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@neurodiversitysci
do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare
if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.
Don't worry, the inflation would be from 2 Ancient Greek drachma. That must be a lot less than a penny.
if you need me, i’ll be sobbing on the floor. humans, man
people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue
“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry
Studying literature means reading something, letting it move you, and then analyzing how the writer used words to have that effect on you.
It's too bad it's not taught that way, but that's the point.
Teachers talk about the hit you over the head obvious, cringy techniques like symbolism and foreshadowing first precisely *because* they are the easiest. Teaching any subject generally starts with the easy things. Maybe if you can learn to handle the blue curtains you can work your way up to Tolstoy, bro
The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.
@heydocverdant Don't hide this gem in the tags.
This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.
Yes, it must. when your great pleasure in life is to feel moral outrage and self-satisfied superiority, everything becomes a moral failure, sooner or later.
As a character says in The Brothers Karamazov, "it is pleasant to take offense."
#everything can be problematic if you look at it closely enough or from the right angle #a sense of proportion is important #keeping my headphones thanks
do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare
if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.
this is genuinely breathtaking lmao
Yeah look the weird smut comments are totally out of pocket but I really can't get over "im more into dr.seus or self help books lol"
#do you think he's actually read dr. seuss or did he just hear "doctor" before an author's name and decide it sounded smart? (Via @shellys-apprentice)
Oh my god
Found the orginal thread and lost it at this
Good day!
We are Senior High School students from Our Lady of Fatima University – Valenzuela Campus, conducting an academic research study about dyslexia.
We are respectfully inviting individuals who have been diagnosed with or have experienced symptoms of dyslexia—whether as students, professionals, or in other learning environments—to participate in our study. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the experiences, challenges, and strengths of people with dyslexia, in order to promote greater awareness and support.
Your participation is completely voluntary, and all information collected will be kept strictly confidential and used for academic purposes only. Your insights will help contribute to a better understanding and more supportive learning environments for individuals with dyslexia.
We believe that every voice matters, and that learning experiences, regardless of context, can help shape more inclusive support systems. If you are interested in participating or would like to learn more about our study, please feel free to reach out to us.
We sincerely appreciate your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
The Research Team
I recommend that you would please send a private message to ensure certain datas are only to be known by conducter such as your personal information (number 1 question).
It's almost like games need to be fun to play.
Vintage Girl Scouts of America ‘Brownie’ pocket knife
We really need to go back to giving six year old girls knives to carry everywhere
[ID: A red pocket knife that reads Brownie on one side and “be wise, beware, use me with care” on the other.]
Giving six year old girls Knives?
What could possibly go wrong?
The kid next door (talking toddler age) is playing outside and just wiped out in his Fisher Price car, and I just heard the babysitter say, “oh no, your insurance premium is definitely going to go up!” And the kid who had only been mildly sniffling before made the most confused, but startled sound you’ve ever heard.
Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”
He straight up forgot about his scraped knee and is now worried about whatever the fuck an insurance premium is.
I wonder what sort of Horrible Thing Kid 1 imagines an insurance premium to be. ;P
Everyone is bloomscrolling in my beautiful internet garden
Exactly.
Or...since mine tends to be more funny then beautiful...chucklescrolling, maybe?
Metahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.
They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.
No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.
Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.
It is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.
Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.
Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.
Okay, Meat Factory is awesome and hilarious, but if they're being harvested for and regenerating absolutely everything, may I suggest an alternative super name: Theseus.
Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.
This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.
Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.
Maybe this is too many hobbits.
We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.
But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.
So away you go.
And things go bad in the worst possible way.
Over and over.
You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.
It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.
You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.
Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"
....
There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.
This was a four hobbits problem.
A wizard neither underestimates nor overestimates the number of hobbits needed for an equation. He, er, always has precisely as many as he needs to.
MEXICO WIN!!! FUCK AI!!!
have you ever noticably hallucinated? 🍃
Have you ever noticeably hallucinated? 🍃
Yes
No
Evidence that Tumblr users are very different than the world population in general: over half have hallucinated.
Occasionally hearing sounds that aren't really there is surprisingly common, and otherwise accurately-perceiving people can hallucinate under stress ... But not the majority of people.
