#the idiots

[greekmythcomix]

How I teach the Iliad in highschool:

I’ve taught the Iliad for over a decade, I’m literally a teacher, and I can even spell ‘Iliad’, and yet my first instinct when reading someone’s opinions about it is not to drop a comment explaining what it is, who ‘wrote’ it, and what that person’s intention truly was.

Agh. <the state of Twitter>

The first thing I do when I am teaching the Iliad is talk about what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t know about Homer:

We know -

- 0

We think we know -

- the name Homer is a person, possibly male, possibly blind, possibly from Ionia, c.8th/9th C BCE.

- composed the Iliad and Odyssey and Hymns

We don’t know -

- if ‘Homer’ was a real person or a word meaning singer/teller of these stories

- which poem came first

- whether the more historical-sounding events of these stories actually happened, though there is evidence for a similar, much shorter, siege at Troy.

And then I get out a timeline, with suggested dates for the ‘Trojan war’ and Iliad and Odyssey’s estimated composition date and point out the 500ish years between those dates. And then I ask my class to name an event that happened 500 years ago.

They normally can’t or they say ‘Camelot’, because my students are 13-15yo and I’ve sprung this on them. Then I point out the Spanish Armada and Qu. Elizabeth I and Shakespeare were around then. And then I ask how they know about these things, and we talk about historical record.

And how if you don’t have historical record to know the past, you’re relying on shared memory, and how that’s communicated through oral tradition, and how oral tradition can serve a second purpose of entertainment, and how entertainment needs exciting characteristics.

And we list the features of the epic poems of the Iliad and Odyssey: gods, monsters, heroes, massive wars, duels to the death, detailed descriptions of what armour everyone is wearing as they put it on. (Kind of like a Marvel movie in fact.)

And then we look at how long the poems are and think about how they might have been communicated: over several days, when people would have had time to listen, so at a long festival perhaps, when they’re not working. As a diversion.

And then I tell them my old and possibly a bit tortured simile of ‘The Pearl of Myth’:

(Here’s a video of The Pearl of Myth with me talking it through in a calming voice: https://youtu.be/YEqFIibMEyo?sub_confirmation=1

And after all that, I hand a student at the front a secret sentence written on a piece of paper, and ask them to whisper it to the person next to them, and for that person to whisper it to the next, and so on. You’ve all played that game.

And of course the sentence is always rather different at the end than it was at the start, especially if it had Proper nouns in it (which tend to come out mangled). And someone’s often purposely changed it, ‘to be funny’.

And we talk about how this is a very loose metaphor for how stories and memory can change over time, and even historical record if it’s not copied correctly (I used to sidebar them about how and why Boudicca used to be known as ‘Boadicea’ but they just know the former now, because Horrible Histories exists and is awesome)

And after all that, I remind them that what we’re about to read has been translated from Ancient Greek, which was not exactly the language it was first written down in, and now we’re reading it in English.

And that’s how my teenaged students know NOT TO TAKE THE ILIAD AS FACT.

(And then we read the Iliad)

#man this week has been hard for classics teachers #Iliad #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #odyssey #homer #greek myth retellings #comix #greek myth comix #classics teacher #teaching #myth #history #ancient greek history #horrible histories #the idiots #teaching resources #teacher rant #Youtube

[toxictoxicities]

Suddenly house husband Repurposed CW @revolvius / @rw-repurposed

#toxart #animation #shitpost #rain world #rw #iterators #APL #a plausible link #emergence #repurposed #cw #rcw #repurposed chasing wind #the idiots

[chaosplatypus]

#I love them #The idiots #the skating idiots #Sk8 the infinity #renga

[ap-kinda-lit]

I’m too lazy to draw it and too excited to wait but this is my Saiyan Squad AU in a nutshell

#trying to muster up the confidence and will to draw these #Saiyan squad #the idiots #Saiyan squad au #saiyans #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dbz #dragon ball super #dbs #Vegeta #Goku #son Goku #kakarot #Broly #Nappa #raditz #draw the squad

[atlasrunningaway]

more scream (1996) incorrect quotes

randy (gardening): can you bring me the hoe?

billy: sure.

*a few minutes later*

billy: here you go.

randy:

billy:

stu: why am i here?

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sidney: do you ever want to talk about your emotions, billy?

billy: no.

stu: i do!

sidney: i know, stu.

stu: i'm sad!

sidney: i know, stu.

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billy: tatum stop! you can't fight right now.

tatum: why? because i'm a girl?

billy: no, because you're wearing a wedding dress. for what it's worth, i don't think stu could fight in that dress either.

stu: perhaps, but i would make a radiant bride.

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tatum (with a headache): advil me up, mommy

sidney: i will short out the language center of your brain if you ever say anything like that ever again

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tatum (in the doorway): good morning, parental figure

dewey (trying to peacefully enjoy his coffee): hello, problem child.

