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Ben (he/him)

@classicsftw

Personal blog of a gaymer, music lover, reader, and nerd (especially about hormones). Husband to Stephen, father of Athena and Persephone 😻😻 📍Philly #TransLivesMatter blank/empty profs=block StoryGraph 📖:

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Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 22d

Loving this weather rn

Selfie of a shirtless man smiling with mirror sunglasses and purple shorts

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 23d

Always serious about sunscreen but still got burned

Mirror pic of a gay in his underwear flexing his right arm looking at his phone

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 24d

Bloomf is being very nice about entertaining my thoughts about the Christopher Nolan filem

That one meme where the girl is pointing and yelling to that guy at the music festival and the guy has a look on his face like he wishes he could be anywhere else in the world

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 26d

Katya the drag queen looks down with her eyes open

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 27d

Hair went kinda crazy this morning

A man wearing a tank top with red solid color on the shoulders with a white torso AirPods, and pink shorts with psychic pokemon. The picture is taken in a mirror with a blue cellphone. There is a lil torso peaking out under the tank top

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· 27d

Brain feels like melted plastic

Two raccoons, one each in the upper left and lower right corner of the image. There is text in the top center of the image “Not to self-diagnose but” and in the bottom of the image “something is wrong :)”. The image is from @nocturnaltrashposts

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 12

Periodic reminder apropos of absolutely nothing:

The picture is a 4 panel animation. In the top left corner Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh holds a card with a text overlay that says “don’t speak ill of the dead.” In the top right panel, Yugi smirks and holds a card. In the bottom left panel, he reveals the card which says “don’t be a piece of shit while you’re alive”. In the bottom right panel, Kaiba is surrounded by bright light and his face is filled with horror.

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 10

Happy Friday from the bar ✌️

A selfie of me wearing a white tee and gold necklace. I look tired real tired. The background has a number of flags as decorations for the World Cup

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 5

Is tapeworm friends with screwworm and if so could tapeworm calm screwworm down plz

A Bloomberg businessweek article headline talking about flesh-eating screwworms that sound terrifying.

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 3

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 2

She explains her approach well (and throws some shade at prior translators while doing it).

A picture from Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation, p. 87

My translation is written in a style that echoes the rhythms and phrases of contemporary anglophone speech. It may be tempting to imagine that a translation of a very ancient poem would be somehow better if it used the language of an earlier era. Mild stylistic archaism is often accepted without question in translations of ancient texts and can be presented as if it were a mark of authenticity. But of course, the English of the nineteenth or early twentieth century is no closer to Homeric Greek than the language of today. The use of a noncolloquial or archaizing linguistic register can blind readers to the real, inevitable, and vast gap between the Greek original and any modern translation. My use of contemporary language—rather than the English of a generation or two ago—is meant to remind readers that this text can engage us in a direct way, and also that it is genuinely ancient. My Homer does not speak in your grandparents' English, since that language is no closer to the wine-dark sea than your own. I have tried to keep to a register that is recognizably speakable and readable, while skirting between the Charybdis of artifice and the Scylla of slang.
All modern translations of ancient texts exist in a time, a place, and a language that are entirely alien from those of the original. All modern translations are equally modern. The question facing translators and their readers is whether to try to disguise this fact, through stylistic tricks such as archaism and an elevated, artificially "literary" register, or to underline it, and thereby encourage readers to be aware that the text exists in two different temporal and spatial moments at once.

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jul 1

Oldest not interested in play right now

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 30

Caption this (lemme have it)

A white guy wearing sunglasses squats on some rocks.

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 28

“Double rainbow into the ground” is gonna be the name of my EP

Double rainbow reaching the ground

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 27

Hotel lighting was Not Good so you get natural lighting instead

Selfie

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 26

well I’m not gay so

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 26

I just a baybee.gif @talltbh.bsky.social

Short leggies and long leggies

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 22

Hair kinda felt like Johnnie Cage here

Selfie

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 20

In bed at 9pm gn fam

Selfie with a cat

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 14

Found him

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 12

Something about hotel lighting

Hotel lighting selfie

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· Jun 11

Well it bothers me so

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 25

Me, dying

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

This view and wine and pizza and brownies

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

Just in case you didn’t believe me

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

SS26

Mirror selfie

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

Nap incoming

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

It is making me tink

Maura from the Traitors US with a giant hat

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 24

Could use a week of mornings like this tbh

Coffee, a book, and a rainy overcast view looking over a lake

Ben (he/him)@classicsftw· May 22

Can you tell which one of us just woke up and which one of us kept drinking