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[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.’

[darkisms]

nigel farage calling the Welsh language ‘foreign’ he needs to be eaten someone eat him i’ve had enough

[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

[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

[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

[gcballet]

Doctor Who as headlines

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[averagereblogs]

@sashathegreyhound

[theboyfromcork]

Stunning 😍

[can-asta]

okay but the way that their paths are intrinsically tied to one another now. james' development into the Moriarty that we know was set in motion by the things he went through with sherlock. sherlock's ultimate destination of 221B Baker Street and becoming Sherlock Holmes, Detective was pushed by james' hand. situationship of all time maybe

[149panda149]

born the day the titanic sank. ran away from home in search of adventure and died in the deadliest civilian airship disaster in history. invited herself onto the tardis. ripped a hole between universes with her very existence. has three (3) murderous eldritch children with the doctor. determined to stop him from indulging in his self-sacrificial tendencies, but then she stabbed him between the hearts and they merged into a single organism. nobody was doing it like her

[inevitable-destruction]

"I'm not leaving you down here!"//"Go, James! Go!"

+ Bonus:

[wouldgaysexfixthem]

the philosophers of our time are on tumblr dot com

[spevvy]

Actual footage of everyone watching Young Sherlock

[sashathegreyhound]

@rattuswrennus

[crazykuroneko]

HE DECORATED HIS HOUSE WITH THEIR OLD HOUSE'S COLORS AND BOOKED A BEYONCE SHOW BECAUSE LOUIS TALKS ABOUT HER BYE

edit: AND HE LIVES IN OLD MONEY NEIGHBORHOOD (LOUIS' AESTHETIC) WHERE THE PEOPLE SPEAK LIKE LOUIS OKAY BYE

[farewell-wanderlust7]

Ok yeah I’m a firm Thoschei Are Gay™️ truther but I also believe the most important part of their relationship is their friendship, and that without that deep friendship the hostile and romantic aspects of their relationship wouldn’t be a tenth as compelling as they are.

If only one could exist (which is impossible because you don’t have Thoschei without all three of these flavours) out of Enemies Thoschei, Lovers Thoschei and Friends Thoschei, I would pick Friends Thoschei any day. Their platonic love is so important to both me and their entire dynamic.

If your Thoschei aren’t friends at their very core and always subconsciously yearning to act as friends again, then you haven’t written Thoschei, is my humble opinion.

[bodies-needs-a-fandom]

Free my girl. She did all of that shit but it was the result of years of conditioning and manipulating and also lingering daddy issues. This is about polly harker, for the uninitiated.

[ouch-my-ghost-skin]

batch no. 2!! these are so much fun to make <3

[fanaticjustforu]

pine & angela's first and last meeting

[khruschevshoe]

You know what? I'm gonna say it. As someone who is asexual and on the aromantic spectrum myself, I'm a bit tired of the Doctor Who fans who all say that Donna is the best companion of Ten's just because they were best friends and nothing more and that automatically makes her the best companion of RTD and for a lot of you, the best companion overall.

Listen, I LOVE Donna. Adore her. And I also think that her friendship with the Doctor is amazing. But it has always rubbed me the wrong way that the companions who have a romantic interest in the Doctor (and let me tell you, there is textual evidence for every one of them that the feelings were reciprocated in some way) are somehow considered lesser BECAUSE of that interest. That just because they fell for the Doctor means that their relationship with the Doctor is cheapened in some way.

I personally think that just as platonic relationships should not be considered lesser than romantic ones, the same goes in reverse. Amy, Clara, Martha, Rose, River, and Yaz's feelings may have some weak writing decisions attached to them, but so does Donna.

Personally, I love Donna's character arc/the tragedy of her ending, but I've always felt a little disappointed by the fact that her becoming the DoctorDonna in Journey's End was not predicated on her strong characterization/choices (Ala Planet of the Ood/Fires of Pompeii) but by "fate" pushing it to happen. It's honestly more Dalek Caan than Donna making all that happen.

This is NOT to say that I don't love Donna, but just to say that the fact that she had no romantic feelings for the Doctor doesn't automatically catapult her above the rest. Romantic feelings can lead to just as interesting, well-developed character arcs/complicated dynamics as platonic ones can, from the creator/created reciprocated question mark wanting but unable to choose each other over everything dynamic of 11amy to the fascinating destroying each other saving each other one taking all of the emotional toll but honestly craving that prophet-god relationship of 10martha to the shaping each other making each other kinder and braver reminding each other there is hope dooming and saving each other of 9rose to the full dooming each other but running straight at it full tilt because we are purposefully ignoring the turn back now signs of 10rose to the batshit insane codependent reflecting each other refracting each other who is Orpheus and who is Eurydice of 12clara to the there was always someone else in the room keeping us apart but you somehow became my whole world and I knew you from birth to death and we will never be anything more than a shut door of 13yaz to the you doomed me and saved me and you hate me but you might have loved me once and i will spend the rest of my life devoted to you dynamics of 10jack 11river and 12river.

Every relationship is interesting and personal preference might steer you in a certain way due the character arcs/ending preferences/etc., but elevating one over the other because the companion wasn't "foolish" enough to fall in love with the mad genderfluid alien in a box who ran away with you and stole you away to the stars doesn't sit well with me. Romance doesn't cheapen a relationship just as it doesn't automatically make it the ultimate relationship, either.