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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

food for thought? no... you're terribly mistaken. food for eat

Art by flaroh illustration. A Roman cavalryman stands in the snow with his horse. He is facing away with a blue and green and yellow shield on his back. The horse is brown and wearing a blue blanket. The cavalryman holds the reins and pats the horse with his left hand. It is snowing and the background is a light periwinkle

Snowy day for the Roman cavalry ☃️❄️🌨️

I reworked one of the figures from last year’s Northern Lights piece to create this scene of a cavalryman and his loyal steed walking in the snow ❄️ I liked it so much that I’m now posting it as its own illustration - the scene is just so tranquil 🌨️

Five people in a cozy warm house gathered around a table laden with food. There is lots of greenery hanging up

🏺🌲🪔 Io Saturnalia!🪔🌲🏺

#OTD from Dec 17-23, Romans celebrated the god Saturn by feasting, exchanging gifts, lighting lamps, and switching up the normal societal class structures 🪔🌲🥧

This illustration is from my series depicting Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall country (more below)🏛️🌲

New discovery: A late Archaic marble head of a Kore discovered at Vulci represents a rare instance of Greek statuary found within Etruscan territory.

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Second century AD mosaic floor panel from Roman Daphne, near Antioch. The female figure may be the personification of ‘abundance’ and ‘good living’. The mosaic is now part of the collections at the Met in New York. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday

Minoan dancer orange

“Athenian green” for Athena and Heracles

Wine dark sea for the odyssey

Pietas purple for the Aeneid

I can do this all day

“Rage red” for the Iliad

Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Congratulations!! That’s amazing! ✨

I'm working on the print format of this strip! I'm sorry it took so long, I'm a tired thing. Looks awesome tho✨️

Imagine thinking immigrants are a recent novelty in New York City.

Used to be the point of having a closed account was like, “Where do I post my mean thoughts,” and the actual answer is you don’t have to do that when you can just go talk to people who care about you and will work that stuff out with you.

Honestly kind of fine not having private accounts. Kinda forces me to text or call or visit people when I need a vibe check on something that actually matters.

Photography of two little sculpted carved turnip head earrings #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Samhain #Halloween

Yours truly wearing them (white woman with dark brown hair)

“Are you wearing the-“
“The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

Man that looks amazing :O really neat!

Stolen Louvre jewellery found safe and sound inside the British museum

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Ah, the two 2020s theft joke templates side by side.

Art by flaroh illustration. This piece depicts Scylla, complete with a sea-dragon’s tail and belt of viscous dog heads, holding her trident and devouring some hapless sailors.

Scylla 🐺👹🔱

Art by flaroh illustration. Two nymphs running and dancing left holding torches in a green and red palette

Classicstober day 9: Lampades 💃🏻🖤🔥

Art by flaroh illustration

Classicstober day 10: Hekate 💃🏻🖤🌿🐾

I mean, I also went there to visit my favourite kore, stare at temple remains, and walk into as many museums as possible (and the food of course). But yeah. Kitties.

A very small kitten sitting next to a white chair.

An orange and white cat staring at a brown and white kitten, there is a tortoiseshell cat sitting a short distance away as well.

Reasons I went to Greece

Art by flaroh illustration

Classicstober Day 7: Φαρμακίς (witch, Sorceress)🔮✨🏺

comic cover!!! featuring the main character, Dina, looking nervous and sweaty. She’s a young woman in an ill-fitting work shirt and pencil skirt with her dark hair tied up in a bun and bangs pinned with a dog-shaped clip. Some sort of ominous shadow looms over her. Text reads: FELT BAD, MET GOD by molly kate young (aka longfusilli) (aka ME!!!!)

hiiiii here’s a comic i made about having a job and being overwhelmed (1/7)

A Man Tells Me To Get Back In The Kitchen As though the kitchen is a small place, a place he believes should only fit women, he says the kitchen is where women stay out of trouble. But I remember the way women gathered in a kitchen, how grandmothers gave their daughters and granddaughters solace, the amount of women our mothers have carried through their brutal marriages around kitchen tables, the cadence of stories we have told each other as we build nourishing meals from mere ingredients - fierce fables and tales rooted in rage, how we plotted rebellions in kitchens, navigated painful secrets, taught each other politics, confided our fears, our sorrows, our anger - and found ways to help each other thrive. They relegated us to a "small space" but we made it magic, powerful, beautiful anyway. Get back in the kitchen, he says. Without realising, that in my home, the kitchen is where the revolution is. - Nikita Gill

Been writing again today.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

An illustration decorated with smiling pansies and leaves that says "Trans rights are human rights. We will love and protect each other "

Everything is really scary and chaotic for Trans individuals right now. Regardless of whatever lies and fear that is spread, we know that the world is better with Trans people in it. You are all worth fighting for, and we will continue to advocate for your rights and your safety.

Art by flaroh illustration. Hermes Psychopompos leading the souls of the dead to the underworld in a purple and green palette

Hermes Psychpompos 💀🔮🪽🏺