#book of hours. like the freaks they are

[everchased]

half orc flirting next level

[fideidefenswhore]

@cinemaocd well matl only really handles her interactions with cromwell which all take place at hunsdon iirc, it's possible the mini will cheat and put her back at court too early to save on location shooting.

yeah, i've read the scene ( the historically-accurate creepy ring gifted by cromwell, and cromwell's historically inaccurate...presence). i'm not really planning on watching, but i hope it's not adapted at all, and the script has its own original interpretation, tbh. i found it pretty gross.

between ‘she was served with more ceremony than ever before’ (she had 30 attendants, versus fitzroy’s 100+) and:

… we really have yet to have a narrative able to grapple with the complexities of mary’s life in the henrician era mid 1536-1547.

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[hijinxinprogress]

Billy definitely thinks about random things during fights and decides the internet needs to know immediately

[theriu]

K guys your posts won my curiosity and I managed to binge the first Lockwood book in one day. Skimmed over the really grisly parts, very pleased with myself for not getting super freaked out and for figuring out the villain about the time they got to the scary mansion. A little disappointed that the funny talking skull in a jar didn't actually talk until the epilogue. No I will NOT be watching the tv series because 1) I appreciate my brain's inability to provide me with vivid imagery that would definitely excite my anxiety, and 2) Im sure the actor playing George is great but he is also reasonably cute and skinny and the book is VERY CLEAR that George is supposed to be an overweight, not-conventionally-attractive blond kid. Justice for tubby kid representation! (Altho I will add that the author has a foreward in this edition stating how much he loves those actors and how they portray the kids, so at least he's okay with it.) Anyhoo will let yall know if I make it through book 2, now I need to try and actually go to bed it is so LATE

[leggypuppy]

I think a lot of the differences come down to how in cultsim you're a normie way out of their depth who is only 'clued in' and 'on top of things' compared to your followers vs in BoH you're the sort of person with the credentials to get selected by an enigmatic organisation to run one of nine libraries in the world rated to carry forbidden knowledge. The Librarian is truly part of the invisible world, the Cultist is desperately clawing their way to comprehension and a lot less prepared for it.

oh def

playing as the Cultist vs playing as the Librarian is like. whats that one post about classically-trained magic users vs self-taught

"what do you MEAN i dont have to burn half my blood to cast Fireball"

you know the one

thats them

[muirneach]

post midterm despair clarity. perhaps cs really do get degrees. like i don’t need this class (agriculture) for my degree and i already dropped the second semester follow up class. i have a 90 something average rn in that class outside of the exam. i haven’t checked the weighting of all this. the only bad thing is that i’m trying to maintain a 90% average in all classes so i can keep getting my automatic yearly scholarship but i’ve kind of already accepted thats not happening because a 90 average in high school (how i got the scholarship in the first place) does not translate to university. i can still get money if i keep an 85 or 80% average. amen. i am well adjusted

[comradecowplant]

so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.

[mashmouths]

skipping class but staying on campus to do work for. another class. bc i said i'd have it done before friday bc i'm scared of telling profs no so now i have to read all of robinson crusoe this weekend and watch the nbc pilot of the crusoe series on top of finishing the 2 late essays bc i deluded myself into believing i have a chance of finishing this annotated bibliography in 2 hours. without half the books i'm citing. tee hee <3

[inniave]

fighting the urge to stay up all night to finish this book......

[crazyw3irdo]

i just watched charlie's first qsmp vod and y'all weren't kidding that census thing is fucking terrifying

[vulpinesaint]

the surge of 'i like purple prose actually!' that i've seen in the past few years is so. disheartening, maybe. i feel the instinct to say 'no you don't! you just don't know what purple prose is! not everything that's pretty is purple prose!' but i know the truth of it is that people really just do like pretty words with nothing behind them. and that's what they think that they want. the curtains are just blue and the prose is purple. there's no deeper meaning and people like it that way. media built to be consumed but not chewed... songs made to get popular on tiktok that are 2 minutes long with a repetitive chorus... it's empty calories. 'i like purple prose!' i'm begging you to read some poetry or even just a better book. i promise it won't kill you to read and think about something that means something

[tumortain]

[hyuckmov]

also guys idk how knowledgeable u all are of the Jing lore but remember how i had that one student who was really mean to me... last week she gave me a gift bag 🥹 there was a small lavender plant thing and then she also gave me $50 to 'buy a book or whatever' because i'm a 'book freak'...

[non-un-topo]

God if I had the energy and brainpower I’d be drawing Quynh + Nicky being chaotic and dumb together

[brothersonahotelbed]

im so fucking embarrassed im going to have to hobble into work tomorrow and tell them i sprained my ankle tripping off a CURB and won't be in for a few days and it's going to ruin everything for both me and my coworkers i hate it here