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Remember, it is important to murder dictators democratically.

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH!

roses are red

violets are blue

if I were Vir Cotto

I’d stab Emperor Cartagia, too

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

Boosting signal.

Echoes from the ancient human past, wonderful.

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I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.

but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.

christ, he's good.

the eliding of “you all” to “y’all” while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. “bear with me” said exactly like i’ve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.

Get this man a starring role as Marc Antony in a southern adaptation of this show PLEASE.

This man is fantastic. 💕

The thing that just destroys me about this, though -- we think of Shakespearean language as being high-cultured, and intellectual, and somewhat inaccessible. And I know people think of Southerners as being ill-educated (which...let's be fair, most are, but not the way it's said). But that whole speech, unaltered, is so authentically Southern. And the thing is: Leaning into that language really amps the mood, in metalanguage. I'm not really sure how to explain it except... like... "Thrice" is not a word you hear in common speech...unless you're in the South and someone is trying to Make A Fucking Point.

Anyway. This was amazing and I want a revival of Shakespeare As Southern Gothic.

One of the lovely things about this, and one of the reasons it works so well, is that from what we can piece together of how Shakespeare was originally pronounced, it leans more towards an American southern accent than it does towards a modern British RP.

In addition, in the evolution of the English language in america, the south has retained many of the words, expressions, and cadences from the Renaissance/Elizabethan English spoken by the original British colonists.

One of the biggest examples of this is that the south still uses “O!”/“Oh!” In sentences, especially in multi-tone and multi-syllable varieties. We’ve lost that in other parts of the country (except in some specific pocket communities). But in the south on the whole? Still there. People in California or Chicago don’t generally say things like “why, oh why?” Or “oh bless your heart” or “Oh! Now why you gotta do a thing like that?!” But people from the south still do.

I teach, direct, and dramaturg Shakespeare for a living. When people are struggling with the “heightened” language, especially in “O” heavy plays like R&J and Hamlet, a frequent exercise I have them do is to run the scene once in a southern accent. You wouldn’t believe the way it opens them up and gives their contemporary brains an insight into ways to use that language without it being stiff and fake. Do the Balcony scene in a southern accent- you’ll never see it the same way again.

This guy is also doing two things that are absolutely spot-on for this speech:

First, he’s using the rhetorical figures Shakespeare gave him! The repetition of “ambition” and “Brutus is an honorable man”, the logos with which he presents his argument, the use of juxtaposition and antitheses (“poor have cried/caesar hath wept”, etc). You would not believe how many RADA/Carnegie/LAMDA/Yale trained actors blow past those, and how much of my career I spend pointing it out and making them put it back in.

Second, he’s playing the situation of the speech and character exactly right. This speech is hard not just because it’s famous, but because linguistically and rhetorically it’s a better speech than Brutus’ speech and in the context of the play, Brutus is the one who is considered a great orator. Brutus’ speech is fiery passion and grandstanding, working the crowd, etc. Anthony is not a man of speeches (“I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man”) His toastmaster skills are not what Brutus’ are, but he speaks from his heart (his turn into verse in this scene from Brutus’ prose is brilliant) and lays out such a reasonable, logical argument that the people are moved anyway. I completely believe that in this guy’s performance. A plain, blunt, honest speaker. Exactly what Anthony should be.

TLDR: Shakespeare is my job and this is 100% a good take on this speech.

definitely one of the challenges I have with reading Shakespeare is that it sounds so weird to me. “The good is oft interr’d with their bones”?? Who talks like that?

Well,,, rednecks. Despite being Elizabethan English, none of this is really out of character for a man with that accent; southern american English has retained not only (I am told) the accent of Shakespeare, and the “Oh!” speech patterns, but also so many of the little linguistic patterns: parenthetic repetition (“so are they all - all honorable men”), speaking formally when deeply emotional, getting more and more sarcastic and passive-aggressive as time goes on, etc.

I love watching big dogs teach little dogs the rules. They always have such big "old timer employee giving the intern orientation" energy. They're so businesslike about it. This is their valued junior colleague, they are showing them the break room and the photocopier trick.

