#myth concepts

[cubikzoa]

What if Eldritch madness is like swimming in the ocean. What I’m saying here. Is that unknown knowledge is an ocean that goes down forever. You go down too deep too fast, the pressure crushes you. You come back up too quickly, you die of blood oxygenation. Some people don’t even have the strength or presence of mind to ever surface again. You have to learn how to dive safely. How to swim well. You have to be perseverant and always strive to do better, and to be aware of the danger and past follies of others. If you know the particulars of it like your own name, and have your goals in mind, you should be alright, but the ocean is still an unpredictable force of nature. If you choose to take the plunge you’d better know how to swim.

Anyways do you think this means that since Eldritch beings might be unfamiliar with human stuff it would be just as freaky and confusing to them as their stuff is to us. Like Cthulhu sees a juice box and is like “What the actual fuck is that”

#myths and legends #lovecraftian horror #lovecraftian theory #Eldritch #Eldritch madness #myth concepts #Cthulhu vs a Pineapple Capri-Sun #Cthulhu #biblically accurate angel #true form angel #true form gods #Old gods #human limitations and god type thingy limitations #Are different but the same lol #Theories #mythology #Cosmology #eldritch madness concepts #Maybe I won’t burn away under the gaze of 20000000 eyes. Maybe I’m mentally fireproof Brenda did you ever think of that #This also might apply to humans who cannot possibly get more mentally fucked up by human standards so they’re immune to this as well #Text #text post

[meringuejellyfish]

is herobrine behavior/lore not common knowledge anymore .... has the world really forgotten about the 2x2 tunnels .. trees with their leaves all gone ... the sand pyramids in the ocean ... the herobrine shrine that would apparently summon him ... the lost to time brocraft hoax livestream that further popularized herobrine as a concept (of which herobrine was just a painting from a texture pack, later removed to which the streamer would continue to act freaked out until the end) .. the original forum post from sometime in august 2010 that detailed encounters with a pseudo-player in the distance on a singleplayer world which included this screenshot

does anyone even care at all. about a herobrine so small

#minecraft #i cut the forum post contents short because i only enjoy it up to that point #such a fondness for the herobrine myth #it was simple but thats why it worked in the environment of alpha minecraft #minecraft - especially early versions - held with them a kind of inherit loneliness #it was a little barren. only a few mobs with very simple ai #limited amount of items. no hunger #the low render distance fog leading to somewhat of an eerie atmosphere. leaving you to wonder if theres anything else out there #the origins of this myth like. understood how to work with what this game was at the time to create a concept that you know. if you were a #young kid around this era then youd be wondering about herobrine in your own singleplayer world #s #hey remember when they forgot to add ''removed herobrine'' to the change logs #also remember when the community spent hours to find the seed from this screenshot and they actually did they found the herobrine seed

[madcat-world]

Wild Hunt Warrior - Isis Sangaré

#Wild Hunt Warrior #Isis Sangaré #hunters #the Wild Hunt #skulls #myths #concept art #dark fantasy #digital art

[geosaurus]

sinner, you better get ready

#aura blackquill #simon blackquill #athena cykes #ace attorney #dual destinies #i know i should have looked up japanese funeral traditions for Metis but researching it made me sad. sorry >_< #Also I hope Aura's critique of masculinity comes thru- that its constructed to extract value from the working class & excuse state violence #it changes how I percieve Auras resentment of Athena- its almost less directed at her and more at the concept of innocence itself #that is: the binary of innocence & guilt which a foundational myth of the carceral state and simon wields against himself to save athena. #ANYWAY Aura have big tiddy and hate the system and that is why we simp #Also the subtitle is a linga ignotica lyric and a folk song

[samsantala]

Guild Wars 2 | Kirin Jackal Skin

The Kirin Jackal Skin brief was to design a skin that could replace a previous design for a Kirin-like creature

Art direction by Marianne Martin

Special Thanks to VOLTA, and ArenaNet for the opportunity. (i.e. Copyright © 2024 ArenaNet, LLC. All right reserved. Shared with authorization)

#art #artist #digital art #artists on tumblr #concept art #drawing #fantasy #creature #game art #games #guild wars 2 #guild wars #MMO #Game #video game #kirin #myth #mythological #horns #creature design #creature concept

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

BATIBAT - THE LUCID TREE

by John Patrick Gañas

#tentacles #fhtagn #john patrick ganas #batibat #concept art #chara design #collective #dream #tree #philippines #myth #creature #monster #horror #smoke #flow #branches #dreammancy #fhtagnnn

[b--art]

All my Heracles depictions.

He and Perseus are my favourite greek heroes.

#art #sketch #illustration #drawing #design #male #concept art #comics #digital art #greek tumblr #greek gods #ancient greece #greek posts #greek mythology #myth #heracles #gay art

[my-name-is-apollo]

Phemonoe, the Pythian priestess on why the Delphic oracle has grown silent:

"...or perhaps Apollo, determined to exclude the guilty from his shrine finds none in this age worthy of opening his closed lips."

