Feral Daisy

walks out of a bar covered in kisses and I say "you should see the other guy" and you look in the bar and he's dead in a pool of blood

Your daily dose of cat memes

Instagram credit: liberaureum

francesmehardie

Neil Gaiman’s Personal Library (The Basement, Neil Gaiman’s Home)

finally I got them all

FOR THE RECORD. i am aware that i am cheesy, corny, embarassing, cringe, stupid, have bad taste, etc. it just means i get to skip to the front of the line at the gates of heaven

Neil Gaiman’s Personal Library (The Basement, Neil Gaiman’s Home)

@academia-lucifer

indiana jones is actually the bigger asshole, but he is objectively hotter than han solo. yes they are played by the same actor. no that does not matter

willelcc

here is where you’ll find me, always.

A fun fact that I love about Persephone and Hades is that in the city of Lokri (Modern Italy), they were seen as the ideal marriage. Women who were about to get married re-interpreted the myth of the abduction of Persephone so it would reflect their current situation, e.g: Women who were happy with their future husband made a pinake (a tablet of painted wood or terracotta) where Persephone was driving the chariot and participating in her own ‘abduction’; On the contrary, women who were forced into their marriage would make a pinake where Persephone was fighting against her captor.

“The pinakes were most likely dedications made by young girls in the lead-up to their weddings. In this sense, it is understandable that the chosen god does not completely undergo the transition process. The dedications served the function of seeking Persephone's blessing and protection for their marriages, and they were dedicated before the marriage had taken place. So the image of the goddess that was being invoked and imitated in the abduction scenes was the goddess in the same state as the dedicating girls: the state immediately before marriage. […]

The most common pinax types are the 'divine' and 'imitation' scenes. In both cases, these range from unambiguous abductions where the maiden clearly struggles against her captor to images in which it appears the girl is complicit in her own kidnapping sometimes even taking charge of the chariot herself. The range can be accounted for because, as James Redfield points out, "no doubt some brides felt more abducted than others".”

- Mackin, Ellie. “Girls Playing Persephone (in Marriage and Death).” Mnemosyne 71, no. 2 (2018): 209–28.

reblog if you love women

Silvestro Lega (Italian, 1826-1895)

The Folk Song, 1868