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The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

anyroads

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

#classical mythology #the odyssey #the muppets

ca314159bara

if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit

meltesh28

drew a comic of a scene from chapter 5 of drag path !! I love this fic 😭

theoihalioistuff

Just so people know, mullets were named after Hektor:

Σ Lykophron 1133: Ἑκτόρειος κόμη λέγεται ἡ τὰ ὀπίσω καθειμένα ἔχουσα, τὰ δὲ ἔμπροσθε κεκαρμένα. By “Hektor's hairstyle” is meant one with the back let loose, but the front shorn.

For the further intrigued: Austin RG. Hector’s Hair-Style. The Classical Quarterly. 1972; 22(2):1-1.

#classics #myth

secretmellowblog

> I am recommended a feminist historical romance

> I ask whether it’s actually feminist, or whether it’s a story about how patriarchy is good as long as the patriarch is benevolent

> they don’t understand

> I describe the common trope in faux-feminist historical romance where the female lead is able to “escape” the sexism of her time simply by marrying the rare good man who respects women— as if patriarchy is a problem of abusive individuals, rather than an inherently abusive system. As if all the issues in patriarchy go away if the man you marry is Nice. As if “patriarchal systems can actually work well when the patriarch is kind and loves you uwu” is a bold feminist statement, instead of the cornerstone of inherently reactionary tradwife beliefs about gender roles.

> they laugh

> “it’s a feminist historical romance”

> look inside

> it’s a story about how patriarchy is good as long as the patriarch is benevolent

#feminism

calware

i really love this genre of image

lunarthesugarglider

villaqueen

The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up

i-am-a-lonely-nerd

I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.

peachlybeloved

ersatzkörper

peachlybeloved

Seems people are interested in this piece and the film that inspired it…!! 🥹💕

This drawing is inspired by Sergei M. Eisenstein’s 1944 film “Ivan the Terrible.” Depicted are Anastasia Romanovna and Fyodor Basmanov in drag, fictionalized for this magnificent expressionist biopic that everyone should go see! (It’s on youtube!!)

While subtle, the film explores themes of nonnormative sexuality and gender by blurring the binary between male and female and featuring intentionally homoerotic relationships between the main cast—particularly with Fyodor. These themes play particularly strong in the way Anastasia and Fyodor work in parallel roles to each other—the original wife to the Tsar and her “replacement” in death, a male lover through whom her role to the Tsar is carried on.

Thank you for enjoying my work and go watch some Soviet film!!!!

#ivan the terrible #fyodor basmanov

seventypercentethanol

Sketch of deliciousmuchentuchen’s Prince Ivan. (and the grey wolf)

I really love this character, (both the folklore and her design of him). Sorry for any inaccuracies.

#ivan tsarevich #russian folklore

calamitys-child

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

calamitys-child

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

shorthistorian

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

#art #why he's one of my favourite painters

stealthwitch

Diary of a Redwall Mouse

July 22nd: breakfasted on a lovely array of fresh strawberries and goat’s cheese with honey, oat cakes and barley porridge. For luncheon we feasted on a catch of smoked trout, vegetable stew, and of course a couple of flagons of October Ale

July 23rd: countless deaths

#redwall

probuccalfat

i’m not interested in another woman fetishizing and romanticizing sylvia plath’s death but you have fun, i suppose. i’d be upset if i were frieda and that was my mother.

probuccalfat

like do you bitches know she had two children and one of them is only 60? stop parading their mother’s body around for your art and do something interesting.

imifos

They are killing her again. She said she did it One year in every ten, But they do it annually, or weekly, Some even do it daily, Carrying her death around in their heads And practising it. She saves them The trouble of their own; They can die through her Without ever making The decision. My buried mother Is up-dug for repeat performances.

Now they want to make a film For anyone lacking the ability To imagine the body, head in oven, Orphaning children. Then It can be rewound So they can watch her die Right from the beginning again.

The peanut eaters, entertained At my mother’s death, will go home, Each carrying their memory of her, Lifeless – a souvenir. Maybe they’ll buy the video.

Watching someone on TV Means all they have to do Is press ‘pause’ If they want to boil a kettle, While my mother holds her breath on screen To finish dying after tea. The filmmakers have collected The body parts, They want me to see. They require dressings to cover the joins And disguise the prosthetics In their remake of my mother. They want to use her poetry As stitching and sutures To give it credibility. They think I should love it – Having her back again, they think I should give them my mother’s words To fill the mouth of their monster, Their Sylvia Suicide Doll, Who will walk and talk And die at will, And die, and die And forever be dying. — Frieda Hughes

petewentzisblack1312

the reason men are getting more conservative is very simply that as a class, as a socioeconomic group, their power is being threatened by womens civil rights. its the same reason for the broad surge in right wing politics. its called a backlash and its also why most civil war monuments are from the era of the black civil rights movement and not actually from the civil war.

secretmellowblog

> I am recommended a feminist historical romance

> I ask whether it’s actually feminist, or whether it’s a story about how patriarchy is good as long as the patriarch is benevolent

> they don’t understand

> I describe the common trope in faux-feminist historical romance where the female lead is able to “escape” the sexism of her time simply by marrying the rare good man who respects women— as if patriarchy is a problem of abusive individuals, rather than an inherently abusive system. As if all the issues in patriarchy go away if the man you marry is Nice. As if “patriarchal systems can actually work well when the patriarch is kind and loves you uwu” is a bold feminist statement, instead of the cornerstone of inherently reactionary tradwife beliefs about gender roles.

> they laugh

> “it’s a feminist historical romance”

> look inside

> it’s a story about how patriarchy is good as long as the patriarch is benevolent

oidheadh-con-culainn

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

maniculum

Please elaborate on this topic at length

oidheadh-con-culainn

i think i've made my position clear

oidheadh-con-culainn

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]

zaraasays

Clytemnestra, what’s on your mind?

#myth

evilsanlang

day barely even started and I already had to hear "thank you for being our wives, sisters, aunts" and "keep being women and giving birth and being delicate unlike us men" as compliments for international women's day

evilsanlang

here's to women being transgender childless dykes forever and ever and ever

#happy international women's day!!#feminism