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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 4h

Das Stimmt! 😆

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 5h

Fall [part 1/3]

A cartoon crow is looking up as orange, red and yellow fall leaves dance in tje wind around him.

The crow is walking on the crunchy leaves, saying "what a perfect day!"

The crow is marveling at how lovely all the leaves are, new seeing a stone in his path.

The crow trips on the stone right on his face.

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Bethy the Vampire Slayer @strisi.bsky.social · 14h

For my LGBTQ community:
I am looking for an artist who works in the style of dreamy/cozy (ie Studio Ghibli) to do a piece to be included in a podcast cover. Please DM me for details, this is a paid assignment.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8h

Oh certainly. And there's a theatricality that film allows that literature doesn't that the sunlight sensitivity just isn't evocative by comparison, at least until one's seen it. It allows for a powerful finality from Nosferatu onward, a permanent goodness triumphing over evil, in its way.

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O 🏹📚 @ohsaidwhat.bsky.social · 11h

Let me give you a little “third world country” advise here:

The instigators will always find away to ruin a movement leading us to a “toque de queda” — a very dark, very real, very dangerous thing.

I genuinely need you all to lock in here.

J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 11h

Shut down any instigators immediately. Post video of people ensuring things stay peaceful.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 11h

They’re giving away their game plan. There will be instigators among us.
Be alert.

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Holundra 🐌 @holundra.bsky.social · 11h

Nette, kleine Novelle
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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 13h

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the Sapphic vampire tale of a young girl who discovers her friend is more than a friend, in more ways that one. Despite being Victorian, Le Fanu's novella never antagonizes homosexuality. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: D.H. Friston

A scene from Carmilla illustrated by D.H. Friston, showing the namesake vampire reaching across the bed to Bertha, who sleeps sprawled across her bed with one of her breasts semi-exposed seductively (for the viewer and for Carmilla, male gaze at work here folks). General Spielsdorf, sword out, is ready to attack Carmilla in her beastly form, and is emerging from a closet. Lots to read into this picture, folks.

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Kristine @knaturegirl.bsky.social · 13h

youtu.be/AMY4yYWq-SU?...

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 13h

It's a great read!

The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 13h

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the Sapphic vampire tale of a young girl who discovers her friend is more than a friend, in more ways that one. Despite being Victorian, Le Fanu's novella never antagonizes homosexuality. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: D.H. Friston

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 13h

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the Sapphic vampire tale of a young girl who discovers her friend is more than a friend, in more ways that one. Despite being Victorian, Le Fanu's novella never antagonizes homosexuality. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: D.H. Friston

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14h

In 1692, the Livonian werewolf was an old man named Thiess of Kaltenbrunn who admitted to being a werewolf, but claimed he was not a werewolf through Satan but a "Hound of God," who hunted evil with his allies. The defense didn't stick. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: J. Cossiers

Jan Cossiers' Jupiter and Lycaon, showing Jupiter, who looks suspiciously like Jesus, reaching out to Lycaon whose head is that of a wolf's, having just tried to offer his own son to Jupiter to eat. Jove's eagle comes down from the heavens with divine judgment and lightning. The meat on the plate before Jupiter looks suspiciously like a foot.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14h

Death by sunlight is Hollywood's great contribution to vampire lore. Vampires have largely always been nocturnal but not allergic to the sun: sunlight sensitivity was added with Nosferatu and maintained in later vampire depictions. #FairytaleTuesday

A shot from 1924's Nosferatu, showing Count Orlock grabbing his heart as the light of the sun comes through a window and destroys him.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14h

Some werewolf curses are fairly tame and easy to fix: if you pray before a werewolf, the curse will disappear and they will become good Christians again. These medieval werewolf stories came alongside a papal ruling that werewolves were impossible. #FairytaleTuesday

A 16th century depiction of a werewolf, showing a werewolf attack in a German town, from the book Die Emeis, by Johann Geiler von Kaisersber. It shows a werewolf standing tall, in a very modern form, biting a woman in her stomach. The woman, in her nightgown, seems to groan in pain and dies; the werewolf has suffered an attack, and has a wooden spear through the forearm. The bottom half of the wolf is confused; it appears the wolf has contorted itself so that its tail is visible from the front, but the top half is twisted so that it's largely facing the viewer. Explain, artist.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14h

