#afrodite speaks

[kawaiixchaotic]

IS IT JUST ME OR: i feel like there should be a big conversation about the wave of femme lesbians turning to childhood tv shows like jem & the holograms, strawberry shortcake, bratz, barbie, sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, monster high, etc. not only for the nostalgia but also as a medium of self-exploration and finding new ways to express femininity after unlearning all the comphet + internalized lesbophobia and realizing that they had based their ideas on femininity on what is attractive to men. like.. i love that for us

#femme lesbian #cute #sapphic #wlw #barbie #bratz #queer discussions #nonbinary lesbians #lesbian #strawberry shortcake #sailor moon #cardcaptor sakura #monster high #jem and the holograms #lgbtq #afrodite speaks

[black-shippers-haven]

i'd love to promote more black selfship artists commissions so if you have commissions open and would like them reblogged here, simply send them my way.

#speaking 🎀 #mod afrodite 🏹

[madwomansapologist]

hi can you do headcanons about dating klaus mikaelson (tvd)

Dating Klaus Mikaelson would include

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synopsis: beside all the blood and murders, Klaus is a lover. Well, only you know that, but it still true.

warnings: vampire stuff

ps: thanks for your request my love, time to write for our favorite hybrid!

• This man is a romantic gentleman. Klaus would literally have the most creative ideas and he is not affraid of transforming them in reality. He does not get embarrassed: if that is a chance he os going to make your heartbeat race then he is doing it

• Call him protective is a euphemism. Klaus isn't a pacific person in his normal mood, imagine when you are in danger. This man would burn for you but, more than anything, he would set the world on fire if that means you are save

• No, I am wrong, he would set the world on fire if that means you will smile. You know that thing about villains loving better than heroes? It is true, darling, trust me

• Klaus is so freaking jealous. Anyone that seems interesting on you is someone he won't take his eyes off. The type of guy that would appear behind you during a conversation with someone that smiles more than the necessary and grab your waist, pushing you close to him

• Klaus know so many things that talking to him is almost a class about art. Yet, he don't talk like he knows everything. Klaus can be a stubborn little bitch, but he would never act like you are dumb

• He does send you letters. Not for a special reason beside spendind time on making something beatiful for you

• He loves to write about you, but what he is obssessed with is to draw you. Anytime, anywhere: he just wants to save your image. You are his muse, the personification of Afrodite, his own perfect Venus

• Klaus is touch starved and, if you are comfortable, there is a big chance he would be touching you all the time. You're both walking? His hands are on your back pocket. You sitting beside him? His arms are around your shoulders. That is a song playing? Klaus gonna find a way to make you dance with him

• Elijah is a really great partner to call Klaus stupid when he does something violent that wasn't really necessary, you both even have do the Rolling Eyes While Regreting Being Alive™ thing. Rebecca is a awesome friend and, lets be honest, what our sweet vampire need is a great friend. Everyone deserves having someone who gonna agree with you when someone wronged you or that gonna gossip about anything that breaths

• Your voice is like poetry to him. Klaus loves to lay on your lap and just give you freedom to talk about anything that comes to your mind. And he listen, like really listen to what you said, and he remembers everything

NSFW 🦇

• Althought your voice is perfect for him, he likes it better when you are moaning his name. Klaus love when you can't barely speaks. When your words are softer, the lips almost don't move, and whatever you said don't make sense

• Klaus is a provoking. The way his eyes meets yours, how have so much profanity hidden behind smart words choice, how he would won't mind literally stop what his doing to you if that means you only would want him more. No, Klaus isn't provoking, he is challeger

• Klaus is romantic, but that doesnt imply to sex. The passion is always there, but thing tend to get pretty rough. Even when it starts romantic. Being with Klaus is so easy, so comfortable, that you both get kinky and don't even notice

• And don't even start thinking he is not kinky. Do you think someone can live hundreds of years and not being creative about what to do during sex?

