hell if i know man im just here for the ride

college student | artist | recovering nerd | been a lurker on this website for too damn long im showing my face i dont care anymore

[classicslesbianopinions]

i will always champion finding a recent translation when reading an ancient text but i do also think there is value in learning how to read older translations and especially how to read them critically. for one thing it's a snapshot of how a work was perceived at a specific time and by a specific person, but also those translations do have literary value and may reveal something about the source text that you won't find in something newer. and it's also the case that newer translations can have many of the same flaws, because we are still in a racist misogynist etc. world.

like, never trust the word "servant" in a translation of an ancient text--that servant is inevitably a slave. if anyone says "God" singular, with a capital g, they are lying to you.* if they spend too long on particular features of a woman's body, proceed with caution.** if something sexual is being communicated via euphemism, consider that it may have been much cruder and/or more explicit in the original, especially if you're reading comedy or elegy. etc. etc. etc. learning to recognize common ways in which translation is affected by the morals and standards of a given time period is really useful.

*with the caveat that plato does sometimes reference "the god," and to be fair, plato does have the vibe of a guy who really really wanted to be monotheist and also serves as a blueprint for a ton of christian thought so i do concede that "God" may be a valid translation choice there.

** the greeks and romans were also misogynist in their descriptions of women's bodies but sometimes the translators like to one-up them. translation is not free from women who breast boobily for no known reason.

[lyragoth]

As kind as summer

Elros & Elrond

[orchuris]

op disabled reblogs but i still want this

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[torgamous]

FELLATIO: Have you never taken within your mouth

The tender member of your lady love?

Then be assured its texture is unmatched

Now softened as it is by womanhood

KING: Thou dares impugn the honor of thy queen?!

Were we not so close I would have thy head!

FELLATIO: Tis futile. You may have my head but once,

While I have claimed your wife's a thousandfold

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[violentoffender]

[redfagdiver]

I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna be scrubbed I wanna b

[astoldbyidiots]

[chthonicillness]

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

[ourlordapollo]

What I think: While I don't think Manfred von Karma would have been constrained by the idea of strict gender roles, I also don't think he would have had the vocabulary to describe himself as nonbinary, genderfluid etc, not to mention that he probably considers himself a benchmark of normalcy, so if anything, he's just convinced that he has transcended some sort of linear thinking that constrains the minds of lesser beings, so I doubt he would even be willing to take on a label much less identify with it, also I don't think he's introspective enough to really explore much of his psyche but all that being said if someone ever misspoke or tried to demean him by calling him "miss" or "ma'am" I think he'd kind of like it

What I say: MvK is nonbinary and every time someone complains about it, we give him another gender

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the funniest part of much ado is after claudio and hero get engaged and beatrice is like “meanwhile I’m over here!!! forever alone!!! I wish someone like don pedro would ask me to marry him haha!!” and don pedro is like “would you like me to marry you?” and beatrice says no.

[english-history-trip]

[contrastwitch]

The problem with looking at online Deltarune discussions is that apparently, most people have played a version of the game that consists only of lore dumps and hype moments, without any symbolism, characters, or explorations of concepts like identity or fate, or any themes except "escapism bad".

[catie-does-things]

People think the moral of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is supposed to be something like "don't judge people by appearances" but that's really not it. That is a possible moral of some other versions of the story but the Disney version has a different lesson actually and it's "people can change." And I think this becomes obvious when we look at the Beast and Gaston as foils to each other. Because they both start out arrogant, selfish, and petty. Perhaps most importantly, at the outset neither of them really cares about Belle's feelings. Gaston wants to marry her because she's beautiful, and the Beast hopes she might break the spell, but neither is really considering her needs or desires at all, at the start. But the Beast changes. He tries to make Belle happy. He learns to put her first, to love her unselfishly, which culminates in him letting her go. Meanwhile Gaston responds to Belle's rejection by plotting to coerce her into doing what he wants anyway. He never spares a thought for what she wants. He never changes.

