sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat

Selin, 29, English MA student. Canada. ************************************************* "And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars." - Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[tarttism]

it's me birthday 🎂

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[kurhanchyk]

"historians will call them friends" buddy you're looking at this because of historians

[kurhanchyk]

"do your own research" good luck with paleographic analysis of the sources then

[textbooksandtendus]

Katelyn Yang of BalletMet at Helsinki IBC

Photo by @littlecorgi_studio

[pmamtraveller]

Detail of Falling Cherry Blossoms, by Tatsumi Shimura, 1953, Japan.

[rocktheholygrail]

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today!

[rainwashedsoul]

[dreamyvixen]

denari chainmail coin purse by luna de sangre

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[rosierlily]

yuhan wang spring ‘26

[cryptotheism]

What sets the mysteries apart from other elements of Greek religion is their focus on ceremony and personal transformation. The Greco-Roman world was full of public ceremonies in which government officials might sacrifice a bull and recite some prayers for a crowd, but these ceremonies often only marked an occasion. The beginning of a harvest, the return of an army, the swearing-in of a new government official, etc. The value of a mystery rite was personal and transformative. The ritual was built around how it changed the participants. They marked a change not in the seasons or politics, but within the self. There are also the more practical aspects of Greek mystery rites that should not simply be left implied. A weeklong holiday of feasting and carousing, culminating in taking drugs and performing in a secret play enacting one’s own death, sounds like a blast. It is no wonder they attracted peasants and emperors alike.

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