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Fish Sex Friday be upon you.

My previous entry: Decimus Brutus at Mutina contemplates fish sex

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Setting the mood for Fish Sex Friday.

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just saw a video of ocean vuong discussing how as a professor he has noticed that his students are more and more self conscious at attempting to be poets or writers even when it is what they want simply because they do not want to be perceived as cringe. we must free ourselves from the chains of cringe. the truth is people will perceive you whether you do what you want or do nothing at all….

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Teaching my dog to respond solely to oratory gestures

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@pomp-quio

when you accidentally call your tirocinium fori mentor 'dad' during sex

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posting caelius nudes on an out of touch cicero thursday. of course

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and sometimes the ghost is there

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I reiterate: Agrippina should have been emperor and Poppaea should have been her gay vizier with an overwhelming need to be heir (see: Tiberius and Sejanus).

Yes, Poppaea would make Otho poison Nero.

Roman history if Agrippina the Younger were emperor and Poppaea were her insanely powerful and eventually treacherous boyfriend.

Instead we are stuck here with Nero :/

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BORN WITH TEETH CONSIDERED GOOD. HOWEVER: GENRE?

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Ninshubur, Inanna’s Sukkal: Just a Servant or Something More?

Special thanks to my girlfriend for providing the vintage shoujo parody above, feat. Inanna, Ninshubur and Eblaite artifacts Due to its unique character this post requires a special preface. Most of my “serious” coverage of mythology is meant to be presented as rigorously as possible for a layperson doing this mostly for entertainment, which is who I ultimately am. This post represents a departure from this standard - it’s basically entirely unfounded speculation, personal feelings and wishful thinking. Similar posts often get passed around accompanied by grandiose claims from commenters, so I will stress that I wrote this for personal reasons and only discuss personal feelings. I do not claim this is some sort of suppressed truth, as I am particularly not fond of cases where personal interpretations - which I view as valid if they are acknowledged as just that - are used to claim modern, rigorous research is in fact phony or a nefarious conspiracy. With that out of the way - as stated in the title, I’m going to discuss a case which as many of the regular readers are aware of is close to my heart - that of  how Mesopotamian literature depicts the relationship between Inanna and Ninshubur (a deity I like so much that she now has a longer and better sourced wikipedia page than many more major Sumerian deities). I plan to show why I personally think that regardless of the intent of the original authors, there is enough subtext in known sources - presumably not necessarily intentional - to interpret them as a couple. I will also try to highlight Ninshubur’s rarely discussed prominence, both in myths and elsewhere. Parts of the article simply discuss vaguely relevant historical background and primary sources. As usual, I am also providing a bibliography. Therefore, I hope that even if you are not really interested in ultimately pretty silly speculation, you will find something interesting under the cut. Meanwhile, if you are interested in relationships between women more than scholarship, I hope that this post will serve as a fun example why the study of mythology can lead one to find unintended subtext.

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"How many links to dire misfortune's chain are woven in one day!" - me when I forgot to take my break.

"Which fateful evil shall I first oppose" Semira my girl that's real.

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type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

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Me logging in at wоrk.

"Which fateful evil shall I first oppose" Semira my girl that's real.

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thinking about um. how when the folksong collectors in the middle of the last century reworked what they encountered it was both a destructive and a transformative act, and how we are now at the moment when that act is itself fading into tradition, marked like a drought year in the tree-rings of the singing: how they tried to put their teeth in those songs and now those songs have swallowed them the way they've swallowed a hundred, a thousand, other singers into the universal voice. choir of the dead. and this is what i mean when i say i like folk music

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watch who you're talking to pal i've influenced as many as 6 people all around the world

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do you guys ever follow a writer and go: man I wish they'd write for [insert character name here]?

writers are you ever curious what kind of writing your readers would want to see more of from you?

Readers: Go on anonymous (or don't) and let writers know what characters / genres

"Hey! I thought it would be really cool if you wrote for [insert character / genre name here]"

Writers: reblog if you've ever been curious!

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Pride Month special: Manzat, the deified rainbow and her LGBT connection

Considering June is the Pride Month, I’ve decided to dedicate this month’s first article to a rainbow-related topic too. Below the cut you can learn everything there is to know about the Mesopotamian goddess of the rainbow, Manzat (also spelled Mazziat, Manziat, Mazzet etc.) - her origin, role ascribed to her by ancient authors, associated deities and more. As promised by the title, the final section of the article deals with a text mentioning Manzat, which is, as far as I can tell, the oldest documented association between the rainbow and LGBT themes.

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