literature and fandoms

I've grown to love the version where Helen is the one to kill Deiphobus. I think she deserves to kill someone after all those years, as a little treat.

I just know she was sooooo over him

me when I feel an OCD spiral coming on

The Oresteia is more devastating when Agamemnon and Clytemnestra really did have a loving and happy marriage. When Agamemnon really did love Iphigenia. When Clytemnestra really did love Orestes and Electra, and they loved her. But that love was never enough. It couldn't stop them from hurting each other. Killing each other. Breaking each other's hearts.

ah, the rosary, the stim toy full of jesus

no because I carry a rosary in my pocket any time I know I'm going to be in a situation where I might get overstimulated

"what did paris ever do that's so great" killed achilles. next question

I just know he said this to Helen in an argument (even funnier if he did it in the third person)

every writer has a song they play when it's time to get so fucking serious. if i put on Kung Fu Panda Oogway Ascends someone is going to die

Anakin's Betrayal from the rots score means Something Tragic Is Happening

One thing about me is I’m gonna walk into a church and go absolutely feral brained. Gonna be a long ass week chat

jesus time!!!!!!!!!!!! im gonna chant some fucken chants lads

me rolling up to Latin Mass after a stressful day

reading the iliad is crazy bc it just wildly flip flops between divine sitcom, the horrors of war, the most beautiful description you've ever read and a list of names that could've been 20 items shorter but absolutely should not be

Haven’t finished the Iliad yet but I think Agamemnon is kinda homophobic but can’t be open about that because two of his best warriors (Achilles&Diomedes) are obviously gay and his best strategist is a closeted-bisexual (Odysseus) (which is also obvious)

no you're so right and it's hilarious

officially diagnosed with bed too cozy disease

Mine is 9/11, so as a kid I'd wake up happy and open presents and then go to school where it was hammered home that This Is A Sad Day and then I'd go home and eat cake and I still feel weird celebrating the day of my birthday

why do modern retellings always try to make the source material less fucked up. what if i wanted to make it worse. ovid style.

watched troy: fall of a city, saw the helen/paris relationship and was like "ABSOLUTELY NOT" and then wrote it different

Sometimes I think about all the ancient plays that we will never get to read because they were lost to time and I get a little bit sad.