#ancient lit memes

[workingonit-currently]

[badliteraturememes]

Anyways happy pride month

[lilyharriet11]

I'm reading Iliad and I feel just like Henry Winter.

[enlitment]

Today on Rejected Academic Paper Names:

Did T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound?: Exploring the Complex Relationship between the Pivotal 20th-century Poets

[xxplastic-cubexx]

hey hey just wanted to say love your art. I monch on it like a lifeline

and also every time I see your reactions to comic panels in my timeline it makes me giggle a lot lolol

hello hello !!! thank you for loving my art, i hope to make more delicious art for you to enjoy soon :]] !!!

and Double Thank You for enjoyin my comic reaction rambles !! i (unfortunately) have many thoughts all the time and i have no impulse control and no filter so im glad my prattling is enjoyable (●ˇ∀ˇ●)

[motherlarkspur]

Need you all to know that I wrote my midterm for my college art history class on homoeroticism in the Epic of Gilgamesh and other Ancient Mesopotamian Art. I went as far as to read papers about burial and mourning practices. My professor? Loved it.

[midsummernightsmemes]

ᴬʰ, ᵗʰᵉ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉʸ ... ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ʰᵒⁿᵉˢᵗ, ᴵ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳ ᵗʰᵉ ᴵˡⁱᵃᵈ. ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ ᵗʰᵉ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉʸ ⁱˢ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ... ⁱⁿᵗᵉʳᵉˢᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵒⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵘʳᶠᵃᶜᵉ, ʷʰᵉʳᵉᵃˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᴵˡⁱᵃᵈ ⁱˢ ᵈᵉᵉᵖᵉʳ. ᴴᵒʷᵉᵛᵉʳ, ᵗʰᵉ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉʸ ᵈᵉᶠⁱⁿⁱᵗᵉˡʸ ʰᵃˢ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᵛᵒᵘʳⁱᵗᵉ ⁱⁿᵈⁱᵛⁱᵈᵘᵃˡ ˢᶜᵉⁿᵉˢ ᵇᵉᵗʷᵉᵉⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗʷᵒ. ᶠᵒʳ ᵉˣᵃᵐᵖˡᵉ, ᵗʰᵉ ᵉⁿᵈⁱⁿᵍ⁻ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵀᴴᴼˢᴱ ˢᵁᴵᵀᴼᴿˢ ʷᵉʳᵉ ⁱⁿ ᵈᵉˢᵖᵉʳᵃᵗᵉ ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵒᶠ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉᵘˢ' ˡᵒᵛᵉˡʸ ʰᵒˢᵖⁱᵗᵃˡⁱᵗʸ.

ᴴᵉʰᵉ. ᴴᵉʰᵉʰᵉʰᵉ ♥

[deadauthorssociety]

bruh look who at pride

[emm-posts-things]

Some guys aren’t ready for a goth gf

- Medea, probably

[cucumber-melon-fizz]

So I was in Ancient Lit and my prof was talking about Shakespeare and I thought “Ah yes, Billy Milkshake” and my prof went silent and I realized I said it out loud I’m dying

[witherydithery]

Gothic Lit Memes 1

I'm putting my Gothic Lit course to good use

[anotheraverageotaku]

in honor of the funniest phrase ive ever heard in a serious poetry analysis

[ID in alt]

[pumpkinpaix]

Chapter Spotlight 5:

"Allegations of Chinoiserie: Gu(o)feng, Authenticity, and (Self-)Orientalization in Chen Qing Ling and Its Companion Album" by 墨客hunxi

Describe your topic/chapter in one sentence/one meme/140 characters.

Surprisingly absolutely no one whatsoever, I spend 4k+ words getting way too deep in the weeds regarding the translation choice of one (1) word. Now with bilingual footnotes in Chicago style!

What drew you to this topic?

I got distracted while working on translations of the CQL companion album back in the day and decided to make it everyone's problem.

Who's your favorite character?

