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 i recommend learning other alphabets if for no other reason than it’s very fun to see people replace latin alphabet letters with complete nonsense for Aesthetic

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we should legalize polyamorous marriage  for all the other reasons we should but also because I wanna see what polygamous divorce looks like

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white people are so terrified of the idea that they'll have to pay for what they did because they think that people they've oppressed are as savage as they were.

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well considering the linear nature of time and aging id love to hear the alternative 

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This Week in literary news ... (x) 🥲

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the feeling of learning is legitimately so cool. there’s a little whoa sound effect that plays in your brain whenever you read a sentence that expands reality for you a tiny bit

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“People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.”

-Ted Chiang: Story of Your Life and Others

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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1410-1420. Ink on vellum.

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physically i’m here but mentally i’m a member of the strawberry cult in hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights

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nothing feels as good as starting to read again when you haven’t held a book in your hand for such a long time and now the setting sun is in your room and there’s paper under your fingers and you feel so good about letting the words float into you again

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‘Orpheus’, 1891.  by Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Villa Stuck Museum, Munich.

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Selene thrown down (1886) - Ferdinand Keller

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I just realised Ph.D should stand for Preferred Hill to Die on.

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Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI - Frank Cadogan Cowper

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Emil Lauffer (1837-1909), Kriemhild’s Accusation (Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hager of murdering her husband Siegfried), 1879, oil on canvas, 191 x 300 cm. National Gallery Prague

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I'm bisexual which means I have both the limp wrist condition and the I'm gonna lift all those chairs by myself if it kills me syndrome