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We don't have the pieces of the colossus at Rhodes anymore because an invading army sold him for scrap in 654AD. He only stood for a bit over 60 years before he was toppled by an earthquake but the pieces of him were there for over 800 years.

What's interesting to me about the colossus is that it was a statue of Helios. Most of the ancient Greek world wasn't super into Helios but the island of Rhodes was. He was their guy. So with their winnings from a battle they opted to build a gigantic statue of Helios. Can you imagine the sheer terror everyone must've felt while an earthquake was leveling their homes around them and in the distance is a gigantic crash and possible deafening gong noise from the gigantic statue of the sun god toppling to the earth?

That thing was about the size of the statue of liberty without the pedestal. That's part of the reason she's called the new Colossus. That and her spiked crown. Helios was almost always sculpted with bronze spikes around his head so it wouldn't have made sense for the colossus to not have those.

We don't have an ancient depiction of the colossus but we do know that he didn't straddle the harbor. That makes no sense and he wasn't tall enough for that anyways. Most likely he looked something like this drawing by Pedro Rafael Mena:

Or perhaps like this older illustration:

When thinking about scale, he was roughly the same size as the statue of liberty. Probably a bit shorter but comparable to its scale.

For scale, there's a protestor standing at her base. The colossus was roughly the same size as that, all the way back in 282BC.

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Broke: The fact that Goncharov lights Andrey's cigarette for him, with his own cigarette, with a hint of great affection, in a scene under the rainfall, symbolises his longing for the - entirely fictional - life he believes Andrey might offer him. And the fact that both of their cigarettes go out in a few seconds foreshadows how this destructive desire will ruin them both.

Woke: The cigarettes go out because they're standing in the rain with no umbrellas. It symbolises the fact that they're both really fucking stupid

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how come every day lasts ten years but every week lasts 3 seconds but every month lasts either two days or an eternity and then it's a new year and now it's November

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bro 😭 how tf am i supposed to dress business casual 😭 i’m a faggot 😭

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Mood for today and every single week that will follow

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getting ready for my SUPERHELL 100% speedrun

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clickbait sports thumbnails might be the funniest thing in the entire world to me

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it's rough out there

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HEARTBREAKING: Poor girl has to get out of the soft warm bed even though she is so so so so comfy

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“english isn’t my first language sorry for any mistakes” —proceeds to write the most beautiful work of art ever created with grammar ten times better than an english professor

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love being in bed under big winter covers i feel like an old king dying of illness telling his last will to his son

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do not put me in a situation, i will cry

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My name is Hermes. I ain't a poet. I stole this poem just to show it. And my. My son died. I can save kids but i can't save mine (what!)

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scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.