shine, shine, and don't stop shining

Now I just need an athletic Hera (possibly in garb inspired by the Heraean Games?) carrying the thunderbolt/with thunderbolt earrings and a dress made of clouds

(For anyone who doesn’t know what we’re talking about, here is the context:

Then Zeus, taking the official robes, which he wore when he was going to address the senate, first put on his head the royal crown wrought of fire, and covered the back of his head with a gleaming veil, which Athena herself, entrusted with its creation, had woven for him. Then over a pure white tunic he put a glass-green cloak, which was interwoven with points of starlight and glittered with all the twinkling of their fires. In his right hand outstretched he took two shining globes, one made of gold, the other of amber; and with his left hand leaned on a nine-stringed lyre. Gaia bound on his feet grass-green shoes, dyed with the green of emerald. He sat on a folded robe woven with the “eyes” of the tail feathers of peacocks, on which, like the bloom of spring, there was a picture made of many tiny specks of color; he rested his sandaled feet upon a trident.

I love the little moments where we see him covering her with his cape casually for non protective reasons bc he’s a gentleman and loves holding on to her 🥹

Batman #78 / Batman #392 / Sirens: love hurts #4

Him immediately going to cuddle and hug her >>

Batman Black & White #4

Catwoman (2018) #34

He loves setting his head on or against hers 🥺

Batman (2016) annual #2 / Batman/catwoman special #1 / Catwoman (2011) #38 / Batman (2016) #66 / Batman: one bad day - Catwoman / Batman/catwoman special #1

if you haven’t realized yet, these two want to crawl into each other’s souls and can’t go one second without physical touch

The way he holds her arms when he gets protective or worried

Batman #323

Detective Comics (1937) #557

Jla #116 / Catwoman: Future state #2

just…soft bed cuddles

Catwoman (2018) #17 / Batman (2016) #44 / Batman/superman #4

Holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes

Batman #313 / Batman dark victory

Batman (2016) #15

They are so “I know places” 🥺

Batman #392

Hera and Ares, based on the painting by Sophie Koner - Maria Wilhelmine Klemperer with her son Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer

Ovid, Fasti 5. 229 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :

"[Flora tells the story of the birth of Mars-Ares :] Mars [Ares] also, you may not know, was formed by my [Flora's] arts. I pray that Jove [Zeus] stays ignorant of this. Holy Juno [Hera], when Minerva [Athene] sprang unmothered, was hurt that Jove did not need her service. She went to complain to Oceanus of her husband's deeds. She stopped at our door, tired from the journey. As soon as I saw her, I asked, ‘What's brought you here, Saturnia [Hera]?’ She reports where she's going, and cites the cause. I consoled her with friendly words : ‘Words,’ she declares, ‘cannot relieve my pain. If Jove became a father without using a spouse and possesses both titles by himself, why should I not expect a spouseless motherhood, chaste parturition, untouched by a man? I'll try every drug on the broad earth and empty Oceanus and the hollows of Tartarus.’

Her speech was mid-course; my face was hesitant. ‘You look, Nympha, as thou you can help,’ she says. Three times I wanted to help, three times my tongue stuck : Jupiter's anger caused massive fear. ‘Please help me,’ she said, ‘my source will be concealed;’ and the divine Styx testifies to this.

‘A flower,’ I said, ‘from the fields of Olenus [in the Peloponnesos] will grant your wish. It's unique to my gardens. I was told : "Touch a barren cow; she'll be a mother." I touched. No delay : she was a mother.’

I quickly plucked the clinging flower with my thumb. Juno feels its touch and at the touch conceives. She bulges, and enters Thrace and west Propontis, and fulfils her wish : Mars [Ares] was created. Recalling my role in his birth, Mars said : ‘You, too, should have a place in Romulus' city.’"

Athena, based on 2000-year-old bronze bust of a Yemeni princess whose name was written in the Sabaic language on her neck "Nadeen dhe Sadqen Shams". I thought the writings looked like a cool chocker necklace.

The Deception of Zeus

Dc’s Hawk-girl summer #1