“We hope this email finds you well” babe, the only emails I hope find me well are the ones from Archive of Our Own

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people have said it before but if you read a lot of historical literature you do begin to just sort of think in that style of language. I’ll put down the 18th century journal I’m reading and have to resist the urge to send academic emails with every Noun capitalized and punctuated only by the profuse Usage of the Em-Dash — it is a deceptively challenging Instinct to resist, & worse is that Instinct when spelling certain Words to utilize what would, some Centuries prior, be an appropriate Spelling, excepting that my Correspondence occurs in the Twenty-First Century, where Men are inflexible and uncreative in their Methods, & this Propensity of mine would appear only foolish & incorrect, instead of suggesting what it in actuality reflects, which is that I am simply an Incorrigible Nerd — O! the Woes of modern Sociability! Why should I be compelled to conform to these d——d modern Conventions! Is it not enough to be unabashedly and impudently Autistic?

having a multi year long character obsession becomes like a abstract thought experiment at some point

before there were blorbos there were little meow meows and before there were little meow meows there were cinnamon rolls

“nobody would ever make any memorials to me after my death” yeah breq you wish. future historians are going to be getting in fistfights over your legacy 500 years after you die. people are going to build statues of you and then other people are going to tear those statues down