• And talking about age, he has a lot of experience. Klaus would love to try new things with you, it will always be new because now he is with you. And he loves to teach new ways of feeling better

• Blood can be a thing if you like it. When you are a human he would be affraid, not to murdering you but to making you fear him. If you want it, he would find a way to treat you even more like a god. And lets be honest, everyone thinks that but no one said: do you really think that period sex is not a thing for him??? And when you are a vampire, damn, that are so many things he would love to make you feel

• He can go down on you for hours. He have a lot of stamina, you would need to beg him to stop and he would just feel proud if your make up is ruined and your legs are shacking

• He loves when you bite him. Leave marks honey, he is yours, sign his skin with your teeths, nails, mouth. Have your fun, make him surprise when look at the mirror

• Klaus likes bath sex. When it start as something innocent and natural and ends with water all over the floor

• Klaus doesnt mind if there is anyone watching, but he loves the ideia of someone having no other choice than hearing you both. Like when he knows you both are being too loud, but the other person is to embarassed to do something beside wanting to die

• Want him hard? Play with his hair. Want him to cum? Pull his hair. Klaus is sensitive and you know how to use it for the greater good

if you enjoyed, please reblog! i promise it makes a difference ♡

@ madwomansapologist.tumblr.

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[ditipatri]

All Theoi are completely and utterly accepting of trans individuals. Their message is to spread love and positivity, not hatred between their worshippers. Mortals who turn Deities into sources of hate and use them as an excuse for bigotry are not true worshippers and will never receive Divine support. 

There are multiple examples of trans experiences that are described in myths of Venus, Diana, and other stories of the past. While the interpretation of many of these stories is up to us due to how scarce and non-detailed the sources are, we as modern worshippers can analyze these myths as stories depicting trans individuals receiving their deserved place among the worshippers and followers of the Gods. 

This post is to both tackle the horrible misuse of Venus’ and Diana’s names as well as spread positivity about transgender individuals inside of their respective worship circles. 

Venus is a Goddess who spreads love, be it love for another or love for your own self, and of course that includes acceptance and love for transgender individuals. 

Over the centuries she has been praised in multiple ways, which includes presentation with both sets of genitalia depending on the cult, while the Goddess Herself was either dressed as a woman or fully undressed. The ways Venus has always been depicted varied as Her very nature varies for Love has no “correct” way of being portrayed. 

There are Greek terracotta figurines as well as Roman bronze statues depicting Venus in Her masculine incarnation that had the name of Afroditus or Afrodito. Afroditus was often depicted as bearded (Afrodite / Afrodito barbuta), holding a scepter, and possessing a phallus for genitalia. According to Macrobius, the cult was created and spread over Cyprus, the mythological birthplace of the Goddess. This Venus is a beautiful, harmonic combination of the masculine and the feminine, and she is often merged with Hermaphroditus, whose story is a well-known example of a transgender individual in myth.

Hermaphroditus, most often referred to as the child of Venus and Mercury, though the stories vary, was a youth who bathed in a pond that was a Nymph named Salmacis, whose feminine essence alternated Hermaphroditus’ nature and made them a combination of two harmonized beginnings. 

Some Ancient sources speak on the cult of Venere Castina (”Chaste Venus”), sometimes used interchangeably with Aphrodite Urania, who was said to turn those Scythians willing to commit a pilgrimage to Her temple into women. There was as well a tradition noted by some Roman authors that those willing to devote to this incarnation of the Goddess would self-castrate and turn to feminine self-identification. While the story is, of course, old and lacks our modern understanding of gender, it clearly expresses Venus’ complete comfort with the idea of transitioning. 

Transwomen have always been more than welcome in the worship of Venus. Venus has always been both depicted in ways that represent and empower transwomen as well as has always accepted them into Her circle. Venus has no care for one’s assigned gender at birth nor one’s genitalia, and anyone who says otherwise is spreading a message opposite to the one this Goddess wants you to hear.  She is love, not hatred.

Diana unfortunately often becomes a target of hubristic misinformation that turn Her into a man-hating Goddess instead of respecting Her as an empowering woman who empowers other women, trans or cis. Just like other Theoi, Diana is, of course, completely accepting of transwomen and has had a history of favoritism for some, though rare, men throughout Her mythological path. 

The most popular example of Diana taking in a transwoman is that of Siproites who, born as a prince, was granted the permission by the Goddess to acquire female appearance and join Diana’s hunt. The fact She allows Siproites to change her assigned gender and be with Her huntresses shows Diana’s comfortability with the idea of transitioning. Not only transwomen were allowed into Diana’s circles, but rare men were, as well, which of course shows how She holds no distaste towards anyone based on nothing but their gender - She is not a biased Goddess and it’s hubris to portray Her so.

This example is quite notable as another story, that of Acteon, depicts Diana as furios at a man for watching Her and Her huntresses without Her consent as well as showing hubris, which leads to him being turned into a stag and hunted down. Depending on the source, the story changes, but Her wrath eventually reaches Acteon. She doesn’t hate men for being men - She had a reason to punish him.

