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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot explain it to myself."
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
weeping willows and wisterias and roofs or tents made from greenery have always felt so mysterious and special to me. a magical little world where you are shielded and hidden away
like this
I cannot express how much I adore dappled shadows formed by sunlight in paintings and photography and in real life
𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
Is it problematic when cishet perspectives on queer culture/community/life drown out own voice perspectives? Yes. Could there still be value in cishet tellings of queer stories to queer and cishet people alike? Yes. Do we solve the first point by harassing people we think are cishet out of interacting with queer spaces in any capacity? No. Do we solve the first point by gatekeeping interaction with queer spaces to the point where no one is allowed to explore or question their identity, and where everyone forcibly needs to disclose their identities even when they're not comfortable or safe to do so? No. These discourses can co-exist. We can still discuss corporate exploitation of the LGBTQ+ community, the need for more own voices representation, the need for visibility, etc. while also criticising the current online climate where individuals are put in the line of fire for these types of issues, and where closeted fans are given the impression that you need to come out, or else. It's not healthy and there's are more nuanced discussion to be had here
“how to read more” “how to read faster” “how to read daily” STOP STOP stop STOP this is not a competition. read slowly, read when you’re in the right state of mind, really savour it, read for pleasure, read for yourself. don’t read for performance, stats or to compare yourself to others
Royal Danish Theater, Conservatoire, by August Bournonville
Photo by Costin Radu
I just ventured outside in a black turtleneck and black trousers in 82 degree weather, and it was EXCRUCIATING. My wardrobe is not built for summer
Nuestra antigua alumna del Curso Profesional Ana Martínez y Mario Ville nos muestran en esta nueva editorial para NEO2 su personal y contemp
✨These are going to make some Hellenics mad but the visuals are stunning🤩
List from top to bottom:
- Zeus - Hera - Poseidon - Aphrodite - Apollo - Ares - Hefesto - Dionysus - Artemis - Hermes
Additions to the group (I assume from the image limit):
Athena
Demeter
Eris
Eros
Hades
Hestia
Nike
Pan
Persephone
Themis
I really love encountering stories about what great poets were like in college, like
Byron racked up huge debts during his time at Trinity college, and was wildly and passionately bisexual with a string of same-sex lovers. He was angry Trinity didn't allow for dogs, so he brought a tame bear instead. The college administration legally couldn't do anything about it so he went about walking his bear on a leash
Keats spent years pursuing a medical degree, to much success, but got depressed as his workload cut into his writing time. He quit his medical studies, and his brother said he would rather die than not be a poet. Keats lent too much money to his friends and brothers, despite already struggling financially, which put him in debt
Shelley despised Eton college, and spent his time studying the Occult and conducting rituals trying to raise the dead. When he attended Oxford he skipped most classes and instead spent time in the science lab he had set up in his dorm. He was eventually expelled after writing a treatise on atheism and sending it to every bishop in the school
Coleridge straight up dropped out of Cambridge and enlisted in the army under a fake name to avoid his debts
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When Shelley was at Eton, he was bullied by the older boys so he stabbed one of them in the hand with a fork, apparently earning their respect in the process.
Edgar Allan Poe painted a life-sized portrait of Lord Byron on his dorm room ceiling. His campus was notable for it's vicious infighting. One student was horsewhipped by another over a card game, another student was left with terrible bites taken out of his arm after a fight. But the whole time Poe basically stayed quiet and drank a ton of peach brandy.
“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver
[image description: two pictures, one above the other. The first image shows a statue originally from the Acropolis in Athens, now in the British Museum. The statue is a column shaped like a woman. It is labelled London. The bottom image is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens, showing the other five matching column/statues, with a space for the missing statue pointedly left open. This picture is shot from above and is labelled Athens.
image in savvysergeant's reblog: screencap of tags from two people. Feeblekazoo's tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. butherlipsarenotmoving's tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum i've ever been to and i love it
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For those of you who don’t know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museum’s collection is the so-called Elgin Marbles, which were looted from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the 18th Century. (The Acropolis is the hill in Athens, Greece which has some of the most amazing Greek ruins anywhere, the most famous of which is the Parthenon.) Elgin had (or at least claims to have had) permission from the Ottoman Empire to take stuff home with him, but a) this is one empire asking another empire if they can loot stuff from the other empire’s subjugated people, so, not exactly any moral high ground there Elgin, and b) he took a lot more stuff than the Ottomans said he could have.
Greece has been asking for those statues and sculptures to be returned since they won independence in 1832. That’s right, 1832, 190 years ago. The British Museum has had a number of excuses over the years, one of the biggies of the late 20th Century being “we couldn’t possibly give them back because Athens doesn’t have a nice enough museum to display them” and ignoring Greece’s response of “we will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!“
Finally, Greece said “fuck you” and built a museum at the bottom of the Acropolis called the Acropolis museum. It is huge, it is gorgeous, the collection of objects is amazing and the educational bits (“this is what it is and why it matters”) are really well done. It’s probably one of the best archaeological museums in the world; it definitely is the best collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world, both for the size of the collection and the way it’s displayed.
Oh. And it is amazingly passive-aggressive. Every single piece of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum has an empty spot on display waiting for the piece to be returned to Greece. For example, there are a lot of pieces where Elgin took, say, the nicest (or easiest to remove) one of a set. The column/statue in the OP’s image is one of these. Friezes from the roof of the Parthenon are another example. The Acropolis Museum displays each one of these sets with space for the stolen pieces, along with a picture of what the stolen piece looks like and where it is. It is a giant middle finger at the British Museum, disguised as helpful information.
There’s no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. It’s not up to the curators at the British Museum; they don’t get any say in this. The board of governors of the British Museum is made up of old posh English people who genuinely believe that the Empire was awesome and England has a perfect right to everything in the British Museum. They have set policies about what can and can’t be removed from the collection, and according to those policies nothing of any historical or monetary value can be given away or sold. And they actively promote the idea that their predecessors had a perfect right to loot the cultural heritage of the world, and that the museum has a perfect right to keep it forever. The only way to get anything out of the British Museum and back to its rightful place would be to completely replace the entire board of the museum with new people who think completely differently. And that’s not happening any time soon, alas.
By the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldn’t know how to care for the antiquities……. Greece has 206 archaeological museums. It’s not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, it’s also straight out false and misleading.
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If you haven't watched Our Flag Means Death yet, what are you doing??? It's got everything - pirates, a diverse cast, queer rep (yes, actual, clearly visible, queer rep. I won't say too much because I don't want to spoil but. I'm not kidding when I say that it's one of the queerest shows I've ever seen. There's a genderqueer non-binary character! Played by a non-binary actor!!! There are on-screen kisses between queer characters!!!), side-splitting jokes, heart-wrenching drama, Taika Waititi AND Rhys Darby AND Leslie Jones AND Fred Armisen, and so many other wonderful and funny actors, and a great story that amazingly is based in actual history! It genuinely feels revolutionary, but it has yet to be renewed for a second season so please, please go watch it, engage with it on social media, and tell HBO how much you want a second season! Have a gif of Stede: