katabasis

pottery lover / irish history / deer in headlights

[aregebidan]

at the end of the day we will still have jonathan strange and mr. norrell by susanna clarke

[tudvaseva-sasha]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[calleido]

sant’angelo in formis, capua, italy

[learnelle]

Florence 2025, a hot afternoon spent journaling and enjoying a caffè latte freddo

[ilions-end]

as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

[en-theos]

these are Bakker's diagram's from the meaning of meat and the structure of the odyssey, which do include calypso in the symmetry! the cicones are missing though, and scylla and charybdis have been separated (rightfully so if you ask me).

[devotioniii]

only news that matters

[yobiggieletmegetthevest]

[gaysie]

bad thoughts at night/poster’s delight… but those posts by the morning/scrollers take warning

[matcha-lover-77]

Flight above the dragon pond.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

I’m sorry Europeans but America is the culmination of the European project of colonization, enslavement and capitalism. This is your child not claiming them doesn’t make them not yours. America is merely an extension and a continuation of Europe on other shores, as is Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

You’ve been more than happy to align yourself with America for these very reasons. It’s profitable, your own colonial ventures may even get backed up militarily by America and you can still seem progressive in comparison while being an accomplice.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

You can’t wash your hands of centuries of blood at the last minute when America is collapsing. “Oh we were never like that, that’s an American problem, we never colonized or enslaved or bombed, not us no no no” that won’t protect your nation’s governments from the future crimes against humanity tribunals sorry!

[dogpuppy]

[gaypeople]

generational baddie

[fandiagnosis]

Louis & Lestat + inaudible dialogue

[therozanov]

1.03 | 3.01

[log6]

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

[ostolero]

[finelythreadedsky]

[baratheonpilled]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1.06 / House of the Dragon 1.10