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#fave #You know the ramen noodle NSYNC hair would have been a hit in 1815

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tiramisu am i right

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✨🔥 achilles ✌️ 27 😜 best of the greeks ⚔️💪 doomed 😳🥵 by the narrative 🥴🤤💛

#iliad #‘doomed by the narrative’ is a killer tinder bio ngl

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I hate dating apps I need to meet the love of my life more organically*

*in hand-to-hand combat before the great walls of the City of Troy

#Icariasia daughter of Priam was seized by Artemis who wields the Golden Arrows and the goddess spoke to her: #fast-footed daughter of kings you have run for many a year and bested many great and renowned Trojan men #in all the arts and sports contrived by Athena the daughter of Zeus who bears the golden aegis #but the gods warn you now that you shall soon face upon this blood-drenched field a daughter of the greatest of the Achean kings #who will match you in all of the arts and sports played at funeral games in honor of the gods for practice of war #and though you now curse the name of the golden-haired enraged Achilles for the death of your many brothers upon this field #you soon shall deny my twin Apollo’s libation and make libations instead to silver-eyed Athena goddess of strategy and war #because her daughter of like mind to strategy and arts shall best you in combat and yet shall spare you #and carry you back to the hollow ships beside the sea #and for that favor and for the spangled mind of a child of Athena daughter of Zeus who widens the heavens with thunder #you shall betray your father and return as willful captive to the strange isles where Helen with the lovely woven braids was born #Iliad #homer #sorry uh I think I was briefly possessed by my past life self

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So the banner ad didn’t scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like

#it’s called law school #lawblr

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-A Passing Storm-

#LOVE #art

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Breaking News Alert: our gracious prince has found the beautiful young woman who came thrice to his ball—once in a dress shimmering like starlight, once in a dress luminous as the moon, and once in a dress as golden and radiant as the sun on a summer day—only to discover that she was a scullery maid working in his own kitchen! needless to say she has been executed

#this is the Greek myth version of Cinderella

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leela being badass

#god I love her so much #all time fave #romana: leela is so rude and violent I can’t believe I’m going to sleep with her #doctor: i mean. you don’t have to. #romana: no I’m going to #dw #wrong blog for this but Leela deserves a place on main

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Now, as we have Les Misérables musical covering the plot, why don’t we have another one, covering all the digressions?

#bishop myriel musical when #<- prev YES #les mis

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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.

Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man

#diogenes would be delighted to know his legacy of challenging flawed classification systems lives on #philosophy #gods damned Greeks #queer stuff

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Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England

#aesthetic #exteriors

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Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

art quilt

#AHHHH- #quilting #fiber arts #art

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

#language #norse mythology #i guess??

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Christopher Logue, from “War Music”

#i can hear death pronounce my name and yet it sounds like HECTOR #death of another is the death of the self #love War Music so much I need to reread it #poetry #Iliad #homer #words words words

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#this isn’t not the plot #religion #judaism

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call-out post

@Lattimore, it’s not okay to translate ‘οὐλόμενος’ (destructive, ruinous; used of wrath, madness, drugs, the hungry stomach) as ‘sluttish’ just because it’s applied to a woman

#Achilles has two major character moments in the Iliad and they both directly involve him no longer being able to get laid #i think it’s a fair translation #(props to Wilson for consistently using ‘wrath’ but footnoting that a more accurate transl. is probably ‘passion’) #(which makes so much more sense in the context it’s used - ‘wrath’ is a lovely parallel to the actual apathetic reaction #but it usually feels like too extreme/charged a word in the contexts its used in. The original seems softer and more flexible) #iliad #homer #gods damned greeks

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I know I already said this in the tags, but it really is striking that Shakespeare takes these two teenaged protagonists and makes their stories so intensely and explicitly about being victims of their parents’ greed and desire AND being victims of the narrative of tragedy itself (and thus victims of Shakespeare’s own negligence of them, as their creator)…and he names them after his OWN TWO TWIN CHILDREN. With one of them - Hamnet - having died only a few months before he started writing Hamlet???

And the absolute ANGUISH that each of the plays have for its characters is so insane: Hamlet and Juliet are both dead from nearly the first words of the play, and yet the narratives explicitly, almost bizarrely remind us over and over that we ourselves are killing them. Our consumption is their doom - just as Shakespeare’s continued creation of them dooms them. And by the time they die, the very stage itself seems to weep for the injustice of their too-young deaths because we were right there. We could have done something. Why didn’t we pay more attention? Why didn’t we help save them? Let’s try it again and maybe this time we’ll get it right…

Shakespeare: I will create two teenage characters who are explicitly proto-postmodern examinations of the nature of character and fate within fictional narrative. I am their creator and - like their parents within the narrative - I exercise complete control over their fates, no matter how much they struggle against it. They are born like Athena from my mind and doomed to die by my pen, by my complicity in the narrative negligence of them, by my own actions and wishes-

Actor: cool, what's their names?

Shakespeare, father of twins named Judith and Hamnet: uhh…. Juliet and Hamlet.

#The way that both plays grieve for their characters even while they’re still alive haunt me #The way that you see something deeply traumatic being worked out by the author through the text haunts me #I have not read Hamnet but I understand it digs into this a bit #taking the new historicism school’s approach to Hamlet as a grief/therapy play #i think that’s very real #shakespeare #hamlet #r&j