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when i was a child [like 5th through 8th grade especially] i was obsessed with the end of the world.

but! the most interesting way that played out was that for much of the 6th grade and the very beginning of 7th, i was plagued by the anxiety that i was the antichrist as in the Literal Bringer of the End of Days which is weird b/c at the time my mom and i were attending a very mainline wealthy-congregation methodist megachurch and at no time was i steeped in southern protestant apocalypticism like from family or whatever so the obsession w/ the apocalypse, who knows where that comes from, but the antichrist thing thats probably…idk if i had ever expressed that to an adult i would hope they would have directed me towards mental health services [but lets be realistic…]

idk anyway i dont think about it a lot but the year-long anxiety abt being, again, the Literal Antichrist is, like…honestly it was very traumatizing and it is so much a part of like the background noise of my life [like the static radiation from the big bang] and its something that i think would be worth exploring abt myself in greater reflection at some point

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They should make a show where they get people who talk about toxins and cleanses and things like that to describe how they think the human body works and a man with a whiteboard draws anatomy diagrams live based on their testimony.

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I’m just guessing that this is what she means.

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Watch: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s UPenn commencement speech will move you to tears.

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Just reading this back gives me chills.

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Talulah Blue Burlesque

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at my happiest when the sky is pink

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Marchesa, Spring/Summer, 2015

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Imagine hearing about a play that ran for one night only.

Everything you know about it is second-hand at best. If you’re lucky, you might be able to talk to someone who saw it. If you’re really lucky, they’ll even be telling the truth. More likely, everything that comes to you is of the “I know a guy whose second cousin’s former roomate was in the audience” variety.

With a bit of digging, maybe you can get your hands on some of the props and costumes, though there’s nothing to tell you how they were used. Maybe even a few pages of the script - though as any student of theatre can tell you, what it says in the script and what actually went down on stage are often two very different things.

Now: imagine writing fanfic based on this play you’ve never seen and never will, without so much as a decent plot summary to guide you.

If that sounds reasonable to you, congratulations: you may have what it takes to be an historian.

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a sorta sequel to this

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Karolina Caune in Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda photographed by Boo George for British Vogue October 2012

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M e r m a i d s // {21st century}

The earliest known mermaid legends come from Syria around 1000 B.C. where the Syrian goddess Atargatis dove into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the powers there would not allow her give up her great beauty, so only her bottom half became a fish and she kept her top half in human form. As myths tend to do, the story changed over time and Atargatis became mixed with Syrian goddess Ashtarte, who is generally considered the counterpart to Greek mythology’s Aphrodite. Though Aphrodite is rarely portrayed in mermaid form, this evolution of mermaid mythology is what led to Aphrodite’s role in the mythology of Pisces, which clearly has roots in Syrian mythology. Later tales in the mythology of mermaids stem from Homer’s epic “The Odyssey”, where some mythologists believe the Sirens to have been in mermaid form. This was an extremely popular version of the mermaid throughout history. Many popular tales including legends from the British Isles and the famous Arabian Nights tales identify mermaids in exactly this fashion. In these myths, mermaids would sing to men on ships or shores nearby, practically hypnotizing them with their beauty and song. Those affected would rush out to sea only to be either drowned, eaten, or otherwise sent to their doom. In the modern mythology of mermaids, however, this is rarely the case. Today these beings are more likely to be seen as innocent and sweet, if not helpful in many cases to human kind. Much of the modern interpretation of mermaids can be credited to the most famous tale in all of mermaid mythology - Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” and the subsequent Disney movie of the same name. (x)