#on their deserted island

[theoihalioistuff]

The Ghost of Achilles

"Achilles is said to have appeared once to a merchant who frequented the island [of Leuke], relating to him what had occurred in Troy while entertaining him with drink, and he ordered him to sail to Ilion and bring him back a particular Trojan maiden, who was a slave to a certain man in Ilion.

The guest was astonished at the command, and boldly asked Achilles why he needed a Trojan slave. Achilles answered, "Because, my guest, she is from the same line as Hektor and his ancestors, and is the last of the blood of the children of Priamos and Dardanos." Of course, the merchant thought Achilles was in love, and after he bought the maiden he sailed back to the island.

Achilles praised the merchant and ordered him to keep the maiden for him on the ship (I suppose because no women where allowed on the island), but to come to the sanctuary that evening and feast sumptuously with him and Helen. When he came, Achilles gave him many things merchants are unable to resist, and said he considered him his guest friend, and granted him a prosperous voyage and fair sailing.

At daybreak Achilles said, "Now take these things and sail away, but leave the girl on the shore for me." They had not yet gone a stade away from land when the girl‘s screaming struck them—Achilles was tearing her apart, and ripping her limb from limb." (Philostratus. On Heroes 56. 6-10)

[frm9pm]

Doodle exercise

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The Mirror of Ecidyrue by starbrigid

Another Mask Behind You by lettered

Tea and No Sympathy by who_la_hoop

Recursion by Tessa Crowley

The Ordeal of Being Known by louisfake

The Changing Lights by lazywonderland

Far From The Tree by aideomai

Heal Thyself by astolat

Who we are in the shadows by Quicksilvermaid

All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound

Sealed with a Kiss by Faith Wood

Two to Lie and One to Listen by fluxweed

[weirdlookindog]

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Desert Island, 1933

[oooo-leanderies]

Total traffic island but i copied some offical td stuff and also the colours are funky

[cfffrk]

Husbands are on vacation🏖️🥽🌴☀️

(someone's missing summer :[)

[dredgesnails]

stardew valley au where joel and skizz are new residents to pelican town (hermit town?). joel just inherited a large farm from his late grandfather and skizz is moving in with his old friend after reconnecting with him and wanting a fresh start. and the townspeople are like, kinda weird.

bdubs is fine enough - he’s a sweet man with a fun personality and he’s the local builder, but it’s almost frightening how fast he constructs new buildings when joel needs them. pearl, their resident postmaster, is also pretty normal other than the fact that skizz never seems to be awake early enough to catch her delivering mail. scar is lovely but he’s never available when joel wants another chicken. the mayor, xisuma, is pleasant too, if a little eccentric at times, but he doesn’t really seem to do much in town.

for the most part, skizz is settling in well. he’s moved in with impulse, who runs the local blacksmith in town, and he gets along well with most of the local townspeople. he’s started spending his evenings at the local saloon listening to ren regale the patrons with fantastical tales while he and stress serve up food and drinks, and he finds himself growing close with cleo, the local sculptor. he even gets a new wardrobe from hypno free of charge, and sometimes helps cub out with his totally scientific studies and creations.

skizz also joins forces with beef (who helps to supply the local general store that xb and keralis run) in terrorising the local manager of the corporate chain grocery store that no one likes. doc is a terrible manager but would make a fun supervillain (according to joe hills, the bookseller who appears once in a blue moon but seems to know doc more than anyone in town).

joel, on the other hand, seems to only be interacting with the strangest residents in town. he discovers the adventurer’s guild after only a couple weeks. false promises to give him prizes if he can kill enough monsters, which is not something joel had expected to be doing when he pictured farm life, but here he is. he stumbles upon a travelling cart one day, and the man inside insists he’s a knight from a faraway land, that he risked his life to make it all the way here to sell his wares. it’s all stuff joel can get cheaper elsewhere.

he’s pretty sure the local doctor has no real medical training, but then he passes out while fighting monsters and he wakes up completely fine, so zedaph probably knows what he’s doing. maybe. when joel isn’t passing out he sometimes makes trips to the library-slash-museum, which is probably almost completely empty because mumbo, who begs joel for anything to display, looks like he’s never fought a duggie in his life. eventually mumbo gives joel a key to the sewers, which are way cooler than they have any right to be, and that’s where he finds jevin’s secret sewer shop. jevin lives in town. he just also has a shop hidden underground. joel has stopped asking questions by now.

