#katabasiss

[leonardcohenofficial]

have you seen the film sing sing (2024)? if not, I think you'd like it & I highly recommend it! it's a beautiful film focused on a men's theatre production group in sing sing prison, specifically revolving around member & founder john 'divine g' whittaker, who was an innocent man sent to prison. it doesn't really focus on why he was there nor the ideas of innocent vs guilty, instead the film really looks at how theatre connects us all - how it allows us to be vulnerable, to process life and all it's hardships, and to find community who love you and want you to thrive. also it's just beautifully filmed on 16mm & with the exception of colman domingo who plays divine g, the other cast members are all prisoners who were part of the actual theatre group rta & it's just a film with so much heart which looks at how theatre allows us to really live! anyway, thought you'd like it & hope you're doing well!

sing sing has been high on my movie watchlist for all of the amazing reasons you listed above but i haven’t gotten to it yet; definitely need to remedy that ASAP though so once i view it i will as per usual report back on here 🙌🏽

[winedark]

no but elementary has changed something within me fr fr. show of all time for sure !

it is FANTASTIC!!!!!! they took a character who is more an archtype now than anything and breathed so much life into him, and they didn't flatten watson's character to do so but instead made her a three dimension human being, with her own strengths and flaws. the partnership of all time. i maintain that the first season is the pinnacle of a modern sherlock holmes story

[kikuism]

happy birthday !!! hope you have a great day filled with fantastic food & even better company !!

thank you so much!!! 🥹💓

[thoodleoo]

ur so right 💅 the aeneid IS in fact a tragedy, like catch dido, turnus and any of the other ‘doomed youth’ representing the tragic heroine and how aeneas is ultimately an unwilling instrument of fate that brings death and destruction until ultimately it goes full cycle and the trojans BECOME the greeks - mirroring their own enemies and loosing themselves in the pursuit of fate and the founding of rome which they never see 💅 like how is that NOT on parr with tragic conventions and literary cannon

YEAH!!! YEAH THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT

fate is inescapable and it’s also a circle...inevitably you will become the people you once feared most in your life and that’s the destiny you’re hurtling towards whether you like it or not....like all i can think of when i read the final lines of the aeneid is aeneas looking at the fear and desperation in turnus’s eyes with aeneas’s sword at his neck and aeneas sees HIMSELF and his cousins and friends all wrapped up into that one look of terror AND YET he still kills turnus because to found a nation is to destroy a nation and become what you hate most

[hardoncaulfield]

4, 10, 98! ❤️

4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?

This is like primary school I think? I refuse to look it up to check. I was ruthlessly mocked by my peers and my teachers thought I was a horrible troublemaker and an evil, uncontrollable child - mostly nothing has changed

10. game you were best at in p.e.?

We played indoor rounders once and my tactic was simply to keep running directly at anyone who stood in my way (the fielders used to employ an agressive blocking routine) - I broke a girl's shoulder and got put on the fledgling girl's rugby team on the spot - then a minute after that I got sent to the head teacher for my "violent behaviour." the rugby team was disbanded three months later - without competing in even one match - because we were all so rough we were a danger to both the competition and each other

I was also very good at cross country running and hockey - the latter wasn't due to any skill on my part, I once again used my height and strength to just plow down the opposition. We never won a match, but I was a cracking defender

98. favorite historical era?

I am so fucking bad at history - like I wish I knew more about the late republican era in Rome - those funky little orators and their conspiring

[plangentia]

teal and yellow aksdklad u give off wildly competent vibes + i just wanna chill with u in a field so skjdkakl

ahdhhfjfj terrified that i appear remotely competent to anyone, but i would love to just vibe with you in a field <3

[ayliffe]

Oxbridge rivals to lovers this, oxbridge rivals to lovers that - cowards, WHERES the onsided pinning rival with desire to be lovers durham/oxford

you say that like you’re joking but you’re right. doxbridge was a portmanteau and it’s very sad and a little pathetic but what can you do

[catilinas]

mhhh am intrigued !! whats the undead zombie aeneas thing you mention in a previous ask? (the one about the endings of the aeneid/galinsky) (hope u have a great day)

zombie aeneas is me and @kidrat yelling about how aeneas is actually dead / undead / a zombie in the aeneid. most coherently yelled about in this post