pervocracy:

Everyone goes on about how algorithmically-targeted ads are so creepily precise that they know everything about you, but I still can’t convince my Google ads that I’m not pregnant, I don’t own a horse, and my purchase of a home thermostat was a one-time thing and not the start of a comprehensive thermostat collection.

its-better-than-an-opera:

littlesmartart:

a conversation I had with @deboracabral and @awkwardbookishgay about the extra/awful correlation in enjolras, achilles, lestat de lioncourt, and dorian gray, and this is what was agreed on.

yes… I did just group interview with a vampire in with the picture of dorian gray, les mis, and the fucking illiad like. don’t even look at me right now.

Source: littlesmartart

things classicists may do to achieve that #ancient greek aesthetic

homerically:

  • eat figs
  • buy more than one copy of a single translation
  • equate beauty with death in day to day conversations
  • do a group bacchant ritual which inadvertently (or purposefully?!?) kills a man, then to cover up the first murder complete a second murder by manipulating a repressed bisexual into helping you push your close friend off a cliff
  • any time there is an opportunity to buy like those cheap tacky tourist-y roman or greek coins, buy those said coins
  • long for a bust of yourself 
  • humanise figures that probably, in all fairness, shouldn’t be humanised (i’m looking at you Achilles)
  • comment on the quality of the translation even though that is the highest pretentious level possible
  • use ‘pathetic’ – quote “in the original sense of the word”
  • question whether ‘Vergil’ or ‘Virgil’
  • reblog ANY AND ALL pictures of a statue 
  • cry over intertextuality