The most famous example of Diana trusting and accepting a man would be the story of Hippolytus, who devoted to the Goddess that he found solace in for he did not want to ever marry. As it can be seen here, Diana holds no bias for anyone based on their assigned gender or presentation. 

Lastly, there are various variants of the story of Orion the hunter and how close he was to Diana. While there are stories speaking of Her being enemies with him, there are also stories of Her either appreciating, favoriting, or loving him. 

Diana is not a man-hater, nor is she someone who cares what genitalia Her worshippers are born with. As long as She is someone you personally find solace in, She wil l accept you and love you. 

To finish it up on a positive note, I’d like to enumerate Greco-Roman myths that mention transgender and intersex individuals as well as other Ancient experiences of transition. There are much more than I can mention, of course, and personal myth interpretation is up to each person: 

Attis was an intersex being serving as an intermediary between the Gods and the Mortals, tightly connected to Cybele

Tiresia, born as Tiresius, was described in Ovid’s Metamorphosis to have become a woman

Ceneus was a transgender man, gifted his gender by the God Poseidon in response to his mother’s pleas 

Dionysus was not only portrayed in a variety of combinations of the feminine and the masculine aspects, but also had festivals where men and women acquired the opposite gender’s role 

Cybele in Rome had a cult that only accepted individuals identifying as women, but those women born AMAB would join it as well

Leucippus, born AFAB and raised as a boy, was granted a gender change by the Goddess Leto 

Regardless of your gender or what genitalia you have, you’re welcome to worship both Venus and Diana, and both of them will welcome you into their circles with love, and nothing but love. 

Note: Do not use any decor from this post. It was made by me, images not mine. 

Sources in pinned.

#₊༻꧂۵♡۵꧁༺₊ #☽ ₊· ͟͟͞꒰➳ ☾ #theoi #greek gods #hellenic polytheism #roman polytheism #religio romana #aphrodite deity #aphrodite worship #artemis deity #artemis worship

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer and pedagogue Carl Orff (1895 - 1982) dies in Germany. A member of "classical" music's ignominious "one hit wonder" club, Orff is remembered today for "Carmina Burana," a secular cantata composed in 1936 and premiered to the following year to great acclaim in Nazi Germany. "Carmina Burana" was an immediate smash hit, and it has lost none of its popularity -- indeed, excerpts remain a ubiquitous feature of modern popular culture. Based on poems from a medieval collection of the same name, the full Latin title of the work is actually "Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis" ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). Although originally written as a stand-along work, “Carmina Burana” is technically also part of a larger "musical triptych" entitled "Trionfi,” which also includes the cantatas "Catulli Carmina" (1943) and T"rionfo di Afrodite" (1951) – neither of which are regularly performed. In a nod to the "Wheel of Fortune" that supposedly turns across time, both the first and last sections of "Carmina Burana" are entitled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" ("Fortune, Empress of the World") and start with the words, "O Fortuna.” The work is structured in five major sections, and it contains 25 relatively short movements in total. Musically speaking, "Carmina Burana" stands alone in the pantheon of 20th Century "classical" masterpieces -- Orff was strongly influenced by late Renaissance and early Baroque models including William Byrd (c. 1539 - 1625) and Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), and accordingly "Carmina Burana" contains little or no development in the traditional sense. PICTURED: A printed score for "Carmina Burana" with a rather interesting history -- it is marked up and it was apparently used in a performance which took place under Orff's supervision in 1963. It has been signed by Orff, as well as several of the performers who were involved in that performance.

#Carmina Burana #cantata #O Fortuna #triptych #Carl Orff #Orff #composer #classical composer #Orff Schulwerk #Orff Approach #music #music education #teacher #pedagogue #music teacher #music history #classical studies #classical musicians #classical musician #symphony orchestra #orchestra #conductor #performance

[childofnix]

19 - friendship or romance?

depende da pessoa? quer dizer, não que exista uma pessoa... mas, de qualquer forma, eu definitivamente não levo jeito pro romance, Afrodite sabe disso muito bem... e depois da "ajudinha" dela eu também estou, em partes, incapacitada pra isso, então... friendship. não é como se eu tivesse algum interesse em um romance com os semideuses daqui também, não... i speak in prophecies and curses, not boys.

