Aeshna Lacrymosa

“These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.” — Hildegard of Bingen

[aeshnalacrymosa]

About Me

Welcome to my creativity space! I am Aeshna Lacrymosa. I love drawing, reading, and writing. I love sharing about things I like. You can find more info about me HERE!

art tag: #aeshna's art writing tag: #aeshna's fics

WHERE TO FIND ME:

Fanfiction.net - I still post fics there, but most of my engagement comes from AO3

Archive of Our Own - I do most of my reading here these days.

Instagram - mostly digital art here

DeviantArt - contains most of my art including older art (mostly Inktober entries)

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[beetlewoman]

adult backpack wearers of the world unite

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[jame7t]

it’s fun to stay at the Y

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[yahenni]

M

*smacks the side of my boom box to get the cd to stop skipping*

[capt-mal-reynolds]

C

[edgarallanpoultry]

YOUNG MAN

[shark-tranny]

A

[irishfry]

THERES NO

[gamergal-ds]

It’s fun to stayy at the Y

[transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg]

UONG MAN

[lordhavemercyyyyy-deactivated20]

MOTHMAN

STEAL A MAN OFF THE GROUND I SAID MOTHMAN

[theautumnaldemon]

[gargoylegf]

I love redemption arcs because the basis of them is grace and it’s why it makes no sense when people say “x character didn’t deserve it”. You can argue that it was not well-written but deserving redemption is kind of paradoxical. We aren’t Pelagians. No one “deserves” redemption; the value or merit of the object/person does not matter; grace is free and undeserved. Even in a setting where Christianity is not present ie like fictionally, you can see that the love of Christ is boundless and transcends our thoughts. We desire the redemption of others. And the word redemption is great: Latin, “to buy back”. We were bought back blood. That this idea is present in other fiction is amazing and wonderful. You can see how people in this time despise Grace; they want us to cast it off and burn all the bridges and hate those who wrong you but we can’t deny that at our core we secretly do want to forgive others - we all love this trope but it’s not a trope. It’s like the law that’s written on our hearts

[phoenixlionme]

Encanto: Madrigal Family Relationship Analysis Part 35 - Camilo and Pepa

A clear (if only heavily implied) example of a loving mother and son relationship. Look at Camilo's behavior with her in contrast to Felix; with the latter, he is impish and likes to make light fun of his father but with the former, Camilo is nothing but soft and gentle. When Pepa is stressing over the magic potentially disappearing, Camilo's first instinct is to offer her tea and sweetly reassure her. He's a gentle mama's boy. As for Pepa, she has shown to be a doting mother, so I see her being nothin but doting to her eldest son and middle child. Unlike her husband, Pepa finds Camilo's shapeshifting habit endearing, especially since she knows that he would never maliciously abuse said powers despite his joking, playful personality. I also think that Camilo wouldn't use his shapeshifting to soothe his mother, thinking that changing into different people might stress her out even more; so he stays as himself to better calm her. And again for Pepa, she sees her son as the sweet, gentle boy who earnestly doesn't want the people he loves to be sad beneath his clowner personality he exudes the most.

[lost-wandering-historian]

It's that time of the year again! Remember to leave out bread and absinthe for Victor Hugo and he will leave you 50 pages on a subject that is off-topic but that he is vaguely interested in. Be safe out there!

[phoenixlionme]

An underappreciated mother-daughter moment between Julieta and Mirabel

After Pepa informs Julieta of Mirabel being in Bruno's vision, Julieta looks worriedly at her youngest daughter. And Mirabel's response (and a very cute one honestly) is to immediately look away and drink her juice. Mirabel's whole demeanor screams, "Gotta turn away. Don't look at mama, I can't keep a straight face. How did this happen?" But getting serious, Julieta's surprised look to Mirabel also shows that the former think her talk with the latter earlier about Bruno didn't stick. Julieta also might be putting together that it means Mirabel broke into Bruno's room. Maybe Julieta feels like she may have accidentally pushed Mirabel to get more info on Bruno. And Mirabel can't even look in her mother's eyes, feeling small and lonelier because she wasn't given a chance to explain.

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Joan of Arc 1412-1431 Feast day: May 30 Patronage: France, martyrs; captives; military personnel; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; soldiers

Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, was born in 1412 during the Hundred Years War. At age 12 she began receiving visions of Saint Michael, as well as other angels and saints, telling her to drive out the English. Possessing remarkable mental and physical courage, Joan led the French army to victory over the British at Orleans when she was 18. Several additional victories led to Charles VII’s coronation. Eventually burned at the stake, she held up a cross calling continually upon the name of Jesus. A retrial declared her innocent in 1456 making her a martyr. Joan of Arc was canonized 500 years later.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[aeshnalacrymosa]

This image is inspired from the only contemporary portrait of Joan of Arc…

…and from descriptions of her appearance that brought out this beautiful recreation of her.

Joan of Arc has been one of my favorite saints since I was a child. I first read about her in my English textbook, which called her The Sixteen-Year-Old General, highlighting her miraculous victory at the Siege of Orléans. She has since become an inspiration for feminine grace and divine courage.

[arahir]

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

[sakuraswordly]

(All credits go to Disney and their respective copyright holders)

[music-in-my-veins14]

[kitty-i-swear-to-gosh]

Thinking about when God is teaching Jonah about mercy and he gives him a nice leafy plant and then the plant is withered by the sun and Jonah really liked that plant and he's mad that it’s dead! And God says, “Are you angry, Jonah?” And Jonah says “Yeah! Angry enough to die!”

And God’s like, “Exactly. So Am I.”

AND THEN HE DID. FOR US. FOR ALL OF US.

Jonah‬ ‭4‬:‭5‬-‭11 ‭NLT‬‬

[galacticjonah]

An abandoned child grows too big and too strong for the house that raises them. They are other and are treated as such. The tension builds until the breaking point is reached and they become...[what they were made] [what they have always been].

This 12-page comic took far longer than it ever should have but here we finally are: My OC Vespertine's devastating backstory -- and honestly the core thesis of the entire character.

I've never really poured this much time into an OC project before so...this feels very vulnerable??? (pls be nice lol). The thumbs were created in 2024, and then the comic was finished only last month. In a perfect world I would make a webcomic or smth out of this but who knows ;v;

If you don't know who Vesper is and want to see some more there are bits and pieces scattered about under the below tag #story: Among Wolves and I always hope to share more about them...