lives without a body and speaks without a tongue

ΘΔ varka or demjan 23 he/she ✷ sapphic artist from ukraine, folklore studies major, getting master's in the same field. my interests include: anthropology of religion, folklore & ethnography, human prehistory, european bronze age, late roman republic—early roman empire, epic poetry, horror and fairytales. i also enjoy cartoons and videogames a lot. DNI if you're pro-russian or pro-israel. support ukraine: standforukraine.com

[vyvilha]

hi!! i'm varja, queer artist and folklorist from ukraine. lover of all things archaic, irrational, sacred and monstrous, the abject, the cringe, and the grotesque.

@zorejar <- blog about my fantasy world

[vyvilha]

the IP-brainedness of some people discussing mythology, folklore and religion makes me soooo unreasonably mad. the notion of natural cultural exchange, folkloric tropes and archetypes, traditions where every participant is an equal contributor, a culture changing religion but keeping their traditional customs alive, the concept of every traditional myth not being one definite story written by one definite author but instead an endless conversation that spuns thousands of years between people of one culture as well as people of different cultures — all nonexistent to a significant amount of people. btw i wrote this post inspired by a comment i saw saying that achilles is plagiarized from gilgamesh, just so you can imagine how hard i am gritting my teeth right now

[mcaelius]

they don't tell you this but sometimes cicero is a thing that happens to you

[vyvilha]

hi hello. various sketches. 1-2 my roman legionnaire oc marcianus calpurnius saturninus. 3 ocs from my world, wide-ruler sīlīgm and her lover, commander dryvaš. 4 young publius clodius pulcher and cicero <3

[catilinas]

julius caesar voice. i made you a mound of corpses but i eated it

[augustusnotoctavianus]

HE DID NOT SAY THIS!

[catilinas]

[harpertheidiot]

Remember: your screw-ups matter less than you think they do. In 100 years, no one will remember your embarrassing moments. Unless you are Julius Caesar, in which case everyone will remember that time you face-planted into the ground in front of all your men and tried to play it off like you were just grabbing the dirt.

[vyvilha]

we started watching house of the dragon and i never was interested in asoiaf universe although i watched got fully but now i find myself being really into targaryens because they're kind of ancient romans. in a way. like The Spectre is there

[vyvilha]

i am a bit of obsessed with latin interjection for laugh, the hahahæ (æ makes an āy sound, like the word eye) because it's like, it's such a realistic depiction of how when you laugh and then stop laughing but not abruptly, dragging it on for a little bit, and it brings tears to my eyes thinking about some person in like 50 bce laughing in such a real way . idk

[nn-ee-zz]

The passage of the seasons - Spring defeating Winter

Inspired by a short story in which Spring is embodied by a bring who faces winter and demands every living thing to awaken and fight to conquer a place on earth

[catilinas]

i miss cicero can we grow another one from a beautiful sourdough cicero starter

[vyvilha]

cleopatra tops mark antony and they both think about julius caesar

[vyvilha]

AND WHEN SHE TOPPED CAESAR THEY BOTH THOUGHT ABOUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT ‼️

[mcaelius]

ancient romans were always dying in hamsterlike ways to be honest

[vyva-melinkolya]

[vyvilha]

i had a dream there was a new movie about late roman republic circa dictatorship of cornelius sulla and young gaius julius caesar was played by american youtuber and streamer jerma985

[vyvilha]

why is it kind of. Nevermind

[jennyhoelzer-deactivated2016120]

[vyvilha]

i had a dream there was a new movie about late roman republic circa dictatorship of cornelius sulla and young gaius julius caesar was played by american youtuber and streamer jerma985

[dilutedh2so4]

Penthesilea and her Amazons, illustrated by Alan Lee for Rosemary Sutcliff's Black Ships Before Troy.