tearfulacademia

[tearfulacademia]

— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[tearfulacademia]

[tearfulacademia]

— Emery Allen, “Soft Human” (via lunamonchtuna)

[tearfulacademia]

Odysseus: I would trade the world to see my son and wife

Eurylocus: bro

Odysseus: *sacrifices Eurylocus*

Eurylocus: bro wtf

Odysseus: you're my world bro

Eurylocus: b r o

[tearfulacademia]

"Astynax (the infant) was quiet and didn't cry when Odysseus was holding him and was even smiling and reaching out for him, because Odysseus was wearing his helmet, so he must have thought it was his father, Hector, picking him up."

Me after reading this take:

[tearfulacademia]

I’m always looking for book, movie, show, and podcast recommendations of history and historical fiction, so if any of my areas of interest call something to mind, please share it!

⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆Long post under the cut⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚｡⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆

My history areas of interests

-> Ancient Rome, Greece, and Egypt: I find it so cool that people have been people since there have been people! I’m interested in mythology, too.

Examples: Mythology by Edith Hamilton, The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, The Aeneid by Virgil, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Circe by Madeline Miller, Galatea by Madeline Miller

-> The Crusades: I especially love learning about the “losing” sides because it’s so important to not let anyone’s cultural history die.

Examples: Gone Medieval (podcast)

-> Anything medieval: I’m unlearning a lot of “the dark ages” misconceptions.

Examples: Gone Medieval (podcast), The Lais of Marie de France, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, the Brother Cadfael series, An Instance of the Finger Post by Iain Pears

-> Anything royalty: I love seeing from where modern politics and traditions stem.

Examples: Noble Blood (podcast), The Rest is History (podcast), Not Just the Tudors (podcast)

-> Slice of life stories: I enjoy reading or listening to diaries, journals, court records, newspaper articles, etc. of average people throughout history.

Example: Textory (podcast), Vulgar History (podcast), The Exploress (podcast), epistolary novels (

-> Old Hollywood (1929-1965)

Examples: You Must Remember This (podcast),

-> Anything that is “The history of ____.” (People, places, or things)

Examples: Betwixt the Sheets (podcast), Get Played (podcast), After Dark (podcast), Girl Historians (podcast), What's Her Name (podcast), You're Dead to Me (podcast)

-> Anything about authors of classic literature

Specific people/families who I love learning about

-> The Tudors

Examples: Wolf Hall (books and show), The Tudors (show), The Other Boleyn Girl (book), The Spanish Princess (show), The White Queen (show), Becoming Elizabeth (show), Anne of the Thousand Days (movie)

-> Marie Antoinette

Examples: Marie Antoinette (2006 movie)

-> Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley

Examples: Drunk History (episode 6x01), The Rest is History (episodes 221, 440, 441, 442, 443), You're Dead to Me (episodes titled "Mary Wollstonecraft & "Mary Shelley"), Betwixt the Sheets (episode 96)

-> The Romanoffs

History I used to be interested, but not anymore

-> The American Old West: Once I learned about what the U.S. did to Indigenous people, I couldn’t keep reading about it from white people’s perspectives.

-> WWII: I read A LOT about it as a kid, teen, and young adult, and I just can’t stomach it anymore.

-> The Hippie Movement: Like what did they actually accomplish other than saying they were against The Man? There are so many other movements in U.S. history that actually made the U.S. a better place, or at least attempted to.

[tearfulacademia]

— Mary Kate Teske

[tearfulacademia]

Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.

- Jennifer Huang

[tearfulacademia]

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[tearfulacademia]

FAVOURITE MYTHOLOGY - Fairies

A fairy (also fay, fae; from faery, faerie, “realm of the fays”) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural. Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies, though even folklore that uses the term fairy offers many definitions. Sometimes the term describes any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creature or sprite. Various folkloristic traditions refer to them euphemistically, by names such as wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair folk (Welsh tylwyth teg), etc.

[tearfulacademia]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[tearfulacademia]

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

[tearfulacademia]

The Doubling of Self: An Interview with Richard Siken by Peter Mishler

[tearfulacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[tearfulacademia]

[tearfulacademia]

i miss you more than i remember you

clementine von radics / c. c. aurel / miles johnston / ranata suzuki / clementine von radics / sue zhao / madeline miller / lily thula / salma deera / clementine von radics / shelby eileen / jedaleyjd via pinterest / holly warburton / mary oliver / mitski / sea wolf / nickie zimov / trembling blue stars

[tearfulacademia]

I call architecture frozen music- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe