After many years of travelling through the Underdark and into the greater world of the second-darkest future timeline, my DnD group decided to quit while we were ahead and collaboratively narrate the endings the GM and players had their hopes set on. This story means the world to all of us and is the result of so many of my friends’ love and dedication, not the least of them being the GM herself. We’re all blessed to have had this world to play around in, and whether it had ended many years and dice rolls later, or one random Sunday on our terms, it was a damn good ride.
So yeah, Theo is definitely still planning to retire to the farm and live out his days in peace while helping to guard the Demon Hearts from evildoers :D
Recently I went to one of my favorite museums of all times, the Muskegon Art Museum, and discovered this new bronze by UK artist, Beth Carter, Minotaur Reading. When people think of the myth of the Minotaur it’s almost always in context of his violence, his lust, his impossible body. Here all that is swept away with this monstrous form reading a small golden book. This made me crazy happy to see.
Maybe next time someone tells her the interspecies thing isn’t that weird in Equestria, she’ll believe it. Or maybe this makes it weirder. Get it, grandma!
Posted an update to the Kickstarter about Reginald as The Minotaur. Only two weeks left to back Beloved Monsters for affordable catalogs, prints, and original paintings! Push it past the goal and we can work toward commissioning short stories for the catalog from queer and trans sff writers!
It isn’t easy bein’ a minotaur with those adventurers coming around looking for xp – “Bomber” by Hudson Shaw, from Adventurer magazine 3 (August/September 1986), a half-page comic series that appeared in several subsequent issues. The 1980s anthropomorphic/furry indy comics clearly influenced many comic strips in other fandom, gaming, and SCA publications.
Tim Truman cover for Expert D&D module M2: Maze of the Riddling Minotaur by Jeff Grubb, TSR, 1983 – This M2 is part of the “Marker” series of solo adventures, packaged with an invisible ink pen that revealed hidden sections of text during play. Two years later a different “M” series began for Master rules adventures (the M in the BECMI D&D series – Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, Immortal)
Hey everyone, this is Alex from Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You. Just reblogging this little comic I did with Ted Anderson. It’s part of a superhero comic we’re working on called Spark! This is just a little one-pager that we did for fun. Hope you enjoy :) You can see more info about our comic at Spark-Comic.tumblr.
Another painting based on the 21 letters from Ovidius, collectively known under the name Heroides. The story of Ariadne is most renowned from her helping her beloved Theseus to kill the Minotaur and escape out of the labyrinth that her father had built. She did this by giving him a ball of thread so that he could find his way back. Here she is shown sleeping on a bench, while her lover is leaving her behind and sails away. The two panthers represent the god Dionysus who seduces her and makes her his wife.
In the Vatican Museum, there is a marble Hellenistic sculpture showing Ariadne in almost the same pose as on this painting. Waterhouse must have used it as a model. There are also obvious resemblances with the painting of Saint Cecilia (1895): the ship in the background, the balustrade separation and the sleeping woman to name just a few. In 1895, there was a large exhibition of Venetian art in London and its effect on his paintings is undeniable. Waterhouse becomes more and more influenced by the paintings of Botticelli and other works from the Italian Renaissance.
