aGiTaToR

Where is James Madison?

[betryl]

Discovered photobashing and of course I had to try it out with the Greek class

[negativesofcash]

she bunny on my corcoran till i leave donne and walton on the shores of metahemeralism and wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore

[lescarnetsdehaku]

The first autumn rains come without warnings ✨☂️

[lescarnetsdehaku]

Hear the hums, feel the drums,

Make it joyful, loud and clear :

The Parade, old friends...

The Parade is here ❤️‍🔥

[lescarnetsdehaku]

What was the general inspiration behind smoke? If I’m allowed to ask, why did you end the story the way you did? Is there anything you envision Adam doing after the ending or do you think the reader should make that up in their own mind?

Hi!

I think the general inspiration was my will to mix classic noir stories I enjoy (The Sicilian Clan, Goodfellas, The Power of the Dog [the book by Don Winslow], LA confidential...), a queer storyline I would have loved to see earlier in my life, and also a love letter to unifinished stories, things that were not meant to be.

Lalaland was one of my biggest inspo, and a movie that struck me to my core when it released. There is something charming to just know it could have been wonderful, and that sometimes, what you always wished for is not what will make you happy in the future, and all you have left is to cherish the time you had and move on. There is beauty in broken things, and all of them don't have to be fixed to be precious.

I feel like Jules story is a story of growth and resilience, and that learning to know who you are, and who you were afraid to be, and see yourself turn into that man... It is terrifying, but you move on, cause life goes on and for some it doesn't. I also appreciate the idea that your characters don't have to be good people. Jules is a terrible one — you just see the story through his lense.

Also, for the part about Adam : there will be an other story. More news soon ❤️‍🔥

[wintergardenscribe]

Some ideal careers:

lighthouse keeper in the Scottish Highlands (I will become a selkie at some point)

ghost ballerina

calligrapher for a capricious but ultimately lovable member of the royal family

librarian of Alexandria

gondolier in Venice with a secret identity as a master jewel thief AND a mysterious masked pianist

vaguely mad scientist trying to invent love potions

sheriff of a small town where nothing big ever happens except for when it finally does

private investigator with a bomb hairstyle

sleepwalking astronomer

taxi cab driver who may or may not be immortal

cigarette girl in one of those 1920s nightclubs

linguist and translator who gets to travel the world

person who gets to train emotional support dogs and take them to cheer people up

caretaker of a secret garden in a goblin kingdom

author of cozy murder mysteries

proprietor of a haunted used bookstore accessible only through a secret passageway

medieval military strategist

fae harpist

ancient Greek shepherdess who maybe has the gift of prophecy

muse for a slightly crazy artist

fast-talking peddler of antiques who travels exclusively in a decadent wagon

the Loch Ness Monster

knight-errant caught in a time loop

anonymous woman in a mysterious ethereal portrait

small-town postal worker with an amazing stamp collection

spunky governess in a mansion for a man who may or may not be a vampire

sailor on a lonely freighter in the Arctic Ocean

florist who specializes in bouquets of flowers full of symbolic secret messages

person who tests water slides

1950s soda jerk in an ice cream parlor

hermit living in a lone cabin in the alpine woods accompanied by a pet wolf

artist who creates intricate miniature sets for movies

food critic who travels around trying delicious soups and sandwiches and desserts in small town kitchens

goddess of the things people lose in the sea

Mandalorian bounty hunter

philosophy student who stumbles onto a conspiracy at a centuries-old university

princess in a tower (with a cone-shaped hat)

gas station attendant single-handedly holding off the apocalypse

person who catalogues new animal and plant species discovered

wife of Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator (yes this is a career)

mermaid brought onboard a pirate ship

charcuterie board designer

mistress of the Labyrinth

recorder of whale songs (may or may not be an alien time traveler)

overworked coffeeshop barista who moonlights as a love advice columnist

gargoyle who comes to life in the moonlight

intrepid mapmaker and explorer

sexy dark academia professor / vampire hunter

cloistered nun who tends a vegetable garden and makes beeswax candles, soap, and lip balm

