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New aesthetic means new intro post (several weeks later)

Hello! My name is Nick.

I am 17 years old (a minor)

I like musicals, good omens, Percy Jackson, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I'm far too lazy to write out.

I'm neurodivergent (shocker /s)

My pronouns are they/them/he/it, but I'm pretty much fine with whatever people call me

#about me #intro post #introduction

sourbons

girl who does NOT play when it comes to her bald bf

maplebnuuy

precariouswizardry

fromhersoul

Adult friendships be like “I miss you bro, let's hang out in November"

The Ithaca Journal, New York, August 14, 1957

neuteredcuck11

I want to be trapped between four brunette department store mannequins unable to move as CO2 gas is pumped into the room suffocating me

galaxywarp

that’s great man

infectiouspiss

puppy want a treat?

puppy want a fucking break from it all

utilitycaster

no DNIs we just post content specifically catered to ourselves that will coincidentally alienate anyone with whom we would not want to interact

darkestcinema

renaissance in the 21st century

blogitalianissimo

tinyphantomsalad

some more

kitsunebattleboxer

the WHAT??

personification-of-anxiety

okay, found her

whenstarsfall

some more good replies from the notes

whenstarsfall

camellianswer

i didnt expect these to hit so hard but then they kept going and going….my god

#life imitates art #art imitates life

modern-austen

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

rockboci

Add the author’s reply, cowards!

thewhiskeykitteh

I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.

Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.

rises-vagrant

Articles mentioned (I think, anyway…)

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/05/11/scholars-respond-to-racist-backlash-against-black-achilles-part-1-ancient-greek-attitudes-toward-africans/

https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?

In February of 2018, the BBC broadcast an eight-part miniseries, Troy: Fall of a City, that told the story of the Trojan War. Netflix later

augustdementhe

Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.

I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.

And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.

rosebleue-deactivated20251002

The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case

Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.

In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.

owenology

fuck algebra i don’t need it just give me a dead body and i’ll figure it out from there

owenology

i feel i should clarify i am a mortuary science major

cassassinated

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

mythicalwashrag

useful-info-haver

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

araceil

YO IT FUCKING WORKS.

open a new window, literally type the words about:config into the search bar and it'll give you a warning page. Hit yes, you accept the risk. The page'll be blank but there's another bar under your search bar, input the mediasource quote above and double click on the word 'True' to change it to false on that option.

Close firefox, reload.

Beautiful. useful-info-haver I am kissing you gently on the forehead and presenting you with your treat of choice, my sweet. Thank you so much.

I don't really think life has to have "meaning". I think the meaning is simply to live.

doctor-roman

I think whoever named worcestershire sauce that should have the worst tummy hurty ever

nyxwoven

i have great news

doctor-roman

MR. LEA I AM SO FUCKING SORRY

thunderstruck9

John Salt (British, 1937-2021), Black Ford in Field, 1972. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.

halcyonhue

cursmudgeon

Looked up the artist and this is just all he did for decades. Unbelievably realistic paintings of broken down cars parked on roadsides. They're made by projecting photos onto the canvas and using an airbrush and stencils to carefully reproduce the image without any brushstrokes. Some of his paintings would take years to complete.