In these parts, they say, if you are lucky when wandering the wastes between city and town, you may encounter a truly exemplary creature. Its skin, like that of the rhinoceros, plates its body in geometric folds; its feet are like four enormous sand-dollars, pleasing to the eye and rapid in their movement. Its snout is broad with the same placid strength as a great ox and its breath is heavy and warm as the same, but its eyes flash so like those of a lion at night that no traveler could believe it truly tame for long. The name of this beast? Toyota Corolla.

Customer: YOU FOOL DMV: CONFRONTATIONAL Verdict: DENIED

don't know what I was dreaming abt last night but I woke up with thee phrase "The Sicilian iPad" clearly in my head. thee emphasis on these words was such that it implied this was an important and dramatic object like a coveted or influential art piece

in addition to likes there should be a "noble&true" option to react with when the post is agreeable & wise

wait im legit pondering this now...

Oh boy this one’s great. Well done!

now that the most recent one of these is finished, i thought i’d have a try at one of these:

@elucubrare how did i do?

shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.

I don't think I understand yarn weights. Do you understand yarn weights? I think a lot of times the yarn is lying...

Yarn weights are real, yarn labelling is super inconsistent (@ amano ayni is light fingering, not sport)

I mostly do it by vibes but if you’re concerned about it there are tools that measure wraps per inch, which is a truer measure of yarn weight than labels alone

(inspired by @elucubrare, naturally)

Golden Fields, Amber Brunsden — 2023 Oil on canvas

Answer: as far as i know: the hero, intending to shoot his wife's lover, accidently shoots his wife

someone dies from kissing poisoned flowers: Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur a statue pulls an evil-doer into Hell: Mozart, Don Giovanni a statue warns someone not to pursue their course of revenge: édouard lalo, le roi d'ys. sorry this one was mean, it's really really not in standard rep & putting it right after DG was an attempt to trip people up. the heroine jumps into an avalanche: Alfredo Catalani, La Wally. people picking it because it's hardest to stage are right - as the wiki article says, "it is seldom performed, partly because of the difficulty of staging this scene" a clown commits a double murder on stage: Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci there's a Wild West bar fight: Puccini, La Fanciulla del West a man sells his soul for magic bullets: Carl Maria von Weber, Der Freischütz the heroine sleepwalks across a dangerous bridge: Vincenzo Bellini, La Sonnambula the governor of Boston is fatally stabbed: Verdi, Un ballo in maschera (moved to Boston from Sweden because the censors wouldn't let them stage an opera where a king is assassinated) the wrong baby was thrown into the fire as revenge: Verdi, Il Trovatore. this one's dumb as hell, don't worry about it too much.

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You got a weird one, friend! Please join me in listening to Modes of Thought In Anterran Literature.

This show seems to be recorded lectures from a class about an ancient civilization that predates any other human culture. This culture is complex and strange, but this isn't just an anthropology course. There are greater forces at work, and the professor, his TA, and anyone else who gets in the way have to be ready to suffer the consequences.

Send me a number between 1-273 and I'll recommend an audio drama.

everything i like about people's behavior is human nature and everything i don't like about people's behavior is capitalist brainwashing. this political economy shit is easy

the funniest thing about the tags on my which one didn't happen in an opera poll is people voting ballo on the grounds that it wouldn't be the governor of boston b/c like, i don't think antonio somma, on his third revision of the libretto due to censors, gave a single fuck about pre-revolutionary american municipal governance

one day left! so many people are being so sensible and that's sweet.