#1 Nanami Kiryuu Defender

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

The fact that we can get so combative over the right characterizations of the gods when, as an example, Istrus in the Hellenistic period could just present Artemis as being in love with a man and even coming close to marrying him...

The truth is that a lot of the things some of us Greek mythology enthusiasts take issue with when it comes to contemporary approaches to Greek myth already existed in antiquity. Purposefully changing a myth or figure to fit the needs of the story one wanted to tell? Rejecting earlier accounts and labeling them false in contrast to one's own true account? Passing judgment on the morality of various figures? Mocking the gods? Allowing them to exist outside rigid lines of acceptable behavior as in the case above where a famous parthenos wants to get married? All of that and more.

Beautiful: a child has drowned and returned from the other side with a report of going to the afterlife. "When I arrived in heaven I was greeted by a mammoth-headed man who said 'I am Anghprett Vul, sky god of the one true religion'. I asked 'who are you?' and he said 'we visited a tribe of Neanderthals and gave them our teachings but then a landslide killed them'. I asked 'so do I have to bring back your faith and believe in it?' and he said 'we don't really care". Find his book at your local apatheist bookstore today

I’m not saying it was a good idea but every society has tried to solve the problem of “society needs organization to function but power tends to corrupt people” and I like how ancient Rome’s answer was the position of the tribune, where you get to have unchecked power with no accountability for one (1) year but after that you’re just a guy and everyone you pissed off can beat you to death with hammers.

You get 1000% more ok with urself when u stop wearing make-up and I won't argue with anyone on this it's true

i'll read a romance story & get pissed off when there's more romance than like, legal consequences for the love interest's brother's company that is implicated in some sort of scandal based on a minor subplot

I dislike the violence and unpredictability of the ice dispenser

i dont think straight people should be allowed to do "enemies to lovers" i think if a man is your enemy you need to trust that you were correct the first time and slay him in battle

i went to the intersection of the sacred and the profane and everybody knew you

poems aren’t real and you can’t write them