queer platonic polycule whose primary purpose is to allow us to afford a house

some couples have sex; we do sunday potluck and take turns walking each other's dogs

Stay in school, kids. [source]

I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

congrats to these people on being funnier than me on my own fucking post

99% of all murders committed by women in ancient greek plays are completely justified

Clytemnestra: crack? Is it crack you smoke?

Yep, this is totally accurate.

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:

one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

What’s that quote? There are only two kinds of stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.

minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

haunted house uquiz by streetlighthalo

This is modern art. The tragedy and hopelessness is perfectly encapsulated in your lack of a choice. Were you in his place, you would do no different. Because the gods have deemed it so, because fate is stronger than you. I’m usually not a big art person but holy shit

im Feeling very sorrowful i Am going to drag hector’s corpse around patroclus’ funeral mound for 3 hours to calm down

Odysseus' last words to Poseidon

this isn’t even the whole story tho this makes it look like something that happened recently but this happened all the way back in 2002. one of their managers (who booked their first show, founded their record label, and was a HUGE part of their success) came out as trans shortly before being diagnosed with colon cancer. they wanted to make sure she had the opportunity to live the rest her her life as she wanted, but also knew she wouldn’t accept the money if they just gave it to her, so they told her it was back-royalties for one of their albums. they didn’t make any public display of it, they didn’t do it to make themselves look good or to take a stance on anything. they did it because they saw an opportunity to help someone they cared about.