[isayoldbean]

12 hours left until fanfest everyone give me your most unhinged theories

[archmage-lleweneth]

[archmage-lleweneth]

"I thought you said you weren't followed."

"I said I'd lost my tail. Doesn't mean they lost me."

"Don't you start with semantics. What do you say we give our uninvited guests an explosive welcome?"

"Guess I'm taking a page out of your book today."

[postarcadian]

Re: my observation that the average undergraduate now seems to have much greater familiarity with Homeric epic and at least some Greek literature (esp. tragedy) than with the Aeneid or any Roman material, I think there’s a myriad of things at work here but at least one is that we’ve reverted to this weird cultural construct where ancient Greek myth and literature is viewed as universal while Roman literature is viewed as particular and this affects what books are taught e.g. in high school and college English classes but also what gets mined for retellings. and I also think Roman material is often imagined as being more deeply implicated in the ideological framework of patriarchal western imperial society and like, in some cases perhaps that’s fair, but I would argue as a literary historian that Roman poetry is precisely where we see the cracks forming in Roman gendered imperialism just like Greek tragedy is where we see the cracks forming in Athenian gendered imperialism. whether we want to commit to any idea of authorial intent is a different question but imo it’s impossible to read e.g. Roman elegy or pastoral or even Lucan and come away with the pop-culture idea of the iconic masculine Roman subject (hell, I think even the Aeneid questions the conventional notion of masculine Roman virtus that Lucan absolutely shatters, but that’s another discussion)

anyways this also gets combined with a dynamic that’s really maddening to me as a classicist where anything Roman is almost exclusively gendered as masculine in popular culture (see the Roman Empire meme, but also the subculture of Jordan Peterson bros roleplaying as stoics and reading or pretending to read Marcus Aurelius) whereas on the Greek side we have Anne Carson’s Sappho translations and a total saturation of feminist rewritings of Greek myth, Homeric epic, and tragedy. this is actually really weird from the perspective of a Roman social historian, given that women are far more visible in Roman material (esp. from the 1st century CE onward) than they are anywhere in classical Greek society, and it has the consequence that Roman poetry (except, like, Lucretius I guess) gets sidelined because the types of dudes that are going to maybe read Marcus Aurelius or Tacitus are definitely not going to read Catullus or Vergil’s Eclogues or even the Aeneid given that poetry itself is often gendered as feminine in the 21st century popular imagination, and the types of non-classicists who like Anne Carson’s Sappho and feminist approaches to Greek myth are also probably not going to read Roman poetry

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[sapphobolide]

[loomka]

"she's just a friend. just a friend."

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: μελίγλωσσος (meliglōssos), honey-tongued

[mournfulwizard]

Rynegaia piece i can finally share 🤍

[poochiccini]

aerti 🤍❤️🖤

[yhane]

Under the watchful gaze of the fury

[kifaprokumiv]

They're ready to hit the beach but first

Smooch detour

[mrpinchy]

do u guys know about gay dinosaur denny's

(crystal dc | zalera | mist | ward 15 plot 15)

[healerstail]

Cultural Exchange

[johnnyanger]

FIRST/PUNCH

[archmage-lleweneth]

Spent the evening imagining how Caswyn and Tamsyn would dress if they were hitting the bar at Pride.

(She/her for both of them; they're lesbians)

[terramythos]

god answers is unironically a really good song is the thing what a thing to base a story around

[hard-times-paramore]

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.