Nighttime Daydreams

Connecting two points not even remotetly on the same plane (Fae/They)

[nighttimedaydreams]

I've now got a sideblog @whitehathexerswriting for a series of short stories that I'm writing!

[plasmalink]

Pronoun roles on discord servers aren't a bad idea, but there is the fun implication that you can ping an entire pronoun set.

Hey I got a problem with something, this is an all they/thems on deck situation

[kingoftheu]

One tragic aspect of the Odyssey that I've never really seen handled by any adaptation is the link between Odysseus' marriage and the Trojan War itself.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

So his own plan, to marry Penelope and stop a hoard of ravenous suitors, ends with him forced to defend his own marriage from a hoard of ravenous suitors.

[agentofdeterioration]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

[forthefuns]

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[invenblocker]

Your honor! Please direct your attention towards the manga.

As you can see there are small pieces of paper sticking out of every volume.

But no such paper is sticking out of the Batman comic.

The reason? The Batman book doesn’t belong to the library. The photographer put it there to take a picture.

[minipupball]

Once again making hasty assumptions, Wright?

First of all, I’d like to direct the court’s attention to this particular spot, in the top right-hand corner.

Notice how the words are blocking the top of the Batman book.

With this in mind, how can you claim that there is “no such paper sticking out of the Batman comic”?!

[invenblocker]

Say whaaaat?

Well uhm

Look at the size of the paper pieces, they’re all sticking pretty far out.

If there was paper in the batman comic, it would be big enough to stick up over the text.

And while gravity does exist, it probably won’t make the paper do a 90 degree turn and just lean horisontally left at the middle.

[minipupball]

Still grasping for straws, Wright?

Hypothetically, if there were a paper there, this picture would not be able to prove its presence. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing a diagram to illustrate my point. We are faced with three possibilities. It is possible that (1) the paper was simply tucked in deeper than the others.

Paper is a soft material, Wright. It’s not unreasonable for it to do a (2) 90 degree turn. 

Or perhaps, (3) a paper does not exist there at all. 

Either way, you cannot prove your client innocent without sufficient evidence.  

Which, of course, is impossible thanks to the obtrusive words.

[invenblocker]

I’m sorry Edgeworth.

I concede that I can’t disprove theory 1

But the image you submited for theory 2 is contradictory.

Look at the tilt of the other papers. They clearly prove how much the paper would tilt.

And theory 3 is my point! Why would the library’s book not have this piece of paper when the other library books do?

While you still have thory 1, there is another contradiction.

The books are not in alphabetical order, this proves that the batman comic was placed there specifically for the picture!

[minipupball]

Ack.

(Perhaps I should’ve left the artistry to the forensic artist…)

Now hold it right there! It doesn’t matter which direction the paper is going because it’s impossible to prove it even exists!

Those theories are all the same! We do not have enough information to prove them. There could be an infinite amount of papers in there for all we know. I simply presented them only so that the court could better understand your baseless conjecture!

… I suppose the order of the books do seem out of the ordinary. However, therein lies not just one possibility. Clearly, those are Japanese graphic novels, also known as “manga”. And the Batman comic book is a graphic novel, too, no?

Seeing as it currently has only graphic novels in the shelf, it is possible that any other novels have simply not yet been restocked. Asserting whether or not this effect was deliberate is useless– there is no way of knowing if the photographer and the captioner are the same person, let alone their involvement in this picture.

Face it Wright, you can’t prove any of these groundless accusations!

[randomthingieshere]

Did everyone just ignore the library sticker?

[dracophile]

[sp00kybitme]

D E AD

[ultimate-reserve-hope]

I will reblog this any time i see it on my dash

[slime-lilly-deactivated20220926]

Absolutely fucking D E S T R O Y E D

[zaunites-finest]

This is the strongest Tumblr post I’ve ever witnessed.

[fishhater-ieatthem]

This was recommended and as a super logical person I can see why

[makishimuu]

I’ve been looking for this for ages!!

