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looking at those emmys results like disappointed but not surprised

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anyone doing anything about that im dying out there

hello hi long time no see and all that is the secret mash archive down again or what 😭

#pls help a girl living far away from her dvds #btw there are so many american tourists in this city and not one of them has complimented me on my alan alda/mike farrell tshirts #it's as if you all lied to me about this show being popular in the states

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hello hi long time no see and all that is the secret mash archive down again or what 😭

#i just wanted to watch an ep while doing my ironing on the floor as one does #also im in venezia for the forseeable future with no access to my dvds this is an emergy #emergency* #also what on earth happened to the dash its so ugly

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wow that post sure was a hit (got two likes from my mutuals)

#insane mash era

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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) DIR. MARTIN SCORSESE   

You couldn’t be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way  I’ll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can’t go  back to that way of thinking. Don’t you see? I can’t love you unless I  give you up.     

#i did rewatch this sometime in june and i did end up crying #genuinely one of my worst traits is being vulnerable to edith wharton's weird gay straights #movies #the age of innocence

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Mutuals I would become consul with

#yeah i feel this one

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i can always relate to a girl who wants to leave

#🤷‍♀️

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the last of the wine's alexias & lysis: soulmates

#😑🚬 #is how this book made me feel #words #mary renault

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today at work i was explaining how redacted product works and the guy i was explaining this to made a joke about me holding him at gunpoint and i spent a good 5 minutes being like wtf this is such a weird joke to make before remembering that i was speaking to an american tourist

#like american tourists are usually some of my favs because they're nice #except for newyorkers #but this was so weird i was ???? what on earth is going on here #little cultural differences ig

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All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo (via rurilelith)

#i was like #wow this one is so much nicer than the other ones i've read from her so far #love all those gay greek actors calling e/o my dear feels right #and then the last ten pages or so were #back to mentally smoking a pack of cigarettes #insane ending love and light #mary renault #words

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I made almost this exact same post last time I watched this episode but he’s so so so wild for this opening dialogue. the way this all ties back to bj wanting desperately to be the Normal one and hawkeye knowing in his heart of hearts that he couldn’t be normal if he tried (he being hawkeye I mean)

#when i tell rob about my bj never being in the present vs hawkeye being unable to project himself in the future reading of the show.... #then we'll really be in it #mash #s8

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hot mary renault summer

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The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault

#truly among those lines in books which make me want to take up smoking again #mary renault #words

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The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault

#yeaaaaaaaah #words #mary renault

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New M*A*S*HCast! Season 6, Episode 20: “Mail Call Three” w/guest @gaysails

fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/mashca…

#WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SO LONG AND IM SO DELIGHTED WITH IT #excellent discussion #and great bit of BCS info #also can't wait for rob to watch black sails #everybody go listen to this now #mash #s6

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One day, being alone, I took the best likeness [of Hephaistion] into my hand, thinking, Who were you, what are you, that you can do this to my lord?

He came in behind me, and said, ‘Put that down!’ with such anger that I nearly dropped it. I put it back somehow, shaking with fear of exile.

He said more quietly, ‘What were you doing?’ I answered, ‘He was dear to you. I wanted to understand him.’

He took a turn across the room, then said, ‘He knew me.’

No more. I was pardoned, he meant no hurt. I had asked, he answered. […] Truly, when to me we had seemed like one, to how much I had been a stranger.

Bagoas, in Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy

#he knew me #absolutely insane quote & insane moment i had to put the book down #that and the they were boys together moment in funeral games #words #mary renault #the persian boy

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Ptolemy thought, You’ve nothing to fear now, have you? Oh yes, he could be arrogant now and then. Towards the end, he thought he was the only one who understood – and how far was he wrong? Accept it, Eumenes, he was good for Alexander. I knew when they were boys at school. He was somebody in himself and both of them knew it. That pride you didn’t like was Alexander’s salvation; never fawning, never pushing, never envious, never false. He loved Alexander and never used him, kept pace with him at Aristotle’s lessons, never on purpose lost a match to him. To the end of his days he could talk to Alexander man to man, could tell him he was wrong, and never for a moment feared him. He saved him from solitude, and who knows what else? Now he’s gone, and this is what we have. If he were alive, we’d all be feasting today in Susa, whatever the Chaldeans say.

Mary Renault, Funeral Games (via pythionice)

#if you want to know what i've been doing lately #the answer is going back to obsessing over this thing i was obsessed with when i was 15 #and reading the entire mary renault alexander trilogy to cope #words #mary renault #funeral games