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[almanach-international]

1er octobre : l’armer anniversaire de l’indépendance de Chypre

C’est toujours avec une certaine amertume que la république de Chypre célèbre son indépendance. Cette année en particulier, alors que l’armée turque occupe une partie de l’île depuis exactement 50 ans. Chypre n’a été indépendante que très tardivement. Le Royaume-Uni qui avait pris l’île aux Ottomans en 1878, et plutôt que de la céder à la Grèce (plus de 80% de la population étant à l’époque de culture grecque), il l’a maintenu sous un statut colonial jusqu’en 1960. Quatorze ans plus tard, la Turquie envahissait le nord du pays. Et un demi-siècle plus tard, l’occupe toujours dans l’indifférence générale de la communauté internationale. L’indépendance de l’île ne fut finalement totale que de 1960 à 1974, et encore… car l’armée britannique est toujours présente sur une partie portion du territoire. Une présence qui s’avérée bien inutile lors de l’invasion turque alors que Londres est, selon les traités, garante de l’indépendance de l’île dans sa totalité.

Dans les années 1950, en particulier à partir du 1er avril 1955, les Chypriotes se sont très majoritairement battus pour être rattachés à la Grèce comme le furent, au cours du XXe siècle, les Crétois, les habitants de Rhodes, ceux de Corfou ou de Chios… Le conflit a duré quatre ans, ce qui a conduit le gouverneur britannique Sir Hugh Foot à déclarer l'indépendance de Chypre et non à proclamer la cession à la Grèce afin que la petite minorité turque (18% à l’époque) ne se retrouve pas encore plus minoritaire au sein de la Grèce.

C’est le 16 août 1960, un peu avant midi, que le drapeau britannique fut remplacé par le drapeau chypriote, conformément aux accords de Zurich et de Londres de 1959 (qui interdisait l’union avec la Grèce). Moins de 24 heures après la déclaration d'indépendance de Chypre, Sir Hugh Foote avait déjà quitté Chypre. La véritable date de l’indépendance de Chypre est, en effet, le 16 août 1960, mais le jour férié a été déplacé en 1963 au 1er octobre pour éviter la chaleur estivale et la saison touristique. Le souci des autorités chypriotes était que cet anniversaire soit célébré avec tous les honneurs et en présence du corps diplomatique international. Le 16 août est inclus dans la période des vacances d'été du pays, pendant laquelle les ambassadeurs étrangers sont absents.

Chaque année, dans la partie de Nicosie qui n’est pas sous occupation turque, le Jour de l’indépendance de Chypre (Ημέρα Ανεξαρτησίας της Κύπρου ) est marqué par un défilé d'unités de la Garde nationale, de forces grecques présentes à Chypre, de policiers et de pompiers. Après le défilé national, le président prononce son traditionnel discours. Les magasins et les entreprises de tout le pays peuvent être fermés pour célébrer et observer l'événement. De nombreuses personnes se rassemblent au Monument de la Liberté dans la capitale, qui a été créé en l'honneur des patriotes chypriotes qui ont lutté pour l'indépendance de leur patrie.

Une cérémonie commémorative est également organisée en l’honneur de ceux qui sont tombés en résistant au coup d’État de l’extrême droite grecque du 15 juillet 1974 qui a déclenché l’invasion turque. Des gerbes sont également disposées sur les tombes des prisonniers en l'honneur des treize combattants de la lutte de libération de 1955 à 1959 (EOKA) contre le régime britannique, ainsi que devant la statue de l'archevêque Makarios III, premier président de la République de Chypre.

Un article de l'Almanach international des éditions BiblioMonde, 1er octobre 2024

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[majestic-salad]

Thinking about his dark materials and the part where they find that one child who's lost his daemon and all he's got is a piece of dried fish he's clinging to and nobody really cares for him or remember him, and when they find him nobody even wants to touch him because he has no daemon but that's a child!! A child missing a part of his soul!!! A part of his soul was cut off and all he has is a piece of fish and nobody wants to touch him and then he dies!! And then they try to take the piece of fish away from him, the piece of fish he's holding onto as some resemblances of his soul!!!