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randy: i'm the sexiest bitch in this therapy waiting room

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tatum: why isn't the statue smirking at me?

sidney: it isn't smirking at anyone, tatum

randy: three of us saw it sidney, how do you explain that?

sidney: *points at randy* sleep deprivation, *points at billy* paranoia, *points at stu* delusional personality disorder

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randy: Ah, yes. Here we have a beautiful couple...

tatum: I really care about your feelings!

sidney: I really care about YOUR feelings!

randy, turning their head: ...and then there's the disaster couple...

stu: YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ME INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE HOSPITAL!

billy: I WOULDN'T HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME AT THE HOSPITAL IF YOU STOPPED INSISTING ON FIGHTING EVERYONE WHO COMES WITHIN A FIVE FOOT RADIUS OF YOU!

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#scream 1996 #stu macher #billy loomis #sidney prescott #randy meeks #tatum riley #incorrect quotes #the idiots

[lamuliz]

John's way of waking Arthur up

(John had to feel his way up to arthurs face since his eyes were closed so arthur got a bit ticklish and giggled half-asleep)

#theyre so :(((((((( #arthur lester #arthur malevolent #malevolent pod #malevolent podcast #malevolent #john doe #john malevolent #the idiots #wholesome

[onlineviolence]

redraw of thing from January

#the idiots #yuriel #gabriel ultrakill #ultrakill #ultrakill oc #woofs art #this is pre-pyrite existing so it’s actually foreshadowing that yuriel is exactly the same

[nepobabyeurydice]

this is exactly how they should’ve met again and you can quote me on that.

#naruto #sannin #orochimaru #senju tsunade #jiraiya #the idiots

[gomorysghost]

mattfoggy

#tweet #it's they you honor #the idiots #mattfoggy

[joshbruh10x]

School is getting busier by the day fjksdhkdl ANYWAYS MAY I OFFER YALL RANDOM SKETCHES OF GATORBUN?

#im so eepy #but gatorbun aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #they #the idiots #i love the idiots #glamrock bonnie #montgomery gator #bonnie x monty #monty x bonnie #gatorbun

[skipperthekangaroo]

Serious question for BBC Ghosts fans

#bbc ghosts #humphrey bone #the idiots #i'm not putting a no answer option you have to choose

[luxthestrange]

Incorrect quotes#565+27 Luci,Ridd eat your heart out

Mc/Yuu: I am at loss for words!

Mam+Dia+A-Deuce+Grim, narrating: Despite being lost for words, Mc/Yuu yelled at us for the next 45 minutes

#obey me #obey me! #obey me! mc #obey me mc #obey me x mc #obey me x gn!mc #obey me x reader #obey me x gn!reader #twst disney #twst #twisted wonderland x yuu #twisted wonderland x reader #the idiots #obey me mammon #obey me diavolo #twst ace #twst deuce #twst grim #mammon x reader #diavolo x reader #ace trapolla x reader #deuce spade x reader #obey me incorrect quotes #twst incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes

[lizzy-calaxio]

Shio needed a nap, and Lizzy's quiet house in the shroud is an excellent place to do so

(with the lovely @the-littlest-kojin)

#ffxiv #lizzy calaxio #shio shinju #the idiots

[nyxus-nyx-2]

took a test.. my results..

Your Result:

ink

you are terrified that one day, everyone you knew or loved will forget you ever existed. you feel as though you are disappearing some days, and fewer people even notice you’re still here. you’re as large as the world and your hands are full of words. you can’t seem to stop talking. you think, maybe, when you pause to take a breath, they’ll look away. you want to write the script, but you’re still dancing along. and when you hold the pen in your hand, the words are all someone else’s. you are sick and tired of being the puppet. but there’s nothing else you can do. step out the role. i give you the option because you have not noticed it is there for you. it always has been. your words belong to no one else. your creations are beautiful because you made them. your ideas are original because they are performed by you. is anyone else really the same? is anyone as wonderful and colorful as you? of course not, dear. dance for yourself. have you heard how magnificently you speak?

I KNEW ME AND INK WERE THE SAME!!!!

#nyxy rambles #the more you know #ink x nyx platonic #nyx and ink #ink and nyx #the idiots

[kanerallels]

Update: it is now no longer the songs ruining the vibes, but the characters themselves

#WHICH IS SO FREAKING IN CHARACTER #babes. babes this is supposed to be ANGSTY #STOP BICKERING LIKE TODDLERS #narrator: but they couldn't. and they wouldn't. and soon after they'd have a slightly romantic scene #that neither of them ever acknowledged again cause they're too busy being MEAN TO EACH OTHER #THE IDIOTS #miss scarlet and the duke

[jase-is-ace]

Poorly drawn out concepts from Back into the Pit

#The idiots #bendy was in fact yeeted in one of the chapters #twist #twisty #ink twist #toon twist #bendy #batdr #batim #bitp #bitp art #jase doodles