perse

sing to me the man, muse, the man of twists and turns

[dionysism]

perse, 20

he/they/she

mainly greek mythology, classic literature & poetry

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➴ i also enjoy iwtv & the vampire chronicles, the secret history, musicals, the arcana, the hades games, goth music & subculture, photography, and bugs (always tagged dw friends with phobias)

➴ my blog is sfw other than artistic nudity so minors should be fine to follow but be mindful and preferably no one younger than 16. and obviously since my account is mostly greek mythology heavy themes are sometimes discussed

➴ i do not have a degree nor am i an expert in mythology or classics (though i do hope to study it in school eventually) but i do enjoy them greatly and spend the majority of my time reading so feel free to ask me something and i will info dump for free if i know about it

➴ anti ai. dni ai artists, chatgpt users, etc. dni epic/ilium the musical fans as well

➴ i also have a side blog where i post sims 4 stuff if anyone's into that but it sadly remains inactive until i get a new computer. it's @theoraclesims

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[dionysism]

hades 2 odysseus plot line pissing me tf off. cause penelope isn't in the game, odysseus says he doesn't speak to telemachus or her anymore & from the interactions im suspecting you're actually supposed to put him with Circe like when you reunite orpheus/eurydice and achilles/patroclus in the first one which. hell fucking no 😭😭😭

[dionysism]

happy to announce i finally after over a year got a new computer so my sims blog will be back in business babyyyy

[auroradiation]

"What do you hear in my song?"

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[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the achilles scene in the odyssey is haunting tbh. the whole iliad being about men dying to have honor and glory to be remembered after death and achilles is just, just getting to the point where he believes maybe there’s more to life than dying and maybe he doesn’t want to lose his life in this pointless war and then him getting pulled into it anyway, dying the homeric hero he never wanted to be, then meeting odysseus in the underworld and telling him a slave’s lot would be better than his own because at least he would be alive

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the odyssey as a direct refute to the entire iliad is insane. achilles ultimately choosing the short life with glory over the long one without. achilles choosing, painfully, to never go home. and it’s a mistake

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

odysseus is literally surrounded by the souls of heroes who died before him in glory and achilles looks at him and steps out of the iliad and into the odyssey and says it’s not worth it. it’s not worth it to not to go home.

[dionysism]

maybe you should look your gift horse in the mouth. could be greek soldiers in there

[dionysism]

while this is getting notes i'd like to admit i actually totally misunderstood this phrase for like, years. i just assumed it actually was about the trojan horse. i was confused as to why the saying would be Don't look, when obviously the trojans should have looked, so i drew the conclusion it was about blissful/willful ignorance. and that it was meant to be used sarcastically in reference to when people will ignore the fact that something may not be as good as it seems, or that it could turn out bad for them, because they only want to see the gift (as in the good they want to think that it is). found out only like two years ago that's not at all what it means and comes from literal horses and nothing to do with mythology

[zaraasays]

Clytemnestra, what’s on your mind?

[dionysism]

i've seen more than one person say epic is what made greek mythology popular which. 1. how ridiculously absurd to think a guy on tiktok is the sole one who popularized something that has Been popular for Literally Thousands Of Years. 2. i'm not even saying this in a hater way, you guys are severely overestimating the popularity of epic. for some reason y'all seem to think it's achieved the same level of fame as like, percy jackson. which it has not 💀

[paleonymy]

she gets me she just does

[hadrian6]

[dionysism]

seeing penleope off broadway gain some popularity on twitter YASSSSSS!!!

[dionysism]

never understood people who try to make their favorite characters look morally better than they are. i personally love that a lot my favorites are evil. it's actually part of the appeal

[wolfythewitch]

Pitiless man, you are no son it seems of Thetis or the horseman Peleus, rather the grey sea and the stony cliffs bore you, with heart of granite.

[dionysism]

also from this point forward anyone tagging my odysseus posts as epic will be blocked. i have always been talking about HOMERIC odysseus, not that unfamiliar, mischaracterized oc, and with everything that's come out about the creator, i will not be associated with his work.

[kleioscanvas]

Scylla having a late-night snack

Read about the name "Scylla" possibly being related to the word for Hermit Crab and had this idea. Also inspired by how I look when my girlfriend catches me at the fridge at 2am.

[dionysism]

well. jorge (creator of epic) is now blocking anyone that tries to get him to speak on the abuse and is not doing anything about his fans harassing the ex he abused. we also now have epic fans being parasocial in the discord saying things like "knowing jorge this all false" "jorge is an angel who would never do that" and refusing to acknowledge "outside drama" in the server (news flash: the creator of the media your entire server is about being outed as an abuser is not "outside drama"!) and to top it all off, now jorge is making Another musical, about the iliad. if you support epic, his new musical, or him in general in anyway, DNI

here's a thread by emily (the ex) if you haven't seen https://x.com/emilymahonn/status/1947717332555423792?s=46&t=kGJ8Wurtab53xIzbKOHm6Q