#;; OOPS

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

because i'm insane during this bonkers print rush I'm also trying to crush my backlog of commissions and uh

well

there's a reason I'm pushing folks to get their calligraphy commissions from @carpe-aurore rn instead of joining my queue

this is gonna take

a while

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Halloween 🎃, more First disciple WWX, please.

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Wei Wuxian is being vexing.

"It's called flirting," Nie Huaisang says.

"Why is he here?" Lan Wangji asks. They're in his brother's rooms. It should be safe from irritating disciples.

He'd come here specifically to both avoid Wei Wuxian and to complain about him. He hadn't expected an audience of two.

Xichen innocently blinks at him in a way that Uncle still falls for, but Lan Wangji knew better to trust by the time he was six. "I would not want Mingjue to think I'd been discourteous to his brother."

"You are not taking this seriously," he says. "He is up to something!"

"Yeah," Nie Huaisang says. "He's interested in getting up in your - mmf!"

Nie Huaisang glares, crossing his arms and putting his nose in the air.

Lan Wangji would have considered that a blessing a minute ago, but now he looks at his serenely smiling brother and wishes he hadn't used the silencing spell on Nie Huaisang. He wants to know how that sentence was going to end.

[sweeneydino]

WOH!Leo sketches

[ol1verdrawsyt]

Trying 2 improve my art, here's sketchbook doodles in the meantime

[vigrotter]

The gang all together

[potato-lord-but-not]

Hello The Lord, I don't know if you're looking for book recommendations because from what I've seen on your page you're more into podcasts, but I think you'd like any Andrew Joseph White books specifically The Spirit Bares it's Teeth, and I think you'd also really like Hell Followed With Us if you're looking for religious trauma

taking notes taking notes

[arataya]

“the world isn’t kind” YET. I am. And it’s going to spread.

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

[kitmdrawsthings]

He’s giving kind as summer

(close ups of my faves under cut)

[greekmythcomix]

The Palace of Odysseus

I think I had an epiphany about the layout of Odysseus’ palace in the Odyssey today. It might be really obvious to other people but I can’t resist a rabbithole!

NB I’m just working with translations here, not the original text, using the Rieu for quotations

Penelope’s quarters and the women’s quarters:

- these seem to be upstairs but with easy access to the megaron - “wise Penelope came down from her apartment, and they drew up a chair for her by the fire” (Book 19) and she’s always described as going up to her bedroom to cry herself to sleep. It is not unusual in Mycenaean palace complexes to have more than one storey. She has access to the megaron (the hall) from her private quarters, as she comes down with her maids to speak to the suitors in there. From the megaron we are told there is a door that leads to the women’s quarters, which would seem to be in the same place as both Penelope and the maids seem to be locked out of the megaron by closing the doors to the hall that can be locked: Book 19, Eurycleia “locked the doors leading from the fine hall” behind her when she goes back to the women’s quarters, and she does this again in Book 21 just before the Suitors get slaughtered, to stop the maids coming down to help and Penelope from getting involved.

So, a suite of rooms upstairs, the maids rooms (where, presumably, the looms are), next to Penelope’s (and Odysseus’) room, for ease of servitude.

Telemachus’ room:

He’s no longer a child, so wouldn’t be in the women’s spaces, and does not sleep up in the women’s and Penelope’s quarters: when Eurycleia has locked the doors from the hall to the women’s quarters, and he is done helping Odysseus hide the weapons, “he went off through the hall to find his way by torchlight to the bedroom where he always slept”. This sounds like it’s off the megaron somewhere, but not through the locked doors or upstairs.

So, a ground-floor room, somewhere off the megaron.

The Storeroom:

We get a little description of where the storeroom is in Books 21 and 22.

