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You can go back in time and spend the day with one extinct dog breed; who are you petting?

Tesem

Molossus

Salish Wool Dog

Hawaiian Poi Dog

Techichi

Fuegian Dog

Other/ Not pictured here/ tell us in the tags!

Voting ended onDec 17, 2025

#I have a feeling this will be a Fuegian Dog sweep but I do know better than to doubt the Techichi gang #dogs #extinct dog breeds #the targeting of indigenous dog breeds was such a disgusting and intentional act of colonialism and so many have no idea what we lost #Fuegian dog #Hawaiian Poi Dog #Molossus #Techichi #Salish Wool Dog #Tesem #polls

Black Mastiff Bat Molossus nigricans

Found in Central America from southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala to Panama. It is very flexible in the use of roosting structures in cities, provided that they have small holes, crevices, or narrow spaces. The high foraging efficiency, the tolerance to environmental light, and the remarkable vocal plasticity of M. nigricans might be additional factors explaining the success of this species in urban landscapes.

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#bat #mastiff bat #mammal #wildlife #creature #Chiroptera #Molossidae #Molossus

12 years ago, in the aftermath of fall of Troy...

Been thinking of this scene ever since I drew the bit of Nico finding Neo with Baby Astyanax. And so, a curse is cast, and the foundation the Hermioniad's weirdest found(forced?) family dynamic is laid.

(Major kudos to @animate-mush for the wordings of the curse/the idea for the comic!)

Scamandrius, commonly called Astyanax, gets renamed to Amphialus, "of two seas," but per the norm of his life gains yet another nickname of "Molossus"--due to his "premature" emergance of teeth xD

He grows up on the Isle of Scyros with his mother, 'father', and later younger brothers (sons of Andromache and Helenus) --as well as his absolutely massive dog.

Andromache gives thanks each day to the gods that she was blessed to be able to raise her and Hector's son in relative safety. It may not be the life she wanted by far, but its a life, and her boy is still in it. And later on, she finds new happiness with Helenus.

(Deidamia is heartily sick of men and all the trouble they've brought her, and is more than willing to politically marry Helenus to have a front to keep the world at bay. They have their own lives, and she's relieved that she's not expected to bear him any heirs. She's already seen what the world has done to Neoptolemus. She couldn't bear sending any more children out to face its cruelty. She and Hermione get along very well the few times they meet).

For Neo's part, he finds that getting to be the dad he never had to Molossus is one of the most healing things he could have fallen into. It's something to focus on besides the memories of the war and his lost friend. He loves Andromache's other two sons as well, of course, and publicly claims them as his own to keep the ruse up, but Molossus-Astyanax always has a special place in his heart

But of course, nothing can last forever. Children grow, love longs to come out of the shadows, and words said in heartbreak more than a decade ago prepare to come echoing out of the past...

#hermioniad #andromache #astyanax #neoptolemus #Pyrrhus #molossus #greek mythology #trojan war #greek myth retellings #there's probably gonna be one more jump back about Nico in the war #and then its full scale into Neo vs Orestes...

I only discovered today that Alexander the Great believed that he was a descendant of Achilles on his mother's side. This man and his mythological obsession, oh, how deeply I can understand him...

My period is definitely coming soon bc why else would I be crying just daydreaming about Helenus and Andromache trying to survive and comfort each other while they were slaves… Thinking about Helenus being one of the first ppl told by Andromache that she’s pregnant by Neoptolemus, the dread, pain, sadness, anger and disgust they’d feel about it. How the sad news of Molossus’s birth contrasts the happy news of Astyanax.

I imagine Helenus and Andromache weren’t particularly close when they lived in Troy, but after they lost everything, their families, home and freedom, all they had left was each other.

#greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #Helenus #Andromache #Andromache of Troy #Trojan war #Astyanax #Molossus

michael anderson's book is making me think more about the andromache by euripides than i ever have in my life (low bar but still). like her son molossus (unnamed in the play) is obviously the one singular hope peleus has of his family line continuing, that's stated outright. meanwhile andromache's "trojanness" is so important to the characters of the play that it feels like molossus is also continuation of the royal trojan line, like he is a convergence of the two families. but andromache was married into a trojan family through hector, and she herself is theban.

and i can't help but think about how in the iliad andromache talks about how achilles killed her entire family, how hector is now her "father, mother, brother, protecting husband" combined (which leads to another symbolically total bereavement when achilles kills hector too). so molossus is potentially the singular node that preserves eetion's theban line, andromache's family.

so we're looking at a narrative where achilles kills andromache's biological family and her husband who's come to represent a total family to her too; then achilles' son kills the family she's married into, not to mention (in some versions) her son; and at a very precarious time the only continuation of her family at all is a child she had, unconsenting, with that son of achilles. at this point her family line is only preserved through the family that eradicated both her families. in summary, if i think too long about andromache's situation i just start yelping "it's so fucked up! it's so fucked up!" over and over

#to be clear i don't care shit about 'bloodlines' in real life but obviously in greek myth they're super important to the characters #they hold NARRATIVE weight. that's what this is about #hey remember that first time when i CHICKENED OUT on reading the andromache bc it opens with her hiding in a temple to thetis #and i just COULDN'T bear it until months later lol #iiiiiiiii don't think it's a very good play however #in the book anderson is like 'the play works if you don't assume the scenes in it are happening chronologically' and i'm like ???#i like nonlinear storytelling too but but with NO indicators to hold onto?? euripides call me we'll do another pass #andromache #neoptolemus #molossus #the andromache #the fall of troy in early greek poetry and art #the iliad #🏷️

Helenus playfighting with the sons of Andromache. A king and his princes.

Pielus, Pergamus, Molossus, Helenus, Amphialus.

Eight years after the fall of Troy.

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #classics #trojan heroes #helenus #pielus #pergamus #amphialus #molossus #trojan war #post the fall of troy #epirus gang #helenus king of epirus #helenus and his children #the iliad #the aeneid #pyrrhus' sons

Some requests from Twitter I forgot to post here

#myart #myartwork #prometheus #atlas #molossus #pergamus #hermione of sparta #greek mythology

12 years ago, in the aftermath of fall of Troy...

(Major kudos to @animate-mush for the wordings of the curse/the idea for the comic!)

Scamandrius, commonly called Astyanax, gets renamed to Amphialus, "of two seas," but per the norm of his life gains yet another nickname of "Molossus"--due to his "premature" emergance of teeth xD

He grows up on the Isle of Scyros with his mother, 'father', and later younger brothers (sons of Andromache and Helenus) --as well as his absolutely massive dog.

But of course, nothing can last forever. Children grow, love longs to come out of the shadows, and words said in heartbreak more than a decade ago prepare to come echoing out of the past...

#molossus

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