if you think your family is dysfunctional remember that zeus got a woman pregnant but she burned to death so he rescued the fetus from her ashes and sewed it into his thigh and gave birth to it himself and that fetus is now the god of wine and sexual deviancy god bless
Thirty Day Monster Girl Challenge
Day 2: CentaurArabian Centaur lady
Savannah Sentinel by Jenny Dolfen.
First of a three-part series of spreads of my take on Rapunzel set in India. The book is geared toward a younger audience so I went with younger protagonists as well!
Omg I love
Not a direct adaptation of Tangled, but what a beautiful illustration!
I drew some African versions of Thor and Loki. All I can think is that Loki must be BFFs with Anansi the Spider.
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Queen Hades (Cynthia Addai-Robinson)
The Queen of the Underworld made her own realm.
She chipped away at the earth with endless patience, while her brothers went to sit their thrones in heaven and the dark depths of the sea. They asked her, will you have the world? And she said, I will take the dead. The world is for birth and joy, it is for sweetness; the world is for war and disease and for grief. It is for kindness and cruelty, and I possess neither of those. I will take the dead and keep them.
Her brothers wondered at what seemed to them an unfortunate lack of ambition. But the Queen said, do you not understand the nature of your own dominions? Death is what gives life its worth.
(There is something else, the man in the Queen’s bed said. He was of two worlds and would never be hers and hers alone, no matter how much she desired it.
She made him King all the same.)
by Kajito on deviantart
Commission: Medusa’s bouquet by ~Sternguard
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au/genreswap → the bacchae as southern gothic
thebes has seen some better days. it’s gone downhill fast now that most of cadmus’ daughters have gone and some days it feels like the earth’s trying to pull this sorry town back in. they say that someone who claims they’re semele’s son is leading some strange ministry down in the forest, but most of the people are too wary to see if it’s true. those who did came back changed. touched in the head. drunken and raving about the grotesque. they freed cows from the ivy street farm and we haven’t seen those creatures since.there’s a storm brewing in those woods, a wild hunt, and pentheus had better do something before the family home is finally brought crumbling down around him.
African deities
Also gorgeous..
Why do I never get to learn about African mythology it’s just never around. These are all incredibly awesome.
There’s being a dick, and then there’s writing “to the fairest” on a golden apple and rolling it into a room filled with Greek goddesses.
(Source: archangel-bonding)
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