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The beautiful word minunthadios, "short-lived," is used of both Achilles and Hector, and applies to all of us. We die too soon, and there is no adequate recompense for the terrible, inevitable loss of life. Yet through poetry, the words, actions, and feelings of some long-ago brief lives may be remembered even three thousand years later.

Emily Wilson, in the introduction to her translation of the Iliad

yunmeng-jiang

I feel like there's already been a post about this but I can't stop thinking about how Jiang Cheng just knows how to counter JGY's music in the temple and does it immediately and effortlessly, almost like he's been practicing for quite some time in case of a hypothetical fight against a powerful cultivator who is renowned for using guqin music in battle. I wonder why he would do such a thing

#my boooooooooys

mercurys-in-retrograde

i think they should let anyone who wants to make star wars movies, with no concern for any canon between them.

rednines

This is what Ancient Greece was like

memories-of-ancients

Gold pendant, Sweden, 800-1000 AD

from The Philadelphia Museum of Art

rvmanticas

he is 46, dude.

#AND STILL PRETTYYYYYYYYY

eroshaven

shallowbelever

Supernatural | 2.09 Croatoan

#CROATOAN CROATOAN CROATOAN

seasononesam

- The Iliad, Homer, translated by Robert Fagles | insp

Listen, you think you can have that normal life that you want so bad, but you can't. I'm sorry. It's all gonna go rotten. You are gonna die, and your children will be cursed.

#the way i whispered *no*#;_;

feytouched

2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

mearchy

The best fics are the ones that recognize that although Luke Skywalker may APPEAR on the outside to be a normal friendly twink who happens to have cool powers, especially when contrasted with such ship partners as Boba or Din or even Han, he is arguably the scariest person alive in the galaxy around the prequel era. AND, crucially, he is also a fundamentally weird guy. This man was homeschooled on a rural farm his entire life and then apprenticed to a swamp gremlin who showed him how to tap into the cosmic power of the universe. He blew up the death star age 19, killing approx 2 million-ish Imperials. He is a vortex of Force power that can communicate with the ghosts of dead Jedi. He’s staring into the distance and mumbling to himself and doing Yoda aphorisms and casually pulling out the “yeah I could crush that guy into a paste with my mind (:” and nobody around him knows what to do with that. I think he is a character who has very little frame of reference for how a Jedi or a person in general is supposed to act and there is some thing about him that is by necessity really fucking weird and a little scary but he’s so nice that it can throw you off the scent a little bit. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#sunshine son boy

spngirlpolls

there's a lot to bitch about re: supernatural but at least it was made in 2005 starring teen soap actors on the cw with one million episodes per season. that's real television. if they made that shit now it would be like six episodes on apple tv and glen powell would be in it. so count your fucking blessings.