eskija

( ♊︎ ♊︎ ♊︎ ) any/all pronouns take take take summer will soon end and childhood as well

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[tinwhistlings]

So this is basically the plot of Crime and Punishment.

[autophage]

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

[bibaleen]

[sexhaver]

[bythestardoggedmoon]

[profound-yet-trivial]

one must imagine sisyphus ballin'

[punishedsaints]

[eskija]

@crows-bottle-cap

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

[eskija]

this is about & applies to everybody not just that one group you instinctually feel to be the Other, whosoever they may be

[homunculus-argument]

Day 11/365 of listing something good I saw today:

Another brisk, beautiful bright snowy day. Saw some guy ice fishing at the river.

[gaycism]

[rockpapertheodore]

[homunculus-argument]

I fucking hate the french language. They'll call something shit like "the fatal allure of the dark shimmering mistress" and it's slang for when you stick your dick in a wine bottle and get stuck.

[gaytanic-panic]

[homunculus-argument]

Hey people who speak latin: if "ad nauseum" is "until [you] throw up", then what would be "until insanity"? Would it be "ad delerium"?

I need this for all my "repeat until you go completely insane" expression needs.

[astressedlittlejaybird]

As a Latin scholar, ad delirium is not only correct but also a wonderful use of language 👍

[homunculus-argument]

Sweet! This is a valuable addition to my arts and crafts vocabulary.

[sare11aa11eras]

GRRM is in fact really good at making up top tier characters i will use the starklings to illustrate the point okay you got: 1) high school freshman King Arthur stars in a shakespearean tragedy, as told by his mom; 2) local moody teenaged Starbucks night shift manager must do his very best to stop the zombie apocalypse through the power of friendship; 3) a middle schooler who keeps her sparkly butterfly gel pens in perfect rainbow order at all times is being held hostage by her evil middle school boyfriend and his evil blonde mafia family; 4) a scrappy but poorly-supervised middle-grade book protagonist bops about a war-zone looking for her family but instead! learns about Death; 5) paraplegic fourth grader Frodo Baggins receives mystical visions and must go on a quest to see a hundred-year-old tree guy; and 6) kindergartener that Bites

[dalberadiata]

Dany in Qarth

[gracelyns]

x

[ghostinwinterfell]

possibly the greatest asoiaf moment ever is when jon gets the letter about bran waking up and mormont expects him to grieve because “sorry kid :( it’s actually bad news :( he’s never going to walk again :(” but jon is all like “my brother is going to live !!!” and then he races out of the room and tells everyone he passes that “my brother is going to live !!!” and he gets back to the common hall and picks tyrion up and spins him around and makes him read the letter too because “my brother is going to live !!!” and he’s so giddy that he befriends grenn and tells thorne to go fuck himself and then everybody laughs and jon is just so happy because “my brother is going to live !!!”

meanwhile bran is back in winterfell listening to robb’s bannermen whisper about how death is a kinder fate than his, how they should’ve just let him die, how he’s too broken to be alive—with no idea that his big brother is out there celebrating because bran is going to LIVE !!!

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!