thoodleoo:

someone: oh, you like ancient greece and rome! do you ever think about what you’d do if you lived back then?

me, a person who has planned out my entire life as an ancient roman noblewoman who disdains the rest of her class and spends most of her time with upstart roman senators, hopping from lover to lover in an attempt to use their love for me as a way to sway their politics toward land reform and free grain for the poor of rome; or else my life as a farmer raising goats and sheep in a poetically idealized bucolic landscape with my lover, drinking wine, making my own bread and cheese, playing pipes under the shade of a beech tree: oh, every once in a while