aw, piss...

If I can be a hater for a second: I find the mystique around the phrase "wine-dark sea" to be rather tedious. Like. It's clearly referring to shade rather than hue. Idk if it's different in ancient Greek but I don't think Homer ever said "the wine-colored sea." It literally has the word "dark" in the thing, you guys.

If I said that something black was "as black as the night," would you take that to mean it's a sort of dark blue spangled with stars and planets? You would not.

fucking VOTE

Why do the servants not simply rise up and execute the Bridgertons

omg that’s so creepy I can’t believe you’d say something like that *ears perking up like a dog* you’re such a perv

I love picking up self published novels, sometimes I'll get a few pages in and immediately recognize the prose structure and be like. 🫵 reddit user or 🫵 tumblr user or 🫵 ao3 user. but never twitter. not once twitter. I don't think those people write

Hey pro gamer tip for any depressed teenagers obsessed with literary romanticism what like I were once: So the world actually hasn't changed actually. Whatever shit u read about in books that stirred your soul and makes you sigh and go "Oh, if only we still had [thing] in this soulless modern world" is still there. You're right abt the modern world being soulless and empty and dumb but it was like that back in the history times too it's always like that. You can go have all kinds of adventures that are just as interesting and exciting as like, I dunno, viking stuff. You can still go do great deeds or what the fuck ever, we're in the same tale still Mr. Frodo, et cetera. But a lot of the time the cops aren't gonna like it so you have to also have to learn abt security culture

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

the way that we touch each others lives through posting is so profound and so stupid. 7 years ago someone made a post making fun of the beatles and to this day i say rungo bungo and that person will never know how truly often i say rungo bungo because of their post. rungo bungo

every time there’s a viral post about Magnus Hirschfeld that fails to mention he was jewish and nazi hatred of his work (and queerness as a whole) was a cause and effect of nazis blaming jews for any and all ‘degeneracy’ i want to Scream Yell Scream. you cannot should not separate what happened to him from that what do you mean ‘remember! they didn’t just hate jews they also-‘ HE WAS JEWISHHHH !!!! he was openly jewish and that’s a large part of why he was persecuted so heavily!!!! why are you leaving that out!!! he is not fodder for your ‘ugh those meanie jews are always so greedy and make the holocaust all about them 😠’ inversion

So I’m not extremely fit but I do both weights and cardio semi-regularly just to be healthy and well but omg a day of playing outside with a bunch of kids left me sore in my biceps (pushing on the tire swing) my legs (color tag) and my obliques (idk what did this actually).

And I was disappointed I wouldn’t be able to keep up with my workouts while I was at camp… joke’s on me.

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

not to be a hater but if you as an American are making a playlist for an Australian media and said playlist contains tame impala as your only aussie artist you deserve to be shot and displayed as a warning to any other Americans who are too hubristic for their own good