" - And to one of his former actors - superstitious like all actors - he (Albert Camus) said, laughing: - Look! I, who was born under the sign of Scorpio, must die mad or violent death!
Fifteen days later his car hit a plane tree."
text: from the Archive of Paris Match
artwork: ©đęvilišнjëѕтér viapinterest
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🌞ЛУЧЕЗАРНОЕ СОЛНЦЕ🌞
в твоей власти согреть меня, спалить дотла, либо, отвернувшись, превратить в лёд.
aquarius sun imagery and would you also see?
crossing the sky in might and glory, the Sun lits up the earth, and It sees everything, and It guides, and It judges; it's bright when It faces you, and it's warm when It stretches Its arms towards you, and it burns when It strikes you, and it's cold when It turns away, and it's dark when It disappears, but It is there even when It's out of sight, and even then It proves Its presence with the solar wind embracing the night
posting it when it's dark already and i miss the sun… i love the sun and i also love aquarius camus and it just so happens- anyway my statement is that i think camus is supposed to be sun symbolism. both his red and teal hair colors are just like aurora borealis, referenced in his attack, which is the sun wind itself. then aurora is the roman goddess of the dawn, her greek counterpart being eos, for which you can sometimes see an iconography of her holding vases pouring out the morning dew… it's rare and i need to research it more… aside from that the solar wind spreads over the sky like wine the aquarius pours… and is so beautifully like proof that the sun is around… don't you also think it's a powermove hyoga learns it because *starts crying*
this is only one aspect of it though... i will think about it more… stay tuned
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"Merman Aquarius Camus" or "Melting tears"
It represents Camus, the saint of ice, watching his kingdom melting because of the global warning.
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It's the Buddy for April 22nd! He's wearing the Capricorn Cloth (being a capricorn himself) of the classic Masami Kurumada manga Saint Seiya.
I loved Saint Seiya. I have all the paperbacks, even, I liked it when I was a kid. It's an interesting manga, in that it doesn't make much sense in retrospect, but when you're reading it, you're more interested in the beat of the plot than in the big picture.
The plot, as I understand, is that this rich girl Saori is the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, so her dad arranged for ten boys to get trained to be her protectors (the saints), wearing bronze armors based on traditional constellations. Then they get into a martial arts tournment to win an actual gold cloth, but complications start making it so they need to stop fighting amongst themselves, and start fighting actual bad guys.
In a way, it's a very toyetic story - each character has their own unique armor (or cloth) which is fits both them, and can be assembled to resemble its constellation, so kids had a lot of expensive toys to collect. And since the golden cloths (belonging to the strongest saints) are based on the twelve zodiac signs, kids already have a favorite character picked out for them.
Me, I'm an Aquarius, so my favorite was Aquarius Camus. The one with the ice powers. He also won a Literature Nobel, you know. But I never related to him, really. He's an ice guy, which is cool I guess, but, not the power I'd choose.
The manga's also very camp. The art's really old-fashioned, looking almost like sometihng from Tatsuo Yoshida's generation. Not a lot of attention is paid to proportions and depth, and the fight scenes are not dynamic. But that's one of the things I like about it, to be honest. It feels like there's a closer dialog between the artist and the reader when the art is so direct. It's the opposite of something like the manga version of One-Punch Man, for instance.
And the designs of the cloths, characters and enemies is also pretty unique, it's got that simplified design quality of eighties manga that's not as popular anymore.
One aspect that Saint Seiya, like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, isn't shy about is the gay subtext regarding some characters... it's most obvious with Andromeda Shun and Pisces Aphrodite, but also Virgo Shak, Aries Mu... it's an intentional aspect of the story, but when me and my friends were kids watching it, we thought it was pretty "gross".
Even though it doesn't really make sense and it's pretty much design to appeal to kids' love of shiny stuff and fight scenes, Saint Seiya is one of my favorite franchises. I'll be honest, I didn't know much about greek mythology when I first watched the anime, so I assumed a lot of the stuff Kurumada made up was actual part of ancient Greek myth. Still makes no sense why Capricorn Shura had the power of Excalibur, though... what does Excalibur have to do with Capricorn? Should be a Draco thing, or even Ursa Major...
The Capricorn print in the background is a public domain image.
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Tiny art dump
1. I saw the art for FFXIV Viper and went "Damn, sick pose--"
2. Teddy's main gear being headphones was pretty cute, I had to draw something for that
3. Mumu's new animations uaaa... 💜💜💜
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