Serenity Dee: SFF is still maladjusted

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

(The Master voice) "NEVER

NEVER

NEVER DYING

NEVER DYING

Even if his body is utterly obliterated he continues on as a "Ghost" O_O;

If you are wondering why no one ever tried to replicate this amazing quirk of nature well

They did

It....

uhhhhhhh

To get revenge for what you did

The day you attacked our jet

Cackling like a maniac

My best friend Frosting

Murdered in cold blood

Splattered into pieces

Not even a body left to bury

Starscream: .....

................................

I'm sorry

I don't remember ANY of that

Duke: ....

YOU DON'T REMEMBER

Starscream: For you fleshling, the day Starscream graced your mudball of a world was the most important day of your life

But for me?

turns out when you make something you can't put down that has a will of its own, you have no really effective means of control because it knows it will survive anything you do to it

you can't kill it, you just piss it off

see also Kratos in the Greek God of War games, who was sent to Hades as a mortal, was too angry to stay dead and not only fought his way back to the world of the living but killed Ares and took his stuff

and then, when Zeus stripped him of his divine power and banished him to Tartarus, where even the Titans could not escape, he again fought his way back to the world of the living, regained his divine power and then some, killed the Titans along the way because they kept trying to stop him, and then murdered most of the rest of the Greek pantheon, even the ones that the Olympians couldn't kill

Strange Aeons has a whole video about this Liminal Space :D

To quote that film of all time "Giant From the Unknown":

"This bad place

O_O

Captain America has joined the Skeleton War....

Was indeed!

I just finished re-reading my Kang Dynasty paperback

Day 9 of Knollej’s Pride Art Challenge: Galaxy (Taylor Barzelay)

Ive been trying to get my life together for some time now, and that started with my transition. Ive been needing help living with disabilities and burned out, and now dropping out of uni. Getting employed is pretty much impossible and I've been surviving off savings and these donation posts. Food and bills and my own hrt depend on thse until I manage to get my life together, which is very hard when your life hangs on generous donations every month.

I'll be most thankful with anything you can help with, please. And share this post around so more people can see it. I'm asking for an amount that could sustain me for many months ahead, and I'll be trying to get up on my own.

Paypal

Ko-fi

I hope this shithole goes out of business

The periods from the end of Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity are marked by specific historic events, such as wars commencing, and they're variously well-documented, because it was during Archaic Greece that the Greek alphabet first emerged from Greek people adopting the Phoenician alphabet and reworking it to fit Greek phonologies of the time, and so people were writing stuff down, and they never stopped, although a lot of that stuff is now lost, and we only even know it existed because other people quoted it or referred to it.

With Mycenaean Greece and the Greek Dark Ages, it's a little fuzzier, because the Mycenaean Greek civilization did have writing, the syllabic Linear B script, and the court scribes of the warrior-kings who dominated the region wrote quite a bit down.

The problem is that Mycenaean Greece ended with the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the Mediterranean as a whole, and we don't really know why it ended, other than some vague descriptions of some marauding sea people alluded to in some Egyptian materials, which were almost certainly a symptom of whatever disaster(s) precipitated the collapse than the actual cause. And when Mycenaean Greek civilization ended, the tiny class of professional scribes all vanished, probably all dead, and with it all knowledge of Linear B (and the still-undeciphered Linear A attested in the Minoan civilization), so nobody could read anything from the archeological remains of Mycenaean civilization until Michael Ventris fully deciphered it in 1952, based on the work of Alice Kober. The ~250 years from the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations to the rise of Greek city-states starting around 800 BCE are called the Greek Dark Ages because nothing was recorded and written down (that's what a "dark age" is in historiography, a period with little to no recorded history); everything we know about the period is from excavations of the tiny villages that people lived in around the Aegean Sea after the palaces of the Mycenaean civilization were abandoned and figuring out what they were eating from their middens and such.

it's a TRIAD

"The Molester is a different member of my species

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