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Lia | 26 | argentina | she/her || full time cartoon lover | film student | baker & heartbreaker

[river-of-wine]

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

[glamourweaver]

Some performances have really hit this explicitly on the head with Orpheus and Eurydice changing their final lines to each other

[Orpheus turns around]

Eurydice: [shocked, speaking with fear and despair] You’re early.

Orpheus: [same] I missed you.

[xalatath]

I have never, and will never, use "ofc" to mean "of fucking course". It literally stands for OF Course...

[hotvampireadjacent]

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 1 day 22 hours

[unyieldingsilence]

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[polyhexianbirb]

Gonna drop this here without context--

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[office-anomaly]

what if memories can endure different lifetimes? (a "what if" abt Zombie Island that i've always wanted to draw) happy pride! :)

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[ryebreadgf]

[starr-angelofnarnia]

[allwaswell16]

unhinged tags about Louis pt. 3

(in honor of the beginning of the next leg of the tour!)

#MUNCHING MUNCHING [ @sunkissedlouis ]

#I want to punch him repeatedly with love and affection [ @captainrayzizuniverse ]

#i could eat him with one bite [ @futurelightning ]

#I am frothing [ @the-larry-way ]

#king of calf muscles [ @kingsofeverything ]

#I want to rub lotion on his legs [ @louisarmpits ]

#HELLLLOOOOOOOO #MISTER SEXY REPORTING FOR DUTY [ @peachbootylouis ]

#should I tag this nsfw?? #because…. #really…… [ @addie-snowflakelths ]

#part of my soul has just been reborn [ @louisandtheaquarian ]

#now I can die peacefully [ @zourringhard ]

#chomps on ankle [ @hltoinfinity ]

#if my butt was that fit I would look back at it at least hourly [ @sunshineandlyrics ]

#mmmmm #bum bum [ @huddiewilliams ]

#hes like salted toasted caramel to me. like in my mind [ @louismygf ]

#beutiful angel baby cupid cherub boy [ @justanotherstonergirlfriend ]

#oh to get paid to gently hold louis [ @noraincls ]

#crying blood [ @crinkle-eyed-boo ]

#I have so many thoughts #none of them would get me into heaven [ @emilarry ]

#looking like an angel on the walls of versailles [ @wdbhgdotmp3 ]

#i want to lick #i want to bite #i want strangle #i want to kiss i want to be a girl #and do things [ @curly94 ]

#ok miss ​disney princess chill with the eyes [ @i-need-a-cure ]

#currently scrolling with my tongue btw #HOW IS HE SO FINE [ @thegirlontheblackhoodie ]

I need this to be a calendar and this would be the picture for all 12 months #I want to smush my face into his tummy [ @juniperlightningwrites ]

#like I am actually toast #destroyed #obliterated #gnawing on my knuckles clawing at the walls this is actual madness [ @goldcrumble ]

#i am dead on the floor #and floating in the sky simultaneously [ @quitegenerous ]

[ Part 1 ] [Part 2 ]

[lemonpiecat]

completely reduced to a crying mess by te/mo's "mother I". was anybody going to warn me it was this gut-wrenching

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

Beautiful from Ordinary Days

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[ilions-end]

i know much cleverer words have been written about this, but i just love the structure of the odyssey. i've been thinking about it a lot lately.

you've got the proem, you're told straight away that this is the story of a man, odysseus, and the fantastical things he'll experience and the torments he'll suffer on his long, slow journey home. it tells you here comes the story of odysseus' hard-won homecoming, are you ready.

but odysseus doesn't appear in the first book (characters talk about him, but we don't get to see him at all). he doesn't feature in the second, or the third, or the fourth. there's no odysseus for four books, four whole papyrus scrolls, hours of listening to a bard.

YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIM.

you're put in a position where you have to contend with the frustration of waiting and longing for the story's main character along with those who miss him (and when we DO eventually get to see him, the delayed gratification is disrupted because we meet him when he's at his least odysseus-like, which i also adore as a storytelling choice but that's a different post). odysseus is delayed. his arrival into his own story is held back.

and it's not waiting for waiting's sake. because while we wait we learn the stakes. we have to know ithaca before we meet odysseus because we need to know what he's desperate to return to, and we need to see what space he's missing from. it's all set up so beautifully -- the things that have already happened because of odysseus' absence, the things that might happen shortly if he keeps being absent, and what penelope and telemachus are willing to do to preserve themselves at a very precarious point in time. i love the telemachy in its own right; the gentle runthrough of the dos and don'ts of xenia, the gradual sketching-out of a damaged post-war world with ruined or reunited (but still altered) families. it's all laid out for us, we have our context, now we've been prepared for the story the proem promised us. after four books we're ready to finally meet odysseus.

[petorahs]

would you still love me again?

[marlerl4]

Odysseus all book

[a-v-j]

I kid yall not, I laugh everytime he weeps in thr book 🤣🤣😭

[marlerl4]

That is, every chapter?