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hot take on the point of "in hp they should make people take veritaserum in court":

they shouldn't.

in every basic democracy or form of society where they respect human rights they won't give out veritaserum as a principle: it's restricting freedom and civil liberties, when people can't decide freely what they want to say and what they don't want to say.

maybe with consent, but even then, the restriction exist so it actually should be illegal.

it definitely makes a court process harder, but respects the freedom of speech.

#veritaserum #harry potter #it wouldve helped sirius i see the point but still it seems very morally grey in the big picture #not even morally grey #morally black #i'm sorry #ministry of magic #dolores umbridge #would not approve #human rights #wizard rights #lmao

there's a sentence from a merlin fic

"Uther died on a tuesday and Arthur got crowned King on wednesday"

and it's haunting me ever since

#merlin #merthur #uther pendragon #bbc merlin

oh but when herodotus wrote

"short as our lives are, there is no human being either here or elsewhere so fortunate that it will not occur to him, often and not just once, to wish himself dead rather than alive."

#herodotus #ancient greece #classics #philosophy #well it was not herodotus per se but artabanus but thats beside the point #it's the seventh book paragraph 46 3 if you want to have a look at it

okay so i just need some help concerning crowley (he also needs A LOT of help but that's beside the point)

did i understand correctly that he listens to The Velvet Underground ?? and says to aziraphale "you wouldn't like it" i first thought it would be metal or sth but if it's the velvet underground where "pale blue eyes" or "after hours" is from i am DEEPLY concerned

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #such a poor lad #which he isn't #but he stays poor #:(#the velvet underground

i love it that the dutch soccer team is sometimes called "ajax" which can be referred to the greek myth of aias where he just turns crazy full blown maniac and kills odysseus' sheep and then himself

(odysseus won in a speech duel lmao)

#aias #ajax #odysseus #ancient greece #dutch #soccer

the last few weeks i showed my roomie good omens (we watched the last two episodes yesterday)

while he did like it he didn't love it like me

yet he was DEVASTATED

he hates it now

it was great :-)

#good omens #good omens 2 #screaming crying throwing up #well without the throwing up bit #he loved muriel #well who doesn't #the leaving did it for him #aziraphale #what did he do

ok just watched inside man in one sitting and this was the most stomach wrenching, disturbing series I've ever seen

#inside man #well i loved it obv #or did i? i honestly dont know #david tennant #i was watching it to cope from good omens 2 what do you think #ran to my roomie like every half hour bcs i couldn't bear being alone with this series

btw "scholar" comes from σχολάζω (scholazo) which means to idle, to be lazy and to do nothing so thanks for that ancient greek

#ancient greece #greek posts #okay actually because you didn't work on the field so it does make sense #but honestly #words have many meanings in greek but this is like the core meaning #student

there were once these people called thracians and they had this custom where they cried and lamented when a child was born because this child was to suffer life whileas they cheered and were happy af when somebody died so they buried them making jokes and everything and if this doesn't capture the best way to treat life i don't know what does

#ancient greece #ok it was not greece but my source is herodotus #herodotus #classics #its in the fifth book paragraph 4.2 if you want to know #and i should be studying right now #but thracians were such a mood honestly #sat in a circle around the child and cried #poor child to be born is a very unlucky fate

the fun thing about classics is that everyone sees it in a dark academia philosophical vibe until they read the bit with polyphemus in the odyssey where homer went fully brutal and described how polyphemus takes one of odysseus' buddies, smashes him on the ground and how the brain just splatters everywhere bleh

#odyssey #polyphemus #ok but the iliad is full of this shit #homer was out for business what else is there to say #classics #ancient greece #dark academia #ok but rly DARK academia #also no academia #just dark

at the end of philoctetes (sophocles) odysseus tries one last time to take philoctetes to troy since the other try did not work and he just lunged at him and philoctetes literally just raised his bow at him and odysseus was instantly like "okay bye" fled and did not appear on stage again like nice going you fought in many battles before but ok

#odysseus #the first try was lying btw #what else were you thinking honestly #philoctetes #shouldve just shot him he wanted him dead anyways #maybe this would be cruel #maybe we shouldnt go around killing ppl #guys i think im onto sth here #ancient greece #sophocles

AND the fact that in philoctetes (if u know it its from sophocles and its GREAT) odysseus just went like "we have to lie to him" and neoptolemus just asked "are you sure" and odysseus instantly was "yes definitely anyways I'm letting u alone now but i will wait literally one minute and then send someone to check on you xx" mister could not wait

#odysseus #he was also really mean in this one #rly never get me started on philoctetes such a poor man #honestly i will NOT shut up about it #my friends are tired #philoctetes #sophocles

anyways i really like how odysseus does NOT want to go to troy so he just pretends he's gone crazy like that attitude very smart

#odysseus #might try the technique someday so watch out #slay queen #that man did not want to fight #totally respect it #i mean he’s not wrong #and he did not come home until like twenty years later #bummer #ancient greece #classics

also this one time in the odyssey where odysseus gets this bag full of wind and everything and straightup tells NOT A SOUL what's in there and they're already seeing ithaca coming back after years and he did not sleep for like nine days and THEN decides to sleep and his friends just open the fucking bag because they think its gold etc whatever you think its totally ur fault honey xx

#odysseus #ancient greece #odyssey #this will be my odysseus vent page now ok thank u #did not use it anyways lets give it a use #also why didnt he let his friends take over navigating the boat?? like they also know where ithaca is #dumb af im telling you #classics

i love how studying classics is sometimes just like being in one big fandom because i'm writing a paper for one of my courses rn and its just 15 solid pages on how odysseus fucks everything up because he's so arrogant and dumb etc (writing it feels just like a character study fanfic)

#odysseus #the chaos he caused just because of sleeping and not communicating #its either sleep or lie for him #feel him though #also being mean all the time #rly he is fucking dumb #language #classics #ancient greece

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