#these greeks were wild

[notbecauseofvictories]

hm. as a woman who recently (ish.) left her twenties behind, I fear that American Psycho's late-twenties protagonist, who has money and a job from his father, plus a beauty routine that I thought wasn't invented until the 2010s; who ladles irony over every sentence, imagines floridly insulting every person who doesn't give him what he wants, but only flies off the handle in situations where the carefully calculated risk is low.....may be just a tad on the nose.

[polyhexianbirb]

I find it funny that like in one version of the whole Tiresias myth he was man turned woman, then turned man again and then Hera and Zeus are like "who experiences more pleasure during sex?" And Tiresias says "men experience one tenth rhe pleasure, women experience nine tenths." Which Hera didn't like that answer (which I don't understand why? He literally went "Yeah woman get so much more pleasure from sex" like??? Isn't that in favour of her??) But anyeays she turns him blind for that and then Zeus makes him able to live a really long life and foresight. Like. Damn.

Also that version where he sees Athena bathing and she is like "damn, gotta blind this man bc he saw me naked even though it's literally in the middle of the very public forest where anyone can see" and then his mum is like "Please!! Don't leave him helpless like this!" And so Aphrodite spits in his ears, cleans out some of the beeswax and gifts him with the ability to hear birds talk. Disney Princess much??

Also that he saw two snakes mating and was like "IM GONNA POKE THEM WITH A STICK!" got turned female, had 0 problems marrying a man and having kids, 7 years later seeing the snakes again and KILLING THEM WHIKE THEYRE MATING AGAIN?? gets turned male again and just. What? Abandoned his kids? I'm really curious as to what that conversation was like.

"Hello! Yes it is I! Tiresias! I know I've been gone all morning my dear husband, and also am a male now and very much blind! But I can talk to the birds, don't worry kiddos, I'm still your mother, just settle down-- why is everyone so quiet? Hello? You there?... I think they left. Damn."

[mythology-void]

If Percy rated the Greek gods

Zeus: 4/10 tried to kill me several times but did make Thalia and my bro Jason

Hera: -10/10 erased my memories and hates my girlfriend

Posideon: 100/10 that's my pabby

Demeter: 7/10 seems pretty chill, wanted me to eat cereal so she cares about my nutritional wellbeing I guess

Ares: 0/10 tried to fight me when I was twelve, very aggressive

Athena: 6/10 helpful I guess but really scary when you date her daughter

Mr. D: 5/10 useful when you need to kill a couple giants but keeps getting my name wrong

Apollo: 3/10 horrible haikus (he's literally the god of poetry) and can't drive but points for character development I guess

[vaguelyhumanshapedbeing]

I fucking love Diogenes so much. Whenever people talk about Greek philosophy it’s always the image of the “wise strong man in the toga preaching in his marble college to a gathering of men who look like younger versions of himself, debating the meaning of life and always maintaining the utmost sophistication and civility,” but then there’s Diogenes. My main man lived in a barrel in the marketplace, with a wooden bowl being his only possession (until he got rid of it because he saw a child drink water with his hands), and frequently pissed, defecated, and masturbated in public. But on the other hand, he was still a genius philosopher, frequently standing head to head with all sorts of major names in Greek philosophy. It’s like seeing a homeless man in the streets of San Francisco wearing the most disheveled outfit imagineable walking around casually deciphering the meaning of life and human existence, then promptly pissing on passerby. Just an absolute wild gigachad.

[artform-virtue]

i wish so bad they could beat the stars for brock faber if nothing else

[hood-ex]

If you don't mind the ask, where in Montana were you at? I'm a Billings local but have been going between Glacier, Yellowstone, Missouri Breaks, and Billings for work and just think it'd be funny if we crossed paths without knowing lol

I was in Ennis! I actually did stay in downtown Billings for a night back in May though! I ate at The Burger Dive for dinner and at Stella's Kitchen & Bakery for breakfast. I thought it was funny that the head chef of The Burger Dive was crowned "Burger Champion" at the World Food Championship. The burger I ate was an incredibly average burger 😭. I was like hmmm who judged that competition 😭.

I actually wanted to go back to Billings for an event this month, but I had to work, so I didn't end up going.

I spent more time in Bozeman and Butte. Was in West Yellowstone quite a few times as well. Also took day trips to Missoula, Helena, Deer Lodge, Jefferson City, Virginia City (which is only like 18 minutes from Ennis), and Dillon.

