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Elektra in Mycenae, Casey J. King

#aaaaaa #poetry #im reblogging this for about the third time but god #alivest daughter #aaaaaaaa #its about how hard you can love someone and how that can have no impact on how everything hurts #fathers #childhood is brutal

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It genuinely blows my fucking mind how so many people in the first world have little to no solidarity with the workers who by and large prop up their standards of living. I have a sinking feeling my blog is going to be a timeline of someone who was slowly converted into a third-worldist by the sheer willingness of the first eorld to side with fascism if but to prolong access to their treats. This is not a goood feeling, btw. Far, far from it.

#politics #it's fucking depressing

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happy you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn't paint it very well wednesday

#poetry #grief

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#this makes me think of home #im probably never going to go back there #don't know how i feel about that

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Hayden Clay

#art #feeling this today

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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

#absolutely agree #i hate it here

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#houses #want

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Drain the pool, Arjan Van Helmond

#art #i love the mood this evokes

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i read CS Lewis’ A Grief Observed one time years ago and i’m still not recovered from it

#writing #grief #love

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The craziest thing about the Wild West is that many of the prominent figures who spent their prime years crossing between both sides of the law, rustling cattle, shooting people in broad daylight, bounty hunting, robbing stagecoaches, gambling, scamming and swindling etc. just got out of the game and died peacefully in their own bed at age 80. It was the same with pirates in the golden age of piracy. If you didn’t die violently, you just retired and started living like a normal civilian. Imagine your 75 year old grandma telling you about how she used to seduce and rob lone men on the Oregon trail. Your grandpa calculating how many people he killed in bar fights and coming to the conclusion it was upwards of 30. The law was not equipped to investigate and prosecute every criminal in the west so if you left the game, there was often this uneasy truce.

#this could have been me but im a weak nerd in the 21st century #sobs #i could have awkwardly flirted with anne bonney and then shed probably have killed me #and id be fine with that! #girlbosses gonna girlboss

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franz wright

#poetry

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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora

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temporary vows, caroline bird

#poetry

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things fall apart 😂 the centre cannot hold 😂😂 and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born 😂😂😂🤣🤣

#everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned #feeling it rn

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Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.— Vincent van Gogh

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Actually, I guess Buddhist nun or travelling teacher/poet would be the third option. Less fun than maenads, though.

it's so great that in greek tragedy there are only three paradigms for a woman leaving her house (her wedding, her funeral, and maenadic rites) and they're all kind of the same thing also

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If I, some rando, were to be in charge of the Murderbot show 1. It would be animated. 2. It would be framed from the perspective of Murderbot retelling its story to us. So it would have drones the whole time that most of the footage would be shot through, or stationary surveillance cameras or from its own perspective. Very found footage. During silly moments we'd get future Murderbot's internal monologue VO and during serious moments that would subside to let the audience live in that moment. But most importantly, every time MB had its helmet off in the first book, it would be shot from behind or there would be a convenient leaf or something over their face. It gets to the point that you can tell it's deliberate. That finally changes when it makes the decision at the end of All Systems Red to go off on its own, only then do you see its face as an act of self determination and vulnerability.

#murderbot #please make some animations #I would love this