Pinned
Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Grace [Votre Grandeur]. One day he rose from his armchair, and went to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it. “Madame Magloire,” said he, “fetch me a chair. My greatness [grandeur] does not reach as far as that shelf.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables. Volume I, Book I, Chapter IV.
moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"
loser woman rights for trinity santos!!!!!!!!
For the last time dude, my leitmotif sounds exactly like it always has. There is no symbolism for creeping corruption in there
Old dogs, same tricks
He was sorry now he had yielded to that temptation for he could not stop yielding and the throbbing man in him was soaked. As usual he discriminated between the throbbing one, and the one that looked on: looked on with concern, with sympathy, with a sigh, or with bland surprise. This was the last stronghold of the dualism he abhorred. The square root of I is I. Footnotes, forget-me-nots. The stranger quietly watching the torrents of local grief from an abstract bank. A familiar figure, albeit anonymous and aloof. He saw me crying when I was ten and led me to a looking glass an unused room (with an empty parrot cage in the corner) so that I might study my dissolving face. He has listened to me with raised eyebrows when I said things which I had no business to say. In every mask I tried on, there were slits for his eyes. Even at the very moment when I was rocked by the convulsion men value most. My saviour. My witness.
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
you will live to witness manmade horrors that are completely within your comprehension if you've paid any attention to a single piece of human history but are nevertheless still huge bummers
turnchetta fanart by @badassindistress
happy 1st april! 🤡
congratulations to TURNCHETTA for WINNING 2013. as your prize you are all cordially invited to rewatch this absolute time capsule of a video, uploaded on this very day in that glorious year
i love doing nothing ❤️
Yaaaay my nothing ❤ #mynothing
happy ten years everyone
i have been noticing recently that people younger than me are too sensitive, while people older than me are not sensitive enough. which, if i'm correct, should be taken as a sign that the total reality penetration vortex is operating as intended -- within as few as five or six generations we may very well be producing babies who can directly perceive the wound at the heart of the world
would you read a fanfiction au set at your job? i.e if you're a barista would you read a coffeshop au for any media, hospital au if you're a doctor (?? i guess??? you get the point)
yes and i've actively sought it out
i wouldn't mind it but i'm not seeking it out specifically
no my job is boring and/or wouldn't work as a setting
no i hate my job and don't want to think about it in my spare time
it's nuanced
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