Looking for the zen in hitsuzen

Anime, Manga, Books, and Weird Humour

[vetchtibbles]

I think I’m falling behind in pop culture can we stop writing books and making movies until I catch up. something crazy is about to happen to gilgamesh

[devilcat3d]

there's just not enough time in the day for video games. even when I want to play them and dont have anything else going on I still don't end up playing them. this is because there's actually only four hours in the day and nobody is talking about this

[bleepabloopa]

two lonely kiddos

[amarguerite]

@chimericaloutlier what is it like to be so right

[talkingpiffle]

“It looks so simple, those deceptively plain, impersonal verb forms: “Placetne, magistra?” “Does it please [thee], Mistress?” “Placet.” “It pleases.” But of course, it is not simple, and this is what simple Latin is for. Whereas we use impersonal verb forms like “It’s raining” or “it’s hot” for boring things like the weather (while Germans, more correctly, say “it’s hot to me,”) Latin has a maddening habit of expressing opinions and even feelings with impersonal verbs like placet, “it pleases,” a verb which is always impersonal in form while talking about personal feelings. Peter and Harriet, who have been carrying on an extended conversation about the reconciliation of heart and mind through this entire book, find a Latin word to do the job for them. Magistra is “Mistress” in the sense of Master of Arts, respecting Harriet as a scholar and writer; it is also an honorific for “Lady,” subtly emphasizing her choice and agency in the matter. The -ne at the end of Peter’s question is the sweet part, and the most significant part, and the part that just cannot be translated. Remember that odd Latin word num used to prefix questions when you expect a “no” answer? -ne is its opposite number, a question which confidently expects the answer will be “yes.” That tiny shift from num to -ne sums up a five-year courtship in five letters.”

— Translations of Latin in Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night (via agreyeyedgirl)

[bananayoshimoto]

lindsey drager, the archive of alternative endings

[sailermoon]

you used to be able to go onto a tag after finishing a movie and see all sorts of gifsets. now you have to comb through reader insert fanfiction. we used to be a society

[fj0rge]

He is my favourite. Pls watch KPDH it's beautiful

[sandersstudies]

*sees the icon of a mutual I literally never talk to* oh look it’s my Friend

[computer-bouquet]

sorry it's just that we built heaven together, and it was awful and fantastic and terrible and it turned out even better than we ever imagined it could, and building heaven with you made me realize that the idea of sitting in that room without you is precisely my definition of hell. yeah it's incurable.

[mg-osoriox]

Happy Birthday Sakura chan

[endiness]

Season 3, Episode 4 "The Road to the Spear" THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021–)

[luftballons99]

i think your love would be too much

[kendrysaneela]

ITS WINTER WHILE GEMMA IS IN THE UNDERWORLD AND SPRING WHEN SHES ON EARTH. WHAT KIND OF PERSEPHONE SHIT

[kelvintimeline]

I feel like typically the "dead wife" montage does nothing for me, even when executed very well, because it's often just like "here's this woman you'll never get to meet, she only matters because a man loves her so much and now he's sad."

But the montage wasn't just Mark's recollections. It was her perspective too. He's her dead husband. He's her Eurydice as much as he's his own Orpheus.

This isn't humanizing Gemma for Mark's sake. This is humanizing Gemma for Gemma's sake and it's there not for us to root for Mark, it's there for us to realize we're rooting for Gemma. Every moment Mark reaches out for her, she's reaching back.

The dead wife montage normally deprives a woman her agency, making her a tool for a man's arc, but this episode fully restored Gemma's agency. She's fighting back, she's yearning too. She hurts, she aches, she angers. She fights, she bleeds, she gets frustrated too. And has been before she was ever Ms Casey,

I've never seen a show restore a character's humanity as fully as this single episode did for Gemma. She went from an abstract concept--a wife, a severed employee, a ghost--to a tangible person.

And this was realized so literally as well. We literally see her bleed, we literally watch her eat, her hands cramp up, her teeth ache. It's like watching a hologram become flesh muscle by muscle, bone by bone.

I'm in awe of what they were able to do for her in just 50 minutes. In many ways, I feel I know Gemma better than I know half the cast.

[sanctuary2022]

gemma is marks dead wife but mark is also gemma’s dead wife. huge

[shesnake]

Mythic Quest season 4 episode 4 "The Villain's Feast" (2025) dir. Megan Ganz

Costume design by Sabrina Rosen

[alesshi]

You can't just do that! Send a telegram first or something!