Katherine Frances's Blog, page 156
September 22, 2017
stephi-writes:
agarthanguide:
Presented without...
Presented without comment.
EXCEPT to say- commonplacecaz.
This is beautiful and need to be posted on my fridge.
September 21, 2017
len-yan:
sakurabana by len-yan
guest art for Sakurabana group,...
guest art for Sakurabana group, the organizers of Japanizam convention in Belgrade, Serbia (june 22-25).
i’m happy to announce i will be attending the con as a guest. i will run a panel on concept art and spend the rest of the time in the artist alley - do come over to chat if you’re gonna be there^^
thank you for inviting me!
"I have learned not to fear
the times that are dark.
Some flowers need the light to grow.
Some..."
the times that are dark.
Some flowers need the light to grow.
Some flowers only bloom for the moon.”
- B. Damani || Petal By Petal (via wnq-writers)
xenaamazon:
awkward-dark-mori-girl:
takealookatyourlife:
takea...
Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.
That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!
Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.
Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.
