#hashtag nicheposts

oh this is a post for no one, but there must have been at least one person who was willing to die on the hill that Agathon (a tragedian Callimachus made fun of for being notoriously bad) was fine, actually, the way i'm willing to die on the hill that Bulwer Lytton is fine, actually, and occasionally rises to the height of the Sublime

call me the Sampo the way i'm constantly churning out salt

listening to de tocqueville's democracy in america has to approximate the experience of a persian reading xenephon's cyropaedia

pastoral is always a little funny (ok, Theocritus, please continue to show me your cottagecore moodboard) but my favorites are in 16th-19th century media where an incredibly driven dude sings an aria about how he wishes he could be a shepherd as though he wouldn't die if he wasn't allowed to start a new scheme every five minutes

feeling like the Tailor of Gloucester here except instead of cherry-red worsted it's limited edition sock yarn from a year and a half ago that isn't even on ebay