We had too much time to find for ourselves

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I translated this tonight for one of strange_selkie's projects-in-progress and she said I should post it, so that's my excuse. Have some Catullus 5:

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love
and to the gossip of censorious old men
give all the credit of a copper coin.
Suns can set and return again:
with us, once our brief light is gone,
one unending night is ours to sleep.
So give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
then a thousand again, then a second hundred,
then straight on another thousand, then a hundred,
then after making up so many thousands
we will scatter them all, so that we may not know
and neither can any ill-wisher look us awry,
when he knows the number of our kisses.

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LiveJournal is currently up, but experiencing some temporary issues.

Oh, for the love of Hermes.

They went out and got wrecked on vodka tonics.

Tell her to stay off the internet! It's not for drinking, it's for porn!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*sings the rest of the song, cheerily*

...And there actually are dicks, for once. OH MY PEARLS.