zach, certified barista

formerly et-2-brut3. 22. he/him/his. this is my blog for classics, fleetwood mac, and anything else I like! 🏳️‍🌈

[anxietyproblem]

[theladyintweed]

Fayum Mummy Portraits, dating from around 30 BC to the mid 3rd century AD. 

The portrait heads were attached to Egyptian mummies of the Roman period, covering the faces of the deceased In the top pictures, you can see now they were bound to the mummy. Dating from the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt, they are closest to Graeco-Roman artistic traditions. Around 900 are known to survive and they are some of the only surviving evidence of Classical panel painting traditions. Due to their burial in hot, dry conditions with the bodies, many have survived in excellent condition. 

The term Fayum comes from an area of graveyards (necropoli) where they were found in large numbers, buried in communal catacombs. 

Painted on wooden board (and sometimes on cloth), either in encaustic (wax) or egg tempera. 

[finelythreadedsky]

laura mcclure said no jason rights

[tashascauldronofposts]

[tatiyayo]

Britney Spears is a rare breed man.

[haraamzada-deactivated20191222]

[socialistexan]

[organicclownfarm]

the guy in MAG: 102: okay so my coworker is fucking possessed & being a gross little man, and im not 100% abt this but he may or may not be fucking a bug-

gertrude and gerard, taking this shit in:

[orange-airplanes]

[Image ID: An image of Sandi Togsvig and Noel Fielding in the Great British Bake-Off, looking off-screen with neutral expressions. Sandi is a shorter woman with short blond hair. Noel is a taller man with long black hair, wearing eyeshadow and a shirt printed with crows. His chin is resting on his fist. / End ID]

[pygmypouter]

there’s nobody better than u 🚬

[queernarchy]

this episode: so it turns out we can save the world by sending these tapes along to another dimension and sucking the fears through with them, ending our apocalypse

me, currently listening to the tapes from my comfortable spot in another dimension:

[anxietyproblem]

[emperorclaudiusofficial]

ay, caesar, but not gone 

[fleetwooodzach]

I don’t know how to feel after watching this

[thoodleoo]

i only stabbed you to death in the theater of pompey a little bit. grow up

[fricklefracklefloof]

martin is very done with all this apocalypse bullshit

[image description: a four panel digital comic with saturated colors. the speech bubbles are yellow and the backgrounds are fairly simple.

the first panel pictures a closeup of jonathan sims from the magnus archives with martin blackwood lagging behind him. jon is a south asian man with long dark hair streaked with gray. he has circular worm scars on his cheeks and a slanted scar on his neck, and he wears a purple jumper and a smug expression. martin, behind him, is a fat southeast asian man with short black hair and freckles. he wears a blue hoodie and a tired expression as he says, "is it much farther?" to which jon replies, "yes."

the second panel shows a pale hand holding up a can as martin, wearing a green hoodie this time, looks at it with a skeptical expression. the woman that the hand belongs to says, "we have food!" martin says, "what. food." the red label on the can reads, "IT'S A MYSTERY!"

the third panel pictures martin hanging upside down being held only by strings of web that are wrapping his body. there's a large spiderweb behind him, and his surroundings are dark.

the fourth panel shows a bright blue sky with clouds and a silhouette of a cliff with a small ladder hanging down it. three silhouettes of martin, jon, and basira stand on the cliff. the silhouette of martin, holding a much smaller jon's hand, holds out his middle finger and shouts, "SERIOUSLY?"

end id.]

also i'd like to say that the fourth panel was roughly inspired by this piece by falling-forever-upwards! i knew when i drew this i'd get inspired intentionally or not and they look pretty similar so. just so you know. the comedic effect of the placement is not all me.

[anarchist-memes-1]

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

[sinbrook]

Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.

[thoodleoo]

the latin student experience is seeing a word that starts with Q and immediately feeling your eyes sliding off the page and your brain shutting down

[thoodleoo]

the latin language:

me: aight chief im out

[13chancess]

push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.

push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.

get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.

stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.

buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.

buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.

strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.

organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.

have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.

push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.

message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.

think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.

become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.

lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.

[fleetwooodzach]

tomorrow (march 15) is the only time my url will ever be relevant and i am READY FOR IT

[fleetwooodzach]

this was posted back when my url was et_2_brut3 and even though the name has changed i have returned to tumblr just in time for the ides of march