Queen Story's Mere Servant

in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job

Thanks to Equestria v Sugar Sprinkle, cutie mark interview questions are considered hiring discrimination, so if anypony asks you any cutiemark related questions or even alludes to any questions about your cutiemark such as "In your own words, describe your life purpose" you can and should refuse to answer. Know your rights, ponies.

like, for example: did you know that cats have visible sclera?

What's funny about 道— which translates directly into English, and I assume many other languages since it's a pretty obvious metaphor— is that the literal meaning is "path/road", and it is still used in that mundane sense in Chinese and Japanese all the time. So you'll have the same character for "the fundamental cosmic principle underlying the universe" as in "freeway" and "urethra" (尿道 , the Way of urine).

i need a website like goodreads but for books

weird how there's really not all that much originally written in english or french after the 17th century that's worth reading, and yet most anglaterreans only read things written in those two languages publshed since then

weird how there's really not all that much originally written in english or french after the 17th century that's worth reading, and yet most anglaterreans only read things written in those two languages publshed since then

huh my classical education is so poor I didn't realise that Syracuse is actually in Sicily, how embarrassing! Carthage being in Tunisia makes sense, and Antioch in Turkey near Syria, Tyre in Lebanon, Caesarea in Judea, no idea where I thought Syracuse was supposed to be, it was just free floating around the Mediterranean somewhere.

It is pretty weird that the largest Greek city in the classical world was halfway across the Mediterranean, almost like if New York City was in Hawaii or something. Other than occasional forays like the Sicilian Expedition during the Peloponnesian War they've largely got a whole separate history going on - mainly this cycle of tyrants taking over and being overthrown, which you can sort of see having an influence in some Greek political philosophy. (Syracuse is where Plato was imprisoned.) And then gradual enmeshment with Carthage and Rome. But all of the stuff you think of when you think of classical Greek history from the Persian Wars onward, very little to do with Syracuse. A lot fewer sources survive for Sicily than for mainland Greece, and sometimes they feel like dispatches from an alternate timeline with an entirely different cast of characters.

were people often going back and forth? it's like a week's journey, which is relatively short but also a week on a ship, it's not that short.

Yeah, at least to some extent. I mentioned Plato being brought over as a tutor, also guys would get sent into exile from Syracuse and go to mainland Greece. A Corinthian named Timoleon led an expedition from Greece where he overthrew the tyrant there and became ruler himself. But it was far enough from the eastern Mediterranean that its politics never had the Persian orientation mainland Greece had to adopt.

actually that's reminding me of viking settlements and colonies, where there are kings of some regions and even large armies but also occasionally a bunch of dudes just over there doing their own thing while remaining in communion so to speak with the broader Norse world.

there's this guy we all know but he's got crazy amnesia and loves escape games