Man and his dog with matching hats early 1930′s, Maine.
inviting my friends out to the club with me but when they show up at my place i've arranged a symposium around my hearth and i spend the night debating them on the tripartite soul
me: i promise i won't make you guys discuss the nature of love while someone plays an aulos in the background
later that night:
The mirror of Galadriel
coelacanth my beloved
made a quick 3d bunny
i think about this every day
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why did we stop drawing ridiculous looking sea monsters on our maps after we chartered the world's oceans. what did you do to my boys.
just look at these friendly lads. and you deny us all the joy of seeing them in the name of geographical and zoological accuracy. how could you.
Roman Senator in 186 BCE voice: DIONYSUS IS TURNING OUR SONS INTO BOTTOMS
…the Iliad used conventional epic events and heroes to challenge the heroic view of war. Is a warrior ever justified in challenging his commander? Must he sacrifice his life for someone else’s cause? How is a catastrophic war ever allowed to start—and why, if all parties wish it over, can it not be ended? Giving his life for his country, does a man betray his family? Do the gods countenance the war’s slaughter? Is a warrior’s death compensated by his glory?
— The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander.
Finished this drawing of Apollo and his golden arrows.
He’s my favorite of the Greek mythos.
everybody STOP misinterpreting the secret history it’s not about the folly of mankind or greek myth come alive or the darkness that lives in all of us….it’s about being gay and stupid. and doing cocaine