Someone Was Kind Enough To Make A Google Doc With Lore And Characters Etc

just finished this book and AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hey I'm looking for book recommendations..

I've read both If We Were Villains and The Secret History multiple times in the past few years and to put it lightly, they have both changed something in my brain, the way I read books, and my standard for stories.

So now I'm struggling to get back into reading literally any other book. I thought about reading a romance novel or fantasy but I often find them predictable and there's just not as much tea.

like.... I need the drama, the mystery, the incestuous plottwist, the murder, the irony, the homoerotic friendships, the dead character that haunts the narrative, the tragedy, the greek mythology, the unreliable narrator, and the shakespeare of it all.

I need more quotes that make me as insane as "I'm nothing in my soul if not obsessive" or "for us, everything was a performance. everything poetic" or "there is no comfort like complicity" or "do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?" "I blame him for all of it" or "you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough" or "how tremendous the agony of unmade decisions" or "I look at you and all the sonnets make sense" or "beauty is terror" or "were you in love with him?" "yes, I was" it's not the whole truth. the whole truth is I'm in love with him still."

the only book I can think of that comes close is The Picture of Dorian Gray, idk the vibes and the tea are there

Animate DTIYS with tutorial!

Meet Petals and Antenna 🌸 🍃 I’m hosting my first DTIYS challenge, aimed at 2D animation beginners or illustrators who want to try animation, check out the tutorial!

(The main challenge is on Instagram, but of course, you can share it here too! Though I gotta be honest, I still don't know exactly how Tumblr works, so I may not see it, but tag me or send a message or something please! And I'm sorry I feel so bummer lol).

Guidelines - Animate (or draw) Pet and Anty (one or both) - You can follow the tutorial or make a crazy sakuga, however you want! - I’ll share them until June 15th

With all the AI stuff going on, I am in a pretty bad mood regarding art; so much disrespect toward artists is disheartening. To counteract that, I decided to host my first challenge with an animation approach! Starting 2D animation can be daunting, hopefully this challenge and tutorial gives you an easy introduction and gets you pumped about what you can accomplish!

Cheers 💕

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there was not a single braincell amongst the characters in this silly little show

Achilles x Patroclus Explained: for anyone who needs it plainly mapped out for them one more time.

The Iliad:

-Most obviously there is a Special Relationship between Achilles x Patroclus

-Achilles and Patroclus share a Bed & Tent, Patroclus also does all the  “domestic” work for the 2 of them on top of being a soldier

-”But he had Briseis who he was going to marry”, despite only bragged about her because she was a war prize taken by Agamemnon thus taking his honor, he was “locker room talking for the boys” when in reality he had no sexual contact/dimension/relationship with her yet. He also knew the prophecy he wasn’t coming back from Troy so this is one of two reasons we can say that they have no plans together, (see bullet point one for second reason) and then later he wishes Artemis had killed her way back when they were raiding cities. It is also inferable that Patroclus had planted this seed of thought in her mind to put her at ease with Achilles as well as protect his honor because Patroclus is always there for Achilles (Achilles does take Briseis into his bed in Book 24 but again totally as a spoil of war… she is a conquest not a lover)

-Greeks know Achilles will only listen to Patroclus, Especially Nestor who goes to Patroclus to persuade Achilles to re-enter the fight

-When Achilles receives Patroclus’s body his first thought is to end himself with a sword because he does not want to live in a world without Patroclus

-Achilles’s rage at the death of Patroclus and wishing he had let all the Greeks die and they conquered Troy together

-Refusal to eat & sleep while weeping for days on end in bed with Patroclus’s body

-Andromache’s speech about Hector, forsaking all her other loved ones for her husband, aka her one true love and then Achilles giving the almost exact same speech right after about Patroclus his “beloved”

-Achilles kills Hector (Gods even fear his rage and that such emotion could cause war to end before prophesied) aka Achilles could change fate because he so “grieved” for Patroclus - totally homies right?!

-Achilles drags Hectors body from his chariot damaging and defiling the corpse for days; Angering the gods, to which he doesn’t care

-Thetis then comes to Achilles, to which he wants none of her comfort, during their conversation she also has to suggest AND specify for him to now have sex with a woman and maybe find a wife before his life is over (why does she have to specify “woman” & who/what was keeping him from getting a wife)

-Achilles tosses and turns sleeplessly (body of Patroclus is still kept in his bed) and he longs for Patroclus’s “μένος” (menos) which in ancient greek translates to “Might - Manhood - Vigor - Semen” plainly speaking “Spunk” (both kinds!)

-Achilles reaches to embrace the ghost of Patroclus when he appears before him - desiring to physically touch 

-Achilles plays the role of the woman and/or wife of the deceased when they burn Patroclus’s body on the funeral pyre and then collects the ashes himself and puts them in the golden urn. Achilles then charges the men to do the same to him when he dies putting his ashes in the same golden urn and burying them together so that they will physically be together for all eternity - which does happen

-LITERALLY ACHILLES x PATROCLUS

Most Ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Artists & Intellectuals:

ACTUAL Greek Artwork from 500 BCE (currently resides on display in Germany)

-There is no reference to this moment in any record or story. In this depiction Achilles wraps Patroclus’s arm while he sits between his open legs, and Patroclus lets his dick hang out, while Achilles’s is visible as well, super intimate for “bros”

