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People living among the ruins of a great civilization. The paintings of Hubert Robert deliberately contrast the monumental scale and grandeur of a past civilization with mundane activities of ordinary people. This painting is titled Roman Ruins with Laundresses, made c. 1777.

The Blue’s Clues drag parade featuring non-binary dolphins and trans beavers with double mastectomy scars.

JD Vance considers abandoning run for president in 2028, per Daily Mail.

Morris Talapar, in The Sociology of Colonial Virginia, on the aristocratic myths, origins, and pretensions of the Virginia ruling elite: "The members of colonial Virginia's ruling class considered themselves aristocrats—they claimed descent from the English aristocracy, which they used as a model in organizing their own class. "It appears that their genealogical claims were largely valid: the great majority of them were evidently collateral descendants of members of the English lower gentry; a few were lineal descendants, while some were no doubt of commoner origin who had bought their way to social recognition. "The position of the lower gentry in England was none too exalted, although in colonial America such descent meant a good deal."

it’s so refreshing that they didn’t portray her as a villain 🫶

This is the earliest known occurrence of the Girlboss-ification of a pre-existing character. Medusa was always a monster. She was born a gorgon, with gorgon sisters. Her parents were Phorcys (the god of the deep) and Ceto (the goddess of sea monsters). She was evil. Her sisters were evil. Her family was literally evil lmao. She was never more beautiful than Aphrodite, or Athena, never raped by Poseidon in a temple. She was literally just a monster. Ovid, a Roman poet, circa 8 BC, who wrote what is basically a fanfic that retold all the Greek myths about the gods and goddess’, and portrayed them in a negative light. Ovid had no political or religious affiliation, but his ridiculous and heretical fanfic that was written 708 years after Hesiod wrote the original myth of Medusa is still talked about today, over 2 millennia later, and proliferated by other woke tumblr girl fanfics. The Woke Mind Virus patient 0 was whoever read Ovid’s, Metamorphoses first.

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way back. It just took one thousand years.