Mythology - Tumblr Posts

What would you people in tumblr consider the enemy of a dragon? I don't care about which type of dragon, just the big lizard with scales and wings! What would be strong enough to become a dragon's mortal enemy and, if not, at least a huge hindrance to be aware of?

Hebe, c. 1800-05. Antonio Canova Canova | Thorvaldsen. The birth of modern sculpture, exhibit at the Gallerie D’Italia

Moodboard: fem! Hades x Persephone

Little critter in the hot springs ❇️ .

Attack Thirteen for 2024, for @waywardmoon. I wanted to see if I could improve upon the piece I did for them during ArtFight 2022 and while they are different styles, I think it's at least a little better.

AF Character Links - Nyx & Nemesis

"MERCY"

Clay men

"nostalgia is denial... denial of the painful present. It's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."                - Midnight In Paris (movie)

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photo by @alice-apsx​​

"nostalgia is denial... denial of the painful present. It's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."                - Midnight In Paris (movie)

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photo by @alice-apsx

Dante's Inferno - art by Gustave Doré (1861)

Is anyone annoyed with how merfolk are always pictured as one half completely fish and the other completely human? I mean, sure, it’s mythological, but it has to have SOME logic. I’ve seen some people’s takes on what a more realistic mer-person would look like, so I decided to make mine. - Merfolk skin would ABSOLUTELY NOT be the black/brown/tan/peachy color us humans are. Instead, due to being part fish and living underwater at a reasonably large depth, they will probably have a skin variation on greyish-white with a hint of blue, green, or purple. For mermaids from different areas, darker and lighter colors (whitish to blackish mixed with fish-like colors) will vary. - Merfolk would most likely have more fish-like eyes, due to spending most of their time in the water. Mermaids can see almost, but not quite, as good on land as they can underwater. - Due to their size and what lives underwater, their diet is probably the same as dolphins and sharks, which probably means they would most likely have sharp teeth. But, that doesn’t mean that sometimes they will try to enjoy sea plants every once in a while! - I’m going to be honest, merfolk would probably not have any hair; instead, they would either have a large fin on their head or be entirely bald. But, if there is to be a possibility, they could have hair if the scalp made a natural mowhawk that worked like a fin. (Like how I designed it here. In my opinion, it looks better, too.) (They would probably customize it in different ways, like length, part lines, etc.) - Mermaids most likely do not have breasts, due to probably having a reproduction system similar to a shark’s or a dolphin’s. - Merfolk have webbed hands and fins on their forearms / over their ears to better help with steering. - Merfolk would either be able to hold their breath for astonishing amounts of time (They have been spotted by sailors most likely because they are coming up to breathe.), or they would have two respiratory systems, the human half, which breathes air, and the fish / water mammal half, which breathes water. - There would most likely be different species, or at least variations, of merfolk. (For example, mostly fish, mostly mammal, saltwater, freshwater, fish type, underwater mammal type, etc.)

"There will never be a door [...] It does not exist. Expect nothing. Not even the beast obscured by the black dusk."

~ "The Labyrinth", Jorge Luis Borges.

this is another awesome kickstarter I found and it’s so close to being funded. It features two adorable Greek themed pins. One is Medusa and the other is Persephone so please help them out. Just use the link below.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/330388878/medusa-and-persephone-enamel-pins?ref=discovery&term=Medusa

There are things all around you in the world, trying to survive, that you'll never get a chance to notice.

There's a werewolf in the café that you always go to, working on his laptop. It's already far enough into the lunar cycle so that he's becoming semi wolflike at night. He'll spend to weekend upstate this month when the full moon finally hits, like he always does. He tells himself it'll be nice to get the fresh air, and he's glad he's privileged enough to not end up hurting anyone. You just think of him as taking business trips every month.

There's a ghost whose possessing a human body for the first time in a long time, standing on the subway platform with some of her living freinds. She's laughing about how weird it is to walk around as a person, and slightly nervously commenting on how there's plastic in this body's blood. This is her first time she's possessing a male body, and the awkwardness of it has given way to a strange fascination and euphoria as to how it feels compared to her body when she was alive, she likes how people look at her, and how handsome she feels.

There's a goblin whose been stealing food from that deli that you always go to, and petting the cat every time he get a chance to. He lives in subway tunnels, because it's safer to dodge trains then dodge the eyes of humans. The world is a much bigger place to someone so small, and the streets and buildings weren't built for him, and neither were the trees or animals. He wakes up every day hoping to survive, in a world where humans are giants that stalk the streets, and where scaring someone is a crime that may cost him his life. He prays he won't die for the crime of being small, or the crime of being ugly.

There's a vampire on your college campus, trying to still have a normal life after being turned. She knows everything from her human life will be gone in a hundred years, it was supposed to be gone the momment she was bitten but she tries to make it so she can still keep moving forward. Her body lacks so much that it used to, she doesn't sleep, doesn't desire sex, doesn't eat, but she's still a person, who can talk to her freinds, and still go to classes like she used to. She'll survive like this as long as her family is supportive enough to let her stay in their apartment, and as long as her girlfriend let's her drink blood from her hand, as if she was handfeeding an animal. And for awhile it'll be like she's still a person.

There's a demon on the sidewalk near your campus, standing right near the subway station, whose having to focus their energy on a spell that makes them look human, knowing their true form would terrify the humans around them. They're walking every street so excited, so amazing by the city around them, by the world around them, the glistening towers, the people outside talking, the sky that's so very blue. It's all so mundane to the humans around them, but to a demon, who was told they never deserved any of it, that they'd never see anything but the underworld, it's the most amazing thing possible. And the world is so pretty, so hopeful, through their doomed eyes.

Amaterasu- The Japanese Sun Goddess

I finished her. I've spent all of my free time today on her and am really proud of this piece. Im also thinking of painting a Tsukuyomi (her husband the moon god) to match

Some photos from my trip to Greece

Woah! 2027 Crystallis animal leak! The Egyptian Sphinxes seem to have a strong connection with Zios..could he be on?

This is not a real animal, art by me

this is based off my oc, Elliot! haha

the sculptor

Insert FALLING in love joke here