#alkestis

[shay-does-art-things]

C'mon girls, we're killing Kagha

#alkestis is the conflict escalator #alkestis #durge #dark urge #bg3 dark urge #bg3 durge #bg3 #zevlor #bg3 zevlor #bg3 fanart #fanart

[dwellordream]

HERAKLES Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.  All mortals owe a debt to death. There’s no one alive who can say if he will be tomorrow. Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery. No one can teach it, no one can grasp it. Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink! But don’t forget Aphrodite—that’s one sweet goddess. You can let the rest go. Am I making sense? I think so. How about a drink. Put on a garland. I’m sure  the happy splash of wine will cure your mood. We’re all mortal you know. Think mortal. Because my theory is, there’s no such thing as life, it's just catastrophe.

Anne Carson, Alkestis

#anne carson #alkestis #word to the wise

[berattelse]

What does Alkestis' resurrection mean for the sacrificial contract that Admetos had negotiated with Death? This question is never addressed in the play. Mathematically Death is down one soul; common sense (what the Greeks call Necessity) tells us such a situation can't last. But Herakles seems a character able to override common sense. He releases Alkestis simply by choosing to do so. As if to say, within every death a life stands waiting to be set free, should anyone have the nerve to do it. As if to say, try looking deep into a house, a marriage, or an idea like Necessity and you will see clear through to the other side. Death, like tragedy, is a game with rules. Why not just break the rules?

Carson, Anne. Preface to "Alkestis" by Euripides. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides. New York Review of Books, 2006.

#anne carson #euripides #alkestis #grief lessons #grief lessons: four plays by euripides #excerpts #prose #*

[commetombeunarbre]

God found a way to be surprising

#Anne Carson #Alkestis #p.306

[vagevurig]

Alkestys the Inkdrian, October 2021

I am taking commissions! Check my pinned post.

#artists on tumblr #fan character #sonic fan character #intersex #Seedrian #Inkdrian #Lucifer Does The Art Thing #Alkestys the Inkdrian #Mystic Forest Zone #I've been typing out my art tag so often im afraid im going to type it wrong at some point

[nerefee]

help I am projecting my personal trauma on characters in ancient greek tragedies again

#a #done with alkestis tho I’m having thoughts about Kassandra today

[lunamonchtuna]

— Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, from Alkestis; "Grief Lessons: Four Plays,"

#poetry #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #light academia #book quotes #dark academic #quotes #lovecore #romantic academia

[psalmsofpsychosis]

of you; of me

// Chapter 20 of Lacan's Seminar XI // Batman: The Killing Joke // Euripides, Alkestis, tr. by Anne Carson // i love you, it looks like rain — June Gehringer // Batman: Europa // The Nation's Saddest Love Poems — Sam J. Grudgings // Batman #67: Knightmares // Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke written c. October 1945 // The Dark Knight Returns // Hesitation Outside the Door — Margaret Atwood // Batman #144 // Snow and Dirty Rain — Richard Siken // Batman: Cacophony #3 // quote by Etel Adnan // Batman/Catwoman #3 // unknown source. //

#in which i was possessed by Georges Bataille for a whole ordinary Thursday to wax poetics about the correlations between eroticism and death #but also damn! this one was hard #this whole thing was 0.003 seconds from becoming very tragic at any given moment; but i stayed silly :3 #Batjokes #Batjokes web weaving #Batman #web weaving #web weave #Batman compilation #Batjokes compilation

[shay-does-art-things]

current BG3 character sketches as i test out their outfit vibes

#ocs #alkestis #dark urge #bartolo loredan #jayhon trevelyan #shaeranni carrimack #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #tav bg3 #bg3 fanart

[teamsasukes]

ITACHI & SASUKE UCHIHA

Plutarch, Cato the Younger / Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto / Sophocles, Electra / Traci Brimhall, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod / Fatimah Asghar, How'd Your Parents Die Again? / Holly Warburton, Chaos / Japanese Breakfast, Boyish / Sophocles, Electra / George R. R. Martin, Fire and Blood / Jacopo Palma Junior, Cain Kills Abel / Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters / Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart / Euripides, Alkestis / Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

#i have long-suffered from itachi and sasuke brainrot and you should too #web weaving #uchiha itachi #uchiha sasuke #itachi & sasuke #itachi uchiha #sasuke uchiha #naruto #uchiha brothers #i did a short web weave on main once but this is my first lengthy one and like. ngl it was fun #also to be clear i skipped citing nrt after the first time at the end there

[dwellordream]

ADMETOS I shall have a craftsman make a likeness of your body  and lay it in our bed. There I can kiss it, hold it, calling your name and pretend I have my dear wife in my arms. A cold joy, to be sure, but what else is left? Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. If I had Orpheus’ tongue if I could charm Persephone and win you back from Hades, I’d go down there. The dog of hell wouldn’t stop me. Charon wouldn’t stop me. I’d recover you to light!

Anne Carson, Alkestis

#alkestis #anne carson #word to the wise

[iliadicjasontodd]

well alkestis sure looks angry these days

(jason todd | red hood)

#jason todd #dc #batman #red hood #my art

[commetombeunarbre]

The dead are dead. Please come into my house.

#Anne Carson #Alkestis #p.278

[all-the-bad-dreams-that-you-hide]

HERAKLES: Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, it's just catastrophe.

— Alkestis, Grief Lessons: Four Plays, by Euripides, trans. Anne Carson

#anne carson #grief lessons #euripides #herakles #poem

[lovelylittlelosers]

greek tragedy (mostly familicide bc that's my thesis) as textposts again bc i can't stop myself

(pt1)

Kreusa and Ion - Ion // Orestes - Oresteia

Alkestis - Alkestis // Iphigeneia - Iphigeneia in Aulis

Herakles/Ajax/Oedipus - Herakles/Ajax/Oedipus Tyrannus // Klytaimnestra - Agamemnon

#tagamemnon #ion #oresteia #alcestis #iphigenia #heracles #ajax #oedipus #clytemnestra #agamemnon #sophocles #euripides #aeschylus

[zarovichs]

love across time as a haunting,

supervert, “necrophilia variations”  /  anna akhmatova, “the guest”  /  james elroy flecker, “to a poet a thousand years hence”  /  walt whitman, “scented herbiage of my breast” in calamus, leaves of grass  /  bram stoker’s dracula (1992), dir. francis ford coppola  /  marina tsvetaeva, “no one has taken anything away”  /  unknown  /  edited version of the tome of strahd, curse of strahd for dungeons & dragons 5e  /  euripides, grief lessons; alkestis tr. anne carson

#web weaving #curse of strahd #parallels #🦌 #i need this. it's 4 me...... #do i terrify? #fixed the tome of strahd screenshot to make it more visible im sorry