frankenstein by mary shelley (1818) / the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky (1880) / missing link by j. a. seazer & tokyo konsei gasshodan (1997) / revolutionary girl utena, episode 39: someday, together, we'll shine (1997)
[ID: A collection of excerpts followed by a gif from Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it." (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text)
"In any case, what is suffering? I am not afraid of it, even though it be numberless. Now I am not afraid, though before I was. . . . And it seems to me that there is so much of this strength in me now that I shall vanquish everything, all of the suffering, only so that I may keep saying to myself constantly: 'I am!' I may endure a thousand torments - yet I am, I may writhe under torture - but I am! I may sit in a tower, but I exist, I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is already the whole of life. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
See, I have vanished, yet I still sing.
See, I have vanished, yet I still laugh.
See, I have vanished, yet I am petrified.
See, I have vanished, yet I still live.
I exist, I am here.
I exist, I am here.
I exist! (J. A. Seazer & Tokyo Konsei Gasshodan, Missing Link)
Anthy, crying, reaches out from within her coffin to a battered Utena, and their hands touch. End ID]
ID credit to @princess-of-purple-prose
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the Dark Urge and their Father.
margaret atwood, selected poems: 1965-1975 // santiago caruso, moonchild (detail) // frank bidart, half-light // nobuyoshi araki, feasts of angels: sex scenes // margaret atwood, alias grace // leonor fini, unconditional love // ocean vuong, prayer for the newly damned // carlo dolci, saint jerome (detail) // louise glück, penelope's song // georgiana luiza nicolae, i'll see you and i'll raise you hell // sophocles, elektra // nicole kiraga, tomatina // user veniennes on tiktok // kim jakobsson, i won't become // anne sexton, the civil war // unknown, likely by kim jakobsson // wikipedia, pyrrhic victory // alex morkh shadrin, solitude death hell
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harpies speak from their syrinx which is in their chests.
Cuinn got basic lessons as a kid like everyone else but was not able to continue learning and developing his skills once he was taken as a tiercel. He's trying to relearn it now using some weaving frames designed for humans which make things a little easier than the freehand/frameless style from his home eyrie.
Thunder Strike is pretty good but he's so focused on the end product that it's all he can think about when he gets to work. As a king he doesn't have a lot of free time to work on it though.
Terrestrial harpies don't have a weaving instinct but obviously they can still learn it as a skill, Wildfire just didn't care for it. He prefers to play with dyes and paints. The people of his eyrie produce dyed grass threads which the others can weave with.
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okay what I've learned from this semester and this round of grading is that if I ever use an essay prompt about premodern women again (extremely likely) I'll have to say "you cannot talk ONLY about how women were oppressed by the patriarchy or I will fail the essay" instead of "talk about the ideal woman of [insert historical time period + geographical location] vs. the reality of women in [time period/location] based on the evidence that we have" (obvs it was better phrased than that on the actual prompt and it would probably be different in another context).
I...I restructured the entire class so that we'd be able to talk about stuff Greek women actually did based on the evidence. thanks for showing you didn't come to class that day, look at the powerpoint online, or do the reading.
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