delighting in lightning

she/her. ancient greek & latin literature, translation, philology, cats.♡

[butchvirgil]

when is he not

[periodinteriors]

Martin Drolling (French, 1752-1817), La fille de l'artiste copiant un dessin (The Artist's Daughter copying a Drawing), oil, undated.

[monstermonger]

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

[eddysonline]

The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[decomposedmaw]

someone used to wait here

[thesilicontribesman]

Counter Side of 'Inchbrayock 1 or The Samson Stone' Early Medieval Sculptured Stone (Recreated With Pigments and Original), Montrose Museum, Angus

[terpsikeraunos]

“μηδ᾽ εἰς Ἑλένην κότον ἐκτρέψῃς, ὡς ἀνδρολέτειρ᾽, ὡς μία πολλῶν ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς Δαναῶν ὀλέσασ᾽ ἀξύστατον ἄλγος ἔπραξεν. - And don’t twist your grudge upon Helen as a manslayer, as if only she, slaying the souls of many Danaan men, inflicted pain beyond mending.”

— Clytemnestra, in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, 1464-7

[en-theos]

'The same theme is taken up in the Agamemnon [406, 749], but this time it is the amorous pothos for Helen that, having mastered Menelaus' heart, peoples the palace abandoned by his wife with phantoms [phasmata] of the beloved, with her apparitions in dreams [oneirophantoi]. Radiant with charm, haunting and elusive, Helen is like a person from the beyond, doubled in this life and on this earth in herself and her phantom, her eidolon. A fatal beauty created by Zeus to destroy human beings, to make them kill one another at the walls of Troy, she, more so than her sister Clytemnestra, deserves the appellation "slayer of men" [Euripides, Helen 52-55; Electra 1282-84; Orestes 16]. She who is "most beautiful" also incarnates horrible Erinys, the savage and murderous Ker. In her, desire and death are joined and intimately mixed.'

J.P. Vernant & A. Doueihi. 1986. 'Feminine Figures of Death in Greece' Diacritics, 16(2), 54–64.

[attackpossum]

Be Not Afraid — Crack The Egg

Happy gay month to everyone but especially my trans siblings 🏳️‍⚧️

[mariacallous]

that thing about west coasters being nice but not kind and east coasters being kind but not nice is the biggest piece of bullshit as someone who has lived on both coasts plus in the midwest and it annoys me every time I hear that shit

[sheakspeare]

― f. scott fitzgerald, the beautiful and damned

[zooophagous]

Aster is ready for pride month.

[zooophagous]

IT’S TIME

[thotful-opinions4u]

one of the reasons why Columbo is so funny is because he will get on his suspect's nerves sooo badly and then the suspect cannot do anything about it because Columbo will go "I'm just a little guy and it's my birthday! I'm just a little birthday boy!" with the suspect and Columbo both knowing full well that Columbo is lying but the suspect cannot say a word about it not being Columbo's birthday due to the social conventions surrounding them and the fact that they are indeed guilty of murder

[ximenasbrokencd]

can't wait to say "during pride month?" at every minor inconvenience all of next month

[i-effed-it-all-up-deactivated20]

no, i don’t watch that show, but i do follow its developments extensively via tumblr

[starkwoes]

There's this video of nuns talking about their favourite things to do outside of nun activities and one of them says "ultimate frisbee" and the other one goes "and sister you are so good at that." I literally cannot get "and sister you are so good at that" out of my head. Out of all my stims this one is my fav lolol