here's where things get weird

Eliot, 18. Nerd jokes and art. Credit to goes to @beatonna for the icon.

[lesbianrey]

hi i’m tolkien here are my ocs. i call them Elves (not elfs!!! if you call them elfs i will block you) they look like humans but they’re tall, live forever, and have pointy ears. that’s it bye

[meattunic-deactivated20171126]

cs lewis: are you alright with constructive criticism? i dont want to sound mean

tolkien: no go ahead i want to hear it

cs lewis: they fucking suck

tolkien: thats not constructive criticism

[lazytechsupport]

cs lewis: here’s my OC, it’s jesus but he’s a lion tolkien: Furry cs lewis: blocked

[blue-paladin-red-lion-deactivat]

Tolkien: lamp posts don’t exist in fantasy worlds Cs Lewis: ok you know what fuck you

[4setsofcorsets]

CS Lewis: I could beta for you if you want. help you trim the fat on your stories

Tolkien: what do you mean

CS Lewis: I just. you describe a lot of trees.  are trees that important

Tolkien: just you fucking wait. trees are SO important.

~and that day, Tolkien invented ents~

[tcfkag]

@urulokid

[jordisstigander]

CS Lewis: Not more trees.

Tolkien: This one’s based on you.

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

casual reminder that Lewis and Tolkein almost completely ended their friendship over Lewis having Santa make an appearance in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe because Tolkein hated it so fucking much.

[beatboxbully]

do you know how many bones the human body has? its 206. we start with 369 when we’re babies but they fuse. wouldn’t you want to go back? have as many bones as a baby? what if i could help you

[boymilk-moved-deactivated201903]

hi yeah what the actual, literal, GENUINE fuck does this mean

[fakehistory]

Martin Luther responding to the Pope after his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church (1521).

[chromolume]

slang

ttmeimvsatissbagsawnltt (thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct)

eg: your receipts are true lol ttmeimvsatissbagsawnltt

[corvidcall]

my favorite part of hamlet is at the beginning when they see the ghost of hamlet sr for the first time

and the guards are like “Horatio, you go talk to it! You went to college!”

and Horatio is like “Yeah! I did go to college! I will go talk to the ghost!”

like. where did horatio go to college. did he go to ghost college

[thepurposeofplaying-blog]

YES, ACTUALLY YES HE FUCKING DID BC

(a) EVERY COLLEGE THEN WAS GHOST COLLEGE bc ghosts were widely believed to be Real™ n thus scholars learnt abt them. moreover, as everybody knows, ghosts only communicate in Latin; Latin, which also happens to be the scholastic language. Horatio is a scholar; he both knows about ghosts and knows Latin; as such his university education patently DOES make him best suited to ask this one what’s up (as obviously sth must be up for it 2b wandering around, why else wld it b here, i mean gawd)

(B) WITTENBERG WHERE HORATIO STUDIES WAS LIKE. THE MOST SPOOPY OF GHOST COLLEGES bc they were alllllll about theology n the supernatural n shit so SUPPOSING HORATIO WILL KNO HIS SHIT ABT GHOSTS IS IN FACT A THOROUGHLY SENSIBLE ASSUMPTION

this has been said before but i am fucking adding it again bc it HACKS ME TF OFF when ppl reblog the post w/o commentary as if OP jsut fucking checkmated Shakespeare when in fact all they managed to do was fail at the most basic historical contextualisation lmao

[sailorbrazil]

i love writing with ellipsis……. i love the drama……..  the mystery…….. you dont know what im going to say……. you keep waiting……. you think im gonna write some more…… well……. think again……….

[thiccvixie]

An ellipsis is a set of three “…” if you add more than that, you’re just misusing the keyboard.

[sailorbrazil]

……………………….sure………………………………………

[writing-prompt-s]

You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks.

[th4nkyoub3n]

“what are you counting”

“how many tattoos i’ve gotten”

“i’m no longer serving you”

[maculategiraffe]

I have a very vivid memory of sitting in a first grade classroom (first grade was my first actual classroom because my mom homeschooled me for kindergarten) thinking “I am literally going to die, I can’t live one more minute without reading a story, but I’ve already gotten my book confiscated for peeking at it during class and I have no backup book and I’m going to die” and then thinking in a burst of divine inspiration “WHAT IF I TELL MYSELF A STORY INSIDE MY HEAD.  THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME.  PHYSICALLY THEY CANNOT.”

they could not

[addictedtostory]

That’s how it begins

[filmeditors-deactivated20230605]

HELLO???

[magiclamd]

OMG

[shittalkingclassicliterature]

Well, THERE’S something I don’t remember them mentioning in high school…

More on this:

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/articles/the-latest-emily-dickinson-movie-is-a-lesbian-romance/

https://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/emily-dickinson-lesbian-her-letter-to-susan-gilbert-in-june-of-1852-might-tell-us-less-than-you-think/

[thoodleoo]

studying roman history tiers

shit tier: we should put our complete trust in roman historians like tacitus, suetonius, and livy and take everything they say as true

okay tier: while roman historians are our best bet for understanding roman history, it’s important to recognize their biases and take what they say with a grain of salt

good tier: roman history is best learned through a combination of roman historians, material culture and epigraphy, and other non-historical literature written by contemporary sources in order to get a variety of viewpoints from ancient sources and better understand how the romans perceived their own history

god tier:

[class-struggle-anarchism]

'Kant Is a Moron': Graffiti Artists' Unreasonable Critique

Russian police are investigating vandalism on the walls of a crumbling house where the philosopher once lived.

this is some top quality crimes 

[wally-jo]

me

[weenie-kun]

finally. the little dude

[thicc-waifu-deactivated20190623]

Finally

[ubercharge]

finally

[thisnameisfalse]

finally

[fiyahbawls]

finally

[sarah-lynn-art]

Finally

[sparkyhero]

I have a rule: only one meme per year allowed. This is it for 2018.

[digivolvin]

men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly. 

narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.

[asgardian-viking]

Narcissus wrote this

[exphautaz]

I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.

[digivolvin]

i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me

[memewhore]

[sproings]

There’s this fic on AO3 that, according to my history page, I have visited 176 times.  Which means I alone am responsible for 176 hits on that fic.  I commented on some of the chapters, but only a few, because I feel like a stalker when I comment every week.  I gave it kudos, but I can only give it one, even though it’s one of my favorites.

So just remember, when you’re looking at that hit count and wondering why you don’t have that same number of kudos (divided by the number of chapters, because each one of those also counts as a hit), it might be because some people out there love your fic.  They read it when they’re feeling down.  They open it in the waiting room at the doctors office, or in the lonesome dark of night.  They turn to it in celebration when they did something right.  They open it over and over so they can send the link to their friends, or just to revisit the characters that they love.  They checked it ten times in one day, hoping that you had updated.

A disparity between hits and kudos does not mean that your readers didn’t like your fic, or that they were too lazy to hit the kudos button.  It means that some of them came back, and there’s nothing that makes me happier about my writing than that.

[nanny-booboo]

;_;

[catlezzer-deactivated20200616]

why is this sentence written with such perfect comedic timing