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[bazberkker]

Shit, I’m not too late for yearning hours, am I?? Please don’t mark me as tardy :/

[guabiju]

Tumblr sexy man of the year if you people weren't cowards

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

[bazberkker]

Getting to play my comfort character in a community production of Lightning Thief is so funny, because wdym I can just make Silena openly bisexual? Wdym I can make ruegard canon in a show that only, like, 200 people will see? Absolutely bonkers.

[bazberkker]

I’ve bisexualled too hard as Silena. The other campers/ensemble members are teasing my Silena for flirting with Clarisse and Luke in every scene. My Silena’s made jewelry that the three of them wear during fight scenes. We’re going out to take photos without the rest of the cast. Oh gods, what have I done…

[bazberkker]

An additional and unnecessary update: being in this show has made me a Luke sympathizer in a way that I never thought was possible. Like, I finally get it. You befriend Luke, you joke around with him, you learn his little quirks. You keep “joining his army” backstage with the other campers/cast mates. So when you hear his little “the gods must be punished for what they did to US” monologue… Yeah, why wouldn’t you choose your dear friend over the family who’s put you at arms length your whole life?

We had our first audience this weekend, and I apparently nodded along to Luke’s little “join me in the fight!” line. It was a gut reaction after hearing his little speech every night for three months. Our poor Luke looked so scared when that happened. Like I promise I didn’t mean to be convinced! My Silena has been charmed in ways that I always thought unimaginable :’)

[hungry-acorn]

Lesbians never say “I love you” it’s always some shit like “You stupid Aphrodite girl. You charged a Drakon. Why?”

[east-of-nowhere]

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

[ashcigarette]

“i asked chatgpt” okay well i asked orpheus and he said la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

[8nin]

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

[spookedstarzz]

@neyso

[bazberkker]

I’m obsessed with how live action Bianca genuinely looks like she’s a 1930s spirit possessing the body of a young child. Like, I saw the sneak peak photos and saw the most Haunted Expression known to man. Cast that girl as more ghosts, pls and thank you.

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[doesephs]

part of a kevin day comic i havnt the balls to finish

[bazberkker]

Just saw a Man on Instagram (disgusting, I know) call James Joyce’s Ulysses a better translation of Homer than Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey. But Ulysses isn’t a translation??? How can an adaptation be better than a direct translation???? God, sexism makes people look so goddamn stupid. Imagine being proud of sounding illiterate as fuck.

[pharsalianostra]

Studying Ancient Greek is genuinely so much I kind of understand how one might find oneself running drunk through the woods and tearing a man limb from limb after numbing the mind with all those principal parts

[wishbcnes]

we’re together because we’re together. because we’re tori and michael and we’re happy together. that’s all there is. whether it’s romance or friendship or whatever, that’s everyone else’s problem. maybe our together isn’t the same as your together or the normal sort of together, but it’s ours and we’re happy with it. and maybe that will change in the future. maybe it won’t. but for now, we’re here, and this is what it is. we’re here, and we’re alive and whatever.

[frankhermann]

actually annoyed by long distance friends again. i want to go for a walk i want to get drinks i want to sit in the grass and write i want to go to the fucking store together

[pretend-theres-a-name-here]

I hope my night shift fbi agent really likes kevaaron because I’m gonna be honest that’s like all I’ve read on ao3 for the past month

[bazberkker]

applications now open for someone to spray me with a waterbottle every time i consider making advances toward the Hot City Queer in my damn phone