#I LOVE RECURSIONS

[ilions-end]

oooh i love reading interpretations i haven't considered before! you know that part in book 9 of the iliad when the embassy finds achilles at his tent with the lyre, before he spots them:

With the lyre he was bringing pleasure to his heart, singing about the celebrated deeds of men. Patroclus, his sole companion, sat there facing him, waiting in silence until Achilles finished singing.

and it's a wonderful little moment of recursion in the epic where achilles acts as a rhapsode of heroic songs within a song of heroes performed by a rhapsode

the thing is, i've always read the end of that line as patroclus calmly waiting for achilles to finish his song so they can proceed with some other planned activity (a meal or whatever). but i'm reading gregory nagy who interprets that line as patroclus waiting for his turn to sing, and to continue the unnamed epic narrative that they both presumably know. taking turns performing an epic!

i don't know how common that interpretation is, but the concept is very appealing to me. imagining that patroclus is not a passive listener in that moment, but a collaborative storyteller, ready to take over when achilles needs to rest his voice. does their song change slightly from one to the other, are details added or changed to engage each other? it becomes a nod to the tradition of oral storytelling itself, the tradition that created the iliad

[evercelle]

divorce era for today's warm up :)c

[whale-trawl]

the program encountered a memory leak and needed to close.

[jinbugs]

of all the flavors of Guy on earth, when your gaze settles on the humble pierrot... does the jingling of her bells not please you? does her bumbling not crinkle your cheeks with mirth, moreso than any other kind of Guy?

caroline from "re:curse" @devpalmer

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

i want to put your art in a blender and then chug it while losing my mind over every little thing you've made for this blog

only if you share

[muriers]

This is my gift to @nobledragonflying for the @mcythorrorgiftexchange event!! It's so funny I got matched as your gifter for the recursive gift exchange and then this one XD

+ Here's a close up

[prixoruno]

free Ditto: Here

[definitelynotshouting]

help just as i was going to bed i had the silliest idea for a hunger au-verse fic and i got up at wrote 2000 words in the wee hours of the morning and its not even done

OMG.... SILLY HUNGER AU-VERSE FIC LETS GOOOOOO I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT WHEN ITS DONE!!!!!!!!! SKDNWJDNASBSJSNSJ

[yoko-goto]

Summarizing my WIPs Badly

I was not tagged in this Tumblr game but I am going to play anyway

Gotham

Modern college AU where Jeremiah thinks he can get away with stalking an alcoholic Bruce but is sorely mistaken

1920's partners in crime AU where Bruce and Jeremiah are scaredy cats when it comes to being bank robbers and yeet themselves the fuck out of that profession at the earliest opportunity

Star Wars AU where Sith!Jeremiah is scary as shit to everyone but Mandalorian!Bruce

BlackBerry

Medieval times AU where Jim and Doug fight over Mike like there's no tomorrow

Silicon Valley

Season 6/canon divergence AU where Pied Piper still blows up but Richard finds an excuse to get the gang back together again, and everyone loops Monica in to make dinfoyle and jarrich happen

No pressure at all to do this, tagging @rinnothy @dark-nekofear @writeouswriter @nobutseriouslywhat and anybody else who wants to do this, feel free to say I tagged you if you choose to play!

[lazycranberrydoodles]

tysm for the nya ninjago appreciation i was just looking at it and. mmmm scrumptious

ILY NYA NINJAGO!!!

[carsickcrow]

while compiling this i discovered i made waaayyyy more art the second half of the year

[july-19th-club]

the wind. the ants. five seconds and im excited . television baby

[smile-files]

two quick edits: sierpinski's star of david!

i love doodling sierpinski's triangle, and it just occurred to me that the jewish star, being made of triangles itself, could be created using sierpinski's triangle :)

[gobbogoo]

Does anyone else ever sit and think about how if someone asked what you were thinking about at that moment, you'd have to explain that you were thinking about how you'd have to explain that you were thinking about explaining what you were thinking about if someone asked you what you were thinking about at that moment?

It's like my brain starts chasing its own tail. Or doing one of those ant death spirals.

Is that just me?

[chloepleasestopdying]

any good LiS fic recs? just replayed the first game and i need more XD

I have like 70 LiS fics bookmarked on my Ao3 plus some of my own fics are there too!!

Here are some of my favorites:

The Girls Who Broke the World

Better then

Run away with me

Migratory animals 

Irresponsible (pure smut btw)

Extra

Escaping the light

Pedestal 

Imaginary Max

Recursion (my absolute favorite LiS fic and one of my top favorite fics EVER. This fic made me sob like a baby multiple times. I love it to pieces)

[bidoofenergy]

writing about being queer and made myself cry a little :')