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Ships are often named after Gods in order to receive fortune or a characteristic (Jason and the Argo). In Battlestar Galactica, the ships are often named after Greek figures such as Cassandra, Demetrius, Galatea, Prometheus, etc.

🖼: Chu Hung

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2021-09-08

What If Kal-El was evil, and had been banished from Krypton.

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2021-09-08

"Pizzazz" was a magazine published by Marvel Comics, and it published this Star Trek quiz back in the late 70s.

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2021-09-08

"Stargate" (1994), dir. Roland Emmerich. It's got everything: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Egyptian Mythology and Outer Space. Also David Arnold's score is wonderful, check it out.

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2021-09-08

The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.

—Madeleine L'Engle
🖋A Wrinkle in Time
🎨Tullio Pericoli
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2021-09-01

Sky pirates. Shadowy government agencies. Flying machines with untold powers. Lost cities with destructive secrets. Steampunk began in earnest with Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, which borrowed heavily from the works of Wells, Swift, and Vernes.

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John Milton was nearly 60 when he published Paradise Lost (1667). Blind since 1652, he wrote his epic poem entirely via dictation & also while he was often ill with gout, & grieving the early death of his 2nd wife, & the loss of an infant daughter.

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This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

C.S.Lewis, 'The Chronicles Of Narnia'.

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Temeraire by marries the Regency navy with dragons in a wonderful tale of adventure and daring. Captain William Lawrence becomes a dragon aviator. The books are infused with lore of different dragons for each nation.

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Bödvar Bjarki wore his bear-shirt so well that he literally transformed into a bear and slaughtered some dastardly Swedes in the name of good King Hrólf Kraki. 🖼️Louis Moe

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2021-08-26

In Studio Ghibli's No Face is a creature that can consume individuals and takes on aspects of their personalities/ appearances. While No Face is an original creation of Miyazaki and Masashi Ando, there is an element resembling the Yokai's abilities.

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If you want the ”trance-like fury” of a berserker, it’s best you put your bear-shirt on so that you can spiritually transform and channel the ursidaean power in all of its ferocious glory.

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According to Navajo lore, Skinwalkers roam freely among us and use skins to transform into animals.

They are identified by their eyes, but don’t lock eyes with one, as they can possess humans too.

🎨Sarah Finnnigan

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2021-08-26

As far back as the Olmecs, werejaguar have been a prominent motif in Mesoamerican sculpture and imagery. Whether born of coupling or a gift or curse from a divinity, even warriors wore jaguar skin, summoning their power and ferocity to battle.

🖼: Q. Zhou

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2021-08-25

🍃 her hair grows into foliage, her arms into branches,
her foot, just now so swift, clings by sluggish roots,
her face has the top of a tree: a single splendor remains in her.

—Ovid
Metamorphoses

Apollo and Daphne
🎨Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)
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2021-08-25

Ovid's Metamorphoses is filled with the transformation of nymphs, principally their non-consensual metamorphoses following assault. Daphne is "saved" from Apollo by being turned into a laurel tree. Hera punishes Callisto by turning her into a bear. 1/4

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I think it would make more sense if the house rested on four elephants before going directly to the back of the turtle...


by Adam Oehlers

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Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Universal Pictures, 1948). The UK title was Abbott & Costello Meet the Ghosts.

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