#absolutely curtains

[rastronomicals]

2:28 PM EST December 4, 2022:

Pink Floyd - "Absolutely Curtains" From the Soundtrack album Obscured by Clouds (June 2, 1972)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Barbet Schroeder Music

[notmuchtoconceal]

What most fascinates me about the Goetia is that the bulk of these entries are vaguer than a Grindr profile. Based purely on the descriptions, not only do most of these spirits sound functionally identical, there are so many repetitions in phrasing, image and subject, true it's namesake, there seems to be a constant whispering which verges on a howling drawing you to make connections which may or may not be there.

Your mind can start racing as things seem to swirl just slightly out of awareness, you might start flipping back and forth between the pages, making outrageous connections, you're straight-up constantly blurring the lines between channeneling, the cracking of a cipher, and a purely original work of creative pattern recognition.

For whatever reason, you will be drawn more to certain spirits than others. What that may say about you, it will be your delight to find out.

From the barebones description given related to his expertise in retrieving stolen goods, punishing the wicked (and thieves in particular), and discovering "treasures" it probably wouldn't occur to you to suspect that Andromalius is a stylist extraordinare of the most exquisite sensuality, for he recognizes the law, both as written and enforced, is an act of continously debated and constructed philosophy, and so any expression of it could only ever come down to style.

Of course, this is far from arbitrary, as its cuts to a paradox at the heart of justice, namely that style misapplied is a form of injustice. Justice is a branch of aesthetics, which is based on seeing.

To say the law is blind renders it repulsive when you fail to recognize that blindness here is a synonym for impartiality, not a self-willed obscuring of one to the consequences of their actions.

Any absolute division between legal and social justice is simply false.

When the law is enforced unjustly, it results in a tear in the tapestry of the law, which must be mended with understanding. To enforce the law without reduction to violence is preferable, as trust is ultimately more effective, longer lasting and seductive than exposure to brute force, but this of course doesn't mean brute force doesn't have its place. Andromalius takes great delight in punishing the wicked, and is a very casual administrator of not only spankings, but frat paddlings.

Furthermore, Andromalius recognizes that the consequences of "theft" extend far beyond the mere loss of material goods. A good man can have not only their reputation, their friends, their ideas, their manner of speaking, their style, their very soul stolen from them by the envious, the vampyric, interlopers of subtle enigmas too dense to be.

It's not as though the theft of things which are unprotected by law don't have material consequence. Certainly, you would find it abhorrent if an innocent person's business were ruined by a smear campaign and they were left homeless, ultimately for some forward-thinking manipulator had emerged to take advantage of emerging social unrests or simmering resentments to propel them against someone in an area where the law had not yet evolved fast enough to protect the innocent as we expect, and now struggles even moreso, in a time of not only rapidly-accelerating technological development, but increasingly unimpartial technocratic rule by corporate monopoly.

At some point, fine citizen may need to recognize it may be prudent to learn how to protect himself from the law, or even the law from itself.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

still unwell over the prospect of Howdy slowly putting the pieces together and having a complete mental breakdown over it. Laughingstock edition!

[brianskangs]

"Among all of the possibilities, Thank you for choosing me" — Welcome to the Show (DAY6)

[volivolition]

she's so normal he swears.

[bestabsoluteshitposts]

holding all of your hands. we made it babyz we're still here 12 years later.

[rovermcfly]

in my mind, poirot broke hastings' heart in the double clue and it's the catalyst for hastings slowly growing apart from him. but well... he can never fully break away, can he; he can't help his devotion.

agatha christie's poirot (1989-2013) // heavensghost on tumblr // unknown source // for your own good - leah horlick // everything everywhere all at once (2022) // let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin // a self-portrait in letters - anna sexton // i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - sciencedfiction

ok I wanna elaborate more for anyone who cares. In The Double Clue, Hastings (and Miss Lemon) are shown to be absolutely distraught over Poirot apparently falling in love and possibly choosing to leave their lives for her. I found it so so remarkable that they are not happy for him or delighted by this side of him but instead seemingly in mourning. Hastings knows Poirot lied to him because of her, he knows now how easy it was for Poirot to abandon him and his illusion of Poirot, a man he's been basically worshiping for years now, crumbled for the first time. In the episodes that follow we see a new side of Hastings. He rolls his eyes at Poirot, sees things that used to be endearing quirks as painful flaws. But he can't help his nature. He can't help following him around, he can't help tucking him in when he's sick, he can't help following his orders, the muscle memory of serving him takes over every time. But the pain is there, and he tries to get rid of this leash, he goes on lengthy trips alone, eventually moves to a different continent. But he can't help but to love and forgive. he can't help his devotion.

[orphyd]

Pinterest came through at the last second, 40 min before my hair appointment with my next style-

[egberts]

somebody in the apartment across from our hotel is watching one piece. this isn't weird for me to know btw because it's not my fault they don't have curtains

[silvermahogany]

THEY NERFED HIS FUCKING PUSSY IM SO MAD. HE NEEDS THAT. PUT IT BACK

[rastronomicals]

6:46 PM EDT August 25, 2024:

Pink Floyd - "Absolutely Curtains" From the Soundtrack album Obscured by Clouds (June 2, 1972)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Barbet Schroeder Music

[imalayla]

[articskele]

“...Wrong? Why would anything go wrong?”

Without further ado, a stimboard for @ask-the-biggering-onceler!

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[lotsofsq]

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SOS CHAPTER 27!!! DO NOT LOOK AT THIS BEFORE FINISHING IT!

S.O.S is an amazing fic by @nobodysdaydreams, it’s an amazing read, i highly recommend it.

IM SO SO CRAZY ABOUT THIS REVEAL OH MY GOD!!! I COMPLETELY FLIPPED OUT WHEN I READ IT!

[ID copied in alt text: a drawing of show sq strapped down to a medical bed, the background is red and jagged. sq is looking beside himself with a horrified expression he has tears running down his cheeks. his shoulders are raised and he is saying “Dad… Dad please, Please. please don’t do this to me…”. his father is off camera and is saying “it’s ok shep. i love you, you won’t feel a thing. i promise.”]

[multongsisig]

I read the story of Lim & Marak Blackwing. I already liked the little of their story that was mentioned in Close Kin, but the full thing was just so good 😩 My favorite thing about Clare B. Dunkle's worldbuilding is that when she expands on the tales of previous King's Wives (both goblin and elf), the stories are always tragedies or heroic acts of sacrifices, never romances. Lim's story is a bit of both, a little similar to Kate's in that regard, which is what made quite compelling to me. The two are an interesting pair for how much discomfort and pity they inspired in me during the story lol.

[bestabsoluteshitposts]

Screaming crying throwing up