10 year old me read that and something fundamentally changed within me I think about him all the time

[willowc]

You've somehow found yourself in the Fox-Like Marauder's flat above a bookshop. She's god knows where right now, maybe with that zee-captain. You could steal something, and maybe even get away with it.

[yin-shimo]

fuck a proper character page this tells you it all

[wisdomfish]

Tragically misguided penitents...

Saint Assepsumas thought he could rid himself of sin through self-inflicted pain, and he wore so many chains that he had to crawl around on his hands and knees. Makarios the Younger sat naked in a swamp for six months, until mosquito bites made him look like a victim of leprosy. Saint Marin spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree. Great contributions to society.

Agnes de Roucher was the only daughter of one of the wealthiest merchants in Paris, and all the neighborhood admired her beauty and virtue. Her father died, leaving her his entire estate. She determined to become a recluse and spend the remainder of her days in a narrow cell built within the wall of a church. The bishop of Paris, attended by his chaplains and the canons of Notre Dame, entered the cell and celebrated a pontifical mass. Then, after the poor thing had bidden adieu to her friends and relations, Agnes ordered the masons to fill up the opening except for a small hole so she could watch and hear the offices of the church. She was eighteen when she went in and died at age eighty, never having come out. In all that time, no one ever told her Jesus was the key to redemption. God help such mistaken piety.

~ John MacArthur

[ladysnowangel]

[darkncold88]

Ne Reste Pas Sur Ta Fin

[11queensupreme11]

Here comes another platonic AU I was interested in Percy's future children and how they would deal with the bi-racial culture that combining Percy's marriage with any yandere would bring upon the children

Percy is loved for being herself and that means she can indulge in her human culture without any problems because the gods find her values ​​and beliefs adorable but any children she has will not have that same privilege

Any child independent of his father will be raised as a God and if he is expected to behave like a worthy God, it would be totally confusing for the child to see people loving his mother for her humanity only to criticize and punish that child whenever he shows any hint of resemblance to his own mother

I definitely see Percy teaching and reproducing little traditions and values ​​that she herself learned from her mother to her children, the yanderes would let this continue because seeing Percy acting so happy and excited warms their hearts

It would be so difficult for the children because literally all the gods around him would be criticizing humanity and its customs while at the same time idolizing their mother who is the definition of humanity, the children would be criticized for having 25% human blood ( which is ironic because Percy is 50% human and NOBODY cares about that), the gods make children feel inadequate because they have human traits (maybe they don't even realize they do it, maybe they treat it as something more fragile and dumb, like they accidentally underestimate and infantilize children) while also adoring their mother for the same reason

An example: no one cares that Percy is a disaster at mathematics, this has become another of her charms but that would be the opposite with her children, it would be shameful if any of them were incapable of performing basic operations (Beelzebub is a scientist so I imagine he would be livid if his own son couldn't calculate a mathematical operation) definitely human traits would take the blame, everyone would talk about how human blood made them inferior to the other gods and again no one will blame Percy, everyone they blamed poor Sally

Imagine that for years this feeling of shame, comparison, insufficiency and anger builds up inside the boys until one day all these feelings explode while Percy was just trying to recreate a human tradition that she did with her mother (baking blue cookies) until that Makarios and Kyrr just explode saying that they don't care about her stupid human traditions and that they don't care about her inferior human mother and that they disown her as a grandmother and that she is ashamed of having human blood and that they hate her for being half -human, Thalassus and Luke even try to calm the situation but in the end they admit that they also hate her human side (they don't really hate her, they just said it in the heat of the moment)

