I need to slaughter memory.

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

you're bountiless you stupid bitch

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

guys i’m so sorry to say this but exercising and indulging in hobbies rather than scrolling on your phone for 200 hours actually does improve your mood and overall mental health, this has deeply upset me more than anyone

unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british

unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british

fuck therapy i wanna beat the shit out of someone

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

yeah it’s just like so uninteresting when it’s like penelope can only be interesting if she’s a tough girlboss badass strategist but not if she’s weeping herself to sleep. telemachus can only be engaged with if he is a young and optimistic bright eyed child and not the adult that he is certainly considered to be by the standards of the homeric epic (young but still very much an adult!) complicit in the murder of slave women and misogynistic toward his mother. odysseus’ love for penelope can only compelling if he’s never interested in other women. first of all like these are just very one dimensional views of these characters that are like not really honest engagements with them. and way less interesting. also if you have to go in and erase parts of the odyssey you’re uncomfortable with then eventually you are just no longer engaging with what it is.

like do I think odysseus’ love for his family and particularly penelope is one of the most captivating and moving stories in all of ancient literature? yeah. do i think he was a good person and a perfectly faithful husband to her? well not necessarily at all. but the secret is that you can recognize universal themes that you like without erasing the parts of the text that make you uncomfortable

haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

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i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

sometimes you just have to say "you are all so fucking stupid" and scroll past