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JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

A bikini and heels? Why the heck not? 🖤 Vv xo

Great Britain: Caernarfon, Branscombe, Kynance Cove, Bath, East Meon, Beachy Head, Polperro, Wells, Chipping Campden

freestyle shitposting with the Huldra Bros (+some other guys but this ain't about them)

and an alternative take for the first one:

busy weekend 🏖️

A Tale of Two Sisters ⛅

IG beckiowens: design: @sweethome

since i did traditional art last year and since i've started studying again and so have less free time, this year i'm doing pale gamkar week a little differently than my usual art (in the hopes it'll save me some time ; -- ;) i'm aiming for a little more cartoony and a whole lot sillier! i didn't have time to draw yesterday so today i'm posting both day 1 and day 2 of @pale-gamkar-week 2024 prompts: laughter and bath!

i might do full colours for these at some point but this is as good as it gets for now lol

Great Britain: Winchester, Brighton, Allerford, Loch Torridon, Bath, Wells, Orford, East Meon,

considering the historical influences in the fashion of Dishonored (and the extent of nsfw fanfiction this fandom has) I’ve been thinking about the layers that would be, realistically, part of the daily dress

which means: dishonored seems to honour the importance of a vest in a properly dressed gentleman’s or lady’s wardrobe

vests were, and I cannot stress this enough, a mandatory part of an outfit, to the point of men wearing only vests if they could not afford a fully tailored suit (trousers + vest + jacket) and a new shirt and opting to only wear a fake collar under the vest for the illusion of a full outfit

shirts were underwear, so to speak. there were no occasions in ‘polite society‘ where one could only wear a shirt without a vest on top.

this is something we see mirrored in both dishonored games, though the style of the vests and clothing have somewhat changed, they still follow the same rules of vests worn with every outfit, as far as we can tell. (we could argue that Jessamine is not wearing one, or that some higher class women aren’t wearing vests under their buttoned up jackets, but since we don’t really see underneath we can’t judge.)

we see the vests be worn even by the Whalers in the first game (which in itself brings up many questions. are whalers, the actual whalers that capture and kill whales, held in high enough regard by the society that they made a vest part of their uniform? or is it merely something that is worn by all? something that every citizen of sound mind would don, were they to leave their house?)

there are a few exceptions to this, of course, but this whole thing came to be by asking a simple question

does the Outsider wear a vest under his leather jacket?

now, in the first game, his jacket is unbuttoned just enough for us to get a good enough peek at what lies beneath. which is to say: there is no hint of a vest underneath. judging by the vests in the first game, the fashion was that the vest would go up high, often covering collarbones or even having a standing collar. what we see on the Outsider is just... an unbuttoned shirt

it’s much the same in the second game, even if we examine his final concept art, his outfit consists of a shirt (more or less underwear) with most of the top buttons unbuttoned, and a jacket on top. no hint of a vest underneath

what I’m trying to say is that the Outsider is a slut

When Arthur complained about his knights and Merlin offered his help and Arthur thought Merlin wanted to become a knight, we remember that, right? Because that's how that exchange went:

Merlin: Well, I think I might be able to help.

Arthur: You, Merlin? You haven't the faintest idea what it takes to become a knight. Courage, fortitude, discipline.

Yeah, fascinating. He gives this list of virtues: courage, fortitude, discipline, but completely misses the main reason why Merlin couldn't be a knight:

Later in the episode we're introduced to the First Code of Camelot, according to which exclusively those of noble blood can become knights.

The king's rule – the obvious reason. The easy way to put an end to a hypothetical argument before it even began. Everyone could understand this, nothing personal, no hard feelings.

Arthur, instead, starts listing all these qualities, two of which he himself has admitted that Merlin actually possesses.

Seriously, "man has got balls" is the impression Arthur repeatedly keeps getting about Merlin since their first meeting. He went against his own father because Merlin deserved the gesture for his bravery. Also Merlin apparently thinks and moves fast enough to pull Arthur from the way of a knife, when Arthur himself failed to react and move in time. Then what is fortitude, if not the willingness to get burnt at the stake for Gwen or drinking poison for Arthur? Discipline is questionable with Merlin, though as far as Arthur was aware, Merlin can polish an entire set of armor by himself in a night and learn to put them on, if he sets his mind to it. Meaning that Arthur can't even say with his whole heart that Merlin has no discipline.

Nah, at this point he's straight out lying to himself about his servant. For some reason believing he's useless makes it easier. Meanwhile he's not even having his own words, look how serious his tone was- He didn't even laught at Merlin. *I* would have laughed, if I though early seasons Merlin all of a sudden wanted to wear armor and wield a sword. From Arthur, one would expect a reaction like in ep1 when Merlin threw off his jacket to fight. It's the fact that by ep5, Arthur, under the surface, was so shocked by Merlin's courage and other obscure abilities that he did not even ridicule him at the proposal of knighthood. That answer was the same "you're a coward" which will soon become Arthur's usual part of the banter.