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Youtubers just appear out of thin air with 5 years of backstory and an army of mentally unwell 15 year old fans these days huh

holy trinity

Tiny unit

I don’t care why, this is hysterical.

This is the best kind of prank.

No scares, no injury, no property damage, just confuse the hell out of someone.

This book hits all my buttons in terms of things I’m personally fascinated with a little too much. I’m very emotional about all the connections between trauma and storytelling and this guy is very much on the same page as me.

[image description: a photo of the book Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay. end description]

The parallels with Gilgamesh are also so clear

I need to reread the Iliad for two reasons:

This book is glued to the actual text of the Iliad throughout; there are very few reaches and interpretations. The chapters are mostly composed of side-by-side comparisons between testimonies of Vietnam War veterans and passages from Homer’s epic. It’s incredibly compelling.

Achilles’s character arc describes combat trauma; he feels betrayed by those in authority, he stops caring about anyone except the people immediately around him, he loses someone close to him and blames himself, and he goes berserk and commits atrocities when previously he possessed honor.

But the Greeks didn’t have the concept of “combat trauma,” and I don’t think they were thinking of it like us either. We don’t sympathize with soldiers who have committed war crimes and are traumatized because the trauma does not “justify” the crime, because they are not innocent.

This is why the Iliad was so unintelligible to me in my freshman year of high school. I didn’t understand that the point isn’t that Achilles is good or Achilles is bad, it’s that Achilles is human

happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

who the fuck started this ‘prev tags’ nonsense. is that the work of those twitter kids that allegedly migrated here. stop that. if yall want people to see someone else’s tags just copy and paste or screenshot add them in a comment on the reblog like god intended

What… What are prev tags, what is this post talking about

yeah, what the fuck

happy pride month to this post specifically

The Bible makes a lot more sense when you realise they took out the part where the whole reason the Devil became a bad guy and tempted Eve with the apple was because Satan was traumatised as a child when God trained three evil apples to push the Devil’s parents off a cliff

That some king shit right there

this girl that sits with me was complaining..about another girl. because she likes the same band as her “but doesn’t dress like it” so obviously she doesn’t really listen to them

how do you DRESS like the music you listen to??? 

as an imagine dragons fan i am never seen not in a full dragon costume

as an arctic monkeys fan this is me

absolutely obsessed with the way Fahrenheit is legitimately a superior temperature measurements for day to day life than celsius (more precise, accessible, and understandable) but ppl refuse to admit to it bc they’re so caught up with the “silly americans refuse to convert to metric” gag

fun little info graph I found

[id: three identical number lines with 0 at one and and 100 at the other, labelled “Fahrenheit” “Celsius” and “Kelvin”. The ends are labelled, respectively:

Fahrenheit: Really cold outside - Really hot outside Celsius: Fairly cold outside - Dead Kelvin: Dead - Dead]

OP, it's only more useful for Americans because you're not regularly boiling water.

0° Celsius gets you ice. 100° Celsius gets you tea.

It's a very simple system.

Genuinely fascinated by this world in which Americans don’t boil water on a regular basis and a thermometer is necessary to know whether water is frozen or boiling.

freedom unit really be like "on a scale of 0-100 how hot is it outside" and the youropieans cant figure that out

i hope nobody is evil

>:)

oh no…

Can't believe Peter Griffin really tried it.

Ok but I'd the second dude like...a vampire? Because my straight ass is bewitched.

[Transcript:

(the first person has text over them that says "being fat and wanting a girlfriend")

First person: "See what's behind this door..!"

(Door has text over it that says "fat girls" while The Toccata and Fugue in D minor plays in the background)

First person: "Noo, is there a bett-"

Second person: " Yo it's funny that there's an entire demographic, of petite women who love bigger men. But because you've just ousted yourself, as a cunt, it's never gonna happen for you mate. You're really out here body shaming, all these beautiful shawties, big body Bugatti (kiss noise), exquisite; but you're built like a less cool Bling Bling Boy from Johnny Test. Make it make sense mate. It doesn't- it really doesn't. Could've kept your mouth shut. But you had to say something. And you even went so far as to put it on the internet. And you thought that was a good idea because-? Please, take yourself elsewhere. Sincerely the entire fucking human race."

End transcript.]

The moment that man started speaking -

Okay but he DOES actually sound very suspiciously like Trevor or Alucard from Castlevania

Sir speaks in cursive

His voice alone has seduced me

aight im drunk im 22 im cis im 99% sure this is a trans guy meme but,,, i experiuence this too dont worry this is a male experience i love u all ur wonderful and strong

I meant to add captuons like ur calid and all thar shit vut i hit the wronfg button oops

I wasn’t actually going to reblog this UNTIL I seen this reply… Thank u random drunk 22 year old cis man I appreciate you