kill claudio

anya. she/her. tme. south asian not desi.

[attxlia]

death to the medical military-industrial complex now and forever

[attxlia]

seeing the hadestown proshot today #myodyssey

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates, covered their faces & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

[postarcadian]

bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts

Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Aeneid (Vergil)

Antigone (Sophocles)

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Medea (Euripides)

The Bacchae (Euripides)

Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)

Thebaid (Statius)

Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[lyamal]

never host a world cup in america again omg

[hadalplumes]

The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 2 - Natsu Hyuuga

[attxlia]

the problem with adapting the aeneid is that it’s far harder to turn aeneas into a white heroic ideal than it is to turn odysseus into one. one hero is clever charismatic and easily oversimplified into a “guy who just wants to go home,” the other is a depressed refugee who is forcibly transformed into caesar augustus so rome can exist in the future

[attxlia]

my theory is that nolan wanted to adapt the aeneid, realized that the aeneid is nowhere near as well known as the odyssey in the american imagination, and decided to just turn odysseus into aeneas anyway

[hagiomoto]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/muslim-man-stabbed-multiple-times-utah-over-his-religion-police-say-2026-07-15/

[hotvampireadjacent]

I had to do a little digging for this. The article leaves the victims name out but mentions a go fund me.

I was able to find an article mentioning his name that directly linked to his gofundme https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/larsen-sohail-muslim-utah-stabbing-b3015105.html his name is Sohail if you have any money to help his recovery

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sohails-recovery-after-hate-crime-attack please keep him in your thoughts and donate if you are able

Donate to Support Sohail’s Recovery After Hate Crime Attack, organized by Luna Nunez

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[ironpour]

I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes

[pspsappho]

we might also ask: why iranian artefacts for the premiere of a film adaptation of a greek epic? & the obvious answer is because well we respect greek cultural heritage more than iranian + the greeks are better able to protect their material culture from looters than iran, currently being bombed by the us (cf. the looting of iraq's material culture during the american occupation)

[pspsappho]

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

[kosmogrl]

[attxlia]

i need mexico to destroy england so thoroughly that those demons never attempt to leave their little hellhole island again

[attxlia]

[attxlia]

messi jumps on amdouni AND gets a free kick…okay

[attxlia]

i cannot believe i used to be a die hard argentina fan

[attxlia]

messi jumps on amdouni AND gets a free kick…okay