And take us on the roads again

I do not have a flattering vision of the optimates/pro republicans and i do not have a flattering vision of cicero but i am so pissed off by people going "omgggg his death was the stupidest in history what did he think would happen when he attacked mark anthony and octavian xdxdxd" as if cicero wasn't a 63 year old man, deeply entrenched in the political discourse of the time, witnessed first hand the brutality of the late roman republic and didnt know what he was getting into. I havent read his letters in a long time i admit but to assume he just did do all of that without being keenly aware of what his fate may have probably been and still doing it because he stood firm in his ideals is so ridiculously simplicistic and anti intellectual

There is this very annoying trend of people who get their facts from tiktok who think that they themselves are smarter and know better than people who have actually studied those events and specifically than the people who have lived those events and ignore their lives and the context around it, which is how you get takes like cicero was dumb and didnt know what he was getting into and julius caesar was just like donald trump his army like ICE and brutus was a freedom fighter protocommunist. Neverever google the gracchi brothers and which party to whom brutus belonged to had them brutally killed for trying to redistribute the wealth that the party had hoarded and trying to give citizenship to the colonies. Die before reading history books or sources get your information from tiktok and tumblr and tiktok and tumblr only

Tumblr users will say "queer history" and mean "midcentury archival records from a specific US-American city that I have extrapolated into a universal mythos" and not even blink

"learn your queer history" I am from fucking INDIA

Queer history such as: The interpersonal grievance I had five years ago with someone whose social media reach never broke into quadruple digits, but it felt super important at the time

the thing about het romances is most of them are sexist so even tho i’m meant to root for them ill spend half of it thinking he shouldn’t talk to her like that

Kind of bleak for a 13 year old daughter but if my parents were Kim and Kanye I'd be emo af too

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