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He ate the entire picnic

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the line between not going out as an act of self-care and not going out as a symptom of depression is but a gossamer thread

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Adagio - Chapter Eight

The summer is halfway gone by the time it occurs to Inej to be disappointed.

Read on AO3

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Rose water production, Qamsar, Iran

City of fragrance

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*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

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have started to get unreasonably annoyed by the whole "biblically accurate angel" thing because like. it feels like this whole "ooooh subversive knowledge nobody knows, isn't this so weird" when in fact the truth is that there are a whole lot of angels in the bible and a number of them do, legitimately, look like just some guy

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*does five minutes of work* ok now i deserve a three week break. No consequences please 👍

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you: #spoilery thoughts on how their doomed classical hero names give way before the English saint’s name

me: they are so January 31, 438 coded

that's all

Crushed like a sea shell by a sea-side warrior's foot

Trying to turn the tide

When the hunger's all that holds you together

Who do you want by your side?

Ooh, good call. Yeah, I’ll add that to scrapbook with Aeneid 11 and the Palamedes fragments. (This is also a very Andor song to me, for what it’s worth — like Kleya and Luthen especially but like a show-wide mood really.)

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The Emperor's Reason

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people often think i'm doing it for the bit but unfortunately i Am the type of guy who just says shit like "pray tell" and "indeed" and "naught but the human heart can hope to capture the moon's beauty" (that was actually about my shitty phone camera) and nobody really knows what to do when they hear those words come out of my mouth. myself included.

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*deletes post after 1 minute* limited edition

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“You are in the embrace of the history” — Deir el-Bahri in Nile West Bank. Luxor, Egypt

“The first written words started here” — Uruk, Iraq (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

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Whenever anyone asks me about things I’ve read I am struck by the truth that I have never read a single book in my whole entire life. I have been to maybe five plays. Probably I saw a movie once. I don’t know anything and I never have.

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It is likely that no one ever masters anything in which he has not known impotence; and if you agree, you will also see that this impotence comes not at the beginning of or before the struggle with the subject, but in the heart of it.

Walter Benjamin

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The Soft Skin (dir. François Truffaut, 1964)

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op turned reblogs off but i need this one so bad