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[noxneedstherapy]

i don’t think a lot of people understand how important it is to me that Ryland Grace, the main character from a popular book and movie, being commonly headcanoned as aroace with little to no romance involved. his relation to rocky as a companion and best friend is the relationship that people talk about the most. the power of friendship saved the day with no unnecessary b-plot romance. local man loved humanity and his alien best friend so much he saved both of their galaxies and planets. that’s so awesome, sometimes i’d never thought i’d see something like this

[homunculus-argument]

I've never lived with a parrot, but I assume it would feel a lot like having an ADHD brain living outside your brain. Sure you love that little fucker to pieces but just when you've got all your work set up, you gave it food and enrichment and medical care and everything it could possibly need to not bother you for 25 consecutive minutes, you hear the beginning notes of a very broken and creative rendition of the lion sleeps tonight starting from the other room like

weeeheheeehee we-eeheheehee

wi-om-bomB WEH~

like ah shit here we go again.

[to-orrr]

here are some more cats 🍓

[astronicht]

i know no one on here cares, but it's so wild to watch NASA piloted launch coverage again after years of having to deal with SpaceX. They're explaining minor glitches without bullshitting about weather delays?? There's a guy holding his 2yo kid's model rocket being like "he said I could use this so it's okay. Anyway, the battery for this system is here--"

[discoursedrome]

monks debating whether vows of silence should still allow you to leave emoji reacts on the monastery groupchat

[gallusrostromegalus]

So a guy I went to middle school with now works in the vatican and according to Cam, the rules on:

Whether you can leave emoji reacts in the groupchat

Whether you can leave regular messages in the groupchat

Whether you can HAVE a groupchat

Whether you can have Electronic Devices

-vary from one silent monastic order to another, but none of them have ever successfully banned "Long trail of increasingly hostile post-it messages on the fridge".

[locked-keye]

[juiceortiz]

#thats the show

[eightyonekilograms]

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Nifty little language game here.

I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty

at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words

at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context

1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible

[bakurapika]

OK, this is fascinating, because I actually found I understood a lot better if I read quickly at 1400 and earlier. Context made me double back and realize a word I didn't get is one I know.

"Bot þei maden no answer, neyþer good ne yuel. Þei weren stille as stoon, and stoden about me as men þat wayte on þeir lordes commandement."

Like, ask me what "Bot þei maden" means and I'd have no fucking clue. But reading it quickly as part of a story, it's like "But they made no answer, neither good nor (?). They were(n) still as stone and stood(en) about me as men that wait on their lord's commandment" is just how it sounds, phonetically.

And that context made me realize that "yuel" must be "evil." The "n" at the end of verbs will be explained I'm sure, but still feels weirdly natural and sort of German-y? Or Scottishy? I say as someone who knows neither language.

Though going in knowing that þ = "th" was a big boon. ȝ seems to be both a "y" and a "gh" from what I can tell? (Writing this as I'm pausing after 1300.) And Þ is evidently a capital þ.

That said, also,

Þe euele man louȝ, whan that he sawe my peine, and it was a crueel louȝter, wiþouten merci or pitee as of a man þat haþ no rewþe in his herte.

reading it, uh, yeah, I did a triple-take at "sawe my peine" LMAO but otherwise, it seems to again just be different spellings of "The evil man laugh, when that he saw my pain, and it was a cruel laughter, without mercy or pity as of a man that hath no ruth in his heart." (Ruth being the opposite of ruthless, obv.)

1200 I'm getting bits and pieces, which is weird, bc one sentence is totally incomprehensible and the next is more or less legible. Though to be fair, I feel like I'm picking up vocab words as we go lol. Like how the word "heþene" came up in 1400 and in context seems to clearly be "heathen," so I can pick up on that in the 1200 section too.

I also THINK?? uuif is "wolf" based on there being a "wulf" in an earlier passage. Otherwise, no clue what kind of fast animal it would be haha. later passages make me think maybe mare/steed but uh.

I s2g, "deorcnesse" for "darkness" ........ lmao.....

Sadly I don't know enough to guess what ƿ is (best guess is w??? or r/l combo maybe??). I keep looking for a single word to be my rosetta stone and can't find it lol.

sadly 1000 is like, a word or two max. Or a couple words I recognize from above as meaning "I said"

OK I'm on the explanation now. Yay!! I was right about ȝ!!! And my first guess for ƿ was right as well, not that it helped me much to try to read it as such. I thought I remembered that ð = th, but with everything else going on and what I assumed was a bunch of new (old) vocab, I questioned myself.

UUIF WAS WIFE.... (meaning woman, not necessarily married, which I did know!!) I did consider that but thought he wound up getting carried out by her, so I thought it must be an animal.

Anyway!!! What a super cool piece!