[fatestouch]

if i just so happened to add more muses to the royal au.... who would you wanna see

[whyoneartheven]

I just watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and anyways my life will never be the same

[skyward-ventus]

I HUNDRED percent blame R*ck and the rest of the series for this but I did not really just read a part of this book about how they weren’t sure if they would be safe to come out at a camp RUN BY A GREEK GOD FOR CHILDREN OF GREEK GODS CHILDREN. Then kids finally seeing that it was a safe space. 

Like DIONYSUS runs this camp????????

But this really puts it into perspective that Nico was the only openly queer character in this series until TOA. And I remember people being nervous that Apollo wouldn’t even be canonically bisexual in it. 

[aluminia]

ROUND ONE

Bessy Argyraki is a singer, active since 1973. She represented Greece in Eurovision during 1977 and has apparently released an album in Japan that was a hit (toshihiko).

Manto Mavrogenous was a greek independence fighter in 1821. She was a wealthy woman who gave all her fortune for the cause and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.

[rivilu]

Ok the more i think about it the more it trips me out that Frankenstein's first edition was written before the greek revolution happened and the second just a year before independence (for southern greece only) was reached. WILD.

[rmelster]

Is J. K. Rowling a transphobe and a blatantly ignorant human being? Of course, SHE IS! Should we mislike her for that? Indeed WE SHOULD. Can we stop taking interest in her life? Definitely WE CAN. I have done myself, and very gladly. Should we recognise that her books have a bunch of stereotypes of race, weight, human nature and sexual orientation? SURELY. I am working on writing my own story and I am making all the steps necessary to avoid making patronising and mocking tropes. Should we unfollow her after she talked shit and spread misinformation a bit Immane? YES. YES WE CAN.

But burying all her works, as if her books were the beacon of evil and spoiling of youth? No. NO. NO.

I thought we had reached a reasonable degree of media literacy not to give the “even if the author is a pos, you can still admire their work” discourse, but yes. Do what you want? Expose how bad she truly is, if you wish, that’s between you and your inner Jiminy Cricket, but you cannot go around telling people that just because they are still attached to those books they are not properly celebrating / supporting Pride? NO.

Grownups can chose what they like, men, women, both, none… Or reading the Brothers Karamazov, Harry Potter, both, none. What makes you a grownup, among other things, is that you think straight and properly, not like a whinny child. And the refusal of this thought is not fitting of a supposed grownup, but of the latter. this post is giving ✨INTOLERANCE ✨

TRANS LIVES MATTER.

QUEERS LIVES MATTER.

PEOPLE DESERVE NOT TO BE REPRESENTED BY HARMFUL STEREOTYPES. SCREW JK ROWLING AND ALL THE TERFS AND TRANSPHOBES!

[that-glitter-chick]

Historians: Mature adults engaging in consensual affectionate same-sex relationships? Unacceptable! Why the very fabric of Moral Christian Society would fray and fall apart! We’ll just pretend this doesn’t exist.

Same Historians: Zeus turning himself into animals so he can commit serial cases of beastial rape on obviously unwilling women? The masses will enjoy this, especially the kiddies!

[hermesmoly]

Never realized the Corythus-Orestes parallels now

[arisveah]

not only were the ancient greeks fruity, but so was their architecture! i will not explain.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

yet another list of "beautiful" words

to try to include in your next poem/story

Book-bosomed - coined by Sir Walter Scott; means "carrying a book at all times." If you love books, certainly you've been book-bosomed at times in your life.

Caliginous - misty, dark

Dithyramb - a usually short poem in an inspired wild irregular strain. This word comes from the Greek word dithyrambos which was the name for a wild and irregular poem honoring Dionysus, the god of wine, who was often lauded throughout the year during festivals at which poems of this style were read.

Embonpoint - plumpness of person; stoutness

Farinaceous - having a mealy texture or surface

Farouche - marked by shyness and lack of social graces

Florilegium - a volume of writings; an anthology. The word was borrowed into English from a New Latin word that comes from Latin florilegus meaning "culling flowers." Think of a florilegium as a bouquet of writings, specially selected and arranged for your enjoyment.

Goety - black magic or witchcraft in which the assistance of evil spirits is invoked

Lachrymist - one given to weeping

Lamia - a female demon; vampire

Osseous - bony

Phantasmagoria - a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage

Stygian - extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding

Tenebrous - shut off from the light

Theurgy - the art or technique of compelling or persuading a god or beneficent or supernatural power to do or refrain from doing something

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

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