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thinking about walking through the curbs filled with knee-deep water on days I had to walk home from school because no roads in Los Angeles are built for rain

thank GODDD for the DNF list — I have so many texts for my Ancient & Medieval literature that I’m reading in fragments that I’d love to go back to

how do I explain to others that this translation means the world to me but I also want to throw up

this class is digging my grave

I’m so tired, this class is going to kill me, but anyway this introduction was so hand-holding and I loved it so much, very much gives me the warmth I felt when I read Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey

shout out all my female translators doing the work of the gods because I’m tired of reading translations by men for men, of works made by men for men 😔

bruh we got horse misogyny in The Iliad??? 😭😭

Apollo’s such a boyloser

Hephaistos, they could never make me hate you 😔☹️

if this exam comes Monday, I might have to roll over and cry

“Headfirst,” “The Gift,” “Notebook Fragments” — HOW DARE YOU 😭😭

shoutout Sophia for letting me read her copy because reading “Telemachus” made me want to sit down and cry somewhere, and now I’m scared to get to “Eurydice”

My greatest fear is that I am not made to be in the profession I want to pursue, but then I remember that my biggest foe is myself.

the gag of the century was going to class and finding out a lot of people don’t know the whole shtick of The Iliad / Odyssey plot, like wdym you didn’t know about Eris and the three goddesses???? 😭😭

shoutout to middle-school-me for consuming anything remotely Greco-Roman 💀

me when I show up to the hating Paris competition but HECTOR (HIS OWN BROTHER) IS ALREADY THERE 😭😭

it’s the way Athena canonically mogs Ares 💀💀

the way the gods are lowkey just D1 rage-baiters, especially Zeus and Hera like omg 😭😭 get a divorce or something holy moly

the day I rewrite a part of Greek mythos, it’s over for you guys