busy nothings

mere | usa | multifandom just trying to get a little pizza in an uncivilized world

[kurhanchyk]

"historians will call them friends" buddy you're looking at this because of historians

[kurhanchyk]

"do your own research" good luck with paleographic analysis of the sources then

[koiagain]

museum date but i spend the whole time crying over the concept of history and time

[larkandkatydid]

Knowing that Christopher Nolan has no idea of women’s inner lives AND that he knows his own happiness is completely reliant on his wife, who is also his boss, without whom he would be creatively and emotionally adrift, suggest that his marriage is this intensely spiritual, almost theological type of femdom. Not unlike the guy who defrauded Harvard with a fake “Jesus’ wife” papyrus less as a financial fraud than as an extension of his belief that his own wife, with whom he was in a femdom relationship, was the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene. But Nolan is, I guess, a more pagan iteration, in which Emma Thomas is like a puzzling oracle to whom her husband must keep making a variety of sacrifices to please. A sort of cargo cult femdom. I’m very happy for them both, to be clear.

[jaime-lannisters]

Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like? Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home.

THE ODYSSEY (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[emmaharwoods]

ZENDAYA attends the New York premiere of The Odyssey — July 14, 2026

[alysmond]

Daeron is stalwart. Clever. As adept with his lute as he is with a sword. And a feature in the fancies of many a young lady, I'll wager. He's kind.

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[pyotrkochetkov]

TAYLOR FRITZ Wimbledon - Men's Singles Second Round | July 2, 2026

[theodysseyofhomer]

“[The Iliad] is remarkable for the way that its preoccupation with mortality and the human conditions extends even to the enemy. The killing of Hektor by the central figure of the Iliad, Achilles, is a great victory for the Greeks, and yet the camera immediately shifts, as we witness the gut-wrenching reactions of Hektor’s mother, father, and wife to his death. Similarly, the Iliad ends not with the funeral of Achilles, who is doomed to die very soon, but instead with the funeral of Hektor. Achilles’ own short life and imminent death resonate throughout the laments that are sung for his deadliest enemy. In the words of Simone Weil, who was struck by the equity of compassion with which the suffering of the Greeks and Trojans is narrated: “The whole of the Iliad lies under the shadow of the greatest calamity the human race can experience - the destruction of the city. This calamity could not tear more at the heart had the poet been born in Troy. But the tone is not different when the Achaeans are dying, far from home.””

— from The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy, by Casey Dué (via cithaerons)

[matteoberrettini]

sports are like. it shouldn't have ended like this. don't leave. it can't end like this. don't go. why is the love not enough

[iwontknowyouanymore]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

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[dorothylarouge]

[lorillee]

big tshirt that says YOUR INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and I HATE FUN on the back

[cinnamonbarbies]

Drew Barrymore at the Ever After premiere 1998

[noodles-and-tea]

I like when he sits in the sky :)