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oh come on. when cassandra's screaming about how the house of atreus smells like slaughter and she can see children holding their own entrails on the roof of the stage building-- right behind the theater of dionysus is the altar of dionysus. where they have been killing animals and roasting their entrails for the dionysia. the smell of blood probably really was coming from the direction of the stage building.

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pulling my teeth out, throwing up, jumping off a bridge, getting a lobotomy after reading this and thinking how little of henry & sidney is left

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Sometimes I'm normal and sometimes I look down at the copy of the Iliad in my hands and think about how many forms it has taken, and how many people have read it on stone, on wood, vellum or papyrus, handwritten painstakingly or industrially typed, in a hundred different languages which may or may not still exist. Three thousand years ago a man wrote down a story and we've reading it ever since. And then I have to lie down.

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Yesterday night, I asked my parents to remind me to return The Terror (2018) to the video rental store. This morning I woke up to two — momentarily confusing and concerning — text notifications:

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As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic

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one of the best parts of the iliad is that occasionally two guys will bro out on the battlefield and start trading clothes with each other

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would you still love me if i was a severed head

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the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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Major human pastimes:

frying dough

classifying things and then arguing about the classifications

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comic about content

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Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

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aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good

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by Talos this can’t be happening