"Savoir, penser, rêver. Tout est là". Victor Hugo

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[nahmann]

Was thinking about how Henry left Bunny with 2k when he dipped from Rome, but like, that’s 80s money, so to us that would be the equivalent of almost seven grand + what he’d already spent thus far 😐

[coldbrewpup]

we've all got those mutuals where you don't Talk but every time they interact with your posts you go 🥺😍🥰🥹😌😋☺️🥳

[greek-mythologies]

We know that in Greek mythology Aphrodite rises from the sea foam but prepare for...

And then it's draaaaaged through Troy

And then RIIIIISEN up by the Trojans

Meanwhile Odysseus and his men inside the horse:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you... The Trojan Horse.

As thought of by Chris Nolan

(Good luck sacking Troy wet to the bone with a serious vertigo, lads 👍)

[starweaverblog]

BTW it still bothers me ever since I saw it on the trailer

Why did they put the whole damn horse in the sea??? The texts specifically mention the Greeks built the horse on the plain near the shore, packed the heroes inside, set fire to their own tents to make the retreat look real, and sailed just out of sight behind the nearby island of Tenedos.

Why Nolan decided to put the damn horse in the sea?? Not only it makes zero sense but also the crew could have drowned if the Trojans simply refused to get the horse out of the sea! The director can't claim to have researched this story when he did such stupid decisions to begin with. In the text, the Trojans opened their gates, they walked down to an empty, smoking battlefield and found this massive wooden structure standing where the enemy lines used to be. They had to haul it across the plain and up the hill into the city.

"But it's for tension!" If that's the reason it's a bad execution because Homer had the script ready to adapt, while Nolan all he had to do was follow the source

[janeydontloseyourheart]

"shoutout to richard papen for not asking for help, twinning" "shoutout to richard feeling like he has to stay in a friend group that doesn't care for him, we're the same" "shoutout to richard feeling humilliated by henry but wanting him so bad he stays chat he's so me"

I wish you kindness towards yourself. "have you heard of a joke? lol" I have, many good ones and self-deprecation ones never are. good, I mean. you're using the guise of comedy to hurt yourself and that's not funny. "who cares? lol". I do. because richard papen isn't real, you, apart from the bots, are. it can be useful to point out at a character and go "look, we suffer a similar dilemma". it turns unfunny when you're pretending to be a character in a narrative, a richard who's doomed and trapped in his own flaws and toxic coping mechanisms. you're not trapped. you can leave the toxic friend group. you can and should remove people from your life who humilliate you on main, especially if you have romantic feelings for them. you can learn how to ask for help. it's painful, I know, but you can try. richard papen is doomed. you are not.

yeah, yeah, "what a silly post bruh chill it's not that serious lol this is just the secret history fandom". ok. I've talked about the ironic detached way of moving through life in another post. if you're still reading, I repeat that I wish you kindness. I wish you asking yourself the hard questions of "why do I make myself suffer in my own self-indulgent fantasies?" and "why do I use fictional characters to imagine scenarios where they humilliate me but never say anything good?".

can you say something good about yourself? no? I understand. I promise you have the ability to, though. a few years ago I'd have scoffed at the question and tried to make a joke. "as if there's anything good lol I'm so richard papen coded". see? unfunny, isn't it? pain isn't funny. there'll be no rewards for self-deprecation. there's no award for hiding what you truly want under putting yourself down. there won't be applause for the detached performance of "lol like I care" when you do, in fact, care. so why not care? why not want freely?

it's okay to want a group of friends that are welcoming and a henry who cares deeply for you (let's avoid murderers, though, please). it's okay to want good things for yourself. that's what self-indulgence is.

anyway, someone else already said all of this succintly:

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Stuff that happens/is mentioned in Lucian’s Zeus Rants with little to no context

Hera sees Zeus is upset, asks if it’s because of a woman, Zeus says no and she immediately assumes he was body snatched

Hermes says he’s a terrible poets but it’s fine because people keep laughing at Apollo’s terrible prophecies

Aphrodite is upset at her statues not being homer-accurate 24k solid gold

Zeus is scared of public speaking

Poseidon self identifies as a political centrist but would prefer they just murder the atheist™ already

The personification of mockery and satire keeps making fun of Apollo’s baby face

Apollo is supposed to do a prophecy on the spot but has performance anxiety and does a terrible job, gets laughed at and his dad defends him

Heracles would rather just die already

The Olympians keep inviting themselves to dinner in Ethiopia

The atheist™ makes fun of Apollo’s pos prophecies, Mockery says their pretty boy musician should go defend himself already and Zeus tells him to stop hurting his feelings

[edelweiss-study]

For some reason I’m starting to understand I only have two days of high school left and feelings are starting to hit way too hard. What do you mean this is the end ? That I will only come back for my end of high school exams and then never be allowed to come back ever again ? This was my second home, I technically spent more hours there during those last seven years than I spent time at my actual home. What do you mean I’ll never get to see anyone again ? Let me stay, let me enjoy, give me more time. I don’t want my last memory of my home to be an exam, I don’t want to become an adult just yet. Give me just a little more time so I can enjoy everyone’s person no matter if I like them or not and just let them feel how much they all changed my life and made me who I am. I just want one last laugh, to hold everyone and tell them how much I love them, to make one last memory. I don’t want to spend it stressing about exams, locked up in some classroom for last minute revision. Please, let me breathe and live just this one time. This is the last time, after this week, everything, what made my whole life will only be a ghost.

