Straightman in the reverse isekai.

because people have flipped out two recent posts of mine i feel like tumblr should remember it’s actually fine to acknowledge non-white, non-western countries can also have misogyny/political corruption/religious extremism. like I know a lot of young liberal Americans try to overcorrect for our conservative government but acting like Saudi Arabia or India are baby countries entirely full of morally pure, simple people is actually playing into the Noble Savage stereotype and not the anti-imperialist flex you think it is

obviously helen and menelaus see telemachus and think of odysseus and start telling stories of him in the war. probably telemachus looks like him etc. but i wonder also if when helen looks at telemachus she sees her cousin

when we think of things we take for granted that generations of old would be amazed by i think a lot of us are underrating the easy availability and low price of salt

I think there's probably a moral element to doomerism where it's not just that they think that society is doomed, they think that it deserves to be doomed for its decadent and sinful ways, and they don't like the idea that it might somehow escape justice.

not to be a gatekeeper or anything but i wholeheartedly believe that if you cannot appreciate the constant planning, effort, and labor of ancient workers (slaves, farmers, weavers, potters, etc) - you genuinely cannot examine or appreciate antiquity in any meaningful way (besides becoming an example for what NOT to do).

i think there's a very simple reason (besides athena's guidance) that odysseus tests and is tested by penelope, but reveals himself to telemachus pretty much right off the bat. and it's because there is no test. all the tricks in the world but not one hint he could drop that would allow his son to recognize him. i just don't think odysseus can stand that. he can stand to be in disguise, but not unknown.

people are so obsessed with shitting on enben & transmascs who, god forbid, have transition goals of a gnc man who has fun with his appearance, and making feel stupid or immature or even transphobic for having these goals. fuck em. pre-T i really really really wanted to look like robert sheehan as klaus hargreeves and guess what? i absolutely nailed that goal post-T. sometimes dreams come true. you can become the faggot of your dreams!

"Consensual, but still weird" is underrated in toxic freaky shipping world. There are many ways you can make it weird while still having everyone agree to it

They consented but at what cost

A friendly reminder that a dom can have limits too. They are not responsible for fulfilling every single fantasy you have. A reminder that a dom is supposed to care for you and that can and will prevent them from doing certain things to you, even if you want it.

I get why our current general societal thing is to say it doesn't matter which undiagnosed mental illnesses you had when you behaved badly because you should still be accountable for your own actions & I actually agree with that in many ways. however I think some people have gotten overly fatalistic about how much simply knowing what your own deal is can transform your life basically overnight if you actually hold yourself to treating your own mental health properly. like I do not think figuring out I had OCD solved all my problems but it explained 90% of the most fraught online social experiences I have had cyclically throughout my adult life and once I got treatment for it I never had that specific issue ever again. sometimes it IS that easy.

“our age of bronze is collapsing” is this beautiful random burst of monty python dialogue amidst the drudgery of nolan’s vision and i think it should win the first-ever oscar for best solitary line

[wringing my hands as i look out my window directly overlooking wall street, watching the sun rise on october 29, 1929] aw fuck it’s the great depression