Khairei Deerslayers

Liz | 18 wannabe maenad

[charlesmacvalay]

Taking a break from tumblr for a while to figure some stuff out

[diorchitect]

Antonio Canova gallery extension (1957) — Carlo Scarpa

Possagno, Italy.

[my-username-was-taken]

she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into wild beasts // Circe by Wright Barker (1889)

[takealookatyourlife]

tits out surrounded by big cats is how I wanna live my life

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it… Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity… O their audacity!

Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian writer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. (via diaspora)

[echiromani]

From Paphos, a Roman mosaic depicting, among other things, ΟΙ ΠΡΩΤΟΙ ΟΙΝΟΝΠΟΙΟΝΤΕΣ — “the first wine-drinkers,” that is, the discoverers of wine.

[luthienne]

As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another—whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional or imaginary. Contact is crisis. As the anthropologists say, “Every touch is a modified blow.”

Anne Carson, from Men in the Off Hours; “Dirt and Desire: Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity” (via echymosis)

[romansuggestions]

*sees couple* so who’s the senior consul and who’s the junior consul

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ἀστράρχη (astrarchē), queen of stars, epithet of the moon

[ghostlywriterr]

[saintjoan]

around the world in 80 cities: Marrakech, Morocco

[leoccasioni]

Earliest Pages of the manuscript of Notre-Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo

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[petr1kov]

‘Over the Garden Wall’, or, as I like to call it, ‘Dante’s Inferno: Kidz Bop Edition’

[thoodleoo]

just girly things

teasing your friends about the boys they like

finding your perfect lipstick color

gathering for a bacchic ritual in the woods and tearing men apart limb from limb when they try to sneak into your frenzied rites

spa days with your bestie

[ezekiiell-deactivated20180615]

Dionysus is more than partying;  He’s the drumming of dancing feet, The quiet madness of the night, The ecstasy of getting lost in your own mind.

he is a god, never forget that. (via celticlight)

[renaissance-art]

Titian c. 1520

Venus Rising from the Sea (detail)

[toujoursdramatique]

where I’d prefer to spend a dreary morning like this one… (at Musée Bourdelle)

[thoodleoo]

fun fact: there is a goddess of friendship in ancient greece named philotes

extra fun fact: she is a daughter of nyx, whose other children are such lovely people as thanatos (god of death), momus (god of mockery), oizys (goddess of misery and depression), nemesis (goddess of retribution), apate (goddess of deceit), and eris (goddess of strife)

[wagnetic]

Every family has an oddball

[trulytarl]

can someone draw the children of Nyx please and thank you