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Hi, welcome to precipitation station! I'm Cirrus, I draw stuff sometimes, sometimes I write things, sometimes I try my hand at animation | She/They | I don't really engage in NSFW and I'm staunchly anti-genAI | My Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Clouds_The_Fluffy_Kind | AND MY ART FIGHT!!!! https://artfight.net/~CloudsTheFluffyKind | My TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cloudsthefluffykind?_t=ZN-904pemmbhTC&_r=1

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WELCOME TO T H E P I T

This is my art/main blog, I mostly post digital or traditional art here but sometimes I try my hand at animation or animatics.

Feel free to ask me about art or anything really! Also… DO NOT REPOST MY ART!! You can use it however you like as long as you ask me for permission and give me credit, but please don’t repost without my consent! This includes AI 'art' or feeding it into any kind of AI, I explicitly DO NOT CONSENT TO THAT!!!

Anyway, I hope you like this blog!!! <33

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Which ao3 tag are you?

Saw this, looks fun!

Link to the quiz is here

… yeah, that tracks.

Soft tagging @blockcat-safari, @jackdraw-spwrite, @cityofangeisislying, @audioeidolon, @venusplantt, @bardicc-inspo and @voidindite in case they would like to play along :)

(Feel free to jump in if this looks fun and I forgot to tag you!)

[skeletomez]

I see how it is

@spaghetti-number1rated1997 @write-on-world @writers-bane @tokkibean @write-with-will @silly-little-arson-frog-offical @insaniac-offical and ofc anyone else :3

[silly-little-arson-frog-offical]

I see this as a win

open tags

[bitten-and-girl-smitten]

I don’t use Ao3 what does this mean help

open tags because I think @orange-offical is sick of being tagged

[starlieleo337]

Girlie this is legit my writing style and favourite kind of fic to read

@tmnt-raphael1 @starryvirus @splinterscrustyhelpingtoe and anyone else who wants to reblog <3

[starryvirus]

read fics with this tag before, so uh. fair tbh.

open tags lmao I cba to tag my moots love y'all tho

[arelenforyadarlin]

NOOO THEY CAUGHT MEEEE

@lesbiansnail980 @daburdboi @scarlettclownose @white-knuckled-jerk @basmatiricksart

[bunnybunaki]

I don't know what's funnier, the quiz being extremely accurate or the autism quiz advert on top (diagnosed)

[kimas317]

Huh... no one tag me but it was fun to do :)

Okay now it's your turn ! : @anarchistdictator @fervar @jaxlerzz @bisexuals4ev @radiostation13 @bloggingboutburgers @blueskittlesart @your-local-weirdo-415 @seagullarx @ozzies-ocs

[bisexuals4ev]

Didn’t know I was such a menace-

@cieraheart @kiki-st4r-69 @jaime-les-fruits-24 @artixellea @kingoflove66

[artixellea]

I SMELL YAOIIII 😼✊🏻

@cloudsthefluffykindsartblog @squeezeboxfullofbats @deadlandddah

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Thanks for the tag!

And um yeah lol, a teaspoon of yearning helps the hurt/comfort go down!!

I CHOOSE YOU, LIST OF RANDOM MUTUALS!!!

@unbeknownsttoast @dusty-ducky47 @rinsilverstar223

@cybersev @r4ve-k4ndi @originalratkingx

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The Spare Heir to a Kingdom of Flowers, and not a tail in sight.

(Idk if any of that makes sense, I just wanted to draw Kris as a flower royal lol, in other words the deltarot got to me)

oh btw there's a huge ramble under the cut that's maybe a little spoilery so read at ur own risk! v v v

All I could think is that Kris must've been so uncomfortable with all the 'humans' about this chapter with how they reacted to the humans in the library book, oof.

