booksaboutmurder

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when i take a uquiz and stop halfway through because it sucks ass i feel like a medieval king ordering a jester executed bc he didnt amuse him enough

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bulgarian artists <3

Mila Teneva

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when henry asked the greek class why theyre excited about a snowfall in april as its just going to kill all the flowers, spring being a symbol for youth that dies as a consequence of the snow-induced maddening fbi investigation, leading to all of them losing their innocence just because of one treacherous winter

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TRAs making up insane strawmen terf arguments because they don't actually know what we believe: exhibit A

What we actually believe:

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so what if i'm a man-hating feminist. i have a good reason

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it's me boy, the medieval scribe speaking to you inside your brain. listen to me boy. draw in the margins of your notes instead of paying attention

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i love more women appreciating grey hair because i've always found it so beautiful and seeing older women around me talk about it with fear and anxiety, discussing how they'd dye it, seeing media where the second a woman gets a grey hair they'd shamefully pluck it or dye it away, like it was something literally immutably horrifying happening to their bodies. really made me sad as a child to see, but i love seeing more and more women embrace it and hate having to hide natural changes to their bodies, especially when it's something so lovely.

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soooo much of the modern conception of gender is based around products and consumerism that people can’t even identify actual misogyny anymore. People reply to posts “It’s sexist to hate on something so many women enjoy” and that something would be a Stanley cup

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I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them

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Richard Papen is just like me because I also would do literal murder just so the cool people in my uni like me.

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donna tartt was a crazy woman for making julian and henrys relationship mirror that of fuckass aristoteles and alexander the great

julian is essentially just an 80s aristoteles because he lives in solitude, believes in natural hierarchies and aristocracies, places virtue and studies above all, his most famous student — alexander the great — ends up conquering the world and then when said student isnt of use to him anymore he runs away in fear

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valentine’s day more like wednesday

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u ever think about how most porn and kink shit wouldn’t exist if men experienced like…basic empathy and compassion towards women

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"be gay do crime" y'all reported a lesbian to the russian government because she drew art you didn't like

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i hope nobody beat me to this one

(@kradnie has pointed out that lucretia my reflection actually came out in 87 but the top result on google said it was 85 for some reason so uhhhhhhhhhhh please ignore that)

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Yea, for I was copying the Bible. And it came to pass that I wrote "gaudius", or joy, when the intended word was "gladius" or sword. And all of the other monks did mock me with cruel words and jests. And when I did recite the Scripture at dinner, I coughed, and Brother Abelard did ask if I had meant to say "gaudius". And on the way to the dormitories I did tell of my encounter with the fearsome black hen of Cheshire, and Brother William asketh of me why I had not slain it with my gladius. And so it came to pass that I took a vow of silence and ceased to speak with all worldly men. Amen.

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“Since one cannot educate adults, the word “education” has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.”

— Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future