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anyways, my blog will ALWAYS be a safe space for people with no/low empathy, for any reason, be it a personality disorder, autism, depression, trauma, psychosis, or anything else. you are not inherently bad or evil and are deserving of love and respect. this will always be a place where you are welcome and safe.

(okay and encouraged to rb, bc being low/no empathy is a profoundly lonely experience and we deserve to know we are safe and supported)

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randomised gold

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Zimmermann fw21 details

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keep the sun in your heart

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Midsummer Night’s Shawl by Lisa Naskrent on Ravelry

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Apollo and Hyacinthus

By Stefano Ricci

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O Hyacinthus!

Deadly pale the God's face went-as pallid as the boy's.

With care he lifted the sad huddled form.

The kind god tries to warm you back to life, and next endeavors to attend your wound,

and stay your parting soul with healing herbs.

His skill is no advantage, for the wound is past all art of cure.

As if someone, when in a garden, breaks off violets, poppies, or lilies hung from golden stems,

then drooping they must hang their withered heads, and gaze down towards the earth beneath them;

so, the dying boy's face droops, and his bent neck, a burden to itself, falls back upon his shoulder :

‘You are fallen in your prime defrauded of your youth, O Oebalides [Hyakinthos]!' Moaned Apollo

`I can see in your sad wound my own guilt, and you are my cause of grief and self-reproach.

My own hand gave you death unmerited--I only can be charged with your destruction.--

What have I done wrong? Can it be called a fault to play with you?

Should loving you be called a fault?

And oh, that I might now give up my life for you! Or die with you!

But since our destinies prevent us you shall always be with me,

and you shall dwell upon my care-filled lips.

The lyre struck by my hand, and my true songs will always celebrate you.

A new flower you shall arise, with markings on your petals,

close imitation of my constant moans

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Ovid, Metamorphoses

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Hyacinthus was a Spartan Prince and lover Apollo. He died when the discus thrown by Apollo accidentally struck his head. From the blood of Hyacinthus sprung the larkspur flowers. Apollo, heartbroken, inscribed the exclamation of woe, Ai Ai, on the petals of the flowers and promised to always remember his lover in his songs and music.

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"You can't worship Zeus He's a-" "Aphrodite is a jealous tyran-" "Athena can't be worshipped with-" "Hera hates Her husba-" "Dionysos is just a dumb drunk-" "Aidoneus is EVIL for KIDNAPPI-" "Demeter is a narcissistic mother archety-"

get off of TikTok and go actually spend quality time with the Gods challenge

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weisheng paris

CG on twitter

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art honoring Apollon

i'm graduating with a degree in art history in a few weeks and realized that even though my degree focuses on mythology in art, i've never made a post like this. here are my favorite pieces of art honoring Apollon.

In order: 1) Apollo and the Muses by John Singer Sargent, 1921, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, rotunda mural; 2) Parnassus, or Apollo and the Muses by Simon Vouet, c. 1640, Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest; 3) Apollo in His Chariot by Herbert James Draper, c. 1908, Draper's Hall, London; 4) Apollo and the Nine Muses by Tommaso Conca, 1782-87, Vatican Museum; 5) Apollo served by the Nymphs by Francois Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin, 1666-76, from the Versailles Gardens; 6) Apollo by John Cheere, 1755, National Palace of Queluz; 7) Apollo Crowning Himself by Antonio Canova, 1781-82, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; 8) Apollo by Artus Quellinus, 1651, Royal Palace Amsterdam

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“Beauty of every sort, whether of art, music, poetry or youth, sanity and moderation—all are summed up in Apollo.”

— W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods

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𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷 𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘳. 💛🌻

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Incidentally, hellenistic greeks felt that hospitality towards foreigners and guests was a huge moral obligation enforced by Zeus himself. Hosts were expected to serve food before even asking who they were or where they were from.

Guests were expected to entertain with stories and news from the outside world, and to extend the same hospitality to other people.

Just a topical history fact

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Atrium of Jussieu University Campus Péripheriqués Architectes

Photographs by Franck Bohbot

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