Dhampir, the product of a union between a vampire and a human, is the ideal choice for hunting vampires in Balkan folklore: they can sense the walking dead and seek them out to destroy them. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: Y. Amano

Yoshitaka Amano's depiction of Vampire Hunter D, showing a black-clad beautiful young man with brownish-blonde hair under a pointed fedora looking hat (it's bigger in other images), with a curved hilt of a sword on his back. He wears a massive cape that engulfs his body.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 14h

Rougarou haunt the bayous and cane fields of Louisiana, a werewolf that hunts bad Catholic Cajun children in the depths of night during Lent. A rougarou is infected for 101 days, then draws new blood: they are the new rougarou. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: Pashur

A poster for the 10th Annual Rougarou Fest in Houma LA, in 2021: with art by Pasha, it shows a werewolf walking through the bayou holding a cane and with a skull-anointed top hat like Baron Samedi, with jack-o-lantern candles, jeweled up owls, and snakes and alligators getting into the festive mood, the gator playing guitar with a witch hat on.

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Kristine @knaturegirl.bsky.social · 1d

Hopping mad....

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Nothing beats it! Allegedly

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

I'm not an expert on Jung by any means but I bet a lot given the nature of the journey and his constant states of transformation, katabasis, etc.

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@samaelsekhmet.bsky.social @samaelsekhmet.bsky.social · 1d

King Odysseus is a paradoxical figure. Perhaps an encapsulation of all that drives humanity in it's seach for self-insight, grief and longing for a return to a home that may be an idealistic dream. There is much to reflect in this (flawed) Hero's Journey.

The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

A major part of the Odyssey is a reflection, a meditation on the choices Odysseus made and how they kept him from going home: after all, he had years to reflect while trapped with Calypso. #MythologyMonday

🖼: W.F. Russell

W.F. Russell's depiction of Odysseus looking to the horizon sitting on Calypso's island, while fair Calypso, dressed in blue, watches, both surrounded by grapes on the vine

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Maybe we can name it after the main dude. Maybe the Odyssiad? The Lay of Odysseus? Od: the Lost Years?

Might have to workshop this one. Seems like just naming it would be an odyssey in and of itself.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody should write a poem about those years!

The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

A major part of the Odyssey is a reflection, a meditation on the choices Odysseus made and how they kept him from going home: after all, he had years to reflect while trapped with Calypso. #MythologyMonday

🖼: W.F. Russell

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

A major part of the Odyssey is a reflection, a meditation on the choices Odysseus made and how they kept him from going home: after all, he had years to reflect while trapped with Calypso. #MythologyMonday

🖼: W.F. Russell

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

In Buddhist folklore, tea was created by Bodhidharma (Daruma in Japanese), founder of Zen: upset that he fell asleep during meditation, the Buddhist monk ripped his own eyelids off, which then turned into tea leaves. The drink killed sleep: so was tea born! #MythologyMonday

A picture showing Daruma tea from Bergamot Review, an Indian/Vietnamese tea. Daruma, the Japanese stock character with intense, lidless eyes and massive facial hair stares at you on the container; the tea sits behind, with a cat strainer.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Uposatha is a day of penance in Buddhism, when one cleans the mind to achieve inner peace. Different forms of Buddhism practice different Uposatha days, but typically a week has at least one Uposatha day for penance and reflection. #MythologyMonday

The altar of an Indian Buddhist Temple, with a golden Buddha beneath a lampshade-like cone, on an altar covered in symbols and sigils

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 1d

Autumn is the time for reflection and learning, in Indian folklore, as it is the preferred season of the goddess Saraswati, patron of knowledge, music, abundance, speech, and flowing water. Honor her under the autumn moon. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: The Dark Skinned Goddess Project

The Dark Skinned Goddess Project's version of Saraswati, one of several, showing her sitting on a lotus petal in a lake, surrounded by a swan, autumn trees, and high mountains and water lillies. She plays a massive sitar-like instrument while meditating.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d

Mick van Houten's cover art detail for the 1st edition of Ian Watson's The Book of the River (1985)

#scifi #sciencefiction #art

A ship sails a river with steep mountainous banks. There are trees in the foreground and mist in the background.

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