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Rhys / 30s / California / He/him or they/them Academic classicist, Romanist, enjoyer of heavy music and gothic Americana. Married to @gymnogypscalifornianus. Please don't follow if you're a minor.

[postarcadian]

changing the URL I've had for like 12 years now (dionysus-complex -> postarcadian). leaving this as a pinned post.

classicist with a focus on imperial Roman lit. haver of thoughts on Latin poetry, especially pastoral and elegy. interested in class dynamics, sexuality, subaltern experience, and the aesthetics and reality of violence in Roman culture.

I'm in my thirties and would prefer that nobody under 18 follows this blog, though I generally keep any true nsfw posting elsewhere.

I'm a man. I'm also nonbinary. if you have "men dni" or similar on your blog, probably don't interact with me. terfs very much not welcome.

you can find my poetry, writing, and translation at @eclogae-californicae and my photography at @that-much-further-west. I also have a sideblog for things too risqué for this blog that I'm generally willing to provide to mutuals on request.

I don't have a discord and am embarrassingly offline other than this and I like it that way.

[postarcadian]

classic Tumblr experience of seeing a post that’s just people arguing past each other about something you spend several pages discussing in the introduction to your dissertation and having to physically restrain yourself from interacting

[ilynpilled]

everywhere on socmedia so much #progressive posting is like “never met a single zionist that is not ugly” “how u age when u r unproblematic” “ur face card when u support trans rights” on loop

[uunconscious]

[krasnoarmeyets]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[postarcadian]

anyways maybe I’m just in a sentimental and reflective mood as I’m staring down the end of this doctoral program and the uncertain future afterwards but I have for better or for worse grown to think of this city as home

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[allyourlife]

my fav calvin n hobbes joke and no one ever puts it anywhere

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[towerofglass]

We are all lost between hell and the sea The surface is shimmering, just beyond our reach

[loveridden1999]

[postarcadian]

[redacted committee member] wrote in their feedback that “it does raise the question of why there is not more Ovid in this dissertation” and the answer is that I realized early on that if I opened that door more than the slightest crack I’d end up writing an Ovid dissertation

[necrophilologist]

in this dark age of censorship, remember that if ovid managed to stay a pervert during the moralising tyranny of the augustan age, you can do the same now. don't worry about what happened to him next

[transjudas]

i am so fascinated by mcr’s relationship with warner like they’re not releasing new music and their remasters are timed weirdly and they’ve been doing a grand guignol tour with varying plots and characters for a year now and there’s a fucking ventriloquist dummy and gerard will go on stage after that part of the show is over and talk about how their label sucks ass. what goes on.

[dappledwithshadow]

Vincent van Gogh Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose 1887

[389]

The Wellspring, Brendon Burton

[postarcadian]

like if we go with Simone Weil that the Iliad is a poem about how force turns anyone subjected to it into a thing then I think the Metamorphoses is a meditation on the corollary of that, which is that everything was always also something else and the process of a thing becoming another thing (or a person becoming a thing, or a thing becoming a person) is inherently a violent one