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Modern papyrus makers. [source]

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obsessed with this photo series about trans love by photographer landyn pan (source)

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Greek Myths and Legends - Created by Carly Allen-Fletcher

You can purchase these prints from the PosterSpy shop. Follow the artist on Tumblr and Twitter.

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my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god

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-Meggie Royer

March 23, 2021

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Survival

When we’re born, we arrive on the shores of a wilderness. 

Our minds. 

We search for shelter. We tumble into ravines. 

We taste the berries that nourish and the ones that leave us delirious for days.

 All our lives we struggle to find footing in the forests of ourselves. 

There are strange hills inside our skulls. 

Slowly, through trial and error, we become native to these inner landscapes. 

This process isn’t easy or tidy or graceful. 

Don’t be ashamed of your stumbles, your scars, your sleepless nights. 

You are here. Wild and whole.

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Text: The houses grew straight out of the ground. Their crooked doors had been formed by the earth itself. 

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Toshiyuki Enoki -

“ Sanctuary “

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o to meet with waking eyes the thing you doubted most

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What advice do you have for a 14 year old girl?

This is so vague I love it. The voices you are hearing are real, god is speaking to you. The nation of France needs you. Don your armor, take up arms, lead the French army. This is your destiny, joan. When the flames come for you let them lick your bones and laugh.

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One day, your skull will be as empty as a conch shell on a fence post,

full of wind and gentle quiet.

Today, it’s a cauldron of ghosts.

Flesh and electricity.

Water and memory.

A machine that makes reality.

Now. Here. Your skull is the garden where fact flowers into meaning.

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Text: They fell from the sky each winter, burning and beautiful, disoriented, and hungry. 

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When you learned of the god of war, you thought he’d be tall and muscular and angry. When you were about to meet him, you braced yourself for the worst.

You weren’t quite expecting the short, scrawny, shy kid you ended up getting instead.

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IT’S HERE, IT’S HERE!

I sat down (metaphorically) with Liv of Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! and we ranted for over an hour about how the myth of Medusa is so often purposed by awful cis men on the Internet to abuse and harass women. Have a listen, if you’re so inclined! If the above link doesn’t quite work for you, it’s also available on Spotify and Apple Music - links to all platforms here.

Also, for context, have a listen to the episode Liv released before our conversation; it’s a great explanation of all the appearances of Medusa in the ancient sources.

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The fossil is not the animal.

The fossil is not the bones of the animal.

The fossil is the stone’s memory of the bones of the animal.

And that’s a poetry older than words.