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headcanon that percy and annabeth routinely swap weapons in battle. it's not a concious feat. it's just that they consider themselves a single unit when fighting for their lives. so their partner's weapon is also their weapon.

#percabeth

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king minos: get this monster out of my sight!! put it in a labryinth so i never have to look at it again!! gods holy fuck!!!

the minotaur, born like a day ago:

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on tragedy, fate, and inevitability.

oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera

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like father, like daughter

“My Fathers Daughter” - Olivia Vedder / Interview with the Vampire (2022) / “How Do We Forgive Our Fathers?” - Dick Lourie / “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” - Ocean Vuong / Arcane / “Origin Story” - Desireé Dallagiacomo / @ - filmnoirsbian / “The Murder of Pelias by His Daughters” - Georges Moreau de Tours / mine

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aslkdjf tumblr did smth weird and gave me a notification for an ask you answered in fucking 2018???? i was BAFFLED

anyway hope you're doing well! just wanted to share weird tumblr shenanigans lol

that sounds like tumblr lmao

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Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson

Text ID: Gods are stubborn. So am I.

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Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

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I’m fine 🙃

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I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

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πτολίπορθος, “city-sacker,” is such a loaded epithet for achilles. of course he is a sacker of cities, he’s sacked countless cities and towns and settlements over the course of ten years of raiding up and down the coast, and we hear specifically about how he sacked lyrnessus and thebe and took briseis and chryseis captive. but it also brings it so painfully to the forefront that this, the city of the poem, is the one city he will not live to sack.

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Salt preserves food because it smells like the ocean and mold doesn't know how to swim and gets scared

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"The Bull" by Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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if a girl tried to sacrifice me to the old gods that would be totally fine and I would submit but if a guy did that I would fight back a little

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I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture

And asking them what Greek god it represents

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god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea

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we need more books about queer ppl who are violent and unhinged

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