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aw shit here we go again

i'm sorry for every time i bitched about the misogyny in robert harris's cicero trilogy. i take it back. i take it back. i don't take it back at all but please mr. harris i didn't know how good i had it

"'How did you get all this?'
'Stole it,' said the onetime prime minister of Karhide."

"Saith he, I find the mention of old cloaks, false beards, night-walkers and salt lotion; therefore the animadverter haunts playhouses and bordelloes; for if he did not, how could he speak of such gear? ...the confuter knows that these things are the furniture of playhouses and bordelloes, therefore... the confuter himself hath been traced in those places."

girl what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament!!!

i could take this book as an authentic roman autobiography solely on the basis of how much it hates women

on this fine february 14th please remember the words of leslie feinberg: "Valentine's Day. That's a high femme holy holiday."

gift from a frand... cries...

cannae believe i'm about to read the rest of this .

"It was plain that no tolerable relationship could exist between Estraven and myself." strong contender for funniest line in this book

crazy what a favorite professor will get you to do. for example i am reading a 27-page courtly masque where the heroine's special superpower is her chastity

"I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again."

"He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell."

stumbling through a translation of cat. 6 thinking "how WOULD you translate ecfututa" but isobel williams has me covered. fuck-wasted. of course

as much as i want to live in a genderless world i would die on gethen so fast due to--well when genly does it it's "lack of shifgrethor" but when i do it it's "autism" apparently

oh FUCKER

i need to send addy hanlon the lesbian masterdoc

PETYR BAELISH SHE IS THIRTEEN PLEASE KILL YOURSELF

“the third-sex drama freaks” me

i feel like this is fight club for women

"I have seen [Postumus] walk around the playground with two boys on his shoulders, one on his back and one standing on each of his hands."

what kind of pose would make this possible please i'm trying so hard to envision it. how small are the boys that can stand on one hand

OLD MAN DOOOOOOOWWWWWWWN

"Her right hand, her fidus Achates. That's what she calls me."

everywhere i see his face (he is the aeneid)

oh okay so i guess no one in westeros cares about dealing with the ice zombies so we'll all just WHAT'S THIS??? STANNIS BARATHEON WITH A STEEL CHAIR

THE SWORD THE SWORD HE GAVE HER THE SWORD ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. AGDUEHEJWHFJWJCUWJFJ!

"'God,' she said, 'by the time we're old enough to have sex, we're already too ashamed to be touched. Ain't that a crime?'"

wailing throwing up

bisexuality loss :(

augustus paid robert graves to write this