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My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “The Epic of Gilgamesh” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw the mountain warn me in a dream about Humbaba

My buddy Enkidu pacing: the gods are lying to us

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"girls with a time machine would do x, boys with a time machine would do y" if i had a time machine, i'd go back to the 90s and kick off a production of a flawed but deeply loveable tv adaptation of the epic of gilgamesh on a budget of an average 30 dollars per season. it would have a consistent fanbase on tumblr and a reneissance now in the 2020s. it would make our entire generation feel a deep-seated childhood nostalgia for humanity's oldest known story. the sets would be made from styrofoam. it would all be made with such love.

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are you ever having a good day and then you suddenly think about gilgamesh and enkidu and then you just collapse in grief or do I need to up my dosage of antidepressants?

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Epic of Gilgamesh be like

No Sumerian born before 2000 BCE knows how to keep a plant from a snake. How to become human is be bisexual, eat bread, drink beer, and die.

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I hope all the mesopotamian girlies made and read gilgamesh x enkidu old man yaoi I hope it fixed them

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Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

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"Disaster Taxon," poem assembled using text from Wikipedia articles

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*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

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i've had enough of these guys

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this has almost certainly been done before but. It's funny so it's ok

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kashima doodle ✨✨✨

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Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Chapter 149 © Cash Money Chiyo (@grolia, jinky, @waxlightjohn, and our newest member bissou!)

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do you think pintel and ragetti's periods ever synced up

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Finishing Bisexual Visibility Week with this meme I made after watching The Bisexual Movie

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you can replace barbossa with just about anyone from the series tbh