#3 from greece.

[sarpedon]

narcissus looking into his pool but its me staring lovingly at the visitor stats for my thesis.

[baejax-the-great]

A little life update:

Porthos has been back from the ICU for a couple days. The vet indicated there was nothing else they could do for him, and that we were pretty much bringing him home to have a last good day or two before saying goodbye.

Porthos has responded to all this with a resounding "fuck that" and has decided to get better. That, or he hated the vet so much he was willing to die about it.

Anyway he's like. He's fine. He currently grumbling at me because I wouldn't give him a cheese curd.

[finelythreadedsky]

ah yes the three genders: naked, clothed, and disguised

[nothinghappned]

saw a post about the nordic party, and may I offer some gifs of kris dancing his heart out to cha cha cha

[warning for flashing gifs/images!]

also

and also, if you watch the video (x) it's hilarious how the moment käärijä walks on stage you can see bojan's head at the bottom left side popping in frame as he and kris makes their way closer to the stage. they were summoned.

there's a skip in the video i linked, but apparently käärijä did other song(s) too, and since the jo boys arrived at the beginning and was still there at the very end of the set, it's safe to say they saw at least välikuolema live too

[eerna]

Internet popular things in Greece I thought were gonna be overrated but absolutely weren't

1) cats

2) oranges

[llitchilitchi]

'the average Macedonian soldier suffers one head injury per month' factoid actualy statistical error. average Macedonian soldier suffers 0 head injuries per month. Alexander the Great, who suffers 5 head injuries a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[i-was-bored-so-this-happened]

Gale Dekarios quotes Shakespeare in battle.

[dollypopup]

just gonna say that Colin's exclusion from all things release date announcement (and the lack of pushback about it) is just another instance in a long line of actions that demonstrate that no one gives a fuck about his character. he is constantly sidelined, constantly denied scenes, constantly denied perspective, talked down on, denied characterization and complexity in writing, basically only ever existing as Penelope's prize. The show began this trend, foisted it to the fandom, but the fandom has exacerbated Colin's mistreatment as a character beyond even the show's lack of care toward him

EVERYONE has just. . idk, decided it's better for Colin to exist as Penelope's HEA reward for her shitty family / being ignored or some shit when he's supposed to be HALF THE FUCKING PAIRING. Where is HIS depth? HIS motives? HIS struggles and celebrations? Where are all the meta analysis of his character? The character study stories that don't just make his entire existence Penelope? Where are the stories where his family defends him, where he can demonstrate and forge strong bonds with people who love him? Where are the explorations of his past and motives?

Nowhere.

This fandom has proven time and time again he's secondary to us. Colin isn't a character, Colin is a punching bag. Or a projection of the guy who rejected us. Or an empty minded sexy lamp. Or a flat cardboard cutout for people to dump whatever they want on him. BUT HE'S MEANT TO BE A CHARACTER. A character with desires and experiences and connections that deserve the fucking spotlight for ONCE

when is someone other than Luke Newton (and like 5 of my fellow Colin peeps) going to give Colin the credit he deserves? like who is in his corner? when is he finally going to get to be a character? when will he finally get explored? when will he get the time to shine? no one seems to think it needs a priority

not the showrunners, not Shonda (who once said she didn't even think he was 'clever enough' for Penelope, fuck you very much for that one), not the Bton fandom, certainly not Polin, not anyone

forget the two parter and the date release and the wait or whatever. my favorite fucking character is being sidelined in his own season and no one gives a damn

[qweenexplosionmurder]

hello everyone, if you are able to please donate to Zinh, a dentistry student from Gaza whose entire world was turned upside down on October 7.

Her family and her have been displaced 4 times already, her university was destroyed, two of her kitties killed along with the destruction of her house and furniture, and they need as much help as possible to rebuild their home.

They are now located in a warehouse in Rafah and are far from hitting the fundraiser goal, so please donate if you can or at least share the fundraiser to as many people as you can.

[gracebenthos]

Meet Athena, the Butterfly Guardian and Goddess of Wisdom like Athena from Greek Mythology.

[liquidstar]

the goddamn show came out

[clodiuspulcher]

today im thinking about malaria in ancient rome.

about the fact that P. falciparum (the most dangerous kind of malaria) was likely endemic at least from the 2nd century BC onward that Galen said semitertian fevers (P. falciparum infections) were more common in Rome than anywhere else in the Roman Empire that the most severe manifestations of P. falciparum (quotidian fevers + cerebral malaria) were most common in babies and young children, an epidemiological observation that indicates the transmission rate of P. falciparum was extremely high in Rome that Quintus Serenus said there was no Latin word for semitertian fevers (they used a transliteration of the Greek, 'hemitritaeos') because "no one, i think, could have named it in our language and mothers would not have wanted to"

[shadeofazmeinya]

My most important photos from vacation aka the various cats of Greece and Turkey

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Group H, Round 1, Poll 3:

Propaganda under the cut

Merlin

Gaslight: lol he’s such a gaslighter. The number of times he uses magic and then openly denies obvious things just to mess with Arthur is hilarious. Like when he’s magically stealing food off his plate and insisting Arthur ate it, and Arthur has no choice but to assume he must have eaten it, though it’s absolutely driving him mad 😂 (we love him tho) Gatekeep: I mean he knows a bunch of people’s destinies and just doesn’t tell them their destinies. I mean there’s a line between Gatekeeping and Lying To Not Get Head Chopped Off but he does a lot of both! Girlboss: this sassy little man is literally girlboss definition, especially in his first scenes with Arthur (“look, I already said you were an ass, I just didn’t realize you were a ROYAL one” or “sorry, how long have you been training to be a prat….MY LORD.” As you can tell he gaslights gatekeeps and girlbosses so hard so like. You should vote for him. :)

Odysseus

literally the EPITOME of these. ive read the odyssey and i will tell u it is literally just him making up a new elaborate fake identity for like every single person he meets. even his own father and wife 😭😭 just for funsies or what idek. he literally does not tell anyone anything gatekeeping any and every gifts + knowledge the gods are given. im not joking his story is basically 90% this malewife just gaslighting people and gatekeeping stuff the gods tell him AND FINALLY FOR THE GIRLBOSS he sees the guys whove been essentially harassing his wife for like 10 years and just??? shoots all of them with arrows?? and he does it in STYLE too he comes as a beggar then the suitors r all trying to use odysseus's bow (they cant) and hes like oh i may just be a beggar but. let me try. and then uses it and instantly shoots someone in the head GIRLBOSS

[cabin10diaries]

you've heard about the hunters of artemis but. have you thought about the archers of apolllo

[wingsofhcpe]

trying to sleep but everything smells like smoke SO much. Once again fuck summer.