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Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 You can help in saving my country. he/they | adult | lesbian. Late Roman Republic and its reception, especially conspiracies. Ever admiring the portrait of Sempronia. Opera seria. MDZS. TGCF.

Holmes could ask Watson to go grocery shopping with him and he'd be like yes, always, I'll follow you anywhere so long as you'd let me, I'm completely and utterly yours to use as you wish & Holmes is like Excellent thanks

Holmes is always being like hey can you do me a favor & Watson's like I'd suck you silly right here and now if you asked & Holmes is like cool this is about a case though

[ID: an excerpt from The Adventure of The Illustrious Client broken into two screenshots. They read:

won't! Now, Watson, I want you to do something for me."

"I am here to be used, Holmes."

"Well, then, spend the next twenty-four hours in an intensive study of Chinese pottery."

He gave no explanations and I asked for none. By long experience I had learned the wisdom of obedience. But when I". The text cuts off. /end ID]

If anyone thinks I'm joking

Somewhat based on my time in the laundromat today, where people would occasionally glance at my phone where I was watching opera clips, I'm curious.

What do you think would be the best/weirdest out-of-context opera scene to show someone who knows nothing about opera?

Just realizing that a lot of the stuff I watched doesn't look like any other medium, and I wonder how non-opera people would react to it.

The villains in 1998 Glyndebourne Rodelinda being like this.

catopumas are so interesting 2 me bc theres only two species so far in the genus, and its either

a very gentle looking asian golden cat

very kind looking, round. 10/10

and then the other in the genus is

the bay cat, or as i like to call them - the weasel cat. long, kinda weird looking, but still 10/10 despite the weaselness.

a noble old wizard, and her mushroom-addled warlock roommate