#lesbo elysium

[kindgreenape]

i get that he was probably just agitated with klaasje at this point but he went really went straight in for the kill here. kim put aside his discomfort with matters of the heart to go up to bat for lesbians

[spunchthegoblin]

Literally the greatest fanfiction I've ever read bro this is a full length novel and I've read it twice now. Besides some minor nitpicks this is the closest thing to a disco elysium sequel I think I'll ever see. It adds so much to the world of elysium while still keeping it completely within the original games setting, the author literally comes up with original elysium-y terms and events for every little thing. Like "oh the term 'lesbian' wouldn't exist in elysium because the island of lesbos doesn't exist so I'm gonna make up a communist lesbian named 'violetta' who was executed by the coalition and now all lesbians on the isola call themselves 'violets' after her" WHAT

[falinscloaca]

finding out (very light) spoilers about the [Big Game] and feeling weird as I fucking always do when that happens

[arbiterofdepravity-blog]

After Sappho fragments 94 and 96

"I truly wish that I were dead."

Weeping as she left me - again and again she said, "oh, oh how we have suffered Sappho, I don't want to leave you, I don't go willingly"

and so, I said, "go, be happy, remember me - you know how much I adored you, if not, I want you to know, I want you to remember, all that we did, all the good times:

the garlands we wove, after you spent too long on Pinterest, ogling girls in flowing dresses, delicate latter-day nymphs festooned with flowers, floating in some pastoral Elysium you knew was the park around the corner - the way they fell apart in your hands, the way you fell into my arms, the gales of giggles, petals working themselves loose, entangling themselves in your hair, as I followed with my hand brushed them free, settling in the grass gems of yellow and red forgotten as you tackled me to the ground

the perfume you doused yourself in, abusing the free-sample table, sneaking another squirt as Yves-Pierre, the cosmetician from Colorado, fake accent and clouds of cologne, attended to a mink-clad matron, how I backed you into a corner, drew you to me, inhaled the sweet, cloying scent, forbade you from buying it

the dances we danced together, or I danced, as you glared into your gin & tonic resented the four on the floor pounding of last decade's greatest hits, the press of bodies around you, you snuck me out for a cigarette, kissed me with smoky lips, stole me away into the night, mist settling on the streets, listless trickle of rain, teenagers yowling

and on soft beds, posturepedic, your first real adult purchase, you said, you pushed me back, you damned every consequence yet to come

and I want you to remember, when you smile, there's a glow like the full moon as it battles with city lights, glint dances over metal and glass, cars on the bypass and lawyers' condos -

smile, and she will be yours, and Sappho of Lesbos the ghost of a memory."

she wept, and the tinny voice through speakers distantly hissed out final boarding call as dregs of long-forgotten coffee clung cold to the bottom of her Starbucks cup, crushed tight in one hand, the other on mine, tracing fingers callused by the lyre, detritus of travel, unfilled departure card crumpled.

[arthisour-blog]

Sappho and Alcaeus Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1881 From the collection of The Walters Art Museum In 1870, the Dutch-born, Belgian-trained artist Alma-Tadema moved to London, where he found a ready market among the wealthy middle classes for paintings re-creating scenes of domestic life in imperial Roman times. In this work, however, he turns to early Greece to illustrate a passage by the ancient Greek poet Hermesianax (active ca. 330 BC) preserved in Atheneaus, Deipnosophistae, “Banquet of the Learned,” book 2, line 598. On the island of Lesbos (Mytilene), in the late 7th century BC, Sappho and her companions listen rapturously as the poet Alcaeus plays a “kithara.” Striving for verisimilitude, Alma-Tadema copied the marble seating of the Theater of Dionysos in Athens, although he substituted the names of members of Sappho’s sorority for those of the officials incised on the Athenian prototype. Details Title: Sappho and Alcaeus Date Created: 1881 Physical Dimensions: w122 x h104.1402 cm Type: oil paintings; panel paintings Rights: Acquired by William T. Walters, after 1881, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ External Link: The Walters Art Museum http://art.thewalters.org/detail/10245 Medium: oil on panel Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore, after 1881, by purchase [Deschamps as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest. Inscriptions: [Signature] Lower right: L. Alma Tadema; [Inscription] Lower right: Op CCXXII ExhibitionHistory: Victorian Painting. The Fine Arts Society, London. 1977; Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, AJ Amsterdam; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinatti; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis. 1991-1992; Victorians: British Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1997; A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte. 2002-2004; Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford. 2007 Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., O.M.

The Walters Art Museum Baltimore, United States

The Walters Art Museum is one of only a few museums in the world to present a panorama of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early 20th century. The thousands of treasures range from mummies to arms and armor, from old master paintings to Art Nouveau jewelry. The Walters’ Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ethiopian and Western Medieval art collections are among the finest in the nation, as are the museum’s holdings of Renaissance and Asian art and a spectacular reserve of illuminated manuscripts and rare books. Every major trend in French painting during the 19th century is represented in the collection.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema Jan 8, 1836 – Jun 25, 1912

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Frisian painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.

Sappho and Alcaeus Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1881 was originally published on HiSoUR Art Collection