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Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.

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The Old Old Story (1903) by John William Godward

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Going to submit a hit piece to the Uni newspaper about the Poetry Journal's nepotism

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you dislike agamemnon because he sacrificed his own daughter and you think he does it because he doesn’t care about her. i dislike agamemnon because in the iliad he is straight up annoying. we are not the same.

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i hate the entire "this word just can't be translated!" thing because it usually carries a very weird, fetishistic lilt especially when it comes to non-european languages, but especially because IT CAN BE TRANSLATED. MAKING ONE WORD INTO MANY WORDS IS STILL TRANSLATION. it's not a DIRECT translation, there ISN'T a 1:1 counterpart, but you CAN translate it!!!!!!!! you will learn to say "there isnt a direct counterpart of this word in our language" or i'll GET YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

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i can’t help it that odysseus stringing the bow when a hundred other men fail is so sexy he’s like a short brawny cinderella

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cassius dio 54.28 / iliad 23.81-4 trans. lattimore

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a lot of people draw camilla in feminine clothes but I want more of her in masc clothing-- the book says she tends to wear her brother's hand me downs

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I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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richard papen is so relatable cus have you ever just wanted to be a part of a friend group soooo bad. and they only sorta gaf about you

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there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

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This academic institution is roasting my sanity on a spit

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The managers wonder how I got the asshole chef to compliment me when I just did my job well and showed him basic kindness...

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Dum Spiro, Spero

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genuinely curious how henry managed to read the bacchae and think "yeah this is mint"

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Mary Magdalene in Meditation (1623) by Jusepe de Ribera

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the forum is a classic place to have a crazy public threesome