cherry blossom nymph

nighttime ferry operator

sketch artist and insect taxidermist

aquatic aerialist in the SeaWorld dolphin shows

isolated radio station host in a spooky town narrating the end of the world

spunky Egyptologist deciphering hieroglyphs on the pyramids

fortune cookie writer

paleontologist who discovers a fossil in a place it shouldn't be

sculptor with the power to bring statues to life

statue that comes to life

professional ice figure skater

garden fairy who lives inside a rose

girl cursed by the narrative and trying to find her place in it all

traveling marine park ranger who drives a mobile home, busts poachers, and saves local wildlife

medieval historian

borderline insane inventor who is determined to fly to the moon

remote bus station ticket agent

whimsical tea room hostess

horned queen whose profile is on the national coinage

marine biologist in an underground Antarctica bunker where I am super warm and cozy

curator of Ancient Artifacts museum

forest maiden with a siren song voice who transforms into a swan at daybreak

baker who makes tiny intricate gingerbread villages

circus mime on the run from gangsters

the Pied Piper of Hamelin

medieval manuscript illuminator and poet

aspiring ballerina at a centuries-old training school

World War II undercover agent at a European convent / monastery

candlelight storyteller who travels the desert and only comes out at night to warn protagonists about coming horrors

ghost haunting an abandoned but peaceful house succumbing to foliage

architect of dreamscapes

person who blows up balloon animals

oceanographer and seashell identification expert in a small seaside village

owner of a sunny villa and vineyard in southern Italy

moon goddess

extraterrestrial investigator in a remote forest

pirate captain whose fate is inextricably tied to the sea

temple zookeeper in an ancient Egyptian menagerie

teacher at a whimsical school for things like letter-writing and cross-stitching

curator of a haunted wax museum

chocolatier who creates seemingly impossible yet delectable masterpieces

lamplighter

plague doctor

bell-ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral (hump optional)

mysterious puppet-maker and puppeteer

vagabond with a knapsack and a train ticket to anywhere in the world

jewelry model with ties to the jewel-theft underworld

sassy butler with secret martial arts skills

undercover castle maid who falls in love with a member of the royal family

woodland apothecary

curator of a library of elaborately decorated dollhouses

small-town Alaskan hockey team manager

stained-glass window artist

member of a benevolent biker gang

actress in a perfume commercial

time travel agent who gets to wear awesome outfits and occasionally experience devastating heartbreak

Princess of Atlantis

astronaut stranded in space with a library of books to be read

owner and operator of a bakery in fairyland

birdhouse builder

ethereal Appalachian hollow bluegrass singer who is present at every mountain funeral

ice sculptor

lady-in-waiting caught in a time loop at a masquerade ball dancing with my forbidden true love

topiarist for a grand estate

brewer of unique perfumes and fragrances

tour guide at a bustling planetarium

enigmatic gunfighter who comes to town to settle a vendetta but ends up saving the town from trouble

Edwardian switchboard operator

cryptographer who works in the underground castle library

star-catcher living at the edge of the universe

archaeologist excavating the lost cities of Pompeii, Atlantis, Ys, Troy, etc.

carrier pigeon trainer

crime-fighting cyber assassin (with amazing eyeliner)

singing telegram on Valentine’s Day

court jester whose duties involve insulting the king, sampling the royal banquets, and spying on the king's trusted advisor

volcano spirit who can shapeshift into a phoenix

enigmatic singer at an otherworldly nightclub

fortune-teller whose shop appears at sunset and vanishes at sunrise

storm chaser

dragon rider

quirky fashion designer in 1950s Paris

person in witness protection program who ends up falling in love with the bodyguard

steampunk clockmaker

sleep-deprived hacker who gets to say "I'm in" all the time

the Lady of Shalott

[academic-vampire]

𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔰

[teenfashion-deactivated20260331]

Can't wait for detention.

[katarinazurar]

“you’re a writer, right?”

me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.

