1983: stuck a Dr Who poster on my bedroom wall

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230729.html

Pearls: Dance Party on the Moon a fanvid of 32 films set partially or fully on the moon other streaming options and subtitles on AO3 here

1919 Lanvin drawing and the dress itself, in velvet and crepe, beaded. From Noah, Pinterest.

know the difference!

The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse

I didn't even know they had a category for that

“Summer Night” by Kitty Kielland, 1886 {info}

it took me a few seconds to realize it meant the battery was out, but before i realized that i just said “i am not a bat” out loud

obviously, there are lots of other classical texts out there. you might have read none of these and be an expert on greek tragedy. I'm not judging your classical knowledge so you don't need to tell me all that. I'm just curious about combos of these specific texts and their popularity, bc a post i just saw got me thinking about it

anyways this also gets combined with a dynamic that’s really maddening to me as a classicist where anything Roman is almost exclusively gendered as masculine in popular culture (see the Roman Empire meme, but also the subculture of Jordan Peterson bros roleplaying as stoics and reading or pretending to read Marcus Aurelius) whereas on the Greek side we have Anne Carson’s Sappho translations and a total saturation of feminist rewritings of Greek myth, Homeric epic, and tragedy. this is actually really weird from the perspective of a Roman social historian, given that women are far more visible in Roman material (esp. from the 1st century CE onward) than they are anywhere in classical Greek society, and it has the consequence that Roman poetry (except, like, Lucretius I guess) gets sidelined because the types of dudes that are going to maybe read Marcus Aurelius or Tacitus are definitely not going to read Catullus or Vergil’s Eclogues or even the Aeneid given that poetry itself is often gendered as feminine in the 21st century popular imagination, and the types of non-classicists who like Anne Carson’s Sappho and feminist approaches to Greek myth are also probably not going to read Roman poetry