Everything, Everything

Cecily, 22, dancer, bibliophile, burden on society, FEMINIST

[calamus-maronis]

Dark Academic summer:

Spend afternoons reclining on your porch with War and Peace and a glass of lemonade, reading until the sun sets

Going on a trip to a historical city and visiting all its museums, galleries, and monuments

Keeping in touch with friends from school with long letters, enclosing little gifts or drawings and sealing them with wax

In the evenings, playing Chopin Nocturnes on a piano with the windows open, letting in warm air and crickets’ chirping, letting out music for passerby

Savoring the ability to study freely, without caffeine consumption or impending deadlines; slowly filling notebooks with pages and pages of notes from rabbit-holes

Taking strolls on warm, starry nights

Having picnics and picking the bright, springy wildflowers

Aiming to finish reading one long novel before school starts again — Les Misérables, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, The Tale of Genji

[maja-paja]

[myjourneywithfnd]

I saw a video today from a chronically ill woman about the fact you can feel so guilty when doing fun things.

She talks about how, as a kid, you learn to finish work before you can play and that you take this with you into adulthood. So you keep the mindset of having to finish 'have to' tasks/chores before being allowed to 'play'.

But when you're chronically ill, this is literally impossible! If you'd do that it would be all work and never play. That wouldn't be healthy at all. We need to remind ourselves of this. We don't need to feel guilty for doing something fun!

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[animperfectangelsblog]

[peachesandcows]

I’m gonna need you all to get more obsessed with Supergirl 2026. It’s literally every single sarcastic, messy, depressed, grieving, male lead from recent media that accidentally adopts an angry, young girl (also grieving) which forces him to confront his self destructive behavior and realize the impact he can still make. But she’s a girl. This is the character you all love in every piece of media. I’m begging you all to adore her the same way.

[spidey-webs]

There seem to be a lot of people who don’t understand why Lobo was in the movie, so I’m just gonna say it: Lobo is who Kara is at risk of becoming.

Kara is at a crossroads, and one road leads towards Clark and one leads to Lobo. Or rather, one path leads to embracing the responsibility of the life and powers her parents gave her, and the other is continuing to drink her life away, not caring about anything or anyone but her and hers.

Lobo is immensely powerful, and the last of his planet. Just like Kara. And when we meet him, he’s passed out drunk in a bar, oblivious and uncaring of violence and exploitation around him. Just like Kara was trying to be when she first met Ruthye.

Lobo is Kara’s future if she gives up on trying to be good. Drunkenly stumbling through the galaxy not helping anyone or anything and only caring about herself. Maybe not mindlessly cruel, but not kind or good or caring of the pain of the people around her.

It’s why they both get Ruthye’s spiel, it’s why Lobo’s whole introduction mirrors what Kara was just doing demanding to know about the Brigands, it’s why they’re both “the ditz from the bar”, it’s why they both have the gag with the space suit collar.

It’s why Lobo crops up each time Ruthye and Kara are faced with choices, sometimes acting as a devil on their shoulders, sometimes just a big lurking ominous warning of their bleak future if they make the wrong choices. It’s why Lobo says “let Ruthye have her revenge”, uncaring of how the violence might haunt Ruthye for the rest of her life. He’s a big constant reminder why Kara cannot let this thirteen year old girl be consumed by violence, and of who her parents didn’t want her to be.

Lobo is Kara’s foil and shadow.

I don’t think the movie always executed this well, it could have been done better, but I don’t think it was subtle either. The parallels between Kara and Lobo are right there in every scene and always highlight the choices Kara makes to be kind, and I do wish people would take the time to actually think about them before writing Lobo’s presence off.

[harpertheidiot]

I saw a post like this recently so I'm making a classics version

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

Are you surviving?

100% no, my corpse is desecrated

100% no, but I am given a proper burial

Yes, but with major injuries

Yes, but with minor injuries

100% yes, not a scratch on me

Other (explain in tags)

Voting ended onJul 21

(I know Homer and Sappho aren't mythological, I just threw them in there for fun)

[libinih28]

Andromache trying to kill me with Perseus protecting me? Yeah I'm all good chief

[suspiciousbluejay]

Iphigenia is trying to kill me and Agamemnon is trying to save me ....

I think i know how this will go

[libinih28]

Oh no

[frogmp3]

one time we were listening to fleetwood mac in the car and my sister who was probably 4 at the time asked, without being prompted, “can girls marry girls?” and THAT is the power of stevie nicks

[steelydanyaoi]

freak as fuck sign

[audre-w]

@ominous-signs if you have a "down-right-terrifying-sign" sibbling, this one is for them

[ominous-signs]

I am often one in the same

[junglejim4322]

My delusion that im always right really isn’t helped by the fact I almost always do end up being right

[nongunktional]

ive never wanted to send a death threat over a game before

[nongunktional]

tautological wordle answer

[nongunktional]

[minovskyy]

posts that make you open wordle

[minovskyy]

[chryza]

Oh boy better go try today’s wordle

[chryza]

WHAT THE FUCK

[chryza]

[libinih28]

[theunfairfolk]

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

[chassdraws]

Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

[freakoutgirl]

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

[freakoutgirl]

and love..........

[amaraqwolf]

Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

[amaraqwolf]

Things people in the notes have been able to do thanks to this post:

eat breakfast

go to bed

get out of bed

take a shower

write

practice

watch Superman Returns and write a paper on it

retain shreds of sanity

I need y’all to know that you’re doing amazing, and I’m so glad that I was able to help you break out of a procrastination loop you did not want to be stuck in.

[andythecarpathian]

Helpful post I’ve added to my queue in case it helps someone else at the random point when it’s posted.

[talentpiper11]

trojan Horse perfec t size for put in city for overnight! Hourse very Honorable and Sacreds city sleep soundly put Horse in City. Put Horse In Troy City. no problems ever with Hourse because good Shape and Sacrifice for athena wise of protection aegis. Hourse yes put in city for a city safe put horse in city can trust horse for giveing good love to city.

friend horse

[katerinaaqu]

Were Achilles and Patroclus cousins in any sources, or was this idea completely invented by Troy (2004)?

Oh my this question always coming in circles, Anon. And I have mentioned it in my posts before but that's a fair question so here goes;

Not just in "any sources". In almost every shape and form based on their lore. Achilles and Patroclus are cousins. More specifically first cousins once removed. That is because they have a common ancestor, the Nymph named Aegina who is simultaneously Patroclus's grandmother and Achilles's great-grandmother. That makes Patroclus and Peleus first cousins. Hence also Achilles being Patroclus's first cousin once removed.

Here I made a small family tree so you can see it better

And things get even more interesting because Patroclus has many women that are candidates as his mother. One of them is a woman by the name Polymele or Philomela. This woman is another daughter of Peleus by another woman.

That makes then Achilles simultaneously both Patroclus's cousin once removed and his uncle oh and Ajax the Greater is also Achilles's first cousin and Patroclus's cousin once removed yup try to solve that riddle now

So without further ado the answer is yes. Achilles and Patroclus are definitely cousins (first cousins once removed) and in one or two sources they are also uncle and nephew. Hehe enjoy some good headache dear Anon because all heroes are one way or another related, usually tracing from some god like Zeus or Poseidon etc