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Kōtarō Takamura, tr. by Hiroaki Sato, from Chieko & Other Poems; "Two Under the Tree,"

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big fan of the “I can’t fix him but I can follow him to his tragic and untimely end and love him even as he becomes corrupted and decays into a shadow of his former self” trope

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The Memory (1945), René Magritte

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i love cassandra's line καὶ μὴν ἄγαν γ᾽ Ἕλλην᾽ ἐπίσταμαι φάτιν, "i know greek speech all too well," after all that fuss earlier with clytemnestra and the chorus trying to figure out whether she understands what they're saying. the chorus doesn't understand what she's just said (in greek) but cassandra knows all too well that it means agamemnon's death and notes the gendered inflection of the words that says that clytemnestra will be the one to do it.

and when medea responds to the tutor after he says θάρσει: κάτει τοι καὶ σὺ πρὸς τέκνων ἔτι, "it'll be okay, you'll come back to your children one day," she says ἄλλους κατάξω πρόσθεν ἡ τάλαιν᾽ ἐγώ, "i'll bring back others first." but κατάγω means both to bring back from exile and to bring down to hades. she's balancing the line on the verb so that she can say what she means and the tutor still hears what he wants to hear. she knows this language inside out and is a master at manipulating it and it's not even her language.

non-greek women who know greek all too well. they have had to learn.

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Château de Chambord

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The Stealers of Light: A Legend, Edmund Dulac

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I LOVE COMPLEX DATED ADVERBS. Wherein. Heretofore. Thereon. Hereunto. Whereof. Hitherward. Hereinafter. How can you look at these words and not lose your mind. They're insane. I think I'm in love.

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two new eye drawings asdfgh ….

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This is my most favorite novelty soap ever

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Today I introduced my sister to “the problem of Susan” and I had to explain to her that Susan was left out of Narnia cuz she liked boys and lipstick now and without missing a beat she said but what about Peter? Does Peter not like girls? And I knew she was pointing out the inherent misogyny at the center of the “the problem of Susan” but the implications of that question are a source of much hilarity to meeee LMFAO like Does Peter not like girls? Does he like boys? Is he Gay? Is Narnia really just a homo-utopia where Lucy is also a lesbian and Edmund is a bisexual disaster and Susan was kicked out cuz she was too straight??? Can I make CS Lewis turn over in his grave with this new reading?

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the only roman emperor i respect is honorius because, during his reign, rome was sacked, and when someone brought him the news that rome had perished he freaked out bc he thought they were talking about his pet bird named "rome," and when they explained that they were talking about the city he was like "oh thank god. who gives a shit"

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Rococo in Detail: Jean Marc Nattier 

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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my body’s lookin’ wrong

inspired by @tarottss work regarding angel statues

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viral hype about pussy by william shakespeare

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Hermia and Lysander, a Midsummer Night's Dream (detail) by John Simmons