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Hooray for the Bookmobile!

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Ted and Lilly on the cat blanket

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okay everyone reblog and tell me your favorite perfume. but if your favorite is glossier you… don’t bother

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Ted and Lilly on the cat blanket

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soft spoken women rarely make history yadda yadda yadda but I'm legit tearing up, not at cicero calling clodia nota (notorious), but auctor (author, instigator, enacter). there is such agency in that term. the guy demonising her is also the one who immortalised her agency in the historical record. his entire defense and accusation of her may be fabrication, but this idea that she had a MODICUM of agency to let it go this far must have been based on a grain of truth for it to be plausible. and that means something to me

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mark antony voice how does a balding lying son of a pleb and an eques

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soooo much of the modern conception of gender is based around products and consumerism that people can’t even identify actual misogyny anymore. People reply to posts “It’s sexist to hate on something so many women enjoy” and that something would be a Stanley cup

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forgot Romes birthday yesterday 😵‍💫 instead I spent like 8 hours watching hockey….whoops!

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public library save me

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Wish I was a late bronze age girl

I would have my homeland invaded by the sea peoples. I would be lain siege to by the sea peoples. My cities would be sacked by the sea peoples. I would make bronze tools and pottery. My shores would be invaded by the mysterious sea peoples. I would be mustering my armies to fend off the sea peoples.

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a little obsessed with the story of how giacomo casanova was sharing a gondola with this random guy who suddenly started having a seizure, and casanova had some medical training so he stabilized the guy until the guy’s physician could be called. and then the physician bled the guy and put mercury ointment on him, which caused everything to get worse to the point that a priest was called to administer the guy’s last rites, but then casanova stepped in and washed off the mercury ointment despite the doctor yelling at him not to. and the guy recovered and turned out to be super rich and powerful and in gratitude bankrolled casanova’s debauchery for years until casanova got himself sentenced to five years in jail for blasphemy. also at one point he got shot through the hand in a duel and doctors wanted to amputate it but he said no it’ll be fine and it Was

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My illustration in the style of a medieval tapestry

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do you guys think a small a nd sickly senator can really have a virtuous and wise stoicful mindset

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ink

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read something recently that said a majority of people don’t have a wall clock these days, thought it was interesting since I’ve always considered it an essential and functional piece of home decor.

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So Fox News ran a story about how they think libraries are turning into drug-infested sex dens and I am shocked, shocked that I was never offered any drugs during my 15+ years working in libraries.

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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art