I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work
for this course I’m teaching I selected both Iliad 24 and Odyssey 22 and it wasn’t planned but there’s something about the contrast that is really striking - I think the Odyssey is often seen as a softer and more accessible epic than the Iliad, but on this reread I’m struck by how Iliad 24 is Homeric epic at its most empathetic, and Odyssey 22 is Homeric epic at its most coldly, jarringly brutal. and there’s something to be said the way that the poem about rage ends with an act of profound and complicated humanity, while the poem about a complicated man (nearly) ends with an act of profound rage
thinking more about this and the dynamics of space also. Achilles’ tent is no proper oikos, and yet when Priam arrives there Achilles nevertheless treats him like a xenos at the doorstep of any good host - he takes him in and feeds him and gives him lodging for the night. and then Odysseus gets home to his real, proper oikos and he fills it with so many corpses that we almost forget for a second that we’re not still on the plain of Troy
“This session is over.”
Being a member of Flint’s crew must be exhausting. Twice a week you’re put in an impossible, desperate situation then the captain does something unhinged and saves the day in a way no one understands but everyone has come to expect anyway. He tells you to do something, you do it; two hours later, he tells you to do the exact opposite and you do it too (he makes a compelling argument). The crew voted him off six times already and somehow he’s still captain; no one has anything to say about it. There’s no way he’ll wriggle out of this one, you tell yourself for the eighth time this month. No one wants to die for him. You’ll all do whatever he wants you to do. He can control the weather.
my toxic trait is thinking i could survive the byron-shelley friend group however. i think it would be much simpler than whatever i have been doing for the last 5 years
like i can swim so rescuing shelley from his biweekly drowning wouldn't be a problem but imagine byron on instagram. a24 horror
this is my 19th century dandy mutual this is my bob dylan impersonator mutual this is my 70s glam rock substance abuse mutual this is my mutual archiving problematic drag films mutual this is my disembodied southern gothic phantom mutual and that's my unemployed friend who collects novelty mp3 players mutual
She cried for other reasons too — that the “Succession” chapter of her life has ended. “I’ll never have an opportunity to speak those lines, or get given new lines, new jokes, new worlds for Shiv and Roman to exist in together,” Snook says. “Just sadness for never getting a moment to play with these brilliant actors again.” (When I tell her that Culkin had said to me that perhaps Shiv and Roman might make up at some point, Snook brightens. “I feel like Shiv and Roman would reconcile in a way where he would be the shitty but great weird uncle for her kid, and there might be some sort of strange little family unit that gets splintered off.”) - Sarah Snook, Variety.
Kieran Culkin as Roman Roy and Sarah Snook as Shiv Roy | Succession (2018-2023)
A Vision of Fiammetta 1878 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (details)
White Boy STUNS Waiter By Ordering Bread In Perfect Phyrgian After Being Raised In Total Linguistic Isolation By A Cruel And Inhumane Pharaoh
this one is gonna go over huge. people on here have definitely read herodotus
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood in the first teaser for Percy Jackson And The Olympians (2023)
"knight posting" this and "guard posting" that. i'm the princess's trusted handmaid who provides her advice and comfort in my soothing, low-class style. i am saying things like "if you don't mind me speaking out of turn, my lady..." and sharing fairy tales and lullabies my sad mother taught me. also i am fucking the jester.
son of nyx is for when you’re walking home at night pretending you’re in a movie
not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀
'Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.'
(love this book, some real dark academia vibes)
