These Face Paints Are Truly Fascinating And Beautiful, I Love The Example Of This Head With The Striking

Sorry but the way Jayce flattens Salo really made me think of...

Such an interesting character! 👀 His trauma clearly had a profound impact on his life, poor guy... The way you made his scars is great. I also love the details in his accessories and hair, his neck piece is gorgeous!

New oc! This is Senem, from anurai clan.

He survived the palulukan attack and has trauma that led him to be a standoffish man of a very few words. He mostly messes with the palulukan bones and his sculptures are so abstract that no one really has the desire to appreciate them. He's not an outcast, but has no real connection to any particular na'vi. He's very lonely and it's slowly eating away at him.

A real connection to someone would have helped him, like really helped him.

Original concept for a male and female Yìve’nca, a Pandora animal, for my and @signfromeywa's Keyanga fanclan ❤️

The antelope-like creatures roam in herds surrounding the areas of the clan. From their unique fiber-rich milk, the Keyanga craft Silk through an intricate process of fermenting and boiling it to extract protein fibers, which are spun into fine thread for weaving.

ARCANE | Commune Entrance Designs | Florian Jouet

Sevika's first day as a counselor

My baby standing up to the snobs that treated her people horribly for years <3333

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Raphael von Ambros

(Prague 1855–1895 Gutenstein)

The Guardian, signed dated R. Ambros Paris (18)94, oil on panel

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I was about to question exactly the same thing in the messages you sent me hahahaha yup it just doesn't add up! Odysseus and his men can be cunning in their own way, but come on they are still human! The fact that they escape in the original was already a crazy feat, and here he makes the sirens beg them for mercy?? What the hell is this joke haha

Yeah, when in reality if you follow the actually original logic of the story, if Odysseus faced Sirens head on screaming stuff like "I'm a monster" they would laugh and eat his head XD This is not even drunk Caleb level of stupid hahaha Yeah somehow I already don't have a good feeling about that part lol

Maybe I'm giving them too much credit hahaha but damn that's the only thing that makes sense in my head with that "let them drown" phrase! Otherwise yeah it's just stupid XD Yes the creatures who outsmarted and killed thousands of sailors, who didn't even need to get close to them to do it, who made the original Odysseus and his men decide they would be better off passing past them as quickly as possible than face them! And now they are suddenly helpless useless little girls lool

Epic the Musical:

Sirens: We shall sing right in front of your face and make idiotic mistakes so you will know what it is! Because we are obviously fake

Odysseus: I shall test you back because you make idiotic mistakes and I am fucking Odysseus of Ithaca who just sang a dramatic song before.

Them: We caught them captain! Because they were right in front of our faces now what?

Odysseus: Oh we have free time and we are not damaged enough so sure let us continue from that dramatic "monster" concept because we also have time to save other sailors (and we are sure we caught them all apparently?). Cut their tails and let them drown in the sea! (Because I am a monster rawr rawr!)

The Odyssey:

Sirens: We sing alluringly calling you to us giving you exact details on who you are and where you come from because we know your soul. Abandon your ship and come to us

Odysseus: *gets brainfucked and drugged and begs like a madman to be released from his binds (but still intelligent as fuck since his brain is still alert and he is fully conscious throughout the process)*

Eurylochus: Oh shit he is too strong the damn ropes are not holding! *signs to Perimedes to bring more ropes and tie the motherfucker harder*

Them: Oh we have no time to stop...row for your lives to get the hell out of here!

Sirens: out of sight through the whole process probably sitting at the highest of rocks since they are fucking birds

Odysseus: *the incantation wears off* Oh shit that was a wild ride! Thank gods it's over and I received the knowledge I was looking for... Okay guys you can untie me now...

Awesome analysis as always girl!! ✨✨

This is a very worthy subject to discuss let alone in such epic pieces. Once again it shows how both the Iliad and the Odyssey portray the Gods as symbolism not only of nature's forces, but also of the struggles and disasters humans must go through, in this case in the form of diseases brought forward in a form of punishment from certain actions.

It's also quite a tragic mix with war and post war situations since fighters are exposed to rough, many times unsanitary, and overcrowded environments which become a breeding ground for such desieses, and if they are already weakened by wounds and other problems, the possibilities for death grows.

