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- sylvia plath

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Me lying on my CV applying to be a middling babylonian bureaucrat: Proficient at cuneiform and clay tablets,

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Odysseus watching Achilles absolutely mutilate Hector's corpse

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a night out at the club can have a three act structure

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There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited

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im so normal about fitzwilliam darcy by the way

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the aeneid has officially obtained the "permanently on my desk for easy access during random thought spiralling" status. i'm proud of you virgil <3

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Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

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this is the funniest possible answer ryoko kui could have given to this question

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i think the world would be a happier place if we were all permanently stoned

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deeply embarrassing being god born in ancient greece i think, everyone knows the exact place and detailed story of your conception, “yeah that’s aeneas his mom and dad fucked at the foot of mount ida” i would die. i would die every time someone addressed me by my full name “aeneas son of anchises who everyone knows aphrodite fucked at the foot of mount ida” god

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Jane Austen, from Emma originally published c. 1815

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this summer we will be devouring good literature, stay hydrated and most importantly be unbothered

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creds: swtzkiiz on pinterest

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“Lying Odysseus replied, ‘I will tell you the truth completely.’”

— Odyssey 24.303-4, trans. Emily Wilson