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riz's wacky adventure in hell doesn't even begin to compare to fabian's no good very bad awful terrible day, but i'm not gonna lie, if i saw my dead dad being tortured and then heard him talk about how he was never fully satisfied living a domestic life with me and my mother and he didn't regret anything? i'd be on the news.

An older relative of mine was complaining about how her hair looks now that it’s greying and I had to hold back myself from telling her that the long grey hair look would make her very popular with some lesbians that I know because she’s not the sort of person who would take that as a compliment

This particular person is always like ugh I look old and I’m like yeah you do look old and it looks really good on you and she just doesn’t believe me but it’s true

I’ve noticed that some people start positively glowing as they start aging and then take to it like a baby otter screaming in the water

support your local library!

Didnt baby doof have a tiny pink bow on his head? I cant remember where to find the pic and i dont want to lose the post but im fairly sure i saw that in a screenshot 🤔🪽

At this point I'm pretty sure my parents bring up and use ai just to annoy me....

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

oh and something else about odysseus’ homecoming that’s stayed with me from a class I took forever ago was that his dog argos dying when he comes home is kind of a mercy. because odysseus is in disguise when he returns. and argos gets excited and recognizes him. if argos hadn’t died odysseus might have had to kill him

#i love dogs a lot but i just cannot find the argos episode sweet or sentimental#i have some not-fully-thought-out idea about argos as a contrast to the enslaved women that telemachus later hangs#like in book 20 when odysseus sees them going to bed with the suitors he tells himself#τέτλαθι δή κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης#lit. 'endure my heart: you once endured a more dog-like thing' (and then goes on to name to the time the cyclops ate his men)#and the way dogs are rhetorically synonymous with shamelessness in homer#idea of a loyal dog is fairly oxymoronic in homeric animal symbolism. priam knows that when he dies his dogs will eat his body.#i think the effect is supposed to be that argos the literal dog has more shame and propriety than the enslaved women#they are more dog-like and have less sense of their proper place than a literal dog#so. not really a feel-good reunion moment there.#but yeah. if argos hadn't died odysseus would have killed him just like he killed those twelve girls. without a second thought. (via)

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

Sucks that 'womanizer' is a word used to refer to misogynistic men cause it sounds like what Dr Doofenshmirtz would call estrogen shots

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a post about trans Doofenshmirtz…

catholic guilt vs protestant belief in your own inherent superiority, fight

wait no I just remembered a few hundred years of history I take this post back