Maybe in the heat of their anger, Thalassus and Luke even ask if they are really bastards, if it's true that the nobleman from Atlântica really isn't their father (a bit like that scene in House of the Dragons where the eldest sons Rhaenyra asks if the rumors are true and she just remains silent without being able to answer), the younger brothers are horrified (they have always heard that only dishonored women and prostitutes have children outside of marriage, and that a woman's greatest sin is cheat on your husband) then they scream and insult her   Percy would first be shocked and then she would be deeply hurt, it would be an underlying pain worse than any injury she had ever received on any mission (and she would know a lot about painful injuries), she loves her mother very much and always misses her but like her now she's probably dead, the only way to revive those good ones would be to pass those beloved traditions on to her own children (since all the other gods despise anything remotely human), to know that the only beings she can share her own culture with in truth, despising everything she loves would be extremely painful, and I won't even describe the pain of a mother when she hears her child scream that he hates her

And she was also insulted for something that wasn't even in her control, she never chose to sleep with the yanderes, she was simply forced (eventually she came to love the yanderes and their children but that doesn't erase the abuse she suffered), Hearing her beloved children saying they feel ashamed and disgusted with her for something she didn't even have the power to change (she didn't choose to marry the nobleman in the same way she didn't choose to get pregnant by yanderes) simply DESTROYED her heart

I just remembered that there is a syndrome called "Broken Heart Syndrome" it is extremely rare, going through extremely stressful situations such as the loss of a loved one or hearing great negative news makes the heart beat so hard and so quickly it causes symptoms of a heart attack and sometimes can even be fatal, after hearing everything he heard, Percy's heart LITERALLY breaks (let's imagine that Percy inherited this genetic syndrome from one of Sally's ancestors), she spits blood from her mouth (just like in wmmap, I like to be dramatic) and just falls to the ground like a merionet that has had its strings cut

The children despair and scream for help, the yanderes arrive desperately in the kitchen trying to understand what happened, Percy is cured by the joint efforts of Beelzebub and Apollo, he is placed on absolute rest, the children go to her room to apologize Percy, like a good mother, accepts the apology but when the children look into her eyes they notice that her eyes are dull and have lost that happy glow, after that many things change

Percy is depressed, she has stopped all human traditions, she has lost her appetite and not even blue food attracts her, she just lies in bed staring silently at the ceiling, Poseidon is so desperate that he offers her fatty food but she doesn't show it interest, he tried to take her to New York but even that didn't cheer her up, the romantic yanderes are desperately trying to cheer her up and her children are feeling very guilty and ashamed

Now more than ever Percy feels suffocated in his supposed home so she asks to stay at Uncle Adamas' house for a while, Poseidon doesn't like the idea but considering it's the first time she's spoken in days he lets her, since Percy left In the Palace the atmosphere is tense, the children, feeling guilty, go to land to get some human gift for their mother in an attempt to improve her mood and it is while they are on the nearby beach that they see something shocking: The nobleman from Atlântica lovingly kissing a pregnant woman

(I'm going to stop here because this post was very long but I'm going to write part 2, I had sent you a post almost similar to this one by mistake, that post was the draft of this one and I ended up sending it by mistake because I got confused with Google translate 🤣🤣🤣)

WAIT I NEED CLARIFICATION BEFORE I GO ON SO QUICK QUESTION:

since you stated here that percy is still 50% human and her kids are all 25%, does this mean percy is still a demigod in this AU? like, she hasn't ascended so she's still aging, can die later, etc? or is she already dead and a spirit in valhalla? OR is it that she gave birth to the kids first, and THEN ascended??? ORRRRR is it just that she's still a demigod, but they found a way to make her immortal without turning her into a god?

OKAY NOW MOVING ON

when the kids are still young, the yanderes wouldn't be that harsh cuz... you know, they're kids (except for poseidon, he's gonna always be hard on them smh). but it's when they grow up is the problem.

anubis and apollo would be mostly okay (sorta) with their kids having some human-like traits, mostly because it reminds them of percy and it's further proof of their love for their kid to have some of percy's beliefs.

but it really depends on the yandere and the human trait. baking, cooking, and eating would be okay for pretty much everyone but poseidon, but on things like academics, most of them would be pretty.... speciest? idk if that's the right word for this, but yeah 💀 OR just being physically weak or getting tired, yeah most would look down on them for things like that 💀💀

but percy's heartbreaking from her kids.... omg. honestly, beelzebub and loki would go ballistic on their kids if they found out they were the cause of this, ESPECIALLY beelie who has no issue hurting his kid if need be 💀

ALSO WHAT THE FUCK????????? NOBLEMAN ARE YOU SUICIDAL WHAT ARE YOU DOING

that man fucking lost his mind LMAOOOOO

DID HE FORGET WHO HE'S GONNA PISS OFF IF HE GETS CAUGHT? 😭😭😭😭

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED A PART TWO 😭😭😭😭

[splattergai]

ren Life series? Any season! I’d like if they were monachoric and an adult. Dissomei is wanted, but not manditory!