[faireladypenumbra]

I've taken a lot of grad-level Medieval Lit, so I'm able to read as far down as 1200 with little trouble. It helps to work those lower sections outloud

Fascinating piece

[philomathasfuck]

Pro-tip : try read it at loud ! and don't try to understand every world

[brumeargent]

une barque sur l'océan

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

One must imagine an ancient atheninan fully decked in golden jewlery with precious stones on them of every colour of the rainbow , a slight tint of eyeshadow and khol on his eyes , bedazzled sandals and the brightest , most obnoxiously neon purple robes imaginable , of course with all shorts of figures and things like that embroidered on the hem , watching christopher nolans oddesy and the soldiers grey robes and going " ew what the fuck are they wearing " that ancient athenian is alcibiades.

[philomathasfuck]

#ancient greece#alcibiades#the odyssey#nolan#one must also imagine a shoeless brown robe wearing athenian philosopher turning to his boyfriend and going “ its not that bad” and getting#a very judgy stare . and that athenian is socrates#socrates

what whould keep that in the tags

[aviewtodeath]

Animal Farm, a book criticising totalitarian governments, is getting a visual adaptation where there are silly animals selling their crops to those they're supposed to hate.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

2026 is not a good year for classic literature fans all around.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi

[marlynnofmany]

Yeah, isn’t that a cool picture? It’s the one someone showed me to point out what color the moon really is compared to the Earth! They both have the same amount of sunlight on them here.

The moon’s not white! It’s concrete-gray! It only looks so shiny when compared to the void of space!

I love learning things I didn’t expect to learn. Like when I learned that it’s called the “dark side” of the moon because it’s the side we don’t see, not because sunlight never hits it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

she's mooning us

[hercorrupterofwords]

out of context quotes from my epigraphy prof.'s course on late antiquity

"The Colosseum is an organism that digests itself"

[pointing at a honorary inscription from the v century] "So what do you think?" [silence] "you can say it's ugly. I mean, in the I century not even a freedman would have accepted something this ugly"

"No, the Colosseum is like pork: you don't throw anything away."

[two inscriptions about the same thing done by the same guy] "Yet they are a bit different - why? That's late antiquity for you, baby"

[about a scholar who was horribly wrong] "This happens when you don't let the stone speak"

[pointing at a few inscriptions that mentioned barbarian attacks] "They simply have no shame anymore, don't they?"

"We might say that Constantine was the inventor of politically correct- well, no, actually, this would be true if Augustus hadn't come before him"

"Here's a thing that Donald Trump's political campaign, augustean propaganda and Constantine's arch have in common"

[still on Constantine. this time the hispellum rescriptum] "It took him 38 lines to actually answer and say: yeah it's cool"

"Constantine introduced himself as Rome's new founder - he had that old-fashioned problem of killing his family members - however..."

"Fashion changes. They liked inscriptions that we would have probably given back to their maker because of their ugliness. Look at this one. Yes it's whole. Yes they didn't even cut it right."

[about Colosseum's shows] "At noon there were public executions. A great background to have lunch to"

[moryen]

Assyrian dog figurines with names carved on them, 650 BC “Expeller of evil” (mušēṣu lemnūti) with white pigment and red spots “Catcher of the enemy” (kāšid ayyāb) with red pigment “Don’t think, bite!” (ē tamtallik epuš pāka) with white pigment “Biter of his foe!” (munaššiku gārîšu) with turquoise pigment “Loud is his bark!” (dan rigiššu) with black pigment

[butch-king-frankenstein]

my reading of Wake Up Dead Man is that Benoit Blanc's mother has recently died and his approach to the entire investigation is informed by this

[butch-king-frankenstein]

when introducing himself to Father Jud, Blanc says "my mother is—was very religious" which is not a slip you make if your mother has been dead for a long time (compare to Knives Out where he says "my father was a police detective" with no hesitation)

his litany against Christianity in that same scene feels very personal, which could be for any number of reasons, but I think the line I mentioned in the previous bullet point is meant to provide context for it; he's expressing anger towards his mother and her loyalty to the church during her lifetime

similarly, when Blanc has his "road to Damascus" moment and his speech about giving grace to those who deserve it the least but need it the most, he's not really (or at least not only) talking about Martha; he's realized that he needs to find forgiveness and grace for his mother as well

Blanc's mother being dead would make him a thematic parallel to Monsignor Wicks, whose own unresolved trauma with his deceased mother informs his hyper-religious worldview (which stands in opposition to Blanc's hyper-rationalist one)

it also seems very intentional that when Father Jud prays for Louise, it's because her mother is dying and she doesn't want their last words exchanged to be in anger

I think I'm really onto something here

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[rontology]

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

[rontology]

we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!