#framing perception

[theluckygirlblog]

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[happyk44]

Lol, thinking about Hades who sometimes just stops breathing when he sleeps, and Hestia doesn't know what she's doing when she sleeps, so she's just like okay I guess this is normal, and continues to not question it even when the other kids pop up and continue to breathe as they sleep.

But since she treats it like a normal thing, they also don't question why their older brother just stops breathing when he sleeps. Or why he says, "okay I'm going to sleep now" and then just collapses to the ground like a rag doll being dropped, as though he just lost all his bones.

So the first time Zeus witnesses this, he is. So horrified. And confused.

Hades just stretches, yawns, says, "Good night" in the middle of the day because he's tired as they've been training all morning and also Poseidon is a clingy bastard who also kicks like a fucking mule some nights, and then just drops.

And Zeus is just ??? because he has never seen a person fall asleep like that, so he goes over, partly because they have to move his big brother back to the house because they can't just leave him exposed in the middle of their sparring field, but also to be like "is he serious or are they pranking me" and Hades is just. Not breathing. And Zeus is v much ???? Did he just fucking die???

Cue Demeter grabbing Hades' ankles and trying to drag him to the house saying, "Nah he just does this sometimes, it's normal" and Zeus who has a million times more experience with people than the stomach babies is shaking his head "no the fuck it is not"

(they end up not being able to move him because their older brother is an immovable boulder of a man, despite his skinny skeleton frame, and they have to get the others to help drag him back because shaking him and screaming does not wake him up when he does not want to be awake)

[greywoe]

Sansa said, “I knew the Hound would win.”

Littlefinger overheard. “If you know who’s going to win the second match, speak up now before Lord Renly plucks me clean,” he called to her. Ned smiled.

“A pity the Imp is not here with us,” Lord Renly said. “I should have won twice as much.”

#sansamonth2023 day 13: tourneys

[nohara-rin-dot-mp3]

so by splitting rin into two to narratively reckon with her we of course run into the issue of how to best perceive each part. using eye framework we see that typically rin is the clearest when her eyes are blocked by outside framing device(panel). this means that the rin that was dead from the start is easiest to view when she is alive (ie through alternate timelines and/or time travel) and the rin that's just a normal guy is easiest to view through the memories of people who never knew her. theoretically. but i'm not sure if that's true is the thing.

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Hit FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has genuinely compelled me to read and appreciate classic literature more than any of my many former years of school. I look at the silly rat show and am like I get it now, I'm gonna read Shakespeare, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, etc. and analyze the world for funsies, my grades 7-11 English teachers could NEVER.

[vanillaboyfriend]

that edit is doing better than i expected :) yippee

[vimbry-moved]

this is not the most pressing issue in the world (unless you factor in cases of elder abuse), but why is it so common to be weird about like. older people. the perception that they all must be out-of-touch, conservative-leaning reactionaries. the oddly puritanical panic that crops up around "sexualising" old celebrities, as if it's somehow gross or unethical. that person has grown-up children, they know what sex is. even when positive, so much is framed in this patronising/infantilising way, as if it's a discussion on a video about a cute animal doing something novel. that's just a person who's 70.

[puppppppppy]

for like 3 weeks i was wondering why i was sleeping so much and felt listless. and just now I managed to email 3 people and responded to a month old message in the span of an hour because I got back to TAKING MY FUCKIN MEDS..........

[kaurwreck]

sometimes the way the usamerican internet talks about lawns and touching grass reminds me that I grew up in a semirural, unincorporated, recently suburbanized forest without a monoculture lawn and a disproportionately huge backyard that had fruit trees and shrubs, wisteria, kudzu, poison ivy, poison oak, multiple species of clover, multiple varieties of grass, roses, holly, rose bushes, multiple species of venemous snakes, other wild fauna (raccoons, opossums, wild rabbits, snapping turtles, squirrels, birds), azaleas, multiple species of mint, other plants that I never identified, and a mix of pine and hardwood trees (until Hurricane Katrina, this included a massive wisteria girdled around a massive oak that was nearly horizontal (as in, the wisteria had partially uprooted it), non-girdled oak trees, pine trees, and a weeping willow tree). this was within the back and front yards; I'm not counting the neighborhood generally or the actual plotted gardens or the surrounding towns or nearby neighborhoods still in fairly dense forests (the domestic water supply reservoir that's also used for recreation has lots of alligators and there were white tailed deer and bobcats at the edges of my middle school).

anyway. that was growing up. now, I live halfway across the country in a densely populated city that's also biodiverse. idk, it's odd to me how geographically and bio diverse and massive the united states is and how few americans conceptualize it outside of a very specific flavor of suburbia.

[cecoeur]

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[creepyscritches]

Ough I never mentioned but I found everything up to Baptism of Fire in older pre-netflix prints at the used bookstore heehee

Honestly the real star find was a NICE hardcover edition of Junji Ito's Gyo :O excited to read through a physical copy! Also found a Junji Ito I'd never read, so looking forward to another blind dive when I finish No Longer Human :3c

[irlactualhuman]

I wish putting my hair up in a clippy made me look less girly. Weird wish, but sincerely it is the quickest sluttiest way to make me look more fem.

It's also the quickest and least damaging way to get my hair out my mouth. But the slut.

Like I got slut bidness to be on and ain't got no time for hair ties get that dick over here rn.

Anyway. Vibe all wrong for work. So it's eat hair or make the guys uncomfortable for reasons they can't identify.

[jewishcissiekj]

i don't think Vernestra Rwoh should have ever been brought into live action actually

[besarelcielo]

reminder to myself that opportunity is created through consistent effort and setting yourself up to be seen. things do have the ability to fall into your lap but they will do so more easily if you are already in the mindset of attraction…realizing im a lot more closed off, negative and actually repellant than i thought i was because i assume the answer is no before i even ask a question. and yes it’s is a defense mechanism for self preservation but it doesn’t serve me and it never did. nothing is going to come to me if i don’t ever want to be seen

[phagodyke]

weekend melancholy is starting to kick in >~<

[divinekangaroo]

can't stop thinking now on how Michael couldn't shoot Hughes and couldn't/wouldn't shoot Tommy.

Whether Michael could have ever actually *directly killed* tommy really, except through second or third hand consequences to his decisions or actions. Because of that thing of how Michael cannot and will not link pleasure/fury/lust/satisfaction to killing. how Michael's 'revenge' on Tommy is actually driven by Tommy destroying (and/or failing to live up to) the way Michael perceives him.

Vengeance for Polly's death always felt like a painfully convenient excuse for Michael, a vessel for all that confusion and hurt to be placed in and carried on to the inevitable confusion. All while Tommy is vaguely aware but carries on in his way, regardless, because that's what Tommy does.