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pygmy--tyrant · 5 hours ago

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pygmy--tyrant · 8 hours ago

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low self esteem now partially cured by the fact that when i opened up anki to study ancient greek they only gave me really easy words that i knew the translation of immediately

asking for feedback on your bad grade is a humiliation ritual

#watch out classics department

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pygmy--tyrant · 8 hours ago

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asking for feedback on your bad grade is a humiliation ritual

#classics is a great thing to study if you want to feel like the ulysses ogre for your whole future career #how to telepathically communicate to my professor that i am actually smart and very passionate about this even though the 1 paper you marked #from me was bad and contained faulty arguments about grave goods. i'm sorry i mixed up the kerameikos cemetery and the agora #i promise i care and you just happened to catch me the one time I've ever been bad at this #^that may sound like a terribly hubristic statement but my confidence in my abilities is currently very low i need to hype myself up a bit

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pygmy--tyrant · 2 days ago

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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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pygmy--tyrant · 2 days ago

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oh you've never been allowed to talk about your magical identity and its left you feeling alienated and resentful? oh you've been made to feel like you cannot belong in the world you grew up in and it's bred misanthropy when left to fester? oh you're tormented by dreams that you know aren't just visions and can and will hurt you? oh your relationship with your decidedy unmagical brother has turned into something bitter as you continue to misunderstand eachother (it's all your dad's fault)? oh you don't believe you've ever met someone who is truly like you and understands your alienation? oh you're volatile and extremely vulnerable to manipulation as a result of all this pain? well that's a really interesting character setup are you going to go to extreme measures to attempt to free magic and understand yourself that are clearly dangerous and self destructive but ultimately sympathetic and consistent with your previous characterisation and motivations - oh she's just evil now. caught crazy evil bitch disease and I'm afraid its terminal. sad!

yknow i think part of the reason i find morgana's post-s2 character arc so frustrating is because I know exactly how this could have been executed better and it's ronan lynch in the dreamer trilogy. do you know how bad something has to be for me to think god i wish this was more like greywaren

#especially annoys me because morgana's eventual redemption is such a big part of the mythos!#and i get that they're not going to do everything and the show goes well off book right from the start #but why establish such a sympathetic character only to never even entertain the idea of redemption #she could have been SUCH an interesting and complicated antagonist #but alas her arc ibstead just feels like the trick where you know the villain is right so you have to make her kill a baby or something #to prove she's actually evil

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pygmy--tyrant · 2 days ago

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yknow i think part of the reason i find morgana's post-s2 character arc so frustrating is because I know exactly how this could have been executed better and it's ronan lynch in the dreamer trilogy. do you know how bad something has to be for me to think god i wish this was more like greywaren

#tbf i actually have mixed feelings on greywaren and i do really like the rest of the dreamer trilogy it has to be said.#but i definitely agree that greywaren was pretty weird and disappointing in a lot of places #but it's STILL better than what bbc merlin did to my girl

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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I will never forget the horror I saw yesterday. Over 500,000 people trapped in a small area for aid that wasn’t enough for even 1%.

What we see here… you don’t see on the news. It’s hell.

Then, the shooting began. I’ll never forget the man I met on the road — we waited together since dawn. He was shot in the head in front of me… and people trampled over him. I don’t know if he’s alive or dead. I stood there helpless.

I didn’t tell my mother I was going — but I couldn’t watch them starving anymore. No flour for 3 months. No food for 2 days. I came back empty-handed… broken… in shock.

But my family is still here… starving, homeless, forgotten.

Please — I beg you — donate or share. Help me save them.

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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"i asked chatgpt" okay i asked the magical sentient forest that i sacrificed my eyes and hands to... we r not the same

#rip ronan lynch you would've hated ai </3

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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goodnight sweet prince...if gansey doesn't talk like he has a weird gay thing going on with all his friends then what's the POINT

i was somewhat offline for quite a while but how am i only just finding out NOW that in the trb graphic novel gansey doesn't even say hey tiger...what the fuck...his weirdest decision and you just take it away from him...

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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i was somewhat offline for quite a while but how am i only just finding out NOW that in the trb graphic novel gansey doesn't even say hey tiger...what the fuck...his weirdest decision and you just take it away from him...

#is nothing sacred

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :

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pygmy--tyrant · 3 days ago

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this comparison makes me start coughing up blood btw

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pygmy--tyrant · 4 days ago

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i love seeing all the people i knew in high school who stayed in my hometown start liking posts on instagram that feel like the first step towards a a very concerning path it's so beautiful and nice actually!