#the 20th

[callmeblake]

[esta-elavaris]

I'm losing my mind writing this Sybil/Boromir flufftober fill btw

[walnutcookie]

my bday is in LIKE 10 DAYSB

[vrazt]

happy moon landing day

[jthm-gone]

got a start date for work aghhhhh

[vinceaddams]

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

[goldensunset]

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

[ritualvirtuality]

please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

[constanzarte]

The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel

[callmeblake]

From shannon_said's twitter: The video of the Barbie-Oppenheimer question, answers, and resulting mini squabble between Anthony and the rest of the band 🖤💀

L.S. Dunes Q & A at Mr. Smalls Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 20th, 2023

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship "Georg Stage" (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[oldpaintings]

Harald Oskar Sohlberg (Norwegian, 1869--1935)

[victusinveritas]

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11

[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible