#greece fires

[the-goose-ferret]

Hey there! Just a heads-up, a lot of these posts you're reblogging are from the 2021 fires so the links for donations won't be accurate. Please pay attention to the dates

Oh shoot, thanks for the heads up! My brain is absolutely fried from this weird fever I have, LOL. I guess Tumblr's "Latest" post filter does not work...

[gemsofgreece]

The fires are not natural, they are arsons. They were started strategically on Sunday, a day with strong winds. This September has been one of the coolest we had in Greece in years. We have been discussing how this time autumn came straight away as opposed to previous Septembers when it was just elongated hot summer.

Corinth meteorological report:

The fire started on September 29th, a little after 10:30 AM. This means that the temperature at the moment would be around 24-25 degrees. (The highest temperature of the day is usually reached after 12 PM.) The winds would possibly have made the felt temperature lower. You do not get spontaneous wildfires in 25 degrees max.

EDIT: Oh I forgot. This data is from the city of the region. The fire actually started outside a village in an elevation, on a mountain. Which means the actual temperature in the starting point of the fire was in fact lower than 24-25 degrees, possibly around 21-23 degrees.

Please remember when you are talking about Greece fires, call it what it is in 99% of the cases: arson.

the fires in greece ;(

[echo-stimmingrose]

I have funny but first a quick history lesson

In Ancient Athens they had things called ostracons. Basically every year everyone would carve a name of someone they didn't like into a small stone tablet and then submit it. Then they would look at all of the ostracons and if there were too many of one person then they told that person to get tf out. They had ten days to flee Athens and couldn't come back for ten years.

So now I would like you to imagine Dionysus doing a pseudo version of this at Camp Half-blood every month because we all know he LIVES for the drama. (He's stuck there for a hundred years he might as well have some fun)

He would hand out stone tablets (it was very important to him that the names were carved don't ask why) and every person at camp would write a name.

Whoever had their name written down the most would be sent to live in a cabin in the woods for two weeks. If they survived they would be allowed to return to camp.

Mr. D always makes sure there's a crowd around to witness their walk of shame and he takes a picture of said person every month. He keeps them hung up on a wall in the big house.

[arishnea]

Saint Seiros, but if she was a goddess from Greek Mythology and she had Mediterranean skin 😇

She’s available as print in my art store

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 1, 2023 - Antifascists in Greece attack riot police who were protecting a neonazi gathering in Athens. The nazis were commemorating two Golden Dawn pieces of shit who were shot dead by antifascists in 2013 in response to the murder of antifascist Pavlos Fyssas by Golden Dawn members. [video]

[illustratus]

The Death of Sappho by Antoine-Jean Gros

[fire-boy-official]

(guys i really need to sleep)

For whatever reason, Leo was digging through all the stuff in Bunker 9. It was huge and cluttered. Gods know what could be hiding in there. That part was always fun. You could almost never run out of parts. There was bound to be one somewhere. Sometimes you would find something you never expected.

After a while, he found Glykera. Still and unassuming. She didn't move an inch. Didn't say a word. Her chiton had lost some of its color and had small holes in it. Probably from moths eating the fabric or something. The pain that once made her look more lively had long since chipped off.

Some of her hand and shin were pretty banged up. The shin was dented and the hand was barely recognizable. There was dust all over her.

Another crazy thing about camp and all this demigod stuff. Just like how Mount Olympus had moved, and how so, so many other places in Greek mythology had moved to the U.S., so had she.

@glykera

(this took so long lmao i gotta go to bed)

Leo gently pulled her out of the rest of the clutter and gently dusted her off before getting to work.

He redid lots of the metalworking creating her, completely having to replace her shin and hand, but making sure that they blended in with the rest of the metal.

He carefully opened the panel in the back of her head. He took the old and rotted wires out of her and delicately placed some new ones in.

He even fashioned her a new chiton.

In all, after collecting materials needed and doing all the necessary repairs, the project took him around two months. After completing his project, he tried to turn her on.

“Hello?” He said in Ancient Greek. He wasn’t sure how long she had been deactivated for or what language she spoke, but he figured that for anything at camp half-blood that Ancient Greek was a good bet.

[starheirxero]

apparently the greek word the word eclipse comes from means abandonment and this fact has been festering in my brain

[voice of a guy who loves to otherthink] oh my god and eclipse stems from the greek word meaning abandonment

[pink-lemonade-rose]

[In Kos, Hestia] was known by the epithet Phamia, which strikes us as strange for a goddess who does not have a speaking role in any of the myths told about her, save for the oath she utters in the Homeric Hymn when she takes hold of the head of Zeus and pledges to remain a virgin forever. Yet preserved in Aristotle is the record of a Hestia who spoke in strange and sudden outbursts, with the crackling of the fire, via a process which he explains as being akin to that by which lightning bolts cause thunder. This was the sound of "Hestia laughing," and the inarticulate voice of Hestia at strange and sudden moments around the fire was taken as a warning, as a kledon […].

Craig Dethloff, Corpus of Inscriptions of the Goddess Hestia

[stansavvy]

Polyam relationship where we are just an army and we take over the world yeah

[happyk44]

PJO: we need to recognize the value of the minor gods. The Olympians are important, sure, but the minor gods do a lot of work in maintaining and assisting the pantheon, have their own kids and deserve to be seen and valued just as much

HoO: Back at it again with Olympian-only nonsense!

[hoeelliexx]

I started doing end of the year TBR last year and it went horribly… So here I am trying again!

24 books I want to read before 2024 is over. My hopes are abysmal but we will see! Big thanks to NetGalley for doubling my TBR with a few ARCs!

QOTD: Do keep to a strict list when working through your TBR or are you a mood reader?

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Mithimnis, Kypseli, Athens, Greece,

Molonglo, Royffe Flynn,

Photos by. Lorenzo Zandri. 

[kropotkindersurprise]

October 8, 2023 - Squatters and their supporters protested and fought riot police in Heraklion, Crete, after police brutally evicted the Evangelismos squat, which had been a squatted social and cultural center for 21 years. [video]/[video]

[illustratus]

Aeneas fugitive with his family by Luca Giordano