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Emmett
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Linguist, historian, spec fiction writer, poet
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From "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
August 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In The Lone and Level Sands, the king of an alternate Mesopotamia learns about the multiverse while searching for immortality in the underworld. Link in my bio!
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A poem I wrote based on this quote from Dracula: "Is there fate amongst us still, sent down from the pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such a way?"
#poetry
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Reading "Down with the System" by Serj Tankian and I'm completely floored by the fact that I know nothing about the Armenian Genocide. And this is why:
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Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:
Virtue is chok’d with foul ambition,
And charity chas’d hence by rancor’s hand;
Foul subornation is predominant,
And equity exil’d your Highness’ land.
(That was Shakespeare, the rest is mine...) (Apologies to him)
January 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Mine was too long for a flit
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