The Archival Impulse as Devotion

Odes to Hermes of the Crossroads, Dionysos of Transformative Madness, and Those Carried Off.Follows from my main blog, californianlabyrinth. Much of what I'm sorting out rn is about sexual assault and ancestors & the relationship of both to gods who travel from and towards the seats of empire. In other words, if you don't want to see stuff about my work re sexual assault, block #TCO and you should be solid. (Also Christianity is part and parcel of reckoning with my (white) ancestors, so expect an occasional smattering w/mostly a faux neutral art historical perspective & occasional antagonism to the southern baptist church. Not all christianities are equally implicated in the shit I’m yelling about)(note 5-2020 let’s be real, I mean black Christianity is different than southern white hegemonic Christianity. Directness makes more sense)

[thegodwhocums]

Priapus as a transmasc- or butch-coded entity gives me an in

like that dick might be mythologically plausible for a Cis Man shaped deity, but I can name any number of folks using aftermarket dicks the size of my forearm to fuck their baby in the sling at the party - and THOSE are the kind of perverts I can connect with

(I know that hypothetically other types of people CAN and do use impractically large sex toys, I'm just thinking about butch tops, flesh genitalia irrelevant, irreverently packing the biggest most cartoonish fucking strap ever seen)

(this 100% includes trans fem butches, I realize I cannot take for granted that this is implied)

how drag king coded is this?

you know?

and the physical genital changes that trans dudes (etc) experience on testosterone also fall under this category, to me - like, oh you (onlooker) thought you knew what this kind of anatomy looked like? you fool. you utter buffon. bigger. no, bigger than that

he's absolutely a masculine god but that masculinity makes more sense to me the less cis we make it

[theehorsepusssy]

Christopher Gullander

[weepingwidar]

Juliette Vaissière (French, 1995) - The Hunt (2023)

[thunderstruck9]

Juliette Vaissière (French, 1995), The Hunt, 2023. Acrylic and toile de Jouy on linen mounted on panel, 18 × 18 in.

[kebriones]

one thing I dislike is the tendency to stick to the idea of dionysus as a god foreign or "other" to "greek". Even in the bacchae, what is first mistaken and disguised as a foreigner is as native as anyone. his mother is buried there. the ecstacy and the wilderness isn't something "exotic". it's been there since the first traces of our language. and this then can be broadened to human nature in general. You can wear a tie and pretend to be some sort of "better than/more cultured than/smarter than" but the irrational and the wild is never less of a human aspect than everything else. and by rejecting that and fighting against it and supressing or exiling it from your life you commit sacrilege punishable by the worst horrors :D

[makomoriz]

i hope the anonymous person who sent the "i used to live in your house. i'm drunk in boston and it's the only address i know. happy holidays" postcard is aware that they wrote my favourite poem

[eatsoylentgreen]

[wbyeats-deactivated]

unbelievably slutty statue of dionysus. btw

[torque-witch]

So happy to be able to work on Spirit Chimes again! They will be getting an upgrade this year/2025.

For those unaware, “Spirit Chimes” are just my re-invention of Door Harps, which originated in Scandinavia around 700 years ago. The ones you see in stores (it at all) are mostly just decorative, but the original idea was to hang it on your front door to repel evil spirits with the sound of the chimes, similar to the hanging of bells.

What I do is blend this idea, plus making them more aesthetically witchy and adding a spiral/wood grain pattern in the background to further confuse spirits (similarly to witch balls and other methods of protection/warding), idea being that the spirit gets turned around trying to find a way in.

Then, I add crystal prisms as the chimes to also act as a sun catcher, which I feel has a protective and positive nature as well! This one needs new strings and a chain, but paint comes first.

All of the door harps I use are thrifted locally, so they’re not always perfect 🤍

[ephemeral-roses]

Felt silly and had the overwhelming urge to draw my version of Dionysus, which proved to be a bad idea because that means he is now running around rampid. Sorry.

I felt like Dionysus' god of madness side isn't recognized as much, so my version has mad as his main trait; he's unpredictable, says strange things, always yelling, etc. I always think of the Horrifc Neck Tie from Disco Elysium (yes, the necktie talks) when I think of him. And of course, he is an absolute party animal (Wild Mike from Barnyard has competition).

He is always wearing a mask, showing off three faces of different emotions to show he is the god of theater, and also very fickle emotionally. The eyes peering through the mask are based off of leopard eyes.

Desire For Peace Webcomic

[comradesun]

[artofangelo]

New Wine

colored pencils on pink paper, A3

[melodyartist]

Hi!

IM WONDERING if maybe u had a Dionysus design, i luv ur style

Thank you! *Gently hands out a freshly baked design*

I was debating between the twink and the dilf... I settled for the middle ground... A twilf or a dink... Yeah, that...

[dionysianfreak]

Dionysos, the seen and the unseen 🍇🍷

✧ please do not repost to other sites~

[wizardarchetypes]

i love truck stops in winter bc i love a little good old fashioned reconnaissance. i’m at a wyoming truck stop eating taco bell with a bunch of random truckers discussing road conditions like we’re in a high fantasy tavern & inn and we’re warning each other about monsters and highway men. everyone talking about where we’re coming from and going to and how bad it’ll be getting there.

THE tallest man i’ve ever seen in real life just stopped me in the hallway by the coin operated laundry apropos of nothing and asked “which direction are you going?” i said east and he said “good” and walked away.

i caught up with him and asked why and he said “west’s no good right now. i just came from there.”

apparently a truck jackknifed and has traffic backed up ten miles but he sounded for all the world like he just found his village raised to the ground by an evil mage’s army

[rosslynpaladin]

...it's super cool in a 'historian with goosebumps' kind of way that this whole experience is essentially timeless.

As long as we've had ROADS or even game trails this

very scene

has played out in brush shelters, shrines, taverns, inns, post stations, and hotel lobbies.

Humans, out upon the Ways, where danger may be, sharing information because we live when we cooperate and share and we all know it out there.

[seekingatruthbeyondme]

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[woman-becomer]

IT'S TIME TO FLOP IN THE SLOP

[sayhelloanimalfriends]

no music 🎧

[vitrified-vitriol-deactivated20]

Thank you for the no music note. Animal frolicking noises

[rumade]

Patchwork quilt floor!

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

You just know that some sweet little old Nana who has been making quilts for the last 50 years has seen this photo and gone “challenge accepted” and make a blanket with that pattern

[mysweetoddbird]

Ok, I’ve decided I can’t leave well enough alone, but these pictures really do not do this mosaic justice. It is 9,000 square feet, and is basically patchwork spanning over 15 centuries. Here are some other pictures of the Antakya mosaic:

Also, it is not one of the largest mosaics; it is the single largest intact ancient mosaic in the world.

[ramshacklefey]

And it is in absolutely astounding condition. Holy shit.

[xanaxfarts]

Vincent Sabatier: Roboclusion No. 64 Vènus (2019)