#Classic Study
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amorphousbl0b · 2 months ago
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The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Sphairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.
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An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.
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A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.
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halflifesk666 · 3 months ago
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victusinveritas · 3 months ago
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All of this is correct. No notes.
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wedarkacademia · 11 months ago
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constanzarte · 7 months ago
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Pierre-Charles Comte, The secret rendezvous
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briechyne · 3 months ago
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Cigarette smoke and old books. Faded sketches and rain-soaked streets. The poetry of solitude written in sepia tones.
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cordiee · 3 months ago
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"Sometimes, you just need to disconnect. The world will still be there when you return."
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i-dont-trust-butterflies · 9 months ago
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Please, don't stress about it so much
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One day we'll all forget about it, remember?
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h111p0wer · 5 months ago
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fictionalaffection · 6 months ago
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“to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all,”
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blvvdk3ep · 2 years ago
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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive
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halflifesk666 · 3 months ago
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in the mood to be cuddled aggressively
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inkedberries · 1 month ago
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i'd like to think that daniil was adopted by a stray cat back at the capital. being a single man living in a small apartment with a balcony, he's prime real estate.
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wedarkacademia · 7 months ago
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constanzarte · 8 months ago
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Death of Sappho, by Miguel Carbonell Selva
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