#ela mente na cara dura né

[blitzpuff]

#greek gods #divine #astaroth #azazel #tattoos #spiritualism #apollo #atenas #afrodite #drawing #drawing daily #quarantena #satan speaks #satanism #meditación #hellenic gods #hellenic polytheism

[symeona]

Could you talk/explain a little bit about homosexuality in Ancient Greece? I fill like it’s a subject that gets thrown around a lot but not everyone understands how the Greeks viewed homosexuality (me included😅), like I know about Sappho, and pederasty, but could you elaborate on that, like talk about how they viewed it in different time periods and regions,, cause everyone is going crazy over Patroclus and Achilles, but I’m pretty sure these kind of relationships where commonplace back then

*gay gasp*

***Disclaimer: everything I say can be found in the books from the prev post***

Okay the earliest depiction of the ghei, that I know of, is the Minoan bull leaping fresco:

Typically women were colored white and men were colored dark brown. That's cause women were doing all the government work and men all the labour work).

In this fresco however nobody knows what's what. Either way, at least one man there is colored white which is........ interesting.

After that we have the myth of Caeneus, a trans man.

Everything in Ovidius's poems is a hot pile of Roman scheiße full of HUBRIS. In the Greek version Poseidon liked him and gave him impenetrable skin and a man's body per Caeneus's request.

(Poseidon really wanted the Argonauts to go do some scheiße, so Caeneus was a tool for him, idk why the Romans had to turn the myth into That™)

You mentioned Achilles and Patroclus. The Myceneans (who ruled most of Greece at that time) were super ghei. Or super accepting. All the ghei stuff gods did, all the lovers of Apollo, all the lovers of Artemis, all those myths were created during that period. So, socially, it wasn't a big deal at all. And yes, Achilles was fully in love with Patroclus.

(Yes Artemis had gay lovers btw, 'virgin' didn't mean that weird Christian thing it means now, it just meant 'not married to a man'. It's closer to saying "I don't want kids rn".)

Pederasty was NEVER accepted. I don't know who's the weirdo that went out of their way to translate things like that??? I don't even know what their sources are?? The easiest way for me to debunk this is with the famous trial of Socrates.

Socrates was accused of sleeping with minors without ANY proof, and I'm not saying it like that cause I know he didn't do it, I'm saying he was going to be EXECUTED over allegations! Over the mere idea that he could've done that! It's the whole reason why Plato was so bitter about democracy. Plato thought the justice system had failed his teacher, big time! So no. Pederasty wasn't even accepted in the later periods that I think suck ass.

Sappho (sap-pho) was the og Lesbian. I've read MANY of her poems, for research purposes. She was soooo in love with this one girl, she bugged Afrodite about her constantlyyyy. And btw I read her poems with a teacher who was like, OH look at her singing about her PAL'S boobies. Like ye ok big man.....

Anygay, I don't know of any credible books that speak ONLY about this subject. But most archeologists don't shy away from mentioning the ghei in their books.

And there's so much gay.....

You can't swing a dead Patroclus without hitting something gay.....

I'm sorry.

#my thoughts dwell on the gay #gaygaygay #gay #ask

[runawayolives]

Cheiloproclitic

Dick Grayson loved all of you, you were the live representation of Afrodite for him, but he did have a favorite body part of yours.

Your lips.

You two were friends before you started dating, but he was always bewitched by your lips.

He could listen to you speak for hours, just to see your lips moving. He would always notice whenever they were chapped and when you were wearing lipstick.

It was unavoidable.

He would never grow tired of the way the would tighten whenever you would laugh. Our how you would move them to the side when you were deep in thought.

They had always looked so kissable, so soft. They were perfect, just like all of you.

He would always look for a chance to kiss you.

You were in the middle of cooking dinner? That didn't matter, what mattered was that Dick wanted to kiss you.

More than once you had to order takeout because you had burnt your cooking.

Where you looking for a certain shirt in your closet? Dick would make sure to fingñd it first and give it to you in exchange of a kiss.

He would also hold things high up, out of your reach. If you wanted to get them, you had to kiss him.

Small pecks didn't count, oh gods no, no half assed kisses. You had to give your heart and sould to those, or say goodbye to your half read book or jeans.

During sex it was all the same. Your lips had to be touching his or some part of him all the time, no exceptions.

He loved it when you would kiss his forehead when he was "asleep".

He loved it when you would kiss his nose when he said or did something funny.

He adored when you would kiss his small scars and not so small ones.

∆∆∆

Dick had been paroling with Bruce, a small encounter with some of Joker's goons had made him bleed. The moment he felt the blood trailing down his forehead, he knew you wouldn't be happy.

The fight hadn't ended too badly. He had a gash across his forehead, a broken lip and a very long scratch on his chest.

He had climbed up the fire escape to your apartment. Your bedroom light was still on.

