#I need a classics tag

[doctapuella]

I was dreading the part of this class where I'd have to read and teach about tactics and specific weapons types but TURNS OUT its wildly fascinating!!!!!!

Ancient archery fire was 20x as effective at causing injury and death than 18th century guns!!!!! But was almost completely useless against infantry because of shields and body armor!!!!! But was MASSIVELY destructive against chariots and cavalry!!!!

The earliest weapon was the mace which led pretty much directly to development of the helmet!!!!

Egyptians didn't use much armor or any helmets for a very long time bc they just didn't need to because they fought similarly unarmed peoples!!!!! So when the Hyksos came from near Mesopotamia they absolutely obliterated the Egyptians based almost entirely on the fact that the Hyksos wore full body armor and helmets, and the Egyptians did not!!!!!!

[butchgwenwhyvar]

I know the new Hozier song is about Francesca in the inferno but it also makes me think about Aeneas and Creusa - ‘I’d tell them put me back in it, I’d do it all again’

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[joshuamj]

Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

[mossterious]

The thing about Lisa Frankenstein is that it’s about girlhood. And something that really stood out to me is that Lisa isn’t a scientist. She isn’t some med student, or anything. There’s nothing scientific about her, and I really like it. Because, instead, she’s a seamstress. She sews!!! A labour that is normally ignored and deemed as unimportant BECAUSE of its association with femininity. They could have made her an aspiring doctor, or something, but instead she sews!!! And it’s just- there’s something THERE for me. About girlhood. About invisible labour. About how woman’s contributions are overlooked. About how jobs like midwives and traditional folk medicine are painted over and ignored in history and were replaced by the modern western biomedical complex. About the fact that hand sewing has been fading out of modern use and yet the creatures mother probably sewed every day. About making the creature be healed wasnt a science, for Lisa, it was an art form. About how modern biomedicine focuses on a separation of patient and person, while Lisa sewing the creature is so PERSONAL and- just. The sewing stood out to me in such a way.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Technical difficulties with the previous post but when we last left off I was making bows for the Sakura/Matcha Milk Tea Cow Sweet Lolita Fursuit... Thing. Look I have a vision, and that vision is adorable. Anyway, tail bow pics from last night:

Slept on it, then deep-cleaned the upstairs on it, and I've decided it needs... More.

[gomacave]

Taps mic. Hi guys. im introducing u to my 70s shoujo flavor toxic yuri sfkr au where they go to all girls catholic boardiing school and seph gets obsessed w the virgin mary statue in the school chapel (JENOVA) and tries to ascend to meet her. Cloud is manipulated into helping her because he has a massive crush also. Thank you.

(Nobody claps) (audience is dead silent)

[anartificialsatellite]

Hello friends, I am a westerner with radical politics that I've never really examined and I'm looking for position through which to launder my bloodlust while keeping my cred relatively intact, do you have anything like that in stock?

[runawaymarbles]

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (🏴‍☠️)

Did a leather bookbinding and tooling class last month (along with @mourningmountainsbindery and @zhalfirin!) - definitely have things to improve on as soon as I figure out how to run a propane burner in my workspace without accidentally asphyxiating myself.

[expelliarmus]

[sunnydayaoe]

Wahh. thinking about geno and sans, and. error and sans' relationship. specifically the classic ajesent sans in geno's timeline.

[faygos]

good morning take my harley-english doodles ☀️

[yesokayiknow]

barbara and ian's exit is an unashamedly joyful one. they laugh about the missing years! they have a pigeon chasing montage! they whisper goodbye at the sky and then run off giggling! and then as vicki laughs at their joy, too happy to let the loss of her few friends sink in, one just turns his head and very gently says that he will miss them. he will miss them.

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

jon val jon or something

[mossterious]

Something really poignant about Lisa Frankenstein, to be at least, is the fact that when the creature attacks Janet, it’s not when she’s being rude to her. It’s not when she’s just saying rude things, or beoittling Lisa, or anything. It’s when Janet says that she’s going to admit Lisa.

Because the creature is from the 1830s. And even if he knows about modern culture and inventions, which he sort of seems to?, he’s still FROM the 1830s. And when Janet says the word admitted, he hears the word committed. When Janet says Serenity Manor, he knows that that means an asylum. And he knows what asylums are. They are dangerous places. They are places where you’re stripped of all autonomy. They are places where you send people away to become someone else’s problem, and they normally don’t come back. And so he attacks. He protects Lisa.

And I think that draws a really important comparison between what asylums were, and what mental care is now. Because in a lot of ways, it isn’t much better. There’s still a lot of abuse in the system. There’s still a complete lack of autonomy. There’s still so much ableism and bias within the system. And people are still sent there to get them out of other peoples ways, rather than strictly to help them. And, sure, this movie is set in the 80s, so it’s not exactly modern. I mean, the movie points out that times are different. But with Janet, it almost seems intent on pointing out of similar everything is. Sending Lisa to a psych ward. The diet culture. The “intuitive person” thing. That one line about narcissists needing to be vanquished. And all these things are still a pretty big issue now.

There’s just a lot of comparison. ESPECIALLY a lot of comparison when it comes to disability and madness in these three distinct time periods. And like, it’s obvious that mental health was used as a weapon against people, and especially WOMEN, in the 1830s. But Lisa Frankenstein highlights that in the 80s, it was still a weapon! And that psych ward programs still poses a threat. Theres a comparison between how Janet and Lisa’s dad erase Lisa’s grief and say that she’s “acting out” compared to female hysteria of the creature’s time. There’s also the creature’s reaction to being physically disabled vs Lisa’s, with Patch and everything, but that honestly is another post entirely.

I just think that the discussion of mental health in this film is really important and, frankly, really well done. Especially especially especially through the lens that Lisa is a girl. And Lisa Frankenstein is a movie about GIRLHOOD. And so the movie took the extra step to talk about the denial of women’s feelings and specifically grief, and the pathologization of them. When women feel in a way outside of a norm, they’re wrong. They’re crazy. They’re dangerous. And idk I just think it’s done really well and the comparisons are all right there.

And this is all in a movie based on Frankenstein. This is all about a character based on Victor Frankenstein. The MAD scientist. So I feel like it all fits together incredibly well.

[raptornoturno]

I FINNALY FINISHED🎉🎉🎉

DTIYS for @ask-the-cat-cafe and my first ever dtiys hope you like it

(there are a few references to the blog too)