Rendog (Life Series) Fictive Pack!

[ PT: Rendog (Life Series) Fictive Pack! /end PT ]

Note: Headmate may not form exactly as described. Anything can be changed to fit your system.

Dividers by @/cold--carnage [ Tumblr ] Left Photo by Victor Kallenbach on Unsplash Middle Photo by @/applestruda [ Tumblr ] Right Photo by Makarios Tang on Unsplash

Name (+ Sign-Off): Ren, Mage, Solaris (💥📖)

System: Fictive

Species: Human-dog hybrid (mutt / no specific breed)

Age: 40s

Pronouns: He/him, they/them

Gender: Monachoric dogloser

Attraction: Monachoric-loving-men

Other IDs: Dissofurpaws, dissoredsclera

Likes: Minecraft, building, pvp, collecting items, action, fighting

Dislikes: betrayal, being bored

Description: Can collect random items he finds in places that he thinks are cool, especially antiques, just to have as bragging rights. When playing games, they try to get the upper hand in a situation almost immediately, using his resources to gather, trade, and build up supply. Prefers to watch high-action movies and tv shows and a bit of a sucker for a good tragedy. Doesn't surround himself with a lot of people, preferring a small group of incredibly close friends, and keeps most people at an arm's distance.

[prairiefirewitch]

Makarios Noumenia. The point of showing these altar pics is to encourage armchair ritualists to make a space for magic in your life. I had honey and cream on hand, the greenery is my overgrown tansy because I waited until the last minute and couldn’t find white lilies, the water is tap and the green plums were a lucky find at the local Arabic mart. Full disclosure; the madelines are from Kroger because it’s too hot for this ex-pastry chef to turn on her stove. I decided on my theme last night, scrounged through my linens for a decent unstained white tablecloth and rummaged through old white dishes to complete a white lunar setting. I think I spent $12 because wine. It’s Apothic btw, just a cheap drinkable bottle. But I didn’t need to spend a cent. Water and something green from my yard, and a stick of incense is enough. Nothing needs to be overthought or needs to feel extravagant; we’re paying homage and asking our deities to see us. We work from wherever we are and that’s exactly as good as we can offer. They understand.

If you’re a bit of an armchair ritualist or witch, I challenge you to do this thing that helps me stay in my magical groove: do 3 magical things everyday. Tiny things count so add cinnamon to your coffee for a little prosperity magic, clean a window or your workspace with Florida water, light a tea light candle as an offering. Keep doing little acts of magic and eventually it becomes second hand. Anything can be magic if you make it so.

Happy Noumenia, and I’ll be back tomorrow evening with my Agathos Daimon altar. ♥️🖤♥️

[gavrannoir]

Watching the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy and realizing they’ve named Billy Costa’s dæmon Ratter…and that there is no Tony Makarios (whose dæmon is named Ratter in the book while Billy’s is unnamed) in this adaptation…and getting a sinking feeling that Billy is going to be the child who dies in this adaptation.

No shade on Tony at all. I just felt that the three boys were important (given the references to Christianity throughout the series). There’s the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and there’s Tony Makarios (not to be confused with Billy’s elder brother Tony Costa), Billy Costa, and Roger Parslow. Tony is severed from his dæmon and dies for Mrs Coulter’s experiment, Billy is freed and returned to his family, and Roger is severed from his dæmon and dies for Lord Asriel to open a bridge between the worlds.

