Larapeteira

perpetual draft of a professional thinking-person | irregular retrograde pilgrim | tyrant writer; of stern brow and waspish action | arm'd with bow & dart | so roused that she would look heroic, if she did not spoil the effect by wagging her finger

[kushblazer666]

[ozempicofficial]

[anxeious]

an edward bawden calendar 1930

[magicratfingers]

I know some of you will love this

[nsomniacsdream]

that looks awesome. tybalt is a mitsubishi forklift. the real understand

[nsomniacsdream]

[nsomniacsdream]

[magicratfingers]

wake up babe new blorbos just dropped

[scribefindegil]

so many things try to emulate the Beatrice/Benedick relationship and so few of them get it right bc they’re like ‘oh it’s about the banter’ and YES, obviously, but if you make it JUST about the banter you’re going to fail! it’s about the RESPECT!!! it’s about the scene after Hero’s shaming where Benedick drops the banter entirely and sits there with Beatrice as she rages and weeps and then chooses to side with HER instead of the boy’s club that he’s been hanging out with for the entire play, both because he loves her and because she’s RIGHT!

like, it’s not some impulsive thing to make her like him, and it’s not just talk; he asks her if she’s sure and then he agrees and then he remains cold and determined when he meets Claudio and Don Pedro and they try to get him to joke around with them like old times.  i think that’s one of the things that gets me the most; that there’s a scene that you half-expect to fall into that same sort of joking, where Claudio and Don Pedro are specifically like, “Huh, we inexplicably feel kind of sad after ruining this woman’s life and reputation, I bet Benedick will cheer us up!” and he just. utterly refuses to engage. and it’s so powerful and it’s such a tonal shift and such a strong indication of just how much he loves and values Beatrice and!! anything that gets the banter but doesn’t get that completely fails to understand their relationship! THB!!

[terulakimban]

“Kill Claudio.” 

If Beatrice is right to believe Hero about her innocence, then that is, socially, the appropriate action. Claudio called off a wedding. Bad enough, but he did it publicly. He did it at the altar. He completely and utterly destroyed Hero’s chance of marriage -and marriage isn’t just love, it’s financial security and social support, and that’s before getting into Hero being the last heir of her house. Even if Claudio recants, Hero’s damaged goods. 

And Hero has no male relative who can defend her honor. Her father and uncle are old -and even they believe the accusation at first, to the point that her father then tries to kill her in a church. She has no brothers, no cousins, no friends, no one to say “as a man, man to man, I will defend her good name and make you eat your words.” She can’t go to court and press charges for slander. There is nothing she can do, nothing Beatrice can do. 

And Benedick, who has been making jokes about how marriage is just misery while your harpy wife cheats on you for the entire play, when asked “do you really believe that is all women are for; was that banter or are we friends?” says “we’re friends. And I let this happen too and I will make it right” and then he fucking delivers.

[schmergo]

Confession: The letter “t” key on my laptop has been broken since 2024. From what my research tells me, they can’t fix individual keys on that model, and my laptop is no longer under a warranty, but it seems foolish to fork out over $900 for a new computer, so instead I’ve trained my brain to hit ctrl+v every time I want to hit “t.”

But sometimes I have to copy-paste something else besides “t,” which means I need a readily available place to copy the “t” from.

My first thought was to search “tiger” on Google, but if you can’t type the letter “t,” you just get search results about Bob Iger.

I realized words that end with “t” are easier for Google to autocomplete, so the first one I thought of was “crypt.” But wouldn’t you know, googling “cryp” takes to you to cryptocurrency results, and I REALLY don’t want my algorithm thinking I google that multiple times per week.

Then I remembered a cool place I went in London, called Cafe in the Crypt. It’s exactly what it sounds like and located below St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. When I type in “Cafe in Cryp,” Google does indeed autocomplete it effectively! So I either keep that search result open in a tab or Google it every day.

So, that being said, if anyone works for St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church’s marketing department and has been utterly flummoxed by an IP address from Virginia that has googled their cafe hundreds of times over the past 6 months… that wasn’t a bot, that was me.

I am the Spiders Georg of Cafe in the Crypt.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to check out if you’re ever in London. Just maybe not cool enough to Google it on a daily basis for months straight.

[larapeteira]

I've been to Stockbridge a few times but for some reason it only occurred to me on the most recent visit that this is the Hales' house.

[micromontage]

*at the job interview* i have powers

[captainjonnitkessler]

Do I have too many books? No. It is my shelving methods that are inadequate

[smoreofbabylon]

seems a little unfair that I’ll never have my portrait made by John Singer Sargent. I would have been really good at it. there’d be just a hint of canny amusement in my gaze toward the viewer and everything

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

Philip Pullman:

'Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?'

'"Defend it", Lyra said. "Die defending it."'

When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra.

In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All around them, the world is aflame – made terrifying by fear, power and greed.

As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answers – on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination – so too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.

Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman’s remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights, The Rose Field is the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His Dark Materials.

The Book of Dust Volume Three: The Rose Field is out 23rd October 2025. Pre-order now: https://linktr.ee/PP.BOD3

[cuties-in-codices]

wdym the british library is going to auction off 20% of their manuscripts to private collectors in order to make up for their losses from the 2023 cyber attack?? HELLO???

[upennmanuscripts]

😲😲😲

[larapeteira]

This and the Bod's "Soz, lads, the Swindon annexe is full. It's a one in, one out battle royale type deal for each new legal deposit item." Love it.

[larapeteira]

I've often thought (and my drafts folder will attest to the fact) that there are many commonalities and fruitful points of comparison between Mozart in the Jungle and Slings & Arrows. From a surface view of the trailer Étoile looks to be positioning itself in a similar vein, with a sprinkle of Dix pour cent thrown in. All this to say that:

a) if I were to discover later that this show will feature the ghost of a person of complex artistic and/or personal significance to the lead, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

b) this role continues to bear out my opinion that Luke Kirby is aging into Paul Gross.

[franklinwvixen]

that 'WTF' was the single greatest line read of all time great work to my new doomed friend here, we're going to hardly know you

[gaylittlebillionaires]

maybe the real northwest passage is the friends we ate along the way

[madmasterspage]

I never cease to admire Phillip Pullman...

The first book described the process of cutting children off from their daemons in order to 'protect them from sin'. Lyra said that she couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be cut off from her daemon, that she couldn’t be apart from him.

But in the end it turns out that she herself “cuts off” him from herself, leaving for the land of the Dead, she herself betrays him. As a result, they become further and further from each other and in the end he leaves her...

He literally outlined all the worst that could happen at the very beginning and made it seem like the evil was defeated, but in the end the worst still happened, just not in the way we expected it.

[kirjavas]

[natquigley]

this sounds very doomcoming-esque

[larapeteira]

Read a review of the first four episodes of season three, which mentioned a jury trial among key moments. I suspected 12 Angry Men or Witness for the Prosecution would be likely references. I would say I should have just counted the extant woods-dwellers to see which was more likely, but I feel the fudgy perception of things in the series gives me an out.