Stole My Thesis

A fever dream of Modern Art, Twee Ephermera, Queer Leftist Anglo Catholicism (Read: Anglo Catholicism), and things I wish my boyfriend would incorporate into his DnD campaigns

[orthodoxadventure]

[nemfrog]

Solar system, details.  Interplanetary Space Guide. 1958.

David Rumsey Map Collection

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Artist: Michael Whelan (b. 1950, American) Space Viking (1977) by H. Beam Piper

[the-quasar-hero]

I yet have to see any proof that this so-called “sex” is real and does in fact exist in our world to any tangible degree; and yet the stork exists and we can clearly observe it.

[cosmicretreat]

I'm seeing some reports that the fantasy artist Emmanuel just passed away. One of the artists who helped hone the look of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, I was especially a fan of his cover for the Fiend Folio, which I consider one of the sacred texts of AD&D. One of the many guides I used to check out from the library and draw monsters from.

Thanks and rest in peace, Emmanuel.

[oldschoolfrp]

I've never been able to learn much about the artist who was always credited only as "Emmanuel." Apparently he was Emmanuel Papadopoulos, and passed away in June, 2026.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Ste. Brigitte de Suède, veuve (St. Bridget of Sweden, Widow), July 23rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

Jacques Callot French Publisher Israël Henriet French 1636

[8syntheticanimal8]

[monsterasia-zero]

Summer Of Godzilla!

Godzilla King Of The Monsters By Bob Eggleton

[speakthewordonly]

[depsidase]

[erebusvincent]

[and-her-saints]

not a day passes where i don't think of this butch mary magdalene painting

St. Mary Magdalene (oil, 2009) by Jim Vogel

[thundergrace]

that's hot

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[estera-shirin]

Megillat Esther, India, date unknown

[cogentranting]

What if I told you that I really like the way Nolan's Odyssey handles the gods?

The gods are still there. Most of the actions attributed to them in the poem are still attributed to them here*. But it's covert instead of overt. Polyphemus is still a son of Poseidon and we still understand Poseidon to be opposing Odysseus and his crew after that point, we just don't see Poseidon. There's the suggestion that Mentor is Athena in disguise, it's just not confirmed. Athena and/or Zeus does guide Odysseus back to Ithaka. Etc. Even though you don't see them there isn't much room for doubt left by the movie that they're real and active. And by doing it that way there's a surprising element of faith (and fate and piety) in the story. It's not that the gods are taken out of the story, they're just veiled. And I think that's a fascinating take which approaches some of the actual themes of the Odyssey but from a different angle.

[stolemythesis]

I've been thinking about how this adaptation of The Odyssey was weirdly Protestant.

[iamjapanese]

Yoshiteru Nomura（野村義照 Japanese, b.1945）

Rose  薔薇