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Hello Bodies (2023) fans!
Thanks to the catalyst of @templeofxian 's suggestion, we now have a discord server! Please do join us for chats, discussions, encouragement, etc etc (all the usual discord stuff).
The majority of users are adults and it's a more comfortable experience. If anyone would prefer to start an under-18 friendly server, please feel free, you won't be treading on any toes.
if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light
I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option
hate to drag yall back into the superwholock pit with me but i just got news that the actors who played garth and benny got engaged recently
wait hang on i
there we are, good and proper
Reblog and put in the tags a TV theme song/intro you don’t skip.
every character should get fatter to signify that their life no longer sucks
I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"
supernatural actor men getting married and. I can't believe but we. well we. we got a. we got a gif for it
for the intents of this poll just pretend dresses and skirts are the same. the question is only about the not-pants but goes around your legs part.
also make no difference between "well some skirts are comfortable and some aren't". I'm talking about the idea of a skirt. Skirts in general.
Some obvious facts:
4. A vampire population WAY above carrying capacity (carrion capacity??) is plunged into famine, desperation, and bloody competition.
5. ???
6. The Renaissance.
call me moses. um. call her. um wait. call me moses the way her bush speaks to me
The use of the interjection "Mary" indicates a syncretism of the then dominant Christianity with the underground homosexual mystery goddess cults although heretical Marian worship was frowned upon by the church at this time there are numerous preferences to the Madonna as one of the "gay icons".
Of course it is now widely accepted within the field that Dorothy is in fact an aspect of the goddess Judy of the Garlands perhaps representing a more youthful aspect of said goddess, similar to Kore for Persephone. Of course Dorothy also seems to have had trickster connotations, as noted by the legends of her confusing or obfuscating government officials who were attempting to root out these mystery cults. Judy of the Garlands seems to have some aspects of community as well given the use of the phrase "good Judies" to refer to close comrades.
Now some of my colleagues have suggested that the "Dark Lady" as an alternate title for the goddess Cher, but I would argue that the "Dark Lady" is clearly some sort of obfuscating title meant to show respect but distance the speaker from her true identity out of fear which goes against everything we know about Cher worship. Several contemporary sources even claim that drag queens (note: a kind of warrior-priestess) would dress up and imitate Cher in order to invoke her bounty which does not, to me, seem to be a kind of figure only invoked obliquely.
The most important celebration in these goddess cults was known as Pride, which began with throwing bricks at a stone wall, the first of which had some sort of particular ceremonial importance. Although the literature refers to it as a whole month that appears to be more poetic language and it would usually be celebrated by a parade throughout the town. They would also celebrate through "discourse", a kind of public argument with circular logic that had no end, the purpose of which remains unclear.
why is this about to make me sob
a poem i am sure everyone has seen but i'm still going to share anyway
as well as this other poem inspired by giovanni's
and this beautiful tweet
Do you know anything about Nottingham? I was told once that it was made up for Robin Hood, which I was confused about, since I live there, but was that person actually telling the truth?
I was gonna make up a joke about it being originally called Snottingham and looked up its history and what the fuck, history. It was originally called Snottingham, named for a man called Snot.
official linguistics post
Dog roses, or the other large floral piece I've been working on lately, which I have to admit was also inspired by a passage in Maurice:
Not far from the lodge there was a nasty little climb, and the road, always in bad condition, was edged with dog roses that scratched the paint. Blossom after blossom crept past them, draggled by the ungenial year: some had cankered, others would never unfold: here and there beauty triumphed, but desperately, flickering in a world of gloom. Maurice looked into one after another, and though he did not care for flowers the failure irritated him. Scarcely anything was perfect. On one spray every flower was lopsided, the next swarmed with caterpillars, or bulged with galls. The indifference of nature! And her incompetence! He leant out of the window to see whether she couldn't bring it off once, and stared straight into the bright brown eyes of a young man.
Even though (unlike the primroses) this is a one-off reference, it always catches my attention because, as the saying goes, there's a LOT to unpack here. For a while I could only interpret this as a specific example of the decay of Penge (and of Maurice's relationship with Clive), and then Alec cutting through that to see him, which mirrors the scene of Maurice's arrival the day before. But it's odd to have a one-off reference at all in this book where Forster so often repeats phrases and images to give them significance or place them in a different context, ie: "bright brown eyes" - and actually, in the Abinger edition, there is a second reference in a deleted bit of dialogue where Alec says something like, "Remember the roses in the other rain?" again placing the focus on the roses when he really means, remember me in the other rain, chasing after your carriage and hiding in the shrubbery to catch another look at you? So nature did bring it off once, but in a way Maurice didn't expect, and which influenced him only subconsciously in the first reference.
