Fishbourne Roman Palace's Bluesky account posted this adorably scuzzy owl mosaic for Superb Owl Sunday. I feel him very deeply, so I drew him.

asparagus seller flirting with the merchant’s wife

[after pieter de hooch’s 'the asparagus vendor,’ c. 1675-1680]

THE RETURN (2024), dir. Uberto Pasolini

Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche as Odysseus & Penelope in The Return (2024, Uberto Pasolini)

writers after homer are divided on what should have happened post-odyssey in almost every way but not one of them looked at odysseus and believed he actually went on that damn oar quest

#every so often i see someone talking about odysseus going to fulfill tiresias' prophecy and my brain screams#THERE ISN'T GOING TO BE ANY OAR QUEST YOU STUPID SLUT.#which is not fair. i mean. nobody knows#i'm a militant agnostic about it. i don't know and you don't know either#but i think it's like. it's got an impossibility clause. built into it.#the place doesn't exist#so he can't go there. so he can't achieve the peace that comes after.#anyway. (@theodysseyofhomer)

another minoan lady 🤝

I connected two references: an outfit from a fresco and a real vase. I took the ref photos at the Heraklion museum.

Alnwick Castle, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1829

if i had a nickel every time a character in greek tragedy is presented with a covered corpse and mistakes it for a different character who was played by the same actor (and thus has the same body) as the character whose body the audience knows the corpse really is… okay i would probably only have like seven cents. but still.

oh wait i would actually have (at least) two nickels! hecuba initially mistakes the body of polydorus for the body of polyxena even if polymestor doesn't

if no students show up in 15 minutes can the teacher leave

btw if you're curious, my answer is that if you're the teacher and no one shows up to class, you should probably give it 25 minutes instead of 15 but then yeah, you can leave

Here's a useless thought my head just supplied me with that I absolutely can't use.

Co-op game where if one player sees another, they die.

Both die? Just the one who does the seeing? Just the one who is seen? All players or just one crucial character? Do reflections count?

"Don't turn around. I'm right behind you. I'm going to put the mcguffin down behind you and go around the corner, I'll tell you when it's safe to turn around; let me know when you're looking away again."

Tags from @spectroscopic-gayety

Yes this, I love this idea

hi :)

...that is called a soft-lock and players hate them. that would lead to players having to kill themselves by walking into monsters or jumping off cliffs to make progress.

which has some horrific story implications so honestly that'd be kinda cool just for how mean it is. forget a rage game this has become an existential dread game.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Author’s Note” from The Left Hand of Darkness

i was printing a stencil for a screen print of achilles and troilus, and the printer spat out some newsprint, separating achilles’ face and body from the paper! something about how the media rejects the subject matter and lets troilus keep running for a little while longer. something about how his father is the god of the arts