girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Adult, queer. They/them. https://archiveofourown.org/users/PudentillaMcMoany

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[doctors-star]

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

[doctors-star]

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

[doctors-star]

me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?

me: YES ALRIGHT FINE

[postarcadian]

re: adaptation and the supposed “purity” of the original work it’s complicated right. and ultimately I think that whether classicists like it or not, it’s just the nature of the beast that (a) the texts we study have been and continue to be radically readapted and reinterpreted and we can have strong opinions about which adaptations we like or don’t but it’s just the nature of a 2000+ year reception tradition to produce variance, and (b) the texts we study are much more a scholarly construction, and authorial intent far more difficult (and ideologically suspect) to try to recover, than is true of, say, a 19th or 20th century novel. which is to say that it’s one thing to say that Fennell’s Wuthering Heights misunderstands Charlotte Bronte’s novel and something quite different to say that Nolan’s Odyssey misunderstands “Homer’s” epic, because the latter is responding to another 2500 years of a reception tradition that in some sense is not entirely or even primarily about the Odyssey as a poem in Ancient Greek. this is not to take a stand on either one as an ideological project or whether either is a good film (I am reserving judgment but strongly suspect that neither is) but to say that I think that whatever the Odyssey is on a conceptual level is much less singular and well-defined than what Wuthering Heights is, if that makes sense

[postarcadian]

basically what I’m getting at here is that “Homer” or “the classical” is not a real, tangible, solid thing out there in the world that can only ever be correctly or incorrectly interpreted. it’s an ongoing process of cultural conversation and production and assignment of value judgments that operates across thousands of years of accreted meaning, and the impulse to see an adaptation or interpretation you don’t like for ideological or aesthetic reasons and immediately claim that it’s a misinterpretation of the Original Text is a kind of rhetorical dodge

[energyprison]

americans after eating 2 pounds of pasta and getting sick: uh oh im about to enter a serious food coma lol

americans after eating 2 pounds of ginger beef and fried rice and getting sick: the devious CCP has agents everywhere

[mellowchouchou]

Best of Kenneth: Season 3 (Episodes 1-11)

Part 2

[perriaeyjeve]

[catie-does-things]

The Bride (above, c. 1941) and The Skeleton (below, c. 1936) - Hyman Bloom

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[parkchanwoohoo]

Sobbing ofnfjfkfklg

[valtsv]

the reason sex scenes exist in fiction is because sometimes people have sex but also to find out what the characters are lying to everyone including themselves about by wrapping that agonising vulnerability in a treat like giving medicine to a dog

[fridgrave2-0]

wanted to do some jopstudies but got carried away. HE'S SO PRETTYYY GAHHH

[bulkhummus]

Wait is jerking it to fanfic like? Widely accepted?

critically acclaimed even

[pato-roldnart]

Mis wiwis tomando una siestecita <3

[pudentilla]

Chapters: ½ Fandom: The Pitt (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Michael “Robby” Robinavitch/Dennis Whitaker Characters: Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, Dennis Whitaker, Dennis Whitaker’s Family Additional Tags: Michael “Robby” Robinavitch Goes on Sabbatical, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Robby skips the 4th of July shift, Passively Suicidal Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, Canon-Typical Suicidal Ideation (The Pitt), POV Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, Angst with a Happy Ending, Road Trip, Hucklerobby reunion, Nebraska, Whitaker family lore Series: Part 2 of Out the Blue Summary:

Michael is in love and wants to die. Dennis lures him to Nebraska. Also: Michael achieves perfect Zen, the Triumph breaks, a coachful of German tourists.

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Maybe looking at the two pictures he has of Dennis: the one where he’s wearing scrubs and pointing at a sleeping Santos where he looks like a Muppet, not a real man. The one where he’s in Michael’s house, unreal in a different way, beaming up into the camera in the sunset light, hair more red than gold, perfect teeth inside a perfect smiling mouth.

[pudentilla]

I'M. THE SLOWEST WRITER IN THE WORLD. But we're getting there???

Chapter 2 out soon (= two weeks???). This fic has three chapters now because I can't stick to my own estimates.

Here's a snippet:

"Oh. My motorcycle broke down in a place called Rock Springs. You know it?" "Rings a bell." "From there I hitched a ride to Casper with a coach of German tourists. That's where I texted you from." "Casper Wyoming? No fucking way." "That what you get hang up on? Casper? Yes fucking way. They wanted to see the sights. Sang a hell of a lot of Bavarian songs." "Cute!" "I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much." Dennis smiles. "And then? How'd you get here from Casper Wyoming?" "Jack. Scottish director, slept all the time. He let me drive his car." Dennis blows him a raspberry, then smiles, full throttle smile. "You hitchhiked through the country just to see me?"

[wanderinsect]

🫩 no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.

[nevver]

The Big Apple (‘82-‘84), Frank Horvat