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Hasui Kawase, Moon at Magome [1930]

Victoria and Albert Museum

Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo), of the Indigenous Ponca tribe, posed together in their wedding photo, circa 1900

Birds at the Temple of Horus in Edfu, Egypt circa 2007

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS costumes appreciation: ― Arwen’s velvet dress (costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)

The Daughters of Danaus, c.1900 by Fernand Sabatté (French, 1874–1940)

Claudia Keep (American, b. 1993, Low Moor, VA, USA, based Burlington, VT, USA) - April 8th, 6:45 AM, Blue Morning, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Masonite Panel

i think Fagles is fine for somebody who has already read another translation and wants to compare, but it shouldn't be the first. not when he's ad-libbing, especially when those ad-libs makes Homer's text out to be far more sexist than it really is.

so much fuss has been made over Wilson "pushing her agenda" yet nobody can tell me what her supposed agenda actually is, meanwhile nobody seems to care as much about these men putting their misogyny into their translations. is that not an agenda? is it not misrepresenting Homer to pass these slurs off as his words?

Minoan octopus fresco

Vincent van Gogh - Daubigny's Garden (1890)

This will be my postcard design for October! You can sign up for my postcard club on Patreon (link in pinned post ^^) You can also buy the print here!

what are things you look for in a book?

Green frescoes from Pompeii, Italy