Dick had insisted more than once that you didn't need to stay up for him, but you couldn't help it.

He knocked on your window. You stoop up quickly, not caring about marking your book.

You opened the glass barrier and helped him inside.

Dick went to sit on the bed, but when you noticed all the blood, you decided that the bean bad was a better idea.

You helped him take his suit off, leaving him in his boxers.

After patching him up, you took Dick ti the bed and played him down.

"I love you, Y/N." You leaned down carefully, and kissed his lips.

"Love you to, Dick." You moved your hands gently from his chest and started kissing his scars gently.

Dick adores falling asleep with the feeling of your kisses.

#dick grayson x reader #dick grayson #brenton thwaites #robin #nightwing #dick grayson imagine #dick grayson one shot #runawayolives #dick grayson x y/n #dick grayson x you

[apocalypticgargoyle]

K, this is gonna be a mass ask that will make me commit a series of crimes against tumblr if it gets eaten and I'm too lazy to break it down, I still love you all

Lo, that sucks, be aware that I'll both die and kill for you if needed, yes I'm only 5'1, but I can learn how to use knives

Candle pan? me pan too, panic duo?

Mel, I would love to exchange spotifys with you, just tell me how and on it (you might know my real name tho, so only if you're on board with that)

HIII APHRODITE, may I use this to say something? I hate this name's spelling in english, it's a little too much for me and I'll probably end up saying "Afrodite", which is not the greek spelling but its the portuguese one, and I speak portuguese so yeah. Anyway, hi cutie

Sora, hi, you hot, I like you

sock looking great as always

I dont remember how to get emojis on computer but dino anon, not only I like you but I also love you /p (yes, I love people that fast)

I just updated the page, omg you guys talk a lot, ily tho, but I'll stop it here

hiiiiiiii gene, how are you my sexy sexy baby?

- Shiny

(stop shiny idk how but I'm simping for you more. you make me so flustered hottie) (also I'm so jelly you'll know shiny's name, mel /j)

☕

#sweet boy 64 #aphrodite anon #sora anon #bobbyftmydad #🦕 anon #pigeon mail #shiny anon

[kawaiixchaotic]

i have been crying about this for days. the arabic language is so beautiful. i am both thankful to this artist for sharing this gorgeous song with us, and torn to pieces thinking about how much pain she must be in watching her home get destroyed and her people suffer.

she mentions sending peace on an olive branch. edit: "olive" means zaytun (زيتون) watch out for this word if you read/see/hear Palestinian art, the cultural context will help you understand the message more. besides the olive branch being a well known symbol for peace (it's even on the United States dollar AND the United States Seal) there is a rich historical and cultural context behind this lyric. for those who don't know, Palestine has been known for its olive trees for millennia. some of the oldest living olive trees in the entire world are in Palestine (although i really don't know if they are still standing at this moment). olives are well-loved and crucial to Palestinian cuisine, as well as being a major source of income, since many Palestinians are olive farmers and have been for generations. a symbol for peace, harmony, friendship, resilience, and perserverance, the olive tree represents Palestinian spirit, and olive leaf patterns are also featured on the Palestinian keffiyeh.

there is another lyric where she says "in the land of peace, peace is dead." one english transliteration of this arabic phrase is "fi 'ard alsalam mat alsalam" with 'ard (أرض) meaning land/earth, al-salam or more commonly salam (سلام) meaning peace, and mat (مات) being a conjugation from the word mawt (موت) meaning death. (I'm not sure in which tense, arabic has so many tenses and I don't want to spread misinformation, my knowledge of the arabic language is like 1st grade level and mostly from osmosis due to growing up Muslim and having early exposure to the language through the Quran and basic classes at Islamic school, and I'm not even a practicing Muslim anymore, so pls feel free to correct my mistakes) lyrically, it was this phrase that stuck out to me the most, because of the emphasis placed on "peace" through its repetition. in the land of peace, peace is dead; Palestine is The Holy Land in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. peace was the foundation of the land, not just peace meaning lack of war but peace as in spiritual peace, the kind of peace that fills your heart with love for this world and the people in it. now that this peace is being actively destroyed, Palestine is losing itself. Elyanna (the singer) is saying that her home is being gutted from the inside out, until it's unrecognizable, until it lacks the one thing that MADE Palestine; peace. It is heartbreaking.

