#horror Haiku

Takin your cat on a walk to meet my two bois!

hey, can my cat stay on your blog for a little while?

i'm going out of town for the night and could use someone to watch her

#heritage post #youre welcome #posts that should have 10k notes

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

We will get there. We will not all immediately die on Jan 20. They will try to supress us, to kill us in a lot of places. But we will fight back. We will carve out a place to exist if we have to. You are not alone.

I know there are a lot of kids and teens who feel hopeless, lost, and even betrayed (especially by adults) but I’ve been there. And I’m on the other side of it. I was 16 in 2016 and just coming to terms with being trans. And I’m 24 now, having voted twice for president and in all of the “off-season” elections as well. I’m telling you that while it sucks now it won’t suck later and the only way to find out is to be there to see it.

^^^

Seriously. Recording things places to preserve them is the basis of historical preservation. Companies have no inherent interest in preserving these things. It gains them no money with how copyright laws are written in most places.

Let people have archives, let people actually have the things they own. Im so done with late stage capitalism and treating companies like authority figures so we can have basic human decency.

Yeah, I been away for a while. But ya bois back, and with a new gender. Suprising how being stuck in the wrong body actually causes some serious anxiety and depression. But guess this is my official coming out on this website. Pronouns he/they and im gonna make that every bigot's problem.

#gender #i know everyone says its Ranboo #but this man made me realize I was trans

alright as promised last week, heres the new icon

bastard

Thats so cool!

You Are Odysseus

So

I’m a teacher of Classical Civilisation that has taught the Odyssey for over a decade and studied pretty much every myth and story with Odysseus in it.. I think

and I’m writing an Interactive Fiction (choose your own path) version of the Odyssey, inspired by the Homeric phrase “he turned his great heart this way and that”, where you are Odysseus, allowing you to follow his decisions or make your own

and it already has 500 sections to it - written to emulate modern translations of the Odyssey, including the literary features of simile, formula, epithet, and the rest - and 21 different ways to die, and quite a lot of period and theme-appropriate alternatives

(and if I get time, the option to be Telemachus or Penelope, although that might have to wait because it’s already a monster)

and I’ve tested what I’ve made so far on my pupils, other Classics teachers, and some of the leading (and best-read) Greek Mythology podcasters and YouTubers, all of whom have universally loved it (yay!)

(EDIT: Oops and I presented on it at the Classical Association conference last year)

I’m trying to finish it this summer, but need a bit of encouragement to do so

EDIT: and I forgot to say that ideally I’m planning on it being a beautiful BOOK with an old-fashioned cover and lots of ribbons to mark your place ❤️ (ex-bookseller ofc)

so, please let me know if you’d like to know more!

(EDIT: or sign up here go get notified directly when it’s ready: https://ljenkinsonbrown.wordpress.com/you-are-odysseus-signup/ )

Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

A little animation for Asexual Awareness Week.

It took me a long time to realise this was me.

Discovering that asexuality was a thing changed my life.

I am not alone.

And neither are you.