all the 9 to 5ers scrolling through tumblr at 7am like we’re reading the morning paper. raising our coffee cups in greeting by reblogging each others posts.
We know he offered fruit; his brother offered a lamb. Did Cain say: I gave God the thing itself and not the symbol. Did he mean to say: God wanted a blood sacrifice. That’s exactly what he got.
— Traci Brimhall, “Murder Ballad in the Land of Nod” from Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod
I saw him turn himself inside out over the fact that someone might see him as a villain in that story. I think it’s torture for him.
Maybe it’s bc im not far enough into it yet to get to the more terrifying parts, but, my thoughts on the luminous dead so far have just been *horny grips about Em* …. No idea if this is the intended reader experience but I’m going with it
It’s renfair time which means it’s time for me to don my roll as a weekend riddle peddler.
Now I had fully intended to memorize all the riddles this year regardless (which I don’t HAVE to do, but its a lot more fun) however it turns out our starter set this year are riddles from 6th century Rome so they are in both English AND Latin. Which means, obviously, I have to memorize both.
So in order to memorize the Latin text I thought I’d be slick and run the latin through the voice thing on google translate (not translating it to anything just to get it spoken out loud and repeated) but it was a mistake bc the pronunciation seems to be closer to Italian/ecclesiastical Latin and while it still helps to hear it spoken I’m :( about it