#Degrees of Wisdom

[judahmaccabees]

loosey goosey

[boyromeo]

Swordsmanship

[aprilblossomgirl]

What do you do to make humans confess?

23.5 องศาที่โลกเอียง (2024) Ep.06

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I LIKE FINDING OUT INFORMATION!!!

[jasper-book-stash]

You know what's worse than reading a book recommended to you and hating it? Reading a book recommended to you and feeling overally pretty damn neutral about it.

[inkyquince]

It's so important to me to write a thing where the pc breaks up with someone and immediately fucks the person they hated most thank you

[defiledtomb]

Don't get your tongue pierced unless the freak dividends yield more than the eventual cost. Then absolutely go for it

[sparklywaistcoat]

Thanks to @celluloidbroomcloset for the tag! Below are some books I want to read in 2025.

I've already started Braiding Sweetgrass. I'm reading this because I want to learn more about different ways of being connected to the world.

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom is research for the tarot decks that I'm designing.

I really liked The Haunting of Hill House, so this one is next on my list.

I first read a version of The Odyssey when I was a child. I've heard good things about this translation and want to read it for myself.

What are you all reading this year?

[manifestdestinytarot]

finished my first book of 2025

[kanashimibeast]

Honestly, one of the most useful bits of advice I picked up from art school was when my painting professor told me "if you're going to cram for something, always front-load your cramming. Best case scenario, you get it out of the way and free yourself up for other things. Worst case scenario, you have to cram the whole way through but still get it done anyways." I still struggle with executive dysfunction but shifting into the mindset of "get the hard thing out of the way early" has honestly helped a lot.

...On the other hand, it can be a double-edged sword when I've spent the past few days bashing my head against my editing because I'm too stubborn to step back until the hard part is done, but then that hard part turns out to be three chapters in a row and goddammit I just need to finish them and then I can finally tackle the dishes piling up in the sink-

[hoboblaidd]

speak your truth about solas the ginger tho

AHEM.

Your Honor, Plaintiff offers the following exhibits pursuant to FRCP 1001(c), 1003:

Exhibit A:

caption: come on

Exhibit B:

caption: come on

Exhibit C:

caption: COME THE FUCK ON

Upon timely request by the opposing party, the state has additional lower quality, but no less dispositive, in-game photographic evidence. Disclosures pursuant to Brady* have been provided to the opposing party.

Accordingly, the court should award summary judgment to Plaintiff on the issue of SOLAS HAD RED HAIR.

[themoonplantwrites]

So I have many things I love about Epic the Musical, one of which is how it is in conversation with the text that it is adapting, The Odyssey.

Now, if you were a high school student in America (and maybe other places, but I can���t speak for them), you were probably taught that The Odyssey starts in medias res, or in the middle. When The Odyssey starts, most of the adventuring and monsters and stuff that most people remember from The Odyssey has already happened, and Odysseus recounts it in books 8-11. The rest of The Odyssey is mostly what is Telemachus doing, what does Odysseus do once he returns to Ithaca, and books 5-7 are just Odysseus among the Phaeacians.

My point in all of this being, the first four books of The Odyssey, how this text starts, those are the events that the Wisdom Saga in Epic the Musical adapts. And it’s such a good adaptation that personally, I believe that you could listen to the Wisdom Saga first, and then go back to the beginning of Epic and listen to the rest of the Sagas in order, and it would still work as a story. Just structurally, it would work in a similar way to how The Odyssey works.

But Epic, unlike The Odyssey, does not start in medias res. The Wisdom Saga is the seventh saga in the musical. And yet, Epic does pay a kind of homage to The Odyssey’s story structure through the song Love in Paradise. Here, in this song, we have Athena looking back on the last time she saw Odysseus, and at everything that has happened to him since then. This is similar to Odysseus recounting his story to the Phaeacians in books 8-11 of The Odyssey.

But, personally, what I find to be a much more interesting part of this adaptation is that the part of Love in Paradise where Odysseus is being haunted by his past feels a lot like the part of The Odyssey where Odysseus breaks down crying at the stories the Phaeacian rhapsode sings of the heroes of the Trojan War. Jorge did not have to include Odysseus grieving the people he’s lost since leaving Ithaca; most adaptations of The Odyssey don’t. But he did, and I think that makes Epic all the better, not just as a story, but specifically as an adaptation of The Odyssey.

[marsixm]

i love it when im like whyyyy am i so anxious and sad… am i just a loser…. whats wrong with me… and then i have to sit and think for a minute like hm have you perhaps considered the like 4-5 ongoing extremely stressful situations youve been experiencing lately. like oh shit dude good point

[clochanamarch]

i just made an account on lin.kedin, adulthood is an awful pool of job placements and "entry-level but we need u to have 6+ years experience" but damnit if i don't have my swimming bands and goggles on to wade through the shitstorm--

[smoke-in-the-wind]

the distinction between “philosopher” and “sophist” is fake and self-serving. However, i still think the term “philosopher” itself is very good. It’s like. Humanity is a “lover of wisdom” in the same way a songbird is a “lover of nests” or a bee is a “lover of hives”. There’s this innate attraction to complex ideas in our nature. We can’t really help it.

[woodentrain]

Observe: this is the face of a man who does not want to spend his day selling/changing/collecting money for water filters

For the love of god woman just give me my money and stop with the water filter crap