Too much Oscar Wilde - Too many martinis.

This is a small blog run by a woman of impeccable taste and diverse interests. I am liable to post almost anything that catches my fancy, as well as some of my own opinions. This blog was started when I was in college and is 15 years old now; take from that what you will about my age.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

should I just reread the odyssey

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

microdosing via audiobook in french so between zoning out and not knowing some odyssey-specific terms I’m catching like. 40%

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

time to learn a lot of words for ancient weaponssss

[shisasan]

—and a whole life with you is like the movement of clouds, their airy, quiet falls, their lightness and smoothness, and the heavenly variety of outlineand tint—my inexplicable love. I cannot express these cirrus-cumulus sensations.

13 August 1924 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,438:

"Graped" JUST SAY RAPE

[draconic-cuddles]

Enough with the stupid silly internet baby words, we are talking about serious subject matter.

And I can't take anybody seriously when they use "grape" as a substitute for "rape" because it immediately makes me think of this Whitest Kids U Know sketch

[irate-iguana]

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

[mockiatoh]

Stop that’s too funny

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[tattahitotsunosaetayarikata-dea]

[tuulikki]

#someone had a lot of fun writing this headline

(from @afloweroutofstone)

[beaulesbian]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.03 "Toronto"

The vainglorious homogeny of the Toronto skyline is something to behold. An onslaught of impractical condominiums dominated by a 147-floor Waterpik. Its banality is lost on the polite citizenry of Canada. To them, it’s iconic.

[sangpires]

commission for Rhyz on vgen!

[dorkhellbside]

cats love sleeping on or next to you and slowly bake you like an oven roast chicken

[grasslandscolorado]

We live in a system that makes money off of your misery and ambivalence. It relies on people thinking that they are inherently bad for the planet and that the world is ending so why change? Why try? --This is untrue! We belong here, on this one beautiful green earth and we have to work together to protect it. You have the power to do more than you know. You have a role to play in your ecosystem!

[raccoonmilf]

The notion that humans are an invasive species is an ecofascist belief. We evolved just like every other animal, we are meant to be here just like they are. This is our home and we have a duty to care for it and change the environment for the better!

Every single person has the power to make a meaningful impact on the planet. I had the most fireflies in my town this summer simply because I have a large area where the grass is never cut.

Please do not give up because you think the planet is too far gone and it’s hopeless. It isn’t. Please fight.

[tpwrtrmnky]

*cracking open your moral intuition systems* ohhh i see, there's the issue, you're running secularism on a kernel built for protestant morality.

Tricky one cause the kernel's built around creating the need for salvation from a higher power, and you'll have to change up a lot of the systems for evaluating your own and others' moral worth to avoid operating with a deficit when there's no inbuilt release valve.

You haven't been going around making up ad-hoc solutions for redeeming sinners instead of trying to patch out the notion of sin, right?

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[bitcoitus]

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

[milquetoaast]

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[yanguang]

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[legionofpotatoes]

This country called Jackdaw. [x]