Black-Light Fantasia

Let it be weird, and oh so precious. All good magic is wondrous and frightful, wholesome and deviant.

[met-ancient-art]

Jar, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1932 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322729

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[glitchblackmusic]

BIOPSY SAMPLE / Glitch Black

[memory-dealer]

Real Metroid Prime vibes

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Anato Finnstark

[iampoetnotarockstar-deactivated]

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

— Anaïs Nin

[delphine-seyrig]

“Medieval images of the body have less to do with sexuality than with fertility and decay. Control, discipline, even torture of flesh is, in medieval devotion, not so much the rejection of physicality as the elevation of it—a horrible yet delicious elevation—into a means of access to the divine.”

— Caroline Walker Bynum, ‘The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Late Middle Ages.’ (via maryarnorevna)

[the-devil-beside-you]

[the-devil-beside-you]

[melisica]

[slam-african]

Yoke, Classic Veracruz, c.600–800, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/9021/

[moonlightdeathwish]

[pangur-and-grim]

she is looking respectfully

[glumshoe]

The people of Uruk: “Please help us, our king is terrible and a huge bastard and we don’t like him. He makes us suffer and is cruel beyond reason.”

The goddess Aruru: “I’ve got this... dont worry, mortals, your tyrant problems will soon be over.”

The people of Uruk: “Yeah? What will you do?”

The goddess Aruru: “I will create a very big and extraordinarily hairy man and I will put him in the woods.”

The people of Uruk: “And how exactly will this big and hairy man help us?”

The goddess Aruru: “Uhhh I dunno. I don’t have any control over him.”

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Shamhat, priestess of Ishtar, rolling up her sleeves and marching into the woods: "Get the beer ready. I've been doing my kegels and I've got a plan."

[glumshoe]

Shamhat used SEX MAGIC. It’s super effective!

[glumshoe]

Enkidu: “This incredible civilizing sex marathon has turned me into an SJW! Show me that evil king. I will punch him in the nuts.”

[glumshoe]

Gilgamesh: “This big hairy man’s attempts to punch me in the nuts was... strangely endearing. I think I am in love...? Enkidu, let us punch monster nuts, together, for fun... forever...”

The people of Uruk: “....well. I suppose if he’s punching monster nuts he’ll be too busy to oppress us. Thanks?”

Aruru: [finger guns] “Ha ha, yeah, I gotchu.”

The other gods: [nervously questioning the wisdom of letting two hyperactive love-drunk superheroes loose on the world]

[scheharazade]

I am the knife which will slaughter heaven. Heaven is full of blood. Soon it will snow.

Heiner Müller, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome (1984)

[terrafey]

[Statement: I do not have organs. I am at a disadvantage.]

Sorcerer from @normal-horoscopes’ Amber Skies! One more and I’ll have drawn the whole party!

[slam-african]

Doll (akua-ba), Unidentified Asante artist, early–mid- 20th century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/8490/

[met-ancient-art]

Bead, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Chlorite

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327159