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."
Historians are so funny. They’ll see two male skeletons embraced in death and conclude they were just really close friends.
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))
"My husband? Uh, Man...Mandick Thrustwell.
...He lives on another island"
Especially funny given that before Sappho came along, Lesbian just meant "from Lesbos"
imagine being such a powerful writer that your vibe defines a place for thousands of years, even after your writings themselves are mostly lost
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.
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?
I wrote it but was probably subconsciously cribbing from somewhere.
It feels wrong that we don’t have a word for being a gay man derived from the island of Andros now
