#psyche and eros

[afterblossom]

Back and Front endpaper I did for Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara, featuring in ToBeeRead May book box.\

[sajanrai]

Unbelievably cool commission request from Chelsea: Psyche sees Cupid for the first time

[thefatalflesh]

tattoos and the original art.

[reallysngss]

Psyche and Eros are central characters in Ancient Greek mythology. Psyche is symbolized as beauty and the human soul, while Eros is known as the god of love and passion. The story typically begins with Psyche being subjected to the jealousy of Aphrodite due to her beauty, and Eros falling in love with her. Eros defies the laws of the gods by secretly loving Psyche and visiting her at night. However, one day Psyche becomes curious about his true identity and, upon lighting a lamp, becomes enchanted when she sees Eros' face. This event leads to Eros fleeing and Psyche embarking on a quest to find him. Eventually, with the intervention of Zeus, Psyche and Eros are reunited, and Psyche is elevated to the status of an immortal goddess. This story explores themes such as the power of love, jealousy, and the human spiritual journey.

Psyche ve Eros, Antik Yunan mitolojisinde önemli bir hikayenin ana karakterleridir. Psyche, güzellik ve insan ruhu sembolü olarak tanımlanır. Eros ise aşkın ve tutkunun tanrısı olarak bilinir. Hikaye, genellikle Psyche'nin güzelliği nedeniyle Afrodit'in kıskançlığına maruz kalması ve Eros'un ona aşık olmasıyla başlar. Eros, Psyche'yi gizlice sevdiği için tanrıların yasaklarına karşı gelir ve onu görmek için geceleri gelir. Ancak, bir gün Psyche onun gerçek kimliğini öğrenmek ister ve bir lamba yakar, Eros'un yüzünü gördüğünde ise ona büyülenir. Bu olay, Eros'un kaçmasına ve Psyche'nin onu bulmak için uzun bir yolculuğa çıkmasına neden olur. Sonunda, Zeus'un müdahalesiyle Psyche ve Eros tekrar bir araya gelir ve Psyche ölümsüz tanrıça statüsüne yükseltilir. Bu hikaye, aşkın gücü, kıskançlık ve insanın ruhsal yolculuğu gibi temaları ele alır.

[volddraws]

Classicstober day 21: Psyche🏹🦋

From the moment atop the mountain, dressed in bridal garb, awaiting the monster her father has decided to marry her off to. Also the moment Eros lays his eyes on her and instantly falls in love💘

[aimportantdragoncollector]

Any combo of trio holders + "Eros + Psyche" for the ask game?

Ah a beloved myth I haven't done before! Let's make this one duoholders. Also, Yoichi is going to be Eros because All for One makes a great vain, controlling parental figure. Even though Second is not going to be happy about the Psyche role.

1. All for One is the god of love, which means he thinks all love should be directed at him and only him. Yoichi is All for One's long-suffering little brother and cupid, trying his best to fulfill the duties of the job and make people happy because his big brother does nothing except stare at the mirror all day. Out of jealousy, All for One lied to Yoichi that looking at his face will turn people into stone and forced his little brother to cover up his beautiful face with a heavy iron mask.

2. Second's older brother is a powerful king who one day caught a glimpse of Yoichi flying above and, solely on based on his hair, declared him to be the most beautiful person in the world. (Silly All for One, forgot to cover the perfect hair TM.) All for One, summoned by any threat to his vanity, appeared in a shower of angry sparks. Second's brother quickly made up a lie that he'd been talking about his own little brother. Now, Second is notoriously considered the ugliest prince in this AU. He has a giant scar across his face, he scowls constantly, he's short, and he has a bird's nest of spiky hair. Overall he does not fit the beauty standard of his society. Second's brother hoped that All for One would laugh at someone so ugly being compared to him and then feel no need to take revenge.

3. Alas, All for One has zero chill. So he orders Yoichi to kill Second. Yoichi is used to finding ways around his brother's worst orders. Instead, Yoichi asks Second to come with him and hide in a house in the clouds for a few months. Usually that's about how long it takes All for One to forget all about his orders. Second is not the first person to hide out in Yoichi's house. However, he's the first one who Yoichi falls in love with.

4. Yoichi and Second blissfully enjoy their love nest together until Second's brother comes to visit. The idiot brother sticks his foot in his mouth once again and tells Second that his lover is All for One. Probably All for One took pity on Second and didn't kill him after seeing how ugly he is, and now is playing around with his heart. At first, Second doesn't believe it. His lover seems far to kind and gentle to be that notoriously arrogant and cruel God of Love All for One. But the thought torments Second, keeping him up late at night. Finally Second has to know, so one night when they are sleeping next to each other, he sneaks a peek at Yoichi's face.

5. Yoichi wakes up and runs away crying, convinced that he accidentally turned his lover into stone. Second realizes his mistake, too late. Grabbing the closest article of clothing, he chases after Yoichi.

