Monica

Screenshot of article titled “14 Greek Mythology Movies that still stand the test of time” with a picture of Brad Pitt as Achilles from Troy

Love scrolling and seeing a headline that says, “14 Greek Mythology Movies That Still Stand the Test of Time” and the main image is of the movie Troy.

Um no

Screenshot of the lyrics to “Your Idol” from Kpop Demon Hunters

Classicists and Latinists rise up!

A song with Latin in the lyrics in the Billboards top songs

Thank You Kpop Demon Hunters 💁🏻‍♀️

#ancientsky

Screenshot of the “cover up” robes on the Watergate hotel website

So out of curiosity I wanted to see if the Watergate Hotel from the Nixon scandal is still around (it is).

And I saw they have a “scandal suite” for the room from the scandal and I shit you not one of the robes in the robe for guests to wear says “cover up” with the watergate logo.

Minhwa Painting during the Joseon Era. --I'm still trying to find if this is housed in a museum and still trying to find more info on the art!

A still image of the "derpy" tiger and magpie bird from the movie K-Pop Demon Hunters

Not me falling down a rabbit hole of finding every folklore reference in K-Pop Demon Hunters:

Same! Kpop Demon Hunters have infected my brain. New obsession

The cross over I didn’t know I needed!!

This definitely sounds like the language of an innocent person…😵‍💫

Ghost of Yōtei by Toma Otowa on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:19

After The Ghost of Yotei video yesterday, I’ve been having this and the other song that came out on repeat.

LFG!

Oooh yes! I had a similar experience in Catholic Church as a kid with communion and I asked if they really thought the little white cloth the priest used to wipe the lip of the cup after each person drank would actually get rid of germs.

Tree. Own it like Odin (Yggdrasil - Odin's Horse) or hack it like Gilgamesh.

The only thing I like about Musk’s tweet is that Epaminondas was an amazing & quite queer general who had relationships w/ men. Musk is known for horrid anti-LGTBQ rhetoric (+ $21 Million on an Anti-LGBTQ+ Candidate in Wisconsin). I doubt he realizes it, but this makes his new party pretty “woke”! 👏

You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse.

“You already have too many books.”

“You have stacks of unread books at home.”

“You don’t have space for more books.”

First of all, fuck your negativity. If you want a book and don’t want to get from the library or in digital and you can afford it, buy that book. Buy six. Be happy.

free my country from calamity.

'Scotch-free'? 'Scott free'??

The one you want to use is 'scot-free.'

‘Scot’ is an old word for “tax.”

So, ‘scot-free’ literally means “exempt from tax.”

It’s since been broadened to mean “completely free from obligation, harm, or penalty.”

Ohh 👀
New book to add to the TBR list!!

#booksky

It’s truly amazing how precise this description is over thousands of years.

I think it just goes to show that our technology changes astronomically over time, but humans don’t.

My copy of Gilgamesh: a new translation of the ancient epic by Sophus Helle

“No one sees death.

No one sees the face of death,

No one hears the voice of death.

But it is savage death that snaps mankind.
…
How similar our death and abduction,

And one cannot draw the image of death.

Yet no one has ever greeted a dead man.”

-Tablet X in the Epic of Gilgamesh
#AncientSky

So, this is what Domingo from the SNL skit does as a job now. Cool Cool Cool

Thank you for saying that! A part of me felt guilty for posting about anything other than *gestures widely* the world being on fire. But nothing pulls me out of the anxiety-inducing chaos doomscroll quite like a complex note-taking system! 😆

🪞🪡 Who Owns the Body? Who Owns the Sacred? — Threads in the Glass #1 Three threads turned toward the body—its power, its vulnerability, and the modern myths that try to control it.

This week, I’m sharing three threads about the body—its power, vulnerability, and the modern myths that try to control it.

-Klytemnestra’s Kink is Karma
-My Back is My Roman Empire
-When “Religious Freedom” becomes Sacred Violence

This is going to take a while because I took a TON of notes in this book!

My Zettelkasten slip box, index cards, pens and my copy of What to Expect When You’re Dead by Robert Garland

Spending my Sunday going adding my annotations from “What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death & the Afterlife” by Robert Garland from @princetonupress.bsky.social to my zettelkasten!

#booksky

Two sexual predator birds of a feather

A perfect post to reshare the day I’m finally free of Meta

My old Facebook and Instagram accounts have finally been deleted. (After waiting 30 days for it to go through.)

Ahh what a freeing feeling.

Bye Meta 👋

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Am I… cheering…for the Catholic Church???

This is an odd feeling

a man is touching a young boy 's face with his hand . Alt: a man is touching a young boy 's face with his hand .

I love my cat, but he is actually John Travolta’s character in the movie Face Off.

Every morning he paws at my face just like this: