#read it learn it live it

[ms-boogie-man]

Former CIA Director John McLaughlin: ‘Thank God for the Deep State’

Beyond his thanking god for the deepstate — which an admission of corruption btw, everythingy this clown says is a lie

… a lie

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

[northstarscowboyhat]

Peepaw Starlo struggles. Autism 2 autism communication struggles.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[futuristichedge]

Traditional doodling

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[space-sheep08]

Actually so tired that people mainly focus on the bdsm when they talk about La Pianiste when we literally have this dynamic right here. Like, that's insane.

What if you were a little girl in her 40's who couldn't grow up because of your mother-wife who made you sleep in her bed and forced you to repress every sexual desires and thoughts of becoming your own person just to keep you close to her ? What if you fought back and yearned for dangerous things out of her reach ? But also, what if you let her because it's all you've ever known and been taught to want ?

[hello-eeveev]

going with orym’s ecosystem analogy, as I think that’s the strongest, most defensible argument for not killing the gods:

it is not inherently wrong to ‘feed’ off the energy of other beings. animals kill plants to eat them, those animals die and are eaten in turn, whether by other animals or by the process of decomposition feeding plants and fungi. animals breathe out carbon dioxide, which plants absorb and convert into oxygen, which we breathe in. this is how life works.

life needs things to live, but it also needs things to die and it needs things to use other things. we do not—and cannot—exist in isolation from each other.

the gods are here. they have been incorporated into exandria’s ecosystem for millennia. we cannot go back and change that, so how do we move forward with it?

[sideblogdotjpeg]

ive been thinking about the red string superstition recently and also sol bufo always and it makes me sick how uncannily caldwell tanner has made sol to perfectly target me personally

(+ cropped versions !)

[canisalbus]

I want you to know that your art is very important to me, and I'm very invested in all of the characters I have seen from you. Also, the discussion about Finnish and other languages having gendered words or not has been the last little push to get me to start learning Finnish which I think is fun.

I'm making this a little compilation post of all the language asks I got. Thank you for sharing, this was genuinely really interesting!

[liorlen]

Pyr y’n gwna ni byrhoedled? / Digawn llawryded, / kywestwch a bed.

[horrorknife]

babe, this wouldn't be the first time it will not be the last time there's no parasol that could shelter this weather

[kindred-spirit-93]

cassandra & clytemnestra

class doodles <3

cassandra: super proud of how she turned out!! i love noses so much and ive managed to give her a really glorious one today. she got a few compliments too hehe

clytemnestra: idk how well ive managed to depict it lol but cly is both mourning iphigenia and planning out her vengeance. its going to be a long 10 years but she will have her killers blood.

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i still have a long way to go till i finish the iliad so i dont know everyones story yet, i do know however that cly like many before and after her arent often portrayed with the complexities that make them them, that make them human, but instead as paragons or pariahs. and i think theres lots to be said on the matter, but i dont want to get ahead of myself lol. anyway enjoy :D

[urghblergh]

Reading "The Never-Ending Sacrifice" together makes the experience somewhat bearable. 😌

[iknowicanbutwhy]

"History, culture, people; we were fools to think we could create it all from scratch."

[doctorsiren]

mental illness is getting so invested in reading the Odyssey for your Greek and Roman Lit class that instead of reading books 5-8 of the Odyssey today during your 2 hour gap from 12 - 2 PM between your first class and your Greek and Roman Lit class, you instead read books 5-16 and realize you missed your Greek and Roman Lit class at 2 PM

Because you were too busy reading ahead in the book for that class

I learned an hour later that he had cancelled our class today anyways