swimming with the tide

· noah, 28, classicist, he/him ·

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Flags of the funeral procession "Memento Mori" (19th-20th centuries)

[magnoliamyrrh]

the year is 2035. the new beauty standard is for women to cut their ears off, as ears are a masculine trait which make the face look too big and hearing isnt necessary as it doesnt align with being demure. evil feminists say perhaps this is unnecessary and ears are natural. women are agressively proclaiming they are cutting their ears off due to sensory issues

[crimson-femme]

Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman

[3000s]

im so hungry i could eat a amazing food and refreshing drink

[postarcadian]

re: adaptation and the supposed “purity” of the original work it’s complicated right. and ultimately I think that whether classicists like it or not, it’s just the nature of the beast that (a) the texts we study have been and continue to be radically readapted and reinterpreted and we can have strong opinions about which adaptations we like or don’t but it’s just the nature of a 2000+ year reception tradition to produce variance, and (b) the texts we study are much more a scholarly construction, and authorial intent far more difficult (and ideologically suspect) to try to recover, than is true of, say, a 19th or 20th century novel. which is to say that it’s one thing to say that Fennell’s Wuthering Heights misunderstands Charlotte Bronte’s novel and something quite different to say that Nolan’s Odyssey misunderstands “Homer’s” epic, because the latter is responding to another 2500 years of a reception tradition that in some sense is not entirely or even primarily about the Odyssey as a poem in Ancient Greek. this is not to take a stand on either one as an ideological project or whether either is a good film (I am reserving judgment but strongly suspect that neither is) but to say that I think that whatever the Odyssey is on a conceptual level is much less singular and well-defined than what Wuthering Heights is, if that makes sense

[kdlangarchive-blog]

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k.d. on the cover of Absolute Torch and Twang. She’s said that this was the first time she wore her own everyday clothes on the cover of an album. Having let go of some of the zanier, cowpunk elements of her style and sound, she wanted to appear very genuinely herself for this album.

[victusinveritas]

WWII sketches of Victor A. Lundy (sketchbook in the Library of Congress until it is purged for depicting antifascist behavior and/or France.)

[dolm]

Italy. Florence. 1984. A couple gets water from the Via Maggio fountain. Bruno Barbey.

[jeanritchie]

anne briggs

[caelestiaal]

old town, old houses

my photography, please don't delete the caption or alter credits, thanks!

[jacindaelena]

Nikon AF600, Fuji 400, Rhinog Fawr, Cymru by rabbet on bsky

[thunderstruck9]

Arnulf Rainer (German, b. 1929), Totalübermalung Rot (Zumalung), 1957. Oil on chipboard, 26 x 40.5 cm.

[llovinghome]

[radgepaquet]

obsessed with this interaction where someone has apparently been living with the sincere belief that misha collins threw the shoe at bush

[poetrylesbian]

[nicholaschmidt]

[xanaxfarts]

Yoshitomo Nara mugshot, arrested for doodling graffiti at the Union Square subway station to point towards his art show in New York. He spent two days in the downtown jail, which he optimistically described as "a nice experience in my life," saying it was "like in the movies," a small space filled with all manner of people he would not otherwise meet.