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i'm not gonna lie and say i'm not a little sick of "please have a kid so your beauty will live on 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺" but every time we start hitting the theme of poetry making the object immortal......... okay. you got me bill ;-;

book five // keeping myself sane* through the war parts by thinking about the aeneas : hector :: turnus : achilles paradigm

*it's making me less sane

book four // aaaaand we're back to battles. sigh

book three // kind of funny how the original iliad has more sympathy for its women (helen) than certain authors writing retellings of it. coughs. anyway different topic i can't blame everyone for hating paris because he's so frustrating (THE WAR COULD HAVE ENDED RIGHT THERE WITHOUT NEED FOR THE BURNING OF TROY. KEEP YOUR OATH!) but it's also so funny how he just. does not care. & keeps sucking and fucking regardless

book two // he 😌 catalogued ✨ the 🤩 ships 🧚 when 😌 no ✨ one 🤩 else 🧚 would 💘 (anyway shoutout to the wine-dark sea)

also the first realistic moment in this book is clary getting mad that alec says she’s from new jersey instead of new york

GOD I FORGOT THIS BOOK MAKES THE GAY GUY A BITCH TO CLARY BC HES JEALOUS SHE HAS JACES ATTENTION alec i’m so sorry king i’m so sorry you are being written by cassandra clare

"oh, he's rude to everyone. it's what makes him so damn sexy" i could ALMOST take this as a joke but knowing that the book fully believes this... i'm going to bite and kill

okay i think my burning desire to argue (like, in general) just leveled up a couple of times

okay. i do think every classicist who has to hear someone compare their studied texts to fanfiction should get to bite and kill. however i’m finding it difficult to describe what plato is doing rn without using the words “socrates RPF”

book one // okay maybe it's the translation difference (poetry vs. prose) or maybe i'm just really excited about my classes OR maybe i just forgot how fun it is to write in books. but so far this is the better of the translations i've read. also god damn this story is good like for real huh. (though the opening-with-a-plague bit ofc hits different now :pensive:)

OKAY WE'RE DOING THIS AGAIN! TWO WEEKS AGO I SPEEDRAN THIS BC MY COMPULSIONS SAID I HAD TO BEFORE I COULD READ TSOA AND NOW I'M STUDYING IT IN CLASS ROUND FUCKING TWO! HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT HOMER IG

wait actually. you know what. these characters are fifteen. why the fuck is the cover jace's bare chest. bro what

normally i actually like or at least feel indifferent about the het romances in WoF (glory and deathbringer are the peak and the template) but man this love triangle is doing NOTHING for me. if qibli and winter aren't boyfriends why should i care

god jace is so fucking annoying but he's also 15. which is so funny to me now that i'm no longer a 12-year-old reading these books. he acts like such sexy hot shit like oh did you get the high score in call of duty jace? tell me more

not the fucking tale of two cities reference noooooo… bro get me OUT of here don’t taint sydney carton for me

okay let me be absolutely clear: i am not a cassandra clare fan i am not financially supporting her weird ass incest kink shit i am reading this to mine WIP inspiration and for that reason ONLY

god these books are so hard to put down

"we'll probably end up married one day" UM???? + COBRA'S RESPONSE IMPLYING THAT GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT ONLY LEGAL IN PYRRHIA BUT SOMETHING NOT TO BAT AN EYE AT??? HSDKFSFBDFNW?

"handsome, tortured, and heroic? everyone loves dragons like that" qibli bi moments. are you including yourself

i keep thinking “well i guess stannis IS the rightful king” and then remembering i don’t believe in rightful monarchy at all and being like oh.

he is really relentlessly diagnosing the fair youth submissive and breedable huh

alternating shakespeare plays + wings of fire might be affecting my brain somehow but i don't care. dragon books good

how is the first act of this play already So Much That Way holy shit

when do i get to know theon’s deal all he’s done is lurk ominously looking in my mind’s eye like 😏