A return to the theme explored with Tanya Yip in Gnosis Transformations. This is a reblog from a 15 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders, where I had the following explanation of its provenance:
mage contains the signature “Rosomanov” and appears to be part of a 2010 MUZIKA calendar. You can see a “making of” video for the source material here:
Sourced via feeling-is-first. Original text:Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
My original tumblr post was here. This apparent album-cover was first posted on Tumblr by Republic Domain! with the attribution “1955,” presumably the year of its appearance.
My original tumblr post was here. This illustration appears to be the work of an airbrush artist named Peter Lloyd — there is a gallery here. It was first posted on tumblr by Reginald Juice.
My original tumblr post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 074 – Follow Her Down.” Here is what Bacchus found.
This animation consists of frames from a 2010 music video for the song Follow Me Down by British “musical outfit” Unkle. The video is available on YouTube and the animation comes from the portion that begins at approximately 1m:40sec into the video:
According to this website the video was directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jone and features model Liberty Ross. The video is also available on the Unkle website.
Original post here.
Original post:
“The Serenade” by B. Wennerberg, 1914
WE WERE AT THE BEACH
EVERYBODY HAD MATCHING TOWELS
It’s a happy story to me at least, Tanya.
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Eight, Page Thirty-One written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
From generation to generation…
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Eight, Page Thirty written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Tanya might be functionally immortal and transmogrified, but she’s still not above an occasional Borscht Belt punchline.
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Eight, Page Twenty-Nine written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Reader, fill in your own story.
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Eight, Page Twenty-Six written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
Tanya has become a goddess in her own way.
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Eight, Page Twenty-Five written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)