How dare you try to make me choose between Lan Xichen and Xiao Xingchen!!!

Favorite line from the text?

To this day, I still really love the first line from the chorus of 《无羁》 Wuji:

煮一壶生死悲欢 / Warm a vintage of life and death, sorrows and joy 祭少年郎 / to commemorate the young men who have passed

Particular shout-out to the lyricist, 冥凰 Ming Huang — now that I've spent a little more time splashing about on the shallow end of Chinese internet fandom, I'm getting a better handle on which lyricists are out for blood.

Hey, so what's this gu(o)feng business?

Aha! Gu(o)feng is my terrible bastardization/smooshing-together of the terms 古风 gufeng and 国风 guofeng (lit. "ancient style" and "national style"). They are two contemporary Chinese music genres that intersect precisely at the confluence of authenticity and aestheticization, tradition and reception, fan production and original work, electric guitar and guzheng and suona and dizi. I can't get too far into it without really getting into it, so instead I will leave you with some links:

《倾尽天下》 by 河图

《琴师》 by 音频怪物

《风花雪月》 by 紫堂宿、林斜阳

《卷珠帘》 by 霍尊

《无约而来》 by 远皓zil、默默

《山外》 by 张远

You can find hunxi here on Tumblr @hunxi-guilai.

(FAQ) (all posts on Catching Chen Qing Ling)

[therealrichardpapen]

Can I have some classic lit recs…make me feel like Henry please <3

Oh, this would be my pleasure, my dear friend!

Caligula by Albert Camus (It's a play about Caligula)

Oresteia by Aeschylus

Cicero

Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare. Coriolanus speaks about men's hubris and how pridefullness brings your downfall, while Titus Andronicus, well, I'll let you discover it by yourself:))

Marcus Aurelius, amazing works regarding stoicism

Seneca, letters to Lucilius, another great stoic

Petrarca's letters to classical authors

Ovid, the roman writer exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea, at Tomis, part of the Kingdom of Thrace (now Constanța, Romania), where he kept writing.

Bacchae by Euripides

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (a nobel awarded historical fiction about the life in Nero's Rome, written by a Polish writer)

Sappho, but I suggest finding a good translation with footnotes as her works have been barely maintained, and some of her poems are literally one word long.

Beyond good and evil by Nietzsche

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky (I won't add more as I recently conducted a full ass campaign here on how and why this book is worth it)

E.M. Cioran, A short history of decay, The demiurge, The troubles with being born. He is a bit of a nihilist. Romanian philosopher that wrote mostly in French

Machiavelli, The prince. This should be a good introduction into Machiavellism

The sacred and profane by M. Eliade is also worth a try

I believe there's no point in mentioning the Iliad and the Odyssey since everybody knows them by now. Hope you'll have fun!

Updated ~ with memes

Upon finishing my first year of uni and starting the second, there are more titles that could be added to the list:

The symposium by Plato (the og talk about the Androgynous, love. Beloved Alcibiades)

The Frogs by Aristophanes (comedy mostly)

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (amazing, full of symbols short novella on the bucolic world of ancient Greece)

Dante. If you genuinely want trauma and pain and to be lost in documents trying to understand Dante's times/politics of Florence, do try it. Its full of religious substrata due to the century Dante lived in. If you want a counter, ridiculing the medieval mindset of "god is everything", I recommend The Decameron since Boccaccio takes it all and creates funny, unhinged and decadent stories.

Voltaire's Candide or The Optimist is more of a philosophical work, Voltaire being clearly influenced by the illuminist current. (Not specifically something henry would read, but it would definitely make you feel closer to the TSH aesthetic)

Russian lit. Again, not Henry vibe exactly, but deep enough and very insane vibes. Crime and Punishment if you want yearning, self guilt and inner struggles.

Gogol's Overcoat and The Nose if you want some Russian surrealism.

