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karkat being like "i need to make a doomsday virus to release it when i die" is the most 13-year-old thing anyone in this comic ever says

no irony for a second i must confess with sincerity that karkat vantas is kinda my best buddy. love that guy

act 4 // i don't know how i managed to forget the sheer volume of time travel fuckery in this comic

"CG: YOUR BRITTLE HUMAN CALCIUM BASED SKULL IS WHAT IS WEAK, AND IF YOU AND I WERE IN THE PROXIMITY OF A BLUNT INSTRUMENT I WOULDN'T HAVE MUCH TROUBLE PROVING IT."

this is a mountain goats lyric

OH AND WISCONSIN BOUND. DUH. LET'S GO, LET'S GO!

finally catching up. favorite new (to me) discoveries of january:
- "running away with what freud said"
- "one winter at point alpha privative"
- "orange ball of peace"
and, of course, the cow song.

just checked and of the 31 songs in the first month of this book i have already known. grand total 2 of them

420 slutty, slutty years since 1606

“…heterosexuality-as-regime is set up to extract domestic, sexual and reproductive labor from those deemed women under its logics. Its definition of womanhood and the narrowness of her stipulated role in society is oriented around domestic confinement, in rigorously naturalizing a positionality of abjection and servility towards others.”

so well said. cf kate manne’s down girl

"Apparently, [Vergil] spent his life writing books in a room by himself. Biographical tradition depicts him as shy, sickly, and gay. However, those biographers may simply have been speculating based on the fact that he wrote poetry."

CATULLUS INVENTOR OF HTE GIRLFRIEND

"Romans shared our basic frivolity: there was no smut too low for them, and no complaint too trivial. They loved sarcasm, gossip, and actors. In fact, by the time of the Silver Age, Romans are not just Americans, but actually New Yorkers."

this is true i was there

i forgot that kanaya is autistic as hell

CICERO SONG LET'S GOOOOOO

if the theater des vampires started today it would be some blue man group shit for sure

this is a book about being in your 20s

“Many of the writers we will meet in the coming pages learned these dead languages at ages as young as five. Now they are dead themselves. Was it worth it? We may never know.”

it’s giving philomena cunk

“Paradise Lost is a work of acknowledged genius. It is also about as much fun as being trapped in a freezer.”

as the local guy from wisconsin. the cow song is gonna be big for me

ALPHA COUPLE SPAWN POINT

unironically awesome move to start this with songs that i have not only not heard, but have never even glimpsed in passing. it's a story of a life! also i've already had to start underlining so i don't cry :thumbsup:

never in a thousand years would i have anticipated a south park mention in the titus chapter. like sure

oh the whole family's got autism

am i fucking crazy. “i do. i will” is specific. am i not supposed to think of prince hal. am i jumping at shadows now

act three // accurate representation of how long it takes to get a group of friends to sit down at the same metaphorical table for a game

“SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn’t comfortable.”

murderbot i love you so bad

i love when murderbot has to give itself the jacob wysocki affirmations. you are a normal guy. you can enter a space. you are a normal guy. you can enter a room

without diminishing the point being made here about de facto segregation. "i didn't know that white people could fart" as a kid is really getting me

shoutout to my WOKE library for having this out-facing in the front

cannot handle that marina keegan was buddies with harold bloom. idk why that’s hysterically funny to me. she seems so cool and harold bloom is my parasocial academic nemesis