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Fia / she her ⚢ / i like classics among other things

[amberkendslacy]

tag 10 people you'd like to get to know better

Tagged by my moots @fabienlaguna & @eww-raymondwaldo Thank you :)

Tagging: @susurrusilously @schwarznummer1 @some-lasombra-bullshit @sorrowfultales @lucyacid @bloody-vampire-dyke @vampemoqueen @arrant-knav3 @maxmuldoon @misery-loves-vtm

Last song: Narc - Interpol

Currently watching: Mmm not gotten around to it yet but want to watch The Vampire Lestat

Current obsession: VTMB2 and my own work lmao

Currently reading: A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (I fucked up my libby loan and started over on ebook, at 40% or so atm. I read it on the train ride to work. It's fun).

Currently working on: Sabbatical, Weaver Rouge & the one shot fic for the fledgling from VTMB1 in the Sabbatical-verse lol (Only one is getting any action lets be fr - I stg I will have the others done sometime)

There's also an X-men fic in my A03 that needs an update sometime soon as well lol.

Also also my vampire battle jacket. There's an alt picnic market thing in a fortnight and I want to wear my lovely work 😍

Last google search: 'Which instrument is playing first in Dracula 1992 - The Beginning' Like I know it's the cello but I need confirmation for fic purposes lol. I got no results and had to guess :/

[enlitment]

Thank you for the tag @theghostofbean ! ✨ I'm on the same boat with THOD...

Low-key no pressure tags: @theamazingmurderrocks @sparvverius @my-deer-friend @chaotic-history @essaytime @stalinistqueens @will-theclockwork @emilieduchatele @le-vieux-cordelier @sherdnerd

Last song: Dance Macabre by Ghost

Currently watching: Subscribed to the NT at home and saw an adaptation of The Seagull with Emilia Clarke in it. Feel slightly unwell about it. Safe to say it will stay with me for a long time

also, need to see more adaptations soon, so if anyone has them? 👉👈

Current obsession: The Odyssey kick (still debating whether I should see the movie or not). Also started playing Pentiment and it's so good.

Currently reading: staying true to my fiction + non-fiction at one time to switch between: re-reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (a beloved favourite of mine) & Robert Darnton's The Writer's Lot

Currently working on: my future? Maybe? Vagueposting as ever but wish me luck please <3

Last Google search: Disregarding the weather forecast, I looked up wedding cards ideas for my friend's wedding

[sherdnerd]

Thanks for tagging @enlitment ! Love that you’re playing Pentiment, such a fun game! Still obsessed with that bit from near the beginning where they’re tall about the Aeneid

Now let’s see if I can come up with enough people to tag… @tunathena @thedoctorknits @sparrowsarecool @unlike-starlike @spookapuca @lavendulafaerie @gayrogue and whoever’s fancy it may take

Last song: because I recently rewatched the second episode of modern doctor who, I’ve had the song from this scene on repeat

Currently watching: I’m actually between shows at the moment, I recently caught up on For All Mankind (an alt-history sci fi from one of the writers of Deep Space Nine that I highly recommend. It’s about if the space race kept going at the same pace after the moon landing) and finished my rewatch of Peter Capaldi’s final season of Doctor Who. I’ll probably watch Star City (the For All Mankind spinoff)

Current Obsession: I suppose I’m still going on the space kick I went on after the Artemis II mission. As a result I’ve been playing a shit ton of Kerbal Space Program. I have a moon base now. And a space station orbiting the moon.

Also the year of the 6 emperors. I can’t stop thinking about Gordian and Gordian and Gordian.

Currently working on: My thesis! It’s a lot of work and very stressful but hopefully it’ll turn out good. Then I can go back to working on fanfics. Ideally I want to get some friends together and write a series of Star Trek fics as though it were a series of the show.

Last google search: The Odyssey showtimes [city] Wednesday. My mum and sister are visiting so we’re going to get dinner and see the movie. I expect to be nit-picky, particularly about the cyclops encounter

[tunathena]

Thanks for tagging @sherdnerd

tagging @troianefas, @bambasbatenthusiat, @mcaelius, @lovelyrollinghills, @nabonidusofbabylon, @libationbearers, @romanconcrete, @leo-nid-as, @dicaeopolis and @alethiometer

(hoping ive tagged the relevant blog vs sideblog etc but tbh i just went though my notifs and picked the 10 top mutuals)

Last song: With Cat-Like Tread from the Pirates of Penzance for Gilbert and Sullivan summer!! I got a CD earlier in the summer and now im really getting into it. comic opera here i come!

Currently watching: I don't really watch shows and i havent watched any tv for ages but i guess im poirot-ing on and off lately... havent watched any for a week and cant for another 2 as I am on my holibobs but thats the closest possible answer.