Each boy’s fate is ultimately decided by a member of Lyra’s family, but, while her parents choose to end Tony’s and Roger’s lives for their own gain, Lyra sets Billy free. It’s her first time fulfilling the prophecy of putting an end to destiny.

I ultimately understand the constraints of filmography, pacing, and feeling like perhaps that’s one too many Tonys to keep track of, but, damn, why you gotta do Ma Costa dirty like that?

[kavalyera]

Macarro is a surname I can’t find much on other than it’s most prevalent in Spain (considering Ana de Armas is Spanish I think)

According to this website, the first syllable “Mac” means son of, kind of like “Mc” or “O’”. Eve’s father dies/gets murdered and it’s like pretty silly that her last name means “child of” or atleast in the first part of it just characterizes her as a whole as someone’s child.

I don’t know Spain-Spanish (or just spanish general😭) but “Macarro” apparently means bread roll…. so yeah. But colloquially it also means to make fun of someone/tease someone. +there’s a children’s game called “Santo Macarro” (Saint Macarius I think??)

A variation I found is “Macario” which means forunate or supremely blessed which is dervied from the Greek “Makarios” and Latin “Macarius”

[gemsofgreece]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ4796KY/

THE Kapothistrias has a living ancestor that is an actress??? Wow if it's true it's an interesting fact

Also Mitsotakis is really related to Venizelos?

Haha yeah

So I am gonna make this with pictures instead of the video because I think it's easier this way:

Actress Natalia Kapodistria is great (x4) grand niece (if that's a term) of Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776 - 1831), Governor of Greece, the first and quite probably the best political leader of the independent Hellenic Republic.

The Notarás family (here, Ioannis and Panoutsos respectively) are descendants of Loukas Notaras (1402 - 1453), the last Great Duke of the Byzantine Empire, and Imperial Minister next to emperors John and Constantine IX Palaelogos. He was beheaded by the Ottoman Turks shortly after the fall of Constantinople. In modern times, the family was notable for fighting in the Greek War of Independence (fatefully, also against the Ottoman Turks). Ioannis died on the battlefield at only 22 years of age (1805 - 1827) whereas Panoutsos (1752 - 1849) survived and became a politician of the independent state. The Notaras family was special enough that it also gave birth to two saints of the Orthodox Church, Saint Yerasimos (1506 - 1579) and Saint Makarios (1731 - 1805), and two Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Dositheos Notaras (1641 - 1707) and Chrysanthos Notaras (1655 - 1731)...! Imagine the flex of being a member of this family huh

And now for the jumpscare:

*sigh*

There is a connection through marriage to Venizelos' sister. Current Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is great (x3) grandson of his sister. So, he's his great (x3) grand nephew. Eleftherios Venizelos (1864 - 1936) was Greece's only political leader who could match Kapodistrias in competence and he is essentially responsible for the quadrupling of Greece's borders.

This TikTok says "part 1" so there will be more but I can already tell you a well known one:

Actress Natalia (again!) Dragoumi is grand niece of Ion Dragoumis (1878 - 1920), important political rival of Eleftherios Venizelos and a revolutionary of the Macedonian Struggle. Dragoumis also had a very interesting personal life that I have made a post about.

And I saved the "best" for last. I happen to know a descendant of a Greek Independence war hero. And not just any hero, THE HERO, if you know who I mean. I don't remember the exact relation but I wouldn't get too precise anyway. All I am saying is how you imagine and how the war hero was, the descedant is literally the exact opposite in everything, both in appearance and personality......

[wave-serpentii]

I wish I had Exalted in my life again. SMH this sucks it was Makarios The Sigil Dreamers birthday recently too.

[theonyxpath]

On this day in 2018, we released Hundred Devils Night Parade: Makarios, the Sigil's Dreamer https://drivethrurpg.com/product/287087/Hundred-Devils-Night-Parade-Makarios-the-Sigils-Dreamer?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr Hundred Devil's Night Parade is now available in a beautiful collected edition in PDF and POD via our partners at DriveThruRPG https://drivethrurpg.com/product/374354/Hundred-Devils-Night-Parade-Collected-Edition?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr