Unicorns can stab one another, though they are careful when dueling, often dancing around each other and tease with false starts to avoid breakage, as their horns are rather thin.

It only makes me eat more of them

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Uh... anyone here like werewolves? Woof?

Marks and Rec: Misc #2452

(It was Markiplier all along.) (Dialogue is just made up.)

Mythology VN Jam!

Hello, hello everyone! This year I'm running a chill mythology-based visual novel/interactive fiction jam with @chimeriquement, @butter-blanc, and lenlen403! It runs from June 14th to September 15th!

The rules are very relaxed - if you have any ideas relating to mythology, be it a retelling, a meta-story, or a story about your own mythologies, it's allowed! See the link for more details!

If you're interested, please check it out! We'd love to have you!

I only seem to get good holiday ideas after the fact, but better late than never.

I wish I could draw Coal blushing but that's hard to do when you don't have working blood vessels.

These cohorts are from my webcomic about Vikings and Norse mythology, Thistil Mistil Kistil.

There's writer's block and then there's "hey I know you're almost done with your novel but can you write a bunch of short stories set in a fantasy version of ancient Egypt where random young adults are connected to the Netjeru and basically have elemental powers. Anyway kthxbai.

Also the covers need to be in the style of The Five Ancestors novels but AE"

the problem with trying to research hawaiian mythology sometimes is you'll find some myth but then the sources for it are like "this one book written by a white guy in the 1900s. this is literally the only source for this myth." like... is that... is that actually reliable information...

there’s a tf2 character I think you’d like,,, her name is Zhanna. She wears a necklace of human ears and rips her enemies apart with her bare hands naked

JUSTTTTT LIKE ME FOR REAL I NEED TO GET INTO TF2 pyro intrigues me people draw them fat nonbinary and butch and that's my entire list of standards. Also she's so fucking sick I love when women are staggeringly violent. Also the ear necklace is a reference to the Greek myth of Heracles.

A unicorn is a member of the family Bovidae, closely related to the addax and other grazing antelopes such as the sable antelope and bluebuck.

Lo-fi doodles 13 and 14; ended up sitting on 13 for a while.

After much consideration, I decided that Hades/Perspephone isn't going to be a thing in my Greek/Egyptian mythology thing, for a number of reasons (chief among them: Persephone will be a child here). Instead, his wife is Libera, a minor Roman/Italian goddess.

Harmonia and Ariel are from what became of that "Sailor Moon Solar AU" concept (discussed on radix-outpost a while ago); they're the princesses of Mars and Uranus, respectively.

The original idea for the top illust on page 14 was "a girl and her sentient dolls"; said dolls are mostly named after various fabrics.

Speaking of the revamped Solar AU: after making a pretty major change to my main Sailor Moon AU, Erica and Yumeji needed a new place to go. Well, I had a planet-based concept that didn't yet have characters representing the Sun or Moon...

I can summarize the lower-left doodle as "R63 X and Zero as the Lovely Angels".

This Minotaur, whose name was Asterius, or Asterion, was the bull-headed monster which Pasiphaë had borne to the white bull.

I cut the head off a build-a-bear bull, and sewed it on to the body of a bear. He was almost too cute to decapitate, but the resulting Minotaur (Build-a-taur?) is even cuter!

He even has a voice box, so he makes cute little growly minotaur noises! Admit it, if you were Theseus (or Percy, pick your poison) you'd never be able to kill such an adorable little Minotaur!

Call me Prometheus the way I’m getting eaten out DAILY

As a layperson, I wish books relating stories passed down through the ages made more of a distinction between the different purposes of the stories in to the cultures they're from, particularly stories from non-western cultures. Like, the difference between a story primarily meant to entertain, one meant to be taken seriously by children but not adults, one meant to impart religious information, etc.

Lumping them all into "fairytales," "legends," or "myths" indiscriminately means that parsing how literally a story is meant to be taken becomes incredibly difficult, and I have to wonder if that contributes to the tendency for (mostly Western) media to treat sacred figures from other cultures as cryptids or fairytales.

I'm not wording this super well, but the point is that it'd be nice if it was more clear in works available to the general populace whether a traditional story is part of a sincere belief system or if it's something told for fun around the campfire or to your kids before bedtime, or anything in-between.

Maxfield Parrish (b. 1870) - Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth