my body is a temple to destruction

(no beers in) So how do you perceive me in the privacy of your thoughts

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

The guy who painted the achilles binding patroclus’ wound kylix has done more for the patrochilles fandom than anyone else

“I want a story where sex is integral to the plot and not just for the camera” HALT! Look no further than the hit 13th to 10th century BCE clay tablet poem The Epic of Gilgamesh where enkidu has sex for about one to two weeks straight and if that never happened then there would be absolutely no story at all

'i asked chatgpt' i asked jonathan jims jead jrchivist jf jhe jagnus jnstuitue, jondon. he told me to stop calling him that

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

I started reading Giovanni's Room. Reading is fun again

Just finished Giovanni's room. I fucking hate books.

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

Watching Granada Holmes makes all of those “Whos the best actor to play Holmes?” Arguments SO funny because like. Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes. Idk how he did it. It’s like he summoned the metaphysical ghost of a fictional character and then let the ghost possess him. It’s like he did a blue skidoo straight into the ACD Canon and then convinced Sherlock Holmes to astral project out into Jeremy’s body. Comparing any other actor to play Holmes to Jeremy Brett is like asking which version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the best and then grouping a bunch of karaoke covers in the same category as the original by Queen. Hydrogen bomb vs crying baby shit. Come ON.

gender is a performance and i have forgotten my fucking lines