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lux-et-astra · 7 hours ago

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who let biologists play dnd

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lux-et-astra · 7 hours ago

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#hmm interesting that they say homeric epithets were used to fit the meter #the reason i've heard for epithets over and over again is that they're a signifier of oral poetry #it makes it easier to remember characters if they have a little tagline #like achilles being swift-footed #and also stock phrases are GREAT for oral poetry #cause they're obviously easier to remember if they're repeated a lot #like there's a whole section in book uhh 3 i think of the iliad that's basically repeated almost word for word #which - epithets are like that on a smaller scale #i'd never though about them as ways to “fill in” the meter #“que” kind of serves that purpose a bit in latin dactylic hexameter #if you have a feminine caesura rather than a masculine caesura it's often because there's a que #anyway. i was going to say it's so cool to see a whole linguistic thing #that still mentions sign language #i feel like it's so easy to forget or leave out sign language cause it's so different #so thanks to this guy for including it!!#and yeah that's absolutely how pronouns work in bsl #placement is super important

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lux-et-astra · 21 hours ago

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Yearning for someone who doesn't exist

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lux-et-astra · 21 hours ago

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I do not think that word means what you think it means

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lux-et-astra · 2 days ago

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this is making me hyperventilate

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lux-et-astra · 2 days ago

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THE LADS!!!

#mal leaning over polly <333 #UGH my BELOVEDS

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lux-et-astra · 2 days ago

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Deinonychus Takedown for animation practice

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lux-et-astra · 2 days ago

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paris of troy! during those years he was a shepherd.

I was reading cartledge's book on thebes and every now and then the spartan focuses wrt to the pantheon of gods comes up. sparta has nothing to do with this except for where it does, but apollo karneios was discussed and that got my attention, which circled back to paris, and then I started thinking about the paris + apollo link

I also started thinking about narrative rejections bc paris has a funky absence in the iliad that's giving a kind of...a vibe. your parents shouldn't have had you, the story doesn't want you around, but oh boy are you there anyway, manifested into existence. no matter what, doom must manifest in flesh form. it's a narrative necessity, the actual incident (the judgement) is secondary.

The Judgement of Paris in Later Byzantine Literature, E. M. Jeffreys

weird! love it! almost (but not quite) reminds me of troilos' murder at achilles' hands lurking in the guts of the iliad. it's there, even when it's not. more importantly tho: sheep. I miss working on a farm with sheep and goats and cows and--

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lux-et-astra · 2 days ago

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HATE when there's an objectively cooler word for what you want to say but you can't use it because it's "archaic" or "obsolete" 🙄 Okay well my best friends from the 1600s say it sounds fine.

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lux-et-astra · 3 days ago

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Today I fell down the stairs while texting and when I got to the bottom I realized that I had hit the “audio message” function and sent them an entire 30 second recording of it

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lux-et-astra · 3 days ago

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over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs

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lux-et-astra · 3 days ago

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