what your favorite ancient literature says about you

thoodleoo:

the iliad: you ship patrochilles to an astonishing degree and/or you love to cry

the odyssey: you like puns way too much

agamemnon: you read the iliad and you really, really hated agamemnon

the theban cycle: either you like making motherfucker puns too much, or your name is sigmund freud and you need to stop while you’re ahead

the frogs: your blog is mostly shitposts and pepe memes

herodotus’s histories: you enjoy watching the history channel

the true histories of lucian: you enjoy watching the history channel, but like, ironically

the fragments of sappho: you’re gay and you love gentle queer aesthetic: violets edition

the eclogues: you’re gay and you love the gentle queer aesthetic: fields edition

the aeneid: you either wanted the full homeric experience and didn’t want to read both the iliad and the odyssey, or you’re a latinist

the carmina catulli: the only thing that surpasses your level of saltiness is the level of how disastrous your life is

the satyricon: you’re gay and at a very weird point in your life

horace’s satires: you’re salty and disastrous (cf. catullus) but you’re like. the lower sodium edition

ovid’s metamorphoses: if you’re not a myth nerd, then you’re probably a furry

2016 Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Books for Teens – The Hub

underthetweed:

cbcdiversity:

A YA book list in honor of Transgender Awareness Week. @yalsacl-blog

Click through to learn more (for instance, learn which of these are #ownvoices stories), and be sure to check out blog & Goodreads reviews as well as journal reviews to see how these are landing with readers, especially trans readers. Personally, I can vouch for the excellence of If I Was Your Girl, When the Moon Was Ours, and Being Jazz.

2016 Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Books for Teens – The Hub