#ledas as in ‘Leda’

[thequietabsolute]

on my walk earlier i had half an hour on a favoured bench in the sunshine and came across two incredibly moving love poems completely new to me. here’s a few lines from each 🌳

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Skin looked like this two hundred years ago

… winterlight

In their celestial altitude

The eighteenth-century stars.

… shape-shifting fire’s

Impatient nudity and ours

On the big bed.

… these Muscovian furs

Were linen until fire reshaped

Their transient destiny.

Hands dipped in light-and-shadow cast

Ledas and satyrs on the bedroom wall.

A candleflame’s a silent chatterbox

And cinematic book …

Among the gravestones, yews and cypresses

An Orphic night bird cries ‘Eurydice’ …

Love, touch my heart with who you are

And sleep, history, sleep.

— Love-making by Candlelight; Douglas Dunn. from Northlight. 1988.

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In the hollows of home

I find life, love and ground

And intimate welcome:

With you, and these, I’m bound

To history.

Touching your hair, holding your hand,

Your beauty blends with time and land,

And you are loveliness

In your green, country dress,

So fair this day.

— At Falkland Palace; Douglas Dunn. from Northlight. 1988.

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if you really liked these, i recommend the slim collection Elegies. some of the most breathtakingly beautiful poems you’ll ever read are in there. for a pre-buy sample see, off the top of my head, The Kaleidoscope, Transblucency*, The Butterfly House, and Attics (i’m missing so many good ones here; the whole collection is remarkable, and no one really knows about it: the quintessential hidden gem)

*hideous title i agree; will make you cry though

[redwolf17]

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

[foldingfittedsheets]

May I present: Leda and the Swan Princess! It's based on this post about a swan princess who refuses to go quietly in obscurity when cursed. (If you liked this one you will probably also like my other comics which you can find on my pinned post).

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[delsinsfire]

[about92bleachedrainbows]

Shadow of the Erdtree oodlies

[ryuuna]

love me a woman who can kick my ass

[headlessdog]

[buriedknight]

Miquella gifted Leda with gentle gold to bring a soft hue to her faded eyes.

[potatogirlll]

in light of recent events

[the-evil-clergyman]

Leda and the Swan by Franz Schrotzberg (1839)

[nevvyland]

[zeroshadows]

dlc squad

[animeglitch]

[esspurrr]

HERETICS. ALL.

[voidpumpkin]

honestly miquella being a completely good and chill dude would have made Leda's situation all the funnier, that woman is absolutely batshit

miquella: i wanna bring piece and love to the planet earth

Leda: shall I kill everyone and then myself my liege?

Miquella: wtf

[artmadval]

lost little lamb 💔