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Kiki Smith: 'Constellation' at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1996)

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'The Milky Way' (detail) by Frida Hansen, (1855 - 1931).

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upon learning that the upcoming Dracula movie is yet another Dracula/Mina romance, here is an incomplete list of things that would be more interesting in an adaptation than a Dracula/Mina romance:

A romance between Dracula and literally any other character

An origin story for the lady vampires

A feature length adaptation of the Demeter plot (yes, I know this exists already, it deserves more adaptations)

A Dracula origin story set at the Scholomance

Mina and Jonathan going into that "unknown and terrible land" together

Dracula deciding that, rather than just murdering people, he can offer sex in exchange for blood, and chooses to go to London to do this because the locals will not be receptive. He awkwardly tries to ask Jonathan about prostitution in London and Jonathan's proper gentleman sensibilities are affronted

Dracula gets committed to Seward's asylum, somehow

Dracula gets stuck in wolf form and gets adopted by one of the protagonists

Dracula and his ladies go to Van Helsing, expert on the occult that he is, to ask for help trying to conceive

The Crew of Light try to imprison Dracula rather than destroy him, theorizing that, if they can find a way to cure him, everyone he's turned will be cured

Dracula's sexy immortal vampire harem kicking him out of his own castle because they're sick of his shit

Dracula and Van Helsing as bitter exes

The solicitor who gets sent to Dracula is now Gabriel John Utterson, hoping for a nice relaxing vacation after all the Dr. Jekyll business

Sherlock Holmes, somehow

Dracula marries Mrs. Westenra

Dracula is in the Wild West and gets attacked by vampire hunting cowboys

Dracula being so creeped out by Renfield's obsession and vows of servitude that he flees to another country (to which Renfield follows him)

Oscar Wilde fucks Dracula

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Steam key art I was commissioned for the game "METAMORPHOSIS" by Luxan!

Check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3470140/METAMORPHOSIS/

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might fuck around and let nature reclaim me

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“I’m also comfortably asocial.”

— Octavia E. Butler (b. 22 June 1947)

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Deborah Grice

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anne carson asks antigone, “your name in greek means something like ‘against birth’ or ‘instead of being born’/ what is there instead of being born?” and i think she means dying, in the sense that that antigone is born to die and that her birth is no real birth at all

but really more than “instead of being born,” ‘antigone,’ ἀντί-γονή, means “instead of children,” “in place of the next generation,” and she says it herself, she laments that she goes to her grave having never known marriage or motherhood– 

καὶ νῦν ἄγει με διὰ χερῶν οὕτω λαβὼν ἄλεκτρον, ἀνυμέναιον, οὔτε του γάμου μέρος λαχοῦσαν οὔτε παιδείου τροφῆς and now he is taking me by the hands and leading me away, unwedded, unbedded, allotted no share of marriage and the raising of children

but she also says that she would not have done what she did for polynices if it had been for a child because she could bear more children but a brother gone is irreplaceable–

οὐ γάρ ποτ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἄν, εἰ τέκνων μήτηρ ἔφυν οὔτ᾽ εἰ πόσις μοι κατθανὼν ἐτήκετο βίᾳ πολιτῶν τόνδ᾽ ἂν ᾐρόμην πόνον. τίνος νόμου δὴ ταῦτα πρὸς χάριν λέγω; πόσις μὲν ἄν μοι κατθανόντος ἄλλος ἦν, καὶ παῖς ἀπ᾽ ἄλλου φωτός, εἰ τοῦδ᾽ ἤμπλακον μητρὸς δ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς κεκευθότοιν οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἀδελφὸς ὅστις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ no not ever, not if i were the mother of children, not if it were my husband lying dead, i would not bear this burden against the will of the people. what law do i say these things to fulfill, you ask? if my husband died, i would have another, and a child from another man, if i lost this one, but since both my mother and father are dead and in the house of hades, no other brother of mine can ever grow back

she chooses a brother instead of children, the burial of the generation past in place of the bearing of the generation to come

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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After the Storm.

 Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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Paolo Sebastian

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‘The Mermaid’ by Howard Pyle, c. 1910.

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instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse

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i need the next big trojan war/iliad thing they make to have a terrifying hector. Like I want him to come on screen and really look like he will tear you and all your buddies to pieces and will continue doing that for years. It's shown again and again in the iliad how much the achaeans fear him. I want him to get completely feral with bloodlust. And then the scene with Andromache becomes that much more intense because he's still covered with gore but he takes off his helmet and now he's in love and he's a dad and you notice he's like barely 30 years old and he laughs and plays with his kid and then he leaves to go have the duel with ajax and andromache and scamandrius have blood smeared all over them from where he touched them

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after storm

watercolor, gouache

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