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─ Sappho in art.

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2020-02-24

My sister also gave me her Love Songs of Sappho book, so I was inspired to mess around with several editing apps on my feeble attempts of an outfit post I nearly butchered.

I think it came out pretty well...

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2020-02-24

I received a late Valentine's day gift! Her name is she is an and I do believe I'll have her sit with me as a writing companion! If rubber duck debugging works, who's to say having an octopus watch me write won't do some good?

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2020-02-21

1/? For Valentine's day, I present: The queer language of flowers.
For when you want to give pretty plants to your paramours, but like... in a GAY way

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Sappho wore violets
and her lovers did too

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2020-02-15

i. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (trans. by Anne Carson)

''Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.''

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2020-02-14

Sappho reading her comments

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2020-02-12

"someone will remember us,
i say
even in another time"
-sappho, translation by anne carson, from if not, winter
sometimes i get sad that they don't get a happy ending, then i remember that i wrote it and won't change anything about it

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2020-01-28

Sappho by Gustave Moreau.

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2020-01-27

another sample for portfolio building purposes, this time an ebook cover for my not-prairie-song wip! the text around the edges is sappho🌹

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2020-01-23

2.) I love the word Sapphic also because of its origin. The word comes from the poet Sappho, a woman who was born on the Greek isle of Lesbos around 630 BC, who wrote so much about how she loved women that not only did her name come to mean love between women,

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2020-01-08

Possibly a SAPPHO! addition...

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2019-12-28

A Christmas doodle of Res and Sappho at an ugly sweater party!

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2019-12-26

YALL. For the love of GOD!! Look at this chibi I got of my girl sapphos from 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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2019-12-18

Parysatis reacts to Greek poetry (she's in disguise)... I always thought Sappho fragment 16 was a little weird haha

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2019-12-11

Then love shook
my heart like the wind
that falls on oaks in
the mountains.

Sappho archaic Greek poet.

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2019-12-10

I forgot to post these here oops. I drew a bunch of my fave drag artists:

Hoso Hailey Sodomite, Creme Fatale, Kat Sass, Lucky Stiff

Tenderoni, Juno Birch, Ginny Lemon, Hungry

Wednesday Westwood, Landon Cider, Sapphoria, Andro Gin

Yovska

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2019-12-10

Sappho by Miquel Carbonell i Selva, 1881
Sappho by Charles Mengin , 1877

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2019-12-09

O, Athens.
O, Athena

(O, O - dysseus.)
(O, Sapph-O.)

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2019-12-03