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When Archimedes stays out all night, he’s always grumpy the next morning.

Then he must stay out every night!

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@still-mourning-polites

Who’s your favorite, Odysseus or Diomedes?

That's like asking which is better, a shield or a spear. They both have their uses, and who is my favorite depends on my plans for the moment.

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Hey you know how Pippin and Diamond had a son and they named him Faramir? And then they introduced him to his namesake and he immediately gained the biggest uncle ever? And how Faramir and Elboron would pal around together and became close lifelong friends? And how Faramir and Elboron both took after their fathers, in that Elboron became a gentle scholar who helped restore lasting peace between Gondor and Harad and Faramir became the fightingest Thain Tuckborough had produced in generations and carried his father's sword and was known for leading the defense of the Evendim Road in the goblin skirmishes following the restoration of Annúminas? Okay so only the first line is actually canon but the rest is also canon

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what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

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when me and my brothers were little and one of them got mad they would always say "im not your brother anymore!" so im using this for ody and ctimene :)

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The temptation, when adapting a really iconic detective, is to delve into his personal backstory. That's the devil talking.

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Papyrus Fragment with lines from Homer’s Odyssey 

c.285-250 BC

Early Hellenistic Greek

For the ancient Greeks, papyrus, a paper made from the stalks of the papyrus plant, was the preferred material on which to record permanent writings, such as a marriage contract or, as here, a book. Writing on papyrus was done with a stylus, such as a sharpened reed with a split point or a bronze pen with nib, and ink, usually made of lampblack in water.  This is the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the Odyssey ever discovered. It contains three lines from Book 20 that do not occur in the standard text preserved today and is a physical testimony to the fact that local variations of this famous work existed in the third century B.C.  The most important repository of Homeric texts in the Hellenistic world was at the library of Alexandria, Egypt, the first comprehensive public library ever built, which was founded by the Ptolemaic kings in the early third century B.C. As Homer was the poet par excellence, his work was central to the library’s collections, which contained copies of the Homeric poems from many different city-states, including Chios, Argos, and Sinope. One of the first endeavors of the Alexandrian scholars was to establish a standard text for these most cherished works of Greek literature.

(Source: The Met Museum)

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Considering again, taking a train/museum trip, by riding the rails first to the Smithsonian and then to the Met, then back home.

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Made a redheaded version of Odysseus for @prompted-wordsmith, though this particular scene takes place long after the events of the Odyssey, and he's so so tired.

But he got a new god--I mean--dog.

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I told my coworker that I was struggling to start working on my comic because setting up the laptop is somehow a very cumbersome mental task despite being very quick and easy.

She said, “Oh, how do you set it up?”

I narrowed my eyes at what was clearly a trick for my own good but it genuinely made setting up easier.

Later that day she told me she needed to put up a window cling but didn’t want to.

I said, “Oh, how do they go up?”

She narrowed her eyes at what was clearly a trick but I could still see her pride in me using her gambit against her so quickly.

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How to Ditch Amazon

Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want.  Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.

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do you think prometheus and the eagle were friends? like did they hang out outside eating his liver? do you think they had banter? maybe it was more like a coworker relationship but they were seeing each other every day surely they had some interesting conversations

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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Congratulations on OP’s wedding

i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh