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a fated pair of star-crossed bunnies 🩷🐇

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imagine you’ve spent the past sixteen years as your beloved shifu’s only disciple. and you’ve trained hard and been wiser than your years and made sure to cover for your shifu when his hot temper gets the better of him, and you think you have a pretty good thing going, until he finds a kid with trauma and bad vibes, a real straightforward bad choice except for his off-the-charts aptitude, and your shifu decides he NEEDS this kid as a disciple. and as you’re reconciling yourself to the idea of a new shidi, and this specific kid as your shidi, your shifu goes to the sect elders for the thumbs up to formalize the master-disciple relationship, and they tell him no, we don’t want him in our sect due to the trauma and the bad vibes and the fact that he’s way too old. and your shifu’s temper gets the better of him again, and he swears that he will teach the kid no matter what they say, and then just days later he dies. it’s horrible, it’s gruesome, it’s everything you ever feared and tried to protect him from. and as his body spasms in your arms, the only things he has to say are about this kid. teach him, your shifu says. we never formalized the relationship, so you take him as your disciple. and you’re not even twenty. what then

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Why was Odysseus’ bow so hard to string?

(The bow I use in this is Chinese in design rather than Greek, but it hits some of the key shape points)

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Alcibiades + text posts

Bonus:

sources:

The Return of Alcibiades to Athens, ‘The Illustrated History of the World’ (1881)

Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent (1776)

The Drunken Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium by Pierre Testa (1648)

Socrates seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia by Jean-Leon Gerome (1861)

Symposium by Anselm Feuerbach (1869-74(?))

(Textbook from 1910s)

La mort d'Alcibiade by Philippe Chéry (1791)

The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David (1787)

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imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc

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So, I went skiing the other day and what can I say

my messed-up brain forced me to prove that Tyelco + ugly '90s ski gear is a match made in heaven.

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Tonight House Republicans voted 217 to 215 for a budget that'll take $1 TRILLION dollars from Medicaid, attack food benefits for kids, hurt seniors and vets.

but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about these two Democratic members of Congress you've never ever heard of.

Democrats, Congressman Kevin Mullin of California and Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.

Congressman Mullin had knee surgery that didn't go well, two surgeries, a life threatening blood clot and a week long stay in the hospital, and the moment he was discharged from the hospital he got on a five hour flight to DC to vote against the Republicans evil budget, using a walker to get to the floor of the House

Congresswoman Pettersen gave birth to her son Sam, in the picture, exactly one month ago on January 25th. They flew from Colorado to DC after Republicans refused to allow her to vote by proxy after having a baby. Congresswoman Pettersen took Sam onto the floor of the House to vote to protect the Health care of 400,000 Colorado kids.

why talk about this? because so much of the conversion is about telling people there's no one good, no one worthy, no one fighting. I promise you there are people undergoing personal hardship to do the right thing.

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i think every medieval timesey ren fair type attraction should have a booth of pedantry where if you wanna know if something happening is Authentic or you wanna ask questions about real medieval times or whatever you can stop by and there's just a historian sitting on a throne of books eager to show you all their research

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no hog wild today. hog mild only. here are some hog mild images

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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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I love ravelry.

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everyone who ever tried to kill you failed btw

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it's a really scary and sad time in the US right now. but you guys have absolutely blown me away with your generosity - we SOLD OUT of protect trans kids stickers. that's almost $3,000 raised for transcontinental pipeline to help relocate folks from unsafe states to CO ;_;

and, since it looks like we're in it for the long fight, i ordered more stickers. if you want to make a donation and pick up a sticker at the same time 100% of proceeds go to TCP

thank you all for making this fundraiser happen, i am blown away. it's felt good to help, and not just be a bystander in all of this. it's scary and sad and i'm afraid for the future, but i also know we're in this together and it turns out we can do pretty great stuff together. stay safe, love you all 💙🤍💖

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors