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pirates wore thigh high boots and people still think they weren’t gay

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late republican romans as the mincing mockingbird guide to troubled birds

caesar

cicero

clodius pulcher

pompey

crassus

brutus

antony

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Japanese matchlock carbine, late Edo or early Meiji Period.

from Hermann Historica

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My attempts to explain that Les Miserables is not set during the French Revolution are about as futile as the revolution in Les Miserables.

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Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence

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Victor, chilling on a mountain: ah if I'm never to be happy again, kill me now!

The monster, absolutely vaulting the glacier beneath him: vibe check!

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aint this how we got protestantism

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I love images of late Victorian/Edwardian period men taking goofy pictures with their bros........boys night circa 1898

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me: *gets touched by random wave of sadness*

me: so, this is what poets of Romanticism felt

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Masterpost

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How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

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oh to be a bored prince who keeps rejecting marriage proposals due to being secretly in love with the cute gardener boy

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me: i think i shall read some ancient philosophy today! let’s see what the stoic epictetus has to tell me

epictetus: look at you, you fucking piece of shit. you care about things? you’re sad when you lose them? what a fucking clown you are. oh your wife died and you’re sad about it? you’re sad about losing your wife you little peepee baby? fuck you. i hate you so fucking much

me: ok then!

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The most special interest hyperfixation TM thing I think I’ve done recently is when a friend said curiously “I wonder what the prefixes ‘cis’ and ‘trans’ even mean originally”

And I was learning about the Cetls and I was like “well when Rome was conquering the Gauls, they successful took their territory all the way up to the Alps, and that territory was called Cisalpine Gaul, whereas the Gauls’ territory across the Alps was called Transalpine Gaul, so probably I guess they mean ‘this side’ and ‘the other side’ or something sorta like that.”

And then after all that I was like. OH WE’RE TALKING ABOUT GENDER.

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studying the late republic like

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writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page