NOT OUT OF SORROW, BUT IN WONDER.

gwayne and alicent would make a fantastically miserable brother/sister ice dance team. what was that not-olympic-champion sarah hughes said about straddling your gay brother

I believe in bass lines like I believe in very few immediate things

it is so funny that raskolnikov’s whole family believes the dunya/luzhin engagement drama is the A-plot of their drama in petersburg while raskolnikov is like going around the city in a complete delirium telling everyone about how he killed two people. and the thing is raskolnikov ALSO thinks his sister is the main character

raskolnikov who is actively suicidal, just murdered two people, and knows his only choices going forward are death or exile, sees his sister engaged to some loser and is like i literally cannot fathom anyone being in a worse position than dunya right now.

really hate it when my dreams are just slight variations of reality that could very much happen and kinda hurt my feelings when i realise they in fact did not.... can we go back to dreaming about fairies and laying eggs

Part of what makes the Aeneid great is that, unlike the Odyssey, Virgil suffuses it with a tragic and serpentine vision of history. When the Trojans finally reach Italy, they immediately begin desecrating the land and destroying its wildlife. They war against the native peoples, dividing former allies and subjugating the remnants. Under the spell of prophetic fantasies, the Trojan refugees metamorphose into their Greek persecutors. Aeneas, once rational and compassionate, becomes a new Achilles, crazed by destiny and ready to build the future upon blood sacrifices, violated treaties, and Turnus's butchered remains. For Virgil, no one escapes the nightmare of Empire.

There’s actually nobody safe to express your emotions to because if you reveal them to people who love you they get really sad and if you reveal them to people who don’t love you you face all kinds of unpleasant consequences and if you reveal them to a paid therapist they will probably record your session and leak it to Palantir