Dionysius / Baco

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This is what language is for. Evolution. Ridiculous, wonderful evolution.

This is so good, I'm awake at 3am and glad of it - for this has arrived on my dash like a boss

the "tried to make him the main character" part killed me bc, indeed, caesar is not the main character of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

@suzeranity - OMG 😂😂

“They all did slay”

This is SO DAMN DAMN GOOD. I think Shakespeare would have approved.

Salutations. This is your Uncle Sam. And this is the Great American Game.

IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .

See . . .

"GNU Sir Terry Pratchett" - L-Space Wiki / Ursula K. LeGuin / "Terry Pratchett" - Wikipedia / "GNU" - Urban Dictionary / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett / Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett / Brandon Sanderson / Paul Kidby / The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

A Temple Has Opened In Greece

The temple to Zeus and Pan has opened in Gortynia, Arcadia, Greece. This is wonderful news for Hellenism!

Unfortunately, the temple was opened by the YSEE group - a folkish Hellenist group in Greece known for the anti LGBTQ views amongst other things.

However this will hopefully pave the way for more temples to follow! Especially in such an Orthodox place like Greece.

The temple was not opened by the YSEE. They merely participated in the opening ceremony.

The temple was actually opened by one Evangelos Bexis, a violent antisemite and ultra-nationalist who is besties with infamous scammer, failed politician, and criminal Artemis Sorras.

Bexis, as far as I can tell, has been arrested for building on land that doesn't belong to him but to someone from the diaspora who is extremely wealthy.

i can’t remember if i posted this during my first read through but i love it i love the character insights and the insights into ancient technology

It's an underrated book series, with such great insights into the characters.

Whoa. It's fish doorbell season

Vis deurbel!!

Fish photo of the week. If you even care

I turn to Ares.

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

As an Ares supporter I must reblog every single post pro-Are. Feat @likeappletrees

He is the god that is called by the victims of war, those forced to fight, the refugees, the prisoners, the families who lose their relatives, the crippled by war, those who want revenge, also those who do it out of patriotism or for their families. It is hunger and hopelessness, but also community. It is the shattered land but also the hope for a future reconstruction. He is with all that people

As someone who's needed help repairing my relationship with cis men for like..... Literally as long as I can remember, Lord Ares has helped a FUCK TON! Definitely didn't see that coming but it's been a pretty nice surprise 😂🤣 maybe its cuz im in deep with him and Aphrodite but every day I've worked with him he impresses and surprises the fucking fuck out of me 💜 so if anyone is in the market for some healthy masculine energy in their life I'd love to recommend Papa Ares 💜☺️😁🤣👍💜🙏

At first i wasn't sure it would work

I thought, why would a trans woman wanna commune with a super masculine and violent deity but... Its hard to quite nail down what the specific deal is but idk his GDILF energy has helped a lot. I was curious if anyone else felt the same or heard of this? Or am I crazy 😂 given everything I've been thru, solid maybe 😂😭

My Lord Ares Gynaikothoina (and my Lady Aphrodite Areia) is teaching me how to control my anger, my fear, and my pain. With his divine help and guidance he will help me find justice, and he will help me become a protector. I can't become a soldier, i can't seek and destroy my enemies. They have to strike me or someone near me first or I have to identify them as immediate threat. Thanks to Lord Ares he will be my guiding light, by following it I can aim and direct not only my righteous fury but that of everyone like me who ever felt angry, sad, and confused. Please be not afraid to speak with his Lordship I beg thee. Ive learned that sometimes only a God or Goddess of War and Justice can understand your righteous fury and pain. But on top of everything, despite being a cis man he understands the horror and suffering of SA. No myths of him raping or kidnapping women. Quite the contrary, when one of Posiedion's sons tried to rape one of Ares' daughters, my Lord Ares Skewered him. And what did the Lord of the Sea do in response? Nothing. Because he was wise enough to know to not fuck with the power of a God of War's righteous fury ♥️🖤💛🔥

I think me and a few other people need someone like that in their lives 💜🖤💙

Warning tho just don't do what I did and be careful of any promises you make to them lol otherwise you'll be fine 😂😭

Im looking forward to making his altar so bad 💜🖤♥️