Shoutout to handsome jack

Victor Frankenstein is the type of freak who wouldn’t care about what time of the month it is for you. You can’t tell me this man stood knee deep in viscera and blood and rotten flesh (& then proceeded to choke on his own blood in the middle of the arctic) and would tell you off for bleeding a little over his fingers…

I read Sallust’s monograph on Catiline’s war for school last semester and here’s just a few of my favorite parts • Sallust repeatedly tells us that Catiline is like the finest specimen of humanity (but also that his amorality was spurred and encouraged by Society’s Corruption) • Catiline’s first plan was just to secretly assassinate the elected consuls. (What does that achieve, Lucius) •  Catiline gives an inspiring speech to his followers, who, afterwards, ask him what it exactly it is that they’re going to be doing and why • Catiline allegedly binds his followers to him with a blood oath  (and Sallust includes a disclaimer that this is possibly untrue) • Catiline had the support of the urban poor but lost it when word got out that he wanted to set fires in the city • Catiline sent his supporters to murder Cicero but when Cicero learned of the plot he protected himself by just... not opening the door for them