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i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

Yellowjackets//The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

Studying history means having an existential crisis every other day because humans are always repeating the same mistakes 🫠

Florence, Italy 1850/90

I’ve been asked a few times about a labelled Master List of sigils. There are a ton of them, I know, and it’s frustrating to look back and forth between the individual posts where they are labeled. So have this! 

shirts that go hard: rock n' roll edition

I’m not sure if I really like this one. I’m exhausted from the day and I’m ready to knock out

Norway, 1988

THE OCEAN; WHERE EVERYONE CAME FROM

slothrust – horseshoe crab, @randomingoftherandomness​ , kirsten sims, hrvoje majer, jfk, dunkirk (2017) dir. christopher nolan, haevn – the sea

me on my annual mbf series reread

snoopy reads my brilliant friend