- Penelope goes to get the Great Bow at the start of Book 21: “She then made her way with her ladies to a store-room in a distant corner of the palace where her lord's treasure was kept - bronze, gold and 1o wrought iron. Here too was the supple bow and quiver full of deadly arrows which had been given to him by his friend the godlike Iphitus,”

- Melanthius tells the Suitors he will go to the store room: “ ‘The big door into the courtyard is alarmingly near, and the mouth of the passage is dangerously narrow: one strong man could keep us all back single-handed. But let me fetch you some armour to put on from the store-room’ … So Melanthius the goatherd went up by devious ways through the palace to Odysseus store-room, where he helped himself to a dozen shields and spears…”

In the first passage, the storeroom is tucked away and Penelope doesn’t seem to need to go through the megaron to access it (as when she comes into that hall to speak to the suitors, they seem surprised) and in the second Melanthius sounds like he has to follow a twisty route to get to the storeroom. So, it must be accessible from the megaron, but also isn’t next to it, and is accessible from other parts of the building too, which would make it difficult for it to be open and yet still inaccessible to the women from their quarters. I’m imagining it down a corridor that comes off the megaron, with a door to the room itself that Penelope opens with a key she normally keeps in her room, and then which she leaves open or, at least, isn’t described as closing, suggesting how Ody and Tele access it in Book 22. However, Odysseus and Telemachus seem to have had access to the storeroom in Book 19 when they’re putting away the weapons from the hall, without the need of a key. So, it warrants asking: are there two storerooms? One that Penelope keeps the gold and Odysseus’ bow in, that’s tucked away, and another one which is more regularly open and contains armour and weapons and is accessed via the megaron? It would be pretty sensible to have two different rooms for things you wanted guests to be able to access and others that you do not.

So, two storerooms: one accessible from the upper rooms and down a corridor somewhere, and the one with the armour in it, with a door that can be closed, but off the megaron, through an entrance that can’t be barred.

The great hall/megaron:

Given the similarity between this area of the palace complex in Mycenae, Pylos and Tiryns, would also reasonably expect the one in Ithaca to be the same.

(I’ve nicked an internet image here)

Nb there’s an opening in the roof above the hearth in most reconstructions, just like in the Minoan Knossos palace throne room reconstruction.

The king sits on the throne opposite the fire, unable to be seen from the porch. Guests would enter through the front porch and sit here by the columns, waiting to be called in by a herald. This is where Odysseus sits when a beggar in the palace, and where Irus the other beggar finds him in Book 18. It’s also where Odysseus and his friends stand, blocking the threshold for the suitors, in Book 22 when the slaughter begins. It could have had doors that are closed - in Book 18, Odysseus fights Irus “on the polished threshold in front of the high doors”, and in Book 22, Melanthius tells Agelaus that “the big door to the courtyard is alarmingly near”, but I don’t know if the original word is ‘door’ or ‘portal/opening’. And, Odysseus sends Philoetius to bind closed the gates of the courtyard so no one can get out of the palace compound - if they get out of the megaron they still can’t get out of the palace. So are these doors closed? Is there an actual door?

This porch ‘door’ does seem to be different to the ones leading from the megaron to the women’s’ quarters: when Odysseus is sending Eumaeus to speak to Eurycleia to get her to lock the women’s’ quarter doors in Book 21, Philoetius is binding shut the gates in the courtyard at the same time:

“Without a word Eurycleia went and locked the doors leading out of the great hall. At the same time Philoetius slipped quietly out and barred the door leading into the courtyard, which he made fast with a ship's hawser of reeds that was lying under the colonnade. This done, he went in and sat down on the stool he had left, with his eyes fixed on Odysseus.”

So, they must be different doors. It’s also not described that the porch doors are physically closed. That might be instantly suspicious, I would guess.

The side door:

There’s a moment in Book 22 where Odysseus tells Eumaeus to guard the ‘side door’ in the megaron:

“Now let into the solid masonry of the wall there was a side door, on the same level as the raised threshold of the hall, that gave access to a passage. It was usually kept firmly shut with close-fitting doors. Odysseus told the swineherd to stand on guard by this side door, to which there was only one approach.”

This is the same passage that Melanthius describes as “dangerously narrow”. Agelaus seems convinced a man could “climb to the side door and and tell the people and raise the alarm?” This sounds to me like this is a kind of Sally port/emergency exit, like the one we find at Mycenae:

This is an extremely small doorway, limiting access or egress to one person at a time, and passage that goes through the external walls themselves, at the back of the citadel where the ravines tower over the city and it’s very sheltered. The interesting description of the ‘side door’ in the megaron of Odysseus’ palace and the way Agelaus says you must “climb up” to it and would then be outside the city possibly means it’s not immediately accessible, a little way up the wall, which is why Odysseus only needs one person to guard it, but is a shortcut out of the palace. It’s also such a fussy detail and one that isn’t referred to again that it makes it seem very real, like the poet is referring to a real place he has seen or been in.

