(w)ren
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(w)ren
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🏳️⚧️🏴 it/its 27 writer of sorts (posting elsewhere)




Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey sucks because she associates a belittling word with Odysseus wherever she can. Compare her choices of “complicated, lost, wrecked, suffered, failed” with Fitzgerald’s “skillful, harried, plundered, weathered, valor.”



"marathon is only fun for sweats" nah see I'm a very casual player I do a few runs a day and if I have an interesting time - a good firefight, a few kills, maybe Vandal's there - then I'm fine. It's actually the middle strata of players that I think the game is cruellest to



a sensitive young Vostroyan Firstborn be kind to him, now he has a broken heart...


I hate how Americans talk about books. Go fuck yourself, more than three books exist and they exist for their own sake























