with the bitter poison of desire, love come not my way. And when you whirl through the streets, wild steps to unchained rhythms, love, I pray you, brush not against me, love, I beg you, pass me by.” (The Love of the Nightingale)
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” (The Odyssey)
“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.” (The Odyssey)
FASHION INSPO
From Dolce & Gabbana
STORY INSPO
Many of these stories have different tellings and variations, embrace whichever version you most enjoy.
Echo and Narcissus (painting) (story)
Pandora's Box (painting) (story)
Arachne (painting) (story)
Hades and Persephone (painting) (story)
The Gorgon Medusa (painting) (story)
Cygnus (painting) (story)
Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur (painting) (story)
Daedalus and Icarus (painting) (story)
Eros and Psyche (sculpture) (story)
Orpheus and Euydice (painting) (story)
Myth of Sisyphus (painting) (story)
Cassandra (painting) (story)
The Fates (painting) (story)
Atlas (sculpture) (story)
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