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Ack, NO!

That is NOT how Daniel confronted her! That's not how it happened!

That scene was one of my FAVORITE from the book, and it was PERFECT up until that moment. The lights. Abby spinning in the background in her white dress. It was PERFECT.

And they had to ruin it. They had to make it more "dramatic" and RUIN it. UGH.

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What am I, Jesus? ZENDAYA as TASHI DUNCAN CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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That word, manhood, caught my eye. My translation uses the word courage. But I looked up a Greek version of the epic and found this word, ἀνδρότης, which translates to manliness, manhood, courage. It doesn’t appear to refer to uh, certain parts of the body. Emily Wilson, in her translation, talks about the complicated art of translation. I love her translation as well, and encourage everyone to read it! To be clear, Achilles and Patroclus have definitely been interpreted as lovers throughout history! I just thought it was an interesting fact!

Antiquity:

THE Homer In “The Iliad” - Some Direct Quotations: 

“son of Menoetius, my heart’s companion”

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“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”

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“and all-subduing sleep could not take him, not now, he turned and twisted, side to side, he longed for Patroclus’ manhood, his gallant heart–“

Aeschylus (The Father of Tragedy) “The Myrmidons” (lost play based on The Iliad) - Direct Quote:

(Achilles receives the Body of Patroclus) 

“Had you no reverence for the unsullied holiness of your thighs ungrateful for so many kisses I gave you?”

Plato (that Plato) “The Symposium” - A Summary:

“They’re Gay. I’d say ‘Ideal Lovers’ TBH. Oh and Achilles totally Bottomed!”

Aeschines (Athenian politician) - Direct Quote:

“I will speak first of Homer, whom we rank among the oldest and wisest of the poets. Although he speaks in many places of Patroclus and Achilles, he hides their love and avoids giving a name to their friendship, thinking that the exceeding greatness of their affection is manifest to such of his hearers as are educated men.”

(aka homosexuality existed in Ionian Culture & Homer knew any intellectual could read between the lines)

Alexander the Great - Iliad Super Fan:

Sleeps with copy under pillow, refers to himself as Achilles & has Hephaestion (he’s oldest friend, lifelong companion, and highly suggested one true lover) referred to as Patroclus.

Post-Antiquity through Contemporary Times:

Certain Historians/Scholars/Academics:

“That Achilles and Patroclus; Homer really gave us a perfect example of two guys just being dudes. He showed us what a ‘fella’ does when mourning a lost ‘bro’. Totally cool seeing these ancient guys being best friends! And what about those mingled ashes?! #HomieGoals” 

Hollywood:

“Cousins! Perfect.” 

Everyone Else @ Certain Historians/Scholars/Academics & Hollywood:

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A WALTZ ALONG A RAZOR'S EDGE

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every time I see some bigshot scientist revealed as a fraud my knee-jerk reaction is "hell yeah elisabeth bik got 'em good" AND IM RIGHT

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

ICONIC!!!!

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So back when I was a senior in undergrad, my partner went through, like, the craziest nervous breakdown I'd ever witnessed in my life. And like, maybe it makes me a back girlfriend or whatever but I was kind of like, "I'm gonna mind my own business on this one."

So my partner gets super close to two other students in his program. He was a film student so his senior year was being capped off by him making a movie. He decides he's going to make a movie about him turning into a salmon. He gets crazy into it. He starts eating salmon for every meal. He buys a bunch of salmon-related stuff. We found a T-shirt at Goodwill with a salmon on it and he thought it was divine intervention that he was doing the right thing. He walks into the freezing-cold Puget sound fully clothed several times to "get into it." He watches videos of salmon spawning and is like, "Nothing is more poignant than this." He gets a tattoo of three salmon on his arm.

The entire time the two students he got really close to are fully enabling him. It's a folie á trois sort of situation. They're out until six in the morning doing creepy art school shit and encouraging his (possibly no longer fictional) desire to become a salmon. My partner has an answer for everything. "Salmon get eaten by bears," I say. "That's a cool as fuck way to die," he says blithely. "And Salmon are free of the yoke of capitalism."

And if I dared to say, Hey, this is....getting a little odd..., he would throw a full-scale tantrum. I'm not supporting his dream (I wasn't sure at this point if it was his dream to be a filmmaker or his dream to become a salmon). I'm basically like, okay. Be a salmon! Fuck!

We had been dating for five years at this point and this behavior was such a left turn that I just decided to ignore it. And then after all that he basically went back to normal after graduation. Sometimes he'll be like, "That was weird, huh?" and has nothing more to say on the matter.

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Don’t….. fuckin power wash your roof. Don’t let anyone power wash your roof.

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Any thoughts on the leaked art by RS. Cause I'm really shocked, not enraged or disgusted or anything like that. Just shocked. Also this isn't canon, I just felt the need to say that. source <---

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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This is a really good thread.

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Putting all the GD codes I found

FILL YOUR PARENTS CARS WITH BEES

THE BODY OF HE WHO BEARS THE MARK OF THE HAND

SHALL SUFFER INJURY.

SHALL FEEL PAIN.

SHALL WITNESS DEATH.

BUT IS FOREVER TETHERED TO THE SOUL.

UPON INJURY. THE BODY WILL PERSIST.

BOLSTERED BY THE MARK.

IT WILL RESTORE ITSELF.

BUT NEVER TO COMPLETION

UPON DEATH. THE SEAL WILL AWAKEN

AND BIND THE SOUL TO BODY

ONCE MORE

THE BODY OF HE WHO BEARS THE MARK OF THE HAND

HAS BECOME A TOMB FOR HIS SOUL

EVERMORE AND EVERMORE.

CLAIR DE LUNE

BUCKLE UP

WHAT'S LEFT OF THE WORLD LIVES IN THE GASLIGHT DISTRICT. ITS POPULATION IS LOWER THAN TEN THOUSAND

IM SO DAMN HYYYYYYPED. MY GRAVITY FALLS BRAIN HAD NEURAL ACTIVATION MOMENT FR

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The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”

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Stromae, Pomme - “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Music Video]

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like. come on. are you serious. an interesting editing choice to say the LEAST