i love the part of sophocles' ajax where odysseus very carefully, very diplomatically debates agamemnon, trying to convince him that ajax deserves a proper burial
some of my favourite lines:
AGAMEMNON:
Odysseus, are you for me or are you against me,
and for this man?
ODYSSEUS:
I hated him when it was honourable to hate him.
!!
ODYSSEUS:
He was my enemy, but he was also noble.
AGAMEMNON:
And you have respect for an enemy's corpse?
ODYSSEUS:
I am moved by admiration for his greatness,
rather than by hatred for his smallness.
AGAMEMNON:
He was a man of many turns.
ODYSSEUS:
Many of our friends later become enemies.
AGAMEMNON:
But do you wish to praise these so-called friends?
ODYSSEUS:
I do not see friends and enemies
as mutually exclusive.
and the finishing blow:
AGAMEMNON:
I see now that every man works for himself.
ODYSSEUS:
Who else should a man work for?
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one of my favorite things about zedaph is that on a server full of people that find strange and oft-overlooked minecraft mechanics or rare events and then see just how far they can push them in the name of spectacle or efficiency or world-breaking, zed is over here finding these mechanics in order to do the weirdest things he can think of in as entertaining a manner as possible
like i 100% have faith in zedaph's theoretical ability to be just as efficient or spectacular or world-breaking. if he wanted to do that stuff, i trust that he absolutely could. but thats so far from being his priority. instead, hes going to spend around a week of irl time focused entirely on eventually having the good luck to spawn in something insanely rare so that he can convert it into something even rarer, the result of which being something that 99% of the server reacts with complete and utter shock that it even exists in the first place, just because its zany and funny and he wanted to. and i love that
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Every day, when Steve gets home from work, he always asks his and Eddie's daughters what they did while he was gone.
One day, they surprise him with an answer he hasn't heard yet.
They tell him, “Daddy taught us how to pick locks.”
The girls are immensely proud of themselves and want to demonstrate their newfound skill, so they put on a whole show of locking themselves in the bathroom and breaking each other out while Steve watches on.
Much to his chagrin, all three of them can successfully unlock the privacy lock on the bathroom door from the outside – including three-year-old Hazel.
“That’s…that’s great,” Steve says when they’re done. “Uh, where’s your dad?”
They tell him that he’s upstairs and, indeed, Steve finds Eddie up in their bedroom folding a massive pile of laundry.
“Seems like you all had fun today," Steve says to him.
"Did they show you the door thing?" Eddie asks with a grin, "Yeah, they had a blast with that."
“Okay, you do realize that the lock on our door was our ticket to any kind of a sex life, right?”
Eddie blinks, the smile on his face slowly fading.
“Oh…yeah. Shit.”
“Yeah,” Steve repeats, “Nice going.”
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"kill claudio" this, "kill claudio" that. kill leonato. he believed a guy who he'd known for like a week over his literal daughter, joined him in publicly accusing and humiliating her, told her he wished she had never been born, then had the fucking audacity to tell claudio how awful he was for 'killing' hero, when he not only let him do it but encouraged and joined in with him
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