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PLEDGE TO CORINTHIAN TIER BY FEBRUARY 28TH TO RECEIVE THIS BIRTH OF PEGASUS A6 PRINT... ...OR PLEDGE TO COMPOSITE TIER BY FEBRUARY 28TH TO GET THIS BIRTH OF PEGASUS STICKER TOO!

TLDR; February is the last month to get postal rewards at a lower rate, and also the last month to pledge to a digital tier and lock in the legacy rate before I raise prices March 1!

Want to do both? You can pledge to a postal tier and then immediately downgrade to a digital 🧡

Patreon.com/flaroh

Photo of a blue lion dancer

Another fantastic Chinese New Year day out in Newcastle 🏮🐴

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

Pubs in Newcastle standing up to the onslaught of AI slop appearing in the sector 🖤🤍🖤🤍 love the toon!

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PLEDGE TO CORINTHIAN TIER BY FEBRUARY 28TH TO RECEIVE THIS BIRTH OF PEGASUS A6 PRINT... ...OR PLEDGE TO COMPOSITE TIER BY FEBRUARY 28TH TO GET THIS BIRTH OF PEGASUS STICKER TOO!

TLDR; February is the last month to get postal rewards at a lower rate, and also the last month to pledge to a digital tier and lock in the legacy rate before I raise prices March 1!

Want to do both? You can pledge to a postal tier and then immediately downgrade to a digital 🧡

Patreon.com/flaroh

I'm regretfully having to raise my tier prices. If you are currently a patron of mine, this will only affect you if you receive postal rewards (Corinthian and Composite tiers). You will have to upgrade tiers by mid-March 2026, and price will depend on if you are a UK mailing address or not. Current digital reward tiers (Tuscan, Doric, and lonic tiers) will retain legacy rates (what you are currently paying) for as long as you remain a member of that tier after Feb 28. If you are not currently a patron, then February will be your last chance to lock-in the legacy rate of a digital reward tier! PATREON.COM/FLAROH

I am honouring all current digital reward tier pledges up to Feb 28 2026 (Tuscan, Doric, & lonic tiers). These tiers will retain legacy rates for as long as membership lasts after Feb 28.

Postal Tiers (Composite & Corinthian) will regretfully be changing in price for everyone based on delivery loc

“Tiers are changing!” Text on my illo of an Anatolian shepherd dog in an archaeology site

‼️My Patreon tiers are changing March 1st‼️

read more below and how to secure a legacy rate before the Feb 28 deadline

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Art by flaroh illustration. A cream and white Pegasus rears over the severed head of his mother Medusa who stares at him with glazed eyes. Flames rise from the lifeblood seeping from her neck against a red background.

The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸

How much agency do you think Medusa had in Pegasus’ creation? Was it the one final, patriarchal demand of Medusa and her body? Or was Pegasus' birth her last act of love?

Time to revisit this library!!!

I just find it really interesting because when I was little I never understood the connection between Medusa & Pegasus bc all my books worded his creation as some sort of separate event that spontaneously happened from her blood. I’m enjoying revisiting these myths and reexamining the context :)

OMG I literally cited this lekythos in my Patreon write up!! I was questioning how much agency Medusa had in birthing Pegasus and Chrysaor. In all the myth books, they “spring from her blood/body”, never “she birthed/created them”. On this vessel her head is whisked away before she can even see him

Art by flaroh illustration. Pledge by February 28 to receive rewards

As always, Corinthian patrons will be receiving a print and Composite patrons a print and a sticker! All tiers below this already have access to various digital rewards including wallpapers, behind the scenes, and hi res downloads 🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh

A close up of Pegasus head

A close up of medusas head

Annum novum faustum felicem omnes, A fortunate and happy (Lunar) New Year to you all!🎊 following my annual trend, Februarys illustration is themed around the new Lunar New Year animal, the fire horse.

I wanted to depict a scene of life and empowerment being created despite the trauma that bore it🧡

Art by flaroh illustration. A cream and white Pegasus rears over the severed head of his mother Medusa who stares at him with glazed eyes. Flames rise from the lifeblood seeping from her neck against a red background.

The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸

'Landmark' elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans.

The discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘

HGV: P.Mich. 11 603 [source] [xml] Title Hire of Scribes Publications P.Mich. 11 603 More in series P.Mich.More in series P.Mich., vol. 11 Support/Dimensions Papyrus Post-Concordance BL Entries VIII 216; XI 132 Translations Migliardi, Vita privata e vita pubblica (1992), 14 Origin Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites) More from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites) Material Papyrus Date 4. Febr. 134 More from the period between 134 CE and 135 CE Commentary Zur Datierung vgl. BL VIII, S. 216. Vgl. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber, S. 786f. Mentioned Dates Z. 15:132 - 133 Print Illustrations Plate I Subjects Vertrag; Schreiber; Kopieren von Laographialisten; zwei Kopien Images http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1422... License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

February 4, 134 CE: A collective of nine scribes 🖋️ —named Diogenes, Euporos, Mystes, Marion, Sarapion, Sabinus, Herakleides, Harpokration, and Heliodoros—in Ptolemais Euergetis (Roman Egypt) sign a contract to copy gvmt tax & census lists (P. Mich 11 603): papyri-prod.lib.duke.edu/ddbdp/p.mich...

sharing the delight of the textile details from ROM
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My light pink hoodie with the Iliad design on the back

Aahh snap I’m wearing my Iliad one today!

Get Out

Ooh which one did you get??

What a lovely message! thank you very much!!🧡🧡🧡

I’ve drawn her here in a dual form emulating her sisterly attendants, Postvorta and Antevorta, who represented what has been and what shall come to pass, as well as the position of the child in childbirth (being born either head-first or feet-first).

On the 11th and 15th of January, Romans celebrated the goddess Carmentis, who was the protector of midwives and their clients in childbirth, the observer of the future and the past, and the mythical inventor of the Latin alphabet(!!)!

Art by flaroh illustration. Carmentis is depicted in a dual form overlapping and conjoining at the waist. The palette is pinks and reds and very dark brown on a bright red background. Her left body looks left and holds a scroll in her left hand while shielding her brow with its right. The right form leans right with her left hand to her ear and right arm stretched far to the left holding a stylus.

Happy Carmentalia! 💃⏳✍️ may her life-bringing and omniscient future outlook bless us in this new year✨

Oohhhh👀👀👀

Another day another hourly heritage job at a private charity advertised w no declared salary to be found

Toy Cacofonix happily blowing a Carnyx

Toy Cacofonix bound and gagged [to silence him] with a broken Carnyx in two pieces on the ground alongside.

**New theory emerges about how this newly discovered Carnyx head became separated from the mouthpiece section**