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British troops watching shell-bursts near Bullecourt, 21st June 1917.

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fashionistas cosette and courfeyrac and their sad little loser boyfriend marius <3

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Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

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Autism be damned my boy can build a barricade.

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But never let me die without a struggle and without acclaim

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*weeping openly* it’s not possible for you to escape me now. i will drive my spear through your tender neck.the dogs and carrion birds will tear you into miserable pieces

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A collection of ancient ceramic paintings depicting Achilles in a blanket being miserable and pathetic.

That's the post. Sorry that some of these are mircowave quality.

I can't really pick a favorite, I like them all equally. They're just so silly looking.

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The tragedy of Achilles isn't that he got mad and was punished for it through the death of his friend.

The tragedy of Achilles is that it took him ten years and a very stupid argument to realize that dying in a pointless war against people who never wronged him was a complete waste of his life and that he valued living over glory, but at that point it was too late to disentangle himself from the cycle of violence that would claim his best friend/lover and inevitably himself.

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proud to announce that my funeral party is going exactly as planned now that ive performed the needed sacrifices

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May have girlbossed a little too close to the sun but yay! Backgrounds!

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Me, reworking my Les Amis character designs: Everyone must have period accurate 1830s hairstyles >:(

Also me: Enj’s hair goes all the way to his mid-back :)

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J.C. Leyendecker

Are we talking about soap or…?

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Guy who has only read Hamlet (Herman Melville) writing a book about a whale: I'm getting some real Hamlet vibes from this

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Greek mythological characters: Most characters are morally grey. Repeated theme of how we are capable of great good and great evil, it is up to us to choose which we are based on how we act each day

Writers adapting greek myths for modern audiences: I put the characters I like in here *box labeled good guys* and the characters I don't like in here *box labeled bad guys*

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I take my role as education officer in my club very seriously

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Color test!

May have flown too close to the sun on this one it's due in 2 days and I am nowhere close to finished LOL