Aliki Chapple

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Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.

Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics.

In the process of moving countries. Again. Snarkier on mastodon.

Photos: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort

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Last night I went to the Little Theatre at Epidaurus for the two monologues in the Contemporary Ancients cycle (living writers’ takes on ancient plays) and was horrified to see the treatment of one of the playwrights, a wheelchair-user. #AthensEpidaurusFestival #ContemporaryAncients

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Comics of the mid-14th century! Here's a straightened-out, lighter version if you wanna check out more details... ( h/t @lizzzs.bsky.social ) I hope most now find it obvious that this is the same art form as the latest X-Men—not an easy sell when I wrote Understanding Comics in 1993.

Early European sequential art. "Thirty Bible Stories," mid-14th century, anonymous Veronese artist (Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona)

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It's summer, supposedly. Have a listen to this gem from the archive! Ancient Persians by 400BC have mastered the art& technique of creating ice in the deserts of Iran, for storing food and for pleasure in the form of iced drinks! A Short History of Ice-Cream: shows.acast.com/the-deliciou...

A Short History of Ice Cream | The Delicious Legacyshows.acast.com Ancient Greek and Roman Food

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The entire creative team took a prolonged curtain call, EXCLUDING the writer. Not only was the stage inaccessible to him, not a bow in his direction, not a spotlight on him, not so much as a calling of his name and a clap. WTH?!? #EpidaurusFestival #AthensEpidaurusFestival #disability #access

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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.

Well, aren’t these beauties something m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCd... #EarlyMusic

Quan lo rius de la fontana - Jaufre Rudelm.youtube.com λycabettus ensembleJaufre Rudel "Quan lo rius de la fontana"(12th c.) Irini Bilini Moraiti, voice, medieval fiddleAthanasia Teliou, medieval fiddleYorgos Kal...

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So: in the 21st Century, a playwright with physical disabilities was sidelined from the premiere *of his own play* by a well-funded international festival because they *hadn’t considered his access needs*. Disgraceful! #Epidaurus #theatre #access #disability #Greece

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Watch this. It’s, monstrous. Settlers caught setting fire to farmlands N of Ramallah, which has been burning for hours x.com/brown_johnbr...

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Looks like my ship is not going to sail today. #NotAMetaphor

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It’s getting to the point where the publishing industry should probably be looking at alternatives to its frankly pathological dependency on Microsoft Word.

For some reason, I keep thinking about why chess matches with pigeons are a bad idea.

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Cet après midi de 14h à 18h je continue à mettre en couleurs mes petits monstres. Sur www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp

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Before you finish for the day, write a couple of garbled sentences about what you were hoping to write next. (This is ma’s advice and she is not wrong)

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

And what did you do while industrial civilisation was collapsing, grandad? I made performatively righteous social media posts about children’s books, and whether people should take their shoes off indoors.

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As a CNN War Reporter, Arwa Damon Thought She Had Seen Everything. Then She Went to Gaza 'I saw the death of the human soul' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As a CNN war reporter, Arwa Damon thought she had seen everything. Then she went to Gazawww.haaretz.com ***

Please stop telling me to look at things if I “want to be really mad”. I spend all my days trying to stay human and reasonable in the storms of incandescent fury and bone-deep grief just being aware in these hours brings. Thank you.

Morning, dears. This is what it’s all about, summerwise.

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We talked about this a lot last year when Bsky was just getting going but I think an important thing to remember if you want to keep things tolerable here is that unfollowing/muting/blocking is part of routine feed maintenance and if there's stuff that bums you out every day, you should remove it

One of the greatest. Dionysos to your revels take Donald Sutherland, crowned in ivy.

Odd place pixelfed.social/i/web/post/7...

mugwort (@[email protected])pixelfed.social Empourios, Milos, Cyclades #BlackAndWhte #Greece

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Here is the update on Linda Tirado’s need for hospice from her blog

Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.

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What if I told you that 24 years ago Democrats nominated a guy who literally won a Nobel Prize for his work fighting climate change but he lost the White House by <600 votes b/c folks on the left decided he “wasn’t good enough” & “couldn’t get excited about him”?

The environment is a crisis. What Biden has done is not nothing, but it's not good. When islands are sinking, people are dying, wildfires and hurricanes are out of control..."we've slowed down how fast it's getting worse" is not a great message. And Dems' message failures don't help either:

Thinking about signs everywhere saying you have to be masked, and how no-one is as analogous to the terms and conditions everyone says they’ve read and agreed to when nobody does, and also the advertising we all look past.

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It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level. Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

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Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended! www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Europe in British Literature and Culturewww.cambridge.org Cambridge Core - European and World Literature: General Interest - Europe in British Literature and Culture

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🚨 NEXT WEEK ON PATREON🚨 Join us on the History Rage Podcast as we welcome Thom Ntinas from the @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social #podcast who serves up a feast of facts about medieval cuisine. Like they don't use spices to cover rotten meat. Listen now! #History #Medieval #FoodHistory

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The Dream City Knights kickstarter campaign is entering its final hours; our funding goal is tantalizingly within reach. Have a look if dreamy cities, dreaming teenagers, and unexpected pen & paper RPG mechanics are your thing: www.kickstarter.com/projects/edg...

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to speak of reality is considered anathema. in this dangerous half world

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While a lot of the recently thriving UK industries they've destroyed look like it's been down to their incompetence, the destruction of Higher Education and Arts & Ents feel ideological.

The Tories will be leaving office having comprehensively broken one of the best and most internationally competitive sectors the UK had when they took power 14 years ago