Shoot me in the head and leave me in a dumpster.

Honestly, the biggest takeaway from enjoying Burrow's End is that it's high time I read Watership Down again.

And then traumatize myself by watching the movie. And perhaps the miniseries starting John Boyega as Bigwig and Nicholas Hoult as Fiver. It's not as good but it's still pretty good and the ending theme slaps.

....look I really like Watership Down okay.

Van Helsing with vampire victims

“i want to die. but i am too cowardly to kill myself- so i must live by default, and yet, i am too scared to live and too ill to function. so i am stuck, doomed to a fate of apathetic days and nights spent biding my time until the next big thing happens.”

(what journaling does to a mf)

Obviously I'm someone who likes things a normal amount, so I've finished reading Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse in like two days.

Rambling thoughts under the cut, (with spoilers) (Edit: confidently and repeatedly got the name of the book wrong :( rip)

much better book than book 1, honestly, just better crafted

listen the politics in Black Sun were awful and childish and I wanted to bang my head against a wall rather than read them, this is much better in Fevered Star

side characters were actually relevant, the plotting made sense, the adults (mostly) acted like adults (I thought Naranpa was like 20 at most and surely in a cadet government not the real thing for most of book 1)

Not enough Serapio

thats mostly a joke

I think I would have only been happy if he'd been in every chapter

He's scared! Can't any of you see he's been abused and he's scared! Help him, stop trying to kill him!!

(he's only a bit murderous. it'll be fine)

Xiala I do like, also, and it'll be interesting to see what happens with the Teek in book 3

Naranpa. Hmm. Hated her in book 1, but I admit I've warmed to her in this book, at least a little.

Definitely warmed to Iktan, who I felt like I probably should care about in book 1, but didn't . I suspect xe just can't compete with Serapio.

So! About half way I connected the sun wound and the healing powers

So I was definitely not saying, out loud, 'nooo, let her heal you' during the fight. absolutely not.

that was a good scene, 10/10

that was exactly what I wanted to happen, which honestly rarely lines up with what the author does so I'm thrilled

Naranpa thinks she made a mistake calling him by name but she is so so wrong. it saved her life, I'm sure of it.

I hope Serapio continues to scare people a little for the foreseeable future BUT. He's kind. Fundamentally, he's kind and a bit sweet and I think he should be allowed to be that instead. And only terrifying and otherworldly when absolutely necessary

On those lines I am definitely cheering for him and Xiala. it would make them both happy

I will riot if Serapio dies

I believe book 3 is next year some time, and I fully intend to come and rage here if that does happen

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

polymer broadcast signal hijack

Mexico when Texans have to start crossing the border for a better life good heathcare

Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

what’s the plot of the great gatsby? I need to write an essay on it

I forgot it so I looked it up and everyone is named like Baker and Gatsby and Caraway and Myrtle and they live in Eggs and I'm guessing this is more of a cookbook or cocktail thing than a novel.

Also for some reason this is on my phone:

When do we start?

I post Kirby and WH40k art exclusively now.

mr goatman... goat me a man.... make him the goatest that ive ever seen...

“Jason? Is there a reason you’re dragging that man?”

“He’s unconscious. Makes walking hard.”

love that jason is a pedantic lil shit in every universe

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

I LOVE THEM SM😭😭😭