#animal husband

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Mythical Husbands in Willow (2022)

(Adapted from my Twitter thread)

Ok, time for a stream-of-consciousness thread about mythical husbands in #Willow: lost husbands, enchanted husbands, false husbands, mortal husbands, and demon lovers. #Graylora

After Ep4 of #Willow, I count at least 4 mythical husbands: Airk, Graydon, the Lich (stay with me), and... Madmartigan. I'm not including Willow himself in this, at least until we find out what happened to Kiaya.

False husbands and false brides are very common in folk tales, but usually the FIRST bride is the True Bride, while the SECOND husband is the True Husband. A True Bride has to master trials in order to prove herself, while a True Husband must humble himself to recover his bride.

There are many variations of the false husband, including the Demon Lover (sometimes the literal devil), a Revenant (undead lover), Incubus (avatar of the bride's sexual fantasies), the prince's beastly form, or a mortal man whose mundanity leads him to abandon his bride.

Thus far, #Willow seems to be blending these a lot, which is great in that it gives these husbands a lot of complexity. First, Airk: as @whattheforce has suggested, he's likely a false husband, most obviously the mundane mortal who fails to appreciate his extraordinary bride.

One example of this type of husband from myth is Theseus, who relies on Princess Ariadne to defeat the Minotaur and escape the Labyrinth, but then abandons her on an island. She wakes to find the god Dionysus, who makes her his consort.

Airk's immature love of "Dove" is a sort of emotional abandonment, showing that he is an inadequate partner for Elora even if she rescues him. Further, if the Crone manages to corrupt Airk, he will be a demon lover, who is sometimes (but not always) a false husband.

We see some other aspects of the Ariadne myth in #Willow, especially with how Elora is "tied" to Airk by the bracelet he gave her, and then tied to Graydon by the binding he tried to release in Ep3 and the belt she tied around him in Ep4.

Airk could also be classified as Elora's Incubus, given how sexually aggressive she is with him. This will be especially true if the Crone attempts to use her attraction to Airk to lure or corrupt her. Important note though: an Incubus is not necessarily a false husband (Kylo)!

The Lich qualifies as a demon lover when he uses Graydon as a vessel to pursue Elora. Specifically, the Lich is a Revenant or undead lover who tries to lure the bride into the underworld. Sometimes the Revenant can take the form of a lost lover, like Graydon using Airk's voice.

When possessed by the Lich and his past brush with dark magic, Graydon is also HIMSELF a demon lover or beastly husband, particularly demonstrated by his scarring and later facial deformity, the beastly skin which Elora must burn or consume to reveal the true husband underneath.

My favorite example of a Revenant tale is The Blood-Drawing Ghost, in which Kate finds a blackthorn wand atop a fresh grave. When she grasps it, the corpse demands she carry him to a manor where he drains and eats the blood of three young men. When she returns him to his grave, he tries to drag her in, but Kate outwits him and escapes, returning to the manor to feed the young men their own blood (which she cleverly refused to eat), reviving them. She then chooses one as a husband, discovers the dead man's hidden treasure, and lives happily ever after.

In #Willow Elora discovers her magic (making her the rightful owner of Cherlindrea's wand) and then is pursued by the agents of death. The Crone tries to use the blood of Airk, Kit, and Graydon to revive herself, and Elora fights back by cooking for or feeding others.

Graydon, though a prince and therefore a fitting partner for a goddess by fairy tale logic, can also be considered a mortal husband. The goddess of the dawn Eos or Aurora was known to take mortal lovers, notably a Trojan prince whom she gifted immortality.

Elora too is a goddess of light with a name that sounds very similar to Aurora and whose story includes many references to Sleeping Beauty variations like Brunhild. This Valkyrie was cursed to sleep under her shield and surrounded by a ring of fire until a hero could revive her.

Sleeping princesses are typically revived by the appearance of their true husband, and sometimes by that husband calling her by her true name. Immediately after Willow reveals Elora's identity, Graydon is the first to address her as such, awakening her from her disbelief.

In some tales, a sleeping princess is awakened first, and then her husband is cursed and must be healed. This is exactly the pattern followed by Elora and Graydon so far. Further, a ring will often play into the lovers' reunion, so I would expect Graydon's ring to be significant.

Lastly, a prominent lost husband in #Willow is Madmartigan, and I feel it is extremely likely that he, or at least his unreslved loss, will play a role in this season's conclusion. Because Sorcha chose to retreat behind the Barrier to protect her children, she never sought him the way that heroic brides typically do. As a Snow Queen archetype, Sorcha's role is to let her children go, and given Kit and Airk's unresolved issues with their father's disappearance, they may complete the quest she should have taken (Elora too).

Furthermore, Madmartigan could himself have become a demon husband in his time away - he might be dead (in the underworld) or transformed in some way, in which case he would need to be healed or integrated in some way by a power associated with Sorcha (likely through Kit).

Lastly, just in case anyone is wondering why Elora NEEDS a husband at all, it's the same reason that Kit needs a bride: alchemical union is the path to wholeness and the healing of the world which as #Willow said is out of balance!

/end (for now!)

Sources:

In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy

Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty & Snow White Tales From Around the World by Heidi Anne Heiner

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfgw/tfgw33.htm

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[inkydeeeeeeew]

So, I'm reading this book called "The Uses of Enchantment", and it is mostly about using Freudian psychoanalysis on these stories to explain why they resonate with children and help them deal with life. Which is fine. I think the Freud dude is mostly passe at this point. But they do make the point that the only fairytales that are concerned with whether the girl *actually* loves the guy are the "animal husband" stories, like Beauty and the Beast, which makes wanting a monster boyfriend make a lot more sense.

