Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

YOU like ancient Greece because you imagine it as a white marble place of pale people discussing philosophy

I like ancient Greece because I imagine a noisy place where the statuary's painted pink, brown dudes with kinky hair argue loudly, and everything smells like goats and fried fish.

we are not the same

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

ROMANS
* Suetonius' bullshit stories about the Caesars' sex lives
* don't like tragedies but love sitcoms
* did NOT successfully invade Iran, this is because Sassanids are AWESOME
* boring loricae segmentata/squamata/hamata
* oh geez we don't sail we hire Celts to do that for us
* ooh lookat our art we like gladiators so much we put a big fresco of them in the snack bar and then someone graffiti'd about his sexual prowess on it
* wanna study on site? then you gotta go to Naples or something

GREEKS
* Herodotus' bullshit about distant places
* epic tragedies, comedies are 2500 year old The Onion articles
* successfully drove off Iranian invasion and then fell apart in really dumb loud arguments
* AWESOME hoploi, the occasional full monty
* fuckin' big noisy naval engagements
* all the marble is painted AWESOME colors
* fuck yeah let's go to Crete!

"apparently women are asking men how often they think about the Roman empire"

I'm reminded of someone I met who'd been a classic civ grad student. The leader of her cohort tried to get them all to get SPQR tats while they were drinking heavily and her take was "why do I care about the Senate and People of Rome?" and she got a big gorgon head instead.

case I'm not back for a while, l'shana tovah!

and now it's time for coyote stories, or "ethnic food coyote has stuffed in her mouth and would like to do so again"

thankfully the billboard PSA about "every three minutes someone is hit by a train" made it clear they were talking about staying off the tracks, I was starting to look upwards worriedly

Why take a trip with your friends but split rooms? Why stay at a hotel full of kids if you’re trying to take a break from yours? Why stay at the same hotel as members of the lesser classes? Get an AirBNB, you’re not staying in YOUR community, why should YOU care that you’re helping rich parasites completely fuck over the city and locals?

@Kusimanse if you go back through my FA scraps to 2008-2009 ish there should be photos from July 2008. Friends invited me on several road-trips to Vancouver WA between 2008-2012, and all of them were important and emotionally useful but July ‘08, the first one, REALLY saved my life.

Listening to the Ep VI soundtrack, I now question how Lando was able to lay low in Jabba’s palace for literally months without being thrown out for clearing his fellow guards out at games of chance. Because you KNOW that dude gambled like an entire bus load of tourists while there… Is there a possibility that Jabba kept him around because he was “lucky”?

@LexYeen oh but also with the original thesis;

You notice that the only piece of armor Marines discard in combat is the only piece which doesn’t have a direct connection to the wearer’s nervous system. And most Marines keep the helmets, which suggests any bragging rights or adrenaline rush they’d get is pretty minor.

@LexYeen then that gets me to; Space Marines probably fuck on the regular and ARE NOT PICKY. If the biggest endorphin/dopamine hit you can get is being plugged in to expend John Woo like amounts of spent brass, and you can’t do that all the time, you’ll go for what’s close, and overeating or drinking is probably out unless you’re a Space Wolf.

@LexYeen you realize that this makes the men (and women, because saying so is NOT gonna piss anyone off more than the rest of this statement) of the Adeptes Astartes relatively ace or possibly pan because literally getting plugged directly into power armor is better than sex for them, which probably explains why it's so easy to convince someone who'd otherwise be a corpse to be jacked into a dreadnaught for centuries on end.

reiterate that neither my family's take on religion (we have to do this because we've always done this) nor the culture I grew up in (we do this out of fear of punishment far more than from hope of reward) gives me much help faced with trying to figure out just how religious I want to be.

clearly while up with acid reflux (really there was no way I was going to get away with spicy tomato meat sauce) is a great time to look through art archive stuff

plus side is I actually don't hate the stuff or my personality 13-14 years ago

minus side is all the self-recrimination

this also included posted photos from a literally life changing vacation. Would you believe at some point I actually had brown hair?

#drawing today, kinda simple stuff owing to lack of time

@kurgarru gonna start collecting scorpions?

geez just how much weed did they smoke when they wrote this track

so then I thought hey actually yeah I should listen to Ween for a change, and this "Cold Blows the Wind" is a really good memorable tune

and it's The House of the Rising Sun

I'm SO FUCKING SKEEVED rn