Me: *feeling proud I wrote 1,736 words* That's good for today, I'll go on tumblr. Oh shit they wrote 8,000+ words in one day...
Greek Mythology Series - Nike, Goddess of Victory
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer oneself”
Promo for the @camphalfbloodnetwork
I haven’t stopped staring at this for weeks
commission for @empressrea
the umbrella academy meme: [1/3] Songs
“I Think We’re Alone Now”
Tension
getting overly defensive of your favourite historical / literary / classical figure
suddenly remembering how much knowledge there is to acquire and getting stressed about the overwhelming amount of stuff you don’t know
roman numerals: you either love them or you hate them
when your teacher is obsessed with one bit of the course and teaches you that for weeks then breezes over the rest
anachronisms
you’ve listened to so many in our times that melvyn bragg is basically your internal monologue
waking up in the morning with a desire to know everything about one specific thing that’s totally unrelated to everything you’re studying
‘ooo i know this word!’ she did not know that word
muddling up the actual history, the fictionalised versions of the actual history, and the fanfictionalised versions of the fictionalised versions of the actual history
‘what can this cartoon / movie / song / art tell us about x’
history students are over prepared for politics and classics students are over prepared for english lit
reading aloud in terrible accents in english lit
j s t o r
For that second time stopped. Their eyes meeting in an everlasting moment. Breathing slowed as those pairs of brown eyes met each other for that infinite moment. Love at first sight may not exist, but for that moment those two strangers felt a magic. And cruel faith must be for their paths were never to cross again.
Me, my mind, and sad thoughts
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.
Unknown (via quotethat)
мιnor greek deιтιeѕ; cнlorιѕ
↳ One of the characters named Chloris was a nymph that lived in the Elysian Fields, the area of the Underworld where the worthy souls lived. She was abducted by the god of the west wind, Zephyrus, whom she later married. She also transformed a number of mythological figures into flowers, including Adonis, Attis, Crocus, Hyacinthus and Narcissus.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”