[legendary-posts-collection]

Apparently legendary.

[mx-yip-yip-hooary]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[shirpowbra]

iconic

[worldsentwined]

I swear I’ve reblogged this before but every time I see it I internally scream “THESE BOOKS ARE ON A HOLD SHELF” that’s why they have pieces of paper in them and are not shelved in alphabetical order (they’re shelved by who they’re on hold for). It’s also why the labels on the manga and the graphic novel are different (note how the one says “YA” and the other says “Teen”) - because they’re most likely from different library collections.

Suffice to say, this court case could have used a library employee as an expert witness and saved a lot of time.

[bedupolker]

people who are like "but with universal healthcare you'll have to pay taxes!!! Up to 8%!!!" Are so funny. Like as opposed to the 16% of my gross paycheck that goes to private insurance, that won't cover shit unless i call my insurance company, then my doctor, then my pharmacy, then my doctor again because theyre pretty sure insurance got approved then my insurance company because they didn't get the letter, then my doctor again, then the pharmacy again, and then the copay i still am on the hook for.

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[thewavesbrokeontheshore]

plus:

[what-even-is-thiss]

idk if this would work but if I were to adapt the Homeric epics to screen in a miniseries or something I think that having background characters saying direct lines from the poem to the audience sometimes would be an interesting way to bring context to certain scenes and work as a Greek chorus kind of thing because like you’re adapting the contents of a song into a visual medium essentially and so incorporating elements of another visual medium (theatre) could help with some of the lack of interiority you get in a visual medium

[crown-princess-carrion]

what kind of girl are you?

princessgirl

knightgirl

jestergirl

maidgirl

wizardgirl

dragongirl

banditgirl

scholargirl

assassingirl

serfgirl

archergirl

couriergirl

Remaining time: 15 hours 1 minute

no other options no nuance and if there’s too many princessgirls the serfgirls will have a revolt

[daylights-rain]

YOU ALREADY KNOW

[caffedorzo]

spin the wheel to be assigned a mysterious source of income - who will grant you 10k usd every month without fail!!

will you take the money?

yes

no

bald / nuance

Voting ended onAug 1

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[jewish-joy]

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Dorothea's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve been consistently interested in Greek and Roman mythology for basically my entire life and I think that I’ve seen a lot of people acting lately like Greek mythology adaptations are something uniquely recent or something. And although there might’ve been a slight uptick in recent years it’s not that dramatic tbh.

These are some of the most overdone and over represented stories in world history. Up there with the journey to the west and the Bible.

The noticeable difference in recent history is actually people shifting more towards Greek names for things and people shifting more towards interest in the odyssey rather than the Iliad. For centuries the Latin names were preferred and the Iliad was the more prestigious text.

Other than that though, people have been constantly find ways of incorporating these stories into their own style. The late medieval and renaissance obsession with these texts by writers and visual artists should be proof enough of that I think.

I mean both Dante and John Milton found justifications to include figures from Roman mythology in their very Christian epics centuries apart from each other.

Because these are some of the oldest surviving stories that we have, we constantly go back to them, even if we’re not Greek or pagan, because many European, west Asian, and North African societies have been sitting with some form of these surviving texts and artwork for almost 3,000 years. They seep into our cultures so thoroughly that many times we don’t even notice them when we see them.

The only thing that really changes is how people interpret the stories for their own times and which stories they start to focus on.

And yeah. People writing their one millionth hades and Persephone reinterpretation of the year are working in the same tradition as people as far apart in time as Ovid and John Milton.

You can draw a direct line through the efforts of 2,000 years of European Latin and Greek education, Arab scholars, and modern classics studies to both Disney’s Hercules, Nolan’s Odyssey, and parts of Xena Warrior Princess and that’s part of the beautiful literary foundation of the world we live in.

[lichposting]

I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary

[lichposting]

[animentality]

[depsidase]

[brightlotusmoon]

[frontmansdefender]

Source

[drdaanvondutch]

in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed

[batsandbutch]