A strange thing; my conscience

q, mid 20s, endlessly writing and discussing. @shaekspeares on ao3, less significantly molières on goodreads/letterboxd. buy me a ko-fi @ quidfree :)

[ddeeric]

dude fuck shaekspear i cant fucking read that shit

[nubbsgalore]

photos by (click pic) john eveson, roeselien raimond, ingo wagner, david burr and dit maliepaard 

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[escuerzoresucitado]

[chotomy]

–if that ever happened.

[spineless-lobster]

Shit man, this trojan war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hands to the sky and say “grey-eyed athena, strengthen my spear” or some similar shit, and he felled 27 men at once before being whisked away by divine mist. The narrator didn’t even mention him, that’s how common shit like this is. My ass is stuck with a bow and 2 arrows. I think I just heard “would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw” two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

[eelhound]

"The Iliad’s 'poetry of combat,' as it has been called, takes pains to personalize its heroic deaths. The slain warriors of the Iliad are mostly obscure fellows who have received no previous mention in the epic, but who are evoked — brought to life — at the moment they are killed by some small personalizing detail: 'Meriones in turn killed Phereklos, son of Harmonides, / the smith, who understood how to make with his hand all intricate / things. . . .' 'Meges in turn killed Pedaios, the son of Antenor, / who, bastard though he was, was nursed by lovely Theano / with close care, as for her own children, to pleasure her husband. . . .' 'Diomedes of the great war cry cut down Axylos, / Teuthras’ son, who had been a dweller in strong-founded Arisbe, / a man rich in substance and a friend to all humanity / since in his house by the wayside he entertained all comers.'

The vanquishing warrior may carry the action, but the audience’s emotional attention is diverted to the fallen foe. This personalizing quality ensures that most of the Iliad ’s deaths are perceived — perhaps only fleetingly — to be regrettable. Although the winning of glory in combat is the aim of the conventional hero of combat poetry, in the Iliad glory is usurped by sympathy for the human being, possessed of a family and life story, who has been extinguished. Fully three times as many Trojans die as Achaeans in this Greek epic, so the Iliad is dense with the descriptions of enemy warriors who die pathetically. This remarkable point is worth emphasizing: subtly, but with unflagging consistency, the Iliad ensures that the enemy is humanized and that the deaths of enemy Trojans are depicted as lamentable. The Iliad is insistent on keeping to the fore the price of glory."

- Caroline Alexander, from The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, 2010.

[seethroughhue-deactivated201902]

[flowerbleedme]

Well as a "fan" I would be "serviced" by some THEMES AND MOTIFS #themesandmotifs #artwithmeaning

[ot3]

shout-out to characters who let their childhood friend situationship dictate the course of their life to a degree that spits in the face of any and all reason. they're doing important work.

[blackshvck]

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm trying to get back into the habit of writing for the first time in like 4 years and I have never felt more like this guy

[godlessondheimite]

can anyone find the satiric newspaper headline that might have been something other than the onion that was along the lines of “‘This Is More Relevant/Timely Than Ever,’ Says Theater Company About to Put on Oldass Play Worse Than Has Ever Been Done Before”

[playwrongs]

[godlessondheimite]

thank you…i should have known it was him

[thevisualvamp]

Gone fishing

[modelsof-color]

Rosalie Ndour for Vogue Twain June 2026

[elbiotipo]

based

[novelistparty]

here is Gil Scott-Heron performing his poem "Whitey on the Moon"

[goodgrammaritan]

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey's on the moon)

I can't pay no doctor bills.

(but Whitey's on the moon)

Ten years from now I'll be payin' still

While Whitey's on the moon.

You know, the man jus' upped my rent las' night,

'cause Whitey's on the moon.

No hot water, no toilets, no lights,

but Whitey's on the moon.

I wonder why he's uppi' me?

'cause Whitey's on the moon?

Well I wuz already givin' 'im fifty a week

And now Whitey's on the moon.

Taxes takin' my whole damn check,

The junkies make me a nervous wreck,

The price of food is goin' up,

An' as if all that crap wuzn't enough,

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the moon)

Her face an' arms began to swell

And Whitey's on the moon.

Was all that money I made las' year

For Whitey on the moon?

How come I ain't got no money here?

Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.

Y'know I jus' about had my fill

Of Whitey on the moon.

I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,

Airmail special

To Whitey on the moon