Art Post: Love & The Soul

[minoanmiss]

Two versions, drawn for hetswap



so I drew this, and then I thought a little more...



I really love recursiveness in ridiculous ways.

Comments

[acelightning]

When you put Eros and Psyche's attributes together, you get sapiosexuality!

[cjsmith]

ooo ♥

[acelightning]

I wish "sapiosexuality" had been a thing when I was a teenager. I kept getting told that "boys don't like girls who are too smart", and instructed by older women to "play dumb" in order to make myself more desirable. But I'm now 71, and in the past ten years or so I keep getting friendly /flirtatious comments from many men (several of them closer to the age of my adult son) who find my intellect attractive. It's very flattering, but I'm more-or-less-monogamously married to a man who also found my intellect attractive. (It just didn't get me an invitation to the senior prom.)

[cjsmith]

It’s amazing how putting a name to a thing makes it more accessible, more believable, more a part of our lives. I’m sure there were sapiosexual folk at the time of your senior prom. There was at least one at my senior prom, which is why I went. But we didn’t have a word for it until much later.

[acelightning]

The thing that bothered me the most was the widespead belief that "boys didn't like brainy girls", which came from the belief that "sexy girls are stereotypically stupid bimbos, but intelligent women are stodgy unattractive glasses-wearing librarians/schoolmarms". And I've worn glasses since I was five years old - "men never make passes at girls who wear glasses". Because of these cultural assumptions, I was advised to "suppress my smartness", and "pretend to be dumb" in order to attract romantic attention. I could no more pretend to be dumb than I could pretend to be a duck.

[cjsmith]

Agreed, all those stereotypes are deeply harmful. And pretending in order to form a long term intimate bond does no one any good - if it's not a good fit, find out early! :(

[acelightning]

There were no good fits for a plain, hyperintellectual, two-years-younger-than-her-classmates little weirdo in 1963. Too bad we didn't have the internet then.

[lindahoyland]

It's great!

[amaebi]

Wow, that's splendid! FWIW I prefer wingless Psyche.

[sabotabby]

Beautiful!

[cjsmith]

As always I adore the facial expressions! You have a gift for showing happy.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

I just noticed that each piece has a different title. Not that Cupid and Eros are that much different personalities, at least to some folks.

Ann O.

[corylea]

You do Cute so well. :-)