Very good observation in the type of bacteria and plagues! In the mythological sense this is also quite the low and efficient blow from Apollo, to first strip them of their guard and transportation animals, and then strike the people themselves, it's scary how his attacks are described in the form of his arrows! And realistically this is indeed a good point to how such diseases affect humans and spread, becoming airborne from the animals to the people.

Those are a scary combination of symptoms as well especially as they progressively get worse, it must be pure suffering and agony to die like this! It must have felt like hell for the soldiers. Also interesting connection with Palamedes and how a good cardio system is valuable to survive the disease.

Again a very good observation, the losses from diseases should definitely be counted as losses of the war because even if they didn't die in the battle itself it was still a very direct result of it, especially since it hit the Greek side in this context. Also curious indeed that they were the most affected!

And for real I can imagine even the highest ranking and some kings were not spared at least some effects of the illnesses. Especially if they were less vigorous or weakened by some other factors. That analysis of Helen and Menelaus is awesome as well ✨ and it certainly explains how certain demographics were safer from it.

Oh gosh this is definitely a great reference and inspiration for our story and the narrative regarding the war and the rebels (and even the enemy soldiers) and surrounding people dealing with the illnesses in war camps and their very harsh conditions! Definitely the dark reality of how the fighters are not safe after the battles are over, and can still pretty much succumb to such horrible situations of plagues and diseases! Man now I feel like drawing something about this! 👀✨

The Iliad Plague

Honestly I am disappointed at how little we talk about the Iliad plague that was sent by Apollo in the first rhapsody of the Iliad to the Greeks after Chryses, Apollo's priest, begged for justice for the disrespect Agamemnon showed him plus the fact that his daughter was not returned to him.

"First he stroke the mules and the swift dogs but then he shot his shafts to the humans themselves and the funeral pyres were burning non-stop and crowded and for nine days the army was being assaulted by the God's arrows"

(Translation by me)

So we basically get that the plague spread to animals first and then swiftly passed to humans and it became deadly very quickly.

It seems like a classic case of an assault of the bacteria Yersina which is responsible for three major plagues; the bubonic, septisemic and pneumonic plagues. All three seem to be associated with transmission from animals to humans. In this case my random guess would be that this would be the case or a pneumonic plague. It transmits from the breathing of fumes and it is much easier transmittable from one person to another given that both other plagues require the mix of bodily fluids. Since the disease seems to strike animals commonly not associated with food like mules or dogs it seems more probable the disease was of a lung nature.

The main symptoms of a pneumonic plague are:

Fever

Headaches

Shortness of breath

Chest pain

Intense coughing

Hemoptysis (aka "coughing out blood")

It seems indeed highly probable that the plague was of such nature which would lead to a large number of soldiers suffer from headaches and fever which gradually got worse and added coughing chest pain and coughing out blood (the other plagues have also intense vomiting-boubonic- and blood infection -septisemic-). Various post-homeric and mainly early Roman sources speak on the contributing of Palamedes suggesting better diet and exercise countering the effects of the plague or preventing it. Although traditionally we know plagues can be effectively cured with the use of antibiotics it is probable that the mention of cardio exercise could be a wink that a good cardio system can defend itself against lung diseases.

Either way it surprises me that the losses of war when studied rarely mention the results of this plague since many people count only the deaths in battle and not this which is ironically the only set of deaths seemingly affecting only the Greek side. It is interesting given how many times cities being surrounded by armies are the first to suffer from diseases rather than the people outside (although both sides suffer eventually from diseases). Realistically speaking we do understand why we see so many mentions of diseases.

And again when it comes to the sequel Odyssey as well, very few people consider not only the losses Odysseus undoubtedly suffered in battle but also one should expect he lost a man or two from the plague as well (mind you I can easily imagine some kings also being affected by it at least at early stage especially the less vigorous such as Nestor because of age or Menelaus if we take my headcannon that he probably was a bit frail of health later as I mentioned to the post tagging @thehelplessmortals which could indeed back up more how careful Helen was with him since plagues do affect massively the health of lungs or heart permanently

More vigorous and fighting fit characters like Achilles or Diomedes or Odysseus and Agamemnon seemed less likely to have been stroke by the plague. Achilles is also the one who calls upon council of kings to find a solution.

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During my collaboration with @artsofmetamoor I always entertain the thought of disease to the various war camps. Disease would often be the most common way soldiers died instead of battles.

In our stories our characters suffer a lot of many things but this also makes me do a note to self to refer more on plagues or diseases