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[bitter1stuff]

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

TODAY'S ENTRY: Bag 'O Nails

[art-has-died]

top reason my flatmates and i reached peak dark academia.

hallways covered in bookshelves. about two thousands books paving the way to our rooms.

falling asleep early enough to still hear someone typing their essay in the living room, but late enough into the night so that the birds’ singing will accompany you to your dreams.

tea being drunk by the pot. coming back from classes and knowing there will be a stimming cup waiting for you.

joking through latin quotes and obscure references to literature.

wild parties. opera blaring through the windows, growing into classical music, centuries old songs, and chanted poetry. dancing as if possessed by forgotten spirits. wild movements, skin covered in screaming, painted exclamations. leaving the alcohol behind and getting drunk on life instead.

one of my roommates’ door opening and closing through the night as he leaves the flat to walk through the sleeping city.

another one running into the living room, taking one unique leaf from a potted plant and leaving right away, only to send us pictures of its cells a few minutes later.

heated debates over books and historical events.

getting high on the toxic fumes inhaled during labs.

walks into the woods, howling poetry at the wind, hands cold and feet wet, getting lost further and further down a path of mushrooms.

breaking into the abandoned greenhouses to steal flowerpots, old biology notes and a mysterious painting.

discussing the best ways to murder someone, including through our study of mushrooms.

drinking games including the improvisation of poems and dancing the waltz.

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- By Bacchanals

[cubitumm-eamuss]

dark academia date ideas

well shit i’ve been gone for a long time. i have a girlfriend now (yes homo) so here are some date ideas.

museum dates!!

have a bacchanal together

a coffeehouse, but not starbucks. you need dimly lit, low-ceilings, stray cat roaming around vibes

i mean.... museum dates ;)

trying to break the record for running through the Louvre (source: The Dreamers, 2004)

bake tiramisu and sip on the rum you put in it while you wait for it to bake until you’re both tipsy and running into each other in the small kitchen

b a c c h a n a l

get drunk on a rooftop and stare at the stars

go to the dark back corner of a library (bonus if it’s the university library) and study on the rigid floor with a mass of papers spread all around the both of you

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[quidam-sirenae]

Hi can you please say more about the Jesus/Dionysus parallels esp about Bacchus being a banned god in Rome? (I’m actually playing with a homebrew dnd world superimposing greek gods on a regency society and i DID have them outlaw/tabooify Dionysus so I think this could be very helpful. Also fascinating. You are Cool.)

HI I love talking about these things. So first of all I don’t know a lot and I don’t claim to. That being said, here’s a gigantic paragraph.

1. My essay primarily focused on Luke. Luke is the one that’s going to be the cognizant of Greek writing conventions. Acts 26.14 is what I was arguing about. σκληρόν σοι πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν, rendered in the KJV as “it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” The interesting bit is you see this line in Euripides too, so here the question: is luke quoting Euripides or is it a common saying of the time, or-imo- is it both? Luke has intertextuality. Luke has learning. Luke was raised as a Greek, not a Hebrew, and the common interpretation is that he’s trying to convert Greeks with his writing. So the parallels are very much intentional.

2. Dionysus as a banned god. I didn’t do much research on this so I have not many coherent thoughts. Instead I’ll leave you with some basic ideas and a bunch of articles. A) Livy. We don’t trust Livy (we don’t trust any ancient historians and that includes Luke.) Livy want to talk about the moral degeneracy (sirens should be going off in your head!) of Rome so he uses bacchanals. Also, I was wrong. Never banned, heavily regulated. Just like Christianity and Judaism. Rome had the right idea: you can’t ban religion, but you can persecute those who do religion in a way you don’t like. One of the common things I’ve heard is that it’s bad form for your senators and statesmen to be engaging in orgies every night. Which, fair. That is a standard that has held up today. Nobody wants another Bona Dea scandal. Anyway, that’s what I’ve got. I’m an undergraduate in classics who takes religion classes every semester so those are my only qualifications. This is all scholarly conjecture.

[philippequeau]

Ripping God to Shreds

Ripping God to Shreds

“Orpheus ripped to shreds by the Maenads”, Pierre-Marcel Béronneau, 1895. To the sound of cymbals and flutes, to the light of torches, disheveled women dance. They are the bacchae. Dressed in fox skins, wearing horns on their heads, holding snakes in their hands, seized by a “sacred madness,” they rush on animals chosen for sacrifice, tear them to pieces, tear them to pieces, and devour the…

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[azn92monkieegrl-blog]

On that SEEfood diet.. When I see food, I eat it 😋🍣 #bacchanals

[classicalmeangirls]

Bacchanals 101