Current Obsession: MY POIROT more specifically MY HASTINGS!! perpetually rotating him in my mind <333

Currently working on: Have given up on work for 3 weeks or so while im out of the country but generally prepping texts for uni, esp agricola and books 1, 4 and 5 of gallic wars

Last google search: do they grow cacao in india

all the shops near where i was yesterday (in india) were advertising "local chocolate" but i hadnt heard of indian chocolate before

[bambasbatenthusiat]

Thanks for tagging!

No pressure tagging @silly-al13n @seleniumtetrachloride @king-ludwig-ii @scribl1ta @swallowtail-ageha @mako-neexu @yaaaaaaaaaaaay @i-like-to-eat-cotton @point-two-two @necromycologist 🙂‍↕️

Last Song: Khune by Sogand, if you want to get into Persian pop music you should check her out Modèle man is my favorite from her <3

Currently Watching: A Witch in Mongolia! I’ve been behind on it though I need to catch up….truly so beautiful

Current Obsession: tbh I’m not rly sure if i have anything that can be called obsession rn my mind’s too preoccupied with everything going on irl and nothing has rly tickled my brain in that way for a while🤔

Currently working on: Packing! Also been reviewing my Japanese lessons and slowly working on my Sumerian. Also some trinkets to give to old coworkers!

Last Google search: “English to Chinese”. was reading Murder on the Links yesterday and there was some phrase that I didn’t understand lol. I do this very often it usually clicks better when it’s in Chinese #mybrokenenglish

[yaaaaaaaaaaaay]

Thanks for tagging!

not tagging anyone because I'm scared

Last Song: radioactive by marina

Currently Watching: Pripara!! i've been meaning to watch it for a while but was a bit daunted by the amount of episodes. Also several anime that are currently airing

Current Obsession: idkkk.......... I feel like i've been enjoying a lot of different things recently so its difficult to say one thing is an obsession

Currently working on: genuinely nothing i've been so lazy recently

Last Google search: nyaa.si I think

[en-theos]

hello

[corporialus]

ANOTHER auggy

[televisionenjoyer]

EVERYONE GET MORE FEMINIST NOW

[televisionenjoyer]

EVERYONE GET FEMINIST NOW 😭😭

[fairycosmos]

t shirt that just says WHATEVER YOU’RE READING INTO MY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY LANGUAGE YOU’RE MISINTERPRETING

[parkayquarts]

little girl in the checkout line was freaking the FUCK out reaching for a shelf and screaming "GIMMEEEE GIMMEEEEE" at the top of her lungs and the mom kept saying "no 🫩" and I look at the shelf expecting there to be candy or something and it was full of batteries

[daciancatamite]

im so obsessed with this relief of caracalla and domna. moms always think their gay son is the messiah etc.

[daciancatamite]

i know hes not the first to use this imagery but like portraying your mother as the goddess of victory crowning you is gay. this is gayboy behavior. homosexual motherboy. and tbf the only other emperor ive seen use this imagery is nero which is really not helping

[daciancatamite]

ohhh my god he put his mother on his coin he is not beating the gayboy oedipus allegations

[daciancatamite]

why is this literally

[vyvilha]

hi hello. various sketches. 1-2 my roman legionnaire oc marcianus calpurnius saturninus. 3 ocs from my world, wide-ruler sīlīgm and her lover, commander dryvaš. 4 young publius clodius pulcher and cicero <3

[thoodleoo]

losing my miiiiiind at this bust of augustus at the louvre. why does he look like that. he looks so wet. he looks like he whimpers

[bambasbatenthusiat]

Hand was itching to draw smth it’s been like two weeks cjskxklwjxkwjd

[b1rd1e]

tmi doesn't exist to me. I love information

[randominteresting]

2000 year old Roman Mosaic on the bank of the river Euphrates, Turkey.

[classicslesbianopinions]

it is like. i am deliberately not posting that much about the nolan odyssey because i don't have much genuine interest and i find the whole like outrage theater people do at adaptations to be exhausting and unproductive and often misguided + i don't really care what celebrities are doing. but zendaya's 3000-year-old iranian earrings are like. such an on-the-nose fuck you. like 1. you can practically feel the stylist going "oh, it's old, it must be on-theme!" without really considering that ancient cultures are not interchangeable. but also 2. there's a very clear and important difference between ancient greece and ancient iran, in that there's a reason zendaya isn't wearing ancient greek artifacts on her ears--ancient greece has a cultural cachet that ancient iran does not, by virtue of its position as the perceived origin point of "western" (white) civilization. they are just interchangeable enough that zendaya can wear the artifacts of one civilization to a premiere of a work based on the mythos of another, but just different enough that she can get away with one but not the other.

and of course there's 3. which is that modifying and wearing a cultural artifact of dubious provenance taken from a country the us is actively bombing (and in doing so presumably destroying plenty of historic buildings/artifacts) asserts a certain lack of respect for and/or sense of ownership over that country's people and culture. and obviously this is what makes it seem like such a specifically heinous move.