[apoetriee]

my favourite dilf

[extremely-ace]

I haven’t seen anyone comment on how many Bunny & Charles parallels there are in The Secret History…

Them both being the first ones to actively go against Henry— Bunny for the Battenkill murder and Charles for Bunny’s murder. Both for what we can assume are moral reasons, at least to an extent. While everyone claims that Bunny’s disagreement with the murder has nothing to do with the actual immorality of it all, it always appears that he does, especially with the whole scene where Julian says that Bunny’s been questioning him about Sin and Forgiveness, and that he thinks he’s going to go to church, when Bunny has stated to be one of if not the least religious out of the whole group.

Dare I compare the desperation and borderline insanity of Bunny and Charles towards the end (if we believe that the written note actually was from Bunny, because I’ve seen people argue it’s not and it’s actually a pretty convincing argument). Both of them thinking that Henry was going to kill them, both of them trying their hardest to live (Bunny being found with dirt under his nails because he was grabbing at everything while he fell; Charles trying to kill Henry).

Francis calling Charles an old friend just like how Charles (and Henry himself) described Bunny/Henry… okay… (pages 192, 62, and 457)

Also Camilla saying she knows Charles better than anyone just like how Henry says he knows Bunny better than anyone. (Pages 484 & 192)

Charles, after everything happens with Bunny and Camilla, bursting into rooms without knocking just like Bunny used to. (Pages 515 & 455)

Charles falling away from the intellectual/academic aesthetic they all have going on, the one that Bunny never fit, after everything happens. Especially on page 520 when he’s yelling at Henry…

Henry pointing out the he wouldn’t use the word “kidnap” when talking about Charles, just like he said the whole “I prefer to think of it as a redistribution of matter” when discussing Bunny.

At the end, Marion marrying Bunny’s brother (who looks just like him) and Francis marrying a blue-eyed blonde (just like Charles).

These are only the ones I can remember off the top of my head, but I find it very interesting!

[finelythreadedsky]

Could you elaborate on the nobody pun in Greek? You got me curious

hmm i’m actually not sure if i can but we’ll see! 

the first important thing is that ancient greek has two negative particles, μή (mē) and οὐ (ou), and they vary depending on the precise nature of the verb/clause (οὐ is used with indicative verbs and μή with imperatives, οὐ negates fear clauses and μή negates conditional statements, οὐ goes with negative natural result clauses and μή with negative actual result or purpose clauses, etc).

the second important thing is that the ancient greek for “no-one” or “nobody” is built by combining one of those negative particles with the word τις (”someone”, “somebody”), so you would use either μήτις (mētis) or οὔτις (outis) depending on whether μή or οὐ would be the fitting negative particle in that context.

and the third thing is that capital letters, punctuation, and spaces between words, in homeric greek, mean nothing because homer 1) is oral poetry and 2) was initially written down, when it was written down in all caps with no spaces, punctuation, or diacritics.

odysseus tells the cyclops Οὖτις ἐμοί γ᾽ ὄνομα, “Nobody is my name,” using the form οὔτις.

and then here’s the exchange later:

ἱστάμενοι δ᾽ εἴροντο περὶ σπέος ὅττι ἑ κήδοι: “τίπτε τόσον, Πολύφημ᾽, ἀρημένος ὧδ᾽ ἐβόησας νύκτα δι᾽ ἀμβροσίην καὶ ἀύπνους ἄμμε τίθησθα; ἦ μή τίς σευ μῆλα βροτῶν ἀέκοντος ἐλαύνει; ἦ μή τίς σ᾽ αὐτὸν κτείνει δόλῳ ἠὲ βίηφιν;” τοὺς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἐξ ἄντρου προσέφη κρατερὸς Πολύφημος: “ὦ φίλοι, Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν.” οἱ δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενοι ἔπεα πτερόεντ᾽ ἀγόρευον: “εἰ μὲν δὴ μή τίς σε βιάζεται οἶον ἐόντα, νοῦσον γ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι, ἀλλὰ σύ γ᾽ εὔχεο πατρὶ Ποσειδάωνι ἄνακτι.

