#interesting read anyway

[theoihalioistuff]

"[In Megara] there is a temple of Aphrodite, with an ivory image of Aphrodite surnamed Praxis [Πρᾶξις, Action; i.e. Intercourse]. This is the oldest object in the temple. There is also Peitho (Πειθὼ, Persuasion) and another goddess, whom they name Paregoros (Παρήγορος, Consoler), works of Praxiteles." – Paus. 1.43.6

This passage is so heartwarming in my opinion, imagining Consolation as one of Aphrodite's attendants.

— Sitting Venus with attendant (Peitho?) and Cupids - Punishment of Eros - Pompeii (VII 2 23) - Napoli MAN 9257

Also regarding Peitho, I recently found out she's fitted into early argive genealogy, either as the wife of Phoroneus (schol. Eurpides Or. 932 and 1248) or Argos (see below, schol. Eurpides Ph. 1116 quoting Pherekydes fr. 22):

"Argos, the son of Zeus, married Peitho, the daughter of Okeanos. From them came Krios, from whom Ereuthalion descended, and from whom the city of Ereuthalion in Argos is named, and Forbas. From him came Arestor, and from him came Argos, to whom Hera placed an eye on the back of his head and took away sleep, appointing him as the guardian of Io."

According to Persuasion in Greek Tragedy: A Study of Peitho by Richard Buxton, this, in addition to the sanctuary of Artemis Peitho in Argos (set up by Hypermestra in thanks for her acquittal, after she was tried by her father for not killing her husband like her sister Danaids), might offer tantalising tidbits about a relationship between the goddess and the city (perhaps akin to that of Harmonia and Thebes, as personifications who both belonged to Aphrodite's erotic retinue, and genealogical figures who were also concerned with the public sphere). Maybe a stretch but who knows!

— Fragment of a terracotta skyphos, attributed to a follower of Douris, Attic (MET, 07.286.51) - Peitho, Aphrodite and Eros

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

[majunju]

"girlfriend" (more ab rielle here)

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[obsob]

despite, despite, despite!!

[newttxt]

he’s here!!

from ch 7 of utilities included

masterpost

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[offkilterkeys]

The world isn’t ready for my alpha kid readings.

[sorrelpaws]

i support womens wrongs

[firestorm09890]

Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats

[marlynnofmany]

If you weren't around for the early days of search engines, you may not be familiar with Ask Jeeves, but for a while there he was the one you went to for answers.

The site encouraged you to ask full-sentence questions, not just type in key words, and it looked like this:

It went the way of the dodo because Google won the search engine arms race, but Ask Jeeves left a mark on the internet. (The webcomic host SmackJeeves was named as a reference, for one.)

Thanks for all the search results, Jeeves.

[kristybluebird]

My answer to the "who pulled Kanae's sword?" question.

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment