Books And Bric-A-Brac 📚

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

you know i was a grief metaphor once or twice

oh god shes collapsed someone get her a thai iced tea and a bowl of tofu pad see ew STAT!!!!!

My favorite jokes are about mispronouncing philosophers' names but I'm afraid it's a nietzsche subgenre

But it can hit if you plato the right crowd

just gotta locke in your target audience

yk guys I think a lot of ppl when arguing against the death penalty go for a like "people don't deserve death, etc" view and I get why ppl argue for that I rly do! but it doesn't matter. I don't trust the government to do it, I don't trust them to decide who should die, I don't trust them to determine who is mentally competent, I don't trust them to not be bigoted and discriminatory in their practices, I don't trust them to have the right people, I don't trust them to execute it in a humanitarian way. and I've had discussions with ppl who otherwise have similar viewpoints to me in many ways but can think of people they think deserve to die, and I think if abolishing the death penalty is like, a super important cause to u the same way it is to me, the argument u use shouldn't be "well these people deserve to live" (although in some cases I think yeah the death penalty is done to people who totally don't "deserve it") because that's so subjective, it should be "do you trust the government to do it?" like, do you trust the people who cant even fill potholes on your road to determine who should and should not live

Precisely^ if the state can execute a person for one reason, then they can take that reason and aim it any party they find inconvenient or undesirable. The political dissident, the vulnerable minority group, and so on. Regardless of how you feel about certain types of criminality, it’s easy to understand why the state should not be permitted tbe power to kill.

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]