#epitaph!

[childoftheriver]

These boys. (Had some fun with tags.)

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

[sgt-tombstone]

I love when people depict Ghost as Just A Guy™

just a regular dude who has a handful of facial scars, decent communication skills, and semi-healthy coping mechanisms

everyone expects him to be a dramatic edgelord and sometimes he plays into that, but he’s also a little goofy. He does sudoku puzzles and takes bubble baths and loves fuzzy slippers but can’t wear them around base

he’s not an extrovert but he’s not an introvert either; he’s the life of the party if you get a couple of drinks in him but no one ever invites him to go drinking because they’re all scared of him

he had a couple of years of mandated therapy that actually managed to do something so now, twenty years later, he’s just a regular dude in the military who made wearing a skull mask his shtick that he still gets a kick out of but doesn’t really care for the dramatics of it all anymore

Just A Guy Ghost is my favorite Ghost

[daenerysoftarth]

“Stranger, what I say is short. Stand and read over it. This is the hardly beautiful tomb of a beautiful woman. Her parents called her Claudia. She loved her husband with all her heart. She had two sons, one of whom she leaves on earth, the other she placed under it. With pleasant conversing but respectable gait she cared for her home and made wool. I have spoken. Move along.”

Roman epitaph CIL 06.15346

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[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Epitaph,"

[louvaints]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “Epitaph.” [ID in alt text]

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Joëlle Jones

[burtoo]

Panographs from my new book Epitaph, now available

[a-heist-of-words]

In the most 'Greek theatre' of ways, this is a tragedy. Tragedies are meant to teach onlookers: "See how these rich idiots, despite their riches, cannot escape the consequences of their actions, their hubris, and their defiance of the laws of common sense and decency? See their awful demise? Don't be like them."

[twintraps]

dead man walking

[avicecaro]

i think it’s important everyone knows about the little roman girl who died at only five years and seven months old, and her grave reads "dum vixi, lusi" or "while i lived, i played"

[yeoldenews]

"and that would be awful"

(source: The Sabetha (KS) Daily Star, December 9, 1926.)

[sgt-tombstone]

Ghost complaining about his back and how he struggles to pop it so it hurts

Soap offering to walk on his back to help

Ghost asking, incredulous and very alarmed, “do I want you to WHAT??”

Soap just cackles because he and his siblings used to do it all the time as kids, so he shows Ghost how to lay down and steps into the middle of his back, just between his shoulders, and feels more than hears Ghost’s entire spine pop

Ghost lets out the most pornographic moan because he’s been trying to pop his back for weeks

It becomes their thing, a weekly ritual when their schedules allow it

They don’t do it on missions because they’d never be able to explain it to anyone who wandered in on Soap walking in socked feet down his commanding officer’s spine like a tightrope

[lady-lostmind]

Completely obsessed with the new djo song already.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Totengedächtnismale (1743) - Johanna Henriette Francke

[frogpols]

Deploying kiraboss military care package.

Featuring peakery: Sheer Heart Attack x Epitaph.