#old narcissus

[easterndelights]

老ナルキソス Old Narcissus (2023) dir. Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi

[suzie-guru]

Despite the heavy rain in Grand Rapids, I took myself out and about and finally made it to where @hellenhighwater’s breathtaking and deeply moving work for ArtPrize, “Old Stories”, was being displayed.

It was thrilling to see all of this in person after watching their progression on @hellenhighwater’s tumblr. I kept wanting to grab others and go “Make sure to follow their tumblr! It’s a treasure trove!”

The pieces that moved me the most are incontestably the ones featuring the Minotaur - after Medusa, his story is the most tragic of the Greek Myths to me and these pieces made me ache for him even more. I fell in love with these statues through watching the progression of their creation, but seeing them in person? All I could think of is how badly he deserved to be rescued, saved from his imprisonment, his loneliness. It hit me like a gut punch.

Which is why I loved the third and final piece for his story so much. The original ending will always be told, but on the other end of the labyrinth, there’s a more hopeful, gentler ending where the walls crack and crumble, and Asterion steps out and away from his prison, gets to see the stars and feel the sun…

The piece I didn’t expect to move me so deeply was Narcissus.

As it says on the artist’s statement for the piece, in a mythos full of capricious gods, ravaging heroes, and half-human monsters, Narcissus’ only crime was being beautiful and solitary. How many girls have had to deal with the same persistence and accusations of coldness? Can’t he have the same protectiveness we give them? I never would have thought such things, but this work opened my mind. Thank you for that, @hellenhighwater.

Please, if you’re able to do so, come to Grand Rapids and see all of the works in person, especially @hellenhighwater’s! And vote for them!!!

Now, I’m off to write that story about Ariadne and Asterion being siblings that I always wanted to get around to…

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Echo and Narcissus’ (detail) by John William Waterhouse, c. 1903.

[impmansloot]

reading an article on narcissus and goldmund and thinking "this is way too focused on jungian archetypes and not queer enough. also not batshit crazy enough"

[steven-myself]

Art Deco - Wilfred Wong by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine

[rosquinn]

so this is basically demian nargold beneath the wheel and every shoujo yaoi hesse wrote right

[spocks-kaathyra]

BTW single most helpful reference image I've found for making my garak prosthetics

cannot remember where I found it but look! all of that detail on the noses! this video was also vry helpful for detailed looks at the sculpt

[cineemaa]

black narcissus (1947) directed by michael powell & emeric pressburger

"What would Christ have done?"

[easterndelights]

“We, Hayato Oki and Kyosuke Sato, vow to be life partners, in accordance with the ward's Partnership Oath. As life partners, we pledge to live together continuously, and cooperate in our daily lives.”

老ナルキソス Old Narcissus (2023) dir. Tokaibayashi Tsuyoshi

[outofthemouthsof]

I actually went to watch a regular show on HBO instead of BL tonight, but BL followed me lol. Sato’s brother on Tokyo Vice is played by Atom Mizuishi!

[chungianarchetype]

Black Narcissus (1947)

[bitter69uk]

Born 100 years ago today: Indian actor Sabu (Sabu Dastagir, 27 January 1924 – 2 December 1963). The doe-eyed and beauteous Sabu is particularly notable for being perhaps the sole Asian and Muslim major celebrity of Golden Age Hollywood. As with Chinese American star Anna May Wong in the twenties and thirties, the prejudiced dictates of the era limited the types of roles Sabu could play (in the Production Code there could be no hint of interracial romances depicted onscreen, for example) and he continued to portray “primitive” child-of-the-Islands stereotypes well into his thirties. (This is not meant as a diss on Sabu – he performed these parts with genuine aplomb and innate dignity). His most celebrated films include The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Jungle Book (1942) and Black Narcissus (1947) but perversely, my favourite is camp classic Cobra Woman (1944) starring "the Caribbean Cyclone" Maria Montez – perhaps because Sabu cavorts in little more than a loincloth throughout. Sadly, Sabu died aged just 39 of heart disease.

[spilladabalia]

11 BIZARRE Old Hollywood Movies That Still Shock Modern Audiences Today

[chaosciara]

latest update on my portrait of dorian gray collection

[todayisafridaynight]

I think people moved on from hijikata in ishin kiwami too fast like .. yeah it’s not dragon engine mine but it’s still him in hd/unreal i literally start giggling and kicking my feet in the air everytime i see him 😭 He’s genuinely so gorgeous like i don’t blame daigo for asking if he’s single as soon as he met him

personally its not that i've moved on from hijikata it's that for the benefit of society ive forced myself to stop looking at him lest i reblog my photo sets of him every single day with the same nonsensical tags that border on satisfying the requirements for hospitalization

[museandquill]

Love Staring at Old Art so Here's Some of my Favorite