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Codex Rotundus “266 almost perfectly circular pages of parchment have been bound together to build a block of 3cm height with a diameter of only 9cm.”

The initials of the metal clasps point us to Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425 - 1492) as the owner.

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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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Sodapop hating Curly, not because he’s a bad influence or something like that, but instead because every time Curly’s in jail for the weekend or in reformatory Ponyboy cries for at least 3 hours.

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“In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the ‘Good’ side?”

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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Haha I made more

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i think people forget ponyboy isn’t the only one who grieves johnny and dally.

soda was a wreck for months, but he’d keep it in. he’s obviously a little unstable, especially given his status as mediator. part of his breakdown was fueled by grief. sodapop, who runs the shower blazing hot just to feel that sting of reality, who only cries when he’s sure no one can hear, because he’s thing to keep up an optimistic facade. soda grieves, just not visibly.

darry saw johnny and dally as his own flesh and blood. everyone in the gang is like a little brother to him, and he starts doubting himself too. if he couldn’t save johnny and dally, then how the hell is he supposed to save his own baby brothers? he works to push those thoughts away, he starts taking double, maybe even triple shifts just to push down the pain he’s feeling. work is his outlet and on his days off he can barely get out of bed, consumed by his own thoughts and fears. he grieves, just not audibly.

two-bit loses himself in his alcoholism. if gets significantly worse after the two die. two bit always struggled with self esteem and self worth, and used humor as a way to cope, but even now, he can’t do that. it’s all a persona, and him screaming at johnny’s mom in the hospital is testimony to his cracking facade, the mask is falling, and it’s fading away at a speed he can’t keep up with. he’s losing himself, and the only thing that can mend the tears is alcohol. he becomes dependent on it order to survive, in order to feel like he matters.

steve shuts down emotionally. the only thing he can see from dawn til dusk is red. he’s angry. he’s angry at the socs, for starting this in the first place, he’s mad at the cops and the justice system for trying to rule in the rich people’s favor. he’s mad at himself especially for not having gone with dally, for not having done anything to save johnny or dally. he’s livid with himself for not going after dally, and for wallowing in his own sorrows because of johnny’s death. after johnny’s death things were a blur, but he wishes he had been stronger emotionally, because if he hadn’t broken down like a pansy, maybe dally could’ve lived. maybe he could’ve saved him. steve deals with survivor’s guilt and extreme emotional damage, just nobody bothers to see past his anger to see the hurt underneath.

they’re all grieving. it’s not just ponyboy.

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For Johnny's birthday he was allowed to wear Dally's jacket all day long! 🥰

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I will not dox my neighbour and post pictures of his house because I am not an asshole, but he just put an addition on his already batshit insane house and I am dying to share.

He lives in a 1950 PanAm passenger plane. I have no fucking clue how he got it here, because we're nowhere near a runway and it still has its wings and its landing gear. The living space is a solid 15 feet off the ground and he has one of those old school staircase vans as his front step. I would assume its not terribly different from living in a trailer or other mobile home, but its way better insulated because its a plane.

Anyway, he just finished a glassed in porch that comes out of the pilots side of the cockpit and its so cool. This isn't some gimmicky airbnb, this is his house and the commitment to the bit is legendary.

His greenhouse is a fire engine.

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Sodapop really wanted a sister. Recently, his whole family went to see horses, but they were nothing like he thought they'd be. His dad told him they were ponies. Sodapop wanted to see horses, not ponies. So, when his parents told him he would have a brother, he cried. Too many disappointments for one child, so he screamed with frustration "Pony! Boy!". He looked at his parents to see them smile mischievously. Later Soda made everyone swear not to tell Ponyboy the origin of his name

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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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Guys this is what Papa V Perpetua will look like trust me

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I drew this in the middle of the night

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What's the strangest thing you've ever seen Soda eat?

Sodapop Curtis is a crime against food