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IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY

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And yet forever unfaithful, eternally restless, hard upon eighty, I sit like the schoolgirl I once was over my Latin lesson, so that I can read, no, not read, can listen, straining, intense, to catch a whisper, a breath of the incredible music, the ancient, remote song, hear the soft voice with its faint country accent telling how shepherds quarrel for love, how from a chunk of the wood you can grow a whole olive-tree, how the gods harry a good man. Are you my last poet then, Vergil? last of so many I followed? None sweeter, none better, never so truthful a guide on the way that leads into darkness, passing the great tree that shelters false dreams in clusters like bats under its leaves, to the river of shadows, and the dim fields where hurt souls gather in silence. You carried Dante up out of his hell; he turned away from you. I would ask only to stay with you. You and Lucretius before you showed me the shores where the foam of the breakers is starlight. Now let me follow you down, as falling leaves follow the west wind to rest in the earth.

Ursula K. Le Guin, "Meters, II. Ingenti Percussus Amore" (from Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems, 2012)

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gold

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whenever i see the word odyssey used lowercase (as in, “a knight in the making goes on an odyssey across the mythical kingdom of camelot,” the lead for a review i just read of the green knight movie) i think, isn’t it cool that odysseus’ name is synonymous with journey? isn’t that cruel?

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That Devil, Ambition is a lot of different things to me, but after tomorrow, it will belong to all of you.

There was a letter included with the ARCs that I think sums up my thoughts on writing it; however, I would like to add this - there is no achievement worth more than you.

See y'all tomorrow🖤

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me: oh no! 😱 I dropped my phone 📱 in the dead sea 💀🌊 which has a famously high average salt 🧂 content of 290ppt, almost nine times that of the ocean. if only someone were brave enough to retrieve it for me 🥺

my best friend wound man (helpful to a fault): I will go ☝️🤕

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i just think it's neat that odysseus gets put in a position where he has to kill his child to avoid going to war and he can't do it and then agamemnon gets put in a position where he has to kill his child to go to war and he does it

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Teeth of the Valley

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by DeeSoul Carson

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In Stars and Time (Main Theme) - from the In Stars and Time OST by @thumpypuppy

another quick isat piano cover i picked up by ear! the main theme of isat has something special about it i can’t quite describe. i remember booting up the game for the first time not really knowing anything about it since it was a gift, hearing this song, and immediately just knowing that this game was going to be a very special experience for me. and it was!

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Helen was mentioned like once in a VC then my brain said, yeah let me take over

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

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On Friendship.

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there is such an under appreciation for neurodivergent ways of expressing oneself because “You DONT KNOW what she DOES to ME. Like she REWIRED my CIRCUITRY”

THATS POETRY. THATS LOVE.

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shout out to all the bitches NOT having gay sex this pride month

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sex is cool and all but can we please play games together? have similar interests? cuddle in the warm while it’s raining? adopt a bunch of little cats? go on dates to botanical gardens? draw together? make each other laugh? watch movies until we’re too tired to keep our eyes open? kiss at 1am in the dark of a kitchen? sleep wrapped up in each others arms? share clothes? put furniture together? hold hands on long walks even if it’s hot? remind each other that we’re loved and valued as individuals? make each other flourish? support our goals and aspirations? lift one another up? bake yummy treats and feed each other while giggling? kiss while smiling? laugh until our stomachs hurt? make cherished memories? meet each others loves ones?

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