#i am not an academic

[heleniad]

my thought is that hyacinths are kind of helen's flower — the flower she wears most commonly. it's only right, seeing that hyancinthus was a spartan royal like helen, and hyacinths as flowers have come to symbolize great pride and beauty.

in edgar allan poe's poem 'to helen', he says this line:

thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, / thy naiad airs have brought me home / to the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome.        

which is what's inspired this post.

( also, in my roleplays on quotev, i have always referred to helen as wearing hyacinths in her hair because it felt right to me. but i never had a good reason for it until now. poe's poem really reassured me that i'm not the only one to feel hyacinths to be fitting for helen lol )

[ribbittrobbit]

The adventures of the Wizard Sorrow & Boshi (working title): a WBN Umora OC comics collab with @yeehawpim!!!!!

Pim did the story + layout and then let me run wild (and pop in at odd hours with questions about Boshi's design) See Pim's mad composition genius + OC lore over here Sorrow lore here & here

👀 more to come perhaps 👀

[zenlesszonezero]

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[bixels]

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!

[taitavva]

body swap

[milk-lover]

Sobbing uncontrollably reading through a dissertation about the college experience of students with ADHD. It is like reading a report about my life that just says over and over "My experiences are real. My hardships are real. I am not lazy, I am not dumb. My struggles were not my fault, and they were not a moral failing. The failure was with the system, not with me."

Here's a line that got me in particular:

"Hotez et al.(2022) compared the health, academic, and non-academic capacities of a nationally representative sample of U.S. first-year college students with ADHD and without ADHD. Students with ADHD self-reported lower academic aspirations and more feelings of depression and overwhelm, ranking themselves lower in their general emotional health. The fact that students with ADHD scored in the highest 10th percentile for many non-academic traits, such as artistic ability, computer skills, creativity, public speaking, social confidence, self-understanding and understanding of others, compassion, and risk-tasking, suggests that this population has strengths that are frequently underappreciated in academia."

(the paper is a thesis called "Understanding the Collegiate Experience for Students With ADHD" by Gia Long, 2022)

[sharkylad]

Thinking about the fact that Mabel and Dipper didn't know they had two great uncles.

Yeah they are 12 and at 12 I had a shotty understanding of my family tree- But really? Nobody brought up their great uncle? Stanley? Especially since they'll be staying with his twin brother, Stanford?

Shermie never went to Stan's fake funeral, which to me means the twos relationship was strained on some level. If Shermie is older that means his view of Stan was poisoned in some way, that even as kids they weren't close. If the Shermie is younger then he never even got to meet Stan and all he knew about him was how he failed his family. Hell, people probably barely mentioned Stanley TO Shermie.

The fact that Stan had become a black stain upon the Pines family name makes me so vividly upset. Stanley faked his death and the family just- seemingly decided to strike him from the record. To pretend he didn't existed to spare themselves the sadness and shame.

Stanford and Shermie Pines. The only children worth mentioning of Filbrick and Caryn Pines.

It was never Stanford that was lost to the world. It was Stanley, ever since he had to leave New Jersy- it was always him that had to be struck from the record. Change his name, change his state, change his affiliations, destroy the remains of ghost that was Stanley Pines. Kill him so the family doesn't bring him up, doesn't ask questions, stops asking "Stanford" about his twin.

I just keep thinking about the fact that since the day he made one single mistake all the way up until Ford walks out of that machine- Stanley Pines was killed and did not exist. And Stan himself had no one to blame, he had to play the part in his own demise- He is the only one who ever knew Stanley was alive and has been for decades.

He lives in the multitudes of every personality he's ever taken, all in the hope that he himself can stop being Stanley Pines.

[hannaloony]

[sunlit-mess]

snap out of it

[stella-soulaan]

A collection.

[peter1rose]

I got to choose a free book at a bookstore today and chose a collection of stamp designs from around the world. All of them predate 1970.

