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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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International press coverage for The Crucible. Photos by Lefteris Pitarakis for Associated Press (X) (X) Article appeared in Yahoo News, Washington Post, New York Times amongst others.
fashion inspired by the games | labyrinth of lies
↳ inspired by the museum, the amphitheater, and hades and persephone
If I could have a million fics of Persephone domming Hades, I would be happy. I wish more people wrote that dynamic…
UH HUH THIS MY SHIT
No but seriously, Hades is the lamest most awkward shit baby in the pantheon. He doesn’t know how to relate to people, all his friends are dead. The rest of the Dodecatheon are just up on Olympus partying it up and he’s down in the underworld, with his dog, listening to dead heroes complain about not getting enough glory and being vaguely annoyed at everything. He doesn’t do anything, besides like probably macrame or some shit. Like literally, the only real story about Hades is him and Persephone.
And also, can we please just destroy the narrative of the ‘rape of Persephone.’ I don’t care what Ovid wrote, I don’t care how it helps the Metamorphoses maintain its themes of the violence of the gods, Persephone is the baddest bitch there is. She is the goddess you call upon to curse people. She is both the incarnation of life itself and the mistress of death. When you really want to fuck up your neighbor’s life, you call on Persephone, cause ain’t nobody scarier, and you do it by sacrificing the way you do to only the darkest cthonic deities. Medea and Persephone were totally bros imo (also if you want to watch me cry like a baby, ask me about Medea sometime).
No way in hell did total badass Persephone get captured against her will. Hell no. She saw this awkward wannabe goth dark-lord-of-the-night shit baby and decided to have her merry way with him. She marched her fine self down to Erebus of her own volition with Hades just being super giddy and trying to play it cool. Hades then spent the majority of their early marriage both afraid for his life and super turned on.
So there.
Metal Mythology: Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish) & Simone Simons (Epica) as Hades & Persephone
Prayer to Persephone By Edna St Vincent Millay From Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper & Row, 1939.
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Thorin. Concept art. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Chronicles: Art & Design. Weta Workshop.
A gentleman at heart (x)
Friendly reminder that a) we know nothing about richard and/or any celebrity. We have impressions of them. There's a difference. Rich gives the impression of being the best man on earth? Yeah. Do we know if he is? No. b) generalizations are bad. We all know that so why keep putting every fan in the same box. c) there's this thing called respect.
zodics according to zodiac posts
aries: rude but affectionate, most likely the mom of the group
taurus: giant nerd, eats a lot and is emotionally inept
gemini: either the most precious person you know or literally satan, extremely moody
cancer: crying at every possible moment
leo: precious and probably flawless, and attention seeking
virgo: distant from everyone emotionally and is always complaining
libra: spastic and probably actually a 5 year old
scorpio: EVIL, most likely S A T A N
sagittarius: pretends to be sweet but is actually an asshole, or is actually sweet but pretends to be an asshole
capricorn: an enigma wrapped in a mystery
aquarius: asshole
pisces: really sweet and loves everyone but is rly freaking weird
Frodo + character traits
A quick look at: the Archaic smile. How does this slightly creepy smile fit into the scheme of Greek sculpture? Why was it depicted?
The ever-intriguing, yet somewhat terrifying, archaic smile holds its place in the chronology of Greek sculpture, and in the minds of students who have studied art history. A few years ago, in an introductory art history paper I took at university, I still remember the huge image of the Kouros of Tenea shown (photo 1), staring down at the room full of freshmen, and the muffled laughter that ensued.
Greek art historian John Boardman amply describes the smile as an expression of ‘strained cheerfulness’. The smile features predominately on Archaic Greek statues from about 570 to 480 BC, and is characterized by the expression of a smile with a tight, upwards mouth, and a flat curve. This ‘smile’ persists in even seemingly highly inappropriate contexts (for example, note photo 4, where a dying warrior with an arrow in his chest grins broadly out to the viewer).
Following the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, the Greek Dark Ages saw relative artistic impoverishment. About 600 BC, at the beginning of the Archiac era, we see sculpture in stone reemerge throughout the Greek world. The sculptural works of this era were highly influenced by the monumental statuary of Egypt, particularly evident in their rigid form and posture. However, the Greeks soon developed new manners of sculptural representation -this animated ‘smile’ being one such break from the Egyptian prototypes.
There have been many theories as to why this very distinct smile was depicted in Archaic sculpture. Some writers have suggested that it was a way for the sculptor to indicate that the person is alive (depicting the ‘vividness of life’), or to express a state of well-being or health. Another line of thought is that the ‘Archaic smile’ saw its origin with the technical difficulties the early sculptors experienced in attempting to fit a curved mouth onto the block-like form of kouroi heads. While we may not ever know the true intentions of the iconic smile, it is true that as time progressed, the increasing use of chisels led to the discontinuation of the Archaic sculpture’s block-like characteristic. Accordingly, the Archaic smile was no longer depicted as we know it, but replaced with a more serious, straighter expression of the mouth.
Works used to illustrate post:
Kouros of Tenea, ca. 560 BC, courtesy of & can be viewed at the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. Photo taken by Richard Mortel.
Limestone male head, late 6th century BC, Cypriot. Courtesy of & can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 74.51.2836.
Archaic kouros known as the Apollo Milani, ca. 550 BC, courtesy of & can be viewed at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Italy. Photo taken by Richard Mortel.
Dying Warrior, West Pediment, Temple of Aphaia, c. 490-480 BC. Courtesy of & can be viewed at the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. Photo taken by Steven Zucker.
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