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El, of the House of the Dzur ※ 30s ※  she/her ※ inhabitant of Texas ※ practically and aesthetically vain ※
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The Current Collected Works :)

Satia Te Sanguine”, in which a tourist visiting Rome meets a vampire and gets a good story about History and absolutely no answers.

Versions of the Sun”, in which a woman who might be the prophesied savior founds a city.

When I See the Skylark Rise”, in which a spaceship captain makes a choice that will, apparently, doom her crew to death. 

Learning Tiluhan in the Fourteenth Century”, a story about whether pure academia is enough; about a dying woman and a dying language, and, maybe, an attempt at human connection. 

 In “Lead But to the Grave,”a deified empress wrestles with her new divinity, and with what comes after divinity fades.

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maxknightley

shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.

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Anonymous asked:

I don't think I understand yarn weights. Do you understand yarn weights? I think a lot of times the yarn is lying...

Yarn weights are real, yarn labelling is super inconsistent (@ amano ayni is light fingering, not sport)

I mostly do it by vibes but if you’re concerned about it there are tools that measure wraps per inch, which is a truer measure of yarn weight than labels alone

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elucubrare

Answer: as far as i know: the hero, intending to shoot his wife's lover, accidently shoots his wife

someone dies from kissing poisoned flowers: Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur a statue pulls an evil-doer into Hell: Mozart, Don Giovanni a statue warns someone not to pursue their course of revenge: édouard lalo, le roi d'ys. sorry this one was mean, it's really really not in standard rep & putting it right after DG was an attempt to trip people up. the heroine jumps into an avalanche: Alfredo Catalani, La Wally. people picking it because it's hardest to stage are right - as the wiki article says, "it is seldom performed, partly because of the difficulty of staging this scene" a clown commits a double murder on stage: Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci there's a Wild West bar fight: Puccini, La Fanciulla del West a man sells his soul for magic bullets: Carl Maria von Weber, Der Freischütz the heroine sleepwalks across a dangerous bridge: Vincenzo Bellini, La Sonnambula the governor of Boston is fatally stabbed: Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (moved to Boston from Sweden because the censors wouldn't let them stage an opera where a king is assassinated) the wrong baby was thrown into the fire as revenge: Verdi, Il Trovatore. this one's dumb as hell, don't worry about it too much.

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You got a weird one, friend! Please join me in listening to Modes of Thought In Anterran Literature.

This show seems to be recorded lectures from a class about an ancient civilization that predates any other human culture. This culture is complex and strange, but this isn't just an anthropology course. There are greater forces at work, and the professor, his TA, and anyone else who gets in the way have to be ready to suffer the consequences.

Send me a number between 1-273 and I'll recommend an audio drama.

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the funniest thing about the tags on my which one didn't happen in an opera poll is people voting ballo on the grounds that it wouldn't be the governor of boston b/c like, i don't think antonio somma, on his third revision of the libretto due to censors, gave a single fuck about pre-revolutionary american municipal governance

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According to Celtic traditions, Lugh, the sun god who dies as the nights get longer after the summer solstice, is marked in the old Celtic pictographic calendar with a bow-and-arrow shape. Lugh was the primary god representing the red sun and was also known in Welsh as "Coch Rhi Ben", anglicised to "Cock Robin" (coch meaning red, rhi meaning lord and ben meaning leader – a nod to the belief that souls became birds after death). The sparrow who kills him with "my bow and arrow" represents Brân the Blessed – the god of winter in the form of a raven.

god this fills me with so much joy. do i think it's plausible? not really. but my heart overfloweth.

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