The burning man debacle is rly captivating to me in the ‘convention dumpster fire poetic irony’ sense. Like ur telling me these silicon valley crystal guys are stuck in a flooding lake bed after calling the cops on climate change protestors holding up traffic into the festival? By telling the cops these unarmed protestors had a gun? Fantastic. And they’re dying from exposure- oh they’re scaring the shit out of each other with a fake ebola scare??? Of course. I’m sure they’re handling that normally. Just saw a video from a guy at the festival saying folks need to stop being ‘negative’ about the people who didn’t survive the night. And they can’t leave the flooding lake bed because nobody can move their cars- It appears Chris Rock and Diplo have escaped the lake bed by walking out, as it was only a few miles until they hit regular traffic. We do not know the state of the burning man sex plane, the plane at burning man you book to have sex in, which exists. Never before seen cataclysmic impact to the ‘white women with $5k veneers and box braids’ community.

Day 829: 🐢 & 🤌

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THRIVING off of the idea of Leo officiating weddings but at comically inconvenient times

Leo, in the middle of a siege of the Technodrome: I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss.

Krangs:

Genderfluid Crowley?

is there any other kind?

when the effects of a medical condition are also the triggers for that medical condition

Elden Ring (2022)

Found a translation of hymns to Apollo and Dionysus where their epithets have been arranged in alphabetical order and this might be my new favourite thing because

- Book 9 of the Greek Anthology, translated by W.R. Paton

Look at the contrast between some of their epithets (Apollo and Dionysus respectively):

"hater of lies, giver of the soul" - "liar, tearer of the soul"

"soft speaking" - "noisy" (lol)

"sober" - "Deep drinker"

"Sweet-spoken, sweet-hearted, gentle-handed" - "Prone to anger, stout of heart"

"Gentle, sorrowless, giver of wealth, saviour from trouble" - "Jealous, very wrathful, envious, bestower of envy"

"father of fruits" - "eater of raw flesh" (BRUH)

"father of light" - "God of the night"

"Cheerer of the spirit" - "Disturber of the soul"

BUT they still have a lot in common:

"stiller of grief - healer of sorrow", "strong hearted - lion hearted", "soft haired - tender haired", "dweller on the hills - dweller in the woods" "thousand-shaped", "desirable" and my favourite, "common to all".

And it really does encapsulate the relationship between Apollo and Dionysus so well (and the duality of Apollo and Dionysus as individual gods too)

I'm also a sucker for epithets that describe appearance and I'm absolutely delighted with Apollo being "rose-coloured", "golden, golden-complexioned" and "glittering" (but is anyone surprised? XD)

Dionysus on the other hand, a bit concerning cause "slender, wrinkled"? And also he's "liquid"?? (idk what that's even supposed to mean. A reference to wine?) But "golden-filleted" and "Golden-horned" sound lovely <3

Also the fact that Dionysus is called "Satyr" and Apollo "Titan" is very interesting to me. Apollo - Titan makes sense when you consider the conflation between him and Helios. But Dionysus is a surprise. Are there any myths where he's syncretised/conflated with Pan (since he's the only Satyr god I can remember)? Of course it could be to show his chthonic nature, or that he's mostly around satyrs. But this piqued my curiosity.

"If I'm gonna to bet on anything, I'm gonna bet on us Buck"

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I'm not complaining at all but I was NOT EXPECTING THIS

ahahahahygfjff

I need him biblically

chapter 4 is alive

We went on a really great native plant tour hike at the foxfire museum today and it RULED and also before the hike we had this great interaction with one of the employees that was like

Lady on the boardwalk leading up to the main office, whose name was apparently Miss Crystal: MURIEL! MOSES! COME HERE, IT'S T PAIN

Us: I beg your pardon

Miss Crystal: T Pain is a box turtle who lives under the board walk

Us: Ah I see

Tour guide: Miss Crystal is a real mountain woman she will tell you what it's about

Us: [nodding]

Miss Crystal: [talking to two tiny blonde children about T Pain the box turtle] Oh he's after skanks, that's what he's after

Us: I beg your pardon again

Miss Crystal: You know, some of those blue tailed skanks

Us, having a sudden realization about southern appalachian vowel shifts: OH

Elden Ring (2022)