art for the love of it is the highest form of art

ancient greek vet trying to neuter a hydra but alas...

age regressing back to toddlerhood for the sole purpose of reopening my critical period and learning Arabic

The ancient Romans were so so right about “eheu” being their word for “alas”. It sounds like the saddest most pathetic little sob. Eheu….

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband

just saw someone call christianity a cannibal cult, I can't believe people are unironically regurgitating roman anti-christian talking points in the year of our lord 2025

Show idea: magical girl group but each girl is based on one of the seven heavenly virtues

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

Euripides' Medea came dead last in the play competition it was in!