i think assad zaman would play an excellent piranesi in either a live action film or animated adaptation. new for your consideration campaign just dropped.
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i think assad zaman would play an excellent piranesi in either a live action film or animated adaptation. new for your consideration campaign just dropped.
kogonada heads rise up: his new film “zi” premieres at sundance 2026.
this is a silly text post indulging the fact that i've become a hamish linklater fan lately due to watching midnight mass for the first time and wanting to share this with anyone interested. on spotify (and probably audible), you can find three productions he has been cast in that are really v good and make me kick my feet. and two plays he has written too! you can find links below. you're welcome.
cyrano de bergerac (so fun!!!)
the busy world is hushed (my personal favourite at this moment)
design for living (so bisexual. his accent in this is nuts though).
nudity rider
thanksgiving for one
me, emotional after reading media analysis about the hit tv series severance: what if we all killed ourselves
wouldn't say i'm in the panic! fandom anymore but i used to be. hardcore. in the trenches. between 2010 - 2017. what do you mean they fucking announced a 20th anniversary show of a fever you can't sweat out. in vegas. what do you mean. what. is spencer going to be there? jon? ryan fucking ross coming out of his well in his fucking eyeliner to shame mankind? this could be one of the greatest reunions in the world or it could be brendon balding urie standing up there on his own performing the album that made him famous whilst carrying the dead body of the band behind him. i'm about to start crying blood.
i don't fandom post here but. currently obsessed with welcome to night vale again and can't stop thinking about episode 221 (glow cloud, explained). keep thinking about dr. janet lubelle "explaining away" things as acts of both a disruption of collective faith and a killing of creativity.
we (as the audience) have witnessed cosmic horror as the everyday in that town for a whole decade. we, just like the citizens of night vale, take it as normal, or as adaptive to be normal. and then lubelle comes in and disrupts it to the point of death. she rendered a god useless. she killed a sentient river rock. even when cecil tries to chant all hail, all hail the glow cloud, the magic is gone. the faith is gone. it's been explained, unravelled, revealed to whatever kind of truth "science" has applied to it.
also, it serves as an allegory for how, when you try to explain your work to an audience, it kind of kills it? especially any writing that is absurdist or surrealist. explaining why the glow cloud even exists, or trying to pick it apart, renders it and the magic of night vale (both story and podcast) useless. the glow cloud is fun because it is a glow cloud that drops dead animals! we found out it was a god too! it has a child! isn't that whimsical and horrifying and brilliant? does it need explaining? no! and it's heartbreaking when it is! it's such a staple of the series and it's smart of joseph/jeffrey to play around with this after 10 years of creating and writing for this beloved show.
(also, if you decide to engage with this post, please do not share spoilers for future episodes, i am still playing catch up).
happy pride month from dropout.tv
(p.s: paul robalino you are the funniest fucker alive for this presentation. i am obsessed with your brain.)
just thinking about the parallels of lyctorship being compared to meat consumption by palamedes in the unwanted guest and alecto's "kiss" at the end of nona the ninth. "you swallowed a piece of meat" vs. "this is how meat loves meat". alecto's cannibalistic display of love. ianthe's visceral and brutal consumption of naberius tern, with no love in it, only using him as a means to an end. camilla and palemedes' softer and prepared consumption of one another. the sixth house's resistance at allowing one to eat away at the other, but rather letting all wholes be consumed into something new. the mutual cannibalism of it all. thinking about ianthe's unwillingness to consume coronabeth, how lyctorship is not love in her eyes, like it is in the eyes of the sixth house.
reading the unwanted guest and immediately started sobbing at the description of palamedes' suit. we love consequences-of-turning-yourself-into-a-supernova fashion.
apocalypse wrapped
you killed 1.5 billion cows!
you were responsible for the death of all your friends!
your top stream was on june 10th, 2028, in which a corpse flipped off PETA! it had 20.8 million views!
you resurrected the earth as barbie!
you murdered zero billionaires and every member of the working class!
you made catholicism woke!
i wake up thinking about palamedes sextus and i go to bed thinking about palamedes sextus i will probably die thinking about palamedes sextus
imaging john gaius being like "whatup gamers it's your boy john and im gonna show you the coolest thing you'll ever see today but first! hit that like button and smash that subscribe button and subscribe to our patreon!!!"
🎵missing pieces of my skull, i’ll sew on patches of my own soul🎶
palamedes sextus, my beloved! this piece has been in my head for months, and it took so many tries to get it how i wanted. maybe someday it’ll get properly painted up, but for now here’s a bit of my favorite librarian, sex pal.
Kiriona Gaia Isn’t Gideon Nav
That’s an extreme claim, I know. And we’ve clearly seen a lot in common between the two. However, the differences are stark enough that I don’t believe that it can be explained purely as off-screen character growth over the course of several months.
