#charioteer

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Bellona calling Mars to war by handing over the reins to her chariot

by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

[yebreed]

Canopy Chariot From The Emperor Qinshihuang Mausoleum

Qin dynasty chariot, unearthed from the burial pit on the west side of the Qinshihuang Mausoleum (秦始皇陵) in Lintong, Shaanxi.

The life-size painted chariot is 317 cm long and 106.2 cm high. Exhibited in the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum (秦世皇黃陵博物院).

Vintage photos of the excavation and restoration:

[leebee287]

[cher-horowitz]

PUSSY SO GOOD IT HAUNTS THE NARRATIVE ❗️❗️❗️❗️

LMAOOOOO EXACTLY

[whovian223]

Friday Night Shots - My Take on Game Storage Solutions

Friday Night Shots - My Take on Game Storage Solutions @Folded__Space @insertherellc @RailsOnBoards

I’ve done a few posts on game storage solutions and I’m a big fan of them. I’ve even created a couple of sets for Cube4Me. The Folded Space inserts that I’ve bought have also made setting up those games so much easier. I’ve even bought and used a few inserts from Insert Here, a great site which makes each insert by hand and then ships them to you, already put together! Finally, I did invest…

[ahamasmiyodhah]

Madara: *flexing about his plans of Infinite Tsukuyomi*

Anish: *smiles innocently*

[chicagotimesmagazine]

Old Charioteer's Snot

By Chicago Times Magazine – July 18, 2024 In the twilight of the Republic, there lived a man named Stultum, weathered like an ancient olive tree. He was a legend in the Circus Maximus, a charioteer who had tasted victory countless times through his wicked ways. Yet, lately, whispers followed him like dust storms – whispers of a persistent sniffle, of reflexes dulled by age. Stultum held onto…

[judahmaccabees]

[ilions-end]

i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

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Pompa Circensis by Julio Borrell Pla

[golfishwiththebigeyes]

I am now playing p3 portable

[bluef00t]

poll makers: reblog for larger sample size :) the more votes the more reliable result

poll rebloggers: my psionic warriors. hopelessly bias this poll to my will immediately

[prokopetz]

— Chariots of Steel v1.0 by @open-sketchbook, p. 72

This is very possibly the best explanation for lack of realism in a tabletop RPG I've ever read.

[nothing-impt]

Achilles doesn’t think Hector sparks joy :(

[whovian223]

Friday Night Shots - Tiebreakers

Friday Night Shots - Tiebreakers @gmtgames @PlayRenegade @garphillgames @direwolf

Hey there! It’s another Friday, and it’s time to belly up to the bar, have a drink (whatever you like), and chat a little bit about board games. Don’t mind the music. I’ll turn it down. Steely Dan is so good that it can make it hard to talk. Anyway, where were we? Oh yeah, how about chatting about tie breakers! Nobody likes ties (except soccer…sorry, football fans). Most games that have…

[ahamasmiyodhah]

Anish: *sees a traumatised boy and a bright boy with a tailed beast inside him* Adopted. Anish: *sees a young man who's killed his entire clan and is branded a terrorist* Adopted. Anish: *sees a boy who's mad and unhinged* Adopted. Anish: *sees a warlord from the past who wants to put the world into a state of illusion* Well, he can be fixed. Adopted. Sesha: *sighs for the nth time* No wonder I got so many grey hairs. Anish: *slowly raises a young woman in his arms with LOOOOOOOOOOONG hairs* Sesha: *exasperated* we are NOT adopting a Rabbit Goddess-