and then there are the three who live by the beach. etho spends most of his time tinkering around the fishing hut or hovering around bdubs, but sometimes he drives the bus to the desert. only sometimes. there might be something under his mask. no one knows for sure. gem runs the fish shop most days and she claims she’s a sailor, but joel has never seen a single working boat around despite all the ocean. she can also hold her breath underwater for an uncannily long amount of time, like, scarily so, and will sometimes disappear for a few days and return with an abundance of treasures. joel has never seen her leave by boat. grian fishes a lot and runs the shop when gem can’t, and he sometimes talks as though the sea can speak to him. skizz has caught him staring into space for extended periods of time. one time he waded into the water and just stood there, head down, muttering to himself.

apparently there used to be a lighthouse but “it’s gone now”. gem says if they ask bdubs nicely enough maybe they can build another one, but she and grian are banned from build requests after the last incident with their pet snails (joel has never seen the snails, but scar complains about them enough to convince him they’re real).

there also might be some kind of wizard who lives in the creepy tower in the woods. skizz has heard he’s the one who helps maintain the power in the valley, and joel’s convinced he hallucinated seeing him once until he recieves a letter from the wizard himself, and visits him only to find that the strange fire-creature he saw that one time was, in fact, tango, who is human for the most part, he just sets himself on fire sometimes.

[aahsokaatano]

something that I feel the movie (and the novelization I had as a kid) and honestly most fanworks I've seen kind of gloss over is the fact that in A New Hope, the VERY first planet that Luke goes to after leaving Tatooine is a fucking rainforest

Like can you imagine. You've spent your entire life in a place where water is so precious that an entire industry has been built around pulling tiny bits of moisture from the very atmosphere, every single drop is precious and worth twice it's weight in gold.

And then when you leave, you go first to a space station with extremely strict climate control, and then to a FUCKING RAINFOREST

It would be like someone who has lived their entire life in Death Valley suddenly being picked up and set back down in the middle of the Amazon

Luke should have been complaining that the air is like soup bc this boy has never experienced humidity over probably 8% in his entire life and now he's being faced with 98% humidity. Han what is this. Why is everything WET. Stop laughing at me I feel like I'm drowning WHAT IS THIS.

[jura-san]

Party Crashers. I will never forget my first encounter with Bazelgeuse in the New World. Your story?

乱入といえば！の3体です。スペイン宗教裁判と絡めたネタがどうしても頭を離れなかったので供養。皆さんきっといろいろ思い出があるかと思います

[froglover7789]

do we think luke has like a fan club in the rebellion and new republic? like do we think he has stans? like. hes gotta have stans. youre gonna tell me that if you heard that One Guy lowkey saved the whole of the galaxy from imperialism ppl wouldnt already fangirl over him? and then its revealed hes this cutie patootie twunk with fuck me eyes and you STILL think ppl wont fangirl???? think of the fancams! the edits!

[fisheito]

before mirage of scales: I NEED YAKUYA EVENT

after mirage of scales: ah. um. i . i don't need yakuya event so much, anymo.re... hah..a...

[sir20]

Sun rays, Fuerteventura by sir20

[cicadatree]

sunstone by @leafyliz

DA: 3267-7035-4995

[joljulep]

Drew this for Twitter ppl seem to like this Anyways here's Willem Fufoe

[unpretty]

packing for a two week trip like, "okay i've got my phone, my work phone, my tablet, my ereader, my laptop, my mp3 player, my steam deck, my switch, my 3ds, my earbuds, my headphones, my controller, my solar charging lamp, my yubikey, my novelty bear-shaped thermal sticker printer, and all my chargers. i will buy deodorant when i get there."

[eternalsnowfan02]

Happy (belated) birthday to Rook! The below exchange was very cute! And also had me picturing how this scenario would play out.

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

A brief coelacanth cameo in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Deserted Island Diary manga by KOKONASU☆RUMBA