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Dialogue: The Unarmed Prophet and the Armed World

A conversation between Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolò Machiavelli

Florence. Night. The Piazza della Signoria is empty, though the stones still remember fire. The ghost of Girolamo Savonarola stands near the place where he was hanged and burned. Niccolò Machiavelli enters, older now, carrying a manuscript beneath his arm.

SAVONAROLA:
You return to the place of ashes, Messer Niccolò.

MACHIAVELLI:
Florence has many places of ashes, Fra Girolamo. Yours is only the most famous.

SAVONAROLA:
And you have made use of it.

MACHIAVELLI:
I made use of what happened. That is not the same as rejoicing in it.

SAVONAROLA:
You wrote that I was ruined because I was unarmed.

MACHIAVELLI:
Were you not?

SAVONAROLA:
I preached repentance. I called a city to righteousness. I turned hearts toward God.

MACHIAVELLI:
For a time.

SAVONAROLA:
Truth is not false because men grow tired of it.

Read the full Dialogue at PeaceGrooves.

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Brandi 4d ago

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Dæmon S.6d ago

I already spent more than twelve hours on a single drawing, and I'm likely going to need a few more hours to properly finish this art.

The final art will depict a short-bearded man in formal attire (dark marine-blue pants with brown belt, dark grayish cardigan with a pair of buttons at the end of the sleeves, long tie) scared as he's held immobilized and pulled by a winged, red-haired vampiress (meant as Lilith) whose red lips are slightly opened, revealing her fangs, as she unhurriedly approaches his neck. One of her hands (both of which have long red nails, some of which are perforating the man's skin) grab him by his armpit, while her other hand "gentle" holds his bearded chin. I'm yet to decide if she's going to be portrayed with a red dress or naked. I'm also yet to decide on the environment/landscape/background, maybe the rooftop of a tall building with a parked helicopter or some multinational HQ's parking lot with expensive cars (because the art is meant to be a "the feminine primordial instinctive forces of cosmic chaos defeats the masculine artificial forces of mundane order and wealth"

Given the lack of feedback on my earlier arts with this artistic genre (Gothic fantasy with real occult leanings and taboo aspects) on Fediverse (I tried PixelFed, I tried microblogging, I tried Lemmy.world's artshare community, the only kind of art that granted me feedback was when I experimented with Star Trek and sci-fi art, but it's actually not the genre I like doing/drawing), are there proper places to freely share my art (considering how it's sometimes NSFW or close to being NSFW), alongside video time-lapses of me drawing said art, where I could get the kind of feedback I often seek with all the symbolism I ingrain within my expressions?

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