victoryjobs:

• it will be called hemingway’s (natch)
• our menu will include drinks we invent ourselves based on puns of classic book titles
• of ice and gin
• lagerhaus-five
• absolut, absolut
• tequila mockingbird
• etc
• and once a month we will have a free drinking contest called “atlas chugged”

gogomorgancoco:

• The title is a Hamlet reference.
• They mentioned that.
• Spock, of course, knows what line and act it’s from.
• At the dinner they used the line “to be or not to be” which is the speech the title is from.
• They also used “parting is such sweet sorrow” from Romeo and Juliet.
• They also used the phrase “brave new world” from The Tempest.
• Brave New World is also a book about the future.
• A rather unpleasant future, I wonder if they’re trying to hint.
• But I think they’re just making the Shakespeare reference.
• I FUCKING LOVE ALL THE SHAKESPEARE (and Dickens) REFERENCES.
• THEY APPEAL TO MY EXTREMELY NERDY SIDE.

THIS. EPISODE!

IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES I SAW. I FELL SO IN LOVE WITH IT, BUT COULDN’T QUITE FIGURE OUT THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE, THOUGH I KNEW THAT THERE WAS ONE.

Then someone mentioned one story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and I looked it up in my book and read it…

AND GREAT GORN, THIS EPISODE IS IPHIS AND IANTHE IN SPACE WITH A BIT OF GENDERBEND AND GRATUITOUS SPECIES CASTING FOR IPHIS. I MEAN WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE WITH THE NAME “METAMORPHOSIS”?

Orpheus and his wife Eurydice

#SEARCH FOR SPOCK SEARCH FOR SPOCK SEARCH FOR SPOCK

YES.

And, suddenly:

“You’re as mad as she is!”

AND THEN I’M LAUGHING AND CONFUSED, BECAUSE I KNEW I’D HEARD THAT LINE SOMEWHERE BEFORE, I JUST COULDN’T QUITE PLACE IT AND-

Oh.

TREK IS EVERYWHERE.

Because, does that line sound familiar to anyone else?

imoness:

fallynleaf:

gunz997:

Like seriously. Everybody should read the hunger games. Cinna is a BAMF

Cinna!

I loved his character even more after reading Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar and finding out that the name “Cinna” is almost definitely a reference to the Cinna(s) in the play.

Was is Cinna or Casca that had a poet with the same name who died because people were filled with REAG? I always forget…

Look it up yourself.

I’m a bit worried that I’ll end up sharing too much about Julius Caesar that I’ll unintentionally spoil things for the Hunger Games.

All I’m going to say is this: Hunger!Games!Cinna’s name seems to be a direct reference to Julius!Caesar!Cinna. Also, there are other characters in the Hunger Games who (in name, at least) seem to be referencing that play. Of course, the Hunger Games has always had many similarities to ancient Roman culture, so it isn’t that surprising.

A good example of that is: panem et circenses, or, “bread and circuses”, which is referenced in part by the name of the country, Panem. (this is pointed out in one of the books, I don’t remember which). The saying refers to government (usually the ancient Roman one) using food (A.K.A. bread) and entertainment (A.K.A. circuses) to gain public support and to distract from the bad things the government may also be doing.

It is also the name of a Star Trek: TOS episode that addresses the same thing through a “Modern Ancient Rome In Space” kind of planet.

gunz997:

Like seriously. Everybody should read the hunger games. Cinna is a BAMF

Cinna!

I loved his character even more after reading Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar and finding out that the name “Cinna” is almost definitely a reference to the Cinna(s) in the play.

I watched this episode a few nights ago and remembered that Charlie makes Spock quote a few lines from one of my favorite poems:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

In what distant deeps or skies 
Burnt the fire in thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand dare seize the fire? 

And what shoulder, and what art? 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat, 
What dread hand, and what dread feet? 

What the hammer? What the chain? 
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? What dread grasp 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 

When the stars threw down their spears, 
And watered heaven with their tears, 
Did he smile his work to see? 
Did he who made the Lamb, make thee? 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 

dinnerinthedarkroom:thefistofartemis:itsinthetrees:plazmah:denzelgtfo:

THIS IS THE GREATEST POST IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING.

EKANS ON A PLANE. EKANS ON A PLANE.

ask not for whom the bellsprout tolls;

it tolls for thee

It’s sad that I can only recognize half of these Pokemon 

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

GLORIOUS.

I NEED THIS ON MY BLOG.

I spent the entire movie:

• Trying to figure it out
• Shipping Arthur/Eames
• Getting excited over the fact that there is a character named ARIADNE and a LABYRINTH

ASFSDGKASDG!!!

JUST LIKE IN THE MYTH WHERE ARIADNE GIVES THESEUS A RED BALL OF STRING TO ALLOW HIM TO FIND HIS WAY OUT OF THE LABYRINTH.

Classical references! Parallels!

…I’m probably going to end up watching it again tomorrow or something.