The reason I am sharing this song and breaking down this lyric is because I want to re-humanize the Arabic language and Arab culture. It has been demonized for far too long, and it was/is on PURPOSE. IDF soldiers bombing Al-Shifa hospital and claiming (lying) that they found a list of Hamas guards and hostages (that were never in the hospital) when it was a CALENDAR and the only names of "Hamas guards" listed were fucking Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, is exactly what I mean when I say that the world has been so successfully brainwashed against MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) that even the Arabic language itself, written or spoken, is perceived as inherently violent and threatening.

I hope this post has contributed in helping you unlearn the racism and anti-Arab/anti-Middle Eastern propoganda you have been taught.

From the river to the sea, Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free.

🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine 🇵🇸 #arabic music #arabic art #respect the arabic language and the culture of those who speak it #they are not barbarians they are people #they are beautiful people who make beautiful art #afrodite speaks

[black-shippers-haven]

do not say things like this in my tags or you will be blocked. this is the one and only warning for the rest of you.

#speaking 🎀 #mod afrodite 🏹

[laceymorganwrites]

Angel

Word Count:1,763 Pairing: None

Warnings: coma, swear words, gore

A/N: I really don´t know what to do with this...there´ll be more parts, I just haven´t written them yet. Afrodite is an OC of mine, but I think I´ll make this areader insert.

