of the moon

daisy, she/her

[astrangelittlebird]

"The first time I met you. Those freckles..."

[lestatdelioncuort]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater

[kilosink]

They are asking (respectfully) to see your coin collection (no intentions of taking to add to their horde)

[srsfunny]

The Cinematic Betrayal.

[ilions-end]

i'm reading this paper on supplication (particularly in homer) by john gould and although he only touches on this in a footnote it's about achilles and lycaon's meeting in the iliad so of course it's got my ears perking up like a retriever's

gould lays out the xenia process of an outsider going from xenos (stranger) -> xenos (guest) -> philos (friend), using odysseus in alcinous' court as an example. then he touches on how lycaon pleads with achilles to spare him by reminding him of when he was achilles' captive and they ate bread together, and gould points out:

Note that though Achilles does not accept Lykaon's supplication, he nevertheless addresses him as philos (II. xxi 106) after being reminded of the common meal.

ie this bit that always sends chills down my spine:

"Come, friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died; a far, far better man than you."

before killing lycaon who's still unarmed and on his knees.

gould's perspective makes it even creepier! the thought of achilles acknowledging the rules of xenia even in a captor/captive dynamic, respectfully addressing him as a friend, and then very deliberately disregarding those rules because he can't suffer a (half) brother of hector to live. oooh the texture

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ἁλιγενής (haligenēs), sea-born, of Aphrodite

[feyd-meowtha]

[stood-onthecliffside]

in the clerb (tumblr dot com) we all fam (mentally ill and reblogging the same five posts from each other).

[kebriones]

pov you're socrates

[hungwy]

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

[nutropes]

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

[concretedyke]

cant believe we got a frank iero pronoun reveal

[nonsensegnomes]

D’you know who we remember for how nice they was in the 17th century? Absolutely no one. And we all remember the music of the time. Everyone to a man knows Mozart’s name.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Arthur Miller, The Crucible (x) | Jaakko Pallasvuo, solitude vs loneliness |  Julien Smith, The Flinch | Planxty, “The West Coast of Clare”

[inmyplaylist]

Visit Original Link

Do you remember, your President Nixon? Do you remember, the bills you have to pay Or even yesterday?

[simoneashley]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid Interview With the Vampire Season 3 promo for Entertainment Weekly

[stellaluna33]

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

[evilwizard]

say no more

[doberbutts]

Another point that reminds me of my privilege in this world is when I think about the fact that we sell the cure for tuberculosis to people to give to their dogs for a UTI. Millions of people literally die every year because they can't access this medication and I'm giving it to people to shove down their dogs' throats to make them stop peeing in the house. It's one of the more expensive antibiotics and people always whine about the price but then it's not their daughter they have to watch slowly suffocate as bacteria turns her lungs into swiss cheese. It's not their father that coughs and coughs and coughs until he's spitting up blood.

The deadliest infectious disease in human history is cured by the same packet of chewable tabs individually packed in foil. It comes in beef flavor so your dog won't resist taking its meds as much. It's like a hundred bucks for 30 tablets on pretty much any pet pharmacy.

It makes me think about medicine scarcity and how it's all fake in order to get enough capital that you can have individuals with higher net worth than entire countries. And in the mean time, hundreds of millions of people are dead because they don't drive the bottom line.