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british towns will be called Fuckmouth or whatever and people will just go with it

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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To ordinary consciousness, we seem to be corporeal bodies, mostly, fixed by gravity and stitched by pain and mortality to this gravid earth. But we are, rather, systems, energies, exchanges, projections, programs, force fields, and continuous enactments of tenebrous scripts both conscious and unconscious. What animates this assemblage of matter that we inhabit when we are born? What blows spiritus into the lungs of the bawling infant? That spiritus—éspirit, re-spiration, in-spiration—is energy, a force field blowing, blowing through eternity into time-bound bodies whose curving trajectory brings them inexorably back to earth. Even as plummet-bound bodies, decaying, dying as we lurch through life, we remain nonetheless force fields of energy, dancing on the grave of history and aflame with eternal fires.

James Hollis, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Ruin Our Lives

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ROMEO + JULIET (1996) + IMDb Trivia

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new hot take: instead of sherlock holmes being explicitly gay in the next adaptation, we should just make irene adler a man and see if their dynamic gets the same treatment by the audience.

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screenshots from dailyabbotmohan on twitter.... "oh this is really sexy and we should play it that way"....

(someone please link the article this is from if you know what it is, i beg)

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divorce themed restaurant menu

dessert: CUSTARDy Battle

yeah that's all i've got so far sorry

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Me reading the Trump/Musk breakup news this week:

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the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

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as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

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Alot of people say that odysseus killed a bunch of innocent slaves but didn't the slaves betray penelope and count as traitors?

Oh boy here we go again...hehehehehehe yeah I have seen that as well as many asks I received on the matter before so to cut the long story short no the 12 slave women were not innocent.

Odysseus for starters had 50 slaves in his palace. He executed 12. The number of theirs was not random. Odysseus spent 2 days in his palace in disguise, observing the movements of the rest of his slaves and estimating their reactions. He saw who and how many of the people of his household were loyal to him. Odysseus didn't just randomly go in amok and kill random victims. He knew which of his slaves were innocent. Or rather he knew some of them were and some of them were not. He even defended those who were loyal to him by stating that the suitors forced themselves on them.

Odysseus asked Euryclea to specify more who of his slaves were disloyal. He already knew some. Therefore when he was certain that not the entirety of his household betrayed him only then he allowed Euryclea to speak and Euryclea specified that out of the 50 slave women, 12 betrayed him. Odysseus executed these 12. The rest of them lived. The same way that Melanthius was mutilated. The rest of his slaves were spared. Phemius who was forced to sing for the suitors was set free etc.

So yes the 12 were actually willing (for their own reasons ok. True they might as well have fallen for the suitors, manipulated by them or simply hating the household and wishing to escape their lives) and betrayed Penelope and Telemachus and consequently Odysseus too so they died as traitors. It was a cruel punishment, sure. And Homer portrays it as a harsh scene but still no they were not innocent.

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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I loved that one scene where Karen is patching up Matt in the foreground, but it's Castle in the background the camera is focused on. Because he's eavesdropping. He's been wondering the same thing--why did Karen call him? And then he decides to act macho, chewing pain killers and making out like getting shot doesn't hurt because he's damned if he'll look weaker than Murdock in front of her.

And of course Karen sees through it with a single look, leaving him stumbling over his words. There's too many that need to be said, a crushing wave that dams up at the back of his throat. Maybe over a cup of coffee he could let the words seep out. They could start with a cup, then another. Maybe dinner after that. Make up for lost time...