-Later greeks assumed or imagined their relationship as Pederastic (An older “erastes” lover & an “eromenos” younger beloved) because that was the norm of that period but no one could definitely decide who was the top and who was the bottom 

**SIDE NOTE They do not have an age gap to support the Pederastic Theory AND after the pederastic relationship ended the men involved married women which we know neither Achilles nor Patroclus had nor plans to do

-Plato totally thought Achilles was a Bottom in his “Symposium” 

-Aeschylus (the literal inventor of Greek Tragedy) portrayed Achilles & Patroclus as lovers in his lost play “The Myrmidons” which was based on The Iliad. Surviving lines from the play are of Achilles speaking of “Patroclus’s Reverent Company, his thighs, and being ungrateful for many kisses”

-345 BCE = Athenian politician, Aeschines states in a speech during his trial that Homer didn’t have to say what they were because 1. the Greeks were more sexually fluid then 2. there wasn’t a word for “Homosexual” 3. Homer was a storyteller and ANY educated man knew what they were, like its THAT obvious

-Alexander the Great and his lover Haphaestion (this is a whole other can of worms still being fought) liked to think of themselves, and referred to each other as “Achilles & Patroclus”

-Shakespeare features the two in his play “Troilus and Cressida” in which Patroclus is called “Achilles’s Brach” aka “Achilles’s Bitch”

-Renaissance Artists & those onward armed with their skill, knowledge, and obsession with all things ancient painted numerous depictions of the two, usually scenes of Achilles receiving Patroclus’s body, and for “buddies” they sure love painting them showing A LOT of skin

-By roughly the 1960′s & 70′s historians and scholars started talking about them openly again with the

“ARE WE READY TO STOP PLAYIN’ AND OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AS ‘YOU KNOW’”

  All joking aside we still have a select number of Historians, Scholars, and Hollywood still holding out:

-What about Briseis!? (see above) they both also do sleep with a woman each but sadly here they are seen more as conquest and war prizes than actual lovers - again there is a fluidity

-Achilles was a HERO! Best of the Greeks -He’s always shown as A MAN’S MAN! YET in a separate myth (see Achilleid) his mother Thetis was able to hide him among a group of girly girls on Skyros to which he was perfectly disguised and has a one night stand with the princess again showing their regard for sexual fluidity. ALSO Do not disrespect that he was a manly hero and a femboy! This also explains how his son comes to be - again this is a completely separate myth and origin

-Could they be cousins!? (NO)

-**Closing Eyes** Homo-erotic? WHERE? “Item Not Found”

-”Well all we can say, there is no source, Homer never explicitly stated that Achilles and Patroclus were a couple or had a sexual relationship that we can find in the source material so… I am choosing to ignore all context and blatant evidence, as well have no heterosexual explanation for them either…  you’re just reading into it too much”:

EVERYONE who has a brain and has read The Iliad:

As for myself having read the Iliad, studied this Art, History, and Culture, as well as having a BFA; when you know, YOU KNOW. Feel free to share, use this as inspiration to read “The Iliad” if you haven’t already, think critically, and study up on your own!

IN CONCLUSION = THEY GAY & THE OTP !!

(Highly Suggest “The Song of Achilles” as well)

BANDMATES IDEAS

Prompts to use for characters who are in a band together:

Person A is a very confident performer but Person B gets really bad stage fright. Before every show, Person A gives Person B a pep-talk and helps them calm their nerves.

Person A has signed a bunch of guitar picks that they’re planning on giving to fans at their next gig. Person B steals one for themself because they are Person A’s biggest fan.

Person A and Person B argue over who gets the top bunk in their tour bus. Person A wins but during the first night on the bus, they fall out of bed which wakes up Person B who is sleeping below them. Then Person A begs Person B to switch bunks with them.

Person A has a very strange pre-show ritual that they secretly do before every gig. One day Person B catches them doing it.

Person A, the lead singer, always sneaks into the sound booth before a show and turns up the volume of Person B’s microphone. Person B is a back-up vocalist so their mic volume is usually lower but Person A thinks they have a beautiful voice and wants the crowd to be able to hear it.

Person A writes the songs for the band and most of them tend to be really sweet love songs. Person B just assumes that Person A is dating someone they’ve never met before, but actually all the songs are secretly about Person B. One day Person B asks Person A who all the love songs are inspired by.

Person A is really nervous about going on tour because they’ll be sharing a bus and hotel room with Person B and they’re really shy about having to shower, get dressed, use the bathroom, sleep, etc. around them. Little does Person A know that Person B is also nervous about doing all of those things around Person A.

Person A is in the studio recording vocals for a song. They struggle to hit one of the notes in their solo and become frustrated. Their producer insists on giving the solo to Person B, who can easily hit the note. Instead of taking the solo, Person B encourages Person A and gives them some vocal advice that helps them eventually hit the note.

Person A, the drummer, gets so jealous of the fans because Person A has to watch Person B, the lead singer, give them a bunch of attention while on stage and at the meet-and-greet every night. (touching their hands, complimenting them, taking cute selfies with them, etc.)

Person A falls during a performance (and is okay.) Person B struggles to get through the rest of the song because they’re laughing so hard.

#shore #sharp #rock #stupid #leg

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

Honestly can't believe they're making a Christmas movie called the Grincharov. They should just leave classics alone

here’s to a liberated palestine and an end to the occupation in 2024، إن شاء الله