#Sophocles light

[angelnightrose]

Decayship chibi presents for @bella-nile and @confuzzeledpanda :3

[confuzzeledpanda]

Do you want the masculine or feminine side?

I can do both

[othellho]

Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140].

[lets-get-lit]

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

- Sophocles, Antigone

[incorrect-sm-families-quotes]

'Ulu: Peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into a bowl filled with a cheap energy drink to create something I call "Battery Acid Spaghetti". Will update you all once I've finished it.

...

'Ulu, stumbling out of the kitchen: Don't do this.

Lana's mom, entering the kitchen: Oh, we'll see about that.

Lana's mom, with all life sapped from her eyes, looking like a reanimated corpse: Don't do this.

Sarah: I'm gonna-!

Harper, running after her mother, implying that she sneaked in to try that unholy dish as well: Don't do this, please!

Sima: Even with that sort of unanimous consensus, you guys still insist on doing this...

Faba: Well, three times is enough for scientific peer review-

Abe, slamming that dish in front of everyone for examination:

Abe: It looks like the dry skin at the top is made of the candy's sour pellets; that's not a great start...

*Everyone looks on horrified as Abe took a large bite out of it.*

Abe: *gulp* Tastes...really good, actually. I...also feel like I'm about to explode-

...

Abe, on the ground, writhing in pain as he clutches his abdomen, his veins are about to burst, and the paramedics are being called: Do not do this...

Lusamine: I'll be right back. Faba, Wicke, keep your eyes on the others as I investigate this.

Lusamine:

Lusamine, coughing up black blood that looks eerily like Nihilego poison as she tries to balance herself on one of the chairs: They weren't lying; don't do this!

Samson: I just tried to pop a bubble with my fork. It didn't pop- it's sitting there with a hole on top...

Burnet: I'm convinced you all just ate radioactive waste...

Lana's dad: ...Add vodka-

Rango: Do not.

Sophocles' mom, walking slowly into the chaotic restaurant: Oh, goodness; I've tried this before- please don't do this...

Sophocles' dad, confident in his wife's abilities as usual: Aww, come on, dear- it couldn't have been that awful!

Sophocles' mom: *Raises an eyebrow at him*

...

Sophocles' dad, foaming at the mouth as he stands there nigh-catatonic: Yeah, don't do this...

Kukui: That's it- now I have to try this.

Kukui, struggling to breathe as his throat and eyes get itchier from within: Don't do this...!

Mimo: Hey, don't tell me what to do!

Mimo, coughing and crying as if she's allergic: D-Don't do this...

Hobbes: Bet.

Hobbes, with his fancy mustache now fallen off: Please don't do this.

[beljar]

I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, is no less ominous than excessive grief.

Sophocles, from Antigone, -441

[whyoneartheven]

it just hit me that Oedipus quite literally goes out with a bang

[error404-lostinspace]

I feel like I’m a Sophocles character

[voli-tile]

the Dark Urge and their Father.

margaret atwood, selected poems: 1965-1975 // santiago caruso, moonchild (detail) // frank bidart, half-light // nobuyoshi araki, feasts of angels: sex scenes // margaret atwood, alias grace // leonor fini, unconditional love // ocean vuong, prayer for the newly damned // carlo dolci, saint jerome (detail) // louise glück, penelope's song // georgiana luiza nicolae, i'll see you and i'll raise you hell // sophocles, elektra // nicole kiraga, tomatina // user veniennes on tiktok // kim jakobsson, i won't become // anne sexton, the civil war // unknown, likely by kim jakobsson // wikipedia, pyrrhic victory // alex morkh shadrin, solitude death hell

[thelilylav]

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

(He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, The Hollies)

My art, The World at Its Beginning (Dustin Pearson), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), The Fall of the House of Usher (Steven Berkoff), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Leto and her Children (William Henry Rinehart), The Moon Had No Light of its Own (Imaginary Future), My Love Mine All Mine (Mitski), Untitled (Lyra Wren), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), Electra (Sophocles), To Forgive (The Smashing Pumpkins), Unknown, The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), The Sun is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon), Doomed From the Beginning (@/veniennes on tiktok), On learning to write professionally (Interview with Jazmine Hughes by The Creative Independent), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), My art

[confuzzeledpanda]

Comfort Boys with their comfort toys 💙💛🖤

[academic-vampire]

⊹ hello there, darling.

⭒ jack, twenty-one, american, vampire, poet, & engl major

☼ pisces, ☽ scorpio, ↑ leo

☕︎ favorite books/plays: The Stranger (Camus), The Secret History (Tartt), Inferno (Dante), A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), Beowulf (unknown), & The Iliad (Homer).

ᝰ favorite writers: Camus, Tartt, Ibsen, Kafka, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Austen, Poe, Tolkien, Dante, Woolf, Twain, Dillard, Welty, O’Connor, James Agee, Wilde, Yanagihara, & Sophocles.

⚘ favorite poets: Plath, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Frost, Homer, Milton, Poe, E. Browning, Bradstreet, Byron, Rossetti, Sappho, & P. Shelley.

⍟ favorite essays: “Total Eclipse” (Anne Dillard), “Knoxville Summer: 1915” (James Agee), “The Figure a Poem Makes” (Robert Frost), “A Sweet Devouring” (Eudora Welty), & “How It Feeks to be Colored Me” (Zora Neale Hurston).

✉︎ hobbies: reading, writing, drinking coffee, sleeping, working out, being with friends, going to the beach, & cooking/baking.

𐙚 blog style: dark academia, academics, chaotic academia, light academia, moodboards, essays, book quotes, poetry, confessions/secrets, & other random things.

✎ feel free to use my “confessional booth” button to empty your mind. I always read them carefully, but it may take me a while to respond.

☏ currently reading: Dracula (Stoker) + uni books

✒︎ number of books read in 2024 so far: 43

☁︎ (my spam account: @vampir3-jack )

🕸️ minors(!), do not dm me.

⟡ thank you for reading 🦇

✶ it’s time to try living again. ✶

[soracities]

To me, reading classics is less about checking off some specific to do list and more just participating in a conversation that's been going on for as long as humans have been telling stories. And I don't necessarily love every classic, but I do love a lot of things that reference them and it's wonderful to be able to follow your favorite author's line of thinking, or understand the allusions in other media (music, film, etc.). Like Paradise Lost is misogynistic slog half the time, but it formed a lot of our modern conceptions of the devil and you can see it running through a lot of Neil Gaiman's work (and many others). Or a happier example I got to enjoy both Sophocles' plays as well as all the references to Oedipus Rex in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, doubling the enjoyment of both. Some people might similarly enjoy starting from their favorite authors and reading the works that influenced them, and following the long threads of conversation back as far as they please, if they're considering reading more classics.

This is exactly how I feel too, anon, you encapsulated it perfectly! I think the less dogmatic we are about the fixed boundaries (or fixed presumptions) of some genres the better and the more open and freeing our reading becomes!

[petaltexturedskies]

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

Sophocles, Elektra (tr. by Anne Carson)

[forgotten-amongs-the-stars]

lord hypnos prayer

Divine Hypnos, god who knows no pain,

Hypnos, stranger to anguish,

come in favor to us, come happy,

and giving happiness, great King!

Keep before his eyes such light as is spread before them now.

Come to him, I pray you, come with power to heal!

- Sophocles, Philoctetes (409 B.C.)