[study-sycamore]

this is my roman empire. what if this one comment is the reason why richard is written to idolize camilla so much? what if richard hadn't idolized camilla to the extent that he did? everything would change, but also nothing would change, because either way richard didn't do anything about his feelings. his internal state and external state were permanently disconnected. always watching, never acting.

[janeydontloseyourheart]

So interesting that you point this out regarding Camilla specifically because I remember seeing this BEE quote and my read on it was this was the note that influenced the inconsequential hookup later on most directly (perhaps there was a later note from him before that was written like "so...he doesn't fuck anyone? he just muses abstractally about people, no boner? what, are you going to convert to Catholicism or something?" which probably had her seething).

I can see some of the sexual connotation of the Richard-Camilla dynamic coming from him (I often think that the rape thought was a direct idea, maybe even the way the Francis/Richard scene was written too) but I really feel that apart from that, Richard's objetification of her, the "idea of Camilla" instead of "Camilla, the human being" was always there, would always be there for her story, no matter whose notes she was getting. I think BEE added the more, shall we say, materialistic, conventional components (who's fucking who on campus, sex as transactional, plot-less sex) that bring TSH down from the abstract, where Tartt clearly loves to be, just a tiny little bit to make everything messier. Bret's Aristotle to Tartt's Plato.

PS: I love this anecdote. You can almost see the look. I bet his "almost" is generous and he did, in fact, wilted into his chair.

[edelweiss-study]

Ok so I just found this in my drafts and I have absolutely no idea where I was trying to go. I know it refers to Hyacinthus (flower/myth) but then I don’t understand why it’s in English as I usually don’t write in English 😭 Sun bathed tears

Tears of dawn shimmered upon the golden petals, their usual nightly tint now wrapped in a golden haze. There was no wind in the air, not the slightest brise, just the stillness of the lonely flower and the soft run-off of the water pearls glistening upon it.

[agnes-nielsens]

[shedoescalcforfunsies]

You think followed your blog because I liked your posts? I like your blog because it's you posting. #weSupportTheMoots

[edelweiss-study]

The Greek class once they start to understand the gravity of their situation :

[edelweiss-study]

Hot take : AI is neither good nor evil, it’s just a tool, a form of technology. What we should be careful about is the world we’re creating with it, for only our use of said technology can be described as good or evil, as we’re the only ones with intentions. Don’t be like Frankenstein by losing control of your own creation, or you’ll end up like this :

[greek-mythologies]

Everyone keeps talking about Michael Kakoyiannis' Iphigeneia as the Greek 'response' to Nolan's Odyssey, but I'd like to shed light on a lost masterpiece - some 20 years before Iphigenia, Giorgos Tzavellas shot Antigone, once again starring Greek powerhouse Irene Pappas in the lead role. Other Greeks are also featured in the cast, i.e. Manos Katrakis as the King and the great (and still thriving!) Maro Kontou as Ismene, in one of her least widely known roles.

[megzartz]

The tiny history

[megzartz]

Henry Winter

An animation

The following animation contains major spoilers from the book.

[queerboythings]

The only way I can imagine Henry Winter using tiktok

[ddeerslayer]

Francis Abernathy cleaning out the country house after the year ended and finding a tie Henry mistakenly left behind that still smells like him. Francis going on a trip after it all to clear his mind and buying gifts for people almost as if on autopilot, accidentally starting to look for something old and perfect for Henry without even realizing he won’t have anyone to give it to at first. Francis cleaning and getting rid of old papers and finding an assignment with Henry’s writing on it correcting him at points. Francis packing up his apartment and having to toss out the deck of cards he kept on the side table to the left of his couch in the perfect spot for Henry to grab easily and play solitaire as he liked to on nights when he found himself staying over but couldn’t sleep. Francis being home and with family and wishing Henry was there because unlike his family the man could sit in a room and keep quiet and read, just staying for the company they gave each other. Francis getting a parking ticket years later and unexpectedly breaking down because it reminded him of Henry telling him again and again to pay them. Francis having been the only one of them to go to his funeral. He mocked the decor in his head by the way, critiqued everything based on what Henry would’ve thought, and dropped the roses Henry never got to see bloom into his grave. He had to pull over on the drive home because he started having a panic attack, and ended up vomiting on the side of the road.

[imtryingstill]

Imagine I was calm and normal about things