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> THE JESTER

People call Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF a slow burn but Hua Cheng is literally courting Xie Lian like they are DATING. Slow burn who??? They’re sleeping next to each other on straw mats and Xie Lian’s offering to cook him dinner and they’re bantering across THE HOME THEY SHARE like a bunch of desperate hussys

San Lang LEAVES XL WITH A KEEPSAKE OF THEIR TIME TOGETHER SLOW BURN WHOMST

They have A DATE in HC’s armoury where they HOLD HANDS and XL pets San Lang’s quivering sword I-

Hua Cheng basically throws himself at this man he’s like you want a sword?? All of them ?? You want ALL THE SWORDS?? Fuck it take the whole room THE WHOLE ROOM JUST COME VISIT I WILL CLEAN THEM FOR YOU

Like he isn’t the king of a whole realm with shit to do

And this is just the first half of the first book—again I ask the world SLOW BURN WHOMST

THEY'RE BASICALLY ACTIVELY DATING THE WHOLE TIME THEY'VE JUST EACH CONVINCED THEMSELVES THEY CAN'T BE LIKED BACK. NEITHER OF THEM ACTUALLY SAYS ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH CONVINCED IF THEY DRAW ATTENTION TO THE DATING THE OTHER ONE WILL GO "oh shit we're what? Ew" AND LEAVE. BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE COMBINED SELF ESTEEM OF A RUSTY TEASPOON.

THE ONLY THING MAKING IT A SLOW BURN IS THE FACT THAT THEY'RE BOTH STUPID.

I saw a TikTok recently that really changed my view on education and learning. I forget the exact quote but it said something along the lines of “learn in good faith, and the grades will come”

So often I find myself obsessing over getting an A and not taking time to enjoy the fact that I am studying what middle school/high school me dreamed of. My younger self would hear about the things I am accomplishing and would be so excited. So that raises the question, if I picked these classes, why should my desire for a 4.0 outweigh letting myself enjoy the learning process and just doing the best I can? Good grades come to those who like and resonate with the material being taught. Maybe instead of focusing on memorization for some topics, emphasizing and spending time on relating the content and deepening my understanding is better. I've found that my chem lecture is so fascinating and just having the opportunity to learn more about the complexity of the world around us is so cool. While reaction rates can be boring, when thinking about it, catalysts have huge biological impacts in our body's daily functioning. Life simply would not be able to do what it does without these reactions. I am learning about details that relate to the reactions that allow me to have the energy to move. Learning becomes more valuable when you don't focus on the destination( a grade) but think about it as a journey.

The conclusion to Raymond DeSèze’s two hour closing defense of Louis XVI:

Louis ascended the throne at the age of twenty, and at the age of twenty he gave to the throne the example of character. He brought to the throne no wicked weaknesses, no corrupting passions. He was economical, just, severe. He showed himself always the constant friend of the people. The people wanted the abolition of servitude. He began by abolishing it on his own lands. The people asked for reforms in the criminal law… he carried out these reforms. The people wanted liberty: he gave it to them … Nevertheless, it is in the name of these very people that one today demands…

Citizens, I cannot finish. I stop myself before History. Think how it will judge your judgement, and that the judgement of [the king] will be judged by the centuries.

[saltburn characters + text posts]

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Emily Wilson’s foreword to a translation of Homer’s Odyssey // Saltburn, MGM and Amazon Studios // It Will Come Back, Hozier // @/ojibwa on Tumblr // Bite The Hand, Boygenius // I’m Your Man, Mitski // I Want To Be Your Only Pet, Bombay Bicycle Club // The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustín Gómez-Arcos, tr. William Rodarmor // Frankenstein, Mary Shelley // Japanese Breakfast, Boyish

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, August 11, 1931

A scrap with random writing by Marie Thérèse Charlotte, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, while she was imprisoned in the Temple tower. The archive listing says circa 1792-1795; my guess would be after 1794, when she was given freer access to writing material again.

hope you don't mind me sharing your snippets!

Renée de Chanterenne was a woman who was eventually allowed to be a companion to Marie-Therese in the Temple, and Marie-Therese wrote some poetry specifically for her while in the Temple, so perhaps MT was attempting to figure out how to spell her name here.

She used something very similar to the "sad temple prison" phrasing in one of the poems she did end up writing.

Given these snippets, I think it's likely that this scrap was from her jotting down bits and pieces for practice or notes or vague ideas while writing her poems.

by Irina Shapronova

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Andrea Gibson

–@tiny-librarian on the princesse de Lamballe

–Four Frenchwomen by Austin Dobson