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I've finished reading Iliad, and I'm surprised how little of it actually ended up in our day-to-day culture. Most of the well-known myths from the Troyan war come from different sources. Judgement of Paris? Mentioned in passing. Abduction of Helen? Briefly discussed. Trojan horse? Nope, that happened later. Laocoon and his sons? Don't show up. Achilles's heel? Not even mentioned, his death is forshadowed, but is not shown in the poem. Cassandra's truth? Nope, though she makes a brief appearance. I went in blind, assuming it's the full account of the Troyan war, but nope, it's just a 50-day episode from year 9 of the 10 year long war: Achilles's beef with Agamemnon, a series of skirmishes between the Achaeans and the Troyans, death of Patrocles that makes Achilles return to the battlefield and kill Hector, then it ends with long depictions of the burials of the both heroes. That's it, everything else we know from elsewhere. But also, I was surprised to find a bunch of amazing story bits that didn't make it to the popular culture, despite being absolutely amazing. The only two episodes from Iliad that I know from popular culture are the list of ships (actually the list of tribes, ships aren't named) and the farewell of Hector and Andromache. Maybe also Achilles's beautiful shield. But there's so much more in there, amazing stuff, just as deserving to be a part of our daily lexicon! There's a moment where Achilles talks to his horses, and they, to his surprise, talk back. There's the whole thing about the Achaeans building a wall around their ships as troyans fight back and almost break the siedge, the wall absolutely loathed by the gods for some reason -- it's depicted as a disgusting building that needs to be destroyed, and the earth where it stood washed after it's gone. In an alternative world, we would use the "Achaean ship wall" as a shortcut for some building we hate and wish was raised. There's the moment where Achilles kills so many Troyans that their corpses jam the flow of the river Xanthus. The river cries to Achilles to maybe go murder people somewhere in a field, then, as he tells it to shut up, becomes angry, leaves its bed and goes to beat the hero, and gives him such a thorough beating that it takes a direct divine intervention to save him. Again, in a different world we would use it as a shortcut for an ecologic disaster caused by human hubris, the nature itself fighting back, and Xanthus would be a powerful summon in Final Fantasy 7. Actually reading the source materials, books that that people mostly know from quotes and cultural osmosis, is a miraculous undertaking. For each well-known quotable moment there are several just as amazing, but overlooked by the culture. I'm getting to the Odyssey next, and I can't help but wonder what unquoted wonders I'll find there.

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She runs and she explodes! Loved doing this, what a treat. She's available as a sticker too!

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This counts as vent art.

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Finished painting all my Trench Crusade starter sets. I had a blast working on them, and the rules look fun. Now to find someone to actually play with... ^_^'

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So wise. So true. The voice of the people.

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Amazing oldschool yuri, but also: #3 is so memeworthy!

The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger (French, 1814-1893)

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shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

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I painted a meme.

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Dream internets keep bringing me weird stuff, and I keep reposting it into thr IRLternet because why not. This time it got dark, though.

In my dream, Kendrick dropped yet another diss at Drake, and the top punchline was:

"Go touch some grass instead of touching kids".

Brutal. But also why drop it into my dream? I swear it's not the most popular platform out there.

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Hi art tumblr. In a dream, I saw the stupidest art meme ever, so of course I had to bring it into the real world.

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i had a vision

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The real question is: would you rather encounter a walrus, or a carpenter?

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sunday. slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Franz Kafka, "The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-13".

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In a dream, a name for a fantasy magic item came to me. I'm still half asleep, so not sure if it's good in the waking world, but in the dreamworld it was hilarious.

So. A cloth armor that gives the wearer immunity to fear effects.

It's called

Don't Tunic