i need holy water

nz, 19, f bisexual

[materialistses]

Alexa Demie as Maddy Perez in ‘EUPHORIA’ Season 3

[doreimifasola]

why is nobody talking about the casual sexism in timothée chalamet’s recent comments about ballet and opera?

ballet is a female dominated career and the opera is typically associated with women too. his comments were extremely rude for no reason and diminish the work of women in these art forms.

the question he responded to was about audience attention spans and his answer just before “the clip” was about the low rates of people going to watch movies in theatres.

why didn’t he also mention shakespeare/broadway? the former is, of course, an immensely influential male playwright and the latter is an arguably male dominated career. admittedly, broadway is more popular than ballet and the opera in america, but performances are still facing lower attendance rates (especially in comparison to pre-covid times).

instead of putting down other art forms, he could have connected all of them.

oh, your audience’s attention spans are lowering due to the rise of short form content? this impacts all of these arts that are so integral to humanity and community. not to mention, all art forms are facing increasing risks of being replaced by ai!

his comments were ignorant and disrespectful to other artists. ballet and opera are foundational to singing and dancing. these arts created what modern performances look like!

artists need to support all art in order to preserve it.

[norvicensiandoran]

[mckitterick]

the Ides of March grows near

[adhdoofenshmirtz]

[lytefoot]

Tumblr users these days, putting up the Ides of March decorations earlier every year.

[wesleyaninaditch]

Seeing how positive the reaction to Father Jud in Wake Up Dead Man has been confirms my belief that most people—even dyed in the wool atheists—desperately, desperately want Christians to live up to the ideals they profess.

That’s why I don’t take it personally or get offended when a person rails against Christianity. Their anger often comes from a place of profound, justified disappointment. And if a person can be disappointed, they’re still looking for good in this world. And if they’re looking for good, we’re looking for the same thing.

[ancienttheblackangel]

GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

[custer-mp3]

[byjove]

When you point out to people who are against animal testing that there are potentially lifesaving medications that need to be tested on mammals before going to trials that could potentially harm human lives, they’ll say shit like “We should test on prisoners instead.” Bitch. Why are you working for PETA? The WW2-era Imperial Japanese Army needs you. There is suchhhhhhh a strong thread of fascism laced through the current animal rights movement and in so many animal rights spaces and they’re extremely transparent about it.

[langstynotteen]

I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty

[byjove]

That scene from Community is so accurate, that is exactly how these people sound. Racism, ableism and classism often tangled with their crusade for ‘animal rights’ and their talking points often go against basic ethics and basic animal husbandry.

[coldcrashpictures]

OH MY GOD THAT'S THE ORIGINAL LINE???

[snarlmalden]

The portrayal of white people who have been violently separated from their own culture stealing the power of black culture and music to try to get reconnected was SO literal and somehow not at ALL heavy-handed or trite. Fkn remarkable.

[umflowers]

if it hasn't occurred to you yet, every victim in that paddock just realized it won't do them any good to come forward. every victim was watching this, waiting to feel empowered to step forward as well or retreat further into the shadows and suffering alone, and they just got their answer. and every man in that godforsaken sexist cesspool of a paddock that's ever wanted to get handsy or make crude comments or worse just got the green light that nothing will happen if they do. shit like this never just impacts the victim of this specific instance.

[midnigtartist]

He’s my guy ever

[mysharona1987]

[cryptotheism]

A thesis defense sounds easy as fuck. All those guys read the same shit and went to the same classes. "Buh I gotta have opinions on Kant and talk about them in front of other Kant perverts" you should try explaining Critique of Pure Reason to stupid people on the internet. Shoves you.

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[dementeddaddydexter]

Also there's so many textbooks written by scholars who have studied Greek history and mythology as well as roman mythology either independently or in comparison (hard to do Roman without Greek cause yk but like op said society is important when it comes to mythology and the Romans and Greeks were VERY different so), and if you're not sure where to start and you find the Iliad or the Odyssey intimidating, I'd look at actual educational text just for some context and a base before diving into source material since written oral stories can be quite difficult to understand independently.

Also highly recommend YouTube channels that explore mythology (specifically ones with cited sources or trustworthy creators) if you're someone who struggles to sit down and read something for a long period of time or finds things written from a very long time ago difficult to understand.

Knock yourself out, just don't base your mythology knowledge off of modern media, because ancient mythology is, well, ancient.

[whereserpentswalk]

There's a secret subway line below New York. Very few people have taken it, very few people even know that it exists at all. You have to be in the station when you're entirely alone to see it, and it only comes during the harshest of rainstorms, when the sky is entirely gray, and the city is quite in the storm. It's letter is a letter nobody can read, and it's color is beyond what human eyes can see.

The first stop will take you below the Hudson, to the city of the deep. It's where the deep ones, and the selkies, and the merfolk, and the ghosts of drowned men all live. And it's a vast and beautiful city, with massive towers of seastone, and where the ancient tongues of Atlantian and R'lyeh are still spoken. There are creatures that walk it's streets older than the city above, and creatures there than humans have no names for.

If you take the train one stop deeper you will find yourself deep below the earth, within the shining city of the faeries, where looming towers old glistening build shoot up from the ground like knives, and hang down from the roof of the underground like stalactites. There are creatures here even stranger and older. In some neighborhoods the kindly forest fae live in vine covered brownstones. In others the unseelie stalk alleyways below bioluminescent signs selling things that should not be sold. And the high fae still stand in the upper city, ever young among their luxury towers.

If you take it even deeper underground you will find the city of the demons, deep and winding, frightening but alluring to all mortal eyes. There are stores where you can sell your true name in exchange for powers beyond human knowledge, or your mortal souls for a wish you never knew you needed to make. And you can drink the demons' ever potent wine, or see their plays of endless depravities, or walk through their parks of black and thorny plants.

Some take the secret train line to visit places they didn't know existed. Or to find things that can't be found anywhere else. Or to meet people they didn't know they needed to meet. Or even to move to somewhere new. But never take it to the final stop, for beyond the city of demons is the city of the dead, and unlike the other three there will be no journey home from there.

[bless-me-father]

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[theconcealedweapon]

[brainrotcharacters]

I love Penelope she endured Odysseus yapping and she went "don't you fucking dare steal my autonomy for me I decide if I accept your war crimes and I've already decided" icon. Ithaca is lucky to have her

[fish-condition]

Odysseus, full of worry his wife won’t love him after learning what he did: I slayed a bunch of men and monsters without mercy to get home to you

Penelope, his wife, who is from Sparta, kicking her feet and twirling her hair: My love we’re already married, you don’t have to propose again