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callisto-078 · 2 months
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there's fog out past the beach and I can almost feel the sirens calling me out to the sea's embrace
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callisto-078 · 3 months
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"I am going to put a stop to your fornication with the sea. She belongs to me."
-- Spartan general Callicratidas to general Conon of Athens for various reasons but none that justify this phrasing.
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callisto-078 · 4 months
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"The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."
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callisto-078 · 4 months
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Help girl I'm trying to surf back to Ithaca on these amphorae but the clap of my ass cheeks keep alerting Poseidon
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callisto-078 · 4 months
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gif set. pirates, sea, ocean, faceless par MC8 ( MEMORY CARD VIII ).
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callisto-078 · 8 months
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this but I caught my DM saying "jesus christ" and now he's an NPC in our campaign
dnd jokes that will always be funny no matter what your dm tells you
"jesus christ" "who's that"
"this is just like (tv show/movie)" "that's my favorite play"
referring to famous musicians or actors from the real world as "bards"
adding the word "fantasy" in front of modern things (i pull out my Fantasy iPhone and open Fantasy Tinder)
"how hurt are you" "on a scale of one to twenty-eight i'd say i'm at about a nine."
feel free to add more
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callisto-078 · 8 months
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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
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callisto-078 · 11 months
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Details of a golden sea, part II : Sunset at sea, by Diyarbakirli Tahsin (1875–1937)
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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the fact that people are reblogging this and NOT telling me some sexy facts is blasphemous
my love language is facts. tell me about the history of vampires or archaeology you sexy bitch I love listening to you talk about when the violin was invented and niche botanical advice. give it all to me I will fall in love with you
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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GUYS.
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that is all. thank you.
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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Nereids Worshipping the Moon by Moritz Von Schwind (1804-1871)
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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chant of kirke, from the hekataeon by jack grayle
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss: cetacean edition
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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this is my other account and I wanted to let y'all know about the story I'm writing if anyone's interested in it :))
hello all I am writing a story about Hyacinthus and Apollo and thought I'd post about it to actually make myself finish it
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callisto-078 · 1 year
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i will retire to the Salton Sea,
at the age of 23
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