This one is primarily to the lovely @saliannn.bsky.social bc she was the one who first came up with the idea “drew in modern day Ares and Aphrodite” in suit and tie + formal dressing!!! 💖💖💖💖

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#Codextober Day Four: Anomaly

#Classicstober Day Five: Hermes Psychopompos I really wanted to make it seem he is reaching past the border to the viewer to drive home he can cross boundaries and planes. #Classicstober25

#Classicstober Day 29 - Mysteries 🌾✨ Not the spookiest piece but when I saw this prompt it reminded me of a paper I wrote in grad school about tiny votive figurines of girls holding piglets from Eleusis.

He would alright. #GreekMythology #Ares #Aphrodite

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POV: A peek inside Ares’ head when he falling in love with the goddess of beauty and love herself, because I have a feeling that he is a dreamy lover, similar to his mother, Queen Hera. Ty to whoever making this playlist 💖💖🌸👨🏾‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱 open.spotify.com/playlist/1K6...

Have been quite busy with Christmas with both working full time and studying in college!!!

Have been quite busy with Christmas with both working full time and studying in college!!!

Enter Billig's "banal nationalism": The gingham dresses and apple pies aren't innocent aesthetic choices. They're loaded symbols reinforcing a specific narrative about "traditional" American values. The white picket fence is a political statement.

The authenticity paradox: Real 1950s housewives were champions of convenience foods and modern appliances. Today's tradwives preach "from scratch" while using KitchenAids and Instant Pots. It's not historical accuracy - it's modern wellness culture in vintage dress.

🧵 As a sociologist, i need to tell you… I find it fascinating how the "tradwife" aesthetic perfectly demonstrates what Svetlana Boym called "restorative nostalgia" - longing for a past that never existed.

Hey artists Just keep posting. Last post didn’t get many likes? Keep posting. Not 100% happy with what you made? Post it. Feel like you aren’t getting anywhere? Keep posting. You never know who will find you and when.

Vogue's Halloween issue hit the stands.

shells! 🐚

The results!🎃🎃🎃

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i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

Historically, Marcus Antonius, during his trip to Egypt to visit Cleopatra VII, has always considered himself to be an embodiment of Zeus-Serapis-Dionysus, consort of Isis Aphrodite, but I just think the icon of armed muscular Ares/Mars always suited him more, and look the best.

With various mistresses & marriages to Fadia, Antonia, Fulvia, Octavia the Younger, and Cleopatra, their descendants later went to become famous Roman statesmen, or went on to rule the Roman Empire, as well as various client kingdoms of modern-day Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa as well.

Ares’ version of Marcus Antonius was based on the historical statue of the Roman politician himself, with his embellishing muscle cuirass based on the Roman Republican statues of Julius Caesar, Augustus (Octavian) of Prima Porta, and Mars Ultor in the Forum of Nevra.

the iconography was adopted by many Ptolemaic queens, particularly Arisnoe II, Berenice II & Cleopatra VII.

With Aphrodite as the goddess of love, beauty, passion, procreation, prosperity, victory, and the ancestral mother of Rome(Venus Genetrix); while Isis as the goddess of magic, life, wisdom, an epitome of eternal maternal devotion, protectress of all living things & all aspects of the kingdom,

Isis, during this time, was a very weird figure to say the least, since while still keeping her Egyptian identity and attributes, she was further fused, syncretized, and absorbed the qualities of foreign Greek goddesses like Aphrodite, Demeter, Persephone, Tyche, etc.

Aphrodite’s version of the Egyptian queen was based on the depiction of historically-accurate Cleopatra VII made by Joan Oliveras (@/jfoliveras on Twitter & IG) as well as statuettes of Isis-Aphrodite that were carved from the Ptolemaic era-Roman Egypt, taken with modern creative liberties.

Reblogging this one for the upcoming Halloween !!!!

Most beautiful domina 😭

Autumn is finally beginning to arrive in Japan. I'm already looking forward to seeing the forests turn red. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

“The Raines say ChatGPT offered to help their son write a suicide note and on the night of his death in April, it provided step-by-step instructions for the method Adam used.”

…subtle vocabularies for inner experiences, specialised expertise in various fields, frameworks for organising society and justice, collective memories and historical narratives, healing traditions, and intricate social bonds.”

“Each language carries entire worlds of human experience and insight developed over centuries: the rituals and customs that shape communities, distinctive ways of seeing beauty and creating art, deep familiarity with specific landscapes and natural systems, spiritual and philosophical worldviews…”

A rather grisly #MosaicMonday Villa de Noheda, Villar de Domingo García #Spain During the #Roman occupation of Spain, there lived a man who was so wealthy that he could have his wine shipped all the way from Syria. One of the largest mosaics ever found. #Archaeology #art #History #artwork

The owner's AI designs

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

True love does require courage, understanding and the growth that rooted from conflict, and true strength requires genuine connection and radical self acceptance, creating life’s most beautiful moments after all. 👩‍⚕️❤️‍🩹🩶

Aphrodite more colorful but modest business casual attire inspired from the 80s, on the other hand, reflects on her role working as a love/relationship counselor who also helps people cope with the emotions of loss and grief, self esteem/body image therapy -akin more to holistic wellness, interfaith

Ares specializing in physical therapy/ rehabilitation, PTSD/trauma therapy for army veterans/first responders patients and anger management counseling therapy. (Hence his workwear is quite pretty much similar to a traditional hospital nurse’s scrubs the most, with different colors codes for each

I wanting to give them some more grounded design this time around, because we, as mortals ourselves also have jobs to do and to pay, along with bringing food to the table lol. 😅😭

Initially this was pretty much following an art trend based on one of the work covers of the Veil manga, drawn by K0tteri/Fukuda Ikumi at the beginning of last year. But over the time, I combined more ideas based on the conversation with my Greek friends also. Of what will the gods’ role would be-

A double-life corporate AU where Ares and Aphrodite working as licensed professional counseling therapists in the healthcare sector, based in Thessaloniki during the day and as independent commercial fashion models by contract during the night. 👔

𝖬𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗅𝖺 𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗂𝗆𝗉𝗋𝗂𝗌𝗈𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗇 𝖨𝗌𝗋𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝖺𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖻𝖾𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗉𝖺𝗋𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗍𝗂𝗅𝗅𝖺. 𝖧𝗂𝗌 𝗐𝗂𝖿𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗌 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗋𝖽 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝗁𝗂𝗆. 𝖧𝗂𝗌 𝗐𝗂𝖿𝖾, 𝖭𝗈𝗌𝖾𝗄𝖾𝗇𝗂 𝖱𝖺𝖻𝗂𝖺 𝖬𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗅𝖺, 𝖿𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗌 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝗁𝗎𝗌𝖻𝖺𝗇𝖽'𝗌 𝗌𝖺𝖿𝖾𝗍𝗒, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗌𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝖺𝗇𝗌𝗐𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗂𝗋 𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌: “𝖶𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝗄𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝖽𝖺𝖽𝖽𝗒, 𝗈𝗋 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖾 𝗈𝗄𝖺𝗒?”

#Caturday #ClassicalCats

Hera at the Olympios archeological museum. @greciangirl.bsky.social #travel #greece #photography