[rpfofficial]

under my regime all male film directors will be harvested for their meat like farm animals

[necrophilologist]

cicero voice our late roman republic is. hold on why is it called that. what is happening. w

[doloneia]

ok ive seen nolans odyssey and what the fuck was that actually

[doloneia]

Parts that made me tweak in a dim-lit movie theater:

1. Every time we meet a woman or enslaved individual that, y’know, had some semblance of agency in the text, Nolan has just… removed that? Circe’s commanding presence & how she genuinely overpowers Odysseus? Gone. Helen actually stealing the show in Book 4 where she walks down into the room and controls the conversation re: Odysseus & Troy? Gone. Utterly Gone. Lupita Nyong’o gets 0 chance to speak on her own terms and its actually so depressing. Also I’m genuinely unsure here but it seemed like Circe & Calypso’s divine status was… nonexistent?? They’re both goddesses but apparently not to Christopher Nolan 🫤

And this treatment extends to Odysseus’ slaves, specifically Eumaeus & Eurycleia (eurynome & philoetius not appearing in this goddamn film ifg). Almost every action taken by Eurycleia in the Odyssey is attributed to someone else in Nolan’s adaptation, she gets 0.2 seconds of screentime, its actually absurd. I think she has two lines in the whole movie. Eurycleia. Odysseus and Telemachus’ nurse. The woman who canonically organizes the doors to be locked during the suitor’s slaughter? Who canonically helps secure Telemachus’ provisions for Pylos? fuckin. Not There. And Eumaeus (who literally perfectly models xenia to a disguised Odysseys while living in extreme poverty) notably Does Not Get To Do That in Nolan’s odyssey, instead he’s like. injured I guess? I’m so fuckin confused as to why that happened, it just made the plot more convoluted. Medon is also just not there at all. Medon who is actually the fuckin best?? My underestimated king??? Where Is He.

2. oh my god everything abt the scene with Polyphemus makes me want to claw my eyes out (except maybe his eye? that looked kinda cool idfk). yknow how polyphemus appears, speaks to the crew, and they let their guard down? how the polyphemus episode represents the world outside of greek customs like xenia? how he fucking talks to them? he talks to them and his neighbors? yeah. in Nolan’s odyssey, there are no neighbors. there is no existential mirror/cyclopean foil to ithacan society. there are no other cyclopes. He doesnt even fucking talk 😭😭 <- i mean he gets one line but the audios so distorted that without captions i had no idea what he said

3. Anticleia reunion scene? Nonexistent. Laertes? Nonexistent. Allegedly still around. Sir Not-Appearing In-This-Film. Book 15 reunion between Telemachus and Odysseus? Nonexistent. Reunion between Odysseus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius? Not there. The fucking marriage bed scene? The goddamn marriage bed? NOT THERE. screams into a bag

4. ODYSSEUS “DIDNT WANT TO RETURN HOME” 😭 they keep fucking saying this over and over again too and. No he very much did. No home means no guaranteed kleos guys. his sons life is in jeopardy but Ok christopher shitlan do whatever the fuck you want, i guess

5. every time i heard them say “our civilization is collapsing” or “they say the peoples from the sea are attacking” or “our age of bronze is ending” not only did i feel my soul die a little more inside but i also kept thinking “man, this sounds a lot like the white supremacist belief in ‘western civilization’ just superimposed onto a falsified image of the late bronze age” and thats because It Is.

strange decisions:

1. boar scar apparently occurred when odysseus was an adult???

2. elliot page’s sinon gets one helluva backstory which i guess was kinda cool if you ignore elliot page getting brutally slaughtered in the first 30 seconds of the movie? not sure how to feel about that

3. travis scott kept showing up randomly which was like. fine i guess? genuinely im not sure what the difference between him & phemius was supposed to be. i didnt even see phemius. tbf i was taking notes this whole time so maybe i missed him? but travis scott shouldve just been phemius idfk why he wasnt

4. The Phaecians are just not there guys and i have no idea why. odysseus’ wanderings are being narrated to calypso?

5. the crew mutinies at scylla instead? odysseus tries to sail towards charybdis??? this was a bizarre sequence

6. no nestor or peisistratus. somehow telemachus sails to the 100% inland palace of menelaus. who needs a chariot when you’ve got a Boat i guess

7. half of my notes just say “what happened to show, don’t tell” because the amount of exposition made me want to slam my head into the wall

highlights:

1. anne hathaway and tom holland had a very good dynamic, i feel like they really captured some of the tension between penelope & telemachus, ie penelope running the house for 20 years and still assuming some of that authority vs. telemachus trying to grow up/assume control of the household/establish his own kleos. loved that dynamic tbh. one of the better parts of the telemachy sections

2. lupita nyong’o was great in the uh. 30 seconds she had on screen. im so serious helen was fucking robbed in this movie

3. himesh patel fucking carried every scene he was in on his Back

4. rare cicones appearance

maybe the real sea peoples was the troy we sacked along the way

[communistkenobi]

it’s been said many times before but where else are you gonna get this kind of gold

[sink-baby]

God help me I was just trying to find the original post