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

...

Internal screaming

#Apollo #Phemonoe #Pythia #guys this has changed something in me #Gods not interacting with the humans anymore in this age because of the corrupt nature of humanity #is something that's common in my religion too #(well the myths of my religion to be specific) #not that I'm too religious #but it's cool to see similar concepts in Greek mythology and Hindu mythology #especially since they're often quite different from each other conceptually #Apollo info #mine #Lucan

[unironicallyroyal]

Poseidon: just say you’re sorry

Odysseus: I’m sorry your snitch son started with me

Tbh he was just a more polite Percy Jackson

#jorge rivera herrans #epic concept album #epic: the musical #epic the ocean saga #epic the cyclops saga #musicals #odyssey #odysseus #poseidon #greek myth retellings #greek mythology #greek gods #polyphemus #percy jackson

[miraenart]

Éos.

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #concept art #artwork #illustration #paint #painting #draw #drawing #watercolor #watercolour #gouache #markers #mixed media #landscape #myth #myths #mythology #greek mythology #sunrise #surreal #colorful

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form! #anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

[bubblyernie]

NEW OC JUST DROPPED!! I had so much fun with him, made in the midst of reading the Iliad (the Trojans, the 'oathbreakers'??? wink wink nudge nudge!!) and Mythic Odysseys of Theros. 

:3 Check out his write up, it's one of my favourite backstories so far haha he died a war hero (i wonder who) and upon his death his soul was sent to the afterlife. He refused to cross over at which point he broke out (and assumed anyone can bc he's just that heroic) but as punishment the boatman stole his memories so he has to start at level 1 (reborn race) and has his obols still stuck to his eyes lol. He's like a figment/fraction of his past self lol He also uses flying boots as a mobility aid! 

art tag // commission info

#sunshan draws #the iliad #dnd #dungeons and dragons #greek mythology #character illustration #illustration #fantasy #sketch #digital art #digital painting #digital sketch #art #doodles #oc #ocs #concept art #character design #mythic odysseys of theros #greek myth #iliad #homer #trojan war #troy #greek #the odyssey #adamantius #reborn #oathbreaker #paladin

[ballgame]

I wonder if the idea behind the term "Roaring" is that of a more intense version of the adjective "Yawning."

#like as an extension of the whole ''darker than dark'' concept #deltarune #the roaring knight #also fun fact: yawn has the same etymological root as the word chaos #chaos even used to be another word for something like a chasm or an abyss #this meaning of chaos pops up in several creation myths as this thing before things

[odddesignz]

The Oilot Line🏺

Rock/Fighting

The dripping Pokémon!

#artists on tumblr #digital art #pokemon #pokémon #fakemon #pokemon art #art commissions #pokemon oc #rock type #pokemon region #concept art #greek pottery #ancient greek aesthetic #greek mythology #greek myth art

[cadaverkeys]

You guys know any queer comics where characters are Fae/Interact with Fae? I'm writing an essay on the intersection between queer comic spaces and Celtic mythology and I'd like to know if people have thoughts/recommendations.

#softly counting satyrs as fae #even tho they're not celtic they r still very much considered to be faerie folk #i thought Mamo was a great read for this intersection if anyone also wants my recommendation #rambles #q word / #youd be surprised how few thought pieces there are about the fae to queer intersection #even tho i would say its one of the most prominent types of gender expression with youths #not to even get started on how much celtic myth plays a role in neopaganism/wicca communities #which used to b extremely popular in millenial queer spaces #so its like? for at least a decade fae and queer have been extremely prominently associated w each other #but there is NOT a lot of academic writing abt this concept. weird right?

[lorebird]

Continuing my “Cynthia is Volo after chilling out and transitioning” propaganda: Consequences Edition

#pokemon #Cynthia #Volo #elesa #emmet #subway boss emmet #my art #I’ve seen a lot of ‘immortal volo meets emmet and offers to help him find ingo’ #but he’s always real evil about it which! fair enough! #mans is an unhinged villain! #I just wanna explore that concept w my own hc of cynthia learning to make a new life after she’s lost everything in Hisui #starting over fresh with ‘volo’ being a relic of the past #until uh oh! consequences! #this is the first time she’s met emmet. it’s been like 200 yrs since she saw Ingo #so she hasn’t thought much abt the man she dragged through the rift on accident #she and a lot of the unova ladies r besties bc I think it’s cute and there’s the whole villa thing :] #she’s come to really enjoy her new life and everyone in it and is terrified she’s going to lose that bc of what she did in hisui #so she’s like. hi yeah I know a lot about Mysteries and Myths maybe I can help find him! don’t worry!! #shenanigans ensue as she tries to pretend she’s solving a mystery that she caused and also trynna figure out how to get Ingo back