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right so who propagated the ‘stamp collecting is a boring person’s hobby’ narrative in media i just wanna talk

#have you seen some vintage stamps??#those are cool as fuck #i won’t stand for the slander #all this anti-stamp propaganda #yall are probably the reason they’re boring and uniform now #stamps

lesbianherstorian

“NOT ALL KIDS ARE STRAIGHT. TEACH ABOUT GAY & LESBIAN LIVES”, a poster from the lesbian avengers in belfast, ireland, photographed by maxine wolfe, 1998

i want to be somewhere where i don’t have to question whether it’s a star, plane, or an aircraft warning light on a skyscraper

#bel’s yearning for the countryside again #get me out of this city #let me breathe #!!!#i love cities #and planewatching #but tonight i feel suffocated #the air is recycled and the sirens are circling #i want the stars

fishandshesmygills

it’s so hard for me to not doxx myself every single day btw. my oversharer’s spirit is being stifled by internet safety

#some of my best opinions are niche things about where i’m from #it’s a tragedy

day so bad i found myself back on ao3 filtering sirius black/remus lupin domestic fluff no angst like a desperate ex

#it always comes back to them #you know it’s bad when we’re excluding angst #sometimes i just want to be happy!#sue me!#anyway fuck today #wolfstar #dead gay wizards from the 70s #etc etc

am i contrary or is everyone else wrong a lot

#found this in my drafts #don’t remember writing it #she was right though #inspirational stuff #look i just back most of my opinions!

microraptorhours

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

maybe i’m just tired of stories of great men told by great men

#here’s an idea #if the women’s stories make him a morally reprehensible guy #maybe he’s just a morally reprehensible guy #that doesn’t mean he can’t be interesting!#trust your audience #the odyssey #talking classics

yes the siege of troy was a masterful scene, but. i have a problem with nolan presenting it as though the women were killed there along with the men. that’s not what your great heroes did. those women weren’t granted a quick death in the ruins of their cities - their suffering long outlasted their husbands’ and sons’. rape has been a weapon of war for longer than we can conceptualise, and women’s bodies the reward for victory. to pretend otherwise is to be either wilfully ignorant or cowardly.

#especially if you’re going to have circe running from odysseus’ men for fear of that exact fate #right so we can address rape but only when it’s not YOUR guys #also that’s not the feminist take you think it is circe’s use of her sexuality is crucial to her autonomy #oh and while we’re at it let’s talk about whose idea iphigenia’s murder was #or telemachus’ slaughter of the maids #overwriting women’s stories to glorify the men you idolise #i’m sorry i swear i have positive things to say too #the odyssey #talking classics

the concept of a mycenaean referring to living in a bronze age. who says nolan’s odyssey is entirely humourless! (me, i do)

#if you squint it could be a comedy #don’t even get me STARTED on the sea peoples #i’m angry about adaptation again #send help #the odyssey #talking classics

weirdvintage

An early 20th century postcard against the coercion of motherhood and promoting the usage of contraception.

#this is so fucking cool

menecrates

not what i was looking for but ok

#the best thing about studying classics really is the unhinged details #often found in the footnotes #a casual aside if you will #a fun fact!#talking classics

armandology

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

blackshvck

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

rosieandthemoon

details from Renaissance paintings

i think that almost every person who has adapted the odyssey would’ve been better off adapting the aeneid

#you want a classical hero who maps well onto our modern idea of heroism?#odysseus is NOT your guy #let me introduce you to aeneas #what a palatable hero i think you’d love him #(im not saying he’s perfect but he’s far easier to make convincingly heroic in a modern sense)#i’m so tired of adaptations axing huge parts of odysseus’ character and motivations to make him ‘easier to root for’#it defeats the entire point #and it’s boring #odysseus is many things but noble is not one don’t piss me off #bel’s complaining again #oops #talking classics #the odyssey

birdplushie

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

#too many to name #i am never not thinking about at least one #right now it’s rebecca dewinter my BELOVED #they will never convince me you were evil #literature

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