Award for the most chemistry-laden meet cute goes to Hades and Seph. Can't stop thinking about them 👀👀👀
Queer Book Draw Challenge 9/20 Drag Me Up by @rmvirtues
[ID: An illustration of Hades and Persephone in formal wear sharing drinks in his private box. Hades is standing and leaning on the bar and Persephone is seated in front of him. They both lean in slightly towards each other, glasses clinking and gazes locked. Persephone's expression is confident and slightly challenging. Hades' expression is intrigued and enthralled. Light fixtures shaped like pomegranate seeds hang above them both. Behind them, wall-size windows reveal the Khaos Falls cityscape at night. End ID]
Literally the only thing 16 months of full-time work in my field has taught me is that I'm actually talented and have a natural apptitude for the profession, which comes with no small degree of pride and is fueling my benevolent information management dictator desires, and also competence is the sexiest thing on the planet it's a shame LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE HAS ANY
As a birthday present for myself I commissioned someone to fix my beaten up paperback copy of The Count of Monte Cristo so here's a little drawing to celebrate (。・ω・。)ノ♡
Penguin Classics are very delicate and this was a big book so I was afraid it was gonna turn to dust soon since I carry it around a lot... I love the new binding. The covers are a bit bigger to protect the pages, and the spine is reinforced as well (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤ It even got a bookmark now!!!! So pretty!!!
It is always disheartening as an artist to find other people believe that publicly-posted works of art (drawn, written, composed, etc.) - especially from indie artists who won't probably come after them unlike bigwigs such as Disney - is free to use without permission for one's free-to-access work.
(T/N: The photos show excerpts from In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou.)
Picture Translations:
"As we all know, love must only be reinvented."
-A Season In Hell: Ravings I, Arthur Rimbaud
If so, can the concepts of free will and liberalism related to love be coalesced into one?
Effectively, I think that both the concept of 'free will' and that of 'liberalism' reaches towards the idea that love is nothing more than a fruitless danger. On one hand, you have the married couple that has somewhat prepared to continue on in a relationship that is sweetened with consumption (conjugalité) and on the other hand, we can reasonably conclude that there are sexual relationships, whilst not consuming passion, are filled with pleasure and joy. In the world of today, love is ensnared within this net and under this oppression and it is precisely why I think that it is being threatened. Of course there are many other things that serve to do this, but primarily I think that it falls upon philosophy to protect it from this threat. As the poet Arthur Rimbaud pointed out, another condition for this is that love must be reinvented. This is also extremely different from simply adopting a defensive manner in order to preserve something. Truthfully, the world is full of new things; similarly, love must also be an object that innovates. Against safety and comfort, risks and adventures must invent themselves again too.