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rachel
@stonefruits.bsky.social
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she/her, librarian & semi-retired classicist • posting about the roman republic, translation, fandom, and etc • MILF (Man I Love Fruit) • writing at https://deadlanguages.substack.com/
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AFTER THE FIRE You ever think you could cry so hard that there'd be nothing left in you, like how the wind shakes a tree in a storm until every part of it is run through with wind? I live in the low parts now, most days a little hazy with fever and waiting for the water to stop shivering out of the body. Funny thing about grief, its hold is so bright and determined like a flame, like something almost worth living for.
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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He shakes his head. 'You'll live.' He once thought it himself, that he might die of grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But the pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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today’s episode with ina garten ft. julia louis dreyfus is like the superbowl to me
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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am i AFRAID to cut my nails now as part of this mourning ritual? well, yes
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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lurking for this because the vitamin c serums i have tried (all from the ordinary) also haven’t made a big difference for me :/
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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fondly thinking of the time tullia apparently told her dad to try shutting up
Publius sane diserto epilogo criminans mentis iudicum moverat. Hortalus in ea causa fuit cuius modi solet. Nos verbum nullum; verita est enim pusilla, quae nunc laborat, ne animum Publi offenderem. Publius, in making the case for the prosecution, moved the jury with a truly eloquent peroration. Hortalus, in this case, was in his usual form. Not a word from me: my little girl, who is now in some distress, was afraid that I might offend Publius.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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GIRL... 😭
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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ugh 😭 please lmk if it improves at all (if you continue to soldier on)
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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omg is this mei ren jian?? i preordered it
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM