look up Invictus (William Ernest Henley)

"It matters not how straight the gate/how charged with punishment the scroll/I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul"

[copepods]

by the time rocky and grace arrive on erid they’ve spent 4 years constructing the worlds most unintuitive english-eridian creole language and no one can understand a word of what rocky is saying

[dragons-and-cake123]

Hadestown, Wait for Me (Intro) // MAG 199 // Hadestown, Promises // MAG 159 // Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) // @/inanotherunivrse on Tumblr // I Swear Somewhere This Works,Trista Mateer // MAG 199 // [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in], E. E. Cummings // MAG 200

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

kind of making me insane that people have been thinking about grief and death like this for thousands of years

[elisary01]

“has turned to clay” I know exactly what theyre referring to but there’s also something about the epic being written in clay. like. like. enkidu can only now be remembered. his story can only be preserved, in clay. there’s nothing left for him, except clay

[six-improbable-things]

@mickemz01's addition reminded me of something one of my favorite professors said during a class about mythology in college.

He was talking about the epic of Gilgamesh, and how Gilgamesh "fails" to find the secret to immortality. But then he followed it up with:

“Gilgamesh really did discover the secret to immortality. Because I’m telling you about him right now.”

And that simple statement fundamentally altered my brain chemistry. It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

[elisary01]

ABSOLUTELY!!! There’s almost a meta layer to the work itself. Gilgamesh may not have physically lived forever but hundreds of us still talk about his story, thousands of years later. Something about things living on forever as long as they are known

[korrgoth-the-vile]

THEY CALL ME THE GREAT CLOWN PAGLIACCI BECAUSE MY THERAPIST TELLS PEOPLE TO WATCH ME

[ruhaniya]

"you should be at the club" i should be by the sea. i should be in the mountains. i should be at the moon. i should be awestruck and rendered speechless by the majesty of the natural world. if you even care.

[hgedits]

[galahadwilder]

No, Mr. Horse, don’t worry, I certainly don’t have a Plinko down here! What I do have is this lovely cask of wine, specifically for horses, Amontillado in fact! Exquisite vintage.

I know you’re not supposed to be in this hospital, but if you’ll just follow me down this corridor—no, that’s not blood on the floor, it’s color theory, I’ll explain it later—I can bring you to this cask of wine that is certainly NOT a plinko machine—

[sunfoxfic]

I'm telling you, Blorbo, I have the finest copy of my shows in the basement, please follow me

[queer-cosette]

we can take the Eeby Deeby - no, no, I promise it's not going to Gay Superhell - look, Eebders Deebeorg was an outlier adn should not have been counted

[galahadwilder]

Where did I get this Eeby Deeby? Well, there was this lovely Middle Eastern gentleman who was selling copper, the finest copper—

[queer-cosette]

hnnnnngg I’m trying to get blorbo into my plinko but the eeby deeby I bought from the copper merchant who as it turns out was EXTREMELY disreputable (who is he, to treat me with such contempt?!) is dummy thicc, thicc enough to block the Suez Canal in fact, and the eebert of the deebert is so scrimblo bimblo it keeps alerting the horse

[queer-cosette]

yoU PLINKO BLORBO?! you plinko blorbo like the HORSE?! Oh, Eeby Deeby for Glup Shitto! Eeby Deeby for Glub Shitto for 1000 YEARS

[galahadwilder]

“Eeby Deeby” is, in this case, putting an orange buttered cat face-first into a trashcan

[digitaldiscipline]

my name is blorb and when its nite and eeby deeby castiel's flight poe and wine cause discourse

i'm ever given; i plink the horse

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Historians are going to have to explain this culture someday.

[the-haiku-bot]

Historians are

going to have to explain

this culture someday.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[arthur-vigil]

How do I turn off asks no glue no borax

[indigostar]

so to start, the recipe for turning off asks has been in my family for a long time. it began with my great great grandpappy and his lovely story about the horses and t

[arthur-vigil]

Ah yes the evil and intimidating horses that battle the innocent lesbians

[indigostar]

the what

[lakevida]

i went to navy pier as a child and clowns took my father away and built a table out of him with three other dads and i always thought this was some unpleasant and vivid dream and i mentioned it to my mom one day a couple years ago and she was like Yaa when we went to chicago they made him do chair tricks with other men

they did this to him

[korrgoth-the-vile]

If I had taste buds all over my body, I too would tunnel through apples and similar yummy foods.

[prguitarman]

I wish you all a happy Neil banging out the tunes day

[yellbug]

i used to follow someone who would reblog this post like 50 times a day and i tried to filter it but because i filtered it using the whole phrase i would see them all anyway but it made the whole post funnier to me so i left it like that and now every time i see this i smile fondly

[korrgoth-the-vile]

I lile bugs

[pjharvey-moved-deactivated20250]

making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time

[empress-hancock]

This is just objectively hilarious

[arthur-vigil]

I like bugs

[corrigiblyhonest]

[grorges]

trader joe’s every other week announcing their newest recall