Lady Poverty

Akuma: *tries to akumatize Marinette*

now i deeply, deeply love the boggart lesson scene in poa for all of its symbolic/character implications but im sure that shit would’ve only worked in the nineties

another hilarious example:

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

lovecraft and his cat n-…

Oh

achilles: when I die, mingle our ashes together so that we may be together for eternity

We’re seriously escalating the astronomically out-of-touch “academia is hiding all the gay from you*” meme on this forsaken hellsite to “Academics Who Study Ancient Greece Are No-Homoing Achilles?”

Also, let’s talk about the Achilles and Patroclus tradition for a moment. So obviously the main source for their story is the Iliad, and to be fair to people who didn’t think that they were in love, the homoerotic aspect of their relationship is never explicitly discussed in the Homeric poems. So if you’ve only read Homer, you could be forgiven for not seeing the homoeroticism. HOWEVER; the ancients themselves looked at Achilles and Patroclus and went “GAAAAAAY”* and proceeded to have heated debates about whether Achilles was a top or a bottom (I shit you not). So when modern scholars look back at the Homeric poems and talk about the love between our two heroes, they aren’t projecting modern sensibilities into ancient literature, they are simply seeing the same things that other ancient authors saw.