Anyway yeah, Chapter 5 came out and finally got me to play Deltarune, I love the flowers, Green you are the GOAT, Aqua I hate your knives but you're cute, Yellow please don't kill yourself, Orange you're the best human we literally look so alike, Blue I love you so much, and Seth I would let you read a story to me!! (P.S. fuck Flowery with all my heart, and not in the good way--literally as soon as I saw the word 'Jealous' directed at Ralsei I screamed at the screen for him to set that guy on fire, Ralsei I need you to commit arson so so bad please kill that guy AARARARGHGHGHG, can you tell I suck at his fight?? I haven't completed it yet lol)

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I did this animatic based on 'Too Many Identities' by PlotBunniesAteMyBrain on AO3!! because it took over my life for like two weeks and I couldn't think about anything else!! I hope you all like it, and go give the fic a read, it's really well done!!! <33

TW: there is blood in the animatic and also ectoplasm acting like blood!!

The song is 'Ramalama (Bang Bang)' by Róisín Murphy

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Just updated my persona's character profile on artfight!! I'll be adding more characters soon hopefully ^^ Art Fight - CloudsTheFluffyKind's Profile <33

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I decided to colour in this drawing from this post, because I liked it so much; I'm really happy with it!!

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new child to sacrifice!!! I never thought I’d be a proper DC fan but here we are I guess, Billy Batson is Best Boy, what can I say? Let’s just hope I don’t get into Batfam lol

Anyway these are some doodles I’ve done of the magic man! The pilot thing is inspired by this post, and these two fics: 1, 2!! (really good reads!!)

Unrelated, but happy pride y'all!!!

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Little animation meme for Hermes!!! (I was too lazy to draw His khlamys though lol) <33

Btw, you should guess what flowers are in the background hehe

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My modern greek myth OC, Lydia!!! I have a lot of plans for her, I just hope I actually get round to doing any of them lol (she's friends with Hermes!!)

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I did an animatic of Dionysus and Ariadne!! I love the song: Cult of Dionysus!! <3

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ON THE FIRST TRY LMAO

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Apollo angst and TOA animation!! (I should probably go read that series now lol...)

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LMKxPJO fanfic, uhmm... yeah:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's basically if Hera gave Percy to Nezha in the seven months between TLO and SON instead of just putting him to sleep, yeah

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Solangelo animation to the song 'Golden Hour' by Jvke!! I'm not sure how good the camera effects look (especially at the start) but I'm overall pretty happy with the rendering and movement of the characters (also, the backgrounds?! I don't know how I did that, like what?!?!)!! A little late for Valentines day but oh well! Enjoy~

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New PJO x EPIC fanfic!!!

(This time it's actually good, trust me)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This time with Percy playing Poseidon!!! Here's his costume I cooked up!!

and here are his new mortal buddies!! all playing the gods!

also a version of him with the hoodie on over his costume:

Plus extra doodles:

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Compilation of quotes I could find on Dionysus' descent to the underworld to get his mother, Semele, out:

It's a little disorganised and unprofessional but I realised how scarce information about this myth is, I've had a hard time researching it so I thought this might be helpful to others!! <3

Also, I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to research like this, so if I've missed anything feel free to tell me, or, if you have more resources I would be so happy if you shared them!! I'm headfirst into trying to figure this myth out (I can't find any full accounts or hymns and there is very little about what Dionysus actually did in the underworld, although it was a apparently a source of inspiration for Orpheus' myth) so anything you have would be greatly appreciated!!!

Apollodorus -

“Dionysus is said to have gone down to hell to fetch up his mother Semele at Lerna, where he plunged into the Alcyonian Lake, a pool which was supposed to be bottomless and therefore to afford an easy access to the nether world. Sее Pausanias ii. 37. 5 and for а description of the pool as it is at the present time, see my commentary on Pausanias, vol. v. pp. 604 sg. Never having been in hell before, Dionysus did not know how to go there, and he was reduced to the necessity of asking the way. А certain Prosymnus pointed it out to the deity on condition of receiving a certain reward. When Dionysus returned from the lower world, he found that his guide had died in the meantime; but he punctually paid the promised reward to the dead man at his grave with the help of а branch of fig wood, which he whittled into an appropriate shape. This story was told to explain the similar implements which figured prominently in the processions of Dionysus.”