Let’s review what we’ve seen of Kiriona in Nona the Ninth. She’s extremely possessive of and in love with Harrow still (“Get in line, thou big slut”); she’s besties with Ianthe (friendship bracelets, secret handshake); and she’s deeply loyal to the Emperor, her father (going on secret missions that even the other Lyctor Prince doesn’t know about).
The first one makes sense. When John brought Gideon back and bound her soul to her corpse, it was still her soul, only a little worse for wear for being killed twice already. The only way John seems to be able to create new souls is the old fashioned way (which tbf is how he created Gideon the first time). However, he clearly put his own spin on the body. The titanium bones, unbreakable skin, and leaving the hole through her chest are his mark of Cain upon Kiriona.
Kiriona’s friendship with Ianthe feels like a major stretch for Gideon. We know she can be temporarily swayed with puns (“gall on gall” -> “let’s get married”), but it’s a far cry from merely cooperating with someone you don’t like to becoming best friends with them. While I can see Gideon continuing to work with Ianthe like at the end of Harrow the Ninth for a significant period time, I find it impossible to believe they could actually become friends given how diametrically opposed they are. (I don’t think Ianthe can have friends at all, but this isn’t about her.)
I think the hardest part to swallow is her loyalty to John. Gideon wasn’t loyal to the Ninth House or the Houses as a whole a day in her life; her only loyalty was to Harrow personally, and even that was self-serving. Gideon was definitely a schemer; she wasn’t book smart (although even she picked up enough skeletal knowledge on the Ninth), but she spent a lot of time making intricate plans for escape, and they got pretty good. If Gideon knew that Harrow’s body was walking around on New Rho, it’s reasonable to think that she maneuvered things to get planetside to rescue her.
But she didn’t. Kiriona was a Lyctor Prince for a good deal before the New Rho operation, and I’m not sure how much she knew about Harrow’s body’s presence when the planning for that began. Instead, it turns out the whole thing was actually John’s plan to get Alecto back to the Tomb. The same John who’s only prior interaction with Gideon was ordering the death of her girlfriend necromancer. And even without the personal slight, Gideon hates authority figures. John is Crux turned to 10,000, and Kiriona took great pleasure in finally finishing him off.
Except, she didn’t. And while her response could be read as “revenge is hollow because it doesn’t get you back what you lost,” Kiriona seems to react as though she can tell her empty response doesn’t feel legitimate. This is my central thesis: John fucked with her mind when he rebuilt Gideon. He didn’t want a loose cannon teenage daughter, he needed a new Lyctor who would actually remain loyal after everyone else had turned on him. And so he ensured that Kiriona would be a better soldier than the ones he had just lost.
The biggest piece of evidence is actually the simplest: her name is Kiriona now. One of the major revelations in Nona the Ninth is how he built the crew that would later become the Lyctors post-Resurrection. Those sixteen people who were largely his friends and colleagues before the end of the world were not quite the same people that became the Lyctors and cavaliers afterwards. When he first animated Ulysses and Titania, he gave them new names to signify that they were new people. When he killed his friends and resurrected them, he gave them new names too. Their personalities were generally the same (Alfred was still the peacekeeper; Cristabel was still a martyr; Augustine and Mercymorn were still kismesises), but they explicitly didn’t remember who they were before. The same is true of Kiriona: she still had the same general personality as Gideon, but now her ideals are John’s ideals. She was resurrected with the same loss of agency that the rest of John’s people suffered.
the cow thing is such a fucking classic fascist rhetorical move. it’s the motte-and-bailey, it’s taking acts of obvious violence and escalation and saying ‘but it’s not really about what i did, it’s about this other thing that’s much more easily defensible’. it’s building a nuclear arsenal and saying ‘can you believe they were mad about the cows?’ and it’s funny, it’s meant to make the opposition look like moralizing pansies who are missing the bigger picture, but it’s also meant to stop you from seeing the bigger picture, because if you did even for a second you’d instantly realize it’s not about the cows at all and it never really was
the way babs is full of hot air. the way he fights like clockwork. the way he is introduced as decorative. he's a blow-up doll, a wind-up toy, a cardboard cutout through which coronabeth and ianthe have drilled a sneaky glory hole, and this was all before he was dead and being worn as a convenient skinsuit! it was his destiny to be this from the very start!! you all wanna talk about who is and is not "doomed by the narrative"?? you better be talking about Naberius Tern, baby
Really convinced from Cam and Pal’s “in for five, out for five” strategy, Pal’s mention of Nona’s “displacement activity,” and Camilla talking about Nona’s anxiety, that the Sixth House actually has therapy and that’s why Cam and Pal seem so well adjusted compared to all the other house scions.