I opened my eyes and it felt like hell. The sudden bright lights made them water and sting instantly to an amount where I got a headache from it. It felt as if the whole room was spinning, shit, I was gonna throw up. Where the fuck was I? I tried to sit up, wrong decision, a migraine shot through my head, but I still dared look around. I was in a hospital room, good, so they found us. I smiled, I couldn´t wait to see my friends again. On my nightstand there was a clock which read 1 a.m. It was early, or late, depending on your lifestyle. But that couldn´t be...the battle took place around that time, so how long have I been asleep for. “Don´t you dare shut that machine off!” I heard someone yelling and jumped slightly, there were footsteps near the door which opened almost an instance after. A nurse entered with Aizawa-sensei. “It´s been a year, she won´t wake up...” the nurse said. Were they talking about me? Have I been asleep for one year? What was going on? “But she´s still alive, I won´t let you kill her...” Aizawa told her off. “It´s no killing, I´ll just put her out of her misery...” she moved closer to my bed where I sat with frightened eyes. As soon as she saw me she let out a shocked scream. Aizawa rushed to her and then looked at me dumbfounded. I tried to smile and say hello, but only creaks would leave my mouth. The nurse shakingly handed me a water bottle and I drank it eagerly. Then I coughed and tried to speak again: “What´s up?” I grinned. “Y-you´re awake...I-I have to tell All Might, and your parents, and Afrodite...” Aizawa was about to rush out of the room, but I held him back, eyes wide agape at the sight of my thin wrist. I had lost a tremendous amount of weight. “It´s really been a year, huh?” I whispered. Aizawa sighed and sat down next to me. “Yes...we should probably talk...” he told me earnestly. I gulped. “What happened?” I already knew the answer, but I felt like I had to hear it from his mouth to truly believe it and to live with it. “After you blacked out, everyone was slaughtered, nobody lived but Afrodite and you…then All Might came and carried you to the hospital. Afrodite woke up three days later, but you...” he put his hand on my shoulder as a sign of comfort, I gladly appreciated. “What now?” I hoarsely tried to talk to hold back the tears, it has been one year and I couldn´t even say goodbye to everyone, I couldn´t even go on my date… “There´s one thing you should know before you can go: the media and everyone else blames you for the incident. The video they took of you has been uploaded, you can still watch it...the police haven´t been able to take it down. They made a huge story about it and call you the angel of death. People hate you” he balled his fists. I chuckled. “So that´s how it is, huh? What about school?” I couldn´t imagine what happened in the world in this past year, I couldn´t picture what drove the people to think of me that badly and I really didn´t know what to do next. “You just woke up from coma and think about going back to school already? Well, I should´ve known...you´d be in third year now, but I think it´d be best for you to start over” he resembled. I nodded. “I need to train, how much time do I have left before the next year starts?” I asked, ready to go. “Three months, but take it easy, don´t overwork yourself” he shot me a glance. I nodded again. “Can you stand up?” the nurse asked. I pushed back the blanket to horrendous unshaven legs and tried to get up, but my legs shivered too hard and I almost fell down. The only thing that kept me from falling was my quirk. I had to train that too. I tried to get up for two hours and finally I was able to walk, clumsily and shivering, but I could walk again. “Am I allowed to leave?” I asked and the nurse nodded. “I would recommend you to stay for the day. There are people who´d be glad you´re back. At least wait for them” she smiled and I nodded. I wasn´t in the mood for talking. “Where´s the bathroom? I haven´t showered in a year...” I chuckled. The nurse showed me the way and put my clothes in my hands. I shut the door and locked it before undressing. Then I looked down at myself, there were a few scars on my legs and arms, a huge one on my back as I saw in the mirror and I was thin, almost anorexic. I got a clearer look at my face in the mirror and couldn´t recognize myself. The girl in the mirror had pale skin, dominant cheekbones, empty eyes, long hair with long bangs that fell in her face and chipped lips. But the worst thing were the scars where the beast had slashed her. They were deeper than she thought and she could remember the blood in her eyes and the pain before she blacked out. Well, I looked fucking ugly. Not even cutting my hair would help my face now. The cuts went all over my cheeks, eyes, nose and mouth. I was surprised my face overall was left. I let out an unladylike grown and then giggled, so what if I had scars now? I shook my head and stepped into the shower. I let the water flow over my body without moving for twenty minutes before cleaning myself. So let me think: I was in coma for a year and in three months I would go back to school. Simple, just like that. I liked it, sure, the situation was weird, but I wouldn´t give it a thought, at least not now. I never understood why people wasted thoughts on things they couldn´t change, it just didn´t make any sense. To me anyways. “(Y/N), your parents are here!” the nurse called and I balled my fists. Parents. That meant my mom and not only my dad. Shit. I decided now was time to think, or rather freak the fuck out. My mom would never let me live this down, she´d yell at me like always and I was so not in the mood for that. Well, at least get it over with. I stepped out of the shower, dried myself and slipped into the clothes of last year which were too small, so I finally grew a tad, yay. I opened the door and met my parents with a big old cloud of steam. “You could´ve died! What were you thinking?! That´s why I keep telling you girls can´t and shouldn´t be heroes! But you never listen, do you?!” mom shrieked at me with her hands on her hips. If I didn´t know better I´d think she´d kill me right on the spot. “Yah, well, I didn´t die...you wanna know what I was thinking? I was thinking: fucking hell, we won´t make it out alive. You know what I did? I tried to solve everything, I tried to save people and defeat the villains, but well, you know what happened, don´t you?” I shot back through gritted teeth, I was so sick of her. I wish she would´ve stayed home. Whenever my mom was around I got enraged. “Would you not argue for once? We thought we´d lost you...” my dad said and hugged me deeply. “I´m fine, dad...” I tried to reassure him. I felt my lungs and heart squeeze in the bad way and looked down, fighting back the tears. It was my fault all of this happened, if only I had never tried to save anyone, if only I was stronger...if only I listened to my mom and never attended UA. “What did they do to you?” my dad asked worriedly as I pulled away from the hug. “Tch, didn´t you see the video?” I crossed my arms. “We couldn´t bear it...it was too gruesome to watch...” he admitted and I chuckled. “Now imagine what it felt like” I grinned threatening. “I can´t do that...” he whined. “Then don´t judge the actions you think I did!” I yelled at him, my voice determined to make them leave, of course they wouldn´t understand. “I told you it was a bad idea to come here. She´s not our little girl anymore!” mom screamed and they left the room. “I never was...” I said to myself. I searched for my phone and when I found it, luckily it was charged. I searched for the incident on the internet and I got my answers. The media made it look as if I couldn´t control my quirk and killed all of them, they called me the angel of death. Lovely. I bet it was Endeavor´s idea to do this scam, to protect the public and prevent a panic. If people found out what really happened, they would lose it. I also found the video he took of me that night. It was quite disturbing and looked odd, it couldn´t picture any of the emotions I felt at that moment. It really made me look like a villain. Next I watched the news of last year, there were many new heroes. Before I could finish my research, Aizawa and the nurse entered again, bearing gifts. “They´re from your friends and some civilians who sympathize with you.” Aizawa told me. “People visited me?” I couldn´t believe it, after all that I´ve read about the incident. “You already had a look on the news, I see” he pointed at my phone. “Well, as you know the journalists didn´t report the truth, because it would´ve caused a panic. We wanted to be sure that people stay calm, so we made up that story that you went berserk. Everyone thinks your dead, but your friends, the teachers, the heroes, everyone who knows better, knows you weren´t at fault. So, please don´t be mad, it was something that needed to be done. I hope you understand” I listened thoroughly. So not everyone hated me, that was...nice, I guess. I couldn´t really tell, because I didn´t really know anyone. My friends? I didn´t even know who they were anymore, I thought they all died.

