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Cloth of the man of the Greek Orthodox cloth

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Detail of vestments at St. Photios Shrine: embroidered blue on gold, a rounded icon on a chain center
November 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
dechanique.bsky.social
Halfway done with the Photios (& Ignatios) #MeetMyOC folding minicomic for DC Zinefest!! #DCZF2026

CW: dismemberment, abuse
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#Photios #myart #minicomics
Front and back cover to Photios and Ignatios's Meet My OC folding minicomic! The front cover features the title written out as Byzantine style jewellery. Young Photios and Ignatios are on the front cover and their older versions are on the back cover 1000AD "We were born of the sea." A woman with long white hair stands in the shallows of the black sea, arms extended. A group of nuns wait at the shore as two eggs float closer One nun picks up an egg. Inside the egg is a baby. "Yuliana the eunuch-maker cared for us in the house infirmary, where we watched her perform our family legacy, the flesh arts." Photios and Ignatios as young children watching Yuliana turn a boy into a eunuch. She drops the dismembered genitals into a bowl of other discarded members. "At six, I was given to the church." Photios scrubs the floor of the church while a priest looks on. He is Father Slavoj, Foster Dad, soon to be Bishop. "You were groomed for the court." Ignatios dancing in a line of other boys. He sweats as the overseer switches another boy in the ass as he gets the steps wrong
November 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM
sandrafriend.com
The stunning architectural and artistic details of the Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, St. Augustine, FL

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The profoundly artistic detailed interior of a Greek shrine, with strong hues of yellow, red, and blue and a repeating pattern of smaller and smaller archways within archways
November 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
#MeetMyOC #NSFW #Photios
Completing the front page; back page of the minicomic covers the years 1096-1200AD and is still in progress for #DCZF2026
CW: abuse, incest, torture, body horror
"Under the iron grip of our family, we found solace in one another." Photios being whipped; Ignatios getting punched. The executioners saw a prisoner in half. The twins cling to each other, their relationship moving from comfort to sex as they cope with their family life. "As they twisted us to their liking, we grew crueler to each other." Photios having his dick stroked by another nobleman in the garden. Ignatios rushes up, enraged, unsheathing his sword. Ignatios has Photios tied to a target haystack, cutting off his long braid. A smirking Photios gets his retribution, sitting on Ignatios's back after an ambush, cutting off his ponytail. "Your love formed a briar." Ignatios smirking, his hand buried in Photios's chest, wrapped around his heart. His abusive words become thorns, wrapping around them both, cutting them both. ('look how much I've done for you' 'no one else could love you like I do' 'i ask so little...' 'you'll never leave me, we're family..' 'I'm the best you'll ever get' 'you can be so ungrateful' 'don't be so cold, I need you..') 1040 "You were wed and sent to Constantinople." Photios watches from the back of the room as Ignatios takes his wife's hand on the day of their wedding. "Relief found me in your absence." Photios lying in bed with a cup of warm soup, looking out his window. Momentarily at peace....
November 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
billiebernard.com
Mystique, coiffeur. Des synonymes.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_ler_Mystikos Nicolas naquit dans la péninsule italienne et devint ami avec le patriarche Photios. Il tomba en disgrâce après l'exil de Photios en 886 et se retira dans un monastère. L'empereur Léon VI le Sage le rappela de sa retraite et lui conféra le titre de mystikos, une dignité désignant soit le secrétaire impérial, soit un officier de justice, soit le coiffeur de l'empereur, dernière et principale fonction occupée par Nicolas.
October 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
Typoed the hashtag #research
Man I should have paid a visit to this museum before I drew Epiphany! I learned so much. They had some great processional crosses and also some cross pendants. I'm going to have to draw Photios a new cross necklace for the next book I draw with him in it #byzantium
Personal crosses in gold
October 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
roninmacbeth.bsky.social
Photios, by contrast, is very effusive towards Arrian and wrote several sections on his works. Pretty clear these authors had different opinions on the man.
October 23, 2026 at 5:55 AM
dechanique.bsky.social
Drawings from Dumbarton Oaks
#Byzantium #research #myart
Pencil drawing of a fork and a spoon from the 5th century, and of one spoon in a set of spoons with the names of apostles from the 6-7th century. It has a stylized horse head motif Two Lunate earrings from the 10-11th century. The one with filigree spheres was worn in the imperial court and decorated with pearls and gems. The other was gold and pearls. Some of the stones were missing; I took liberty and added them back Drawing of a pair of drop earrings from the 5th century from the front and side. Drawings of two 6th century cross pendants. I'm going to have to give Photios a different cross necklace than I gave him in Epiphany
October 24, 2026 at 1:52 PM
roninmacbeth.bsky.social
One interesting thing about looking at the Suda and the Bibliotheca of Photios as evidence for establishing Byzantine logics of collection is where the two seem to disagree with one another. Whoever wrote the Suda seemed to consider Arrian's historical career incidental.
October 23, 2026 at 5:55 AM
roninmacbeth.bsky.social
I am not sure I have met anyone who seems as enthusiastic about Arrian of Nikomedia as Photios seems. He just keeps writing about this man. He spends more time talking about (summarizing, really) Arrian than he does Herodotus.