The Courtyard:

We know it has gates because Philoetius locks them, but also Eumaeus describes them in Book 17: “Athene are buildings beyond buildings; the courtyard wall with its coping is a fine piece of work and those folding doors are true defence. No one could storm it.”

We also know there’s a pile of dung “in profusion at the gate, awaiting removal by Odysseus’ servants for use as manure around the estate” (book 17), and poor Doggo Argus is lying in it.

We also know it has mills: in Book 20, a woman grinding corn in one of “the king’s hand-mills” in “a building nearby” can be heard speaking by Odysseus, originally lying in the porch is now standing outside it, so they must be in the courtyard.

It possibly has a well - Eurycleia orders the maids to go get water form “the well”, although given its proximity to the fountain where the people draw their water (book 17), that might be what is being referred to. But, again, any good stronghold is going to have its own water supply, and the maids came back from the well “soon”, so I reckon it would have its own in the courtyard.

The palace complex overall:

From all these details, combined with what we know of Ithaca being much smaller, almost ‘backwater’ kingdom compared to those of Mycenae and Tiryns, and those citadels being on high ground, here’s what I’ve managed to extrapolate:

What do you reckon?

[captain-styr]

Styr | ROEVEMBER Day 12 | Free Day

Happy Patch Day! Have some vanilla Styr and Lia, they are still so beautiful.

Featuring the lovely and wonderful @the-white-snake!

[aidstationsnackies]

Yall should never have gassed me up yesterday I’m feeling particularly buzzy and breedable tonight so now I’m going to make it your problem 😈😈😈😈

(ok to reblog, he/they)

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Me: "I don't often cook but I'm going to quick look through my mom's recipe cards and see if I can find that specific recipe"

Me, 15 minutes later, sobbing: "Love is stored in handwritten recipe cards"

[incognito-princess]

Once on my way home from work at midnight, I sat at a stop sign waiting for it to change... like a stop light... I was tired!

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

[pangur-and-grim]

I love how you can use the environment in baldur’s gate.

for instance, I got my ass completely handed to me in a battle, so on my second attempt I piled barrels of gunpowder & wine near where the enemies would run out, and had one of my guys posed with a fire spell to ignite them. and THIS TIME, I triggered a massive explosion on my first turn of combat, instantly killing my entire party.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

F*c&!ng First Aid: A Quick Guide to Common Sex Injuries

New from our founder, Heather Corinna, a guide for those sexual times that wind up more “ow” than “oooh.”

It’s remarkably easy to hurt ourselves in the pursuit of feeling good. From genital abrasions to broken skin to pulled muscles to infections to allergic reactions, even fractures or breaks, exploring our bodies and their capacities sexually can sometimes mean finding out⁠ what’s past a bodies’ limits. We can think there was enough lube, but who among us (cough) hasn’t found out at least once that there wasn’t? We can forget that when it feels to us like we couldn’t possibly get enough of something, our body parts may have an entirely different and considerably threshold (um). Heck, you can hurt yourself just getting a date a glass of water (says my once-broken toe, bitterly).

For whatever reason (probably a combination of ableism⁠, totally inhumane sexual⁠ ideals and maybe some leftover stuff from our DNA way back when we lived a wilder existence), if and when people get hurt during sex⁠, they often feel ashamed or embarrassed, like they have ruined something. Getting hurt in our bodies is as acceptable an experience as feeling good in them. It’s not “weak” to get hurt, and it doesn’t mean anyone failed at anything, it just means we’re living in the body of a mere mortal, not a sexual superhero. So, if some kind of sex injury happens to you or a partner⁠, don’t get hung up in negative feelings about it. Instead, turn your attention to yourself or whoever got hurt. Not only might you or they need physical care, caring for ourselves and each other in attentive, tender ways is only likely to enhance our sexual experiences and the ways we connect to ourselves or one another through them. This kind of care, much like general sexual aftercare, can be something that is a highlight of a sexual experience, even when something painful or bummerful happened which that care is centered around.

This simple guide covers the most common sexual injuries for people in the age group we serve, what needs to be done when and after they have happened, and how you can best prevent them. Read F*c&!ng First Aid: A Quick Guide to Common Sex Injuries over at Scarleteen.

[babyanimalgifs]

When he didn't realize you're in the room

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