#the clock is ruling me

[scereplop]

sonnet 60, William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked eclipses ‘gainst his glory fight And time that gave, doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truths And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. And yet to time in hope, my verse shall stand Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

One night around a week ago I stayed up till a little past 1 in the morning to memorise this sonnet. I always end up doing something along the lines of this, with some piece of work my brain won't let me stop thinking of, before a language exam of any sorts, and for some (strange, maybe) reason it works wonders each time. Maybe some of my teachers don't believe so, but what matters the most to me is how happy I am with my work. I know to an extent what I am capable of if I be honest with myself, and the way in which I often write my essays can be quite unconventional (and it gets me in trouble loads), so I don't take their words as gospel.

Of the few sonnets that Shakespeare wrote that I managed to read that night, this I would say is probably my favourite. I still have shy of a hundred left to go and my opinion is swayed easily so I don't believe it will remain so for long. But whilst it is, I'd like to relive the world I built around this sonnet during that exam, I'd like to write down what I created as something I can keep; something I can share. It is impossible to rewrite exactly what I had that day, given it has already been almost four days since, and my memory, though not half bad most definitely does not have the capacity to remember a story written in a flurry of ideas though it was I who wielded the pen. But it was I who wielded the pen, and it was I who saw the house the tale took place in, and it was I who lived it through in my mind. So then I am perfectly capable of rebuilding it, flaws and all, and so I will.

Maybe not now though, for there is much of it to speak of and it will take a long time to write it all out with the level of detail I require, and time I do not have at the moment. But I will, eventually. Thankfully stories are timeless and when I do have time for it (in a few days I assume), it will be done. For now I shall only name it, so I can keep this outline as organised as possible with the aid of a tag, but nice names are difficult to come up with. How do I name the road down which a house sat, a house beside the seashore with innards familiar to me, which housed people with familiar faces but not behaviour? I do not truly know this place yet though it feels like I do. I know it, somewhere within me.

I shall give it a codename instead, until I can truly decide. I do know that in my original essay, as I had written it as if I had tried to bring the sonnet to life, I described that road and that house and that seashore as a place 'where time stayed his scythe', and so that it shall remain.

[ricky-olson]

# bi on bi violence

ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021-2024) 2.06 | The Message Hidden Within the Pattern

[mapletine]

easwin collection part 5

[warper-in-training]

I'm kinda dissapointed at the devilgram, I think they changed the writers too..? hmm, it could've been better but it was too short for a UR imo, felt like a 500 word story lol. the start was funny though.

I wish the story was longer :<.maybe i'll rewrite it cause i like the concept..

spoilers for Barbatos vs Belphie

angry barb... means whumper ba- adds Belphie to the list of om whumpees

HELLO. this guy can make the stupidest shortest devilgrams worth it with that smile and and and

pFF world saved by Barb again let us celebrate 😀

[blujayonthewing]

this is such a tiny stupid petty dumb sticking point but why do people act like hot-water baths are ludicrously unrealistic in a DnD setting no matter what the setting or context actually is

one time in melliwyk's campaign we were staying in a luxury inn in a dwarven stronghold partially populated by warforged and built inside a volcano and each room had its own private bath with running water on tap and when I/ melliwyk was like 'hot water? 👀' the DM gave me a scathingly incredulous 'no??' like that was the world's dumbest question

what do you mean NO. they've figured out PRESSURIZED INDOOR PLUMBING but not GETTING THE WATER HOT????

[storywestistrash]

i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans

[sysig]

Light would be the type of Sims player to make his Sim take the Criminal career and then actively make their home life a living hell

[steadyclips]

I have worked so hard to cultivate my own writing style and voice. Thinking about how in the past I would try to match the other person’s energy on a reply and then burnout or lose muse because I couldn’t stay consistent. I think it’s important to consume as much diverse literature as you can and really write outside of a rp thread if you want to learn to garner a writing voice.

[distraughtlesbian]

i (DESERVEDLY‼️) heckle pb for a lot of their narrative choices but even all these years later this plot twist………masters in cuntology double major in slaysian studies and slutistical analysis minor in motherlogical studies graduated with honours from the university of servington. sorry. they chewed. i love the way it feels to be a hater but they can have their flowers just this 1 time

[trixree]

Absolutely obsessed with the TikTok community that is just reposting clips from House MD and making the most unhinged House/Wilson fancams and writing shit like this in the comments on every single one

But this one is for SURE my favorite

So far, MY favorite House MD arc is the one in season 4 when he just fucking kidnaps a man

[stranger-chichka]

"Though nothing will drive them away" plays when Mike says "It's not Will. It can't be."

[vanweezer]

one year ago yesterday i was cussing out a customer for wasting my time at 7 am at self checkout because he decided that was the day he would come into the store follow me around making odd requests while im very actively Doing Stuff and then give the one cashier we had on duty a hard time because he didn't wanna pay for some raspberries. i told him to get out of the store and he was like "what are you the manager?" and i told him to get out before i called someone (never done that in my life) and i took his stuff to the produce room in the back and when i came back he was still selling out and someone managed to sell him some wretched thing

[eggo-tistical]

I watched it. DAMN YOU LUKA, HOW DARE YOU WINNNNN!!! MY POOR LITTLE BABY BOY TILL WAHHHHHHHHHHH

Anyways, yeah. This shits fire 🔥

I immediately latched onto Till and cried a lil when he died soooo....

HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME??? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FANFICTION I'M GOING TO HAVE TO READ TO MAKE UP FOR THIS???

Anyways, worth it.

OOH YOU ACTUALLY WENT AND WATCHED IT!!!??!!!!!???!

IM SORRYYY I GET IT I EXPERIENCED ALL THE STAGES (ha) OF GRIEF EACH EPISODE… vivinos qmeng and their team are cruel cruel geniuses, i swear. so fire, so heartwrenching 💔💔

enjoy your fanfics and fanart, i’ll be here dreaming up more alnst x death note crossovers.. the brainbugs never stop going

[lanternlightss]

missing venti hours

[labcoatfucker]

certainly part of the reason i'm objectum is that i can intuit a lot more about objects than people. like show me a machine and in a minute or two i'll can tell you how this piece will move, designed to do this, can also have this application, you know. and when I look at a person i can easily imagine locking our fingers together like the teeth of two gears, lubricated with oil and the sting of sweat, and i can feel the exact weight of our hands swinging between us while we walk together. but i can't see anything behind their eyes when they're standing in front of me. there is a depth to humans that probably always be unknowable despite how long and how hard i've been working on that. by comparison, i can see the inside of a car or a computer before i even take the panels off.