-Pg 332

                “"Thus men perceived that he was a god and honoured him ; and having brought up his mother from Hades and named her Thyone, he ascended up with her to heaven.?

celebrated with nocturnal rites on the reedy margin of the pool (Pausanias, ii. 37. 6). The pious Pausanias shrank from divulging the nature of the rites; but from Plutarch we learn that a lamb was thrown into the lake as an offering to the warder of hell, while on trumpets hidden in the god's leafy emblems the buglers blew blasts which, startling the stillness and darkness of night, were believed to summon up the lost Dionysus from the watery depths. See Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 35. Perhaps in answer to this bugle call an ‘actor, dressed in the vine-god's garb, may have emerged dripping from the pool to receive the congratulations of the worshippers on his rising from the dead. However, according to others, the resurrection of Dionysus and his mother took place, not in the gloomy swamp at Lerna, but on the beautiful, almost landlocked, bay of Troezen, where nowadays groves of oranges aud lemons, interspersed with the dark foliage of tall cypresses, fringe the margin of the calm blue water at the foot of the rugged mountains. See Pausanias, ii. 31. 2. Plutarch has drawn a visionary picture of the scene of the ascension. It was, he says, a mighty chasm like the caves sacred to Bacchus, mantled with woods and green grass and blooming flowers of every sort, and exhaling a delicious, an intoxicating, perfume, while all about it the souls of the departed circled and stooped upon the wing like flights of birds, but did not dare to cross its tremendous depth. It was called the Place of Forgetfulness. See Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, 22, pp. 565 sg. A pretty story was told of the device by which Dionysus induced the grim warden of the dead to release the soul of his mother from the infernal gaol. It is said that Hades consented to set her free provided that her son would send of his best beloved to replace her shade in the world of shadows. Now of all the things in the world the dearest to Dionysus were the ivy, the vine, and the myrtle; so of these he sent the myrtle, and that is why the initiated in his rites wreathed their brows with myrtle leaves. See Scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs, 330. The harrying of hell is the theme of Aristophanes’s amusing comedy The Frogs.”

-Pg 333

The Golden Bough -

                “A different form of the myth of the death and resurrection of Dionysus is that he descended into Hades to bring his mother Semele from the dead. The local Argive tradition was that he went down through the Alcyonian lake; and his return from the lower world, in other words his resurrection, was annually celebrated on the spot by the Argives, who summoned him from, the water by trumpet blasts, while they threw a lamb into the lake as an offering to the warder of the dead.”

-Pg 452

Guide to Greece -

                “In this temple are altars of the gods said to rule in the lower word : and they say that Semele was brought here from Hades by Dionysus, and that Hercules brought Cereberus here from Hades. But I do not think that Semele died at all, as she was the wife of Zeus : and as to Cereberus I shall elsewhere tell what I think.”

-Pg 152

                “I have seen also the well of Amphiaraus and the Alcyonian marsh, by which the Argives say Dionysus descended to Hades to fetch up Semele, for Polymnus shewed him the descent. There is indeed no end to the depth of the Alcyonian marsh, nor do I know of any man who by any device ever got to the bottom of it, since even Nero, though he got and fastened together ropes many stades long, and put a piece of lead and otherr apparatus for sounding at the end, never could arrive at an accurate knowledge of its depth. I have also heard that though the water of the marsh, as you would infer from looking at it, is calm and quiet, if anyone ventures to swim in it, it is sure to drag him down and sack him underneath to the bottom. The circuit of the lake is not large, only about a third of a stade, and on its hanks are grass and reeds. But the nightly rites which take place near it annually I am not permitted to write for public reading.”

-Pg 165-166

Diodorus Siculus -

“He also took part in the expedition of the Argonauts, and because of the love he held for his wife he dared the amazing deed of descending into Hades, where he entranced Persephoné by his melodious song and persuaded her to assist him in his desires and to allow him to bring up his dead wife from Hades, in this exploit resembling Dionysus; for the myths relate that Dionysus brought up his mother Semelé from Hades, and that, sharing with her his own immortality, he changed her name to Thyoné.

But now that we have discussed Orpheus, we shall return to Heracles.”

