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Some drawings inspired by Ancient Greece. They aren’t done but just wanted to show you. 🏺🏛️

Please don’t use them or repost them.

The top full figure I made inspired by one I saw on Pinterest (couldn’t find the reference).

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just found this on pinterest it didn't credit the artist im going to die THE SNOOPY HISTORY

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Li Bai, from a poem titled "Crows Calling at Dusk," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

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Hi! I sincerely hope you’re doing well! I’ve been loving your recent videos!

This might be a weird one, so feel free to ignore it but… here it is:

My favourite pen of all times is the uni ball eye micro (always in black), and I even got myself a pack of five just to make sure I don’t run out for a while (I got really lucky because it was under a discount). However, I had to start a new notebook and the paper is great, but a little too fluffy for my taste, meaning that it really soaks up the ink - it bleeds through the page AND it makes all the lines thicker.

So, I was wondering if you have any tips? I’ve been using a Muji pen that I had laying around and it does the job just fine, but it doesn’t feel as nice. Maybe you have a recommendation for a nice black gel pen (something easy to find because I’m also a Portuguese girlie and it’s hard finding nice pens in my hometown)? Or should I just get a new notebook (which also feels a bit tricky because I HATE wasting that much paper)? Ugh! I don’t know what to do ahahahah

Anyways, thank you so much for reading this and I really hope it’s not too much

Hummm, I am not really an expert in pens. I wish I had already a go-to pen but I don't. I would say that the brand Pentel and Pilot have really nice ones. If you like fine pens, my go to is the Pilot G-TEC -C4 in 0.4.

Sorry for not helping that much :(

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also, I handmade my new planner - excited to show up and talk about it! 🪡

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Context will be provided tomorrow 👀

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a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

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Artemis knew better than all of them. Her only love affair was with the moon. My heart understood this. Profoundly.

Lola Ridge, from “Hellish” in To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge

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Katherine Mansfield, in a diary entry dated 14 October 1922., from Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

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Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, 25.01.25, by Manusia dan Langit (composite picture of the alignment also called “planet parade”)

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my chair

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how to brilliantly articulate your opinions — notes

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If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think

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The Drowned Halls

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No video this weekend but hopefully one next week. Sorry :((