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Bulgari Serpenti Collection

Marion Fasel

Assouline , New York 2013, 200 pages

euro 100,00*

La preziosa antologia ripercorre 70 anni di storia del talismano nelle collezioni Bulgari, dai primi bracciali a maglia Tubogas degli anni 40, agli straordinari modelli di orologi realizzati con Jaeger-LeCoultre, fino a schizzi e disegni di bijoux inediti. Le 80 immagini, di cui 10 in bianco e nero, ritraggono invece alcune bellissime donne, come Veruschka, Benedetta Barzini, Julianne Moore, Rachel Weisz, lascivamente avvolte nei preziosi gioielli a spirale con diamanti e rubini, che si lasciano sedurre in pose voluttuose dal rettile con gli occhi di diamante. Nel volume, la storica del gioiello Marion Fasel racconta anche come il seducente serpente sia diventato un simbolo eterno della casa di gioielli. A partire dagli evidenti richiami pittorici. Basti pensare alla Medusa di Gian Lorenzo Bernini del 1636, al dipinto «Igea» di Klimt, fino ai bracciali con contorsioni d’oro del I secolo rinvenuti a Pompei. Anche nella mitologia antica la simbologia del rettile trionfa. La dea Afrodite indossa un braccialetto a forma di serpente sinuoso e curvilineo, una biscia avvolge il bastone del dio Esculapio, simbolo della medicina, mentre l’imperatore romano Tiberio usava serpi velenose come guardie. Ma è Cleopatra, la regina d’Egitto, la reincarnazione della dea Iside, ad ispirare la collezione della maison. Il diadema della mangiatrice d’uomini, un cobra in posizione eretta, è l’emblema del potere dell’Antico Egitto, mentre i preziosi, intriganti bracciali a spirali d’oro inducono in tentazioni peccaminose. Nel celebre kolossal «Cleopatra», Liz Taylor ne incarna il mito, indossando gli splendidi gioielli sul set. «L’unica parola che Liz Taylor conosce in italiano è Bulgari» disse una volta Richard Burton, spiegando la liaison amorosa tra la maison orafa e l’attrice. Recentemente, molte altre celebritiessi sono cinte i polsi con gli snodati, avvolgenti e morbidi bijoux a forma di cerchio. Nel film «Affari d’oro», Bette Midler sfoggia un orologio-cobra, ne «Il diavolo veste Prada» al polso di Meryl Streep brilla un snake-jewel in acciaio, mentre lo scrittore Philip Roth ha regalato un timepiece con la testa in smeraldo alla moglie Claire Bloom.

Since the 1940s, with the creation of bracelet-watches in the form of a snake, the serpent has been one of Bulgari’s most emblematic and eternal symbols. Representing everything from birth, rebirth, beauty, sex appeal, and wisdom in Greek mythology and Roman civilization, the snake motif also alludes to founder Sotirio Bulgari’s Greek heritage and adopted home of Rome. This new tome explores the Serpenti collection’s rich heritage, distinguished elegance, and status as one of the Roman jewelry house’s contemporary icons. Featuring imagery of Elizabeth Taylor, who famously sported a serpent-shaped watch while filming Cleopatra in 1962; Marisa Berenson; and Diana Vreeland, who, in one of her legendary Vogue memos, declared her fascination for the snake motif, this oversize book speaks to the timelessness, sensuality, and beauty of Bulgari’s Serpenti collection.

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#October 25 #2019 at 08:47AM

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It is I, Aphrodite

Hello beautiful people!!! 

As you probably already know, I have finally created an AO3 account where I will post anything I submit on this blog so that you can enjoy it whenever you like.

Since my work has become quite extensive per piece (about 1.5k each) and unfortunately I do have a life to take care of, updates will happen on a weekly basis from now on. Updates will happen on Wednesdays, starting today with the author's last request.

Speaking of requests these are permanently open, feel free to ask for any ship and any setting you'd like to see. However I must beg your patience depending whether I'm on FRIGGIN FINALS or not, I'll let you know when the time comes. If I'm not you should receive an answer no later than a week, sometimes just a day or two. It's moslty circumstancial. 

Special thanks to the Writer for leading me to this wondeful path, I never thought I would actuallly become anything even close to a witer and here we are!

Link to the page, also know as Aphrodite's Cloud:

http://archiveofourown.org/users/Aphrodite_Goddess_of_Fluff_and_Beauty/works

Ps: I've written Aphrodite so many times in my life now I can't help but picture me with a big, fluffy afro haircut. All hail Afrodite's page.