#traditional climbing

[leapdayowo]

[ochiody]

the death of achilles

[arttsuka]

Slap

[angelxd-3303]

Surprise, I'm not dead!✨

Have some Dad Alpha Trion and baby Pax:

I based Alpha's color palette off of his G1 version, btw. He loves his feral baby boi.

[bramblebeau]

power was out so I decided to sketch the butch of all time

[spiralingemptyness]

forgot to post theze

I. Am. Tired. GIVE ME A BREAK DAMMIT

:)

[lotstradamus]

Things This Infographic Does Not Include: pretty much all of the ‘info’ in ‘infographic’ because it’s ugly as hell this year (again), plus all the books that I read twice (lol) because Goodreads has reformatted the challenge into a LIST so I had to screenshot these from my Read In 2024 shelf instead. disGUSTENG.

MY TOP 5 IN 2024:

Sorcery and Small Magicks by Maiga Doocy

The Wildes by Louis Bayard

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice*

She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark

Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen

*I know. I'm shocked.

as always, all CS Pacats and most KJ Charles are rereads (except The Duke at Hazard and Death in the Spires, which both came out this year - but I did read Death in the Spires twice. lol.).

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[ashksa]

[moonasketch]

More inktober illustrations 🥰🩵

I got super busy with thesis stuff during october so i had to put my inktober stuff on pause but ill still finish the prompts i planned on doing 🥰

But yes these are all for my own story project which is about a lonely child who befriends the Moon 🌙🩵

[rathologic]

I've always found Alexander Saburov interesting, especially P1 Rubin's take on him where he tells how Alexander in incognito saved people from burning house and went unrecognized for the deed (nor flaunted it). Wonderful and easy to miss characterization.

YES saburov's fucked up sense of performing duty by putting himself at risk... my favorite... have had thoughts brewing in response to this that aren't quite cooked enough yet but it's very much a gendered standard that he holds himself to IMO, of idealized masculinity as a responsibility. as an active role and as the way things must be done. making the choices that he thinks need to be made regardless of how bad they are for him. pairing beautifully with katerina's self-destructive attempts to conform to the extremely feminine-gendered role of mistress, pairing wonderfully with the two of them's catastrophic attempt to conform to the heteropatriarchal nuclear family archetype by adopting the changeling :^) and especially how this is a function of how saburov relates to his Job, a role that's been passed down in his family and Actually Is critical to the function of the Town, inescapably so as long as the system of rulers exists

[welp0w0]

goddamnit, who forgot to put the child safety lock back on the kitchen knife drawer again?

(sinful circus au pomni belongs to @nobody-nexus )

looks like somebody walked in on something at an inopportune time :3

also pomni is definitely chattering her teeth like cats when they spot birds (prey) outside the window

[lady-forest]

greek pleinair day 3👁

the drawing is probably salty cause I washed my brushes in sea water lol

[turtlemurmurs]

recently listened to one (1) cradle of filth song and immediately thought of this nerd

[eternalfrowning]

some sketches!

[gemsofgreece]

Hello, could you tell us about Kalymnos and the history of weaving in Greece?

Hi! They are both broad topics, however I will do my best to summarize the most important and interesting information about them.

KALYMNOS

Kálymnos is an island which belongs in the Dodecanese, the southeasternmost islands of Greece. It is 26th in the list of the 50 largest Greek islands. It is the third most populous island of the Dodecanese.

Kalymnos was first inhabited by Carians and Phoenicians. By 1100 BC the island was inhabited by Dorian Greeks. Kalymnos participated in the Trojan War and Homer mentions it with the name Kalydnae. In the late Archaic period, Kalymnos was a democracy. For a time, it was captured by the Persians. When liberated again, Kalymnos remained an ally of Athens, however it did not meddle much with the Peloponnesian war. Like all the other regions of Greece, it fell under Roman rule and was a part of the Byzantine Empire in the middle ages. In the 13th and 14th centuries it came under the control of Venice and the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ιωαννίτες Ιππότες - Ioannites Ippotes in Greek) AKA the crusaders, just like most of the Dodecanese islands. The knights expanded and reinforced the original Byzantine fortress of the island which was there since the 10th century.

The ruins of the castle above the main town (Chora) of the island.

The Ottoman Turks attacked the island for about 80 years until they conquered it in 1522. Kalymnos was relatively privileged in the Ottoman Empire - islands were always more privileged compared to mainland Greek regions. In 1881, the Ottoman General Census found that the island had an overwhelming Greek majority (9,482 Greeks out of 9,716 overall population). In 1912, Italy conquered the island during the Italo-Turkish war and kept it until 1947, when, in the form of reparations after the Axis Occupation, Italy ceded the Dodecanese islands to Greece. The Dodecanese were the last region to get united with the Modern Greek state.

Kalymnos has a diverse, arid landscape. It is hilly and very rugged, while its coastline is very indented, forming numerous cliffs, caves and coves. This is why Kalymnos is an internationally popular rock climbing destination with more than 3,000 climbing routes. Kalymnos also has a small archipelagos of its own.

Kalymnos' economy is not based on agriculture, but rather tourism, traditional head scarf painting production and, most notably, sponge diving, which is the best known tradition of the island. Greece is the biggest exporter of natural sponges in the world, largely thanks to Kalymnian spongedivers and the island's seabed. Traditional sponge diving is extremely dangerous and potentially fatal and involves wearing a very heavy suit and holding your breath underwater for extended periods of time.

Artwork depicting the life of a Kalymnian spongediver © Francesco Zizola / NOOR

A folk song sang by Kalymnian sailors and divers has become popular around the world after French singer Dalida made a cover of it with romantic lyrics in 1970. The actual song however was sung by the ship's crew and it was meant to rouse a reaction from the spongediver so that if he struggled underwater, he would have the will to fight and manage to come to the water's surface. For example, the song makes references to the little joys of life, food, a comfortable sleep in a warm bed, sex, making a family, it mentions women (who could be real islanders the spongedivers were interested in), it mentions taking the City back (AKA Constantinople!), it mentions turning against the privileged lords of the island, it "threatens" the spongediver with unfairness ("you lads, I will give violets to you all, I will give two to each, but hey I am giving none to Yoryis (the spongediver)!"), it criticizes the spongediver's unresponsiveness (not pulling the rope) and implies his sister is with the crew, so anything that could potentially make a young man's blood flow and rouse a reaction from him and help him rise to the surface. I link the song below, performed by an actual crew from the island.

After the 60s a lot of Kalymnians emigrated to the USA and Australia, where they were usually employed in hard jobs, like constructing and painting bridges, used as they were in the demanding job of their island.

WEAVING IN GREECE

Weaving is a big, broad topic, especially because it was a well attested practice in Greece even in the Homeric Age. Therefore, and because the post is already long, I found some links that are very helpful and detailed and way more informative than whatever I would write here!

In this link here, there is a pdf about Byzantine weaving and textiles.

[tastycitrus]

funny: INT maplestory classes are physically weak and pathetic because they don’t lift

funnier: actually all maplestory player characters are swole because they do physically intensive things like climb rope ladders, carry heavy objects, etc. all the time

funniest: pretty much everyone in the Maple Alliance is swole except for neinheart, who’s a twig