Made-of-hybris - El

being a fic writer can be hard because sometimes you’ll get a random scene in your head and be like “oh this is neat! can i get some context?” and the characters go “lol no, figure it out” and so you need to shake your own brain like it’s a piggy bank like come on, there’s gotta be some more quarters in here . . .

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

inanimate objects do not have a gender nor do they cater to one gender specifically. read that again and stfu.

several thousand years of homeric scholarship and debate leading up to the most important question to ever be asked about the iliad: what would achilles name his warrior cat oc

actual facts about Vergil, according to Suetonius:

he was dark skinned (”aquilo colore”; of dark color)

he was very tall and had a “rustic face” (whatever that means)

my poor boy had a terrible health and he suffered from headaches and stomach problems

he really, really liked boys (”libidinis in pueros pronioris”, “he was given to passions for boys” like me too son) and his faves were Cebes and Alexander, whom he calls Alexis in his second Bucolic

he was very socially awkward. once he became famous for his Bucolics, he hated going to Rome and if he absolutely had to, he “would take refuge in the nearest house, to avoid those who followed and pointed him out”

he worked as a lawyer only once and apparently he was terrible giving speeches, bless him

he had a very soft and beautiful voice, and he would get really excited while reading his poems. according to Suetonius, he was once reading the Aeneid (not yet finished) to Augustus and Octavia, and she was so affected by it that she fainted

Harry: *points microphone to crowd* YOU SING

The majority of the crowd who thought they were “good” fans for refusing to listen to the leak:

youtube to mp3 converters have done more for this country than the military ever will

TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

the best characters are ones that suffer from a chronic case of Dramatic Cunt Syndrome