kill claudio

sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there

they want to fuck each other so bad it makes them enact increasingly complex crimes against each other in order to prove that they’re actually the one with the power that they’re one DOING the fucking & not the one getting fucked over

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

stand by what i always say about the problems in medicine aren't due to individual bad actors & the best person in the world going to med school could not expunge the profession of ethical commitments core to its function in capitalist society but like it's also true the transmisogynist to health professional pipeline is more than just the baseline level you would expect in a transmisogynist society. same with eugenics likers it's quite obvious what draws at least some of these ppl to medicine is precisely their ideological commitments, it's an environment where theyre not just tolerated but explicitly there to enact violence & be told theyre morally right for it. fork attracted to magnet

Too many people rightly recognising that modern racism was shaped by the social and economic forces of early capitalism from the 1600s onwards. Not enough people asking whether hundreds of years of crusades had any effect on racial thinking and ideology in western Europe and whether that had continuity in the age of colonialism. Even less people asking how the Romans rationalised their imperial politics and whether that had any racially tinged thinking (it did) and whether there might have been some continuity between that and western European anxieties concerning the "East" and other modern racism(s).

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

I'd say we need to instill a new storyreading rule of thumb into people called "understand that creators have thoughts about their stories that don't make it into the final work because it's a detail irrelevant to the story" but you all already bastardised Chekhov's Gun so fuck it I guess

stop singing about romantic love start singing about jumping and popping at the same time