"if everyone came to LA for the Olympics" so, actually, you're not gonna believe this

drove my car into a pothole while trying to put this on, blew my tire out, and i’m now watching this while waiting for a tow truck. good morning

"If everyone came to LA for the Olympics I'd be pissed off" Brittany, I have some bad news for you for the year 2028...

I mean this in the most kind way:

I recently just started binging Brittany's content, but prior to watching her long-form content, I only saw 5-10second clips of her being goofy. I am so delightfully surprised that Brittany has such a eloquent vocabulary, a spark for travel & a passion for everything she does. She is so deep in her thoughts & I fall further & further into Broski-Nation with every video I binge

Brittany saying the catacombs put her life into context made me think of kamala harris saying “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?! You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you” in such a poetic way 😭😭

im a student nurse and have had patients die that led me into existential crises. once, a woman died and i went to the thrift store after my shift with my bf. i walked away from him and started staring at the mugs, how am i shopping after someones entire life just ceased? how am i supposed to go home and continue when i met someone who did not? death is all around us unfortunately, but i choose to not let it make me panic. instead, i thought of her while looking at the mugs. i thought, “i bet shed love to be looking at mugs right now” so i bought one. and it reminds me of her still. no one came to the hospital when she died, but i was there, and somehow her memory continues on with me when i drink my coffee from my black and turquoise mug. ❤️❤️ humans rule

Trixie is gonna be furious that the flag isn't steamed

the transition from: "from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am them and that is eternity"

to

"YALL GOT A MCBAGUETTE???🗣️📣"

is really the broski nation diversity.

4 months after my mom died, I happened to be in Paris and decided to visit the catacombs by myself one day. Cemeteries had always been a comforting place for me but this particular experience brought so much peace and clarity about just how much company there is in death. My mother may have left this world behind, but I know that she isn't alone in the least, and those walls of bones helped me understand more than any counseling or therapy ever could.

My mom knew more than anyone that I had been dreaming of going to France my entire life. I was devastated when she couldn't be there to see me live out that dream, but I like to think she was still there, settling in with the bones and embracing this new reality in tandem with myself.

Kamala was not lying when she said “you live in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” ☝🏼

girlie here's the translation of the quotes from a native french speaker. first, the one on the frame leading to one of the many pathways, "QUOCUMQUE INGREDERIS SEQUITUR MORS CORPORIS UMBRA" means "wherever you go, death follows, (as) a body's shadow". second, on a sign imbedded in the stacked bones that's actually written in "Pensée des morts" by a great french writer, Alphonse de Lamartine, there's
"Ils furent ce que nous sommes.
Poussière, jouet du vent;
Fragiles comme des hommes.
Faible comme le néant!"
and that means:
"They were as we are
Dust, the wind's plaything
Fragile as men
Feeble as the void".
NOW, this on makes me sick because the existential crisis is real, it's by Malfiatre,
"Insensés: nous parlons en maîtres,
Nous qui dans l'océan des êtres
Nageons tristement confondus;
Nous dont l'existence légère,
Pareille à l'ombre passagère
Commence, paraît et n'est plus."
Meaning, "Fools: we speak from authority,
We who in the ocean of beings
Swim sadly muddled,
We whose gossamer existence,
Like the passing shadow,
Begins, appears, and is gone"
Next, we got "Quelle est la Mort? toujours future ou passé Apeine est-elle présente, que déjà elle n'est plus. meaning “Where is Death? always future or past No sooner is she present than she is no more”.
This one holds so much meaning, I almost just stacked myself with the bones, "SICUT, UNDA DIES NOSTRI FLUXERUN" means "Our days flowed like water". Then we got,
"Ainsi tout passe sur la terre
Esprit, beauté, grâces, talent
Telle est une fleur éphémère
Que renverse le moindre vent." which means:
"So all things pass upon the earth
Spirit, beauty, grace, talent
Ephemeral as a flower
Tossed by the slightest breeze"
FINALLY, there's the one by Antoine-Marin Lemierre that says,
"Quels enclos sont ouverts! quelles étroites places
Occupe entre ces murs la poussière des races
C'est dans ces lieux d'oubli, C'est parmis ces tombeaux
Que de morts entassés et presses sous la terre!
Le nombre ici n'est rien la foule est solitaire."  meaning:
"What enclosures are open! What narrow spaces
Between these walls hold the dust of races!
It is in these places of oblivion, it is among these tombs
That time and death come to cross their scythes.
So many dead piled and pressed under the Earth!
Numbers here mean nothing; the crowd is lonely."

There you go, hope this helps with your crisis supreme leader because it sure as hell made mine worse!!!

you said it when u were talking abt the catacombs, but honestly some people need to have their children on leashes because what do u mean you’re just letting timmy run free and touch and lick on these bones? like that’s the parents fault, this is a historic site control your kid

Re catacombs, as someone who lives there: there's a LOT of ways to get down, and a some people make it a sort of life style: they find entries, they explore, they map the parts that are closed to the public. There's a lot of parties down there, so the dead still get to listen to music! One last thing: the most dangerous thing down there is the water. It rains a lot here, in the "unkept" parts, water can accumulated fast. And it carries whatever the rats didn't eat. Don't touch the water.

I could listen to Brittany talk about history for the rest of my life and never get tired of it

I could’ve listened to this for nine days straight!!!! Brittany needs a history podcast. Imagine her interviewing experts and asking questions?? That would be amazing

the notre dame thing really is crazy when you think about how that money could’ve also gone to a place like haiti, a country whose people are still absolutely ravaged by and feeling the effects of french colonization literal CENTURIES later…it is really is a sight to behold

the whole section about the catacombs spoke to me so much because like what do you mean one day im going to be nothing but dust???? but the again theres a feeling of comfort in that fact that no matter what we all go back to being nothing again like we were before we were born, what once you were, you will be again which is a crazy fucking concept

The bubonic plague lasted from the 14th to the 18th century. It was horrific, horrible awful. I did my final senior project in high school on it and I learned so much terrible sad shit and then I graduated and a year later my sister tested positive for the bubonic plague, she had a bone infection that almost killed her, how wild how crazy is that? I’ve been enthralled by this point in history for as long as I can remember, that is just so devastating so sad and that happens.😳… it’s just wild life is wild she lived of course but it was just Crazy!!

babe cos the way i started crying hearing her quote my most favorite phrase. i have it tattoed under my collar bones 🥲🥲🥲 “from my rotting body flowers shall grow” bc mortality is BEAUTIFULLLL and we are all just the universe experiencing itself!!!

i actually think cemetaries and memorial gardens and things like that used to be communal places. People would walk and hang out and read and stuff, because the ideas and belieefs around death have changed so drastically in the last century give or take? so I think holding concerts and doing tours and stuff in the catacombs isn't disrespectful, its a way to connect with our own mortality and humanity.