Christopher@molochofficial
marriage should be between a man, a significantly taller man, and the colossal looming specter of Charles Dickens
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Christopher
@molochofficial
scheming Elizabethan courtier and academic sycophant
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- Christopher@molochofficialreading the Travels of Sir John Mandeville and, among other more obvious acts of medieval fabulism (dragons, Prester John, etc.) Mandeville randomly claims that Kublai Khan was circumcised, which is wrong in a weirdly specific way, as the Mongols banned circumcision altogether.2037991
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialI mean, it's mainly just weird that he raises the topic at all108247
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialme: so as you can see, it's very unlikely that Kublai Khan was cut, casting Mandeville's account into doubt my students: there's also the people with dog heads me: no those were real1217239
- Christopher@molochofficialI like to tell myself that I could arrange a tasteful, pleasing and balanced charcuterie board but have simply never been in a financial position to test this out50471K
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialI believe that, if presented with the opportunity to arrange an elaborate charcuterie board, some obscured but innate nobility would show itself and I would rise to the occasion, like Julia Roberts crying at the opera in Pretty Woman00493
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @subwiredesire: The Pauline Kael bot is like top 5 accounts on here. She’s always saying some shit “Chewbacca is pathetic.”012305
- Christopher@molochofficialOne thing I really don’t like, now that it’s dark out so early, is walking out of my office at 4:45 to this (with and without flash — not sure which is creepier)
80611.3K - Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @MadocCairns: (the monarch has just died) lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one (my catholic wife glares at me) ande thatte they return to the faith catholick (i see the constable passing by my window) *sweating* which is alfo in Truth reformede,0859012
- Christopher@molochofficialevery Borges story where the narrator is Borges himselfpolly 🐇 @W1NTERBUNNYan unreliable narrator who is also a repressed homosexual171401.8K
- Christopher@molochofficialI’ve watched this 400 times so far todaybest of hannah einbinder @einbinderfilesHannah Einbinder shares her impression of Haley Stevens as she promised to do via Instagram story.23863.9K
- Christopher@molochofficialit's also sort of a miracle that Marco Polo's travels were recorded -- it was just sheer chance and serendipity that, while a prisoner of war in Genoa, his cellmate happened to be a writer whose ears perked up when he claimed to have visited "Tartary"VΛNBΛREL @vanbarelWhen you think about Marco Polo, think about all amazing and crazy lives out there nobody recorded, like the one of a German kid becoming a music teacher in Guinea in 16th century2922.1K22.7K
best of hannah einbinder@einbinderfilesHannah Einbinder shares her impression of Haley Stevens as she promised to do via Instagram story.991.7K31.7K2.4M
VΛNBΛREL@vanbarelWhen you think about Marco Polo, think about all amazing and crazy lives out there nobody recorded, like the one of a German kid becoming a music teacher in Guinea in 16th century48597839.3K- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialIt’s “a little bit of ‘stick it to ‘em’” that keeps me coming back, I don’t know why.000142
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialspeaking of which, nobody ever includes The Travels of Marco Polo in lists of prison literature, and yet --012122.6K
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @SierraLPNYC: You’re safe now baby go suck some dick @bensonboone02.6K03
- Christopher@molochofficialI teach the same class back to back and I always feel a bit guilty because I do such a better job with class 2, for which class 1 serves as an unintended rehearsal312486617.8K
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @ferald_gord: hey girl im bored, let's count the outstanding provisional ballots in hinds county mississippi0528012
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialon the other hand, sometimes in class 2 I have to pause to ask -- "did I already say this?"10751.3K
- Christopher@molochofficialLMAOsitcom crave @sitcomcrave"New episode of Talarico Elementary tonight at 8:30!" - Quinta Brunson via instagram (📸: IG/quintab)1051733.9K
- Christopher@molochofficialhe's kind of like the Tom Bombadil of New EnglandMarlow Stern @MarlowNYCnew affleck dropped1128908
"New episode of Talarico Elementary tonight at 8:30!" - Quinta Brunson via instagram (📸: IG/quintab)
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- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialI love Quinta Brunson, this is now my only tweet that has ever brought me happiness1026371
- Christopher@molochofficialPosts @molochofficialI think of him as a sort of "genius loci" or regional allegory, like Britain's John Bull or France's Marianne004113
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @chrispfranc1s: New England showing y’all where woke was bornPop Base @PopBaseChris Pappas has won the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire. He becomes the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate.066106
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @witchesflight: FOR LEGAL REASONS THIS IS A JOKE but we gotta do something abt the Mormons01.1K05
- Christopher@molochofficialI never feel more American than when I read any article about British politics where, say, the sponsors of the bill are like Lady Snodgrass and Lord Gascoyne-Cecil-Foulkes20581.2K
- Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @lowkey_castorp: well...
Jacob Brogan @Jacob_BroganThey’re calling it the Judith Butlerian Jihad033605 - Christopher@molochofficialChristopherRT @livixdrusilla: The UK government, for some reason:𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 @lovedfangsI bet you're naked under your clothes pervert03K05
- Christopher@molochofficialWe’re having fun and meanwhile the democrats are about to put out their new party-wide political slogan “Now, Don’t Get Too Excited”35851.2K
