• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    1 year ago

    Dipshit encyclopedist: "hello Sappho tell me who is your husband?"

    Sappho, rolling her eyes as her girlfriend laughs in the distance: "Dick Allcocks from Man Island."

  • stinky [any]
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    1 year ago

    Historians are so funny. They’ll see two male skeletons embraced in death and conclude they were just really close friends.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      1 year ago

      History repeats itself, first as tragedy (Sailors Neptune and Uranus being described as cousins instead of partners in the English dub of Sailor Moon), second as farce (Achilles and Patroclus being described as cousins instead of partner's in Troy (2004))

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Ask me about Kinesias in Lysistrata. :biggus-dickus:

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Especially funny given that before Sappho came along, Lesbian just meant "from Lesbos"

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      imagine being such a powerful writer that your vibe defines a place for thousands of years, even after your writings themselves are mostly lost

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It is ironic that most of what we know about Sappho comes from the writings of men praising her work, the reflecting mirrors still functional and intact long after the light they reflect has been hidden by the veil of time.

        • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          the reflecting mirrors still functional and intact long after the light they reflect has been hidden by the veil of time.

          That's beautiful, did you write that? Or are you quoting Sappho and I'm being owned?

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It feels wrong that we don’t have a word for being a gay man derived from the island of Andros now