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let it fall

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Actual God of the sea Flint

I’m pretty proud of how he came out so yay

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They drive by night, Todd Antony

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A - Z Challenge: @ibuzoo​ vs @lxcuna​

[ N ] ang Kwak: a benevolent spirit / household divinity from Thai folklore, she is said to bring good fortune and prosperity to a business or a household. She is commonly depicted in a red dress, with a gold crown on her head, and either sitting or kneeling. Her right hand is raised with the palm of the hand curved and pointing downwards. Her left hand rests at her side, or holds a bag full of gold near her lap.

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there is a timeless tale of love,

a romanticized tragedy,

of how the sun stretched her arms to icarus,

but the sun was a man,

and apollo’s heart

burned with the wax on icarus’ wings.

- would you still sing his song like this? (why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman?) | icaria

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σοὶ δέ τις ἐν στήθεσσιν ἀκήλητος νόος ἐστίν. - But the heart in your breast is the unbewitchable kind.

Circe to Odysseus, Odyssey 10.329  (via greenerygirls)

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greek gods Hades (ᾍδης) God of the dead, darkness, mortality and afterlife. Ruler of the Underworld

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Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her——— The mausoleum, the wax house.

Sylvia Plath, from “Stings,” The Collected Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

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why do we always think of icarus as a tragedy?

(somewhere, a boy clutches his stomach with wax-burnt hands and laughs until the sun melts away.)

do you think if you asked him, icarus would say falling felt like flying? | icaria.

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it wasn’t that i thought myself god’s equal

it was that i was, his equal and his better

i was a challenge

and so he threw me away

and i fell, and i fell

and i fell until i

broke.

- the odyssey of a fallen angel ( by god, lucifer wants his wings back) | icaria

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nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on.

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DETAJ SS16 | Bandage jewelry

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Gareth Pugh FW15

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MYTHOLOGY: Phobos and Deimos

Phobos is the personification of fear in Greek mythology. He is the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares. He was known for accompanying Ares into battle along with the ancient war goddess Enyo, the goddess of discord Eris, and his twin brother Deimos. 

Deimos is the Greek god of terror. Deimos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He is the twin brother of Phobos and nephew of the goddess Enyo who accompanied her brother Ares into battle, as well as his father’s attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic. Deimos is more of a personification and an abstraction of the sheer terror that is brought by war and he never appeared as an actual character in any story in Greek Mythology.

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Apollo and Hyacinthus commission! :3

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In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and birthing, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals. Oak groves were especially sacred to her. According to mythology (in common with the Greek religion and their deity Artemis), Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona. Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god.