✴ 𝕰 𝖑 𝖊 𝖓 𝖎 ✴ 𝓐𝓹𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝓷

Hmmm Wip

Lestat

“Had thrown over custom and respectability and any hope of court ambitions, of which he had none anyway since he couldn’t even read or write, and was too insulting to wait on any King or Queen, who became a wild blond-haired celebrity of the boulevard gutter theatricals, a lover of men and women, a laughing happy-go-lucky blindly ambitious self-loving genius of sorts.”

“[Louis’] cocky insolent maker”

“Comprising everything you could ever possibly want to know about him and some of us.”

“The most bold and disregarding dusty vagabond on occasion, loner, wanderer, heart-breaker and wise guy, dubbed the “Brat Prince” by my old Master-yes, imagine it, my Marius, yes, my Marius, who did indeed survive the torches of the Roman Coven-dubbed by Marius the “Brat Prince,” though in whose Court and by whose Divine Right and whose Royal Blood I should like to know.”

“Almost destroyed the world.”

“Maddening and fascinating and intolerably annoying,”

“So much for him.”

Louis

“He remained with me because he had to do it. It was the only way that he could go on existing, and for death he has never had the courage, and never will.”

“Very human, weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds, or to levitate, or to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom mortals fall in love.”

“Easy to track and easy to abandon,”  

“Will not make others after his tragic blunders with vampiric children,”

“Dusty Louis”

Claudia

“Who among us is going to let me be silent on the matter of Claudia, the child vampire whom I am accused for all time by all of having destroyed?”

“I never loved her. I didn’t know how.”

Daniel

“Sometimes an intolerable nuisance,”

“Equipped with my powerful blood, he can contend with any who should be foolish enough to interrupt his plans for an evening, a month or a year, but he cannot contend with my continuous company, and I cannot contend with his.”

Gabrielle

“Gabrielle. She’s around now.”

“Everyone hates her.”

“Abandons [Lestat] for centuries, and somehow doesn’t manage to heed Lestat’s periodic and inevitable frantic cries for help, which though she could not receive them, being his fledgling, could certainly learn of them from other vampiric minds which are on fire with the news round the world when Lestat is in trouble.”

“A vampire so cunning and cold that she has forgotten what it ever meant to be human or in pain. Indeed, I think she forgot overnight, if she ever knew it.”

“Something more akin to a prehistoric reptile than a human.”

“Gabrielle, virtually useless to anyone but herself. Some night she’ll say something to someone, I suppose.”

Pandora

“I don’t know her.”

“Seems too beautiful to hurt anyone.”

“She seems harmless.”

Santino

“Silent and without apology for the credos he had stuffed down my throat in the year 1500 before I was sent north to Paris.” 

“He says nothing to anyone.”

“He looks at me silently as if we never talked together of theology and mysticism, as if he never broke my happiness, burnt my youth to cinders, drove my Maker into century-long convalescence, divided me from all comfort.”

“At times he looks shrewd and even hateful.”

“Where he actually lives, and when he will surface, nobody knows.”

“We keep a gentlemanly distance from one another.”

Marius

“It is like a glacier between us,”

“Neither microscopes nor computers shake his faith in the infinite, though his once solemn charges-Those Who Must Be Kept, who held such promise of redemptive meaning-have long been toppled from their archaic thrones.”

“Enough of him.”

David

“Assaulted by your closest of friends, the loving monster, the vampire who would have you as his fellow traveler in eternity whether or not you gave him leave,”

“You dress with high vanity”

“You look at me as though your curiosity will put me off guard, when nothing of the sort is true.”

“Hurt me and I’ll destroy you. I don’t care how strong you are, or what blood Lestat gave you. I know more than you do.”

“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.” 

TLDR: What Armand thinks of everyone

Lestat: Dumb asshole that nearly killed everyone.

Louis: Weak and can’t do anything, bless his heart.

Claudia: No one will shut up about how I killed Claudia. Yeah, I mutilated her, but she needed to go.

Daniel: I can’t stand him anymore.

Gabrielle: Useless cold-hearted reptile bitch that everyone hates.

Pandora: Seems pretty chill and harmless?

Santino: Destroyed my entire life and acts as if nothing ever happened. Rude.

Marius: Acts so perfect, actually isn’t.

David: I will not hesitate to fucking annihilate you cause you’re nothing compared to me.

Not sure if there is any demand or want at all for these but I made picmix gifs of a few gods I've been very fixated on at the moment.

Zeus Pantokrator, the Ruler of All Things

𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐬𝐮𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞, 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐲, 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 🎭🍷🌿

Juno

Artist: Joseph Paelinck (Dutch, 1781-1839)

Date: 1832

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium

Juno

Apollo Farnese

Apollo seated with lyre, in porphyry. 2nd century AD.

In Greek art, depictions of the vulva – believed to boost female fertility – are only found on objects intended for women. 

 Statuettes of pregnant women touching their vulvas have been found in Egypt. Other figurines of vulva-women, found in Asia Minor, were probably worn by pregnant women as protective amulets. The ethnologist and psychoanalyst Georges Devereux associated these headless figurines, whose faces are engraved on their bellies, with the myth of the priestess Baubo, who showed her vulva to Demeter to distract the goddess from her grief at the loss of her daughter.

Like Ra in the Egyptian story of Hathor, Demeter reacted by laughing–but Baubo showed her vulva as a gesture of female solidarity, with no erotic intention.

The denigration of the vulva outside the female sphere is illustrated by the birth of the goddess Athena, who was growing in Zeus’ skull. One day, Zeus had such a headache that he begged the god Hephaestus to split open his skull with a hammer and chisel. Hephaestus complied, carving out a sort of improvised vulva.

The goddess Athena, in full armour, sprang out from this crack – so the lord of the gods was able to give birth to his daughter, proving the vulva’s worthlessness. This myth is a fantasy of male birth-giving – procreation in which the vulva plays no part.

Rare Greek Bronze Amulet of the Goddess Baubo, 5th-3rd Century BC

This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed A sight of shame; child Iacchus was there, And laughing, plunged her hand below her breasts. Then smiled the goddess, in her heart she smiled, And drank the draught from out that glancing cup.[14]

Clement presents the fragment as proof of the depravity of the Eleusinian Mysteries and Greek religion more generally. The context he provides for the quote is that Demeter has rested at Eleusis during her search for her daughter, and Baubo, treating her as a guest, has offered her food and wine. Demeter refuses these due to her mourning; the rejection of hospitality is perceived as a slight by Baubo who responds by showing her genitals.[15]

You've heard of Zeus, Artemis, Aphrodite, and many more Greek gods. And you've probably heard of several renowned mortals of myth: Odysseus, Heracles, Helen, Cassandra. But unless you're a Greek scholar or have been to Spring Mysteries before, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Baubo.

Who was Baubo? A goddess, a mortal? And what does she have to do with the Spring Mysteries Festival?