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I find a strange moment to ponder my place in the universe as the audiobook I’m listening to about Ancient Rome discusses how wealthy Romans had literate slaves that would read books out loud to them.

It’s a strange way of summing up how nothing in the world has changed and also how absolutely everything has changed.

I likely share in common with some ancient Roman elites that I enjoy both listening to books while I’m doing something else and reading them quietly myself with no distractions. Since I enjoy ancient literature I may sometimes listen to the exact same books that they did, even if it’s translated into a language that didn’t exist yet when they heard or read them. On occasion we both may enjoy eating bread dipped in olive oil as we listen or read.

The circumstances of our listening though are extraordinarily different. I live in a world where slavery is illegal even if in practice it may tragically still exist in some circumstances. I am poor enough to get assistance from the government in paying for my food yet I have access to some of the same luxuries that they had, though not all of the same luxuries.

The way I listen to a book is through a recording of a professional that’s mass distributed. I need help getting food but I still likely have access to a wider variety of ingredients than they could’ve imagined. I live in a world where literacy is expected. They did not. I do my own dishes and my own cooking. They most likely did not.

How wide or narrow is the gap between me in the year 2025 listening to the Aeneid and a Roman senator listening to it in the first century? In some ways we are a lot alike with very similar tastes. In other ways we are completely and utterly alien to each other.

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when the dashing armiger rescuing you from peril turns out to be the lure of a particularly subtle mimic that only strikes when the prey has fully exposed their vulnerabilities-

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im gonna get back to being a hot and sometimes scary and sometimes vaguely controlling hypnoposter maybe today or maybe soon but remember this in your heart: do not trust me either. theres no such thing as an infallible poster and theres so many pedestals on this website its like night at the tgirl museum in here. dont put me on one same as everyone else.

im gonna get back in character as the scary manipulator now because its fun to write but youre going to keep a note in your head scrawled on some resident evil looking environmental storytelling ass sheet of notebook paper that says "the hottest worship is self-worship" and then youre gonna go out and do some hedonistic shit so you can kneel at your own altar. through this we will produce enough energy to incinerate exactly 1 cis person of our choosing. we all get a vote but like spoiler alert its GOING to be jk rowling because if we can all agree on one thing its fuck jkr

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Estranged parents are a joke. They're still generally terrible and harmful people, but at their core they are also clowns.

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Someday I'm gonna slip up and go "im gonna start barking" when i get overwhelmed but like. In front of a student. Im never gonna live that down kids these days know what a fucking furry is

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i think trans people need more fun stereotypes. so many groups get at least one that is like, offensive but also kinda baffling, like "gays walk fast" or "germans are obsessed with efficiency." all we get are like "evil sex predator" shit

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bro thay put transgender in me

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my favorite joke in all of phineas and ferb is when doofenshmirtz says "these are my new pet crocodiles, susan and susan. i named them after each other"

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some problems are so humiliating the only solution is to solve them yourself and then continue to never talk about it

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some problems are so humiliating the only solution is to solve them yourself and then continue to never talk about it

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So I started watching this show called Legends 招摇 and I’d like to debut my new favorite discourse reaction gif:

This is a public domain gif! you have my permission to use it as a reaction to other posts.

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finally made a little zine from all the photos i took of various wires and machines and pylons and etc

this was sooo fun i need to get it printed

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"I would listen to you about transfeminism but you called me a Men's Rights Activist"

Well buddy if the boot fits.

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"family function"...? i didn't know it could do that

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hot flaming take i’m abt to slap you with: it’s not acceptable to punish children for their grades, no matter the circumstances.

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There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

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agent 47 disguising himself as a fat little german boy with a lollipop wearing a propeller beanie