But where it gets really interesting is when you compare their supporting characters. Because all Gaston has around him are sycophants who will tell him how wonderful he is. So he never sees any need to change. Whereas the Beast's servants - even though they are his servants - don't hesitate to tell him when he needs to clean up his act. They are constantly reminding him to mind his manners, control his temper, and consider things from Belle's point of view.

So people can change - but they need help to do it.

[thieleaf]

i want to write an essay on this but i think a huge part of the Beasts change is that Belle, someone who loves to read and consider things from other peoples' point of view, assesses very quickly that he's all bark and no bite, stands up to him and treats him like a person even when he doesn't feel like he is a real person anymore.

i know that at surface level seems like the "dont judge a book by its cover", but i think its deeper than that? i dont think shes seeing "underneath" this exterior, i think she pieces together how this exterior put upon him has shaped him and the way he behaves. and then she challenges that.

she gives him the space to change, and challenges him to do so, without coddling him or softening it -the way the servants do. they tell him off gently, because they are, after all, servants to him. but belle see's him as an *equal*, and yhats the pressure he needed to stop being stuck in playing this role he's now fated to.

i have a LOT to say about the curse itself, how its intent was to punish, not to actually inspire change, and how he changes in spite of that, because he was shown kindness -which isnt always soft and fluffy.

im rambling a little while not even saying parts i think are most important, maybe i'll make more coherent thoughts another time. overall :yes

[zombies-sold-cheap]

edit I made for the real ones

[catboybiologist]

I really like listening to ppls organs when I cuddle

[catboybiologist]

Like y'know when you're laying on someone's chest or stomach and you start hearing the flow of fluid through their heart and the churning of their stomach and the movement of their digestive tract and the muscles recruited when they swallow

It's so intimate, and so human. Reminds me that we're flesh and blood, and that flesh and blood is a marvelous thing to be

[numbersareimaginary]

THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIRLS LOOK AT ME WEIRD WHEN I TELL EM THEIR HEARTBEAT IS PRETTY

[tlirsgender]

Maybe one day we can stop moralizing the concept of privilege & everyone will get normaler about being told they have relative privilege over other people. Like literally everyone everywhere in some way. It's fine. Being aware of it can't hurt you

[tlirsgender]

There's such an endless chorus of outraged "but what if I'm poor? What if I'm autistic" and it's like. Ok. You're not getting this at all let's just start over

[reddbuster]

Maya Fey is such a fucking genius concept for a character it makes me insane. at 17 years old she's the sole heir to a prestigious and powerful family of spirit mediums. her parents are gone and her sister is dead and the burden of the fey legacy is hers alone to bear. And so it is her destiny to spend her entire life training rigorously to detach herself from the world in order to hone her powers and reclaim the pride and standing of the Fey clan. and what does she do about it? she becomes the most unapologetically earthly, hedonistic, materialistic creature alive. A girl who is always chasing pleasure, be that in money, in food, in children's tv shows. A girl who loves loudly, who wants loudly, who lives loudly. A girl who in all her strength and kindness is not afraid to be selfish and to take what she wants. And yet underneath all that is something small and sad and scared. She's lonely, and afraid of being left behind. she struggles with self-esteem. she's passively suicidal. and eventually, under enough pressure, she DOES start to crack under the weight of it all because at the end of the day despite everything she is still a teenage girl. I genuinely cannot imagine thinking that Maya Fey is badly written. I think she's one of the most brilliant video game characters of all time.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

having siblings i think does lend itself to appreciating characters others might find overbearing or annoying

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

either because your siblings are annoying yet you benevolently find it in your heart to love them or because you hope for love as the sibling that annoys the shit out of them

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Even now, Deltarune Chapter 2 still feels like such a highlight in terms of humor, but I don't think it's because Toby Fox's humor writing has stagnated or even plateau'd since then, I think it's just because Queen Deltarune is just the Funniest Character Conceived in the Entire Toby Fox Multiverse Ever.