Watched « Spirited Away » by the great #Miyazaki with the fam yesterday and struggled to understand it fully. Then found this great interpretation by historian Jason Makoto Chun (Uni Hawai‘i) blog.iias.asia/pop-pacific/...

There is a new, open access 🚨 📖 book tracing the global history of Zoroastrianism from antiquity (6th century BCE-7th century CE) to the Middle Ages—and then into modernity. My friend & top Manichaeism scholar @babelalexandria.bsky.social has a chapter as well. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

take the pain away khachapuri

Odysseus and Athena have the most interesting relationship in the Odyssey bc it's the only one that doesn't feel formalized; everything else is a web of kinship, marriage and hospitality obligations, and then Athena is like "I love this crazy bastard because you never know what he's gonna do next!"

in context, Stringer Bell, is saying "I want you to put the word out there" is him trying to sell a weak product, but Idris Elba just has that presence that sells the meme version

reading theory (New Testament so i've got a convenient Rosetta stone lodged in my head)

we sailing back to Ithaka with this one youtu.be/Wt-pfjcMzH4

Read. To. Your. Kids. I. Promise. You. Have. The. Time.

brb about to experience the piercing wonder and fleeting glimpses of precision in Matthew Wong's painting

bruh what do you mean the Mycenaeans would pour water on a sacrificial bull's head so it would nod and thus be seen as acceding to its own demise

yesss, got that 2nd-3rd century transition

reviewing the Odyssey before the Nolan movie, with such timeless observations like "guests are sacred if you're not a pirate," "hope all these sex slaves don't resent their condition," and "everyone loves a beggar fight"

merdenea research underway

Hittite cuniform may be the funniest writing system. imagine Japanese, but you have to know the Korean readings of characters as well as Chinese and Japanese

remembering the scene in the Inferno where Dante gets a bit too into sinners ripping into each other and Virgil tells him to stop watching trash TV

he actually did it, the mad lad youtu.be/s0ga7XCpncM

Excelente trabalho meus blueskeiros

straight up malpractice that you have Ancient Greek textbooks teaching φθχ as fricatives

haha what do you mean i'm stressed about not knowing about which of three continents i'll be living in half a year from now

"what if god was all-powerful but dumb as rocks," a premise intriguingly explored in gnostic works like Pokémon, Katamari, and Dragonball Z

...can't believe i just figured out √ is used in linguistics to talk about the *root* form of a verb

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

The Sogdian & Bactrian world 400-800 CE was a fascinating cosmopolitan & multicultural society of art loving rich merchants & cultured elite dealing in high politics & intrigue, reminiscent of Renaissance Italy. Yet a sum total of 10 scholars or less work on it! That is truly heartbreaking.

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all else aside the toxic yaoi between Telemachus and Antinous looks promising

I have read this book once, twice, thrice, and reading it again - yet feel unequal to write about it in a way that would do its sorrow and brilliance justice. So I will simply say 天涼好個秋, things in nature merely grow. Congratulations to Yiyun Li for the Pulitzer.

Me, when there's a new conference on apocryphal Christian literature.

pan-searing salmon in schmalz feels like some kind of cultural violation but otoh it slaps

You give the Uruk Hai some sambal olek to spread on the maggot bread or toss in that stew and I think Helm’s Deep maybe comes out different.

if not only Yenisei-Athabaskan but also a connection to Sino-Tibetan is demonstrated (conservative clades preserve intense verb prefixation) i will absolutely burn my brisket

group theory tonight queen? 👀

A hacer misgendering a tu puta casa

IE grammatical gender starting as animate/inanimate and then having all the reflexes take some combo of male/female/neuter or dropping is pretty hysterical

*Hneh₃-mn̥ is that guy everyone knows, knows everyone else knows him, and wouldn't be believe everyone one else has that same special relationship with him that they do

the core Mario mythos suggests a local adaptation of the Ramayana, complicated by recursion of the kidnapping story

how do you tell your bro "proposing three months after meeting someone is a Bad Idea" after those words didn't work

There's actually a tradition of Roman emperors being depicted in Egyptian art during the period when Egypt was part of Rome. More on that in this article. #Classics #AncientBlueSky #Rome #history www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

*kʷékʷlos my beloved

a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict

time for certified Bluesky classic "duck season rabbit season for real wages"

I would integrate it into the syntax of the sentence it precedes

Un tío que no se ducha, que se pasa la vida encerrado en casa, coleccionado espadas y leyendo fantasía de calidad cuestionable, que idealiza a las mujeres y cree que le deben algo en base a las mierdas que lee. Es increíble que ser Otaku sea un estado mental con más de 400 años de historia.

all hail the greatest Marylander there is

i'm sure there are art critics who have a heterosexual explanation for Velázquez's Mars, but like

Ozymandias destroying his brain by watching too much TV while thinking he's reached new levels of perception...

reading that CPI headline like

The fact that only about 4 million people can understand the linguistic glory of The Knight in the Panther’s Skin is such an immense pity.