THE WORK-A-DAYS

Classicist, writer, poet, philosopher in the etymological sense. Neoteric Catullus. Conservative liberal. Feminist. Yale '18. 

[tastefullyoffensive]

[museifushindoushugi]

also i think it’s a bad social model for people to have to disclose their mental health status in order to be ‘allowed’ to have an opinion on mental health stuff

the culture of this website has normalized outlining your mental health profile (and often also survivor status) in detail on your about, but it also hasn’t normalized simply choosing not to disclose that information, which is scary to me

instead of expecting people to disclose sensitive personal information which they may not want to disclose, I think it’s better to maintain the awareness that we don’t know the full life story of the person we are talking to and understand that just because they don’t mention it in their about, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

[hyper-muse-music]

if you’re new to the muse fandom and you’re worried about arriving late to a joke, here’s a list of topics which we’ll never stop joking about:

the stress of being asked “what genre is muse?”

the fact that nobody actually knows what genre muse is

1984

muse = just a bunch of geeks

muse fandom = also just a bunch of geeks

matt is an alien

space and aliens in general

matt’s on-and-off stage persona

matt’s before & after a new album era transformation

trying to sing along to micro cuts

“-the fuck is matt saying?”

“-the fuck is matt talking about?”

“-the fuck is matt singing?”

“-the fuck is matt wearing?”

-the fuck is dom wearing?”

chris the baby machine

matt the chicken killer

matt the farmer

matt’s laugh

matt’s sheep

poor chris

poor dom

tom kirk is evil

#soon

the apocalypse

brie = gay cheese

“sit the fuck down!”

dom’s faff bag

matt’s sock fetish

octopus

pedro

matt trying to kill dom on stage

the embarrassing ‘pwoper phase’ every muser goes through and tries, to no avail, to forget ever happened

never ask muse to mime

never believe anything tom says

never believe anything matt says

be suspicious of anything dom says

believe everything chris says

“the muse”

[theworkadays]

junior year second semester reading

this was an insanely busy semester, so most of this is reading for classes/projects i was working on this year. in particular, lots of plays and novels (french, ancient greek, modern greek, and latin!)--hope you enjoy!

1. Old Man Goriot - Honoré de Balzac 2. Assorted poems by Constantine P. Cavafy 3. Leukippe and Kleitophon - Achilles Tatius 4. Encomium of Helen - Gorgias (in Greek) 5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 6. Thomas Mann - Death in Venice 7. Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics - Mikhail Bakhtin 8. Aethiopica - Heliodorus 9. The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite - Wole Soyinka 10. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis 11. Equus - Peter Shaffer 12. Nadja - Andre Breton 13. The House of Bernarda Alba - Federico Garcia Lorca 14. The Golden Ass - Apuleius 15. The Lover - Marguerite Duras 16. A True Story - Lucian 17. Helen - Euripides 18. The Frogs: A Modern Adaptation - Don Zolidis 19. The Frogs - Aristophanes 20. The Frogs - Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim 21. Daphnis and Chloe - Longus

[terpsikeraunos]

my name is Frog wen Bacchus goes thru river Styx with angry rows

i get my frends we sing from rocks βρεκεκεκέξ κοὰξ κοάξ

[earlhamclassics]

A gem.

[meganraehill]

[gschwellti-deactivated20170917]

in hell, all verbs are replaced with ὁράω

[terpsikeraunos]

and ἵημι

[theworkadays]

OH MY GOD

[theworkadays]

hamilton: he looked at me like I was stupid, I'm not stupid

also hamilton: ah yes, the sister of the woman I cheated on is here to comfort ME

[1857-m-deactivated20150228]

I haven’t met all of me yet.

[f-uukk]

What a lovely and terrifying thought all at the same time

[terpsikeraunos]

Μοῦσα φίλα, τίνι τάνδε φέρεις πάγκαρπον ἀοιδάν; ἢ τίς ὁ καὶ τεύξας ὑμνοθετᾶν στέφανον; ἄνυσε μὲν Μελέαγρος, ἀριζάλῳ δὲ Διοκλεῖ μναμόσυνον ταύταν ἐξεπόνησε χάριν, πολλὰ μὲν ἐμπλέξας Ἀνύτης κρίνα, πολλὰ δὲ Μοιροῦς λείρια, καὶ Σαπφοῦς βαιὰ μέν, ἀλλὰ ῥόδα: νάρκισσόν τε τορῶν Μελανιππίδου ἔγκυον ὕμνων, καὶ νέον οἰνάνθης κλῆμα Σιμωνίδεω: σὺν δ᾽ ἀναμὶξ πλέξας μυρόπνουν εὐάνθεμον ἶριν Νοσσίδος, ἧς δέλτοις κηρὸν ἔτηξεν Ἔρως: τῇ δ᾽ ἅμα καὶ σάμψυχον ἀφ᾽ ἡδυπνόοιο Ῥιανοῦ, καὶ γλυκὺν Ἠρίννης παρθενόχρωτα κρόκον, Ἀλκαίου τε λάληθρον ἐν ὑμνοπόλοις ὑάκινθον… - Beloved Muse, to whom do you bear this fruitful song? Who wrought a wreath of poets? Meleager managed it, and for illustrious Diocles made this memento as a favor, weaving in lots of Anyte’s bright lilies, many of Moiro’s fair lilies, and of Sappho few, but roses; narcissus of Melanippides, imbued with piercing song, the tender shoot of Simonides’ blooming vine, and with them jumbled the fragrant rich-flowered iris of Nossis– Eros melted the wax for her tablets; together too with marjoram from sweet-breathing Rhianus, the honeyed maiden-bright crocus of Erinna, and Alcaeus’ hyacinth, babbling among bards…

Greek Anthology 4.1.1-13, attributed to Meleager of Gadara (via terpsikeraunos)

[hildegardavon]

Gustav Pope, 1831-1910

Zenobia prepared for the triumph of Aurelian, 1881

Private Collection

[macrolit]

[clodiuspulcher]

[flowerxxviolence-deactivated202]

A fun thing: Makeup A not fun thing: Removing makeup when tired

[theworkadays]

γυναῖκα γὰρ δὴ συμπονεῖν γυναικὶ χρή.

Chorus Leader, Euripides’s “Helen”

[theworkadays]

[itsbyrosie]