So let's cry a bit with some Teucer mentions. "Teucer" is probably latinized for "Teukros" (read: Tèfkros) in Greek.

And it is also interesting given that "Teukros" basically speaks on his bloodline. That he comes from a Trojan line. I do hear some versions come from Hitite Tarḫunt which leads to the greek word "τεύκτωρ" from the word that means "to build" but nothing concrete.

We also see the association with the tribes that resided in Troy at that time. Either way I find it so intriguing that the name of this hero that was also known for his double roots and double lineage or often linked to the tradition that he was illegitimate son has a name that speaks "foreigner"! The dude has a name that speaks up for him having non-greek origins and I am not okay to think about it! (Yes Sophocles I remember you!)

i think the thing i love so much about Helen of Troy is that her story can be told in so many ways yet always ends the same.

she's a daughter of Zeus and Leda, she's a daughter of Nemesis. she's been kidnapped before, or maybe not. she chose Menelaus, her father chose for her. she loves Menelaus, she is ambivilent, she hates him. she chooses to run away with Paris, she is abducted. she takes her son with her, she never had a son. she despairs at leaving her daughter, she barely spares a thought for her. she loves Paris, she hates Paris, she loved him once, he'll forever be her true love. they have children, or they don't. she is free and happy in Troy, it is her prison. she's happy to be rescued by the Greeks, she's distraught at the destruction of Troy. she was an eidolon all along, or was she?

either way, Troy burns and she goes home. there are so many ways to explore how she feels at the end of it all, how the story is changed with just a few tweaks. but it's even more fascinating to me how no matter which route you chose to take, all roads still lead to Troy's fall.

i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like

well this is fucking stupid

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I maintain that Hey There Delilah by Plain White Tees is a 450% better song if it’s about a guy who’s lost custody of his daughter

Literally every lyric has so much more Energies if it’s sung to a child I’m gonna die on this hill. “Hey there, Delilah /Don’t you worry about the distance /I’m right there if you get lonely /Give this song another listen” and “Hey there, Delilah/ I know times are gettin’ hard /But just believe me, girl / Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar / We’ll have it good /We’ll have the life we knew we would / My word is good” like? He’s trying to get his daughter back? Idk if she’s with the other parent or in foster care or what but it’s So Much I have a lot of feelings about this. The repeated promises, “I’d walk to you if I had no other way” and “I’m right there when you get lonely” when, like, obviously, he’s not, and he’s just sort of desperately hoping that she still understands that he loves her, and that she doesn’t feel abandoned. And then, “Delilah, I can promise you /That by the time that we get through / The world will never ever be the same /And you’re to blame” that’s so fucking sweet? That’s such a sweet thing to say to your daughter. Romance is over. Noncustodial parental love songs are where it’s at. 

This is what “death of the author” means. We know that’s not what the song was written about, but what if it was? What if we explored the lyrics as though the speaker was a heartbroken father missing his daughter? It changes EVERYTHING. And it’s so good.

Anyway, OP you are wonderful and I love you.

Have always thought that “Hey there Delilah / you be good, and don’t you miss me” is a little creepy and infantilizing if sung to a romantic partner.

But if it’s a father, and he’s saying goodbye to the daughter he never gets to see, and he’s trying so hard to put on a brave face for her, then “You be good, and don’t you miss me” is shattering.

at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...

hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

very mysterious

oh doing his name in russian gives me some actually useful results, why didn't i think to do that

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

Осень "Autumn"

ooooh this one is really nice

Огни трудового Тагила, "The Lights of Labor Tagil" acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other woks!!!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHH

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

at a 4 year old's birthday party right now and he's wearing a shirt that says BRUH IM 4

Starting a collection

If you have more I'd love to see them this is my favorite meme format ever

too many girls who like snoopy and poetry and healing. personally I never heal and all I think about is the flaming skull