Fascinating insights about Floralia and Flora’s cult.
The Floralia is a Roman festival honoring Flora, the goddess of spring, flower gardens, and crops. It was held each year from April 27th or 28th to May 3rd. She is married to Favonius, the God of the West Wind. Flora was one of the most important goddesses in the Roman pantheon, one of only 15 deities to have a cult administered by a state priesthood consisting of a married couple, who were appointed for life.
The celebration of the Floralia included theatrical performances, competitive games, and a sacrifice to Flora, presumably at her temple on the lower slope of the Aventine Hill near the Circus Maximus.
About the base image:
Flora, or the Primavera of Stabaie; 1st century CE fresco from Stabaie, Italy. Collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli via Wikimedia Commons (X). Image license: Public Domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer and in the United States - published anywhere (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before 1926.
Manipulation: I 'healed' some of the fresco's more obvious flaws and added the floral border.
-Sydney: Follows all the quarantine safety protocols and only goes out when absolutely necessary. She has a list of educational tv shows, and apps for Declan.
-Adrian: Is definitely sliding back into his drinking heavily habit, but is refraining from utilizing spirit for Sydney’s sake.
-Jill: Worries about her human friends, bingewatches her favorite tv shows, and occasionally provides her sister Lissa with some insightful ideas. Misses Eddie a lot, and Zoom calls him once a week.
-Eddie: Is paranoid about accidently bringing home the virus, and has enough hand sanitizer for the whole neighborhood. Teaching Declan is the highlight of his day.
-Angeline: Is going stir crazy about being locked up, but isn’t willing to put her friends in danger.
-Trey: Spars with Angeline to cheer her up, and figures this mess will blow over someday.
-Sonya: Is assisting humans in uncovering a cure for the virus, but has to be reminded to rest occasionally.
Lissa Dragomir: So what do Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra have in common?
Rose Hathaway: Threesome!
Lissa Dragomir: Can you honestly not take ANYTHING seriously?!
Rose Hathaway: It wouldn’t be as fun if I did.
This is very accurate.
assuming bi youth only experience marginalization and oppression when they’re in same gender relationships makes as much sense as assuming that gay people only experience marginalization and oppression when they’re in a relationship
it doesn’t
So am I the only one who thinks Fenris and Jessica Jones would be a good couple? They’d get drunk without judging each other for it, although Fenris would attempt to convert her to drinking more champagne. Jessica bluntly comments that Danarius’ abuse of Fenris wasn’t his fault, and actually talks about her Kilgrave experiences.
It would be kind of sweet for two broken people to support each other and find love.
-Lord Byron was the inspiration for his doctor Polidori’s vampire, Lord Ruthven. He’s also a national hero in Greece, because he died fighting in their War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
-Mary Shelley is best known for Frankenstein and editing her husband’s work. However, she wrote several other novels. She was bisexual, and had a relationship with Jane Williams, which ended badly.
-Claire Clairemont in addition to having an illegitimate child by Byron, was fluent in five languages, including French. She outlived the majority of Byron and Shelley’s social circle.
-Percy Shelley was expelled from Oxford for his atheism, and died in a shipwreck. The death of Claire Clairemont’s illegitimate daughter by Byron haunted him.
Mical is a terrible liar.
That’s quite an impressive feat there.
*after Kreia kills the Jedi masters*
The Exile: But WHY?!
Kreia: You were there. Vrook wanted to kill you, so I killed him, then everyone saw me kill Vrook so I killed everyone. You must end the entire order to prevent revenge killings. That's Jedi Killing 101.
Atton: Uh, I taught that class at the Korriban Academy and we never covered anything this fucked up.
I'm torn between agreeing with Atton, and laughing while picturing him as an actual teacher.
The beginning of a memorable speech..
“i could fix him” “i could make him worse” well i come to bury caesar not to praise him. the evil that men do lives after them,
The real tragedy.
julius caesar has been dead for 2063 years and they still havent made a movie that depicts him as the bisexual disaster he was
I respect Christian Dominionists’ right......to shut the fuck up about how we fallen away from being a “Christian nation”. The only reason we have “Under God” in our pledge was to show we were different from those “Godless communists”. Y’all need to re-read the First Amendment, which says that Congress shall not favor a particular religion over another.
DNI: Christian apologists.
Autistic cis white queer bisexual. Fan of historical fiction (especially featuring badass women),fantasy, YA, Ancient Rome, and Prohibition..Favorite TV shows: Carmilla, ClaireVoyant, Spice and Wolf DNI: Febfems, Terfs, acephobes, biphobes, transphobes, queerphobes, homophobes, Christian apologists (especially paganphobes)
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