#achillion

[katerinaaqu]

Apollo showered in light while playing his guitar with a plectrum, his rich curls swirling around his laurel wreath

Achillion, Kerkyra/Corfu (19th century classicism)

(Photo by me)

[d-tris]

Beauty

[spyskrapbook]

“Quai d’Embarquement Achillion”, Thessalonique, Grèce [1995] _ Architectes: Finn Geipel & Nicolas Michelin [LABFAC _ Laboratory for Architecture].

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui / “LABFAC”, No.327, avril 2000, pp. 44-71. 

[dreamboatandi-blog]

Hey it’s pride month and here’s my favorite outfit 🏳️‍🌈

[questions-within-questions]

So we have Sapphic to describe a relationship between female identifying people, and Achillion (sp?) to describe a relationship between male identifying people. Could we have a term for relationships between male and female identifying people? Because describing them all as "straight" or "het" relationships is just not satisfactory; it's erasure of bisexuals, biromantics, pansexuals, panromantics, asexuals, aromantics, transgender, demigender individuals dating someone of their opposite gender. Who's a classical figure known for a male-female relationship we could use?

[transboyurameshi-blog]

so I did it @dateamascwho is up and running again ; for those who don't know it's like @dateagirlwhosuggestion only for masxuline aligned people care to give it a promo everyone ?

[katerinaaqu]

Some details from the statue of Triumphant Achilles in Achillion (Corfu, Greece)

For starters I love the detail that his sword is not tied to his waist but rather that the belt goes around his back so the sword hangs from his side to his hip

You can also see the battle scenes engraved to his thorax or protective snakes at the back. Next we have his shield

The classic gorgoneion for protection and casting off evil with the usual archaic Medusa with the protruding tongue and sharp teeth as well as tangled snakes forming a bow beneath her chin but I think one of my favorite details is on his helmet.

His helmet forms a swan's neck bowing and forming the arch. Swans are some of the creatures on earth that sometimes are monogamous and sometimes even mate for life.

The term "Κύκνειο Άσμα" ("Swan Song") is used in Greek to signify someone's last cry before the end or the last action before the end (remember me paraphrasing it for my story here)

Swans have also been reported to have died of broken heart before.

The bird itself is associated with beauty, grace and purity and somehow I think the connection with Achilles on his triumphant pose fits greatly!

[dreamboatandi-blog]

So I accidentally dyed my hair silver but people seem to like it