Emmett
@windmill.ink
Linguist, historian, spec fiction writer, poet
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From "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
August 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
From "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
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!
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 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!
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
#poetry
January 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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
#poetry
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:
January 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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:
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)
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
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)
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)
Mine was too long for a flit
January 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Mine was too long for a flit
