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[helenmask]

Ashitaka is done!

[speerfisch]

'My Companion the Moon', 2023

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the green man studies, a symbol for rebirth, sketchbook nr. 18, 2023

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'nature's call', 2023, inspired partly by the painting "The Young Girl and Death" by Marianne Stokes

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sketchbook nr. 18, 2023

'with the sun I will rise; with the moon my dark days will fall' - Dune Moss, Sun I will Rise

'tomorrow is another day and you don't have to hide away', Woodkid, Run Boy Run

[speerfisch]

"traumfänger"/"dream catcher", 2023, a book cover for a non existing book

[nunyums]

I believe that when a person is about to die, their life doesn’t flash before their eyes in 15x speed, but the things they loved doing with the people they’d take a bullet for.

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[meduseld]

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[dean-winchesters-clit]

This is true no matter the version you're reading.

1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.

2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he's been tricked, turns to make sure she's there.

3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.

No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.

[wildefluorescent]

Orpheus, I can forgive you, then, There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back

The Descent, by Tyler King

[princesssarisa]

Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.

In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.

[forestkodama]

I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus When her body was found I'd be the choiceless hope in grief That drove him underground I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee That made him turn around (Hey ya) And I'd be the immediate forgiveness In Eurydice

- Talk, Hozier

[dorisdank]

[aenramsden]

[ID: Gif of a woman from a period drama, initially looking down, then turning to look at her conversational partner offscreen, saying “Perhaps she was the one who said, ‘Turn around.’”]

[nunyums]

new post on substack! give it a read and let me know what you think! x

warning : be nice.

the next thing i learn, may change me entirely

excerpts from my journal

[oldpaintings]

Harald Oskar Sohlberg (Norwegian, 1869--1935)

[nunyums]

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blue yellows

a curious case of paradoxes

[nunyums]

look at me,

I am touching fire.

tell me its dangerous

tell me to step aside

look at me,

I am crossing the road.

tell me to look towards both sides

hold my hand,

and guide me towards the end.

[happyheidi]

Statue of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) bathing in the garden of the Royal Palace: Caserta, Italy.

(via)

[tokyoproxy]

♡ louiseseascapes ♡

[itbemehello]

If a man ever told me this, I’d be a puddle immediately

[nunyums]

matthew fairchild is such a pretty and lovely name i adore it

[nunyums]

“I wish you a kinder sea”

- Emily Dickinson