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she/her ✮ posts about comic books and ancient rome ✮ classics undergrad ✮ quippe vetor fatis or whatever

[irisunmuted]

"okay ❤️ yay ❤️" remains an unmatched response

[smellslikera1n]

the shock and bewilderment siblings (in order of shock and bewilderment)

[yorickish-deactivated20240226]

*6 beers in* I should email her...

[berryinnit]

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

[melknkookies]

She swings both ways <3

[smellslikera1n]

new 52 supergirl is awesome if you ignore all the tie-ins to other new 52 storylines that suck and also ignore the fact that it’s part of new 52 era dc at all

[yasur-sketches]

Krypton didn't die in a day...

[thoodleoo]

if anyone ever tries to tell you that the ancient greeks were more sophisticated than us, just remember that there was a ship war between plato and aeschylus over whether achilles or patroclus was the top in their relationship, while xenophon was off complaining that he didn’t ship that

[imaginarycircus]

That quoted passage is confusing so let me try to untangle it because I think it’s actually much funnier if you know the details. Xenophon and Plato were about the same age. They were both students of Socrates. They are actually the ones arguing about Homer, using sock puppets. Both were children when The Symposium (bunch of dudes drinking wine and debating love) happened so they weren’t there. They just heard the story repeated by Socrates and others. Both wrote dialogs called The Symposium, about a debate they weren’t present for.

In Plato’s dialog it’s Phaedrus arguing that Aeschylus (the tragedian) was wrong when he said Achilles was the erastes (the adult man in a relationship with a younger “beardless” one.) Phaedrus says that Achilles was the younger one and the more beautiful. Xenophon (in his own version of The Symposium) has Socrates say Achilles and Patroclus were chaste. And they are all arguing about what Homer wrote in the Iliad.

In closing: Plato uses sock puppet Phaedrus to say that Aeschylus was wrong and Achilles isn’t the “top.” Xenophon uses sock puppet Socrates to argue that Homer was writing gen fic.

[ashoss]

the sheer possibilities

[theweddingdisaster]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET MILLY ALCOCK SUPERGIRL LEZ OUT PLEASE PLEASE MR GUNN PLEASE JAMES SHE NEEDS TO PLEASE SHE DESERVES THIS SHES BEEN THROUGH A LOT PLEASE KARA NEEDS THIS

[smellslikera1n]

kara zor el you would love tumblr dot com. but it would make you worse

[ratsquinks]

olive in her favourite spot having a ponder

[ratsquinks]

me showing olive all the lovely things everyone wrote about her in the tags

[tridentandtales]

Etruscan necklace with a Phoenician pendant in the form of a bearded head

550 - 450 BCE

British Museum 1872,0604.644

[tyger-land]

Ancient Roman frescoes (c. 70-60 BC) at the Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy.

[smellslikera1n]

in troy wilusa. straight up “inscribing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s jusr say. my strongly worded cuneiform tablet

[daciancatamite]

i think if you put in enough academic investment at some point you should be allowed to talk about long dead historical figures like theyre your friends

[smellslikera1n]

in troy. straight up “sacking it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s jusr say. my μένις

[smellslikera1n]

@ prev… spelling μῆνις wrong the first time is really haunting me lol