[starlightswordfight]

"jeremy if this is another hc post I'm going to kill you" bad news

castaway nonsense PART TWO

– schnauz is deathly afraid of water. it unsettles him deeply, largely because of past experience. do you SEE his treasure catalogue entry for the blue paint?? who "swims out" for the "last time" in a swimming pool???? someone fucking DIED

– on a slightly similar note, he laughs when he's nervous!

– he is Perpetually Nervous

– I think molly would REALLY like the evil skeleton wizard memes that have taken over my brain for the past several years. "not me being evil shadow skull" and no one knows what the fuck she's talking about

– molly writes fanfiction

– will let people borrow her camera if you ask nicely

– speaking of molly. her and patch and dash should be best friends forever. same home planet and they all do stupid shit. jin is also involved and they're the voice of reason

– dash has a lot of fidget toys. on him at all times

– wears those jackets where it's just an anime character wrapped around them all the way all bizarre like. he doesn't think it's a good design by any means it's just really funny

– frisé's favorite instrument is the didgeridoo

– also she's intersex. I can do whatever I want

– hitting frisé with the singing/humming/tapping on stuff as stims beam

– construction work is super fucking loud so I think corgwin just would not be bothered by sudden/incredible noise anymore. it just reads as background stuff to him! that or he like genuinely isn't picking up on some of it at all, it doesn't register. frequent tinnitus haver. he might be going deaf

– corgwin is tumblr famous. the pikmin universe tumblr equivalent anyway. inspired by the headcanon generator that told us in the pikmin server I'm in that charlie lit a school on fire and got away with it and that the rescue corps killed princess diana

– think about it. he'd share fun building facts. niche internet micro celebrity and everybody loves him

– lapi is also tumblr famous

– he likes frolicking around outside For Enrichment but he also does it in the rain and sometimes comes home sick

– guilty of making sketchbooks into renderbooks and taking several years to complete them. "but it has to be perfect" That Is The Devil Talking

– horatio is not immune to the fog

– he has a VERY specific skillset. like. like stupid specific. the guy is the most proficient xylophonist you've ever met but he can't cook. knows how aeronautics works but his phone call game is BAD. give him an old movie from decades back and he can tell you what it is and who acted in it and exactly where he was when he first saw it, easily. if you ask him for directions anywhere he'll crumble and die

– he wrote his ID badge like that. it was fully and completely on purpose. horatio thinks it's funny as hell

– françois really likes bugs! sees them all the time in his work even if his studies are flora centric. while on pnf-404 he probably talks about it a LOT with dalmo. botany/environmental science major who minored in entomology

– I just do not think he'd be afraid of them and that is beautiful. he allows nothing to dissuade him. he has pet spiders it is wonderful

– OKAY YOU KNOW THOSE THINGS YOU CAN GET AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AND IN OTHER PLACES WHERE IT'S LIKE ROCK SAMPLES FROM FOREIGN SPACE BODIES?? AM I INSANE??? in the little capsules and shit ????? yeah kit has those

– astrophysics lover. adores space science. worked at a planetarium before meeting osa. I don't remember if this contradicts the established lore and I am too tired to go back and check so if im wrong you can pelt me with stones and tomato

– osa lets him ramble on about it but in all honesty he does not know what the fuck kit is talking about half the time ever. ever

– vice versa! osa also has a huge nerd thing and it's world history. which makes sense for an archaeologist. I don't mean modern history either I mean ANCIENT

– fawks would unironically endorse the idea of a cybertruck but it never comes to fruition because everyone says it's stupid and he feels insulted and he gives up and sulks about it

– but he'd specialize. I know he would. he gets specific with it. good for him! my money is on prehistoric archaeology, stuff back before written text, and language, and any history that could be recorded with the power of words. which is why travelling to pnf-404 was so fucking important to him, he's been trying to construct something that would fill in the gaps of that lost starfolk history and this WAS the exact sort of thing that he was looking for

– technically they're doing geoarchaeology together. yes that's a subfield

– he is a tech bro and everybody thinks this is stupid and dumb also

– chewy