super silly loser blog!!1!

silly - love britcom + britpol. not rly that active but ahh well

[waters-and-the-wilde]

i'm relistening to cabin pressure it still slaps btw

[restlesshush]

Does everyone know that cabin pressure is the most magical media in the world? This is like. Very important

[averageconstellation]

yayyyyyyy

[rattuswrennus]

:3

[kyoism-23]

Thinking about The Secret History again…

In Chapter 2, Charles and Richard discuss what they are going to do after Hampden College, and Charles suggests that Francis and Henry by Francis’ Aunt’s property.

Richard is ‘surprised by this pragmatic answer.’

And it just made me think about how Richard is a Romantic at heart, his self described hamartia being a ‘morbid longing for the picturesque’ at all costs, which is why he’s so shocked to hear a ‘pragmatic answer’ because his thinking is just not wired that way.

This made me think about the conversation Julian and Richard have in Chapter 1, where they disagree on whether or not the Romantics are good classicists … Julian explicitly says ‘the greatest Romantics are often failed classicists.’

Is this ultimately the reason why Richard fails to keep the Greek class together? Blinded by his morbid longing for the picturesque, he blatantly misses the tensions in the dynamics of the Greek Class. Blinded for his aesthetic obsession over Camilla (not as a yearner, but in the way that he wants to possess her) - he fails to see what her brother does to her, the hints Francis drops and how to prevent Julian from getting Bunny’s letter - which directly leads to Henry’s suicide, Charles’ running away and Julian’s disappearance.

It is because Richard is a Romantic, that he fails to keep the Greek class together - because ‘the greatest romantics are often failed classicists.’

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[averagereblogs]

@rattuswrennus

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[kosmogrl]

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[wiliband]

[anthonybourdyke]

they were at their most married here

[eveisy]

I want English nationalists and unionists to understand that most of us from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland don’t care nearly as much as they do about being a ‘big, relevant, world stage nation’.

We don’t want to get dragged into your wars, we don’t want to be forced to adopt your ideals and movements, we don’t care about being ‘big’.

That’s the irony - we are small nations. We will always be small nations. Your government continuously treats us as irrelevant. We have negatively been impacted by England’s need for power. We want peace from it all, we’re the ones who get hurt most then left in the dust. Our countries cannot handle it. Let’s completely ignore how Europe is filled with smaller, well surviving countries, shall we?

[kyoism-23]

@sashathegreyhound @rattuswrennus

[alexandriaellisart]

oh sappho

[majorism]

reading sapphos poetry moodboard

[rattuswrennus]

id love to like print out thirty gajillion copies of plato’s symposium and the drop it off in all the london based think tanks

[alorz]

i feel like I'm seeing more and more she/he he/hers she/hims every day and it makes me so fucking happy . guygirls and girlguys one day we might even get our pronouns on a pin

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rattuswrennus]

i like to think that when in her song ‘romeo’ pinkpantheress says ‘you can fall in love with boys and girls and in between’ it’s a not so subtle reference to romercutio