clyde (he/they) 🪻

on a need-to-know basis (do you know my bassist?) | gay ass english major and annoying classics fan | will post about anything. beware

[guelwaar]

i have formed an opinion that isn't worth expressing

[omo321]

[thepiperatthegatesofdawn1967]

at least the colour green exists

[sophicbaek]

i love u hadestown proshot i love u close ups on the musicians i love u costume details i love u staging details i love u light design details i love u turntable i love u patrick page's boot i love u soon-to-be married reeve & eva in these roles i love u hadestown and ur message of hope despite it all i love u musicals i love u i love u mwah

[loveridden1999]

[ambersephone]

we saw you from across the bar and hated your vibe

[quietsubway]

i dream of a presence, with essence, and absence of doubt

[man1cpixiedreampuppy]

magneto: how do you have so much faith in humans to do the right thing when they have proven you wrong time and time again?

the humble charles xavier:

[mashpotatoe]

im nonbinary in a way that doesnt really matter

[garaks-gay-garderobe]

this crossover has taken over my mind I'm afraid

[bloodyraremedium]

sometimes i forget that kim's actually REALLY funny

[slaughtersafe]

Composure

[ceaselessims]

KIM KITSURAGI — "I do not like women, Harry."

RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] — Kim Kitsuragi is a misogynist.

[activatethis]

1953 brutecass for those with impeccable tastes and/or those who were forced to watch it in lit class.

(this is atonement for a sin committed in 2014 under the cut)

(Pretty sure this was more HBO Rome inspired but according to my original post I "merged a few versions together" (and age-washed them) Regardless, I was insane over 1953 brutecass at one point but could not fathom drawing hairlines or anything but young anime boys back then.

[aherosoup]

Driver I miss you Come back sweet angel

[spinus-pinus]

Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

3/10/2024 San Joaquin Marsh, Orange County, California

[sforzesco]

lucan's pharsalia, trans. jane wilson joyce &

appian civil wars 1.120, trans john carter

a million (several) years ago I said that in my ideal world, spartacus would have gotten the chance to gut crassus like a fish and read the fate of rome in his entrails. I also said something about spartacus' sacrifice at crixus' funeral games is like a foundational sacrifice/curse on rome. continuing that thought, there's something about how there's a narrative echo of crassus' fate in the fate that falls on spartacus (bodies unburied) and how crassus' death was a sort of death knell for that iteration of rome which was already something of a bloated corpse.

it's good to be back and thinking about spartacus, I took a brief detour a year and a half ago to get through an absolute brick of a book on sparta/lakonia and then picked up the broad topic of athens to pin down some thoughts on thrace, especially around how greece/rome perceived thracians and it's been. well. hm. so! speaking of thracians, pentheus!

The Allure and Repulsion of Thracians, Despoina Tsaifakis

which of course can bring us back to crassus

Dionysiac Tragedy in Plutarch, Crassus, David Braund

anyway, spartacus pouring blood in place of gold all over crassus (Dio 40.27)! let's do some fucked up funeral rites baby, we're cursing rome!