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This piece is heavily inspired by the paintings of Saint Sebastian, by painters like Guido Reni. But did you know how Saint Sebastian ended up being a gay icon? 🫵🏻

San Sebastian was a Roman soldier who converted to Christianity. Historians believe he may have had a romantic relationship with the emperor Dioclesiano, who asked him to renounce his faith, but he didn't and he was sentenced to death, tied to a tree and shot with arrows.

Surprisingly, he didn't die because of the arrows, he met the emperor again and then stoned and thrown into a mass grave in Rome. The artists usually chooses the arrows because is rather more aesthetic ✨ than his tragic death, though you can find some painters who actually portrait his death.

At first he was represented as an old man, but in the renaissance the artists chose to reinvent the image of this Saint, to a young handsome man, showing almost pleasure at his destiny, romanticing the pain. A lot of famous paintings of the Saint were produced by artists who we believe were gay ( Boticelli, Caravaggio, Pontormo, Reni, Bronzino, Donatello, Il Sodoma...) so it's very reasonable why they keep representing the Saint, as a young beautiful men, with a fit body and mostly nude.

Why would artists do this ? Well in that time church was the main income from the majority of the artist community , so they choose the Saint as a way to express different topics, to have a bit of creativity freedom.This became a problem, the beauty of the saint woke up passions between the men and women who attended the church, to the point they hide some paintings, and the painter Pacheco, the father in law of Velázquez, suggest to level down the sensuality and beauty of the representations, although it didn't.

Saint Sebastian was also well love in the medieval times when the plague epidemic reach Europe, they use pictures of the Saint to protect their homes. This protective side became popular when the aids became a problem, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, Saint Sebastian popularity became even higher.

The symbolic aspect regarding homosexuality transcends through time, writers like Lorca talked about the beauty of the Saint or Oscar Wilde who used Sebastian as a pseudonym, if you search you can find many references. And till this day the artist keeps using his image as a symbol, becoming one of the more represented Figures of history.

So now you can understand why this is a perfect marriage with Will Graham 🙂‍↕️ 💖

English is not my first language so excuse me I have any errors, I try my best 🌞☝🏻

I just....I just learned that there's a word in the English language...for when you run into someone to hug them with all the enthusiasm and strength you have....I learned that it's called glomp.

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love

rb if you were there

That’s such a beautiful reaction to the word glomp

The world is full of so much beauty

OMFG.

Very curious doggo

Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.

TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD

Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and

this is so fucking cute

first rule of fandom is everything goes back to destiel

second rule of fandom is everything goes back to kirk/spock

third rule of fandom is everything goes back to holmes & watson

fourth rule of fandom is everything goes back to achilles & patroclus

the funny thing is. I originally typed out "fifth rule of fandom is everything goes back to gilgamesh & enkidu" but then I thought 'no, I can't trust that people will be familiar with the epic of gilgamesh'

I should have known. nerd ass website.

cr: mmmmeo_

sometimes. hyun is like 👉🏿👈🏿

HEY SO THIS IS CRAZY

As an atheist, the primary benefit of studying religions is – ironically – that it helps you stay grounded in reality. God may be fake, but religions as bodies of cultural practices are very real, and using the former as an excuse to refuse to learn about the latter means you're at constant risk of making up a guy to get mad at.

The secondary benefit of studying religions is that Roman Catholic heresies are objectively hilarious.

Here's my hot take about religion.

Everybody else? Doing religion normally: A set of things to believe in or to guide you towards being an upstanding member of society or to generally help you cope with the Horrors, or some cool ideas to have interesting philosophical debates about with your pals, a set of days for Partying or Deliberately Not Partying (which, lbr, is an advanced kind of partying), and/or a guy/set of guys somewhere Not Here (in the sky, on a mountain, etc) to either blame for stuff or to beseech for mercy. Great. No problem.

The Roman Catholics? Doing fandom about it.

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