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pretty boy consumed by death with the holes in his sneakers and his eyes all over me

ethel cain - dust bowl

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I get emotional over orestes almost daily and I love him the most miserable pathetic man ever. Iphigenia in Tauris was funny as well when people started throwing rocks at him and he just cried I'm sorry that was so funny to me

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orestes by euripides, a summary:

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The Conspiracy Begins by Ertaç Altınöz Murder of Agamemnon by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

Part 1

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Doodling my favorite scenes as I reread aGoT, part 2

-part 1-

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grrm has a real knack for writing men who cower in the corner due to the overwhelming shame of their mere existence while simultaneously saying to themselves “i am the hottest girl in this grocery store” twice per page. jaime, theon, jon etc etc

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Bekim Fehmiou (L'Odyssea 1968) vs Christos Tsagas (Iphigenia 1977)

The two of them are simply the PERFECT representation of Odysseus! Anything else is a cheap copy

You can't change my mind!

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AEGON II TARGARYEN and JACAERYS VELARYON + parallels

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alicent hightower with baby daeron.

— credits to the account @/wubnyra.

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I fear nobody will ever be able to match the dead stare standard criston has managed to set this season. gwayne accused him of fucking his sister and he said alicent is the Virgin Mary i keep trying to kill myself and she won’t let me. btw i hope we both die. and then he looked at him like this

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mutuals i would go on a katabasis with

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girls when they analyze ancient texts about murder incest and cannibalism together

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Electra looking exactly like the female version of Agamemnon is just perfect to me. Orestes looks at her and sees their father, obeying her. Menelaus looks at her and sees his dead brother, guilt-ridden and mourning her. Clytemnestra looks at her and sees the worst, treating her the way she never would if she was Iphigenia.

Chysothemis, the only sister she grew up with, is probably the only one who sees Electra as Electra.

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thinking about brotherhood in greek mythology……

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Sketches by A.K. MacDonald, 1932

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So regarding Bosie and Oscar.

They loved each other, and one could even say it was true love. But true love comes in many ways, and their "true" love for one another, was very much dependent on the illusions they had erected of the other. They were an escape, and they were obsessed with the idea of youth, superiority, and excitement they gave the other.

Bosie reminded Oscar of youth. He reminded him of a time that he did not belong to, but yearned to go back to ; a type of idolozied nostalgia. He references the ancient greeks, and the love younger and older men had for each other, which was both platonic and romantic. Bosie was his muse, he was his fire, he wanted him to be something he wasn't.

And on Bosie's end, Oscar made him feel alive. There was a passion in being defiant; against his father, against societal norms and expectations. He thrived with this idea of being the young, youthful gentleman, claimed by the poet and playwright. But even he dealt with his own insecurities, his internalized homophobia, struggle against his father and so forth. And at the end of the day, that is what their relationship centered around; Oscar as a conduit to make him feel strong, and empowered against his father. The thrill, that confidence, the need to feel important.

There was true love between them, but that true love was very contingent on the ideas they had erected about the other. And when those facades had vanished, then what was left?