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T, he/him (nb) — 25 — fuck terfs & zionists hockey sideblog @zegrasglazer

[bacchilles]

hi! reminder that if you're a terf i fucking hate you

[bacchilles]

so few hellenistic works mentioned in the tags on that poll about greek/latin lit familiarity which isn't surprising at all (hellenistic lit isn't very commonly taught, at least in the U.S.) but pleeeeeeeeease everyone read apollonius' argonautica and callimachus' hymn to delos and also all of theocritus' idylls......it is all FUN!!!!!

[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: 6 days 12 hours

[tokkibean]

"work in progress" is actually so misleading like it assumes that im actually making progress on my work

[escuerzoresucitado]

[loveridden1999]

crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"

[venomspecs]

Posters for the Greek theater of Siracusa. Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960)

[egberts]

i got that dog in me but it's poorly socialized and i don't take it on as many walks as i should

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[memewhore]

[postarcadian]

last night my spouse asked “is Vergil’s love of bees the main thing he’s known for, or is that just a niche classicist thing?” and I had to explain that the Aeneid is a whole thing. and I could leave this post there as a fun anecdote from my classicist-married-to-non-classicist household, but there’s also something interesting here in that it reinforces a trend I’ve noticed in teaching both Greek and Roman Civ classes for the last 5 years which is that non-specialists are now much more familiar with the Homeric epics and Greek material in general than they are with the Aeneid or really any Roman literature.

and I think there are a variety of reasons for this — the Odyssey especially seems to have a really strong transhistorical resonance as an adventure story (plus the hook of “man really wants to go home to his wife and his house,” which is admittedly universal), and pop culture in the last few decades has really amplified the prominence of Greek mythology in ways that have obviously helped the Iliad’s visibility. but there are also ways in which I feel like the Aeneid has very particular resonances at our historical moment - e.g. as a refugee narrative, as a comment on imperialism, etc — and so it’s kind of fascinating to me that familiarity with it seems to have dropped to the point that few of my students know anything about it before taking a Roman Civ class, when even in the mid-20th century I imagine the Aeneid may well have been more familiar to your average non-specialist than the Iliad

[adriles]

me: I'm Stupid. I spent all week drinking wine and jerking it in my tent because of how pissed off I am. Now Patroclus has fallen in battle. I have lost him. I'm Cringe Fail.

Xanthus, the famous foal: The Hour Of Your Doom Draws Nigh

[headspace-hotel]

"subtext" and "buttsex" being anagrams of each other is an example of order and harmony in the universe

[pjharvey]

they should invent a sleep schedule. any at all

[bacchilles]

ughhh switched meds recently and while the new ones are definitely working better, they don't make me conk out at night so im not sleeping as well 🫩

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

FUCKING ÖTZI THE ICE MAN FOR ICE 🧊🥶

[bobdylanyaoi]

so there's this album called illinois and its by sufjan stevens