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charmingly antiquated

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Sam - writer, illustrator, and tall ship sailor

mesmerised by this random photo taken by the hiking club I'm part of. the soft cool tones and radiant warm tones, the composition and lighting...

I think this is the best part of this photo. the point of that entire trip was to find and read an old storybook that they knew was at a particular hut. he genuinely is reading it out loud to the others. I can't remember what it was about, but this scene is the cozy and well deserved reward of a wild endeavour through rugged terrain. I think that's beautiful [:

[ID 1: A group of three hikers sitting at a table. Two of them are resting, the other is flipping through a book. Various items are scattered across the table, and they are lit by a small candle.

ID 2: Tumblr tag that says: what is he reading that put them to sleep. End IDs.]

(ID 1 via @banquetsinger)

nothing bad ever happened to an emperor who stopped paying the praetorian guards

paetorian guard perfec t size for put emperor on t\hrone! inside very Safe and Comfort emperor rule soundly put emperor in care of Praetorian Guard. Put Emperor In Care of Praetorian Guard. no problems ever with praettorian guard because good Size of cohorts and Support for emperor neck weak of big crown of laurels. Apraetorian Guard yes a place for an emperor put emperor in care of praetorian guard can trust praetorian guard for giveing good love to emperor. friend praetorians

"imagine showing insert blank to a medieval peasant they'd die lol" personally i think if i saw the medieval peasant's night sky i'd start crying and never stop

There are a lot of reasons to oppose monarchy but one of the most overlooked is that the king is always getting stuck in some kind of hazardous puzzle chamber filling up with gravel or lava or something. Do your fucking job man

giusti 2018 at 207. whats sexier. the idea that carthage has travelled 370 years back in time and is just ghosts, or the idea that aeneas has travelled 370 years forward in time and HE'S the ghost

[Transcript: ...in this 'mythical history' on Virgil's part. Given that the meeting of Aeneas and Dido, whether or not drawn on a Naevian precedent, is a clear chronological impossibility, Aeneas is implicated in a journey forward in time that in a sense anticipates the constant forward-looking patterns of the poem, and the city whose construction he witnesses in Libya, together with further allusions to even more distant futures of destruction and reconstruction, is a kind of ghost world, which does not yet exist at the time of his landing. /end transcript]

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