i will not go gently

fantasy | fairy tales | folderol

[monstermonger]

It wasn't meant to be.

[oldpaintings]

Young girl in a garden by Eugène Grasset (Swiss, 1845–1917)

[ortiies]

"Ah, my favorite client is back !"

[ullathynell]

Fairy Tale - from my new art book Faraway Dreaming. The Kickstarter campaign ends in less than a week! You can back the project until June 24th to receive a hardcover copy of my art book, plus other lovely rewards. 💜

[hideback]

Frances Macdonald aka Frances MacDonald MacNair (Scottish, 1873–1921)

Moonlit Garden, 1892-99

Embroidered Cushion, n.d.

Appliqué Panel, 1903

[enchantedbook]

A Gift from Krampus by J. E. Larson

[thecollectibles]

Water by Дарья Аваева

[nocnitsa]

Arthur Trevethin Nowell- Captives, 1887.

[evermore-fashion]

Paolo Sebastian 'A Lover's Kiss' Fall 2024 Haute Couture Collection

[maureen2musings]

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Marcel L.

[zawissius]

The tapestry in Lindon depicting the Undying Lands.

Source: RoP.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Philipp A. Urlich

[thecollectibles]

Art by Davood Moghaddami

[sarafangirlart]

It’s odd how Athena is Zeus’s favorite but she doesn’t seem to like him back, not only did she participate in Hera’s coup against him but even in the Iliad she was upset with him.

[finelythreadedsky]

#this is WHY she’s his favorite#the homeric dynamic between athena and zeus is so fascinating#she’s just like him! and just like him she’s going to try to overthrow her father with the help of his wife because of course#it’s just that she’s a girl so she can come into adulthood without displacing her father#in the way that a man or a male god can only come into adulthood by displacing his father like zeus did to kronos and kronos to ouranos#(and hector to priam and odysseus to laertes and achilles to peleus– being/becoming a man means making ones father irrelevant)#so athena does exactly what zeus did and would do#but since its not ultimately a real threat (since shes not a son) zeus can just enjoy how much like him she is#anyway odyssey 24 is SUPER important to me for this reason#its such a clear demonstration of how telemachus cannot fully access manhood and adulthood while living in his father’s shadow#and how odysseus’ manhood and success eclipse and erase laertes and reduce him to less than a man#and in the same moment you have athena coming of age under her father’s loving eye#because that tension is between fathers and sons not fathers and daughters#so zeus can be proud of athena coming into her own and manipulating her mortals and resolving her narrative#the odyssey is the plan of athena in the same way that the iliad is the plan of zeus

[escuerzoresucitado]

[pigswithwings]

about to go slay the minotaur of cretes haha lol catch me celebrating like crazy on the ship after this

[pigswithwings]

it's so dark in here

[pigswithwings]

this sucks. i can hear things dripping from the ceiling to the floor. all i have is uhhh a torch a sword and some thread. dude the thread isn't even mine i have to give it back after this. someone remind me to give the thread back lol

[pigswithwings]

wait there's something on the floor over there lol. I'll go check it out be right back

[pigswithwings]

i feel sick

[pigswithwings]

listen i knew. i knew, okay? people died here i knew that but gods. some of the bones even have coins for charon near them. what kind of monster is this

[pigswithwings]

that noise was NOT water.

[pigswithwings]

horns. it has horns. it has a cow's hide on its chest and pale skin on its legs and two feet but it doesn't trot and it doesn't walk. it mouths things silently like it's going to talk but all that comes out is a roar. it doesn't sound like a man it sounds like. like. it hasn't seen me yet. it's eating. what is it eating??????

[pigswithwings]

there's no way i can fight this. i didn't even bring a coin for myself. oh gods. oh gods I'm a coward. I'm a coward

[pigswithwings]

no fuck wait I'm not a coward. none of you would do this okay listen none of you have even seen a minotaur before. I'll tell you what it's fucking like. that thing is taller than me a OH FUCK

[pigswithwings]

I GOT IT i got it i slashed it on the leg and ran away again i got it. i got it oh my gods. I'm out of breath. oh gods

[pigswithwings]

i have to kill it. i have to kill it don't i. even if i manage to find the thread and go all the way back to the entrance they're just going to send me back in. or send someone else in and i don't want it to be someone else. i have to get out of here. have to finish the job

[pigswithwings]

is that. is that crying

[pigswithwings]

who's crying? that's definitely not a roaring sound it's like. it's more like howling? but it sounds like someone else. what the fuck is happening I'm going to go look

[pigswithwings]

oh

[pigswithwings]

his eyes are like mine. i looked out from behind the wall and the minotaur was just kneeling there holding his leg. i looked at the minotaur and he was crying and his eyes were like mine and they were brown. and they were scared.

[pigswithwings]

i can't do this.

[pigswithwings]

i can't. do it. i said i was going to but i don't think I'm strong enough for this. but i have to. fuck

[pigswithwings]

would it be a mercy? has he seen the sun since he was born? has he felt the breeze? has he talked to anyone? held anyone's hand? how can he even cry with the head of a bull?

[pigswithwings]

well. i guess the question is. why shouldn't he cry

[pigswithwings]

when the minotaur gets up he's probably going to want to kill me and i don't blame him. i need to get out of here before then. i

[pigswithwings]

where's the thread.

[pigswithwings]

there's no other exit. they won't let me out of here unless someone is dead. oh gods.

[pigswithwings]

what was her name? ariadne. ariadne gave me that thread. so i have to give it back to her. i have to make it out alive. please

[pigswithwings]

please.

[pigswithwings]

fuck this.

[pigswithwings]

i need to get out of here. i have to. i have to get out of here. please please nobody can hear me except for the minotaur and i don't want to die but he doesn't want to die either i need to get out of here. i have to do this please oh gods. please forgive me I'm so sorry. i have to do this i don't want to die I'm sorry i have to get out of here and if i do this PLEASE I HAVE TO

[pigswithwings]

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. i. the ground here is too cold. too solid. i can't bury you. i don't even have any coins. i can't put you in an urn. i can't carry you out. I'm sorry.

[pigswithwings]

i'm going go to now.

[liivn]