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Indie & Sel Pro Hero OC || Sideblog to @dryeceyed

[whishlestop]

They are very similar. They’re two people who believe with absolute certainty that their way is the only way. It’s like what you see every day, happening everywhere in the world right now. People have these beliefs, and they know for absolute certain that they are in the right, and if you don’t agree then fuck you!

Ben Whishaw at last night’s Bakkhai Q and A, on the similarities between Dionysus and Pentheus (via whishlestop)

[gus-is-the-cat-deactivated20190]

Pentheus, king of Thebes, torn to pieces by Maenads for refusing to believe in Dionysus’s divinity.

[bacchantcs]

“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

PRO HERO “Pentheus” - @bacchantcs

[antigonick]

PENTHEUS : —whose touch is it you dream of in those long afternoons, this dim back bedrooms?

Euripides, Bakkhai (tr. by Anne Carson)

[bacchantcs]

Test test test test.