[hephaestusshield]

[heleniad]

referring to my reblog...

i wonder if helen knew, when she sailed to troy with paris, that her actions would start a war. it seems reasonable for her to think so — menelaus, as all good men, is a man of honor. but regardless there is still that clouded judgement from aphrodite's influence which had pulled helen away from hermione so callously.

now if she knew that her elopement would start a war, attaining kleos might have been part of the reason for going in the first place — alongside desire for the freedom that seemed to come with paris, escape from an undoubtedly tedious life, aphrodite, the sort... i have always thought of helen as being different from other women of her time: for her, kleos is attainable. she is a daughter of zeus, and that has been apart of her identity for as long as her beauty has been. at the time of her elopement, she is still young, and i imagine she still prizes her beauty as something of a divine gift rather than a curse ( a beauty like that, i think, could never be hated by a woman of that time unless there is true reason for her to do so — as in euripides' helen ). it changes as the war wages on, of course.

even if she did not believe that her actions would start a war, i don't doubt there to lack a selfish motive behind helen's elopement. her life with menelaus was dull, monotonous, unexciting. it was wifely duty after wifely duty. in my interpretation, i imagine that helen did not love hermione immediately upon birth as most women seemed ( and still seem ) to. helen, who was most likely a teenager when she had hermione, felt a clear disconnection from her daughter at the start ( this hc is inspired by sylvia plath's poem morning song ). fondness only grew as the years passed by. things were not great for the young and idealistic helen, and paris provided a path that could bring her to an ambiguous but undoubtedly bright future. not in terms of kleos, perhaps, but for sure in terms of her own personal life. there was still that spark within helen that yearned and felt herself to be not undeserving of good things to come. she was a demigod, and even at the end of the war she did not deny the power that came with that status, however wretched.

regardless, helen's end is as she begins. she may still long, dream, and yearn of freedom or the pleasures that should have come with her divinity, but still she ends in domesticity. she still tries to grasp for her agency, as per my post earlier referring to the odyssey, but her fate is decided. her fire has doused. she is older now, and sadder, and stuck with a husband whom, i think, can never trust her as fully as he did in the beginning.

[thatssroughbuddy]

Important question. When Appa has to take a shit does he just like let it rip at 3,000 feet or do they have to land for that

[iztea]

akiangel if they were in a sitcom

[chemicalarospec]

one of the posts on this website that haunts me is the one that claims neurotypicals instinctively know to read faster by reading the first and last paragraphs of an article and then skimming it if confused. I can't even begin to understand how someone would form such a bizarre belief.

[that-gay-jedi]

The thing is that everyone everyone EVERYONE posting about Hector of Troy understands the two poles of his conflict (the household and the battlefield) but so so sooo many posts file off the nuances of where he actually falls between them.

It's not entirely inaccurate to say Hector is a family-oriented character who fights because everyone he loves and everything he knows will be destroyed if he doesn't. But it IS a simplification.

When Andromache confronts him on the way to the gates, she doesn't ask him not to go out to fight; they both acknowledge the absolute necessity of doing so. But she asks him to fight defensively, to stick close to the walls and to focus on not allowing the invading army to breach vulnerable areas therein.

And he denies her request.

He has to fight aggressively and with the intent to win glory, he tells her, because he cannot bear to show his face in Troy if he does anything else. Even knowing that at this point his death would almost certainly cost Troy the war, destroying everything he holds dear including Andromache herself, he can't bring himself to preserve his life if it means falling short of the standards of Bronze Age masculine virtue.

This would have been totally consistent with the way the internet reads him IF she had asked him to stay home and hide under the bed or something. There's a reason he's as much if not more a foil to Paris as to Achilles. But that's not what Andromache asked him to do.

Given the choice between fighting ONLY to defend Troy or fighting to achieve honour and victory in the defense of Troy, he chose the latter.

The tragedy of Hector isn't solely that he's a father and husband who is forced to be a warrior. It's that he's juuust enough of a family man to want to be one, but... not enough to risk being branded a coward for it.

At least, not until it was too late.

He wanted his wife to have a husband and his child to have a living father, he really did. He outran fleet-footed Achilles three times around the walls of Troy in what I can only imagine must have been as much a feat of desperation as of athleticism. To keep ahead of someone on foot, over that distance, wearing armor, sounds frankly painful- I say this as someone who used to love running.

If the gods hadn't decieved him into thinking he had help against Achilles, would he have run until he collapsed? Until some archer on the walls managed to either take down Achilles or at least force enough distance between them that Hector could escape? Would anyone have shamed him for it? Having faced the shame of cowardice and survived, would he have fought differently in the next battle, more defensively?

He died before we could find out.

[zenlesszonezero]