6. All for One learns his little brother has a lover when his brother comes home crying and immediately decides to be a douche about it. Thus All for One sets up four obstacles between Second and the residence. Second handles all these subtle and delicate trials by just slashing everything with his sword. Also I need you to understand that Second does all the trials wearing a strawberry dress like this one because it was the first clothing he grabbed when running out the door.

7. All for One is a sore loser so he's about to kill Second. Then Yoichi hears the noise, comes running out, and saves Second. Yoichi is thrilled to see his lover alive and pissed to realize his brother lied about him in order to isolate him. From now on, he'll serve as cupid but he answers to no one except himself. Yoichi and Second elope.

8. All the gods hear stories about how Yoichi married the one mortal more beautiful than All for One. So they're shocked when they meet Second and he's just some dude with resting bitch face. However Yoichi is clearly smitten. All for One refuses to admit he's wrong, and also assumes anyone who seduced his brother must have some irresistible charm, so he keeps talking up Second as an amazing temptress. Therefore all the gods start praising Second's beauty because everyone else is. There's an Emperor's New Clothes effect going on where everyone assumes that everyone else must see something special about Second that they can't see. The impact is so strong it actually changes the beauty standard of society and for the next century, short men with spiky hair are considered the hottest things since Tartarus.

That was a fun one! I got kind of carried away. (Reminder that all of these are free to use in my Three Weeks of Trioholders event.)

[maridotnet]

for the wip game - kiss

okay starting off REAL strong let's see what we've got here oh it looks like adrinette

thanks for the ask!!! manifesting this for your fic

[morishigeart]

"Psyche and Cupid" Oil on canvas 2022

[hobblingeuripides]

myth retelling recs

1. Ithaca by Claire North

2. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

3. Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

all beautiful retellings that don’t feel like the white millennial feminism of The Penelopiad, more along the lines of Song of Achilles (especially Ariadne)!

[lordofthemice]

Currently reading Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara. It's beautifully written.

[zahramorningstar]

Then Psyche, weak in body and soul, put on the cruelty of fate, in place of strength:

She raised the lamp to see what should be done, and seized the steel, and was a man at length in courage, though a woman!

Yes, but when the light fell on the bed whereby she stood to view the " beast " that lay there, — certes, then, She saw the gentlest, sweetest beast in wood — Even Cupid's self, the beauteous god! more beauteous, For that sweet sleep across his eyelids dim.

The light, the lady carried as she viewed,

did she blush for pleasure as it lighted him,

The dagger trembled from its aim unduteous;

And she . . . oh, she — amazed and soul-distraught, and fainting in her whiteness like a veil, Slid down upon her knees, and, shuddering, thought to hide — though in her heart — the dagger pale!

She would have done it, but her hands did fail to hold the guilty steel, they shivered so, —And feeble, exhausted, unawares she took

to gazing on the god, — till, look by look,

Her eyes with larger life did fill and glow.

She saw his golden head alight with curls, —

She might have guessed their brightness in the dark by that ambrosial smell of heavenly mark!

She saw the milky brow, more pure than pearls,

The purple of the cheeks, divinely sundered

By the globed ringlets, as they glided free,

Some back, some forwards, — all so radiantly,

That, as she watched them there, she never wondered to see the lamplight, where it touched them, tremble:

On the god's shoulders, too, she marked his wings shine faintly at the edges and resemble

A flower that 's near to blow.

The poet sings and lover sighs, that Love is fugitive; and certes, though these pinions lay reposing, The feathers on them seemed to stir and live as if by instinct, closing and unclosing.

Meantime the god's fair body slumbered deep,

All worthy of Venus, in his shining sleep;

While at the bed's foot lay the quiver, bow,

And darts, — his arms of godhead. Psyche gazed with eyes that drank the wonders in, — said, — " Lo, Be these my husband's arms?" — and straightway raised an arrow from the quiver-case, and tried Its point against her finger, — trembling till she pushed it in too deeply (foolish bride!)

And made her blood some dewdrops small distil, and learnt to love Love, of her own goodwill.

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♡ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ♡

~ Cupid and Psyche ~

Images - Veiled Psyche

[kisses4butterflies]

Psyche and Eros 💕🕊

[teatfullythought]

❛  now trembling, now distracted; bold and now irresolute she seems; the blue lamp glimmers in her hold, and in her hand, the dagger gleams. prepared to strike, she verges near, then, the blue light glimmering from above, the hideous sight expects with fear -- and gazes on the god of love.  ❜

[stranded-in-paradise]

Psyche Opening The Golden Box (1903)

Oil on canvas (117×74cm)

John William Waterhouse (British, 1849 1917)

Private collection

[rosestarkillers-blog]

what does it say about me that my favorite Greek mythology is the story of Psyche?

[not-text-but-texture]

psyche & cupid

Belvedere, Vienna