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✨️caroline, 31, she/they, bi✨️

[simena]

Jette Stoltz

[petruchio]

im literally always saying this

[fivetrench]

Shit just happens to you when you're a tuna crab

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[eroscestlavie]

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

[girljpg]

they call me the flower enjoyer

[heytinafey]

the elegant european woman didn’t stay for tea, but the promise of tomorrow hung in the air

[cervine-arctophile]

paintings by Yoshino Ryoko

[reactionimagesdaily]

[fulda-gap-express]

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

[harryworldwide]

Harry Styles - Together, Together Tour - Amsterdam Night 8 - May 30, 2026 (via ntmynatasja)

[anglaised]

i will destroy all polyester for the sake of humanity

[fashionjournals]

?...How?

[anglaised]

with my flaming sword of justice

[highwatermark]

Tomfoolery actually transitioned and only does she-nanigans now

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the way prehistoric animal documentaries will talk about extinction like it happens because of “a failure to evolve” as though evolution is a meritocracy is so funny and so scary

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

this species persisted over the eons because of its Protestant work ethic to produce more of a specific kind of digestive enzyme that allowed it to extract 4% more nutrients from the dominant plant species in the area

[lithiumseven]

Ned Chicane really drove a 1958 Lincoln Continental into a flaming cave whilst wearing a Chewbacca costume covered in animal shit and the contents of a septic tank to save a town full of people who didn’t like him from a creature he didn’t even believe in three days prior and he still thinks of himself as a coward. Ned Badass Chicane, the man that you are

[pierog]

[bonfires-n-hares]

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[finelythreadedsky]

real question though when did it become a thing to refer to her as “helen of troy”? it’s common in modern english, but in ancient texts i’ve just seen her referred to as Ἑλένη/Ἑλένα/Helene/Helena, no need to specify, there’s only one helen, everyone knew who was meant. who gave her the epithet? when did it happen that she became helen “of troy”?

[finelythreadedsky]

alright: the mid-late-nineteenth century pre-raphaelites use it, byron uses it, goethe uses it, cervantes uses it. marlowe and shakespeare, though, both call her “helen of greece” but not “of troy.” cervantes seems about the earliest “big” author to use it

i found this in a 1755 “General Magazine of Arts and Sciences Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical” (under “miscellaneous correspondence, essays, poetry” etc., printed for w. owen in london:

(“prior’s apelles” appears to be the poem ‘protogenes and apelles’ by matthew prior (1664-1721), but the poem sheds no light on why helen should be ‘of troy’ and not ‘of greece’)

and references to ‘helen of greece’ are common through the early eighteenth century (and make a lot of sense, given the apparent connection of her name to hellas, the greek term for ‘greece’)

so my guess is that the shift starts to catch on in the first half of the eighteenth century, probably more the second quarter of the eighteenth century, and increases a lot in popularity with the circulation of don quixote. by the late eighteenth century it starts popping up more and more and seems a firmly established thing by the time the romantics come onto the scene.

[finelythreadedsky]

hmmmmm… inch-resting…

Laurie Maguire, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood (2009)