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given the whole [gestures vaguely] of social media lately, i have decided to pretend like it's 2012 still, and try to go back to my roots.
if you're in either place, please add me if you want to! i'm still trying to locate fandoms, active communities, etc etc over there because my feeds are pretty dead.
Stop Using Effeminacy As Visual Shorthand For Decadence And Moral Decay 2025
Want to write a story about some perfumed eunuch who's actually really clever and solves crimes or something.
Floating face down in a blank word document file, while not physically possible, is nevertheless a tangible authorial state.
Holiday Grainger and Sean Harris as LUCREZIA BORGIA AND MICHELLETO CORELLA
As shown in Showtime’s The Borgias Season Three [2013]
My final words are... "The Spice Girls—I hate them!"
Spice World (1997) dir. Bob Spiers
Ireland
1995
if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.
this one took off quickly - are you guys ok
WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.
As the fog returns this evening, it presents unique and compelling photographic opportunities. This image captures the 1877 Tall Ship Elissa re-entering Galveston Harbor. This is just another stunning view from the Galveston Ferry. 12/23/25 TXDot
Getty Images. Commuters walking up to Embankment bridge. London. 1929
dog energy / cat energy
BLACK SAILS 1.02 “II.”
ancient roman epigraphy is very funny because in the early empire the aesthetic criteria are so strong and cemented that even a humble slave will be able to commission a neat and professional-looking headstone but the farther into late antiquity you get the more you lose that aesthetic sensibility and everything gets progressively messier and more disorderly until you end up with fourth century ce senators putting up honorary inscriptions that a first century slave would've refused to accept
first century freedwoman (EDR000310):
fifth century senatorslop (EDR106319) (this is the full inscription he just got it done on the corner of a marble slate):
was anyone else named Lestat or just him