-Pg 425            

Astronomica -

                “The authors of Argolica give the following explanation. Having received permission from his father to bring his mother, Semele, back from the Underworld, Liber [Dionysus] came to the territory of the Argives, seeking the way to the Underwolrd. There he met a man called Polymnus—a man worthy of this generation—of whom he would inquire and who would show him the way. Polymnus, when he saw the youth, surpassing all others in physical beauty, asked of him a price which could be given without injury. Liber [Dionysus], eager to see his mother, swore that if he brought her back, he would do whatever Polymnus wished; and so, Polymnus showed him the way—but Liber [Dionysus] swore as a god would swear to an impudent mortal. When Liber [Dionysus] came to the place indicated and what about to descend, he place the crown given to him by Venus in the place thereafter called Stephanus [“crown,”] for he did not wish to carry it with him, lest a gift of the gods should become polluted by contact with the dead. When he brought his mother back safely, he was said to have placed the crown among the stars so that its name might be remembered forever.”

-Pg 88

Prosymnus - Wikipedia

Dionysus - Wikipedia -

“Pausanias, in book II of his Description of Greece, describes two variant traditions regarding Dionysus's katabasis, or descent into the underworld. Both describe how Dionysus entered into the afterlife to rescue his mother Semele, and bring her to her rightful place on Olympus. To do so, he had to contend with the hell dog Cerberus, which was restrained for him by Heracles. After retrieving Semele, Dionysus emerged with her from the unfathomable waters of a lagoon on the coast of the Argolid near the prehistoric site of Lerna, according to the local tradition.[265] This mythic event was commemorated with a yearly nighttime festival, the details of which were held secret by the local religion. According to Paola Corrente, the emergence of Dionysus from the waters of the lagoon may signify a form of rebirth for both him and Semele as they reemerged from the underworld.[17][266] A variant of this myth forms the basis of Aristophanes's comedy The Frogs.[17]

According to the Christian writer Clement of Alexandria, Dionysus was guided in his journey by Prosymnus or Polymnus, who requested, as his reward, to be Dionysus's lover. Prosymnus died before Dionysus could honor his pledge, so to satisfy Prosymnus's shade, Dionysus fashioned a phallus from a fig branch and penetrated himself with it at Prosymnus's tomb.[267][268] This story survives in full only in Christian sources, whose aim was to discredit pagan mythology, but it appears to have also served to explain the origin of secret objects used by the Dionysian Mysteries.[269]

This same myth of Dionysus's descent to the underworld is related by both Diodorus Siculus in his first century BC work Bibliotheca historica, and Pseudo-Apollodorus in the third book of his first century AD work Bibliotheca. In the latter, Apollodorus tells how after having been hidden away from Hera's wrath, Dionysus traveled the world opposing those who denied his godhood, finally proving it when he transformed his pirate captors into dolphins. After this, the culmination of his life on earth was his descent to retrieve his mother from the underworld. He renamed his mother Thyone, and ascended with her to heaven, where she became a goddess.[270] In this variant of the myth, it is implied that Dionysus must prove his godhood to mortals and then also legitimised his place on Olympus by proving his lineage and elevating his mother to divine status, before taking his place among the Olympic gods.[17]”

Plutarch section 22-

                “Now this same cleft withinside resembled the dens of Bacchus, fringed about with the pleasing verdure of various herbs and plants, that yielded a more delightful prospect still of all sorts of flowers, enamelling the green so with a wonderful diversity of colors, and breathing forth at the same time a soft and gentle breeze, which perfumed all the ambient air with odors most surprising, as grateful to the smell as the sweet flavor of wine to those that love it. Insomuch that the souls banqueting upon these fragrancies were almost all dissolved in raptures of mirth and caresses one among another, there being nothing to be heard for some fair distance round about the place, but jollity and laughter, and all the cheerful sounds of joy and harmony, which are usual among people that pass their time in sport and merriment.

The spirit said, moreover, that Bacchus ascended through this overture to heaven, and afterwards returning fetched up Semele the same way; and that it was called the place of oblivion.”

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Son of Neptune animation (IT'S AN ANIMATION, IGNORE THE TITLE CARD THING) It's the moment where Frank realises what he has to do to free Thanatos!! I love this scene!

Hope you like it!!

The song is My Way by Frank Sinatra (The two best Franks in one go! It's a double dose!!!)

EDIT: I forgot what Thanatos looked like and accidentally made him white, so I changed him to his canon design (more or less, I forgot his wings- just imagine they're behind him) thanks for pointing it out, anon!

(PS: some thing went wrong with the OG post so this is a repost, I hate this website)