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© Adrian Szatewicz

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Photos by Josef Gelernter

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Classic Novels as John Mulaney Quotes

Brave New World: I’ll keep all my emotions right here and then one day I’ll die.

Little Women: Which is funny because I’m probably gay based on the way I’ve walked and talked for 28 years

The Great Gatsby: I had to stop drinking because I would black out and ruin parties

Frankenstein: I also don’t want me to be doing what I’m doing

Lord of the Flies: Thirteen year olds are the meanest people in the world

To Kill a Mockingbird: I’ve never talked to my dad about that, but I figured I would tell all of you

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Was there ever a ghost mother? Or was the dead victorian girl me all along?

Animal Farm: He’s allowed to do that? It feels like he shouldn’t be allowed to do that.

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Hey, I too impulse bought this pretty little volume while waiting in line for a chai at a Barnes and Noble Starbucks!

💕 sierramtn 💕

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Sophomore year of high school, we had to read a Tale of Two Cities over Christmas break. We had absolutely no support and I hadn’t read anything near that complicated before. So eventually I got super frustrated and chucked the book at my wall. I haven’t attempted Dickens since. (Also in all my schooling that is still the only assigned reading I haven’t been able to finish. College prof wants me to read the entire History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours in three days? Fine, will do. But one more convoluted word of Dickens? No thank you.)

i’m curious: have you ever thrown a book at a wall / the floor / into oncoming traffic because you got super annoyed? or did anything similar out of anger or rage because the story didn’t go your way?

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Road to ruin

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endless gifs of fleabag (3/?)

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A sheep in the role of Cordelia in “King Lear With Sheep.”Credit” Nick Morris.

Source: ‘King Lear With Sheep.’ Yes, Sheep.

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I got 60 out of 1000 😂

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“Everything changes, nothing is lost” (2014) by land artist Katie Griesar #womensart

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#poetic cinema

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today in “things i’m disproportionately emotional about”:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole