night time, my time

maia; flectere si nequeo, acheronta movebo

[kosmogrl]

[scorpiogf]

maybe my next translation will fix me,,,,,, but what shall it be

[a-page-in-my-heart]

[valend]

Yahhh I have to build Rome. Yup it’s due tomorrow.. noo I haven’t started yet haha is that bad?

[thoodleoo]

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

[bleekay]

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

[mulletlove-deactivated20200811]

vaguely threatening mostly ominous billboard i saw while walking home

[iphigeniacomplex]

if i see one more concubine bring her straight eunuch to pride

[el-im]

Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[adriles]

any embalming tips? patroclus had a war accident and died—i already washed the clotted blood from his body and filled his wounds with unguent. whats next

[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?