motive as old as eden

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

@i-count-words-in-posts

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The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken

Spartan propaganda usually only works if you stop right before the end of the story tbh

Cf. also the Wikipedia entry for Laconophilia. This particular line of wishful-thinking/cherry-picking BS has been going on for a long time. 😏

It's in the grand tradition of Stage Plays where, rest assured, some AMAZING things happened Just Off Stage!

Trust us it was very cool! Not in the budget but very cool!

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

Tasty obelisk fries..

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

“It’s digestible”

I have learned a new thing today.

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

when you’re mean to me this is literally who you’re being mean to *image of me perched atop a throne of human skulls on a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls, and the dream goes on forever, one single static frame*

love pickles. a little pickle never killed nobody. Unless you’re in one. Then shit ain’t funny.

Well I wish I had a pickle Any pickle would suffice A bread-and-butter, cornichon, or kosher would be nice I would pay a hundred nickels You could ask for any price I would eat them in a relish, off a fork, or finely sliced I would steal a million pickles on a pickle-plucking heist Then I’d sail away forever to my pickle paradise But oh, if they did catch me If they had me dead to rights Then the only pickle left would be the one I’d be inside

Is this… to the tune of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate?

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck