me, circa early 1800s, paying a stable boy a few coppers to ride overnight to deliver you an urgent letter with a thick wax seal that after you struggle to break it just says “bitch!” in tiny little writing
no no no, you don’t understand the true level of spiteful here. The sender of a letter didn’t pay for the post in 1800. The receiver did. You just made your enemy pay for the privilege of being insulted.
I feel like as a courier in 1800 I would be opposed to that practice. I ain’t gonna carry your letter 500 miles in the snow on foot on spec, hoping the target likes you enough to pay for it on the other end. Cash up front or I sell to the highest bidder.
and as a person looking for courier services in 1800 I wouldn’t hire you cause there’s 20 other stable boys willing to make the journey
Well, sure, if you’re content to gamble on some random stable boy actually making it there and delivering it properly. Sorry, I thought this missive was important.
“I’ve been in love before, it’s like a narcotic. At first, it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.”
Even funnier thing to imagine: resurrecting Diogenes too and telling him that “Platonic” relationships means not fucking, he’d probably laugh himself back to death.
So I actually know the origin of this term because it came up when I studied Plato in my classes. Basically, in ancient Greece it was a super common practice for teachers to fuck their students. Like all the time. It was considered a way for the student to “pay” the teacher. Plato thought this was bullshit. He felt that a student could not properly learn from someone who was truly only interested in having sex with them. He didn’t fuck his students and derided those who did. Other teachers who refused to fuck their students were said to have “platonic” teaching relationships with them – so named because they were following Plato’s example. So the reason it’s called a Platonic relationship is because Plato was heavily anti-teachers-fucking-their-students and it’s one of the few things he was ever even remotely correct about.
the only character I stan is That Bitch from BD who came to clean the house, saw Bella pregnant, and immediately on site wanted to whoop Edward’s vampire ass even though she knew 100% what he was
Bella, white teenager: but it’s love!!
Middle aged Latina, moving past her rolling up her sleeves: get over here you piece of shit no weapons just these fists
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