Secrets and Lies

i'm not generally one to get overly precious about etymology but its fucking insane to me that people still call things "highbrow" and "lowbrow". Like amiguitas those words are about Skull Shape

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

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this is the only funny addition to this post

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

shoutout to my favorite coping mechanism, isolation

image description: tweet by swamp sam @/mardirooster, reading: Im at the mental illness store trying to get one that makes you either a genius detective or charming evil, or even just quirky (NOT racist) but the guy behind the counter is stonewalling me, saying "we're psychiatrists we dont give you mental illnesses," but Ive read Foucault /end description

I can't stress enough the extent to which fascism is just capitalism in attack mode.

"a manful effort to be feminine"