i’ll translate it once from polyphemus’s perspective, with his understanding of what everyone is saying:

standing around the cave, they asked what could be troubling him: “why are you shouting so much, polyphemus, as if you’re in pain, and keeping us awake at night? nobody is driving off your sheep! is nobody killing you with trickery or force?” strong polyphemus addressed them from his cave: “friends, nobody is killing me with trickery, not force!” and they replied and spoke winged words: “if nobody is hurting you and you’re alone, well then it’s impossible to escape zeus’s sickness, just pray to dad, lord poseidon.”

but the other cyclopes have a very different understanding of the conversation:

standing around the cave, they asked what could be troubling him: “why are you shouting so much, polyphemus, as if you’re in pain, and keeping us awake at night? is someone driving off your sheep? is someone killing you with trickery or force?” strong polyphemus addressed them from his cave: “friends, nobody is killing me with trickery or force.” and they replied and spoke winged words: “if nobody is hurting you and you’re alone, well then it’s impossible to escape zeus’s sickness, just pray to dad, lord poseidon.”

when they say ἦ μή τίς σ᾽ αὐτὸν κτείνει δόλῳ ἠὲ βίηφιν; they mean it in the sense of “is someone killing you, either by trickery or force?” (a question of whether injury is happening), but he hears it in the sense of “nobody is killing you! is it by trickery or force?” (a question of how the injury is happening). and he answers by saying Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν, which he means as “Nobody is killing me by trickery, not by force,” (an answer to how the injury is happening) but they hear it as “nobody is killing me, neither by trickery nor by force” (a negative answer to whether injury is happening). but the greek is the SAME and the scene plays with ambiguities in greek that kind of have to be resolved in translation.

the pun is made more complicated by the fact that all the time the other cyclopes use μήτις and μή, since those are the forms that fit their sentences, and polyphemus uses οὔτις and οὐ, which are the forms that fit his sentences, but he’s actually using οὔτις as a name, not because it fits. so they say “nobody” and he says “no, Nobody,” and they respond, “yeah, nobody,” because of the two different ways of saying “nobody.” not sure if that makes any sense but. it is very clever in greek. it does work incredibly well in english, especially if you play with the capital N of Nobody that a reader would see but would know the cyclopes can’t hear. but there are more things going on in the greek.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words to describe blood without saying crimson or blood?

Blood—the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body

Arterial - relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

Body fluid - a fluid or fluid secretion (such as blood, lymph, saliva, semen, or urine) of the body

Carmine - a vivid red

Cerise - a moderate red

Claret - a dark purplish red

Clot - a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood

Cruor - obsolete: the clotted portion of coagulated blood

Ensanguine - to make bloody; crimson

Geranium - a vivid or strong red

Gore - blood, especially: clotted blood

Hematic - of, relating to, or containing blood

Hematoid - resembling blood

Hemoglobin - an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after surrender of its oxygen

Hemoid - resembling blood

Ichor - a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge

Incarnadine - bloodred

Juices - the natural fluids of an animal body

Maroon - a dark red

Plasma - the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material

Puce - a dark red

Ruddle - red ocher (i.e., a red earthy hematite used as a pigment)

Russet - a reddish brown

Sanguine - bloodred; consisting of or relating to blood

Scarlet - any of various bright reds

Vermilion - any of various red pigments

Word Lists ⚜ Blood ⚜ Exsanguination ⚜ On Blood ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[ithacantrickster]

new chapter of Sunny Ithaca out and proud here! will this odydio sketch buy me forgiveness for not having updated it for over a month i wonder

[katerinaaqu]

Don't you guys find it incredibly poetic how Odysseus got wounded and scarred by a boar and ended up having a perfect field chemistry with Diomedes who is a descendant of a person known to be associated with the symbol of a boar?

Food for thought

[interretialia]

Ita vero, cibus cogitationi!

[simoondraws]

Diomedes kicked Ares' ass.

[simoondraws]

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