#the ones that get read aloud?????

[cirrus-grey]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck the goddamn music-

I don't know the name for the technique but there's this thing that was in there that's the string players, like, tapping the instrument with the bow to create a more percussive sound and normally I wouldn't think too much of it but I swear to god it sounded like creeping spider legs. During the case set at Hill Top Road. With the very obvious references to the Buried and the Stranger and all the rest. Which dropped about a hundred Achives references including Jon's fucking name???

I have always respected the soundscaping they do at Rusty Quill but they're really going above and beyond for this show.

[abigail]

at the antique centre yesterday they had written notes/stories for the teddy bears (obviously i had to get the bear in the second photo) ♡

[vickyvicarious]

I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby.

When you know this was the last time they ever saw one another...

[bumblingbabooshka]

It's impossible to write a TOS x Any other Series crossover [for me] without having to think about whose lens it's going to primarily be from because the vibe of TOS is so distinct and I think quite different from all series that follow it. The way the characters speak and are presented is so theatrical and of course steeped in the past that I find myself considering if this is, say, Janeway meeting Kirk (through a VOY perspective) or if I should write Janeway as she would appear if she stepped through a portal and was in TOS' universe.

[angelmush]

i got a goose tattooed on the inside of my forearm today and it was a flash piece but it's my favorite tattoo already it means everything to me i could sob

[lowpolyshadow]

god i really wanna know How Much shadow knows about gerald's . everything. and based on that, how does he FEEL about gerald's. Everything

[ilions-end]

i know it's meant to be tragic and gruesome but i couldn't help but giggle at the infant and snake incident in the thebaid

that baby lying unattended in the grass for TWO BOOKS, and here comes the giant snake with blue-black eyes slithering through the grass, three sets of fangs, green venom foaming down... and unknowingly instakills the baby with a flick of its tail as it passes by?? AT LEAST BITE HIM YOU ASSHOLE

[letters-to-rosie]

sometimes I feel like I'm not getting any smarter doing all this reading and then I watch a youtube video explaining a philosopher I haven't read but because I've read enough of the stuff they're drawing on I find myself nodding along and saying the words before they come out lol

[francesderwent]

sometimes the tumblr therapy-speak crowd makes it seem like in a real-life healthy relationship, you can never, ever expect anyone to anticipate your needs because that would require them to read your mind and people can’t do that, so you’ll have to talk explicitly about every single issue every single time for the rest of your life. and I don’t know, I just don’t think that’s true.

[iwakuraz]

everytime I think even just a little bit that I'm starting to sort of get better at speaking aloud, somebody will say something horrible to me about my voice and ruin everything

[tchaikovskaya]

grad skool is so funny bc its like.... talking to a prof ur tight with vs when ur having an email exchange on the Official University Server And Records

[the-jellyfish-graves]

Strawberry Moon

I broke a fast on her thighs. She tasted like the night before a strawberry moon, almost full and warm – a heat that burns and cools into something bearable, almost sweet. She lulls me to sleep in a temperate voice when I feel that rest escapes my weak grasp, and I crumble between her legs in the hope that some part of me will remain, caught up in her bed. An impure slick, adulterated by my tongue, catches the light of a near-full moon, illuminating my craving, bringing light to my shameful desperation. I am bound and humbled without physical restraints, and chastened all the more with them, filth purified in her gratification until I am but a ceremonial tool in my own salvation.

[ihavedonenothingright]

Lord, what is it with people who claim to like classics, but hate classical languages? Specifically, but not exclusively, people who treat the reconstruction of classical languages as a worthless endeavor. Ignoring the fact that language as a spoken medium is integral to any culture, how is that not in the least bit cool to you? Why don't you want to know what Latin and Ancient Greek and Old Persian might have sounded like? You don't want to reconstruct an accurate picture of the classical world? You don't want to figure out how it all intersected?

I'm not even touching on the debate of whether these languages should be taught conversationally, or solely taught to be read (though personally, I'm in the camp of, "you will learn to sight read better if you also learn to speak.") I've encountered an outright hostility toward the idea of learning these languages from people otherwise interested in classics, and it baffles me. People studying classics at a university level who think Latin and Greek are a waste of time, and theoretical pronunciation, vernacular reconstruction, etc. are all pointless. Who claim this attitude was actually fostered by their professors.

I am um. Well. Angy.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[theswandragon]

Daily Poem 11/20/23

Silver moonlight so grand Shine on, shine-ay Swimming back to the land Shine on, shine-ay Steady prints in the sand Shine on, shine-ay Slowly waving their hand Shine on, shine-ay Maybe not what was planned Shine on, shine-ay Yet here I still am, and Shine on, shine-ay

~Swan

[disdaidal]

I don't want to brag or sound too optimistic about it, but after three weeks of training at a private college, I think my lessons with this one particular immigrant student (who has serious motivational problems lemme tell ya) are finally starting to get through and there's been improvement.

Only slight improvement so far but I have spotted some, so maybe not all hope is lost yet.

Remains to be seen I guess.