#epitaphs

[thatsbelievable]

#Conversations With Edgar Allan Poe #Edgar Allan Poe #writers #writer #writing #authors #author #literature #books #poems #poetry #epitaphs #TW death #Oh Edgar

[wearenecromancers]

I think every Friday the 13th should be treated as an extra Halloween.

#friday the 13th #halloween #epitaphs #the lich speaks #ooc

[detroitlib]

From our vertical files: "Epitaph for a Librarian" by Jacob C. Solovay

#epitaph for a librarian #jacob c. solovay #epitaph #librarian #librarians #poetry #national poetry month #poem #poems #shelved #epitaphs #detroit public library

[daenerysoftarth]

“. . . Optatus, freedman of Publius and Clodia, lived six years and eight months. // Here my parents burnt my dead body in the flower of my age. So long as was allowed me I lived more acceptable than any other to the gods above, of whom none could speak ill in bitter word . . . to the gods above whom loyalty compels . . . now modestly you . . . say you: ‘Optatus, lightly rest the earth on you.’ . . . a child who had not yet your share of years . . . when I am torn away from my mother's bosom to death . . . in life I was dear to departed souls, and very dear to the goddess who made away with me under unlucky omens. Cease now, mother mine, cease to torment yourself in vain sobs of wretchedness each livelong day, for grief such as this has not now befallen you alone; sorrows the same as these have fallen to the lot of mighty kings too. Bright with never-fade . . .”

Roman epitaph, CIL 1.1223

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#my posts #epitaphs #graveyard #history #quotes #words #q #Rome #roman empire #roman history #ancient rome #ancient history #headstone #cemetery #death #mourning #Roman epitaphs #bright w never fade 🥺 #book quotes #Roman epitaph #epitaph

[crustaceansingles]

The second bit there was added months later, after several incidents of willful misinterpretation.

#crustaceansingles #comic #webcomic #single panel #spooky season #epitaph #epitaphs #you should see the other guy #exhume #bird #bird with a skull #where did you get that #it's kind of sweet that they were buried next to each other #maybe they were in love

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Robert Player - Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs - Penguin - 1977

#witches #occult #vintage #graves #worms #candles #epitaphs #robert player #let's talk of graves of worms and epitaphs #penguin books #1977

[epitaph-collection]

Third time's a charm

#epitaph collection #epitaphs #epitaph #taphophilia #taphophile #graveyard #gravestone #What the FUCK does this mean????

[morguediaries]

#epitaphs #epitaph #cemetery #morbid #obituary #obituaries #grave #graves #tombstone #tombstones #girlblogger #horror #morgue diaries.jpeg #southern gothic #american gothic

[thatsbelievable]

#More Little-Known Epitaphs #epitaphs #famous quotes #unreality #apologies to Bob #this is about an entirely different Bob #you don’t know him

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Afterward, I spoke to Susan Olsen, Woodlawn’s historian. There was ongoing discussion about whether the gravestone should read “Excuse My Dust” or something more serious. Either way, Olsen said, “I am sure Dorothy will be a pilgrimage site.” She noted that the graves of several famous residents, including the jazz legend Miles Davis and the intrepid journalist Nellie Bly, received regular visits from fans. “We’ve had so many Melville celebrations where everyone’s got to read Melville,” she said. “How many pens, how many stuffed whales, how much sea salt he gets!” Fitzpatrick piped up from behind us, “I hope Parker fans know her poem ‘One Perfect Rose’ and bring roses to the grave, and not gin bottles that I have to pick up!”

Leaving the cemetery, Fitzpatrick called Parker’s grandnieces. “I drank a Martini for Aunt Dot once at two when you arrived, and again at two-thirty when she was in the ground,” Cotton, the eldest, said. They were sad that they couldn’t come to the reburial, but planned to convene in a year for the gravestone unveiling. Fitzpatrick hoped that it could be a big affair, open to her fans, with the governor and several A-list celebrities in attendance. “I see a hot jazz band, and people could bring a flask of something,” he said. When we drove away, he adjusted his mask, and added, “As a guidebook guy, I know books in two states will have to be rewritten, Web sites updated, maps changed. And I’m happy.”

#famous graves #epitaphs #Dorothy Parker's ashes #Dorothy Parker #stories

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#rome #wholesome memes #epitaph #ancient rome #dogs #memes #sad aesthetic

[wearenecromancers]

Can necromancers animate exoskeletons? Like, a molt from a Thri-Keen?

A skeleton's a skeleton. Let the bugs join the party!

I'm quite fond of stories where an observer doesn't realize that the thing they're looking at is undead right away, I've used it in my own games a couple times myself. An exoskeleton is the perfect opportunity for that!

#ask #quetzalrofl #skeletons #epitaphs #bugs

[little-pisces-dreaming]

#tang dynasty #women through history #epitaphs #history #chinese history

[morbidloren]

Death's Garden contributor: Barbara Baird

Some of the stories that appeared in Death’s Garden Revisited came to me as blind submissions. I don’t know anything about Barbara Baird, except that she is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies who lives in Vermont. What’s your favorite thing to do in a cemetery? I’m trained to clean old headstones responsibly and I volunteer in small village cemeteries here in Vermont. I teach…

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#cemetery books #Deaths Garden Revisited #epitaphs #Mount Auburn Cemetery

[crustaceansingles]

One of the nicest things about spooky season if you compulsively make comics every day is the thematic appropriateness of phoning it in with epitaph jokes. (I might have done this one before. There are almost 4500 of these things and I am just way too tired to check.)

#crustaceansingles #comic #webcomic #single panel #spooky season #epitaph #epitaphs #you should see the other guy #phoning it in

[juliehowlin]

Funny Epitaphs

Here lies the mule Maggie. In her life she kicked 2 generals, 8 colonels, 7 captains, 16 lieutenants, 541 enlisted men and 1 German mine.

On the Day of the Dead, 10 funny epitaphs:

#epitaphs #funny #day of the dead