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"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

futchlings

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

bobdylanyaoi

i cannot emphasize how much it sucks that people in movies don’t look real anymore. like conventionally attractive people have always been cast more as leads but up until like a decade ago they had visible age lines and textured skin and double chins and imperfect teeth. like whenever i’m feeling insecure i just have to watch a regular movie from the 70s and remind myself that im actually not unhygienic and disgusting for having teeth that are a little yellow and visible pores

jacques-le-fataliste-23

Johannes Helder, ‘The Door with Self Portrait’, c. 1890s

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

philcollinsenjoyer

about 90% of fanfiction takes place in a utopia where men are thoughtful and unsure of their place in the world

mycatismyfriend

@skulandcrossbones this might be the greatest tag on a reblog I’ve ever seen.

tratadista

Carlos Bonvalot, Pierrot (1916)

memecucker

anyway remember when the US government commissioned a study on dangers of pornography and when the commission returned with a report saying it doesn’t pose a danger and recommending removing restrictions the US government denounced its own study

rocketbirdie

there desperately needs to be a separate option to report ads for hijacking your touch screen or automatically launching your browser/app store the moment you scroll past it. "malicious" is not a strong enough word. i need the "go fuck yourself and die in a pit of boiling acid x10000" option

sexchangedotcom

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

finelythreadedsky

real question though when did it become a thing to refer to her as “helen of troy”? it’s common in modern english, but in ancient texts i’ve just seen her referred to as Ἑλένη/Ἑλένα/Helene/Helena, no need to specify, there’s only one helen, everyone knew who was meant. who gave her the epithet? when did it happen that she became helen “of troy”?

finelythreadedsky

alright: the mid-late-nineteenth century pre-raphaelites use it, byron uses it, goethe uses it, cervantes uses it. marlowe and shakespeare, though, both call her “helen of greece” but not “of troy.” cervantes seems about the earliest “big” author to use it

i found this in a 1755 “General Magazine of Arts and Sciences Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical” (under “miscellaneous correspondence, essays, poetry” etc., printed for w. owen in london:

(“prior’s apelles” appears to be the poem ‘protogenes and apelles’ by matthew prior (1664-1721), but the poem sheds no light on why helen should be ‘of troy’ and not ‘of greece’)

and references to ‘helen of greece’ are common through the early eighteenth century (and make a lot of sense, given the apparent connection of her name to hellas, the greek term for ‘greece’)

so my guess is that the shift starts to catch on in the first half of the eighteenth century, probably more the second quarter of the eighteenth century, and increases a lot in popularity with the circulation of don quixote. by the late eighteenth century it starts popping up more and more and seems a firmly established thing by the time the romantics come onto the scene.

finelythreadedsky

hmmmmm… inch-resting…

Laurie Maguire, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood (2009)

inthesensethat

hexthelex-deactivated20250420

This is true btw

letmeliedown

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really