so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.
Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals
I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened
does anyone have that 4chan greentext about giving in a future dystopia run by corporations and that guy gets a sams club platinum and escapes from wallmart or some shit like that. wanted to show a friend
Ah, reminded of that time my brother catfished an entire guild of men who wanted to date him...he nailed the girl acting so well that people were straight up looking for him to propose.
Okay so in order for me to explain what he did, I have to explain the game.
Where Winds Meet has Co-op enabled all the time. Even if you disable Co-op, once you hit a certain level, people will inevitably wander in your game. So, for a mobile phone player, its kind of difficult because once people get in your game, your phone starts overheating.
So he disabled co-op effects, he can't see anyone else in his game so he can just ignore everybody and play normally.
Next, you can play as a girl or a boy. For boys, this is mostly annoying, because you're constantly challenged into fights by bounty hunters, or chased around by guilds in order to get you to join their guild.
If you play as a girl, the girls are more respectful and the only problem you'd get would be boys giving you marriage proposals (there's in-game marriage). Girls leave girls alone. My brother and I share a Genshin account and what we both like is exploration. Leave us alone in a game and we just like to wander around. He brought this mindset with him in the game and it kind of shows in his playstyle.
Next, playstyle. This is the one game I don't share with him so as he explains it, he likes to paralyze people and then poke them. Once the paralysis of one attack wears off, he has like six more to hit you with that causes paralysis again. And then you get poked to death while paralyzed. This looks supremely awkward and funny when you watch it because a cute girl is literally stabbing to death a person who can't fight back.
Lastly, there's guilds. I have no idea the name of the guild, but they literally need to get married and divorced once a day and social extroverted people like it. He got invited because they saw a strong cute girl stabbing a guy to death and they liked him. He got at least fifty marriage proposals on that day.
Along with the marriage proposals, he got a ton of offers for free stuff. Naturally, as a morally good person, he refused the free stuff. As a Chaotically Good Person, he also told them he was a sixteen year old girl when they asked. He is a thirty five year old man. He pretended to be a shy sixteen year old girl so well that people believed him!!! (apparently, he just pretended to be me at sixteen!!!!!)
This guy literally seduced a whole guild of men into liking him so much that when the game updated and his phone couldn't handle the recent update anymore, he said to them, "Ah, my parents found out I'm playing and took my phone, this is the last time I'm logging in."
Someone literally asked, "do you have a bank account, I'll send you enough money to buy an iPhone right now."
At this point, I stopped talking to him because I was so embarrassed but that's how my brother got into a situation so awkward that he can't log into Where Winds Meet anymore, even if he got a better phone. There is literally a manhunt for him.
I hate when I open a drawing app and try drawing something and then it looks bad. to solve this issue instead of opening my drawing app I simply lay down, do nothing, and feel a combination of guilt/shame. this is a skill I am much more practiced at
Interest in greek mythology rises anew with the new number of retellings and adaptions...and misconceptions all around...
Claims like "that never happened" or "that's the roman version" are around a lot...but even if you wanted to learn more, where would you even start looking? Where do you begin your research for your next fic, or next discussion? Well...That's for you!
Here's a list of source names, links to access them, maps, family trees & more
Where to access the texts:
ToposText
Database, interlinks all names and places, has almost all sources translated, can find all name mentions of place or character in the sources, has a map with the places
Perseus Collection Greek and Roman Materials (and Scaife Viewer)
Digital Library, nearly all main greek and roman sources, including OG language text and dictionary for those languages (is instable at times, try coming back a few hours/days later and it should be up again)
Theoi Greek Mythology
Database, has summary posts for individual heroes, creatures, gods and events, as well as many translations, has a search function
Most of these places have older translations for the epics, poems and hymns (with older language), places like Poetry In Translation and https://www.gutenberg.org often have newer translations available for free, though…with a bit of digging most translations even recent ones can be found online :)
Comparing several translations is also good if you want to make any arguments about what a text says without being able to read the text in the original language, does the text really say that or is it just this translation?
It also doesn't hurt to research a little about the author of a work as well to get context for which time and sociopolitical and personal situation they were writing in (it helps to do a quick search into the history of ancient greece too, i.e. epic writers writing during the 7th century BC had different agendas than playwrights of the 5th century during the persian wars, athenians during the conflicts with sparta, or later hellenistic writers after Alexander the Great)
Wikipedia: CAN be used, it's a good starting point, but check the sources cited as much as you can, rather than believing what the page itself says
Links to Maps
Ancient Greece Maps – Ancient Greece: Φώς & Λέξη
User:MaryroseB54 - Wikimedia Commons
Cyowari - Professional, Digital Artist | DeviantArt
Some of the Realms of Greece in the Heroic Age by Yaulendur on DeviantArt
Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Trade, c. 1400-1200 BCE: Empires, Merchants, and Maritime Routes of the Ancient World - World History Encyclopedia
Translators:
Translate to Ancient Greek Online
https://logeion.uchicago.edu
Wiktionary
Ancient Art
Resources
Harvard Art Museums
Family Tree:
(Compiled by a friend, not exhaustive) - Note that there are often various different versions of lineage for many characters, so this only represents ONE of many possibilities)
Family Echo
Books
Oxford classical dictionary.pdf
Brief History Of Ancient Greece.pdf
168679208-Ancient-Greece.pdf
Complete Greek Drama
The Ancient Epic Cycle and it's ancient reception A companion.pdf
Final Note
These things should not be gatekept, its time to share them freely
I wish I could offer even more sources via academic books and papers but I fear this would exceed my abilities considering the vastness of the topic of Greek Mythology! But this is a starting point :D Have fun!
Google Scholar has a lot of secondary sources (scholia commentary & theories), books about history, society, politics, flora & fauna, religion, culture, etc. of the time both of history and mythical history…if you have a friend in academia with university access (if you don’t have it yourself) you can ask them to check if they have access to the papers/books otherwise hidden behind insane paywalls, because a LOT of them are available as pdfs!
I also wish I had more visual/audio sources but this is smth I cant change :") I'm sure there's some good videos on youtube out there...somewhere x)
Feel free to contact me if you have more sources you want to add or any links don't work
Here is the Post as DOCs to share outside of tumblr
characters who are undead. characters who die in the end and so they've been dead from the start. characters who are chased by death. characters that chase death. characters who died and came back to life. characters that die again and again and again. characters who consider their past self dead. characters who were born in someone else's corpse. characters that claw their way out of the grave. characters whose deaths leave such a gaping wound that even their absence is still a presence. characters who are emissaries of death. characters who are alive but consider themselves dead. characters whose deaths are ambiguous. characters whose existences are defined by death.
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