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artie // 22 // descent into blonde bimbo brainrot // he/they

[thoodleoo]

i could not survive in ancient greece i would be spending all my money on red figure kraters or whatever. my husband would come home like where did all of the funds for influencing votes go and i'd be like honey look this amphora's got achilles and ajax playing dice on it

[thoodleoo]

my wealthy husband: i thought i had some drachmas stashed away over here

the pottery i just bought with my husband's drachmas featuring an owl dressed up like a soldier:

[xanthekholos]

cicero always exists in the ablative,,, free him ;-;

[xanthekholos]

just had to look up itaque for the fourth time in 24 hours im gonna throw up

[severalowls]

No song nor poetry can convey tragedy like a cat who wants through a door

[severalowls]

[xanthekholos]

this article is responsible for hysterics in my household. apparently we can’t put nero in a med scanner or a therapist chair

[scary-white]

I don't care if she commits atrocities, bro, she's justified by the narrative

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

through autism and necromancy everything is possible

[wolfythewitch]

God I love Homeric epithets

[wolfythewitch]

Agamemnon is lord of men, wide ruling

Achilles is matchless, swift footed

Hector is a man killer, breaker of horses

Odysseus is resourceful, long enduring

Menelaus is a ginger

[xanthekholos]

dead body poetry… corpses and cannibalism… i get what the girlies were going on about

[libationbearers]

i’m like if homer were a girl

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

every time someone proposes a ‘feminist’ retelling of a myth that says something that’s actually less interesting for feminism than what ovid had to say about it i’m like. he can’t keep getting away with it.jpeg

[xanthekholos]

t4t (tomb4tomb)

[noknowshame]

pharsalia reads like one of those dark web pages where you can listen to horrifyingly graphic mp3 files documenting the history of plane crashes except you discover that the site stopped updating like two decades ago because it turns out the guy who ran it worked in one of the twin towers

[xanthekholos]

what the fuck is up with lucan and compounds of duco,,, get some new words buddy

[xanthekholos]

in honour of latin starting up (lucan, petronius & seneca)

es fructes, facie noxias

[xanthekholos]

in honour of latin starting up (lucan, petronius & seneca)

es fructes, facie noxias

[sigynpenniman]

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.