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[boymounter]

so many people don't understand how abelist it is to kill your brother with a rock

[thatsbelievable]

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[apesoformythoughts]

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[thesinlesssinner]

My therapist always says “reading is a healthy hobby” and every time I’m like “girl not how I do it.”

[romanceyourdemons]

lmao i’m reading this essay from the 1580s that mentions how if you were wearing a big elizabethan ruff and you got caught in the rain it would flip up in the wind and hit you in the face, and then you’d have to spend the rest of the day with your stupid soggy ruff all flaccid on your shoulders. can you imagine. whole new potentials for pathetic unlocked

[marzipanandminutiae]

going downstairs to get my laundry in a classic New England house; call that Kata-basement

[hlblng]

"Cry Trojans, cry! Lend me ten thousand eyes, and I will fill them with prophetic tears" - Shakespeare

A newer version of Cassandra of Troy. In the Iliad, when Troy gets destroyed by the Greeks, Cassandra flees to the temple of Apollo and hides under his statue to avoid being captured.

There's now a print available of this Cassandra piece :) Link to my Inprnt is in my description!

[chickizeestudios]

Odysseus and His Patron Goddess

[ladyvictoriart]

The Latin princess Lavinia was made the object of a war between Trojan refugees, lead by Aeneas, and those loyal to the Rutulian king Turnus. A skilled priestess in her own right, Lavinia maintained a special relationship with the gods of her homeland.

[theodysseyofhomer]

t-shirt that says DON'T UNTIE ME FROM THIS MAST UNTIL I'VE HEARD THE SIRENS

[blue-lotus333]

“Odysseus' Faithful Wife Penelope” by Mary Evans

[menelaiad]

Odysseus and Athena by Eberhard & Elfriede Binder.

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[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[ralphlanyon]

happy odyssey weekend

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.