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I’m fine

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the girls are fightingggggg [readjusts my glasses, squinting] by god… it appears i was mistaken. they're…my goodness…by god

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babygirl i sit hunched in ways you’d never fuckin believe

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girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived

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beautiful caffeine on an empty stomach I'm going to live forever

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i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing

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something very sensual about reading an ancient text that only survives through one manuscript. like we only have this one text because someone centuries ago copied it down for us, whether by choice or by commission. it's like reaching into the past and touching that person's hand or maybe kissing them on the mouth. with tongue.

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#chaotic academia #books & libraries #sweater #vinyl records #Spotify #remus lupin

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you're not ascending to godhood you're just dehydrated

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*covered in blood & in visible distress* i just need to write a list

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i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

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the sluttiest thing a man can do is be good at performing shakespeare

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maybe i'm just a grumpy english major but i feel like a lot of the "lol people think shakespeare is pretentious but actually his plays are just dick jokes and swordfighting" posting can verge into "lol what if the curtains are just blue" territory. yes shakespeare plays are full of those things AND they are also profound and complex and thematically rich. people spend their careers analyzing them for a reason, actually. it's not just dick jokes all the way down. and sometimes people spend their careers analyzing the dick jokes. stop trying to pick one side of the dichotomy between high and low culture. it's both. it can be both.

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“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human” - David Bowie

#chaotic academia #books & libraries #cats #dark academia #music #classical piano #chess #sweater #rings

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The psychiatrist diagnosed me with divine madness

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my beautiful wife ibuprofen

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Bitches be broke and then spend what littles left of their money on espressos and books in their favourite cafés and buy a pain au chocolat instead of just packing a lunch from home everyday… it’s me, I’m bitches.