So was anyone gonna tell me the Greek navy still has a fully functional trireme?

Her name is Olympias! She was built in 1987 and can sail up to 9 knots (17 km) per hour!

Olympias weighs 47 tonnes, but is remarkably agile, able to make a 180 degree turn within one minute. Everything but the bracing ropes was constructed of the same materials as in ancient Greece. (They used steel instead of hemp rope for cost reasons.)

Experiments with Olympias have helped us understand the capabilities of warships from ancient Greek and Roman times. Triremes like her were built for speed, maneuverability, and aggressive ramming. (Her beak alone weighs 200 kg.) It appears that many of the seamanship feats described by Thucydides were indeed possible!

Olympias is now an exhibit at Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece. She's usually dry docked these days, but I've found a couple videos of her at sea!

Edit: Initially got her top speed wrong, sorry. It is now corrected!

LOOK I JUST REALLY ENJOY THEIR FRIENDSHIP OK?? You can't tell me they wouldn't hang after their respective personal quests (spawn ending ofc)/emotional breakdowns over their own mortality

EDIT: I forgot to watermark these so now more than ever PLEASE don't repost

Who doenst love some soft cat ears | yorumiiko

Lae'zel by Paulina Klime

rotating him in my mind like a rotisserie chicken

watching a wind waker playthrough now and I love how categorically bad ganondorf is at locating zelda. in ocarina of time she's backflipping around disguised as a member of the people known to be closely connected to the royal family playing little magic tunes talking with Link etc and he ONLY catches on that it's her bc she literally takes off her disguise and says 'I am Princess Zelda.' in wind waker he's literally having his people kidnap every single young girl with pointy ears, presumably so he can wave his Triforce hand over them like a barcode scanner and go 'yeah, not this one' until he eventually finds her by trying every single pointy-eared girl one by one. homeboy is giving heinz doofenshmirtz a run for his money. he's lucky that Link dresses in green and immediately tries to stab him on meeting 95% of the time bc otherwise i fully believe he wouldn't be able to locate Link either

Touga and Saionji, two Very Good Friends

quality time ☘️

The only stage of my hair fading that I like because it matches my roots 😩

Oh, for a skeleton key…

Plus a digital mockup to simulate a red ink pass that i discovered could not be achieved well enough with the materials available to me, and the original pencils.

nice sloopy kiss

Voyage

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throws fankids at you and runs

Elf on the beach ⛱

despite anthy repeatedly stating she must do whatever the person she's engaged to says, utena really does not get it yet... so she accidentally orders anthy to go to the party. so i can't escape the feeling that she'll continue to do this, saying things like this without realizing, until it hits a sort of frog boiling point and she gets used to anthy doing whatever she says.