Never thought I would consider the notion that Argentina is keeping Chile warm with its colossal ass.

Colossal asses make the world go around.

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

Posting Dionysus who's running away from the frog here too (there're two colour variations, can't decide which one I like more), because he deserves to be there too(⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

It's definitely the latest entry for "DTIYS" by @kebriones (@/al1en_rat on insta)

she asks me what dr pepper tastes like and i say not everything tastes like something else

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

keep twisting the narrative I'm almost there

in academia. straight up "winging it". and by "it", haha, well. lets justr say. My theasits

stebbins reacting to patrick and tressler in that one scene

Dionysus wearing a cunty corset as he curses a mf

You just summarized Dionysus' myths in one sentence 🤣

But it's true that his outfit's so pretty here ! I especially like the little jiggly ornaments and the long cloth all around his body

@starweaverblog wanna draw him in this outfit ? 👀

Btw the way animals are drawn in Greek vases is always so funny and this one is no exception.

Wouldn't miss that opportunity not to draw him ;)

@diarunas @femmepentheus imagining dionysus wearing this during the events of the bacchae

dont cry. theres always 18 bacchae memes

Thinking about the Bacchae, the translations and productions which treat it as a party right up til the end, where Dionysus so suddenly proves just how serious he's being

Thinking about the Hard Bard's production specifically, how he shouts, voice rough, full of rage, that they called his mother a whore

Thinking about how many productions make Pentheus an enjoyable character to watch, even if only because he's bumbling, and thinking how different a play it would be if he was genuinely gross (think if Trump were the politician)

Thinking about how what happens is SO very horrifying, how cruel and terrible it is, thinking about the moral questions and implications of it, how the gods are so nuanced and extreme

I really, really like these aspects of Dionysus. I adore that he, and the rest of the gods, are not wholesome constantly-positive angels. They are the divine, crude, base instincts and unremorseful natural disasters as much as they are kind, as much as they are sophisticated.

Dionysus is a god of duality but no god is without duality, it is inherent to and necessary for being a god.

Dionysus in the Bacchae is so, so kind. To those who have not wronged him. He is wonderful, he is charming, he is lovely and alluring and enticing. And he is also a god, one who should never be crossed, the roaring bull, the all-consuming madness.

Thinking about how everyone, everyone has a given condition which will allow them to lose themselves in pleasure and madness. Even if that condition is to destroy the facilitator of the experience. Thinking of how much Pentheus enjoys dressing as a mad woman. Thinking about how, even in his pleasurable madness, he is excited to destroy Dionysus. Thinking about whether that "justifies" Dionysus's detribution.

Thinking about how the play itself questions this, discusses it some. Thinking about Zeus indirectly condoning what happens.

Just..... Thinking about the Bacchae

victoria wohl's beyond sexual difference: becoming-woman in euripides bacchae / anne carson's introduction to bakkhai