#skira

MASTERLIST

Series summary: Din Djarin has made more than his fair share of enemies as one of the galaxy's more fearsome bounty hunters, and he has always been prepared to deal with them should they resurface and come looking for him. But it isn't him they come after. It's you. To rescue you, he'll have to fight his way through an arena of gladiators. Sacrifices will be made, Blood will be spilled, and old scores will be settled... but will you both make it out alive?

Series warnings: canon-typical violence, fight sport, blood, injury, death, hostage/prisoner situation, see individual chapters for additional warnings.

Part One - 4.2k Part Two - 6.6k Part Three - 5.3k Part Four - 5.3k Part Five - coming soon! Part Six - TBA Part Seven - TBA

Here’s all the stuff I forgot to post last week. I’ll tell you about it under the cut speedround style

My man @sweet-milky-tea705 has tomodachi island and witnessed Echo and @boiledkwamaegg’s Faenil develop crushes so I needed to draw the terrifying (NONCANON) ship. Joke is from the kingdom hearts fandub iykyk

Erandur is okay with this information

Also @liches-covered-in-lich sent me an epic DM and I needed to draw it

In the cult server there was an OC prompt like “what hot take does your OC have” and my answer was “idk what’s being said but I know who’s saying it.” Kyrahk.

From LtR it’s Skira (@/frogotart), Capsize (@/bforblitz), Rhythma (@/inkhajiitswetrust), Kynreeve (@/the-troll-of-the-bridge), Hera (@/mellowscrolls), Kyrahk, Lorelei (@/liches-covered-in-lich), Velehk, Rakell, Lubber (@/bforblitz)

From: Gianni Colombo: Il dispositivo dello spazio, Skira, Milano, 2006 [Libreria di Frusaglia, Pesaro (PU). Art: © Archivio Gianni Colombo, Milano]

Milestone Monday: Roy Lichtenstein

On October 27th, 1923, Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City. On his birthday, we celebrate the pop artist with images from two titles in our collection. The first, Pop Art One, was released by the Publishing Institute of American Art in New York City in 1965. Dorothy Herzka – who would later marry Lichtenstein, and run his foundation after his death – edited this collection of loose leaf plates by Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Andy Warhol.

The color images featured are from, Roy Lichtenstein: Drawing First: 50 Years of Works on Paper, edited by Danilo Eccher, and published by Skira in Milan, Italy, 2015. The book features studies, sketches, and drafts showing Lichtenstein’s meticulous process. A 2011 article by Kevin Conley details the precision of his craft:

During World War II he’d served as a draftsman, drawing maps in an engineering battalion, and after leaving Ohio State he again found work as a draftsman, at Republic Steel; those experiences contributed to his pragmatism and mechanical wizardry in the studio…. He made a floor-to-ceiling wall easel that tilted ever so slightly forward, so that any excess paint would drip onto the floor and not down the meticulously clean surface of his canvas. He worked in waves of activity, sketching in notebooks and transferring his drawings onto canvas by means of an overhead projector, refining the original ideas freehand, filling in blank spaces with test patches of colored or patterned paper, taping and applying paint in solid sections or with the aid of various tools of his own devising. He invented a standing easel that allowed him to rotate the canvas 360 degrees, so he could view a work in progress in a new light.

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--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

Having such a bad day I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care I’m posting this even tho it’s not “done” I DONT CARE. One of my first hollow drawings with that stupid ship meme, made this before I started the whole round 2 story, started it may 7th? Last significant progress was may 28th I think. I hate how weirdy’s eyes look so I covered it idc. Now I don’t even ship kainessa anymore (thank u lesbian Vanessa hc) BUT if anyone does I do like it as a QPR or just platonic besties

Here’s individuals + color on the kainessa

Book 640

Gothic Painting (The Great Centuries of Painting)

Jacques DuPont and Cesare Gnudi

Skira 1954

I’m pretty sure the 50s mostly sucked, but they sure did know how to make a damn fine art book back then. This book looks fantastic for being over 70 years old. And it should. The reason it’s so impressive is only in comparison with most books made today, which are usually made by the lowest bidder. (Honestly, I think the average lifespan of a book should be no less than a century.) It has over 100 tipped plates that shine with bright colors, a spotless full green linen binding under a brilliant dust jacket, acid-free pages still beam white, and even the flimsy cardboard slipcase is still holding together really well—proving mostly that slipcases and dust jackets really do work if you let them.

Okay ignore the last poll it was bugging me so hard because I forgot a bunch of good options and put cerdae on there which messed up the results but NOW we're good now we're cooking choose your fighter

~ 12-14 Skiraphorion ~

The last Grain Festival of the year, Skira/Skiraphoria had two main focuses in celebration. These two focuses go hand-in-hand. One being Athena's triumph over Poseidon as the patron of Athens, and the second being Demeter's mystics regarding the harvest.

Skiron held major signficance as not only a precinct, but a place for Athena Skiras, Poseidon Pater, Demeter and Kore. Women were known during this festival to parade the streets, the only time of the year they were allowed to gather together in public. They ate garlic to ward of men (and husbands) as this day was one withheld from intimacy.

Because of this, Skira is regarded mainly as a festival for women. Women also casted piglets, dough figures of snakes and male genitalia, and pinecones into megaron, or a chasm. This then would be gathered once again at Thesmophoria. This cycle can be tied to the Grain part of the festival. Even as the year was coming to a close, the women were the ones to ensure the cycle begun properly once again in the next year to come.

Priests and priestesses engaged in mystics at the previously mentioned precinct. Plutarch mentions this as a "sacred plowing". This could be read placing significance on thanksgivings over a feast or a blessing of the last harvest of the year. Many read it as both.

With this ritual one to Athena as the patroness of Athens was said. Her victory over Poseidon for the city was acknowledged. A priest of Helios also attended, suggesting a blessing for good weather for the crops was also said at the sacred site.

Young men also participated in the festival in celebration. It is said races occurred to a shrine of Dionysus. The winner would partake in a wine-like mixture of wine, honey, olive oil, cheese and grain. Athena Skira was asked to bless this mixture.

It is during this time that we Modern Hellenes might take place a feast of grain, meat and dairy. Acknowledgement of Lady Athena's victory should be celebrated, bringing in the good harvest for her patron city with a prayer to Lord Helios, Lady Demeter and Lady Kore.

Traditional Offerings:

Hymns to Athena

Hymns to Demeter

Hymns to Kore

Hymns to Helios

Wine

Bread/Grain product

Cheese

Mixture from Thesmophoria

Garlic

Traditional Acts:

Prayers to Athena, Demeter, Kore and Helios

Blessings of crops/meal

Races of young men

Gathering of Women

Disregard of intimacy