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this post is devoted to the situation in Belarus

please read, it's important. I feel that everyone cared and cared about Black Lives Matter matter, not only people from the USA. it's fair but why doesn't anyone from my feed say anything about Belarus? do you think that there problems aren't related to your life? maybe, but pay attention to other people too

in a nutshel: unjust election in Belarus led to riots, meetings among citizens. these people doesn't have any weapons and just try to claim that they want justice, that they have their own choice. but they are killed anyway.

many people are dying. people who did nothing bad or wrong. they were just unlucky that someone shot them while they were in the streets.

all information about that is available. there are photos, videos. the problem is that it's mostly on Russian or Belarusian.

what's more (and scarier): Internet in Belarus isn't working. all networks, providers were blocked. people try to use VPN services, but not all of them are working and not everyone can even find the connection to download a VPN app. and what does mean? people can't talk with their friends, learn about what is happening right now. they are scared and alone. they afraid of leaving houses because they can be killed. even if they are just walking outside.

it isn't secret that I'm Russian. so I know many people from Belarus, I understand what is happening. but do you know what is shown on Russian TV? on TV they tell us that nothing bad is going on, the election was fair and people who protests against its results are ukranians and poles (because they do that to destroy Belarusian state system). yeah, it sounds like they are nuts but it's just a Russian propaganda

so, as I have said, pay attention to some "small" countries too. maybe they don't have anyone to help them

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caesar’s assassins: finally, by killing caesar, we have prevented a single person from gaining complete power over rome

17 year old octavian:

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mood: paintings of apollo and hyacinth where hyacinth looks like that lightweight friend who always ruins your night at the club by passing out early 

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Me: I’m strong and independent. I don’t need love to be happy!

Also me: If a tall, rich, and handsome man doesn’t walk across a field in the early morning mist to tell me that I have bewitched him body and soul soon I might have to do something drastic

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i will never satisfied

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Les Amis as mugs

Enjolras

Combeferre

Courfeyrac

Bahorel

Bossuet

Joly

Jehan

Feuilly

Grantaire

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Hamilton: A very serious musical

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You could drop Tony Stark naked in the middle of the desert and he’d fly out in a jet made of sand and cactus needles. It’s not his stuff that gives him power. It’s his brain.

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The fact that Julius Caesar burst into tears after reading about Alexander the Great because they were the same age but he could never live up to Alexander is one of the greatest things I’ve learnt as a classics student

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What if instead of editing – and hear me out on this one – I lay facedown on the floor and do nothing

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twitter

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These are my two favorite gifs of Marius especially when they are put next to each other.

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My friends: [exist]

Me, about to tell them about some random history fact I read about:

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Alexander & Hephaestion

Their tutor Aristotle described friendship as “one soul abiding in two bodies”. That they themselves considered their friendship to be of such a kind is shown by the stories of the morning after the battle of Issus. Diodorus, Arrian and Curtius all describe the scene when Alexander and Hephaestion went together to visit the captured Persian royal family. Its senior member, the queen Sisygambis, knelt to Hephaestion to plead for their lives, having mistaken him for Alexander because he was taller, and both young men were wearing similar clothes. When she realized her mistake she was acutely embarrassed, but Alexander pardoned her, saying “You were not mistaken, Mother; this man too is Alexander.”

Their love for each other was no secret, as is borne out by their own words. Hephaestion, when replying to a letter to Alexander’s mother, Olympias, said “you know that Alexander means more to us than anything”.

Arrian says that Alexander, after Hephaestion’s death, described him as “the friend I valued as my own life”.Paul Cartledge describes their closeness when he says: “Alexander seems actually to have referred to Hephaestion as his alter ego.”

For Alexander to marry a daughter of Darius made good political sense, allying himself firmly with the Persian ruling class, but for Hephaestion to marry her sister shows the high esteem in which Alexander held him, bringing him into the royal family itself. They became brothers-in-law, and yet there was more to it than that. Alexander, says Arrian “wanted to be uncle to Hephaestion’s children”. Thus it is possible to imagine Alexander and Hephaestion hoping that their respective offspring might unite their lines.

Hephaestion’s death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. As Andrew Chugg says, “it is surely incredible that Alexander’s reaction to Hephaestion’s death could indicate anything other than the closest relationship imaginable”. In the context of the nature of their relationship however, one stands out as remarkable. Arrian says that Alexander “flung himself on the body of his friend and lay there nearly all day long in tears, and refused to be parted from him until he was dragged away by force by his Companions”. Plutarch says that “Alexander’s grief was uncontrollable” and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music; another that said “he lay stretched upon the corpse all day and the whole night too”, and another which told how he had the doctor, Glaucias, executed for his lack of care. Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground,and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles’ last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: “he laid the lock of hair in the hands of his beloved companion, and the whole company was moved to tears”.

Another hint that Alexander looked to Achilles to help him to express his grief may be found in the campaign, shortly following these events, against a tribe called the Cossaeans. Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander this might have followed in spirit Achilles’ killing of “twelve high-born youths” beside Patroclus’ funeral pyre.

Arrian states that all his sources agree that “for two whole days after Hephaestion’s death Alexander tasted no food and paid no attention in any way to his bodily needs but lay on his bed now crying lamentably, now in the silence of grief”. Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire. Arrian tells us that “Many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man”. The army, too, remembered him; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion’s place as commander of the Companion cavalry; he “wished Hephaestion’s name to be preserved always in connection with it, so Hephaestion’s Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion’s image continued to be carried before it”.

Alexander sent messengers to the oracle at Siwa to ask if Amon would permit Hephaestion to be worshipped as a god. When the reply came saying he might be worshipped not as a god, but as a divine hero, Alexander was pleased and “from that day forward saw that his friend was honoured with a hero’s rites”. He saw to it that shrines were erected to Hephaestion’s memory, and evidence that the cult took hold can be found in a simple votary plaque now in Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, inscribed, “To the Hero Hephaestion”.

One final tribute remained, and it is compelling in its simplicity and in what it reveals about the high esteem in which Hephaestion was held by Alexander. On the day of the funeral, he gave orders that the sacred flame in the temple should be extinguished. Normally, this was only done on the death of the Great King himself.

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the ancient roman emperor diocletian gave up on politics and society to grow cabbages out in the countryside and if that’s not a 2020 mood then i dont know what is