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籠のなか kago no naka= ‘inside the cage’

thanks Funimation for keeping the first series up, since Hulu went subscription-only

(seriously though this episode)

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went browsing through Amazon Prime videos and found a gem from my childhood

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…when her examiners accused her of plotting with her husband to deceive France, she replied, ‘yes, the people have been deceived. they have been cruelly deceived, but not by my husband or me.’…

Deborah Cadbury, The Lost King of France

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…it was indeed a terrible irony, in the words of an American observer, ‘that the mildest monarch who ever filled the French throne’ was defending himself against charges as ‘one of its most nefarious tyrants.’…

Deborah Cadbury, The Lost King of France

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Louis-Charles, painted by Alexander Kucharsky. 1792 is given as the year, which would mean this was painted either while the family was under house arrest at the Tuileries or just after they were taken to the Temple. that would also make him age 7 here.

the flaw in the painting down the middle of his face looks like a tear-track.

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光酒 kōki  = ‘light-wine’

been re-watching the first series and listening to the score recently

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my toe hit your toe lightly / your toe met my heel right back / and i don’t think i need much more than that

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moments that turn into worlds in your hands

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with apologies and gratitude to Bill Burr

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atrocity

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look at this wallpaper

LOOK AT IT

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what were you trying to say to me?

i love Bedhead, but they’ve never made me cry before. this caught me off guard on my commute home, though, and i got all choked up. this followed, and it got worse. i must be really tired.

then i could tell you what it means not to hear from you

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• Prince died  • the Electoral College fucked me over, yet again  • the Library Aesthetics Committee has committed the Satanic sin of— lacking aesthetics. among other things.  • the American Left has its head so far up its own arse that it must be using its navel as a periscope at this point  • my cat can no longer eat kibble, for medical reasons. tinned cat food is the absolute worst. i fucking hate it.  • humans are still churning out babies as if we were in post-plague repopulation mode. memo: we’re not. there’s plenty of us. you can scale it back any time.  • apparently, a little bit of knowledge actually is a dangerous thing, after all  • did i mention that Prince died?

(2016-12-23)

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Lesser Magic, y’all.

this is what i’ve learned from working in civil service and dealing with assholes: don’t give them your anger because that’s what they want. but don’t give them your fear either because they’ll take that as a consolation prize.

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you know, the stuff you couldn't smell before because you had your head too far up your own ass

Trae Crowder said it well: do you wanna be right, or do you wanna win?

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feel my head a-comin through your windowpane

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Rufus: …and i want you and you to watch— ok, i want you and you to watch him and him and— alright, if anything crawls out of anybody, somebody step on it.