My workplace is weird sometimes. I just spent almost half an hour being a perch for a corn snake. 10/10. would do again.

#art #drawing #graphite Medical textbook vs. Amateur: round 2. Is it better than yesterday? No. Do I hate it? Also no. Should I stop using medical textbooks for reference photos? Probably. Am I glad my camera is incapable of getting a much better shot? Absolutely.

#art #graphite #drawing What my I was going for Vs. What my beginner ass was able to do with the pencils. ...I mean, I don't hate it at least.

#folkyfriday #Mythology #GreekMythology Not everyone sews seed. For example, Cadmus sewed a dragon's teeth and got a set of warriors that he used to found Thebes. Art: Peter Paul Rubens

#art #digitalart "scary, but also very gay". this is just kinda...my personality.

#art #DigitalArt #Procreate I'm not entirely sure why I made this, but I like the way it turned out.

#art #DigitalArt #procreate #ProcreateArt I don't care I'm calling them self-portraits art: ME!

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology In a rather literal version of a comeback, Sisyphus tricked Persephone in letting him return to the world of the living to punish his wife for neglecting his burial, a *grave* offense... Didn't last. Hermes dragged him back to the underworld. art: Titian

#Mythology #Classics #GreekMythology #LegendaryWednesday Oedipus was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Abandoned as a baby, unaware of his origins, he later killed the king and married his widow. You can guess the identities of those involved... art: Gustave Moreau

#Mythology #GreekMythology Anemoi, Hesperides, Muses...there are a lot of groups of deities in Greek mythology. As a librarian, this kind of cataloging and classification is exactly how my brain operates. lore-cat.com/glossary-of-...

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology Everything about the hydra was dangerous, including it's blood. After killing it, Heracles soaked his arrows in the blood and gained a very potent new weapon. art: Gustave Moreau

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology The final challenge before Zeus truly became the cosmic king was against Typhon. In some versions of the myth, he was imprisoned beneath Mount Etna in Sicily, which explains the volcanic activity. In others he was imprisoned in Tartarus.

#WyrdWednesday in #folklore and #mythology, blood turning into a flower is almost a trope. In #GreekMythology, we see this with Adonis, the mortal lover of Aphrodite. He was gored to death by a boar and his blood mixed with her tears and turned into the anemone.

#mythology #GreekMythology #classics #infographic We like to try and box the deities in to simple categories and classifications. That doesn't always work. Aphrodite is a great example. She was the goddess of love, yes, but she had other aspects, many of them related to war.

#procreate #animation #art Am I an animator? No. But do I understand the basics? Also no. BUT there was an attempt!

#folklore #art #digitalart #procreate During the Middle Ages sapphires were believed to be preferred by necromancers because they aided in controlling spirits Art: me!

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics Aphrodite was the goddess of love, we all know that, but she had a LOT of other titles, descriptors and epithets. I am certain I missed some.

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics I moonlight as a magic cat in a wizard hat on the internet, but by day I'm a librarian. It's my nature to gather information, so I've collected and organized a bunch of different useful sites for mythology, among other things. lore-cat.com/digital-reso...

#Mythology #GreekMythology #LegendaryWednesday It wasn't his theft of fire that got Prometheus chained to a rock, but it might be his most famous act. A second-generation titan, Prometheus was the one who sculpted humans and then stole fire from Olympus to give to humanity. art: Peter Paul Ruebens

#WyrdWednesday #art #DigitalArt #Folklore 'water horse' is basically a category of creature in various folklores. Often malevolent and...horse-shaped (though they sometimes shapeshift in different stories), it tries to drown people. A kelpie is a good example. art: me!

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Infographic #Classics Aphrodite and Eros are the main love deities, but Greek gods could get very specific, so there was an entourage of sorts known as the Erotes who personified different aspects, like Hedylogos for sweet words or Anteros for requited love.

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics It's really not a good idea to piss of Aphrodite... lore-cat.com/5-times-aphr...

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics Love could be weaponized like anything else. lore-cat.com/5-love-curse...

#MythologyMonday #GreekMythology Orpheus loved his wife Eurydice deeply, to the point where he went to the underworld to get her back. He was allowed to take her out on the condition that he not look back until they were out. He looked too soon and she vanished forever. 🎨: Riamondi, Francia

#Folklore the words 'groaning cheese' intrigued me so much that I had to look deeper into it! lore-cat.com/groaning-che...

Trying to learn to draw involves asking yourself a lot of interesting questions. Questions like "wait, how does light work again?" and "am I SURE I know what a lion looks like? I mean, really? Is that even how faces work?"

