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Orestes by Euripides, 408 BCE (“…μὴ θεαί μ᾽ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι.”)

trans. Michael Wodhull, 1782 (“Lest those Goddesses should seize me/ With frenzy.”)

trans. T. A. Buckley, 1858 (“I fear lest the Goddesses should stop me with their torments.”)

trans. E. P. Coleridge, 1891 (“I am afraid the goddesses will prevent me by madness.”)

trans. Arthur S. Way, 1898 (“Lest the Fiends by madness stay me.”)

trans. Philip Vellacott, 1972 (“This: suppose the Furies drive me mad?”)

trans. Kenneth McLeish, 1997 (“If the goddesses come… another fit…”)

trans. David Kovacs, 2002 (“…the fear that the goddesses may seize me with frenzy.”)

trans. Anne Carson, 2009 (“The ghastly goddessess—they’ll send my wits astray.”)

trans. Ian Johnston, 2010 (“I’m worried the goddesses will stop me with this madness.”)

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Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

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Caspar David Friedrich. Details. (x)

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Choose a different profession or group to receive a standard discount instead of the military — you only get one

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Yeehaw

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favorite scene from every episode: 1.13 The Blue Spirit 

     ↳ Aang talking to Zuko.  

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#captain flint is not here for your toxic masculinity

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where's a screencap of a tweet that's something like 'i can't handle this. i will continue to handle it, but i cannot handle it' when u need it

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my work: we're going to continue library service during construction and relocation

also work: but this federal holiday falls on your longest and most productive work day

also work: oh and you can't have access to half your work space because of "law enforcement activity" on your next most productive work day

also work: and we've scheduled an all-hands meeting on your next most productive workday. Which you can't attend all of, due to regularly scheduled duties, but you must attend while in the building rather than your typical prep work

also work: oh and we know you wanted to touch base with management so we scheduled a specific with you, again during your longest and most productive work day.

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Best Books of 2021 ↳ The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett | ★★★★★

Identical twins leave home at sixteen and build very different lives for each other, one marrying a dark-skinned man and the other passing herself as white. Decades later, their daughters meet.

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Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 2A

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Endorsement from submitter: "significant secondary character is a trans man"

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Setting: significant stretch of US, 1950–1990+

Historical fiction, literary fiction, adult

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

Endorsement from submitter: "Alexias and Lysis's relationship is great and also a really interesting look at ancient Greek sexual dynamics in general. Also, Alcibiades is there!"

In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their relationship develops, Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing the impact of this supreme philosopher whose influence spans epochs.

Setting: Ancient Greece, 5th century BC(E)

Historical fiction, philosophical novel, politics, coming of age, Ancient Greece, adult

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ive seen ppl using /gen, but what abt /nom, /voc, /acc, /dat and /abl?

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Photography by Cormac

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Come on, you know how this works.

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S2E1 / S2E5 Perhaps we would do well to bring it into the light.