#The Uses of Enchantment #Fairytales #Monster boyfriend #Animal husband #Monster fuckers #It all makes sense now #Kind of #I'm still getting a handle on the whole human interaction thing. #Psychoanalyzing fairytales for fun and profit

[bleucalire]

Smitten, I believe ✨

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #animation #my animation #my art #i love him sm guuuyyyss

[gowhilewedance]

"Well perhaps you could tell me...while we dance."

701 frames, 542 artists, 3 months, all collaborating on 1 animation. Here is the result.

@neil-gaiman @goodomensonprime

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens frame project #frame project #everyframewhilewedance #every frame while we dance #while we dance #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #animation #neil gaiman #ineffable husbands #go #gomens #flashing lights #tw epilepsy #tw flashing #flashing colors #tw seizure #seizure warning #tw eye strain #tw migraine

[asleepyy]

wall slam..........

the og insp!

#good omens #aziraphale #good omens fanart #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #animation

[nerdpoe]

There's an up-and-coming Tech Giant, called Fenton Works, and Batman is determined to prove that the company is a front for a villain.

Danny, after his parents turned from Ghost hunting to being the first official Ghost Anthropologists, decided to repurpose some of their weapons.

And, well, there was a contest being run by Wayne Enterprises; whoever can design a robot that will help the environment got prize money and a grant.

Danny, in all his mechanical engineering prowess, was bored. So he designed a thing. Repurposed the Fenton Guns into a cute robotic tortoise that would clean the beach.

It spiraled from there, and now Fenton Works is the leading name in green technology that's cleaning up the Earth bit by bit. Sea Dragon robots that clean oil and trash from the ocean; beach tortoises that clean the sand and beach and deposit their hoard of trash into designated receptacles that Danny uses as material to make more robots; Cryptid "stalker" robots with long legs that delicately patrol forests to perform "fuel management" and clear out the underbrush to help manage wildfires; moving gargoyle robots that sit on top of skyscrapers to help clean the air with huge sail-like wings, etc.

Basically, Danny pulls a Doctor Elisabet Sobeck, but with less world ending and more actually helping. (Not that the world ending was Elisabet's fault, of course, but different franchise)

And due to the number of times aliens try to attack and rogues send their own robots to attack people, naturally Danny installed self-defense protocols, along with one single golden rule written into the very OS of every single robot; Save Humans Whatever the Cost.

Problem is, Batman has never seen robots like this not be used for evil purposes, and he knows that their power source (a closely guarded Fenton Works secret) is some sort of liquid that glows green.

He really only knows of one liquid that glows green.

So he's determined to find everything he can about Fenton Works, because there's no way that Daniel Fenton isn't actually a villain in the making.

Danny's just thrilled for the chance to work with Wayne Enterprises.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #i just really like robot animals okay #sam and tucker are danny's suger babies #sam because she doesn't want to use her parent's money #tucker because he will GLADLY accept a rich person's money being thrown at him #danny cuz he loves his husband and wife and wants them to never want anything

[mintybagels]

i love this audio

#i made myself so carsick trying to draw this on my ipad lolll #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #animation #good omens fanart

[tang5325]

Aziraphale's cooking style.

Crowley's cooking style.

#good omens #good omens fanart #good omens gif #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #anime #anime gif #doodle #procreate #gif #my artwork

[neo--queen--serenity]

Maomao’s opinions on Gaoshun:

Maomao’s opinions on Jinshi:

#maomao *gesturing to gaoshun*: husband material #maomao *gesturing to jinshi*: threat to imperial peace. too beautiful to be trusted. public menace. #the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #maomao #jinshi #gaoshun #maomao's endless praise for gaoshun is so special to me actually. he deserves all the compliments!! #apothecary diaries #knh maomao #jinmao #apothecary diaries maomao #mao mao #apothecary diaries jinshi #jinshi apothecary diaries #gaoshun apothecary diaries #apothecary diaries gaoshun #neo queen serenity's memes #kusuriya anime #kusuriya maomao #jinshi x maomao #maomao x jinshi #knh jinshi #kusuriya #knh #maomao knh

[dadanime]

#way of the house husband #anime #anime meme #anime memes #meme #memes #dadanime

[bleucalire]

Falling

#good omens #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #animation #my art #my animation

[user-1005]

The stag after a long day of terrorizing Will

#hannibal #hannigram #murder husbands #hannibal lecter #will graham #nbc hannibal #idk if the animal in the pic is a stag though im not good with that kinda stuff

[swift-kwikster]

Wow!!

#sam & max #sam and max #freelance husbands #animation #that background was the toughest part lol #for those that don't know the cartoon- the beginning part isn't mine I just made the new ending #and filled in the blanks and drew some stuff in for the background at that part because the background for this scene isn't available alone

[smileyaly]

"Nice Granny bag, Little Jack"

It's a small moment but I love the scene where Kitty insults Jack Horner's bag because even in a serious and worrying moment, Puss still found her comment funny and even smiled a bit.

#dreamworks #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #kitty softpaws #puss in boots kitty #shrek #animation #lil meow meow #still finds a way to smile at his wifes insults #proud husband #GET MARRIED!! #soulmates #i said this would be my last dreamworks post but #this movie is too good #also im busy atm so i cant draw fanart and post much

[spoopdeedoop]

trying somethin ft. crowley

#hi good omens nation im new #my art #how do i tag these #good omens #go fanart #good omens fanart #crowley fanart #good omens crowley #anthony crowley #idk what prompted this i just wanted to animate a snake i think #ineffable husbands #aziracrow

[neine]

he only smokes when he's angry

#my art #good omens #art #gif #animation #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #go2