Tag: Art and artists

The Fates’ Strange Fate

We used to be The Three Fates, until Lachesis unleashed her inner Dominatrix.  

Aliens

Ecstasy of the deepest kind.

Wooden Figures

Daphne’s curse was sometimes extended to both sexes.

Those Greek Kids

My, what a nice cock you have.

Daring and Delicacy

Follow you heart, or use your mind? To balance both requires daring and delicacy.

Something’s Fishy

Pun, trifle,Lovecraftian horror, or fine art? You decide.   (The Water, 1563-64, by Giuseppe Arcimbaldo)

Sauron, Melkor, and the Ho-yay

Tolkien March is drawing to a close. As it ends, I want to touch on the fanfic and fanart… and the slash… bursting onto the scene after the release of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, and gathering steam through the next two releases and then Hobbit trilogy that wrapped in 2014. Not …

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The Worm Ouroboros
[Reading Challenge 2018]

The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison Ballantine Books, New York, 1967 [Challenge # 48: A high fantasy] The Worm Ouroboros is one of the great granddaddies of fantasy, sandwiched between Lord Dunsany, who was an influence, and J.R.R. Tolkien, who received its influence. As such, it’s a kind of a bridge, but one that …

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