Aeschylus’ The Oresteia: Agamemnon (tr. Richmond Lattimore)

#this line fucking floors me every time #idk the idea that 2500 years ago people were consoling the grieving in the SAME WAY #and the grieving hated it the same way. #because being called brave… what choice does she have but bravery? (via @finelythreadedsky)

Ok listen we NEED to talk about your girlfriend. I know you’re doomed by the narrative and all, but she keeps defying the will of fate with her vain and ever more desperate attempts to save you. It’s SERIOUSLY going to rend the fabric of space-time if she keeps this up. I’m not even joking. We’re all going to end up in a closed loop of decaying reality if—it’s not cute, stop laughing!!

Listen my dudes Ancient Egypt existed for a really fuckass long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That’s not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump that in you’re looking at more like… 5,000 years. Like. If you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2018. TWO THOUSAND. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE ‘BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST’ We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another 700~ years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.

It’s a really long time guys.

Anyway look. Listen. I sat my ass down and wrote out a timeline of “when shit happened if you started at 1AD” because I know backwards numbers are hard to process but here’s an abridged version. If the first Egyptian Pharaoh came to power in 1AD then…

300: step pyramid built 450: Great Pyramid at Giza built 815: Pepi II dies and civil war breaks out 950: Egypt re-unified 1350: Middle Kingdom ends 1450: New Kingdom begins 1520: Hatshepsut is on the throne 1650: Ahkenaten switches to monotheistic religion and builds a new city 1680: Tutankhamun dies 1720: Ramesses II ‘the great’ ascends to the throne 1740: World’s first peace treaty signed 1790: Ramesses II dies leaving way too many children 1920: Egypt breaks into 2 states again And now we get to ~~~~the future~~~~. If we started at 1AD all of this stuff hasn’t happened yet 2050: Briefly re-united as a single state 2180: Civil war 2250: Nubian kings take over 2335: Assyrian conquest 2665: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt 2930: Cleopatra VII born 2970: Cleopatra VII dies. Egypt falls to Rome. Fin.

And that’s just starting with the Pharaohs. If you wanted to start with Predynastic Egypt, you can go ahead and ADD ONE THOUSAND YEARS to all of those dates

I hate that this is still getting notes but that it’s getting notes *without the timeline addition* like c’mon, man. I had to do MATHS for this. I DID MATHS FOR YOU PEOPLE AND ALL I GOT WAS A BUNCH OF RACISTS

There’s a wide range of “ghost” beliefs, not just “ghosts are real” or “ghosts aren’t real”; for example, I don’t THINK ghosts exist, but I’ve read too many fantasy and sci-fi books as a kid to EVER feel comfortable saying that something is absolutely not real, because that’s how you get shanked by a vampire in the third chapter.

The longer I live the more I realize I just wanna be well fed and bottom nude all the time

Ok and???? Was he or was he not our Cunt King

This is my new favorite compliment

Happy Pride, especially to this artist.

When the unerringly loyal right-hand men are referred to as dogs in the canon text

#i would like to take this up a notch and say when the singular right hand person or romantic interest is referred to as “[your] dog” #incredible shit

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

Got my first "Mommy, look! A witch!" comment of the year while at the grocery store.

The mother very politely glanced at me and said, "No, sweety, it's just a big hat." Did a doubletake and went, "Probably."

So y'know, doing my part to keep the neighborhood weird.

Reblog with what you would tell your 13-year-old self in the tags.

me reading the tags people put in my notifications

they should invent a way to hug your online friends who live so so far away

If you or a loved one can hear this image, you may be entitled to financial compensation

May 30 2020 - Protesters set fire to the headquarters of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

its dwarf-tits o’clock over on twitty

Being mutuals with Succession fans without watching the show is crazy r/n. I feel like a noble lord in a gothic novel who's going up to the attic to check on his secret madwoman wife. Hello darling, are you feeling well? Still eating the curtains, I see,

Exactly

I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha

The fact that quizilla is not an option here makes me feel ELDERLY

I remember when there was a character limit on quiz-fics questions and we accepted the answers to them didn’t MATTER

Uh-huh...it's quizilla that makes you feel elderly.

*looks at older fandom like she's on The Office*