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i like my gods like i like my coffee: kind

thank you!

thank you! what a nice comment :) glad to have given the remembrance

imagine being so good at pranks that you change the whole nature of the cosmos. hell yeah
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lino print with capital and small letter phi, the greek text phielepes, a picture of a fox. underneath the english text trickster

phi is for trickster

purple and white lino print of a big bolt of lighting filled with smaller bolts of lightning, two human legs are growing out of the bolt. around it text made of constellations (joined up dots) says the text of the post. in between the writing is little stars and spirals and moons and planets

a girl came out of lightning and it haunts me to believe it (based on a tweet by @thedoorthedoor.bsky.social ’s much missed bot)

i have never heard of it but that’s a good title

what was the book?

i have failed everyone. i have failed my gods. but i have made some nice crafts

art does not have to be clever or innovative

proud of you. stationery suffering is no joke

photo of four beautiful sheets of paper: one copper with little blue arcs on it; one black with little grey and silver fans on it; one grey with copper-pink leaves on it; and one pink with tiny blue flowers on it

i went to the world’s most beautiful paper store and all i got was the world’s most beautiful paper

i’m so sorry for your suffering

zeus is (once again) fucking around—at night he sneaks into the cave that the nymph maia lives in and she gives birth to hermes. hermes’ whole motive for becoming recognised as a god is pretty much so that they don’t have to live in a cave anymore
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lino print with capital and small letter upsilon, the greek text yios tou Dios kai maiados, a picture of a male figure holding a gold lightning bolt and a female figure, standing in a cave. underneath the english text son of zeus and maia

upsilon is for son of zeus and maia

Collage of a bird at the end of winter moving into spring

one must imagine sisyphus continuing to think rocks are really cool

peven stinker

grumpy pingu doing crafts. i’m grumpy pingu

it’d be exactly like this except happy instead of grumpy

very much yes

a summarised samurai is a sam

hermes is artful in the sense of sly, but also creative, inspiring and inventive (he invents fire sticks as a way of creating fire, in order to sacrifice to “the gods,” among whom he includes himself, and that’s pretty much how he becomes a god—both forms of artful in one)
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lino print with capital and small letter tau, the greek text technes, a picture of a hand holding a gold pen drawing a hand holding a gold pen drawing a hand holding a small pen and the same one more time. underneath the english text artful

tau is for artful

@thedoorthedoor.bsky.social new tagline for the big feelings pineapple

hey that’s my face. that’s where my feelings live

I think you’ll find this answers all your questions [hands you a cool rock I found]

can’t believe i got woken up by a strange chiming sound in the night, looked outside my window to see a lumbering contraption kicking up sparks as it passed by, and this *wasn’t* the prelude to me getting taken away by the fae

(tucked up in bed drawing the world’s worst pictures, just absolute atrocious crap) life is beautiful

lino print with a double lined black frame around two sparrows standing on a flat surface (my windowsill), above one text says “good morning,” above the other it says “nice to see you.” there is a lot of white space, the only real texture is on their wings and tails

friendly visitors (old print based on a true story)

one of my favourite hermes stories is in the iliad; he guides old priam through the greek camp, putting the soldiers to sleep, so he can collect his dead son’s body for burial. it is not only an act of guarding, it is done with real kindness towards priam
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