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seeing edmund in the horse and his boy is so much fun because going off of cs lewis's timeline he's here he's like 24 years old and he's been put in charge of a 12 year old who does NOT want to be put in anyones charge and you first meet him through him scolding what he believes to be said 12 year old for running off and later in the books hes like you're 12 you aren't allowed to fight in battles and its like. what do we think king edmund the just was doing at 12 years old. being king of an entire nation, having already fought in multiple battles. one of four humans in the entire country. no one is allowed to tell him what to do but his older siblings and truly how good is he at listening to them. he has nooo reference for what 12 year old boys Should be doing and now oh no he's lost the child. the child has gone missing in the streets of a foriegn capital

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Ah. Hello, Katherine. Feeling alright?

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“A huge collection of Regency mother of pearl gaming counters and thread winders. Many fish-shaped, many with engraved monograms.”

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I love the hagiography of early Irish & Welsh saints. You’re like. Did most of these people exist? Probably not. Did any of these events occur? Also probably not.

Then you find out there are many, many, first hand accounts of Irish monks making it to Iceland and the Faroe Islands centuries before the Vikings and there are written accounts of the curses early Irish missionaries put on people and you’re like. Okay. Maybe it’s not that crazy. Maybe St. Brendan did find the Isle of the Blessed and give communion to a mermaid, or something mermaid shaped.

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"Next time you ride with me, okay?" IRON MAN (2008) dir. Jon Favreau

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cats are like medieval royalty in the way that they both demand great Etiquette and Respect. while also shitting in buckets. very unusual combination. really works for them.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Text Posts 10

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He’s a FORMER DRUG ADDICT he has BIPOLER DISORDER he’s a survivor of CHILDHOOD DOMESTIC ABUSE he’s the MOST POWERFUL GUY ON EARTH he’s SUICIDAL he was DEFEATED WITH THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP he DID THE DISHES he’s BRUNET he’s BLOND he’s a HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT he’s a SCIENCE EXPERIMENT he can SEE YOUR WORST MOMENTS he’s from FLORIDA

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thinking about that time my mom ordered a bottle of vitamins online and they arrived with the tamper seal broken and she was going to just take them anyway and in desperation i had to bust out the “you know they never solved the chicago tylenol murders” to get her to mail them back

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one day he'll follow you home

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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

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GHOSTS (2019) — Historical time periods

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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Fancy Machine

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it's okay, ulysses ogre. you can back up and try dubliners, it's a short story collection with much more straightforward prose, you can dive deep on one piece at a time, and once you've toyed around with that then I'm sure you'll have an easier time with ulysses. besides, I had an irish lit professor who'd been studying finnegans wake for twenty years and she said she still didn't really know what was going on in it. ulysses ogre, what really matters is if you are enjoying your time with literature and feel like you are gaining something, not whether you reach the "correct" conclusions. there's no need to try and force yourself through something if you feel like you aren't on an even enough plane with the text to reap any of its rewards.