night time, my time

maia; flectere si nequeo, acheronta movebo

[dickmaster]

they dont name bitches eustace OR muriel anymore

[en-theos]

mutual 1: if you really think about it achilles' armour in the iliad functions much like an exoskeleton and he patroclus and Hector exchange armour much like hermit crabs exchange their shells

mutual 2: my boyfriend would be such a good pope and i'd be such a good papal mistress

mutual 3: i need that middle aged roman senator pregnant NOW

mutual 4: #myonion

mutual 5: anyone want a bag of my hair

[snorlaxatives]

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

[kaiyves-backup]

[ilions-end]

i had a dream the homeric question got super big on tumblr and everyone were making carrds and intro posts about where they stood in absurd detail with references and abbreviations and DNIs. it was getting really heated and divisive full fandom war style

stuff like

.　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ Homeric neo-unitarian of the Schlessinger school 💪 does NOT agree with Donnehan's third principle (Donnehan stans gtfo)

💎 Crystallization theory fans I'm kissing you on the lips

DO NOT TALK TO ME if you're a trad analyst!!! Analysts are blocked on sight 💀💀💀

NOTE: Neo-analysts who've read and UNDERSTOOD THE SUBTLETIES OF Austerlitz' paper Der dritte Barde: Hätte Homer Vapes mit Kaugummigeschmack genossen? can interact, but you're on thin fucking ice .　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆

[sabrsiren-deactivated20250418]

“You are in the embrace of the history” — Deir el-Bahri in Nile West Bank. Luxor, Egypt

“The first written words started here” — Uruk, Iraq (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

[palamedestragedy]

the iliad ends with a disgraced corpse then honoured. the odyssey ends with disgraced corpses then honoured. the aeneid ends with a disgraced corpse. the thebaid ends with disgraced corpses. is this anything?

[hellkitepriest]

so does anyone know or understand

[theravingcelt]

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one’s nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.”

— The Alexiad, written by Anna Komnene, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1148.

[scorpiogf]

my favorite whimsical thing to do is not sing the lyrics to the song but instead i pretend like im the unwanted quavo feature and adlib

[captainjonnitkessler]

When I was a kid I had a book of like, "fun physics experiments for kids". And one of them was an "experiment" where you hold an object by a string and just by focusing on the direction you wanted it to swing, it would start to move in that direction even without your input. The book of course explained that this was the ideomotor effect, a phenomenon where your thoughts can create minute, unconscious movements in your body.

Then a couple years later I got a fortune-telling kit that included a pendulum. You hold the pendulum over a piece of paper that says "yes" and "no" and ask a question, and whichever way the pendulum moves is the answer.

At which point I was like "hey WAIT a minute", and in hindsight I think that experience explains most things about who I am as a person

[somethingsomethingbagoo]

But wait, no that’s kinda the point though. A lot of what earnest divination magic entails is in the ability to gain more insight on yourself. Even used just as therapy tools things like pendulums, tarot cards, runes give other parts of yourself the ability to speak up for themselves more clearly so that the subconscious can become conscious. And in doing so we can make more informed decisions about our own lives.

We are very good at making up stories and reasonings in ours heads telling ourselves what we’re “really” feeling and why. But our conscious minds only hold part of the story (usually the part that’s driven by fear because it’s trying to keep you safe from the terrors). But sooo much more goes on behind the scenes.

Our brains keep running even when our thoughts stop. Our bodies are constantly sending us signals that we often intentionally ignore. And of course there’s our intuition that’s always trying to speak to us.

Divination tools aid those parts in creating and communicating new stories and tap into new feelings, (ideally more accurate ones) that were always there to begin with, about who you are and where your true motivations lie.

So yes, you can definitely fake something like a pendulum swing to give you the answers you’d prefer and continue lying to yourself and others. But if you’re able to engage honestly with it, clear your mind and allow your subconscious, your first instincts to lead the way, you may just gain some new insights that you didn’t previously have access to.

[dopeandlegit]

[nephritebabie]

pick your poison LMAOOO

[pixelprofligate]

"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

[nickyandmikey]

everyone on this site

[forlorngarden]

kind of crazy how they drop this bar like 20 minutes into the game. let me get up let me get uppp

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[rederiswrites]

lovely story from a friend today.

[dicaeopolis]

[rederiswrites]

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.

[greggs-mistflower]

Someone once advised me not to ask "do you need help", but rather "would you like help". The reason was that it assumes that they're perfectly capable but would just find it more convenient.