With Shortness Of Breath

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

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Watched Project Hail Mary for the first time a few days ago and I’m obsessed. The way James Ortiz brings life to Rocky is so mesmerizing to see. I love seeing artists do what they love.

I technically wanted to draw a human version of Rocky but eventually settled for a one sitting session portrait of James <3 8 hours well spent.

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When your bestie gonna die if you don’t come back for him

Somebody on the medical team put him on his bunk in a wrong way...

Sound on.