through the hourglass

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but i dont think thats a plant

Yeah that's a colony of thousands of animals called bryozoans :)

oh to be in a colony of bryozoans, swaying in the ocean currents

we are witnessing the gentrification of the term "tumblr sexyman" in real time and it is extremely disappointing. like no, live-action white boy #265 played by ryan gosling isn't a tumblr sexyman. i can't believe i have to say this but if it wouldn't get you shoved into a locker it probably isn't a sexyman

re: adaptation and the supposed “purity” of the original work it’s complicated right. and ultimately I think that whether classicists like it or not, it’s just the nature of the beast that (a) the texts we study have been and continue to be radically readapted and reinterpreted and we can have strong opinions about which adaptations we like or don’t but it’s just the nature of a 2000+ year reception tradition to produce variance, and (b) the texts we study are much more a scholarly construction, and authorial intent far more difficult (and ideologically suspect) to try to recover, than is true of, say, a 19th or 20th century novel. which is to say that it’s one thing to say that Fennell’s Wuthering Heights misunderstands Charlotte Bronte’s novel and something quite different to say that Nolan’s Odyssey misunderstands “Homer’s” epic, because the latter is responding to another 2500 years of a reception tradition that in some sense is not entirely or even primarily about the Odyssey as a poem in Ancient Greek. this is not to take a stand on either one as an ideological project or whether either is a good film (I am reserving judgment but strongly suspect that neither is) but to say that I think that whatever the Odyssey is on a conceptual level is much less singular and well-defined than what Wuthering Heights is, if that makes sense

basically what I’m getting at here is that “Homer” or “the classical” is not a real, tangible, solid thing out there in the world that can only ever be correctly or incorrectly interpreted. it’s an ongoing process of cultural conversation and production and assignment of value judgments that operates across thousands of years of accreted meaning, and the impulse to see an adaptation or interpretation you don’t like for ideological or aesthetic reasons and immediately claim that it’s a misinterpretation of the Original Text is a kind of rhetorical dodge

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

Me writing smut and calculating what position the characters are in.

I know I indulge in deeply parasocial behavior on here but there is a big, big difference between speculating and being silly with your friends in fan spaces, where any actor who sees what we're saying will know that they've chosen to enter a space where people are saying things that are not meant for their eyes, and going into the comment section of an actor's own account and acting like you know them. We do not know these people. It is creepy and disrespectful to go to someone you don't know and say "Hello total stranger, I know that the words coming out of your mouth are not what's in your heart and I'm so sorry that you are being forced to do something that you say you love when I know you're lying". Stop it.

not really a fan of the amount of people here who now hear “war crime” and immediately think “fun meme term”

i’m a very rational person in general but i kind of do believe in sports curses. because of the evidence

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world