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Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

This isn't even a shit post that actually happened

Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

Better than 3 seasons of BBC Sherl*ck

Cold open to the hottest new procedural crime show

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

you don't know how young your current age is until you're past it

which is fucked up because why was i 18 thinking this is it. my life's over i haven't achieved anything at all. but now i think wow 18 y.o is baby unlike me a 22 y.o whose life is over became i still haven't achieved everything i want to