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology Boreas, god of the the north wind, is the most fearsome wind god, bring snow and storms. 🎨:Stuart James & Revett Nicholas

#LegendaryWednesday #mythology #GreekMythology One of the original titans, Mnemosyne was worshipped as the goddess of memory and played a role in some healing rituals. 🎨: wood engraving from 'Der Olymp oder die Mythologie der Griechen und Römer' by August Heinrich Petiscus

#mythology #GreekMythology This is one of my favorite paintings. There's something about the blues that just really stand out to me. Adolf Hirémy Hirschl-Die Seelen am Acheron -1898

#MythologyMonday #Mythology #GreekMythology Asclepius, son of Apollo, was very good at healing. SO good, in fact, that he could resurrect the dead. In some myths he was taught by snakes, who licked his ears clean (this is almost a recurring element).

#Mythology #GreekMythology #classics The Danaides were the 50-or-so daughters of Danaus who collectively (except for 1) decided to kill their husbands on their wedding night. They were sentenced to fill a sieve for eternity. art: John William Waterhouse(1904)

#Mythology Snakes tend to be vilified in modern media. In #Greekmythology? Less so. Depictions varied. Sometimes they taught medicine! lore-cat.com/snakes-in-gr...

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology Melampus is another person who had his ears licked by snakes, this time so throughly that he was able to understand the language of birds. They also taught him the art of prophecy. ...I can't even think of an image that would work here

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology Talos was basically a bronze, possibly sentient, boulder-throwing robot. His origins and his death vary by author, but he protected the island of Crete. image: Talos on a coin source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Di...

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology A peculiar myth about snakes is that a snake once licked Asclepius' ear so clean that he could understand them. And then it taught him medicine. image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:As...

#FairyTaleTuesday #Mythology #GreekMythology Medea was smart, ruthless, and focused. Jason was an idiot. To stop her father from pursuing them, she cut her brother into pieces and scattered them in the sea. What part of that makes rejecting her seem like a good idea? 🎨: Frederick Sandys (1866)

#Mythology #GreekMythology We tend to ignore what Sisyphus actually did and focus on the boulder thing. lore-cat.com/sisyphus-cri...

#Mythology #GreekMythology Because I often forget the exact labors and the names of the people involved. lore-cat.com/heracles-12-...

#MythologyMonday #Mythology #GreekMythology Owls have long been associated with Athena, to the point where her eponymous city, Athens, featured them on its coins.

#Mythology #GreekMythology fun fact: Athena had a mother. Her name was Metis lore-cat.com/athenas-moth...

#folkyfriday #folklore a belief from Lincolnshire in the 1800s: peel an apple without breaking the peel and throw it over your left shoulder with your right hand and it will land in the shape of the first letter of the name of your future wife.

#FolkloreThursday #Folklore In Northumberland in the 1800s, a medical man had to cut the groaning cheese and loaf after the birth of a child. If you've never heard of 'groaning cheese', neither had I! It's a childbirth custom where cheese was cut and shared. Apparently it was often Cheshire cheese

#LegendaryWednesday #GreekMythology #Mythology Once, at Hera's urging, Hypnos was able to temporarily put Zeus to sleep. It didn't last long, and Zeus was PISSED! The only thing that saved Hypnos was the protection of his mother, Nyx. 🎨: Night and Sleep, by Evelyn de Morgan

#WyrdWednesday #GreekMythology #Mythology #FunFact: Cerberus didn't always or consistently have 3 heads. Hesiod gives him 50 in the Theogony. Sometimes his back is also covered with snakes. Eventually 3 heads became the most popular depiction. 🎨: unknown. it's from approximately 525 BCE.

#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore Black dogs show up pretty frequently in english folklore, often as omens of death. Names include Barghest, Capelthwaite, Galley Trot, etc. Still the goodest boys? Maybe. I'd advise against booping the snoot though... 🎨: ME!

#Mythology I love a sword, let's be clear. It's an iconic class of weapon. But not everyone used one. Here are five weapons from various mythologies that are NOT swords. Just for variety. lore-cat.com/5-mythical-w...

#Mythology #MythologyMonday The Trojan War started at a wedding. Eris, mad about not being invited to Peleus and Thetis’s wedding, tossed a golden apple to the goddesses. They decided to let Paris choose who got the apple. He chose Aphrodite, Aphrodite gave him Helen, and then..war. 🎨: JMW Turner

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Infographic Nyx had a lot of children, mostly on her own. Deceit, Sleep, Blame, Friendship, the fates, Doom, Woe...the list goes on.

#Mythology Just how many deities are there in #GreekMythology? I…stopped counting somewhere around 200… lore-cat.com/glossary-of-...

#sewing First project. I hate throwing away clothes, even if they're not really wearable anymore. So I turned parts of a pair of jeans, pillowcase, belt, and string from who knows where into a roll for my paint brushes.