The Life and Miseducation of Andronikos I Komnenos, 1118–1185

sometimes you just need to plunder the countryside

when you realize the empire you envisioned stretching ten days horizontally and fifteen days vertically is impossible and so you look at a body of water, fly into a rage, and retire to a monastery. And then emerge for one final quest before dying of typhoid in a ditch

Dante Alighieri succeeded where so many writers failed—in turning his pettiness, his wrath, his self-aggrandizement, his personality disorder into a whole cosmos

doing an Instagram story is like being a child who stands in an upstairs window holding a candle and looking out at the street prayerfully

people like hockey because they want to recreate feudalism

need to bring back guilds, orders, secrecy, and oaths instead of everyone working on a computer with the same allegiance to the cloud

"economy of legendary Stone Age -- shamans not priests, bards not lords, hunters not police, gatherers of paleolithic laziness, gentle as blood, going naked for a sign or painted as birds, poised on the wave of explicit presence, the clockless nowever." 🎶🕺💀🌠

I recommend making the free upgrade from apathetic to antipathetic

I've Been Gaming for Forty-Nine Years. Here Are My Twelve Insights About Human Nature. 👇

Lebanese guy when you call him "Phoenician"

when she likes your “prose” but can’t get into the characters

Sorry, I can’t like your big-box tweets anymore when there are craft tweets on the timeline. If people are still handcrafting their tweets, making them the old-fashioned way, hunched with scoliosis and singing in their old language, then I'm supporting my local Geppetto.

People who listen to culture war podcasts should be sent to re-education camps that teach them how to spend their time, make them do burpies, give them a centrum multivitamin

if you really have a goal, you need to not bathe or shave until you complete it, otherwise it’s just a fancy delusion

Frederick Hohenstaufen with his mistress Bianca, from the Codex Manesse (1304)

𝙀𝙕𝙍𝘼’𝙎 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝘿 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙎, a novella & stories by David Kuhnlein (David Kuhnlein), with an intro by Brian Evenson (calling it a “beautifully malicious examination of the possibilities of literary destabilization”) + design by Eunika Sot (𝔼𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕜𝕒 |).