Classics - Blog Posts

“The road to Hell is easy. Pluto’s door is open day and night. But to retrace one’s steps and come back up to the world above, that is the problem.”

— Aeneid, Vergil 

if she’s your girl then why is she ripping MY body limb from limb in the midst of a bacchic frenzy deep in the woods

Dark Academia // Fall Reminiscence

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

I was always really interested in literature since I was a kid. And one of the first things I tried to read was Crime and Punishment, but I got bored of it and gave it up after thirty pages. I didn't like it at all (same with a lot of books similar to that). I can't explain it but I just don't like a lot of classics, they may be well written but I don't vibe with them you know. I have decided to pick up Dostoevsky again and when my dad asked what to get me for my birthday, I told him to give me a hardcover of Crime and Punishment.

And now he thinks I am starting to like Classics, particularly Dostoevsky and he is really hyped about it.

How do I tell my dad that I am reading Dostoevsky's books to understand the backstory, ability and make predictions about an anemic rat from Bungou stray dogs.

(I am gonna read Crime and Punishment while listening to "Bernadette" by IAMX on the loop. The Fyolai nation weeps)

"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for"

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women.

"YOU TOO, KANE - OR DO I HAVE TO TRANSLATE IT TO NEANDERTHAL FOR YOU?"

-Gym teacher, Freak the Mighty

I SWEAR WHEN I GET MY HANDS AROUND YOUR NECK, BITCH

"My father was a magician. He heard the words 'birth defect', and disappeared."

- Kevin/Freak, Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick, 1993)

FREAK, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE YOU

"My father was a magician. He heard the words 'birth defect', and disappeared."

- Kevin/Freak, Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick, 1993)

FREAK, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE YOU