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Huh? Oh, the seemingly perpetual light behind my eyes has been fading? Oh, you just noticed? Now that you're all thinking about it you've all been noticing the light fading more and more every day? You're worried? Nah dude it's fine, don't even worry about it. What? No no come on man you don't have to. Come on guys you don't have to go get my narrative foil about it. No- come on guys im fine the light fading is normal. Oh, you're calling my foil? Ah fuck okay then.

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wild how catullus 51 is the only poem ever

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"mutuals can ask for discord" mutuals can haunt me after they die. mutuals can paint my immortal youth in a cursed portrait. mutuals can build a 8ft tall creature in my college dorm. mutuals can watch me wake up as a monstrous vermin. mutuals can feed me soup after i commit murder. mutuals can help me kill uncle claudius. mutuals can go out with me and my girlfriend from across the bay. mutuals can hunt the beast with me. do better

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why did I never know there were studio versions of the instrumentals from holding achilles before now...............

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Rpf is fine if its mozart and salieri

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I just can’t with this Dungeon Meshi anime. Everyone is cheering on the lesbian elf who brought a woman to life using the foul, scavenged, dead matter but when I, Victor Frankenstein,

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drew this as fast as i possibly could. yay okay now you do it too

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minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

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this whole ouroboros thing keeps coming back to bite me in the ass

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the bacchic mysteries are mysteries TO YOU. i know what's in them tho

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rosencrantz is dead guildenstern is dead and me i feel also not so good

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my dealer: got some straight gas this strain is called "the trojan war" you'll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever i don't feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just heard some greek soldiers in that wooden horse

my buddy ilioneus pacing: cassandra is lying to us

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There are finally official subtitles for Holding Achilles! Available if you rent it on the QPAC digital stage site.

(Apologies for the blurry photos, we're watching on the tv so I can't screenshot.)

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i am so thankful that i exist at the same time as jstor. i love reading 130 y/o journals about the representation of centaurs in ancient greek pottery while drinking my morning coffee. what a time to be alive <3

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Aeneid Daily begins June 1st!

Subscribe now to receive Vergil’s epic, in roughly 100-line intervals, in your email inbox all summer! More information and translation links here.

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"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"