#gilgaposting

Its funny when you're reading a translation of gilgamesh (or other cuneiform) thats light on liberties/assumptions so it has huge holes and gives you a headache to read and theres a little note that says 'tablet becomes fragmentary' like yeah I could fucking tell actually

if effects last longer than 7 days and 7 nights, contact your local ziggurat priest

I cannot get over the fact that gilgamesh succeeded in his goal of immortality, bitch you did it!!!! His name IS remembered thousands of years later. He lives in the people who study his story, he lives whenever people see a fragment of the his poem, he lives in the people who write smutty gay fanfiction about him. The oldest known story in the world is about the desire to live on through memory and the fact that we remember it now will never fail to make me deeply sick to my stomach in a good way

“I want a story where sex is integral to the plot and not just for the camera” HALT! Look no further than the hit 13th to 10th century BCE clay tablet poem The Epic of Gilgamesh where enkidu has sex for about one to two weeks straight and if that never happened then there would be absolutely no story at all