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Gaming/personal/shitpost blog. Header credits: Eberhard Grossgasteiger/unsplash. 🔞

[sujipop]

she/they, adult, slav/turkic, EFL

❤ games, cats, art, music, elves

🎮 cozy, fantasy, rpg, mmo [dragon age, bg3, bdo, palia starsand island, acnh, sdv, lads?, and whatever gets my attention]

🎵 metalcore, post-hardcore, progressive metal, alternative, punk, folk, ambient, OSTs, k-pop

🔞 minors DNI 🚯 zionists, terfs, bigots DNI

[zendeyas]

Zendaya wearing MATIERES – New York premiere of The Odyssey

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[ryebreadgf]

[meltingpotofinterests]

[tyiart]

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[kaokaoriii]

Drawn profile attempt - Valko

My attempt at drawing Valko in a more softer style that I can also include his features in! I’ve been watching a few XHS drawing tutorials and they’ve saved me T^T It was hard drawing with more softer brushes, but I did manage to find a suitable style in order to draw him as more masculine.

! Heavily inspired by XHS tutorials !

[sujipop]

url change

veilranger -> sujipop

[radicalgraff]

FIFA graffiti seen in Jerusalem

[kebriones]

Phanes design i had to get out of my brain or i was gonna lose it. based on that one 2nd century relief and my own dionysus design to an extent.

[muffinpoop1]

I'm back with a new portrait !

Prints are avaible here.

[ephemeral-roses]

I think it is extremely important for everyone in the Greek mythology community to know that even though Greeks can have light skin and light hair, and that white supremacists like talking about Ancient Greece and using statues as their profile pictures, it doesn't mean white supremacists actually like Greek people.

White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

Even if Greeks are viewed as white today, white supremacists still won't accept them because their culture does not fit into their vision of whiteness, and they don't accept them as descendants of the Ancient Greeks because they think it is impossible for them to be related to a past where they've inserted their perfect image of white society onto.

[elthbe]

THIS!

And they do this to Italians and Ancient Rome as well, and also to the Egyptians and Ancient Egypt (They seem to forget that Italian and Egyptian actors exist when they have to show ancient history, but when they have to make mafia characters and terrorists they suddenly remember that they do exist).

[nardialrose]

Black People in Ancient Antiquity Art

High-handled kantharos in the form of two heads, Attic black-figure ceramic, attributed to the London Class, c. 510–480 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Panagyurishte treasure depicting concentric circles of African Heads, Thracian, late 4th-early 3rd cent. BCE. Modern day Bulgeria. Getty Musuem.

Caricatured Odysseus and Kirke. Kabirion kantharos, Boeotian BF, London, British Museum. 450-375 BC. Photograph Alexandre G. Mitchel

Skyphos depicting Odysseus at sea and with Circe, Boeotian black-figure ceramic, attributed to the Cabirion Group, c. fourth century BCE. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

During the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., the Greeks renewed contacts with the northern periphery of Africa. They established settlements and trading posts along the Nile River and at Cyrene on the northern coast of Africa. Already at Naukratis, the earliest and most important of the trading posts in Africa, Greeks were certainly in contact with Africans. All black Africans were known as Ethiopians to the ancient Greeks, as the fifth-century B.C. historian Herodotus tells us, and their iconography was narrowly defined by Greek artists in the Archaic (ca. 700–480 B.C.) and Classical (ca. 480–323 B.C.) periods, black skin color being the primary identifying physical characteristic. It is recorded that Ethiopians were among King Xerxes’ troops when Persia invaded Greece in 480 B.C. Thus, the Greeks would have come into contact with large numbers of Africans at this time. Nonetheless, most ancient Greeks had only a vague understanding of African geography. They believed that the land of the Ethiopians was located south of Egypt. In Greek mythology, the pygmies were the African race that lived furthest south on the fringes of the known world, where they engaged in mythic battles with cranes. Ethiopians were considered exotic to the ancient Greeks and their features contrasted markedly with the Greeks’ own well-established perception of themselves. The black glaze central to Athenian vase painting was ideally suited for representing black skin, a consistent feature used to describe Ethiopians in ancient Greek literature as well. Ethiopians were featured in the tragic plays of Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides; and preserved comic masks, as well as a number of vase paintings from this period, indicate that Ethiopians were also often cast in Greek comedies. Well into the fourth century B.C., Ethiopians were regularly featured in Greek vase painting, especially on the highly decorative red-figure vases produced by the Greek colonies in southern Italy.

-Hemingway, S. and Hemingway, C.. (2008). Africans in Ancient Greek Art. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/afrg/hd_afrg.htm. More art examples founded on the website.

[evilios]

Do you mind if I add some bits from my own archives?

This pretty Etruscan oinochoe with a head/face of a young African from the 4th century BCE. Photo credit: 🏺

Or my absolute favorite ancient bust of Memnon, a pupil of a Roman statesman! It dates back to the 2nd century CE. Photo credit: 🏺 🏺

Or maybe this book I personally entirely enjoyed written by Frank M. Snowden Jr., "Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman experience". He also wrote "Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks" which I have not yet read but most definitely want to!

[lockssteps]

im a fake fan of everything i like because i cant remember anything

[arlathen]

an aesthetic that i love that maybe other people don't notice is like. poorly modded skyrim, or modded skyrim from like 2015. where it mostly looks like skyrim but it has blow up doll female characters and the saturation is boosted. it's just so charming. hang on let me find some examples.

these are all random screenshots from nexus, but do you get what i mean. like it's skyrim that is clearly modded but that lacks the complete overhaul mods that rebuild every mesh and all the lighting, doesn't have an ENB or it's a really old version with fewer options but there is definitely a reshade on that bad boy. i find images like this SO charming.

[sujipop]

TIL if op tags their post with a tag that I have blocked it will get filtered on my dash fuck yes

[kirimaruchize]

Doggo may bite 🤣

[c-dra]

Eyes (updated +Valko)