ferenz ;;

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Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen / "Your Fingers Smell of Incense" by Alexander Vertinsky

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S1.E4 "Seven", S1.E5 "In the Name of the Mother"

[orpheuslament]

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

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me and The Terror

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The Terror S1.E5 "First Shot a Winner, Lads", S1.E2 "Gore", S1.E1 "Go for Broke", S1.E6 "A Mercy"/Excerpts of "Evgeny Onegin", chapter one, canto XXV by Alexander Pushkin (translated by Ch. Johnston)

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Hellenism Resources

This is by no means a complete list, it’s just a collection of some sites, articles, and books I’ve found online that are interesting or useful.

Ancient Greek Cults:A Guide by Jennifer Larson

Aristotle on Religion by Mor Segev

Brutality of Citizen Wives, The by Mary E. Naples, M.A.

Collection of Greek Ritual Norms

Dionysus and His Cult and Worship; a Gender Study by Leah Hatch  

Divine Appetites and Animal Sacrifice by Mat Carbon

Greek Philosophy and Religion by Gábor Betegh

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Classical Inquires page 

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies-Library

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Research Bulletin

Homer’s Gods, Plato’s Gods by Dr. Garrett 

Households, Families, and Religion by Matthew Dillon

Human Transgression–Divine Retribution by Aslak Rostad  

Imagining the Afterlife by Radcliffe Edmonds

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Introduction to Inner Purity and Pollution in Ancient Greek Religion by Andrej Pertovic

Meaning of Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Religion, The by A. Koutoupas

Mortal and Divine In Early Greek Etymology  by Shaul Tor

Oracular Functioning and Architecture of Five Ancient Apollo Temples Through Archaeoastronomy: Novel Approach and Interpretation by Belen Martin Castro, Ioannis Liritzis, and Anne Nyquist

Pausanias’ Descriptions of Greece

Personal Religion in Ancient Greece by Emily Whitmore

Plato’s Writings

Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek Religion by Gábor Betegh

Recovering the Past: The Origins of Greek Heroes and Hero Cult by Jorge Bravo

Rethinking Aphrodite as a Goddess at Work by Gabriella Pironti

Sacred and the Profane, The by Mircea Eliade

Theoi.com

Theoi.com- Library

Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion by Robert Parker

Unraveling the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mary E. Naples, M.A .

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The Terror S1.E9 "The C, the C, the Open C", S1.E8 "Terror Camp Clear", S1.E3 "The Ladder", S1.E6 "A Mercy"/Excerpt of "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien

[gorkaya-trava]

so, today we, russian queers, may become "extremists" by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don't know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about "gay propaganda" and transgender people, now I'm just numb. I don't want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.

please hear us.

[opudont-donut]

They banned transition in July. Today they're banning LGBTQ+. They declared LGBT+ an extremist movement. All the people who are themselves are now a “movement”, and the organizations that help them are “extremist”. There's no way back as they already banned it.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist

[disasterhimbo]

[ID: The progress pride flag.]

[headedoutleft]

From the article:

“The authorities’ move apparently serves a dual purpose,” said Tanya Lokshina, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “It is meant to increase the scapegoating of LGBT people to appeal to the Kremlin’s conservative supporters before the March 2024 presidential vote and to paralyze the work of rights groups countering discrimination and supporting LGBT people.”

Under Russian criminal law, participating in or financing an extremist organization is punishable by up to 12 years in prison. A person found guilty of displaying such groups’ symbols faces up to 15 days in detention for the first offense and up to four years in prison for a repeat offense. The authorities may include individuals suspected of involvement with an extremist organization in the countrywide “list of extremists” and freeze their bank accounts. People deemed to be involved with an extremist organization are barred from running for public office.

In a November 28 submission to the Supreme Court, seven prominent Russian rights groups said that a decision to support the Justice Ministry’s lawsuit would be discriminatory and violate a wide range of rights. Since the organization the government sought to outlaw, the “International LGBT Movement,” does not exist, human rights defenders fear that the ruling will allow the authorities to arbitrarily prosecute anyone for any activities related to LGBT rights.

[heyitsspaceace]

one does not simply realize they're transmasc

one sees david tennant's version of Hamlet and Benedick and realizes they're transmasc

[horse-on-a-porch]

Gender is whatever the fuck David Tennant and Catherine Tate were doing in Much Ado About Nothing.

Like if that's not gender I don't want it.

[damnfrnz]

the greek squad this. the greek squad that. but what about the greek squad as the characters of shakespeare’s “julius caesar”? you know, especially with henry as the main conspirator choosing suicide in the end.

[damnfrnz]

in my shakespeare era: [beware the ides of august, full of terror before the upcoming end of summer and the beginning of a new academic year]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star/ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel/ removed the French one / u.k / words by @not-sewell /old Spanish sayings/ paintings by ker Xavier roussel/ "Man sitting on a Log", 1893, by Karoly Ferenczy/Pavel benkov/ salman toor}

{Add if you know something in your language too}

[spiralfucker]

Folie à deux - Merriam-Webster definition // Dead Ringers (1988) dir. David Cronenberg // In Two - Nine Inch Nails // The Lovers (art installation) - Sneha Solanki // Vessel - Nine Inch Nails // Xolo & Cuintle (sculpture) - Xolo Cuintle // Where I End and You Begin - Radiohead // Into one another to P.P.P. (sculpture) - Berlinde de Bruyckere // Immaterial - SOPHIE // White Gauze (photo) - Robert Mapplethorpe //

[damnfrnz]

me, whenever an emotionally demanding situation occurs: let’s start a new duolingo course!

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❝ and when the clouds go to sleep,

we can be spotted in the sky.

we’re frightened and sing alone.

god knows i don’t wish to be an angel of his ❞

— „engel“ von rammstein (in translation)

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❝ she looked at him, blood on his lips, taints of bruises on his ribs and shoulders — a blue-and-purple picture she thought she had never seen ❞.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[damnfrnz]

stripper!dimitri belikov au:

❝ schwarze witwe

reiß mir das herz aus der brust

beug dich in meinen schoß

lass mich krepieren von lust —

heut nacht ❞.

— „schwarze witwe“ von eisbrecher.

being a promising ballet dancer does not necessarily mean you can make the ends meet (and that you did not have to grow up earlier than you should have). being a promising ballet dancer does mean that you can be quite good with the pole. dimitri is much more than just good.

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❝ i watched a change in you

it's like you never had wings

now, you feel so alive

i’ve watched you change ❞

— “change” by deftones