Also Eumenes my GOAT gets a mention let's fucking gooooooooo
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Photios, by contrast, is very effusive towards Arrian and wrote several sections on his works. Pretty clear these authors had different opinions on the man.
October 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
Our DM described our #BorntothePurple game as Always Sunny in Thrace and he's not wrong. We're all terrible people who do terrible things, and our consequences are mostly self-inflicted (I play Photios/Wolf and Olympia)
dechanique.bsky.social Dechanique🔞 @dechanique.bsky.social · Aug 14
Printing my newest sketch zine (horrible humans).. this time with a color center spread!! 44p

#zine #myart #TTRPG #BorntothePurple
Stacks of collated printed zines. The open page shows color images of the player characters for the Court of the Rose and Photios (Wolf) nude, in a bridle and and harness. Thick stacks of paper!!
October 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
This would also be helpful for the larger story about Photios/Wolf I want to write (where he's a depressed middle-aged executioner fostering his young cousin), but I'm focusing on shorter stories for a while (under 100 pages)... at least until the childe goes to school and I feasibly have more time
October 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
orthodoxobserver.goarch.org
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St. Photios Shrine announces 'Journey to Freedom: Florida’s Untold Minorcan Story' program
In March 2027, communities across Florida’s First Coast will commemorate one of the state’s most dramatic stories of survival, perseverance, faith and freedom.
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October 10, 2026 at 9:39 PM
bystander1.bsky.social
"Mark abruptly quit in 2019 to join a lobbying firm run by the Liberal moderate powerbroker Michael Photios. From there, he left for💥British American Tobacco where he worked as an in-house lobbyist💥“leading the government relations function” and developing policy “designed to combat organised crime”
October 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
historyrewound.bsky.social
📅 On this day in 869:

The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.

#October05 #OnThisDay
Historical event image
October 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
atticusfinch-105.bsky.social
5 October 869

The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I

#History #HistoryMatters
October 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
formlitchart.bsky.social
Am vergangenen Freitag hat unser Mitarbeiter Johannes Kroh seine Dissertation "Streit und Erneuerung – Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Photios und das Papsttum" erfolgreich verteidigt. Wir gratulieren aufs Herzlichste!
September 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
fastpuck.bsky.social
Syn helping me inspect my new treasure from @dechanique.bsky.social Epiphany is sooooooo lushly drawn and printed, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the rot between these two 🥰❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
kitten catten sniffing book about toxic twincest yaoi photo of comic page, men crowded together preparing for a footrace, all shirtless and raring to go, especially the Golden Child twin and the Abandoned By God twin 🥰 another photo of a page, Ignatios the Golden Child begs and simpers on his knees and kisses the hand of Photios 💞💞💞 BRAT!!!!!!
September 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM
csit-bot.bsky.social
Photios A. Stavrou, Zixuan He: Sequential Lossy Compression With Causal Conditional Perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08611 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08611 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08611
September 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
dechanique.bsky.social
It wouldn't be me if I wasn't trying to finish /one more minicomic/ the week before SPX #conprep #meetmyOC
Pencil drawing of the front and back cover of a new Meet My OC mini comic featuring Photios and Ignatios. The front cover shows them facing one another (in profile), young. The back cover is them facing one another (in profile) but much older. Photios has only grown more dour while Ignatios's grin is more sinister. The text reads: Meet My OC Photios (& Ignatios) TTRPG: Born to the Purple (Blades System) Epiphany (comic) 2026 Dechanique
September 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
Epiphany is complete! I'll have 50 lovingly hand crafted copies at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social table I11B! 72 pages of taboo smut for the reader who enjoys a little extra spice to their historical romance
#EpiphanyComic #conprep #SPX2026
A parade of Ignatios dancing on the covers of the laid out Epiphany print books. I'm extremely pleased the dancing circle continues even on the non-contiguous sides Front and back of the Epiphany book, featuring Ignatios dancing the hora in a light green tunic while Photios looks on from the shadows of an arch Thick stacks of trimmed Epiphany books!
August 21, 2026 at 8:03 PM
dechanique.bsky.social
Interiors printed for all 50 copies!! My cover paper arrives Tuesday; then it's staple, fold, and trim! SPX here I come!! #EpiphanyComic #conprep
A large, collated stack of the Epiphany interiors, featuring black and white drawings of Ignatios as a fig wasp and photios as a poppy bee Side of this fat stack!!!!
August 17, 2026 at 3:26 AM
dechanique.bsky.social
Behold, the cover!! Printer has been repaired and I'm picking it up tomorrow! Fingers crossed for a smooth rest of the print run #EpiphanyComic
Many grinning Ignatios dance around the main hall, holding each other by the belt or hands. A somber Photios lurks under the beaded canopy of an arch, watching Ignatios. He clutches the hem of his garment with one hand, the other holding a wooden goblet. The text reads: Epiphany R18 Dechanique Photios's determination to step out of his twin's shadow and claim the cross at the Epiphany celebration drives him further into the embrace of the devil.
August 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
cortextual.bsky.social
www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2021/06/sain...
Saint Photios the Great Against the Augustinian Doctrine of Original Sin
www.johnsanidopoulos.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
drtcfergus.bsky.social
LoL meant Photios' Bibliotheca...Philostorgius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the books Photios summarizes there which is otherwise lost to us
March 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM